The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1905-07-05
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to he supplied to all the inmates Of tn
Austrian prisons.
a movement is spreading throug
Wales for the recognition Of st. Da
vid's day as a public holiday.
An Engjshwoman Il few years az
invented a button hook for glove
which is now worth 5000 a year +
her.
BY Il judgment of the supreme cour
of Pretoria the old Boer law forbidden,
natives in the Transvaal to acQuir,
land has been annulled.
The Swiss police are being trained 1,
the London model. The chief, who re
Gently visited England, was much i'm
pressed by police methods there.
The kaiser is getting worried abou
the color Of the German unifSrm again
He is now trying to see whO,her blu,
or black would not be better than til,
light gray.
The students Of Stanford universit,
will buy a magnificent bronze vase
which will he placed on the marble
steps of the Stanford m%auSoleum, ant
every day, year in and year out. KEEP
full Of fresh flowers.
Railroads III Africa are approaching
the heart of the continent from the
Kongo OH the west, from Cairo on the
Marques on the south and into Ugan.
ia AMI Abyssinia on the east.
In the old c%hurchyard at Kilkeel,
Ireland. is Il tombstone with the. fol.
lowing inscription: Here lie the re
mains OF Thomas Nicholas, who died
in Philadelphia in March. 1913. Had
he lived he would have been buried
here"
4 Stanford university faculty colony
is to be started at tal.mcl-by-thc-Sca,
southern California. Among those who
will build summer homes there are
President Jordan, Professors Gilbert,
Stillman. Fish. Pierce. Merino. Gilmore
and Cannon and Mrs. w. a. Kimball.
Mrs. Lucy Seymour Of Great Bar
rington. Mass. has a hen which lays
eggs with Il rough shell. The letters NJ
and W are plainly noticeable on each
egg. Every time this remarkable hen
lays an z it pecks on the window un-
til Mrs. Seymour goes o Il and gets the
egg.
The house marking the official center
| Of population OF the United States, near
| Columbus, Ind, owned and occupied by
Henry Mari. was unroofed by a recent
windstorm. This house has marked the
center of population since the last cen
sus and has been an object of great in
terest.
Henry X. Bradbury Of Hollis. Me-.
who recently died after practicing law
for over half a century. is said to have
had the distinction of being graduated
from Bowdoin college Mt a younger age
than any other of its alumni. He en-
tered college ut thirteen years and was
graduated at seventeen In the famous
class Of ~.
An u%ncounted treasury bill for f1O0,
dated 1745, vas presented to the Bank
of England the other day. 1t Is genu.
Inc, and it il believed that 1t was issued
at 3 per cent compound interest. That
makes its present value $4,000. The
treasury has not yet paid 1t. but the
general opinion seems to be that It will
have to do 80.
When the italian cruiser Umbria e
tered the harbor of San Jose de Guata-
mala the other day she fired a salute.
A burning wad from one of her guns
dropped on the roof Of the government
building and set fire to it. The crew
vas ordered ashore and assisted in a
hard fight. which resulted in saving
most Of the buildings.
China has recently issued an edict
the sale Of metal trimmed %spectacles.
Tan shoes are also tabooed. and any
II dealing III them renders himself H.
able to decapitation. This latter dras-
tic regulation is due to the fact that
yellow is there the imperial color, to be
worn by none save members Of the
royal family.
At the Austrian court articles are
never permitted to appear a second
time ut the royal table, but become the
perquisites Of the servants. The un-
cOrkel bottles of probably the choicest
Of wines go to one. the joints to anoth-
er. the liquors left in the glasses to
another, and so on, a sale Of the dain-
ties being held in the lower regions of
the palace every morning.
The gold production Of Australasia
in 1904 was 4.194. 800 fine ounces, val
ued at $50. 100000. against 4.296,2377
fine ounces of Il value Of $SS,S57 800.
In 1909. There is thus Il decrease Of
10l,4l5 fine ounces in quantity and ST.
097 500 in value in 1904. The falling
of has been principally in Western
Australia. where a decrease Of S1,571
ounces occurred. and in Queensland.
where the decrease was 1860 ounces.
Japan has named her big battleships
after great mountains and the small
war vessels from some we'll known
natural features of the country. 1t
may also be mentioned that ut the end
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