The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-07-06
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France is the worlds human hair
market.
Sweden and Spain have the fewest
alien residents.
The latest types of submarine YES.
sells make 9 speed of from eight to ten
miles.
A drydock large enough for the lar
gest vessels afloat Is planned for st.
John, N. B.
The manufacture Of rattan furniture
Is beginning to attract attention in the
Philippines.
Ten steamships are to be put on the
service for carrying chilled beef from
Argentina to Liverpool.
China's ministry Of the interior pro.
poses to lay down measures to prevent
political party associations.
The sale Of American fruit abroad
has amounted to about $16,OO0,OOO an
nually for the last few years.
Only 10 per cent Of German school,
boys. It is said, 60 in for athletics as
against Is per cent Of British.
The aggregate value Of the mineral
production for British Columbia for
the last eleven years was $3.50, ,000.
More than 10000 twenty-candle pow.
or incandescent lamp filaments can be
made from a single pound Of tantalum.
All Chicago policemen will get a
two weeks vacation with pay this
summer for the first time In the his
tory Of the city.
A married woman in Switzerland Is
entitled to one-third Of her husbands
income as her Independent property.
according to a new law.
The construction Of a canal for pur-
poses Of goods traffic between Yoko-
hama and Tokyo is the latest project
in Japanese financial circles.
Although the population Of Western
Australia is not 100000, the govern
ment spends about $4,000 a year in
connection with its hospitals.
The Americans residing in Smyrna
are hard up for amusement, so they
are erecting a theater building capa-
BILE of seating 1900 spectators.
The Belgian minister Of the colonies
has decided to organize an expedition
to go to the Kongo to study sleeping
sickness and to find means if possible
to remedy it.
Newfoundland, with which the Unit
ed States has a large and leading
trade, exceeding $5,0OO,OOO a year, is
prosperous. Both evenue and surplus
this fiscal year are the largest in her
history.
AS a word Of warning the Boston
Herald says, 1.-THE ladies' hats may be
wider next year, but If they are the
railroads will either have to widen the
cars or have only a single row of seats,
with a passage for the conductor on
the side."
The thinnest sheet of iron ever roll
ed has recently been turned out at the
Hallam Tin works, near Swansea. It
has a surface of fifty-6ve square inches
and weighs but twenty grains. 1t
would take 1900 such sheets to make
a layer an inch thick.
The rural free delivery service of the
United States means the distribution
of nearly 5000, 900 letters and par.
cells annually along the highways and
byways of every state and territory
from Maine to Alaska. A force of
41,OOO carriers daily go over the routes
assigned to them.
According to o. w. It. Sonnecke,
chief of the division Of music of the
Congressional library, "Dixie" is head
and shoulders above any other nation.
al tune in the popular esteem. Mr..
Sonnecke recently wrote a little bro
chure about national airs in general
and accorded to "Dixie" the first rank
in the popularity contest.
The oldest active sailing vessel in
the world is thought to be the Con-
stanz, which sails the Baltic and North
She is used as a freighter and
can carry a two ton cargo. She was
built in 1928 and has never had any
extensive repairs made on her. Her
says that she is good for her
third century unless she is ship
wrecked.
A F%renchman has invented a record
Ing attachment for the piano for the
use of composers by which each key
when struck leaves a mark on a strip
of slowly moving paper. BY means
OF this continuance improvised music
may be Transcribed and feeting ideas
caught that perhaps it would be I'M
possible for the composer to recall and
commit to paper.
A recent test of wireless telephony
was made to show its value for trans.
hitting music. Several selections were
sung In a transmitter at Park avenue
and Fortieth street. New York, and
were listened to by a group Of news.
paper men at the Metropolitan tower. F
At times the singing was very clear, 4
but frequently 1t was impossible to