The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-03-08
FACTS IN FEW LINES

A g4avedtgger IN HOiland claims 70
have buried $4,000 people.
Wurttemberg, in Germany, is over
run with teachers of English.
The total income Of all American
farmers last year was about $780,
100000.
Germans smoked 368 tons Of ciga-
fettes last gear as against thirty-eight
tons in 1907.
The farms Of the United States cover
841, 1000 acres and employ nearly
10,5O0,OOO people.
The average cost Of labor in the pro-
ductfon and preparation Of coffee is
a. cents a pound.
There are not nearly so many law
yers in the English parliament as there
are in our congress. NAs@
Russia is to establish salmon can
neries on the Siberian coast and com
pete with Alaskan firms.
In the Indian Territory 100000 acres
Of coal lands are to be sold at auction
and the proceeds divided among the
Indians.
The question Of re-embarking In the
cultivation Of cotton is receiving seri-
GUS consideration in Georgetown, Brit
ish Guiana.
Electricity is fast ousting hydraulic
power in the equipment of continental
Europe and slowly superseding it in
Great Britain.
In one of the streets of Vienna work
men have dug up part of the stone
flooring of a Roman house dating from
the third century.
The largest tree in the world lies
broken and petrified at the end of Il
defle in northwestern Nevada. 1t is
said to be 666 feet long.
In the past years time sixty-four
new freight vessels have been built
and launched on the great lakes with
a gross capacity of 4,75O,O00.
France has stored in her. cellars
something like 15O,O0O,O0O bottles of
champagne. The vintages of the past
few years have been most excellent.
A dog was seen in the streets of
Paris the other day riding on a motor
a wearing a pair of chauffeur's Cog
giles to protect his eyes from the dust
and wind.
Oranges can now be safely shipped
east from California without ice. The
fruit is confined in dry atmosphere of
medium temperature charged with an
useptic germicidal gas.
1t is stated that a Georgia doctor
tasted for fifty days in order to cure
himself Of dyspepsia. During the fast
he attended to his professional duties
and went for daily walks.
The curfew bell is still rung from
Oct. II to March 81 at Burgh and
Swineshead, in Lincolnshire, the day
Of the month being indicated by the
number of strokes on the bell.
The use of electricity in connection
with farm work is being strongly adj
vocated. The idea that the light is
deleterious to vegetation is said to be
all wrong and that the contrary holds
good.
A dog was playing a piano in a cir
Gus in Yorkshire recently when one of
the audience called out "Rats!!" The
dog Immediately vacated his seat and
event for the rodents. The piano
kept On playing.
It has been suggested that in view
Of recent developments in ionic inyes-
tigation all matters may be composed
of a single mother substance, protyle.
This protyle is supposed to be manu-
featured by destructive processes from
concrete matter in the Crookes tube.
AS a means toward interesting the
youth of London in the school of the
don merchants declared themselves
willing to show a preference for the
young men holding Junior and senior
certificates in filling vacant positions
in their firms.
Emperor Francis Joseph Of Austria
is nine times king, twice a grand duke,
once a grand prince, four times mar
grave, and the multitude of the titles
as count and so forth is past enumera-
ton. In addition, as king of Hungary,
he bears the title of ''most apostolic
which is one of the four honors be-
slowed by the pope.
Governor Bailey has inexhaustible
faith in the agricultural future of Kan
sas Since his Inauguration he has had
numerous offers for his fine farm in
Nehama county, but has never been
tempted by the figures named. There
r several hundred acres in the place,
and the governor has been offered $75
an acre several times. but thinks it
worth 500 at least.
The Chinese empress dowager is said
to be greatly enjoying her automobile,
though she has to keep within the
grounds of the summer palace because
Of the impracticability Of the Peking
streets. Prince Su has promised to
have some of them practicable. for au-
tomobiles in a year from now. Half a
dozen Of tha MantchOO nrincas drive