The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-30
TIMELY bREv|TIES

1857 villages.
Pennsylvania new pure food law
fOrbids the use of twenty-three speci-
fed aduIterants for ~preservatives.
The danger of fire is eliminated
when an oil tempering bath Is heated
by electricity instead of coal or gas.
Japanese ships sailing to American
ports carry no Chinese cargo. though
Il few Chinese passengers are among
their patrons.
Mexico's cotton yield for the current
season is estimated ut 100000 bales
compared with 125,OOO bales in 1909
and 10000 bales in 1908.
In the last seventeen years 22.S4O
lives have been lost in the coal mines
of the United States. about one-half
of them in the last six years.
1t is believed that much of the un-
cultivated land in Mexico will in the
near future be planted with pecan
trees. which flourish amazingly in that
country.
Upon tracts of timber and coal lands
in Lee, Scott and Wise counties, Va.
there are. according to a recent count,
100000 trees having Il diameter of two
feet or more.
The rice production of Japan ex-
ceeds in quantity 260.000.000 bushels
a year. tea yearly 90. 900 pounds a
year and silk more than 25,OOO.O00
pounds a year.
Australians are chilling rather than
freezing their beef for export, so that
on the long voyage over to- Britain it
may have Il chance to ripen. the only
way your English beefeater likes his
meat.
To overcome the tendency of plants
to grow in the direction of sunlight a
Philadelphia college uses a slowly re-
vo!ving table that exposes all sides Of
the plants. which 1t holds equally to-
ward the SUM-.
An action to recover two cents
wages was heard in Shoreditch coun-
ty court. London. The girl wage
Garner won. and defendants had to
pay the costs Of the penny action.
which We're $1.5O.
Fish is gaining in popularity in Eng
land because Of it's comparative mex
p%ensivenesS and Of the greater variety
now Obtainable owing to the extension
of fishing grounds and the improved
transit and storage conditions.
England and America are now con
nected by about twenty cables. and
the Commercial Gable company an
nounce its intention of laying down
one more between Valentia. County
Kerry. and Canso, Nova Scotia.
: A Scotch mariner claims to have in
vented an automatic steering device.
operated by electricity from a compass,
to hold q vessel in a determined course,
but permitting the helm to BET moved
in the ordinary way when necessary.
Merry-go-rounds do not interest the
Chinese. Some years ago a circus
brought M to Shanghai. but it had
to be disposed of at forced sale. and.
though there are many circuses in
the country. none takes along a mer-
r~y-go-round.
The value of butter imported yearly
ihtO ~ OAitSu AAA6uOuI CASCVuo tuut
Of every other article of food except
wheat and sugar. The home produc-
ton of butter does not exceed $4,000
tons, while the importations average
e 211 900 tons a year.
The dredger Leviathan. at work in
the Mersey, is said to be the largest
construction Of the kind in the world.
1t has an over all length Of 4S7 feet. a
beam of 60 and a depth of 80 feet I
inches, with a capacity to carry the
enormous load Of 10000 tons of sand.
A map thirty-fve feet across and
forty-five feet high. showing OF a scale
of eight miles to the inch the North
American continent from the Canadian
border to Panama. has been prepared
for the use of the Missouri Pacific's
directors. 1t is said to be the biggest
map eve made.
Scientists of Europe have lately been
conducting experiments in the art OF
breathing and. as a rule, have discOv'
cred that by abnormal control of the
breathing powers. the breath being
held for an unusually long time. a per
son may ascend into the astral realm
and commune with things higher up.
The Isle Of Wight County Press has
published u list Of residents Of the
island who have lived in six reigns
The list includes three centenarians
six persons more than ninety-fivt
years old. six nlnety-four years old
FIVE ninety-three years old. thirteen
aged ninety-twO. twelve aged ninety
one and Eve aged ninety.
One Of the most exquisitely finished
discoveries in Egypt is a case of neat
ly fitting alabaster embalming instru
ments. taken from a tomb 5000 year!
old. One of them is an instrumen,
used for opening the mouth afte1
death. it being supposed that II tn,
mouth were not opened the poor de
parted would be unable to eat in tn,
!, next world.