The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-03-13

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tain.
INTERESTING FACTS.
Some Of the larger boats Of the At
lantic service carry as many aas Y I: u I.
1irennen.
Lamar Jackson. . full-blooded Choc-
taw, has been appointed to q cadet
ship at West Point from Oklahoma.
Hezekiah Wilkins. who fused the
first heat Of iron made west Of New
York, died at Detroit recently at the
age Of 81.
"A 14,0o0-horse power plant operated
by tidal energy Is to be established on
the south bank Of the Elbe, near Cux-
haven.
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A South African diamond mine or
pipe" is the crater Of an extinct vol
cano, and the diamondtferous ground
forms the filling Of that crater.
An ancient reservoir for water, con-
tanning several earthen pitchers and .
metal dipper, has been discovered BY
workmen under Exeter cathedral.
one-fourth Of iii the, immigrants
that have landed ii New York during
the last year havescome from Austria
Hungary.
Duties on q number OF fancy and or
;namental stones are to be increased
Ave-fold by an order which customs Of
icials are to put ii force March 16.
A plan to limit the height Of build
|ings, which would do away entirely
with skyscrapers, Is being considered
by q special committee OF the new
building commission Of New York.
IN sConstantinople the. shoemakers
are said to be allspoets. While a Gus
TONER is having q heel repaired or a
shoe replaced the attendant recites
extemporized or memorized erses to
him.
There are So banks IN Canada with
Dominion charters and these banks
have 1929 branches. The. total paid
up capital Of these is $s5, s27, 1892. and
the surplus Of reserve account is $685.
s27.ss2.
A significant sign OF the times was
1.-The statement Of General Elliott, com
mandant Of marines, to Secretary Net.
calf that for the first time in many
months the marine corps is now up to
Its full complement Of $500 enlisted
men,
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Rabbi Bernhard Felsenthal, the old
lest Jewish theologian in the United
States, who recently died in Chicago
was recognized as the worlds great
est Hebrew scholar. He was born IL
Germany and had been . resident o.
Chicago since 1855.
Railway whistler inlet torture o.
% many people that the efforts ahroat
to check the plague have won ap
prov1 from the people, Austria ha.
introduced q system Of dumb sisnal
ing to start and stop the train. Bel
GUM 10 trying compressed air vhis
ties instead Of steam, and German.
experiments with horns.
The United States Government ha
granted a permit for the erection Of
$1,000,000 power plant on the soutl
Platte watershed, q short distanc
from Denver. Col, and has also give
|, a r%ight-of-way for the necessary trans
mission lines. The plant will perml
the production OF 10000 ~electrica
horsepower.
III hHIsFTEa. HsEla-l 4L.
Seated in the rear car Of a fast Penn
sylvania railroad express train Frida
night as 1t went over the Raritan rive
} bridge at New Brunswick, N. J.. . col
ductor detected . break In the regula
click OF the rails. He signaled for
: stop. So exact had been the condu'
3 TORS mental record that he led . part
to a rail which had been broken ev
sfdently as the train sped over 1t. Fo
flowing trains were held up until th
rail was replaced.