The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-03-31
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There are 200 species of moss found
in the British isles.
Sugar Is found in the sap Of nearly
200 plants and trees.
Haiti is the American home Of A.
rican serpent worship.
Australia has but a single beast of
prey, the dingo, or wild dog.
Sugar to the value Of $375.OOO,OOO is
consumed in this country il one year.
A league has been formed in Han
over for the' abolition Of church bells
and clapping hands in theaters.
New York city ranks high as a lover
Of dogs. The sales of CANNES for the
last year amounted to about $65,OOO.
South Africa now has a regular sea-
Side resort at Durham, resembling those
OF Europe. The season is in December
and January.
A French physician claims to have
found many disease germs in medi-
cines. particularly in pills, many of
which do not contain antiseptics.
Pigs blood medically prepared is OF
b highest value in the cure Of incipi-
ent tuberculosis. according to an an-
nouncement by a Chicago doctor.
BY the use Of improved methods the
percentage of sugar in beet crops has
been increased on the average within
a decade from 1850 per cent to 1885.
A former head hunter from the saw
age Filipino tribe of Pingulanes has
been brought to Chicago by DR.. Fay
e. Cole OF the Field museum, who has
returned from a two years. anthropo-
logical expedition.
Lack OF Il proper apprenticeship sys-
tenn for training boys fourteen to TWEEN
ty years Of age in the different trades
is widely held in England to be re-
sponsible in a large degree for the
casual labor" lack of employment and
poverty Of thousands. st
Switzerland protects one Of its great-
est natural by a law forbid
ding the transmission into foreign
countries of electricity generated by
water power except upon a permit |
granted by the federal council. revoca-
b'e IT necessary for the public good.
Mr.. ]. G. S. Mummery, in a recent
speech before the British Royal Pho
tographic society, said that painting
was the art least affected by the ad-
vent Of photography. In only one d.
rection-the inferior kind of portrait |
painting-had the camera done any
material damage to the painter.
Sir William Wallace, the British resi-.
dent general of northern Nigeria, has
reported to the home government that
cann1bal tribes owning hundreds of
thousands Of horses in Nigeria are be-
ing subdued by peaceful means and
that their country contains perhaps the
richest tin and copper fields in the
world.
According to the tentative program
for the Henry Hudson celebration. the
exercises for the first day will take
place on Sept. 25, but as the most i'm
portant Jewish holiday, the day of
atonement, will be observed on that
date the Jews of New York hope to
have the date changed so that they |
may take part in the celebration.
Professor John Garstang, speaking
In London Of the result of excavations |
which he had carried out in Asia
Minor during the last two years, said
that n of the sculptures was inter
estlng to Scotsmen, it being the first
representation Of a man playing the
bagpipes, accompanied by a person
who was obviously playing the banjo.
General Booth in the course of a re-
cent speech remarked: people ask
what will become Of the Salvation
Army when I am dead. MY reply is,
Don't worry; the general isn't dead
yet have determined to live as long
as l possibly can. Arrangements have
been made that as one general steps
of the stage Of action another will
step on"
There has been secured by a New
York state pulp company an option on
100000 cords Of sunken pine piling
now lying submerged in the Rideau
river and lakes back of Kingston, Ont. |
The piling was sunk about eighty years
ego, when the Rideau river was a zen.
ter Of commercial activity. The piling
Will be converted by a chemical process
into the finest grades Of stationery.