The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-08-10
TIMELY BREvIT|ES

wireless stations over it's great terri
tory.
Over 26O,250 marriages were per.
formed in England and Wales last
year.
From 1000 to 5000 words of the
English language are used by the ordi-
narily educated person.
Forty per cent Of existing American
mortality is preventable. according to
Professor Irving Fisher.
The curfew has been rung in the
North church steeple at Portsmouth,
N. H., for 1872 years, or since March
6, 1918.
Among all their palaces and castles it
Is Balmoral that the members Of the
British royal family have always look
ed upon as their home.
During the last thirty years the de-
mand for servants has doubled, while
the supply has increased only by half
lin the last decade only 5 per cent.
Modern agricultural methods make
1t possible to enc the fertility of de-
pleted soils and grow 100 bushels of
corn where only ten grew in the olden
days.
There are now 100000 Kafirs en-
ployed in the Transvaal mines. With a
monthly output Of $12,5OO,OOO gold the
average production per Kafir is $62.5O
a month.
Canadians write more letters than
any other nation on the globe-221.7
apiece per year. No other country
exceeds 200. The figures for England
and Germany are Ills and 95.1.
Two steamship companies have grant
ed reductions Of SO to 30 per cent to
students going from Latin-America to
France. The French universities and
schools have also made reductions for
them.
The benefit reported to be derived
by farmers from their cooperative So
cieties in continental countries, espe-
cially Denmark. has stimulated the
formation of like societies in Great
Britain.
The surgeons r. B. and G. G. GutL-
RE propose the use of human hair for
sewing up wounds, particularly in
blood vessels. Experiments made with
such sutures upon a dog proved highly
successful.
Enragcd at waiting for several hours
without seeing the aviators make any
attempt at flight at an aviation meet
ing at Durango, Spain. recently, the
public burned the aeroplane shed and
wrecked the machines.
Great Britain's survey OF Africa
from the Cape to Cairo along the thir-
tieth meridian began many years ago
and, revived by a bequest from Cecil
Rhodes. has been carried to a point
seventy-two miles north of the euua-
tor.
The II worshipers' cult, called
Mazdazman. has become sufficiently
strong in Canada to propose building a
temple of their own in Montreal.
Plans have been prepared. and a tenn
pie costing 100000 will shortly be
erected.
According to a method recently in
vented by a Frenchman, gutta percha
is extracted from the leaves and
branches of the trees by evaporation
and distillation, such leaves and
branches being shipped to Europe in
a dried state.
The Cahezona pineapple of Porto
Rico reaches a weight of twelve
pounds. 1t is so easily bruised that
the expense of gathering it is increas-
ed, yet the returns FROM exported
fruits show net profits of up to 81 600
per acre in a good year.
The highest galloway in the world
is in the Argentine Republic. The line
traverses a mountain stretch of twen-
ty-four miles III the region of Cordil-
lere. 1t starts from Chilecito, $3.50
feet above the sea level, and rises to
an altitude of $4,000 feet.
In future Austrian officers will be
required within three years of being
attached to the staff to pass an exam
nation in the language of one Of the
neighboring countries. giving proof of
ability not only to speak and write the
language with huency, but to translate
from manuscript.
Experiments made in England by
the Institution For Infectious Diseases
showed that the germs Of such dis
eases as typhoid, diphtheria, tubercu-
losis and cholera are not destroyed by
the process of ironing linen. To kill
them Il temperature of $50 degrees is
required, whereas in ordinary ironing
$50 degrees is seldom exceeded.
In Italy the supply Of machine guns
is still in its infancy. BY the end of
the year, however, every infantry reg
iment and every Alpine battalion is to
have n gun for training the men.
In tie fall a beginning is to be made
to give every infantry and cavalry reg
iment one battery of four and every
Alpine battalion n battery Of two
such guns.