The Montana plaindealer., 1909-08-27
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greater in winter than in summer
Australia has more unemployed area |
In proportion to population than any
other country.
Rhode Island received its name from
what was supposed to be a resem-
piance In contour to the Island OF
Rhodes in the Mediterranean.
Mrs. Isabella McCosh, wife OF the
late president OF Princeton Univer-
sity, has just celebrated her ninety
second birthday. J. w. Alexander has
Just finished a portrait OF Mrs. Nc
Gosh, which he has given to the uni
versity.
Among the 100000 working wom-
en- in this country there are nearly q
million widows are nearly 100000
married women whose husbands have
failed to provide for them. Nearly
100000 divorced women are among
the wage earners.
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker and the
newly formed Public Service League
OF Women. have made a successful
fight against the ordinance which had
been "sneaked through" the Denver
board of aldermen to permit the feed
ing Of brewery swill to milch cows.
Mrs. Chapman Gait prdicted in St
James Hall on Monday that Woman's
suffrage would come "as surely as the
sun would rise on the morrow" It
Is only fair to explain that Mrs. Chap
man Gait is from the United States,
and has had no experience Of our Eng
lish sunrises.-London Globe.
The Prussian government is to issue
q loan, the proceeds Of which are to
be used for the construction and equip
ment Of new branch line railroads.
One line Of the road is to have cleo
trio traction, for which $476.OOo is set
aside The total amount to be expend-
ed under this loan bill is S55,753, 900.
Beans, bean cake and bean oil are
the principal products Of Manchuria.
The prices OF these during the last
season have been higher than ever be-
fore, but how much of this Is due to
the ability of Japan. a gold standard
country. to pay more in silver, because
silver has been cheap. can not be posi-
lively stated.
The Korean grass used in the manu-
facture of grass cloth is grown very
thickly and is usually cut the secon(
or third year after planting the roots
The grass reaches a height Of four 4
five feet, and with a proper start ant
under favorable conditions yields. 1t 1
roughly estimated, about 5000 pound
to an acre.
Hitherto skulls of prehistoric me-
have been said to resemble those @
great apes, but now comes a disttI
guished French anthropologist and d.
clares that one which has recentl
been discovered is almost an exact n
plica of that of Bismarck. Does thi
mean that prehistoric men had super
cranial development, or 1t is Gaeli
fling at IN. le Bismarckr'-New Yor
Tribune.
Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini, 81
perior- general OF the Missionary Sister
Of the Sacred Heart, has Just returne
to this country from Brazil, where sh
recently opened a college for the higl
er education of women. This is II
ffty-eighth institution established
the order in twenty-seven years. tn
institutions include colleges, school
hospitals and orphan asylums.
An electrically wired tableclot
upon which ornamental electric ligl
fixtures diffuse illumination the m
!, ment they are set down, Is one Of Il
latest and most interesting illuminf
ing devices designed in England, sa
Popular Mechanics. To the uninitit
ed the ability to get a light by sil
ply placing a fixture on the table
nothing less than extraordinary, b
:. the explanation is simple.
Z Recent exploration Of the Athabt
d ca-Mackenzie region shows that 1t &C
|. tains many valuable fur-bearing al
!. mails, and II appears also to be I
s home of the last wild remnant OF I
!. American bison family. The herds
a bison are not numerous, and they a
o being rapidly exterminated by wolv
Z. The Canadian musk OK also inhabi
II this region, and in the spring, VIII
Ia the rivers and springs escape from
N frost, great focks OF birds, includi
7. most OF the migratory game birds
\ America, resort thither to breed.
p What might be called table
ID watch has just been made by a wat'
q maker OF Locle, Switzerland, says
as London Globe. The thickness is 81
ge to be only three millimeters, 50,
r meter being only thirty-nine inch
lie one can estimate the thickness OF
40 watch. Taking the case and glass
sd In found the works occupy sp'
Id 1e millimeters. The spring Is hal
ot millimeter. What makes this achie
vn ment of the Locle matchmaker mi
ck extraordinary is that It Is asser