The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-09-23
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boats already on the canals of Holland.
The total exports Of camphor from
Formosa last year amounted to 4.121..
5GG pounds.
The capacity of the Atlantic cables
is 3OO.O eco words annually. Only
2j,O0O,OO are sent.
Fish worth f57,OOO,0OO is landed ev.
cry year in England and Wales. find
ing employment for 10000 men and
boys.
Paraguay, once the hermit state"
par excellence, is soon to be in direct
communication by steamer with the
United States and Europe.
age drug stores in some Mexican cities
provided they on the front
of their store that they have no local
professional title.
Time was when the patent kid made
in France was ~unequaled, but now the
Frenchs themselves are said to prefer
the American leather Of this kind as
being less liable to crack.
OF the 59,O95 men employed on Brit.
ish sailing vessels, 92S-or one in sixty
lose their lives by drowning. where
as Of the 1G2.129 men employed on
steamships only 674-or l in 241-are
drowned.
The Milford IN. H. Cabinet entered
upon it's one hundred and sixth vol
ume on July 2. The paper has been
published by the family of its present
owner, Colonel w. B. Rotch. for nine
ty-eight years.
The capital invested in breweries il
the United States, according to Tia
last federal census, was $415, OOOOOO
The experts of the United States
Brewing association say that it is now
nearer $7OO,OOO.OOO.
A quantity Of Saracen wheat has
been sown in Chile, with fine results.
The first harvest showed Il yield of
sixteen bushels for one and Of a very
fine quality. 1t grows very strong and
nearly four feet in height.
Experiments made in Sicily have
shown hat rubber can be successfully
cultivated there, but it will take ter
years to bring the trees to profitable
productiveness; hence the assistance OF
the government is being asked.
A mask of aluminium wire to Absorb
mercury vapors is the suggestion OF
Signor Tarugi, an Italian. for avoiding
poisoning in mercury mines. mirror
factories and other places where work.
ers are exposed to this volatile metal.
Drought has never been known il
the southwestern districts of Austria
lin, nor arc rabbits found there, but
pasturalists on a large scale are ham
pered by several varieties Of poison
bushes which prove harmful to stock.
\ % caliber bullet played a unique
trick in Gardiner, Me-, recently, lodg.
ing in a telephone cable and cutting
twenty out of sixty wires therein in.
closed. 1t required seven hours to 10
cate the trouble and considerably more
time in making repairs.
Japan contributes more than one.
half Of the slO,OOo,OOO cigarettes con.
sumed annually by the 2O.OOO,OOO 10.
reans. New Korea prefers cigarettes tc
the old fashioned pipes, some of which
We're so loLg that a servant was re.
Quired at the far end to apply the
match.
Sam Jet of Winchester, Ky, has Il
thousand acre goat ranch in Breathitt
county. 1t is mountain land and is in.
closed by a wire fence. His speciality
Is the Angora breed. The fleece OF
this goat Is what IS known in trade as
mohair and is very reliable. The ranch
is proving quite a success.
From a British newspaper: IA gen.
tleman in good social position finds
that wherever he goes friends ply
him with WHISTLES and sodas, which
be does not like and which disagree
with him. They resent 1t If he re.
fuses them. He would like introduc.
ton to society in which whisky and
soda do not form so important an
element"
From Sept. 10 to 80 an exposition
viii be held at Nuremberg in the inter.
est Of culinary art, general food prod.
ucts. army s%ustcnance and of meat
shop. confectionery. bakery. hotel and
in~nkeepers' appliances, etc. The expo.
sition Is to commemorate the twenty.
fifth anniversary of the Innkecpers'
Association of Nuremberg and is under
the protectorate Of Prince Alfonso of
Bavaria.
President G. Stanley Hall Of Clark
university that college pro-
| fcssors must organize for self protec-
ton and boycott all news gatherers
as enemies to academic dignity and
weight. He says: college professors
must do something to keep themselves
from being made ridiculous. The time
has come when a college professor car
not open his mouth without being
made to look. speak and act like a
fool"
An Uncle Remus" home for chill
drcn is to be established near Atlanta,
Ca. as a memorial to Joel Chandler
Harris. The Juvenile Protective as