The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-08-23
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many small islands at the mouth of the
Neva.
New South Wales is overrun with
mice. In one store in the town Of
Merrion the other day 10000 were
caught.
The Motor union Of Great Britain
and Ireland. the largest organization Of
motorists in the world. has 1900 men,
bers.
Cape Town authorities are extending
the conveyance Of mails by camels.
which has experimentally proved very
successful.
A league has been formed In Swift
zerland to preserve picturesque spots
throughout the little republic from
commercial vandalism.
Berlin, the home Of the automatic
restaurant, gives that institution a
creditable support. and their number
IL constantly increasing.
A New York concern which proposes
to raise spruce trees for the lumber
has recently imported from Germany
1900 young trees.
Many of the hotels Of the country
towns Of England are managed by
women. and it Is claimed that they do
It far better than men In the same po-
sitions.
Berlin supports a professional bird
catcher, who keeps scientific inst;tu-
lions supplied with birds. nests and
eggs. He Is the only man in the en-
pire permitted to do so.
Every week the canal commission
imports no less than 200 tons Of insect
powder and 200 tons Of sulphur bars
into Panama. These are used in eX-
terminating the mosquitoes.
Army reform in India has caused the
disappearance Of two historic rcgi-
ment>, the SiHty-:ou til CANA. IL !.
Infantry. which vas raised in 1903.
and Tie Bombay marine battalion.
dating from 17T.
Happy, Though Married Two Days"
was II Of many labels attached by
practical jokers to the luggage OF Il
newly married couple who left an Eng
lish railway station the other day on
their way to Canada.
A new law which will gradually re-
suit in the entire disappearance Of
slavery from Siam has come into Of
feet, says the Bangkok Times. No one
can 10Y be born Il slave, and no one
cal be made a slave.
While the Chinese are held to be the
most economical people in the world it
has apparently never occurred to them
to use the vast areas of their verdant
hill and mountain regions rs pasturage
for cattle. sheep or horses.
An art critic prophesies that the next
movement Of European art which he
thinks has exhausted the possibilities
Of realism, may take the form Of II
return to the principles enunciated by
the Chinese 1000 years ago.
Archbishop Moeller of Cincinnati has
organized a choir of priests, consisting
Of local clergymen, for the purpose Of
rendering the Gregorian music Of the
mass ut all the funerals of priests
which take place in his archdiocese.
Iceland possesses n large number of
trees, although it is credited with hay
ing only one. The climate and soil are
by no means u~nfavorable to tree grow
ing. and evidence exists to show that
Iceland was once covered with trees.
Radium has been found in wheaton
-four. said Professor j. j. Thompson, at
the Royal institute. London. How 1t
got there, he added, he could not @
plain. There was no doubt. however,
that such -four would produce radio &c.
tive bread.
against bringing to England the pyg-
mics whom Colonel Harrison captured
lately in Stanley forest, Africa. 1t Is
held that no II has any right to cap
ture and enslave them for exhibitions
or any other purposes.
With reference to the threatened In.
vasion of the crinoline the London
Daily News calls attention to the fact
that since the crinOline was last III
fashion the flat has become an institu.
ton. How could women wear crino.
lines ana live In a fiat?
Miss Kate L. McWilliams Of Brook
lyn has broken the record for school
teaching. Resigning from her work
recently, she has to her credit fifty
consecutive years Of service in the
Brooklyn public schools, forty-cight
being in one school as a principal.
Just before General dc Sonnar, al
Italian senator, died recently he had
himself dressed in his generals uni
form and all his medals and decora
lions. Then he called for a glass OF
champagne and. with his relatives
gathered around his couch, drank tt
1.-The kings health and the prosperity
Of Italy"
A Spanish contemporary says that
In 1904 nearly 1900 bulls were killed
in bulligAts OF the country. The bulls
killed about 10000 horses. The best
and most valuable bulls for the arena
!, are raised on the vast estates Of tho
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