The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-10-18
TIMELY BREWTIES

Greenwich time is to be adopted in
Portugal.
Over 10000 Canadians make their
living fishing from boats.
Pneumatic boxing gloves have been
invented by a Philadelphia.
Ducks are trapped wholesale in
France by e of a searchlight.
An international manual has been
prepared recently by the Chinese to ia
cilitate translation.
The most valuable feathers are those
Of the mirasol. q bird of Argentina.
They are worth about $1,000 a pound.
Russia's standard of living is becom-
ing higher, although not at the ex-
pense of the savings, which are grow.
ing constantly.
Fourteen Chicago clergymen have
volunteered to marry without fees the
couples who find no magistrate on
hand in the county building.
It costs the liner Olympic $175,O 600 to
make a trip between Southampton and
New York. And on a recent one she
collected $3325,00O in passenger fares.
A Boston woman has introduced the
novelty of answering all her CORE
spondents with engraved letters. She
first writes her letters and then has
them engraved.
In Barcelona the moving picture
shows are so popular that on Sundays
thousands OF people can be seen out
side of them waiting for their turn to
secure admission.
An English inventor has brought out
q kind Of steel which resists the cor
rosion of smokeless gunpowder, the
chief objection to the use of that form
of powder for firearms.
The Chinese produce brokers have
established a produce exchange in
Singapore. Such a project has been
contemplated by the European mer-
chants. but has not yet been carried
out.
Some of the new uses for alumni
ium are as wall paper" ceiling pam
els. trays. finger plates and cooking
utensils. Rapidly increasing quaint
ties are used in the motorcar industry
and for airships.
A milk can fitted with valves allow
ing liquid to be poured out, but not in,
after the can has been officially in.
spected and sealed has been intro
duced by the sanitary inspector of
Saloniki. Turkey.
Hammocks are not much used in
Germany. Most families. ever in the
small cities, live in fats, and the vii
las or cottages of the suburbs seldom
have porches or verandas where ham
mocks could be hung.
Out Of 76O samples Of milk exam
ined in London in three months LOG
we're tuberculous, and the task of
tracing this milk necessitated the ex-
animation of S,715 cows ut 1O2 farms
scattered over the country.
The king of Italy is one of the most
enthusiastic of royal motorists and the
only one who has qualified by passing
a severe practical examination in driv
ing q motorcar. He is a clever me-
chanic and can repair his W car as
we'll as drive it.
The best dressed men are to be found
in New York, says a German paper in
an article on the decadence in male
fashions, in which the writer laments
the fact that men of the present day
are content to be clothed and no longer
trouble about elegance in dress.
Sawdust Is briquetted by several
q firms in Europe for a household fuel
) Sawdust briquettes, while almost as
easily ignited as wood, burn much more
} slowly, owing to their having been
8 compressed so highly in the making
} This is an advantage. as the fire does
8 not need replenishing so often.
z OF all peoples in the Balkans the Al
; banians are the most %uncultured ant
Z uncouth. They have no history o
: their own and up to fifty years ag'
they did not possess eve a writer
; language. At present they are usini
8 three different %alphabets, the most por
, ular Of which is the Latin one
81 With sixty-seven daily papers, thirty
two triweekly, twenty-six semiweekly
; sixty-eight weekly, four fortnightly
. one three weekly, one four weekly an
thirty-four monthly publications to
z population of 552,16S males and 400
9 800 females, New Zealand may justl
. claim to be anything but illiteraie.
Next year the English church vii
celebrate the one thousand three hun
D dredth anniversary of the baptism o
3 the first English king by st. Augustine
q The dean and chapter Of Canterbur
: still hold land in Essex given by Kin
r Ethelbert of Kent, which has been 4
their uninterrupted possession sine
l. 597.
J. Birds, it seems, rarely If ever &c
u accustomed to the sound Of electri
u bells so as not to be startled at tn
. ringing Of one. Knowing this, tn
u head master of an Austrian school ha
patented an electric scarecrow, /