The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-19
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FACTS IN FEW LINES
Savings banks in New Jersey hold
unclaimed amounts a~ggregating $685.
1876.
Three persons claim to have the field
glasses that Napoleon used on the field
of Waterloo.
The Pennsylvania Society of New
York, organized in 1899. has more than
800 members.
Yarmouth corporation forbids smok-
Ing on Sundays in it's new pier pavilion.
as the band plays sacred music.
The cure of rheumatism by bee
stings is said by a Vienna physician to
have been successful in 500 cases.
A plant at Niagara Falls is taking
nitrogen from the air by electrolysis.
but not yet in commercial quantity.
Today the empire of Japan has a
population of 45. 10000. In other
words, she, contains 100 people within
a square mile.
The value Of the X ray in the treat
ment of cancer depends upon the fact
that the rays induce fatty degeneration
OF the cancer cells.
In the opinion of the health depart
ment of Chicago every school in that
city should be provided with apparatus
to sterilize drinking water.
According to astronomers. the Star of
Bethlehem. which conducted the wise
men to the birthplace of Jesus. will ap-
pear once more in 1910 or 1911.
In the Veal just past sixty-five new
freight vessels have been built and
launched on the great lakes. with Il
gross tonnage capacity of 4,75O.O0O.
The French government employs
1850 workmen and $4,000 women in
the state tobacco manufactures and
makes u yearly profit of 400.O00.O00
francs.
A large bronze eagle with one wing
broken and dropping is the main fea
ture of the French national monument
which is to be erected on the field OF
Waterloo.
In considering the practical side of
the vegetarian question it should be
remembered that at least seven-tenths
of the population of the globe never eat
flesh meat.
Several local councils in Russia have
passed resolutions declaring that a re-
duction of the acreage which gives a
vote is desirable and that women
should receive the franchise.
The oldest ship in the world, the
mail schooner Vigilant. running into
st. Croix. f. W. L.. although now un-
der the French flag. was built of Essex
oak at Essex. Mass. in 1902.
Fish are found in the boiling lake of
Amatitlan, in Guatemala. Live eels
are seen in the hot springs at AK. and
Humboldt saw living fish thrown up
by a volcano in South America.
Egyptian fishermen receive 500 per
thousand for cells caught in Lake Men
saleh. These are salted and packed in
ice and ent TO Hamburg via Triest.
where the ice supply is renewed.
Some recent German experiments
show the possibility of u dangerous
electrical current passing down the
stream from a fire engine that is play
ing on a wire carrying a heavy voltage.
Wages in the United States ON the
average are more than twice those in
Belgium, three times those of Denmark,
France, Germany, Italy and Spain and
one and a half times those in England
and Scotland. '
London claims during the past year
to have had fewer murders and fewer
burglaries than in previous years. There
has also been no case of murder in
which there was failure to bring the
perpetrator' to book.
In ancient religion dancing came to
be one of the chief acts of worship. Re
ligious professions went with song and
dance to the Egyptian temples. and
Plato said that all dancing ought to be
thus an act of religion.
When the child plays it is literally
organizing its brain, and we should rec
ognize the fact that the boy OF girl en-.
gagged in vigorous, joyous play is carry
ing out an important part Of the actual
work Of education and preparation fol
life.