The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-05-12
FACTS ~ FEW E~EfgEs

Half the zinc OF the world comes
from Prussia.
Over 100000 exiles have been
transported to Siberia since 1910.
There is a woman's prison in Rou-
mania that has only wome officials.
In Korea the rooms Of q wife or
mother are the sanctuary Of any man
who breaks the law.
The beggar chief Of Suchow, who is
king Of the Chinese beggars, has IN
income estimated at $4,000 annually.
Recent discoveries In Mesopotamia
show that people who inhabited the
Euphrates valley 5000 years ago knew
how to work metals.
Horns with adjustable bells, which
control the volume Of sound and throw
it in any desired direction, are a nov
city in the musical instrument line.
Oysters are sometimes regarded al
dangerous. but they are not usually
considered savage. A Queensland
Judge. however. has decided that they
are wild beasts.
Alfred G. Laline Of Worcester, Mass,
has in his possession a drum used in
the Revolution. Though it saw serv-
ice at Bunker Hill. it Is still in q fine
state of preservation.
Police dogs seem u novelty, and yet
Columbus and his Spaniards brought
with them to the new world trained
fighting dogs that helped them to win
many nm engagement.
George Palmer and wife walked from
Ashcroft, B. c.. north $50 miles into a
wild country to take up land for farm
ing purposes. wheeling all the way in
a gocart their one-year-old son.
Late cancer research has shown that
the disease exists among all races Of
men, as well as In domestic and wild
animals, aud that liability to 1t is
greatest in the last third of the life
span.
Pope Plus y. has presented to his
sister a country house situated near
Rome. The building. which Is Of one
story only, but has a beautiful garden,
was bought by the pope FROM a con-
gregation of nuns.
A Judge in Washington the other
day held that a man who calls another
a liar must expect something in re-
turn and imposed only a nominal fine
on a a who had been accused of as
sault in such a case.
Ireland has now only 100000 acres,
or IA per cent, in forest. although
climate and soil are favorable. The
crown commissions report has urged
the necessity of the immediate plant
ing Of at least 100000 acres of forest
trees.
It's expensive in Fall River, Mass.
to sell liquor to a man whose wife
says he mustn't drink. The district
court recently fined a club 5000 FOL
selling two drinks to a member whose
wife had warned the organization not
to let him have a drop.
A New York retail merchant who
| has been in business for a quarter o.
a century says that not n sign Ou'
of a hundred In a shop window thai
tells of bankruptcy, fire sales, closing
out prices, moving bargains and sucl
like information tells the truth.
At a New York rehearsal an actress
tore up a roll of real bills which ha6
been given her by mistake for stage
money. Thereupon the rehearsal was
called off. and the entire company
went to work pasting together the
fragments Of the torn greenbacks.
The breakfast coffee cup Of Rossini
the great composer. has just been pre-
sented to the museum Of the Paris
Opera by M. Charles Lecocq. 1t is o,
white porcelain, decorated with 6
laurel wreath, and on each leaf Their,
is written in gold the name Of one OF
Rossini's operas.
OF the inhabitants Of Christiania
Norway, who are over fifteen years ole
65,9GO are males and 01,198 females
There are more female wage earners
than male, and Of the female workers
34.18 per cent are unmarried. To ev
cry 100 unmarried males there are 1G:
unmarried females.
Learning that the howitzer battery
Of Aldenburg, England, possessed only
n horse. a lady resident of the town
provided them with another. explain
ing that she felt sorry for the unfor
tunate animal that had to undergo
during drill a course Of grooming by
six men, n after the other.
Some japanese experts believe iror
will yet prove to be Korea's chief min
eral u Cinnabar occurs, but nt
deposits worth mining have yet beer
located. The same applies to mica
Korea is 4 highly mineralized country
possessing IN excellent climate and ar
abundant supply Of good and CHEAP
labor.
A vapor blanket thirty feet thick is
found by Professor Frank II. Bigelow
to W. the reservoir at. Reno, New.
Assuming that a like invisible shield
| protects the Salton sea, it is concluded
that this body may lose by evapora.
ton not more than fOur or f3vo foot