The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-06-12
INTERESTING FACTS.

INTERESTING FACTS.
Zurich is the center Of industrial
Switzerland.
The wife in Abysinnia always owns
the house and contents.
Living expenses In New York have ia.
creased ~ per cent IN one year.
Persian newspapers are reproduced
from handwriting by TYPOGRAPHY. no
types being used.
The bishop OF London recently de-
that he prepared all his ser
and addresses while dressing.
What Is reported to be the largest
apple tree in the United States is at
southington. Conn. It produces so.
bushels.
In England last year only the potato
and hop crops fell short OF the 10.
year ayerage-all the rest far exceed
ing It,.
Twenty per cent Of the population
OF Canada earns its living in connec-
ton with the country's carrying trade.
Railroad employees alone number
124, 900.
An ancient font, removed years ago
from st. James parish church, Louth,
Ireland, has been discovered in use as
q flower pot and replaced Id the
church.
One of the large electrical firms in
Germany gives yearly from 81 to 81
TO employees who have served more
than a year. The sum thus expend-
ed exceeds $4,000 a year.
A considerable item of the 1000
ton cargo of the Laurentian was q
shipment OF 1000 bags Of peanuts
from Glasgow, the first Of it's kind
ever brought from that port to Bos-
ton.
Altogether during the year 1908
there will have been under construc-
ton buildings directly or indirectly
connected with Princeton university
representing an expenditure Of nearly
$2.000.00O.
Oxford university has conferred the
honorary degree OF doctor Of science
on Prof. William James, the noted
educator, who was professor Of philos-
ophy at Harvard university from 1872
to 1907.
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The Vienna Academy OF Science has
spent nearly $4,000 in working 10 tons
Of uranium ore for radium. The yield
was three grains Of pure radium, the
largest amount ever secured at once,
the value being $32o,000.
Something more than quiet humor
is in this paragraph printed at the
end Of the Edmonton opera house reg
ulations by Manager Brandon: "Any
old ladies' afraid Of taking cold may
keep N their hats or bonnets."
1t is to be presumed that shipping
subsidies have benefited European
nations or they would not continue
them. England pays some
Sc, 0 900 annually, France and Ger
many about $5,000,0O0 each, and Japan
pays $4,000, 900.
The Flemish population Of Belgium
is very careful to preserve Its Ian
guage and racial identity. It's repre-
in the bilingual parliament
Of that country seem indeed to be al
most exorbitant in their claims for
their native tongue.
The white peril' is as threatening
the east as the yellow danger" is
to the west. China and Japan should
agree to stop the Europeans and the
from cornering the whole
the industrial and commercial mar
kets In the far east.
Visitors at a Paris hotel we're disa-
greeably surprised one morning to
and that the boots they had left out
side their doors had been stolen by a
burglar. Only n pair was left, on
which was q paper with the words:
.Not good enough for me-"
NJ. Tourney, a Belgian engineer,
has been commissioned by the com.
for the international exhibi-
lion at Brussels in 1910 to erect q
at Ixelles which will be much
than the Eifel tower. The
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