The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-01-07

a twonlile auto oval track liz CON
templated at Philadelphia 100 feet
wide. except At the turns, which will
have 4 width of 125 feet. The cost is
estimated at $500. 900.
The great cathedral At Cologne. al
though completed but 4 few years
ago, has II 10 deteriorated from fac
tory smoke that the body Of the
church Will have to be renovated.
throughout.
A drought in the island Of Santo
Domingo during the summer and fall
resulted In a one-thdrd decrease Of the
annual cocoa production, and the al
most complete failure Of the tobacco
crop. \
The bill for putting up the khedive
Of Egypt at Dudley house (England)'
il 1867 was 100000, but IT took $11O,-
900 to entertain Prince Uasrullar
Khan OF Afghanistan at Dorchester
house In 1896.
1t costs nearly al much to pay the
salaries Of the municipal servants of
New York city as it does to support
the entire army Of the United States,
The salaries amount close to $4,000
600 annually. s8sS5
The Rye and an adjoini ng spur Of
the Chiltern Hills, near High Wy
combe, England, are nightly overrun
with a countless host of frogs. Local
residents have had to seek fresh
promenades, and q crus ade against
the frogs Is being planned
Holland has set enginee rs to work
to pump the water out Of the famous
Zuyder Zee and turn II into dry land.
When this work is accomplished there
will rise where 1000 fishermen now
sink their nets farms and homes for
10000 Dutchmen.
Boston college, a Roman Catholic
institution, has determined to change
its location from the South End to
Newton, where a 30-acre site near
the Chestnut Hill reservoir awaits it.
Here l will be near st. Johns semi
nary. W.
The emperor Of Germany has sent
20 large cases Of books, duplicates Of
works in the Imperial library to the
congressional library at Washington
and Yale. Harvard and Columbia uni
versities. The books, which are val
ued at about $15, 900, mostly deal with
modern scientific research, art and
history.
London policemen are complaining
of a new disease, which they declare
is caused by the fumes of motor-om-
ribuses. The men who suffer most
are those engaged In directing trat-
fc at such centers as the Bank, Lud-
gate Circus and Holborn Circus. The
symptoms, they declare, are head
ache and lore throat.
A Hamburg Joint stock company Ia
about to erect along the mouth Of the
Elbe power works for generating cleo
tricity by the action Of the ebb and
flow Of the tide. The daily capacity
OF the plant will reach i 4,000-horse
power. Tests are said to have estab-
lished the feasibility Of this method OF
generating electricity. n
. -& aa &F
BY the recovery OF q deed at New
York whereby John +. 4Betz, the Phil
adelphia brewer, transferred to his
son, John F. Betz, Jr.. the other day,
the title to q lot on the northeast cor
ner Of Eighth avenue and Fifty-sixth
street. the fact was developed that
never in Manhattan leila d's history
has this lot had a butldin 6 upon 1t.
The production Of the i've princi-
ral petroleum fields OF the country
last year was: Appalachian 37,741,473
barrels; NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 21,,961,-
I'll; Midcontinept, 2~4.718,648; Gulf,
2 ,645, 425; California. 33,09S. 598; to
tai, 126,155,854 barrels. The midcon-
tinent field 10 the only one reporting
an advance over the figures Of pro
duction for 1905.
Canada alone produces over $1,000
900 worth Of furs every year, and to
this Alaska now adds $75O,000 OF raw
pelts, and Labrador probably halt
this amount. Until q decade or 80
ago the Prybiloffs and other seal
islands sent out $2,50O,000 worth OF
skins annually; and then Of course,
there are the enormous quantities
dressed and manufactured for the
i a @a-EN-+ n| ~ de- II. LLINL1L MINUF<