The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-04-17
INTERESTING FACTS.

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INTERESTING FACTS.
The Philippines have about 200
miles Of railroads.
The present population OF Germany
is about 6s.00o.ooo.
Japan is steadily increasing her ex-
portations Of j%inkrikishas.
The population Of New Zealand Tex
elusive Of Maoris) in 1906 was $685.
900.
For the completion Of the Damascus
railway line to Mecca 100000 0 more
will be needed.
Within the last eight years the num-
Der of harness-using animals in this
country has increased by more than
8,237,O00.
Lard is one of the chief Mexican
imports from the United States. The
figure for 1907 was nearly 100000
pounds.
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While the founder is a saltwater
fish specimens have ben found in the
Rhine as far up as Mayence, and even
in the Necker.
General Porfirio Diaz has been presi-
dent Of Mexico for 81 years. There
was an interruption between the years
1880 and 1884.
Spanish grape growers prefer Amer
lean oak slaves for barrels, claiming
that no other wood is so good for the
preservation OF fruit.
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Henry j. Daveen, who not long ago
paid than $5,0O0,O00 for the IA
nous Rudolph Kann art collection, be.
gan life as a blacksmith.
Seventy-five per cent Of the home
stead entries in the Las Animas for
est reserve in Colorado are fraudu.
lent, says Daniel E. Fitton, in charge
of the reserve.
Crude petroleum has been found at
Boonah, Queensland, at a depth OF 100
feet. 1t is believed that payable
oil" will be found there at a depth OF
over 500 feet.
There is an average OF one leg. OF
arm amputated in New York city each
day in consequence Of accidents caus.
ed by surface, elevated or subway
cars.
Among the curious insects of the
Malay peninsula is one called the Ian
tern fly, which is remarkable for its
sudden leaps, made without the aid
Of its wings.
The conditions OF the Arctic atmos
phere are so favorable for the trans
mission Of sound that it is possible TO,
two persons to converse through Z
mile Of space.
The proprietor Of q large New York
department store says that he contem
plates removing mirrors from all o.
the store. elevators because they are
the cause Of women lingering t.
make sure that their hats are or
straight, thereby delaying the handling
Of passengers.
In the construction Of the new har
Dor at San Pedro, CAL, the government
is building a breakwater that extends
two miles out into the open sea. Pill
ing was first driven, on which q rail
way trestle was built, and immense
quantities Of rock are being dumped
on both sides Of It.
The city of Easton has adopted .
municipal flag, said to be q copy o
the flag which waved over the tow
during the revolutionary war. Tit
flag has IS red and white stripes il
the upper corner, and the remainder
Of the emblem is blue with a circle o
eight white stars in the center.
Records Of the numerous public II
braries in New York city show that II
the last Ave years there has been
remarkable increase in interest Il
sociology, political economy and kin
dred subjects. The reading and con
sulting Of books relating to such mat
tiers have more than doubled in tn
last IL years.
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