The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-01-01
FACTS IN FEW LINES
The wings of a fly in flight move $50

about sixteen ounces OF water.
President Davis of the Confederacy
believed that the presence of children
brought him luck.
Native Chinese papers state that the
Chinese press will in future be con
trolled by the ministry of posts and
communications.
The Seven Stars hotel at Village
Green, Pa, has been a public house
for 145 years. 1t was the headquarters
Of General CORVALLIS in 1777.
The place of the airship in the wars
Of the future will be high, according
to Rear Admiral Chester Of the Unit
ed States navy. He means high in i'm
| portance as we'll as in the air.
A commission agent in the Paris
fruit markets recently shipped a bas-
ket containing sixty-three selected
peaches to London. The price for the
lot was $40. or about 50 each.
On the occasion Of the Austrian en-
peror's Jubilee next year a special jubi-
lee coinage will be issued, including
particularly silver five crown pieces
and gold hundred crown pieces.
The Royal Swedish Yacht clu is a
very influential organization, with
something like 1000 members Ind Il
register Of over GOO yachts, Of which
only comparatively few are steamers.
If all the tenement dwellers in the
lower east side Of New York city
should be in the streets surrounding
their homes at M time they would be
so crowded as hardly to be able to
mOve.
William Butler Of indianapolis com
planned in filing a suit for divorce that
his wife used too much water in cook
ing cabbage, but the judge didn't think
that sufficient to disrupt the family
and dismissed the case.
Over COO specimens of rare Egyp-
tian fossils are being prepared for cx-
hibition by the experts of the Museum
Of Natural History, New York. The
specimens are the product of an ex
petition financed by Norris X. Jesup.
o. N. Dowker Of Paris, Me-, furnish
ed all the mica used in the manufac-
ture of the first nitroglycerin ever
manufactured in this country In the
famous IIoOsac tunnel days. Mr.. Bow
ker once owned Mount Mica, now the
richest tourmaline mine in the world.
The wealth of the United States to-
day is $3.50, OOO, 100000, or more than
that Of it's two nearest competitors,
Great Britain and France, combined.
Every successive sunrise sees $40, 0O0,-
coo added to the market value of the
tangible property of the United States.
Today there are fewer saloons III
the thirteen southern states than in
Greater New York and only a few
more than in the city of Chicago. In
New York there are 10000 places
where liquor is sold, in Chicago 2S,-
600 and in the entire south only 90
600.
A spire that was unique in church
architecture was recently torn dowI
in Providence, Il. l., It being that OF
the jefferson Street Baptist church
which was entirely OF brick, even tc
the apex, each brick being especially
fashioned for the place which it occu
pied.
A gravestone III the ancient church.
yard Of Perranzabulos, England, gives
particulars of Philip and Grace Mitch.
ell Of that parish, who died, Une III
1862, the other -four years later. Each
was a hundred years of age, ana they
"livcd together in wedlock for more
than seventy years"
T1,n vnDfvio cvcfcp, hos hnoy infVo
duced iu Denmark by a law of March
1907. The law provides that The ole
weights and measures may be lscd fol
a period of five years In conjunction
with the new. However, all govern
mcnt and local authorities may us,
the old system for only two years t.
come.
Munich is to have one of The mos
beautiful grayeyards in Germany. Tn
, city has purchased about 800 acres o
romantic forest land about five mile
from its borders, which Will be use,
as a cemetery. 1t will be the first for
est graveyard in Germany, and it is t
be SO used that its idyllie characte
will be preserved.
Inc TACT lQaC u man lCttaN can 81
down in Il restaurant overlooking tn
Thames embankmcnt or at a table III
-. der the trees Mt the edge OF the Thiel
/ gartcn and dine on fresh SALINE,
brought from the waters of California
Oregon and Alaska shows Graphical
how industrial efficiency has given RI
nance to modern trade.
There are twenty-seyen cities an
! towns named Troy in the Unite
: States, nineteen named Athens. sew el
teen Uticas. sixteen AleXandrias, fl
teen Romes and twelve Carriages, NJ
: to speak Of seven Atticas and seve
Syracuses. Only two states, Indian
. and New York, contain towns bearin
j, NIL eight of the Ohio and Mi
:, souri, contain sever each.
Covering n long abandoned we'll
BOsworth street, Boston, was an O.
gravestone which workmen unearthe
" while cXcavatins for a water pipe.
y lnao 20 tho fOllowinr i~nscription. ..yVi