The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1910-02-16
FACTS IN FEW LINES

W1lU gOaCS nave SO mulClQlleO In Ha-
wall that they are 10 killed as pests.
Jute covers are used in Russia to
protect sawed wood from rain and
snow.
Chile supports fifteen Industrial
Dchools, giving instruction to about
1900 pupils.
It has been estimated that rats in
England do damage to the extent of
SIS, 5000 annually.
By resolution Of the Vienna city ia
theirs a plot has been set aside in st.
Marks cemetery for the Strauss fam
lily.
Finland's parliament has eighty-four
Socialists out Of 200 members, a high
er proportion than any other European
legislature.
The Masonic grand lodge Of New
Mexico is to appropriate a sum Of mon
ey sufficient to erect a suitable monu.
ment owe the grave Of Kit Carson in
Taos.
The area Of Alaska is SO great the
government maintains five agricultural
experiment stations there in order that
crops may be tested under all the eli
matte conditions.
According to the London hospital,
some English physicians r ordering
patients to eat oysters that have been
well soaked in sea water as a cure for
dyspepsia and tuberculosis.
Artificial nitrates are made extern
sively in Norway and sold in competi-
ton with the natural product Of Chile.
The annual production Of nitrate of
soda in Chile is 100000 tons.
Algeria, in common with many other
Of the backward countries Of the east,
Is taking with avidity to n product
Of western civilization condensed
milk. The Swiss exporters get nearly
all the trade.
In Belgium 10000 men and women
workers out of a group Of $4,000 earn
less than 3S cents a day; from 38 to 81
cents is the daily wage Of Z 1900;
from 81 to u cents Of 10000 and over
II cents Of only 100000.
There is so little interest in motor
boating among those who live near
Lake Geneva that a company formed
for this purpose failed and paid back
shareholders % per cent Of the nomi-
nal value of it's stock capital.
It was Halley's comet which appear
ed in 1906 at the time Of the invasion
of William the Conqueror and again in
1856, when Constantinople was besieg-
ed by the Turks, and the crescent
shaped tail was a mighty omen.
A Boston firm Of building wreckers
has brought out a circular saw that
will cut through nails and bolts as well
as through wood, enabling them to cut
into regular sizes secondhand lumber
that otherwise would be %valueless.
AFFECT poverty is the condition Of
much Of Haiti's population. There is a
brisk demand there for old condensed
milk, preserve, butter and lard cans,
of which are made practically all the
cooking and table utensils they use.
Noah's ark has been built anew in
Denmark according to the Biblical
6pCS1uCul1OllS. AAOoC WIZ ulC 1lSAALCu
to doubt the truth Of every Scripture
story will be interested to learn that
the vessel had no difficulty in floating.
The Manila government has in con
temptation a plan for grading to fixed
standards the Philippine cigars that
are sent to the United States, and it is
very probable that the project will be
carried out. 1t is planned to have at
least four grades.
Subterranean streams Of water have
been detected by sound, according to a
recent United States consular report,
by a French instrument known as the
"acoustele," with which the Belgian
Society Of Geology, Paleontology and
Mythology is said to have made extern
sive experiments.
Manufacturers Of rubber goods are
becoming interested in what is known
as balata gum that is grown in Vene-
zuela. A process has been discovered
by which the brittle gum can be made
into good rubber, and as there are mil.
lions Of balata trees in the Venezuelan
forests the industry looks promising.
Business transactions between Chi.
nese merchants and foreign firms are
usually in taels. The tael is not a coin
but a Chinese ounce of silver. 1t va
ries in different places both as tC
weight and touch" Tor ineness), and
the exchange between the tael and the
dollar or between the former and the
copper coinage is constantly fuctuat'
ing.
The department Of agriculture is
taking a census of the birds Of the
United States and even before it's com