The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-11-02
TIMELY bREWT|ES

From Canada a revival of the bicy
Gle fad is reported.
There are eighteen recognized sys.
TENS of wireless telegraphy.
The Australian government provides
a state owned telegraphic service to
Great Britain.
The Mexican government announces
that 1t will dispose Of no more public
lands for the present.
Corsica is suffering from a plague OF
grasshoppers. In two days thirty tons
of the insects were buried by the peo-
pie.
Although the cattle industry -four.
ishes In Switzerland, that country i'm
ports yearly over 100000 worth Of
beef.
At the Australian annual agricul.
tural exhibition IN Sydney there were
sixty.two entries in a prize competi-
ton for the best wheat varieties.
A floating drug store is the latest
thing in Malaysia. 1t is a houseboat
which goes up and down the Pahang
river dispensing quinine and other
medicines.
OF the thirty drydocks in the world
large enough to hold battleships of the
Dreadnought type England and her
colonies have ten and the United
States nine.
The fourth international congress of
| chambers Of commerce and industrial
associations has accepted the invita-
ton to meet in the United States In
1912. probably in Philadelphia.
The central banks Of England,
France and Germany are all private
banks. Each is the sole depository Of
government funds. and all payments
of public moneys are made through
them.
The provincial inspector of fruits
and orchards in British Columbia has
destroyed 10000 trees and plants in
fected with various diseases-enough,
that province.
James Reeve. formerly curator Of the
Norwich (England, museum. has given
to that institution of the eight best
known specimens of the great auk's
egg. The museum already owns a
specimen of the great aux itself.
Lightning played a curious trick
with a funeral procession hear Ii
moges recently. 1t struck the church
and burned the altar cloth. Outside
the church Il girl was killed. and four
bearers Of the coffin were knocked
down.
A man in New York sent up a box
kite carrying a lighted candle from the
roof of an apartment house, and the
wavering light in the sky attracted
such a crowd police reserves had to
be called to clear the streets.
In the French village of Bonneville.
near st. Etienne. the local postman,
who goes his rounds in a blouse and
carries an umbrella, vas caught by a
gale a few days ago and blown nearly
half a mile. He came safely to earth
again, but he lost all his letters.
Some thirty years ago coal was
mined extensively in Ireland. but the
product was not suitable for all uses;
hence the mines We're abandoned.
They are now to be worked again, be-
cause for certain purposes their prod
uct is vastly more economical than the
imported coal.
One Of our consuls In Mexico esti-
mates that, while American sharehold-
ers in rubber plantation schemes in
that country have invested not less
than $10,OOO,OOO, a twentieth Of that
sum would represent the money en-
ployed in actual rubber tree planting
and cultivation.
A farmer or small trader in any part
of Scotland, with one or two Of his
%neighbors as guarantors, can establish
a banking credit for a fixed sum. The
bank honors his drafts for any amount
within this limit. and the customer
pays interest only upon the sums
actually drawn.
The canal zone makes a community
Of about 1000 Americans, men, women
and children-4,5OO men on canal
work, 925 on the Panama railroad.
1900 women and 1900 children, divid.
ed among the handful Of little villages,
each Of which has its individual social
and sport activities.
Three types Of glass bricks are we'll
known to the builders and architects
In Germany-one, the Falconnier hol-
low brick of a singular and irregular
shape; another, a hollow rectangular
brick similar in shape to a common
brick, and finally a pressed glass brick
nodded into the form Of a thick let
ter U.
Rev. J. B. Kerchner. pastor of st.
Johns Reformed church. Hazleton, Pa.
finds amusement In collecting old coins,
aud his collection comprises many OF
considerable value. He makes a
speciality Of half dollars which com
mand a premium, and, while he has
had many offers for the coins. he re