The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-05-09
FACTS IN FEW LINES

- ACNS'NCS i!cA ABOUT Sl,OUU Il IiOliu
for its work.
Fine specimens Of cotton fabrics are
often found in Peruvian tombs dating
back to the time of the Incas.
Man; paGpers have lived to be Il
hundred years old. but there is not 4
single record Of Il millionaire attaining
that age.
There was visible in Il big mass of
amber dredged up out of the Baltic sea
recently a small squirrel with claws.
teeth and fur intact.
A pair Of curtains made of cham
payne corks still covered with gilt pa
per associated with the brand is a GU
rtosity owned by a member of a popu-
lar New York club.
Chinese engineers on Manchurian
railways get $12 to $45 in gold a
month. and Japanese engineers are
seeking positions on the Asiatic CONT
nent at these prevailing wages.
The largest industry in Japan is tex
ale. there being some 4,537 factories of
various sizes engaged in this trade, the
majority being conferred in and around
Osaka. These are mostly worked by
steam power.
A jocular American once wrote Rud-
yard Kipling, Hearing that you are
retailing literature at 81 a word, I in
close 81 for a sample" Mr.. Kipling
sent him the single word Thanks
and kept the dollar.
The city Of Odense, where Hans
Christian Andersen was born, April ..
1906, has purchased his home for the
purpose of transforming it into an An
dersen house in which may be pre-
served objects associated with Den
marks best known writer.
The sword Of General Robert f. Lee
has been recovered from the ruins of
Laburnum. the home Of Joseph Bryan
of Richmond. Va. which was recently
burned. The sword was the one used
by Lee when a captain of the United
States engineers in the war with Mexi-
co.
In presenting Beloit college with the
Ellsworth collection Of aboriginal stone
implements Frank G. Logan has made
it possible to keep in Wisconsin the
most valuable group of it's kind in the
world. The collection contains 1000
Of the heavier stone implements and
weapons of the North American In
dams.
Liquor drinking is one of the results
of European penetration into Morocco.
The taste for strong drink. though Still!
INDUCED comparatively in secret. is
steadily increasing, the practice spread
ing from force Of example among the
Moors themselves as Il result Of the
strenuous efforts Of foreigners to in.
culcate this vice.
Nine one-armed men, business men
of Lock Haven, Pa, gathered at Il BAN
quot the other evening. After dinner
they sat back with their cigars and re-
lated in turn how they came to lose
their arms. Railroads were response
BILE for three. the thrashing machine
for three. gun accidents two and wal
one
While the majority Of the wells in
Vermont are under fifty feet in depth.
there are some which so ''way down
for their supplies. The deepest is on
the estate Of DIR. W. Seward Webb at
Shelburne. This we'll is 1.4OO feet deep.
A 1,2225 foot we'll was driven for II.
w. Putnam Of Bennington. There are
a number of wells Over goo feet in
depth in the state.
One Of the best known houses in
NOrthamptonsllire. England. was de-
signed to represent the days, weeks
and quarters Of the year. 1t had four
wings facing the four quarters of the
heavens to represent the four quarters
Of the year. Boa windows. one for each
day; fifty-two chimneys. one for each
week. and seven entrances, to repre-
sent the seven days of the week.
or all the signatures that come to
the capitol attached to official docu-
ments o II covers more than that of
Charles j. Bonaparte, secretary of the
navy. Mr.. B%onaparte's signature Is
about five inches long, and the great
est height of letters Is over an inch. 1t
makes the famously big signature Of
John Hancock attached to the Decla-
ration of independence look like n
pygmy.
Mr.. Cannon not long ago received a
letter from Il prominent Washington
hostess, who asked him to compel
members Of congress to state in their
official biography, which appears annu-
ally in the Congressional Directory,
whether or not they were married.
This hostess complained that she had
been entertaining certain young states
men under the impression that they
We're unwed in their home cities. She
thought Mr.. Cannon ought to be held
responsible for such impostors. and
she suggested the remedy.
One effect Of the election of Norway
into an independent kingdom has been
to foster nationalist feeling in many
unexpected directions. Just now Ibsen
and Bjornson are being taken to task
severely for having their works pub
lished by a Danish instead of a Nor
wegian firm and thereby sanctioning