The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-10-31
FACTS IN FEW LINES

by women il 1862.
During the reign Of Edward the Con-
lessor of England the practice Of en-
ploying surnames began.
Weaving cotton in Africa is slow and
difficult work. \ skilled workman can
weave about three yards a day.
Bokhara. the most populous part of
TurkcstAa. i; gradually being changed
into Il desert by the incursions of the
sand dunes.
An official return just issued by the
Japanese government gives the wealth
Of Japan at the end of 1904 as $6,51O,-
100000, or $145 per head.
The first arctic expedition was made
by Corte Real, a Portuguese, in the year
1900. This vas fifty-three years before
that under Sir Hugh Willoughby.
According to Borough President Co.
Ter, Brooklyn in a few months will re-
ceive an addition to its water supply
Of 5O.OOO.OOO gallons a day from arte-
sian wells.
The purest breed of Arab horses are
the Kochla2i. whose geneology has
been preserved for 1000 years. They
are said to be derived from King Sol
om0n's stables.
The estimated number of cantaloupcs
shipped from the famous Rocky Ford
district in Colorado last season Is 12,-
100000. Seven hundred cars were sent
out, being an increase Of los cars over
the previous season.
While looking over some old articles
a Wilton On. H. man ran across an Oil
map Of Massachusetts which was print
ed in 1920 Just after the census wa,
taken. The map gives Boston as hay
Ing 1929 people and the whole state
523,2S7.
When Richard Harding Davis met Ii
Hung Chang in st. Petersburg he was
asked how old and how rich he was
and what he did. He replied, II write
books" "Why do you write?" said
the viceroy. Are you not strong
enough to work?"
One of the few bells cast Ivy Paul
Revere now In existence Is to be taken
from the belfry of the old Baptist
church in Warren, II. L., to be recast
~ avg "A al VI kAS NAulNA I
oversee the task and will write an ac-
count of the undertaking for historical
purposes.
Captain Cooks chest, the n which
he carried with him on his voyage of
discovery oyer a hundred years ago. DC
cupies a conspicuous place in the home
Of Rev. Il. Crosby Of North Branch,
Nfio1, nv, -,|,r< lo, 1Do>, g., <GD v,~
session of the Crosby family for many
years. but was recently shipped to
America by the English branch Of the
family.
Motor car reliability trials were held
in Scotland recently, and the drivers
were astounded at their reception
along the route. In every town and
village the women and children lined
the roadside and shouted enthusiastic
welcomes. Sprays Of lilac and other
flowers We're thrown into the cars as
they passed and invitations to stop
We're given.
For peach harvesting ]. IL. Hale of
Glastonbury. Conn. never employs any
but Italians. When the season is at its
height he has $50 of them working In
h orchard. Italian walters in Del
monico's, Silerry's, the Waldorf and
other places go there Oh their vacations
and so to work in the orchards. They
love to be near the fruit.
Advertisement in Five Islands On. S,
exchange: ~. Il. Fuller. dealer in soft
and hard coal, ice cream, wood, lime,
cements, perfumery, nails, putty, spec
tacles and horseradish, chocolate cara
mels and tar roofing. gastitting and TN
dertakins i'll all its branches. hides,
tallow and maple strip, tine gold jew
elry. silverware and salt, glue. goldfish
and gents neckwear, undertaken and
contectioner. diseases Of horses and
children Il speciality"
The so allied potato king is a
shrewd negro Of the name of Groves,
who lives on Il farm near Kansas City,
Kan, and raises and sells more pota-
toes than any other man in the world.
Besides his w production he buys
and sells the potatoes Of others. In
Kansas City he maintains u commits
siOu Office and employs some ten
stenographers and bookkeepers. Real
izing that such a large business needs
a we'll trained head, he has sent his
son first to the Kansas Agricultural
college for an agricultural education
and then to a business college for Il
business education.
Rev. Charles Wolfe, the author of
the immortal poem entitled THE
Burial Of Sir John Moore" was ac-
cused not long g by u magazine Of
literary piracy. 1t was said that Wolfe
had cribbed the poem bodily from the
French. The matter has been given
wide currency in the press, owing to
the great popularity the poem has en-
joyed for nearly a century. Now it
has been discovered that the French
poem was Il literary hoax penetrated