The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-12-06
ACTS IN FEW LINES

We're USED as beasts of bur
den in Hungary up to the twelfth cen.
fury.
Little Belgium has spent $SO.OOO,O 900
ON her waterways in the last twenty
years.
The English money denomination
pound was once a pound weight of sill
yer in its pure state.
There is, SO it is said, a borough near
London which pays its police court ex-
penses out of motor fees.
A clock in the tower of the new Ma
tai college ut Dartmouth, England, will
mark the time as it Is kept ON board
ship, striking 8, 6, 4 bells, etc.
The members Of the London Stock
Exchange propose to do away among
themselves with the bad practice Of
standing the drinks" Each man Is to
pay for his own.
An organ grinder Is perambulating
the streets of London having attached
to his organ n placard stating that he
Is a whip thong maker thrown out Of
work by the automobiles.
Forty Italian soldiers of the Alpine
chausseurs recently ascended Mont
Blanc and on arriving at the summit
were drilled by their officers, firing n
volley to celebrate the event.
For drinking a glass of beer in a rail-
way refreshment room at Frankfort In
the presence Of an officer a German
soldier has been court martialed and
sentenced to fifteen days. imprison-
ment.
An Irish farmer complained at Linn
erick that he had been vigorously boy
cotted. and no II In the district would
supply him with a coffin for his dead
son. while only the police and family
attended the funeral.
At an inquest in London a medical
expert testified, The man had a weak
| digestion, and il mushrooms are not
quite fresh when eaten they are apt to
have serious effects in the cases Of per-
sons with weak digestlOns."
Walter Long, the Irish secretary, has
arranged with the treasury to provide
100000 before the end Of this year
and such an amount of stock in 1906 as
will produce f1O,OOO,OOO to secure expe-
dltion in the working of the land pur-
chase act.
An anonymous correspondent Of a
New York paper who says he has been
married tw%enty-six years asserts that
"all women r crazy and blames it
upon the wire metal hairpins with two
legs or arms, which, he says, are charg-
ed with magnetic influence in the man.
facture.
Statistics are now brought forward
to show that America has supplanted
France as the leader in the motor car
Industry. Not only does the United
States supply 05 per cent of the cars
now in this country. but American
manufacturers are now shipping cars
all over the world.
In Belgium the law Of Dec. 13, 1889,
provides that children must have one
full day Of rest each week, while in the
Netherlands Sunday rest Is demanded
for women and children by the law Of
March 5, 1880, and by virtue Of the law
Of March 1. 1916, no government work
Ia done Oh Sunday.
The Braille Weekly, u paper for the
blind, is now being published in Edin-
burg, Scotland. on presses constructed
for this sort Of work alone. 1t contains
general news Of the world and sells
for q penny a copy. 1t Is named after
the French inventor of the famous sys-
TEN Of writing and printing for the
blind.
Thefts Of pictorial postcards from
the French mails have become so habit
ual that the minister Of posts has sent
u circular to all the %postofices in
France warning employees concerned
in sorting and distributing the mails
that summary punishment will be met
ell out to them If caught committing
this %offense.
The tall tower" on the New York
Tribune building, Of which the other
newspapers made fun when it was
erected. is no morc. 1t has been taken
down so that Il number Of stories can
be added to the structure. Years agu
the tower looked down OH all it's neigh
bors. or late years they have been
looking down on it.
The oldest shoe drummer in the
United States recently died in New
York. His name was Just plain Il
Reed. His father was eccentric. and
one evidence OF cccentricity is shown
in the names given his children. lie
began by naming them alphabetically
A, b. G. etc. He got as far as NJ. {
and d. Reed survive their brother.
The Russian soldier Is probably MOI,
heavily burdened than any other. :.
foot soldier in the army Of the czar car
ries over sixty-eight pounds. Tn.
weights borne by the foot soldiers o.
the other principal European nations
are rs follows: French, G. pounds
British. GO pounds; German, 81 pounds
Swiss, 50 pounds; Austrian, AZ pounds
Italian, As pounds.
At the recent Rocntgen congress il