The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-02-01
TIMELY BREV|TIES

An ordinary gas jet consumes as
much oxygen as five persons.
Tungsten salts have been found to
be valuable for t%ireprootng textiles.
Japan is increasing it's production of
raw silk at a rate Of about 10000
bales a year.
About 100000 penguin eggs are gath
cred from nearby islands and sold
for food in Cape Colony each year.
Owing to the difficulty Of securing
fresh eggs most of the mining COM
panies in Mexico have their own poul-
try yards.
Portugal is the most illiterate coun-
| try in Europe. Three II Of every
| four adult Portuguese can neither read
nor write.
Last year the geological survey. fixed
prices on 2.59S.621 acres of public coal
lands and classified 1O,S57,572 acres Of
noncoal land.
The Philippine Islands are now the
largest producers of cocoanuts in the
world. About one-third of the whole
crop is grown there.
General Botha, prime minister of the
T%ransvaal, says that never before in
| the history Of South Africa were there
such solid signs of prosperity.
Norway has found it immensely prof
| liable to propagate the cod, catches of
the fish having steadily increased each
year that fry have been planted.
The smokeless powder factory of the
Mexican government has been COM
pleted. Its annual capacity is 10000
pounds of powder of the best quality.
Explorations made during the last
few years have led biologists to the
conclusion that the gulf coast Of Mex
leo has great possibilities as an oil
field.
The Turkish authorities have forbid
den the export of mules over a certain
height from the vilayet (p%rovince) Of
Bagdad. They are being collected for
army use by the government.
An italian soldier has invented light
metal attachments by which a sledge
ambulance can be made in a few
minutes from Il pair of skis, an alpen-
stock and other military equipment.
At Felixstowe. England. Il fisherman
lost his hook in attempting to land a
fish. Immediately afterward the same
fish, with the hook in its gills, was
caught by another fisherman near by.
England sent last year to French
West Africa 81 .G1S pounds of beads so
as to give the natives something to
put on their strings to play with. But
for those beads England got about So
100000 worth of rubber.
The street condemnation jury of Mil
waukee visited Lindwurm park in that
city recently and condemned an inch
of land claimed by a cement COM
pany. The inch Of land in question
was needed to give the city access to
the river.
In spite of intelligent efforts to re-
duce infant mortality in the United
States, the census bureau reports that
nearly one-fifth of all the deaths re-
ported in 1909 were of infants under
n year of age. and over one-quartel
were of children under five.
While the population of Australia
Nf,D( 1867 10 WY SAhlli III picl'Ol ~
to the enormous area of the country
the per capita purchasing power of the
people is undoubtedly considerably
above the average of most countries OF
the world.
! A bomb has been invented by a Bos
ton man for destroying insects in trees
The bomb explodes owe the tree, dis
.b,.u;,- oo;,o,c,, ,nu,I,u ..I;.1
settles over every limb and branch
The p%ervasive scattering of the poison
is the chief advantage of the method.
y Announcement has been made by al
1 American of the completion of plan
; for founding an entirely new city il
Lower California, directly on the lin
Q of the new San Diego and Arizona
y railway, near the old town IF III;
Juana and the international boundary
Rosario, Argentina. on the river Pa
n rama. is the second important city o
that country. 1t has Il population o
about 200. 900. With it's modern facil
ties and improvements it occupies
: strategic position in South American
q commerce and ranks mex to Bueno
Aires.
l. For the purpose Of making the telt
phone booth really sound proof a Gel
II man inventor lines it with tin.
seems that the lining is in every wa
most efficient. The result is hat
German publication now advises a
architects to either use tin or alumni
: um in the walls of houses general
5 to deaden sound.
A French banker who died recent
left a collection of $4,000 cigar band,
each differing in some particular frol
'r the others. They had cost him ift
g. years Of smoking and had been a
l ranged Systematically in a number
specially constructed cabinets. HI
children, not caring to keep the band,
!. sold them at auction for 81.
w. d. Murphy, the celebrated Ne,
York artist, who has painted portrait
Of six presidents Of the United States
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