The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1908-04-29
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AoAAc Va S"S DpAN Va IuICe last
year were the largest in thirty years.
Sixteen Of the United States now
have sugar factories. sixty-four in all.
There are 1867 walled cities in china
where there is neither a foreign nor
Chinese pastor.
a fifteen-year-old boy has crossed the
ocean seven times as a stowaway in an
effort to get into this country.
The pope intends to present IL gilt
bronze angel. with which it is pro-
posed to decorate the top of the cam.
panile at Venice.
\ Chinaman sent to the Bertillon
room at Altoona, Pa. to be measured.
thinking he was to be beheaded, chant.
ed a death song.
4. policeman in Pittsburg was so we'll
disguised as a Chinaman. including the
cue, that he fooled Sam zee, a noted
gambler. whom he arrested.
A physician in st. Louis in certifying
that a dependent was unable to ap-
pear in court wrote that he was "Cyck
Under ME car and Uneble to Wock."
The Somali soldier keeps himself in
perfect fighting condition on a diet of
nuts. He eats only twenty a day. but
they are nuts Of a very nourishing
kind.
The English factory code is still in
advance Of that Of Germany. where
there is as yet no legislation prohibit
ing female labor in mining and smelt.
ing works.
All Nah. a Chinaman and q good
swimmer. fell overheard from a liner
at San Francisco and was killed by a
blow from a life preserver which was
thrown to him.
Peruvian capitalists propose to tap
Lake Titicaca by means Of a tunnel
through the crest of the Cordilleras.
This would bring 100000 horsepower
down to the Pacific.
A vivid dream thrice repeated show
ed George Chester of West Livingston.
N. j.. where to find his wife's wedding
ring. which she lost nearly five years
ago. In each dream he saw the ring
under a big tree.
The aluminium books for the blind
now being printed in Edinburgh are of
thin sheets embossed in the usual vay.
They are easier to read than paper
books, do not soil and are practically
tndestructible. Their responsiveness is
their drawback.
Fraulein Smitch, a Swiss maiden.
though color blind and totally unedu.
Gated In art matters, produces oil
paintings while in a hypnotic state.
blending the tints in a truly wonderful
manner. The gift was discovered by
a doctor at Geneva.
Four-ffths Of the wheat and oats for
seeding purposes, for which 100000
was appropriated by the Canadian gov j.
eminent, will be purchased in the
United States. Large orders have been
placed In Ohio. Illinois. Minnesota, |
Iowa and Nebraska.
The wealth Of the R%othschilds at
present, according to a London paper. |
Is estimated at f4OO, OOO,O 900 and is be-
lieved to have doubled within the past
twenty years. 1t is calculated that in
seventy years more they will possess
f15,OOO. 100000, an amount that can
hardly be conceived.
The conclusion of a sociologist who
has lived in New York city for three
quarters Of Il century is that the peo-
pie of no other city are so often mis-
judged because wealth, violence and
dishonesty are so emphasized in news
and conversation that sight is lost of
the tens Of thousands Of the righteous.
who are little in the public mind.
The rich Barberini collection of
Etruscan antiquities has been pur.
chased by Signor Volpi. an ANTIQUARIAN,
and the question Of the collection being
kept in Italy or being permitted to be
sent abroad has come up for considera.
ton of the Italian government. He has
offered to give the state one-fifth of the
whole collection IL 1t will allow him to
sell the remainder at public auction.
with the right of expectation.
Charles d. Davol, twenty-five wears
old, a graduate Of Harvard and son of
a Fall River (Mass.) mill owner, has
begun work in Toledo. O., as night
messenger at the Rock Island depot at
SIS a month. He started out to learn
the railroad business. When he was
transferred from the superintendent
office in Chicago he brought an expen.
sive saddle horse, which he rides every
evening before work. He lives Mt To.
peka's best hotel.
Exile to Siberia began soon after the
discovery of the country, but exact
statistics were not kept before 1923.
At that time 5000 persons were trans.
ported every year. This figure has
now increased to an average of 10000.
a German company has just paid a