The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-01-10
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Austria, remarkable for its large eat
ers, has the highest death rate.
The earth's surface covers 197.O0O!OOo
square miles. Three-fourths of this
area Is water.
Only 400 Russian pilgrims went to
Jerusalem this year as against the
usual average Of 5000.
Swearing on the Bible was originated
about 500 a. u. and introduced into
judicial proceedings about COO A. ID.
A recent weighing Of dandelion down
has shown that 100000 Of the dainty
parachutes are needed to make a pound.
Several centuries ago it was consid-
cred fashionable to carry silver tooth
picks suspended around the neck by a
chain.
Glass Is said to have been in use as
early as $500 years before Christ, and
yet it was not used for windows until
about 800 A. d.
Se%veral4.ural clergymen ut a diocesan
conference at Carlisle, England, re-
Gently stated that the reason churches
were kept locked up On weekdays was
to prevent sheep coming in.
Korea was not injured, but greatly
benefited by the Russo-Japanese war
Both the armies employed labor and
bought provisions, thus bringing in
millions Of dollars of unexpected AMI
unusual money.
A French farmer who kept a num-
Der of dogs and cats constructed in
geniously, in order to protect the lat
ter from the former. II veritable cats
nest, which he placed among the
branches of Il stunted oak tree.
In Van Ness avenue, San Francisco,
a long avenue 125 feet wide. asphaltel
and without car tracks. the city has
placed an extra number Of electric
lights. 50 rs to make it better for the
| night Criils of the national guard.
The Leightons Corner correspondent
Of the Carroll County (N. H. Pioneer
says, after twenty-one years Of mar
ried life we all congratulate Level
Ign Waldron and wife at the birth Of
IN eight and one-half pound boy a few
days SINCE"
In Abyssinia it Is considered a crime
to smoke. The law %forbidding tobacco
was at first intended to prevent priests
from smoking in church. but 1t was TAX
en- too literally, and nowadays even
foreigners have to be careful not to lie
seen smoking.
Last August Hugh Brown had u
strange arrival al his farmhouse at
Calais. Me. The house is a long dis
lance from a brook or pond. but one
hot afternoon a turtle walked into the
yard from the highway and has since
remained about the place.
1t has been decided that the meat Of
animals used for obtaining vaccine Is
not made unfit for food. The carcasses
Of many calves that have been vaccinat-
ed are sold in the London market, and
their use as food effects q saving of
many thousand dollars annually.
In a letter to an English friend a
South African farmer writes: MANY
Of the fighting Beers have told me they
are quite willing to erect Il statue to
General Buffers memory in this coun-
try. They declare he is the only MAJ
who came out to fight them in a
straightforward manner"
\ coon dog tackled a Zig coon ON Il
ledge near IittSforu. VT, and Il lively
fight ensued. In III" struggle the ami
mails rolled owe ana over for better
than a quarter of Il mile, finally pitch
ing from the edge of the cliff into Ken
bricks pond. Both, being too much N
haustau to swim, We're drowned.
The mon ,ntum Of a swiftly flying
bird is considerable. A partridge few
against Il window of the gymnasium al
Williams College, crashing through the
glass and falling to the floor dead
from the fact that the glass was triple
thick and not more than 20 by IL inches
} In size.
Mrs. G. D. Austin Of Springfield, vt.
!, found in a book she bid off at an aut
ton recently a curiosity in the shape OF
a three dollar state bank bill. 1t reads
1.-THE president, directors and company
of the 1Ialiowell and Augusta bank
promise to pay to D. Lowell or bearer
&c." The bill, which was issued July II
1903, Is No. 45G.
A few years ago the best known loco
motive in this country was 900, which
> drew the Empire State express. TIL
progress In locomotive manufactur,
and the rapidity with which improve
ments are made have left 900 far be
hind. She now hauls a very modes
train, and the liers are handled by
younger generation.
Miss Belle Long Of Holyoke. Mass
has III old portable melodeon which IL
the early days used to furnish must
Q in the First Baptist church in that city
e The bellows were worked by M arm
and hand, while the other hand wa
used to press tie keys. The instru
ment was carried to the church by tn
organist each Sunday.
The Hamburg-American STEAMSHIP
company is to call the five decks abov
the hold of it's new steamer Amerik
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