The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-09-07
TIMELY BREV|T|ES|

SuACOs
Saturday half holiday is recognized
in sixteen states Of this country and
two cities.
Canada has a million and a half
acres more wheat planted this year
than ever before.
It costs less to send a dozen pairs of
shoes from this country to Acapulco
by mail than by freight
Ten ships, each a century or more
old. are still in active service in the
Danish merchant marine.
The great majority Of immigrant ar
rivals at the present time are coming
from Austria, Russia and Italy.
The Italian vessels used in the Turk
ish navy are supplied with English
guns, no guns being manufactured in
Italy.
Within fifteen years, according to
Gordian of Hamburg, the worlds crop
Of raw cocoa beans has increased from
$4,000 to @ 5000 tons.
At the close Of the last fiscal year
the life saving establishments of the
United States embraced 2S1 stations,
nearly all of which are on the Atlantic
coast.
The German South African diamonds
are as a rule not large, but they pos
sess a wonderful luster, oftentimes
glistening like dewdrops when found
in the sand.
In Nova Scotia coal refuse, which it
would not pay to ship, is converted into
electric power at the mines and thus
distributed to nearby cities and towns
to do its work.
Fifteen American consulates in
France report $133,000,00O worth Of
shipments to the United States in
1909 against sol, 600, 900 worth in 1908.
Paris leads with $66.OO0,OOO.
Despite the great demand for it at
home, the United States annually ex-
ports more than 100000 gallons Of
turpentine-more than all the rest Of
the world combined produces.
The United States and Mexico, TAX
ing the airship peril by the forelock,
are negotiating a treaty, as we are
told. to prevent ~areoplanists doing a
smuggling business along the border.
In the colder parts Of Japan but one
crop of rice is harvested in the year,
but in the south, where the climate is
much milder and irrigation convenient,
two crops are usually grown each year.
The fisheries of Lower California, a
I;o<oooo ~ 1 Enn r31oo ovo1,,cS-o -
the pearl and shark fisheries, are con
trolled by n company, which holds
the concession from the Mexican gov
eminent.
AS only 266 pounds Of opium were
imported into Newchwang in 1909,
Vice Consul G. L. L. Williams says it
proves that the Chinese government
has taken effective steps to stop the
use of this drug.
A Baltimore dog wears a diamond
collar worth about $4,000. The collar
was made especially for the dog by
a prominent jeweler, to the order Of
the dogs owner. There are 700 dia-
monds in the collar, varying in weight
from one-sixth to n carat.
The Seventh regiment armory in
New York city has a drill space of
200 by 300 feet. The armory occupies
the block bounded by Fourth and Lex
ington avenues, Sixty-sixth and Sixty
seventh streets. In the basement there
is a rife range 100 yards in length.
Dogs as life saver and as aids to the
police are such a success in France
that the ministry of wal purposes to
use these intelligent animals to help
the soldiers on sentry duty at the great
powder magazines. There have been
many attacks made on the sentries at
night by unknown miscreants.
Australians have discovered a fertile
territory in the northern part Of the
commonwealth, heretofore considered
a barren desert, but proved to be suit
able for settlement and capable OF
supporting a large population. This
territory Is twice the size of France
and more thar four times the size OF
Great Britain.
The first mill in Siam was built by
American engineers in 1853, and since
that period the rice industry has grad
ually increased until at present it sup
ports forty-seven rice mills, which, be
sides milling rice for local consumption
furnished milled rice for export to al
amount which has averaged about
100000 tons yearly for the last five
years.
l The popular. agitation in India owe
, the partition Of the province of Benga
seems to be subsiding. Some Of tn
native papers which violently opposes
the scheme are now admitting that /
has proved beneficial, while ex-Judg
Saroda Mitter of the Calcutta higl
! court, an active Nationalist politician
" has declared that there is no harr
in it.
Robert Z Pluribus Unum Smith !
al old pensioner in Australia. In hi
e application he added the words, "Othel