The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-06-08
IN FEW LINES.

In Spain shOeblacking is mixed with
wine instead of water.
A part of the lower Engadine in
Switzerland is being converted into a
national park.
Nearly 10000 beds in London hos
pitfalls are daily occupied by the sick
and MANNED poor.
Every day the railroads of New
York city move IS per cent of the
population Of the city.
The United States imports about
125,OOO tons of manufactured chalk
a year. mainly from England and Ger.
many.
From 1880 to 1909, inclusive, the
government Of the United States spent
$474. 163,917 in caring for the Indians
Of the country.
Fire played less havoc in the wood
lands of the national forest states last
year than it did in 1908, although the
number Of fires was 40 greater.
The number Of accidents in street
and steam railroads within the city
Of New York vas 5C,4S1 in 1908, while
in 1909 the number was reduced to
52,61S.
A lock of Napoleon's hair, cut by his
servant on May 81. 1911, at the Hotel
de LORI. Brussels, was sold recently
for 81 at Stevens auction rooms, Gov
ent Garden, London.
An airship is being made for the
British navy which will have a lifting
capacity Of twenty tons. In many re-
spects this is the largest ever con
structed and is the first built for the
English government.
The rapid growth of mahogany is
shown in southern Nigeria, where the
site Of a town destroyed sixty years
ago has been covered with mahogany
trees, some Of which are more than
ten feet in diameter.
A German scientist has invented a
so called duplex compass which by
indicating the horizontal intensity Of
the earth's magnetism gives the ap-
proximate longitude and latitude Of
any place where it may be used.
The Canadian minister of the in.
terror submitted figures showing that
there are still available for home
steads in the province Of Manitoba
11,So5,O0O acres, in Saskatchewan 1C4,-
$4,000 acres and in Alberta III, 600
acres.
According to the Pekin Daily News,
the Chinese ministry of the interior in
tends to make investigations concern
ing the prohibition Of early marriages,
which it considers to be attended with
evil results. The age may be fixed at
twenty.
The Venezuelan government has es-
tablished a national public school for
teaching the manufacture Of jipijapa
Danamas) hats in the school of arts
and sciences at Merida, state Of Meri-
da. The jipijapa palm abounds in that
district.
Cancer continues to increase in Brit
ain. There are annually some 10000
fresh cases. The death rate rises from
year to year. Some observers have
noted that this rise comedies with the
equally steady rise in the standard of
comfort.
The fact that it is almost impossible
for married couples with children to
find steady employment on farms and
stations in New South Wales and 9th
er parts of Australia is creating a pub
lie stir which is almost assuming the
dimensions of a national scandal.
A will was contested not long ago in
New York because the testatrix had
bequeathed a grand piano, several oil
paintings and five pieces of japanese
pottery to a police station. The pro-
testing legatee won out, and there was
a reversion Of those art treasures to
the regular heirs.
Sacred cattle are slaughtered and
shipped to Paris to help out the scar
city Of beef. In faraway Madagascar
are great herds, several millions of
cousins to India's breed Of sacred
hump cattle, and the farseeing French
as protectors of Madagascar pronounce
the meat of these animals equal to
beef.
Through her grand mistress the
czarina has issued orders that the la
dies of the Russian court must not
smoke. She will not tolerate as n
lady in waiting a woman carrying the
odor of smoke on her breath or in her
clothing. This is Il revolution in Rus
sia. where smoking is common among
women.
A meeting was held recently at Mar.
settles, France, when the beggars and
street singers got together and formed
an organization for the protection of
their interests and to resist the en-
~croachments Of %pretenders. A regular
organization was effected. with consti-
tuition and bylaws. and limitations
were placed upon membership.
According to Consul General Jones
at Winnipeg, Canada is in great need
OF rat traps. Farmers in the grain
belt are becoming anxious over the in.