The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1909-10-06
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OWllAeIlduu UoeS Il DlSSeC DuS1neS!
in chocolate than in watches.
France finds itself unable to Join til,
United States IN a two cent posta
rate.
Officers and crews Of Austrian mer
chant shipping on the Adriatic are
nearly all Italian.
In Denmark is al old man of 1Ot
years Of age who has never seer
railway train or a steamship.
In the last fifty years the population
Of England has almost doubled itself
while that of Ireland has decreased by
about one-third.
In the cabin Of the kaiser's new rae.
ing yacht Meteor Nv. is an oak arm.
chair, presented by King Edward,
made from the bulwarks Of Nelson's
Victory.
The Mexican government has con.
tracted with the Krupps to build a
plant for the manufacture of bullets,
smokeless powder and gun cotton near
Vera Cruz.
Why the London directory is printed
is one of the mysteries. You cannot
look up a man in it unless you know
already where he lives n what bust
ness he is in.
Black men are plenty in Paris. They
are straight faced natives Of north
Africa. In prosperous Algeria black
men do well. They speak French and
seem educated.
Among the epithets exchanged by
members of the Russian douma during
a recent sitting were baltic pig
German monkey" "Pharisaic hypo-
critics. and "murderers."
So severe are the snow and sleet
storms of Silesia that the government,
which owns the telephone lines, has
the wires taken down each winter
and stored away until spring.
Transparent diamonds have been
manufactured by the aid of electric
furnaces. The largest, however, yet
produced by this means is only one
fortieth Of an inch in diameter.
In Germany and also in Holland
girls are employed as clerks at the
banks and hotels, as cashiers and book
keepers at restaurants and at railway
stations as booking Office clerks.
The ground to be reclaimed for the
new harbor works at Yokohama,
Japan, covers an area of ffty-six acres
and will be inclosed within a length
of quay walls Of a little over $500
feet.
The South African National union has
been formed in London, and twelve
branches have been formed in South
Africa. The union is independent of
politics and will develop trade and in
dustry.
Under the guidance of the White
Cross society of Geneva a second
congress for the repression Of fraud
in the production and manufacture Of
food products will be held at Paris
next October.
DR.. Raymond Pearl and Frank Sur
face of the University of Maine find
that selection for high egg production
carried on for nine consecutive years
did not lead to any increase in the
average production Of the focks.
A Geneva boy, aged fifteen, who &C.
c%identally lodged the bullet of an air
gun in his heart was taken to the hos
pital, where DR.. Girard opened the
wound, extracted the ball and sewed
up the heart. The victim is now out
of danger.
Munich, with a population Of over
half a million Inhabitants, has only 6S
apothecary shops and 773 physicians.
Permission was lately sought to build
two new drug stores, but the apothe-
carries protested, and the authorities
refused their consent.
Perhaps because of the revolution
western Europe is full of Turks this
year-Turks in costume, merchants,
politicians, travellers. Some take their
wives along-not common in past years
curious, silent, yelled or half yelled
little shutting women.
There is in London a school for
mothers. One poor woman was dis
solved in tears when her baby was
undressed at the hospital and it's vast
ed limbs revealed. She Enormously
explained her grief by saying that ut
was a beautiful child last time it was
undressed."
Manitoba became q province in 1870.
Its population was 62,26O in 1881, 1872
5O6 in 1891 and 255,211 in 1901. The
value Of Manitoba's harvest last year
was a little short Of $70,OOO,OOO. The
census Of 1906 gave Winnipeg, its cap
ital city, a population of 10000. There
Is nothing wild in a guess that its pres
ent population is not far from 10000.
Many unsuccessful attempts to pro-
duce a noninlammable celluloid have
caused new substances Of the kind to
be received with skepticism, but It
Is claimed that the cellite of DR.. A.
Eichengrun, made at Dusseldorf, Ger
many, is Z cheap and useful material.
It is expected to prove especially valu-
able for really safe movino nicturo