The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-11-11

Pepper is the rnly spice grow. il,
Borneo sufficient Tor pvpait.
1t is estimated that 2.JG0.U1, a,i.:ra-
tors have been killed for their biz in
Florida.
An Ohio man has Invented q : Gle
and automobile tire stuffed with "jpe
and yarn.
Old steel rails are used as ~tplegllph
poles for a stretch Of thirty :ni,e4 on
the Highland railway in Scotl1nG.
Although the sand in the Sahara
only averages thirty feet in depth. it
has been found 200 feet below the sur.
face.
In a recently built Italian steamship
there Is a special cabin with a dental
outfit. The dentist will be carried in
the vessel.
Since 1901 not a single American YES
sci has entered the French port Of
Nantes, formerly Il of the principa!
ports doing business with this country.
West Africa will become the greatest
maize growing country of the world
three crops 4 Year,, says Sir Alfred
Jones, president Of the Liverpool cham
Der Of commerce.
There are in Quebec today descend
ants of Wolfe's h~ighlanders. who
stormed the place; but. though Scot
fish In everything else. they speak
French and do not know English.
Stiffening of the brain, a rare dis
ease. was given at the inquest as one
Of the auses Of death of a boy seven
teen months old on whom an operation
was performed at st. Thomas hospi-
tai, London.
\ hen in the flock of Mrs. z. Knight
at South Berwick. Me-, laid an egg re-
Gently that measured six and one-half
inches one way and eight inches the
other. This egg contained a yolk and
another perfectly formed egg.
French scientists are studying a pc
culiar movement Of the sands along
the northern coasts Of France. Bel
GUM and Holland. A fine sand origi-
mating on the coast Of Normandy has
been found as far away as Denmark.
Mackerel have V before Deer so
iuUulluuI1L III A\ONu kcCOlll uS lllS year.
The supply of barrels gave out some
time ago, and fishermen had to pack
their catches in p%uncheons, boxes. old
boats or anything else they could find.
A proposition is taking form for the
establishment in the Himalayas Of a
sanitarium on modern lines for con-
sumptives. The rich natives are mani
Testing a deep interest in the scheme
and seem to be ready to help financial
" in bringing it to a realization.
The newest thing in freak p%hotogra-
ply in Egypt is posing for photographs
In cardboard sphinx molds and num-
my cases. \ hole is left where the
face Of the sphinx should be. and Eng
ISL and American faces peer out from
this vantage upon the photographer.
Chinese mothers at Shanghai are
sufficiently Intelligent to eagerly sub
NIT their infants to vaccination, and
IN consequence smallpox has dimin-
shed III that city almost to the vanish
Ing point. In the interior there are fire.
luent epidemics which leave large gaps
n the population.
Though Switzerland is a land of dali
lies, the importation Of butter amounts
to 100000 a year. This is due to
two causes. the great demand by the
hotels during the tourist season and
The use of the milk for cheese, which
Is more profitable, the annual exports
If it being about $4,000, 600.
The postofiice department is consid-
erins the ACCESSIBILITY of having the
outlying districts Of a number of the
titles of the country covered by mail
carriers with wagons. II the expert
, nent Is tried the carriers will ring a
DELL as they pass along warning the
residents to get their letters ready.
Switzerland is suffering from a
plague of leeches, which are killing the
ash in the lakes and rivers by thou
sands. In the upper course Of the
Rhine, in the Aar, the lakes Of Neu-
,hatel and Constance. where the
plague is most acute, thousands Of
! lead fish are seen floating on the wa
Ter.
Chimes to the memory Of Alice Free
4 1Iuu IullIcT HuNc Uccu ullCcu III
!, Mitchell tower of Chicago university.
They consist Of ten bells, the largest
Weighing 2,234 pounds. Mrs. Palmer
:or several years was connected with
he university, and these chimes will
De Il sweet reminder of this great wo-
nan.
Mrs. f. Luis Mora of Portland, Me-,
7 WINS 4 Washington relic which, so far
> IS is known, is the only n Of its
! kind in existence. 1t is one Of six
, ncdallions which were made to order
, or General Lafayette. Before Lafa.
,ette took leave of the officers Of his
staff he had these medallions made in
/; Paris and presented them to the six
y Ulcers Immediately under him. The
i've others have disappeared and may
a AVE been destroyed.
t THE little republic Moresnet, be
wecn Belgium and Prussia" says the
TD,rD.1 los n,)>of. .fiS tho tirct ooI1N