The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-05-10
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New York is Americas publishing
center.
About 212,OOO persons see moving
picture shows in New York each day.
Norway, Sweden and Finland COM
bined have a population Of 100000 900.
The postponed Japanese world ex-
position will probably be held in 1916.
The United States exported struc-
tural iron and steel amounting in value
to 100000 in 1910.
st. Petersburg. Russia, has twelve
commercial schools, the admission be-
ing restricted to boys.
Travelling from one place to another
in Turkey without a tescereh (local
passport, is now permitted.
More coal is mined per person EN-.
ployed In the United States than in
any other nation, with Australia rank
ing next.
British India, with a population of
owe 252,OOO.OOO, still has more than
1G4,OOO,OOO acres Of cultivable land un-
cultivated.
The Japanese manufacture much of
their paper from millet stalks. Man.
churia furnishes about 245,OOO tons of
pulp a year.
According to the government re-
ports, there are more than 100000
persons in the United States who have
accounts in the savings banks.
Silk cocoons TO The weight Of about
t%ifty-four tons and worth over 100000
are exported from the British island
Of Cyprus in the course Of a year.
Game birds have almost disappeared
from the sections Of France most fire.
quented by a%eronauts, which seem to
have frightened the feathered fliers
away.
Buenos Aires is the fourth city in
the two Americas. and 20 per cent of
all the people Of Argentina live with
in a radius of twenty miles Of the
capital.
The island of Margarita, on the north
coast Of and belonging to Venezuela,
has a population Of 10000, who subsist
principally by its pearl and other
fisheries.
German sugar sales have been increas-
cd in Morocco through an installment
system Of payment. A shopkceper
buys $1,000 worth on the payment Of
500 a week.
On account of its great length drawn
glass is being used for many purposes.
It withstands sudden changes of tenn
perature, resists fire to a great extent
and is very strong.
An English economist has evolved
the theory that the writing and print
ing Of s%uper1uous books form a seri-
u item in the deforestation problem
Of the civilized world.
There are forty mines being worked
in the state Of New York. There are
twelve iron mines, thirteen Of gypsum,
eight of tale, three of graphite, n Of
salt and n Of pyrites.
There is nothing better than lime
water to drive white worms out of the
soil in which pot plants are growing.
A good many people fail because they
use air slaked lime instead.
Tranent colliery in Haddingtonshire,
England, which has just been closed,
had been operated for nearly 700 years.
For many years women were employed
in the mine as well as men.
The tunnel under the Seine for the
Metropolitan railway of Paris when
completed will be the largest subriver
tunnel in the world. The work is be-
ing done by American engineers.
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Northampton, England, one Of the
manufacturing centers for boots and
shoes, are given a thorough course in
leather and footwear manufacture.
Ten years ago the total number of
passengers carried one mile in the Unit
ed States was about 1888, 600, COO. In
ten years time this has increased over
100 per cent, reaching a total of o..
so, 1000.
The whistles on the new ocean liner
Olympic are the largest ever made.
They consist of three bell domes,
measuring nine inches. fifteen inches
and twelve inches in diameter, respec-
lively.
a life buoy with an electrical battery
which m into play only when the
buoy is taken from it's rack on the YES
sci is a new device. A brilliant light is
given by two lamps above and two
! below water.
The principal telephone company of
Spain. with stations in Madrid, BARGE
I Iona and seventeen other cities, has
only 3,795 subscribers. The city of
: San Sebastian has a municipal tele-
phone service.
The plant introduction bureau of the
department of agriculture has secured
for distribution seeds Of the yerba
mate tree from the boundary line of
Brazil and Paraguay. This tree is a
member Of the holly family, lex para.
guariensis.
A municipal councillor Of Paris has
, introduced a proposal to tax all cats