The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-11-10
IN FEW LINES.

Chinese consider flial piety the
highest virtue.
Last year 74.500 families migrated
from Russia to Siberia.
The estimated war strength of the
Spanish army is 100000.
France sends great quantities of
cheap jewelry all over the world.
Salt, petroleum, matches and playing
cards are state ~monopolies in Greece.
Both the French and Italian govern
ments maintain national pawnshops.
At the close Of the war with Japan
the Chinese navy practically disap-
peared.
A wealthy Copenhagen woman for
a small premium issues insurance that
pays old maids an annuity.
Roller skating has become a fash
ionable pastime in China. A rink has
been opened in Shanghai and is we'll
patronized.
Filipino prisoners in Bilibib, both
men and women, are nov allowed a
certain number Of cigarettes a day at
government expense.
Have the French birth rates taken a
turn upward at last? For the first
time for very many years the last sta
tistics show a considerable increase.
Europe has 10000 newspapers, Of
which Germany possesses the largest
number. England, however, has the
greatest number Of daily newspapers.
Epidemic cerebro spinal meningitis
used to be rare in France, occurring
chiefly in military centers. Now a doc
tor is likely to meet with it in general
practice.
Though Finland has been regarded
up to the present as being extremely
poor in iron ores, recent research has
proved the existence Of ore fields in
south Finland.
Coal has been found In nearly every
island Of the Philippine archipelago,
but only 4,545 tons were produced last
year. In many places it is associated
with petroleum.
Clara Beard of Henniker, N. H., has
a four legged hen that crows and
cackles. The hen has two sets Of
tail feathers. one set being a ROSTERS
and the other a hens.
In the Journal Of the African Society
the opinion is expressed by Mr.. Selous
that, contrary to the general belief, gi-
RATES. and elephants are in no danger
of being exterminated in Africa.
Edgar Earnham Of Windsor, Conn,
planted some tobacco seeds that had
lain in a jar hidden from view for
forty-five years, and the seeds have
now developed into healthy plants.
Freight rates are a little higher in
Brazil than they are in the United
States. A man who ships potatoes
from San Paolo to Rio, a haul of 800
miles, must pay $1.32 a bag freightage.
The worlds record fight Of a kite is
| 23,111 feet above sea level. The kite
started from a mountain top where the
temperature was 20 degrees above zero
and at it's highest point reached "a de-
grees below zero.
China is likely to guard with the
greatest strictness the secrets of it's
navy, soon to be reorganized. Admiral
Sab advocates that the punishment for
divulging naval secrets, which is ban
ishment, be changed to decapitation.
For the instruction of tourists about
to visit Egypt, Persia and India a
in which specimens Of the counterfeit
works of art so largely sold to rich
travellers in those countries are to be
exhibited.
Three hundred dollars was recently
paid in Colombia for a single plant of
a rare variety Of orchid. The natives
in order to expedite the collection of
these orchids fell the trees on which
they grow and then strip them Of these
floral parasites.
Grating alfalfa roots on roots Of the
strawberry vine is the method by
which an Oregon rancher claims to
have produced three crops Of berries
in a season. The long alfalfa roots
reach the moisture in the soil even in
the driest summer.
The first grain elevator in Russian
Asia will soon be built at Tchala-
binsk, on the Siberian railway, with a
capacity Of $4,000 cars Of grain per
annum Gears averaging from twelve
to fifteen tons each). T%chalabinsk is
near the border between European and
Asiatic Russia.
The kitchens Of some Of New York's
big hotels are very busy places. In
one Of the larger hotels 40 cooks are
employed, and they prepare every day
100 ducklings, 200 chickens, 300
squads and GOO Holsters. On different
days about 500 varieties Of cold dishes