The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-08-25
FACTS IN FEW LINES

There are about 100000 Filipinos
inhabiting 300 different islands.
Austria proposes taxing bachelors
and widows and married people with
out children.
Italy is now building four Dread
noughts which, 1t is said, will surpass
any existing Dreadnought.
Human hair to the weight Of 2O7,414
pounds was shipped last year from
Honkkong to the United States.
To help finance the 1912 worlds fair
at Winnipeg the government of Can
ada is asked to contribute 10000
acres Of land.
The Russian army loses almost as
heavily through desertion as through
| death, the annual number Of assertions
being " 1000.
A French court has ordered the Prin-
cess de Sagan to pay a note given by
Count Boni for a loan to cover his
counting expenses.
Modern motor steam plows are be-
ing introduced into India. One Of
them, made in London, ran pillow ten
to fifteen acres of ordinary ground a
day.
On the shore of Cape Cod there were
during a period Of twenty years fol-
lowing 1881 as many as a thousand
wrecks Of vessels carrying precious
cargoes Of human beings and Of
freight.
A black tribe, hitherto unknown, has
just been discovered on Mornington
island. in the gulf of Carpentaria.
Australia. Although thin and emaciat-
ed, they are strong and agile and show
no signs Of any disease.
Sir Reginald McKenna says of the
British navy that out Of 4,716 officers
only twelve are qualified to be inter-
prefers Of German. OF more than 1000
British naval officers not one could
speak italian at a recent visit to Italy
Of the Mediterranean fleet
Tourists In British Columbia must
be careful Of the trophies or memen-
tos they buy or try to buy. A new
game law prohibits the dealing in or
Offering to buy or sell the heads Of
mountain sheep, elk. COS or caribou
or the teeth Of elk or wapiti.
In the Atlas mountains and in the
southwestern part of Morocco are val
liable deposits Of copper, antimony
and silver and some gold. The mines
are being worked very crudely, the
natives not being familiar with mod
ern methods. The metal is mined to
supply local needs.
Professor Frederick Starr, the IA
nous anthropologist. is going to ia
pan in September. He is going among
the .Ainu, and he will make some in
vestigation of the recent development
Of the Japanese. especially along the
lines Of what the Japanese regard as
| up to date civilization.
At st. Day, Cornwall. England, can
be seen daily the strange spectacle of
water being retailed in the public
streets at a halfpenny per pitcher. The
water is brought in barrels drawn by
horses, though If the inhabitants
cared to pay for the cost Of piping it
would save them a considerable out
lay.
Armored concrete continues to en-
large the field Of its application. The
experimental concrete telegraph poles
erected by one Of the great railroads
running between Chicago and the
eastern coast have proved so success.
full that the company has decided to
extend their use gradually over its
western lines.
Something unique in the line of a
strike or boycott was recently reported
from a small town in Burgundy. The
physicians of the place raised their
rates 80 per cent, and a mass meet
ing Of all the ailing folk was called
at which it was decided to dispense
with the medical mems services and
trust to luck to get we'll.
No portion of Manhattan Island has
such a weekly change in population
as that section south Of Wall street
During the business hours Of six days
in the week an observer can count II,
900 persons in a walk Of an houl
through it's lanes, and on a recen
Sunday only forty-seven persons could
be seen there in that time.
Munshi Abdul Karin died recently
in Agra at the age Of forty-six. HI
was an interesting figure, having beer
the chief Of the late Queen Victoria'
Indian servants. 1t was Abdul VIII
taught her how to both speak ant
write Hindostani. and he was among
the little guard of honor who watche,
owe the body Of his queen.
A quite unusual test has been mad
Of glass chimneys from the glass work
at Baccarat, France. They were de
signed for safety in coal mines con
tanning much iredamp, and when tel
Of them we're suddenly plunged int
water at 50 degrees F. after beini
slowly heated to the boiling point o
water not one Of them cracked.
BY treaty foreigners have the RICH
to buy land anywhere in Morocco, pr
yided the purchase has the sanction q