The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-31
INTERESTING FACTS.

INTERESTING FACTS.
Eighteen cotton mills in New Bed
ford paid dividends OF more than Is
per cent last year
The metal point on your shoestring
made a fortune for the woman who
thought it out.
Eleanor Duse has brought the cele-
brated Capponi palace, ear Florence,
Italy. for 100000 francs.
The imports to this country Of trop-
ical and subtropical products will
amount this year to at least $780,
100000.
1t is proposed in Great Britain to
reduce the duty on industrial acohol
so that motorists a get it for six
pence a gallon.
Paper manufactured from the fiber
OF trees began to be a commercial
product in 1867, but did not assume
great Importance unail 1896.
Consul General John p. Bray Of Mel
bourne reports that 1901 tons Of tin,
valued at over $7,30o,000, was pro-
duced in Australia during 1906.
A serious problem for the people OF
Canada to solve is the fuel supply Of
the future. No coal Of any kind has
aver been discovered in Ontario.
Gypsies Of Granada, Spain. are re-
markable among their race, for they
are ave dwellers, living in recesses
followed out OF a hillside not far form
the city.
In the vicinity Of Lonoke, Ark,
about 5000 acres Of prairie land were
planted to rice and the yield was
about 1000, 900 bushels Of rice, valued
at $500, 900.
For many years there has been q
well known meteorological observa-
tory on the summit Of the Pic du Midi
de Bigorre, in the Pyrenees, at an alti-
tude of 9,40O feet.
Catalogued as the property Of a
lady Of title" and dated from 1906 to
1920, a set of IL James I silver gilt
apostle spoons were sold for $2,40O at
Chrisua's London auction rooms.
Historic names were introduced to
Police court. Washington, when John
Adams charged George Washington
with stealing 81. Washington denied
it, and the case was dropped.
A commission agent In the Paris
fruit markets recently shipped q
basket containing SO selected peaches
to London. The price paid for the
lot was $40, or about 81 each.
Present operating costs for the
of every car and engine in
the country total $1,4oo. o0o, 900 in one
year. BY electritication this would be
reduced by about t250,o00. 600.
The Society for the Propagation Of
The twentieth century fund Of the
Free Methodist church in England has
now reached the sun Of over 100000,
while the silver wedding fund OF the
same church amounts TO more than
$4,000.
"a beautiful Celtic cross, ~ feet
high, has been erected at Rangihoua,.
Bay of Island, where SO years ago
Samuel Marsden. the Apostle OF
New Zealand" landed to hold the first
Christian service in that section.
More patents were issued during
1906 and more money collected by the
United States Patent ONCE. than In
any single year previous, with the ex-
ception Of 1905, since the establish
ment of the Patent ONCE in 1885.
An open-air museum Is planned for
Bremen Of the type already familiar
in many scaRdinavian towns. An
epitome Of the local culture and art
from the earliest days is to be offered
in a park dotted with old peasant
houses.
Professor Thaddeus $. G. Lowe Of
Cal, who recently celebrat-
ed his seventy-ifth birthday, was the
inventor Of the compressed Ice ma
chine, and in 1866 made the first arti-
fetal ice ever produced in this coun-
Try.