The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-07-12
TIMELY BREVlTIES

erS have agencies IN Madrid.
The mackerel and shad fisheries of
this country are on the decline.
Ability to read and write is now a
suffrage requirement in Portugal.
Egyptian mummies sometimes have
teeth quite cleverly filled with gold.
Switzerland, with a population of
3,5OO,OOO, imports annually $40, 900
worth Of ready made clothing.
Hungary's census shows a popula-
ton of 2O,S5O, 100, an increase in ten
years Of 100000, or 8.3 per cent.
When you go shopping in Burma
it is difficult to get the proprietor of
the establishment to show his goods.
BY a French presidential decree the
postoffices in Madagascar are author
lied to make use Ct international re-
ply coupons.
Germany imports more Of Italy's
products than any other country. The
United States comes second and
France third.
According to the final provisional
census returns, the population Of India
is now 315,OOo.OOO, an increase of 90
100000 since 1901.
Owing to a lack of demand for it,
grapefruit can be bought in London
for a fraction Of the price asked for
1t in the United States.
Russia contains nearly one-half of
the Jews in the world and is the only
country with a larger Jewish popula-
ton than the United States.
Shippers at Hongkong claim that the
Chinese peanut is a better article than
that furnished by any other part Of
the world, not excepting Virginia.
Engineers are figuring on erecting a
dam 700 feet high in the Grand Can
yon Of the Colorado to impound suf1-
power.
The type used in the government
printing office at Washington last
year, if placed end to end, would e n
circle the world, with about 5000 miles
to spare.
j.. The bank checks passing through
the clearing houses In London and
New York in one month excel the
value Of all the gold and silver coin in
the world.
The epidemic of plague in the far
east is responsible for a great increase
in the price of many drugs. Carbolic
acid has advanced so per cent in the
eastern markets.
To prevent explosions Of coal dust
in some German mines water is forced
into assures under pressure, and after
it is pumped out the coal can be bro.
!. ken down with picks without blasting,
!, OF all the countries in the worlt
Servia contains the most centenarians
In that country, which has fewer
than 100000 Inhabitants, there ar
. $40 persons whose age exceeds 1O'
= years.
A great figure in literature Is brough
nearer to our time when we read tina
! a very old woman has just died il
Scotland who in her girlhood knew 81
n Walter Scott and experienced the goot
mans kindness.
o Londoners complain that they canno
get enough Of the seedless California
v oranges. They like them because tn
pulp can be removed with a spoon an
, because they are so large that one i
enough for two people.
Work has begun on the building o
the palace Of the future Chinese pal
q lament at Picking. The structures ar
'e modelled after those Of the Belgia'
-.. TI,o %n4o1 onct will n
81, 100000. Mr.. Klein, a German, !
the architect.
What is said to be the smallest pei
feet glass bottle ever blown has bee
20 made by Robert Gillespie, a blower l
a glass works at Millville, N. J.. TIL
~ bottle is not much larger than a Ike
mel Of corn, but is in every way pc
~ feet, including a ground stopper.
A merchant in the Yukon region Ia
~ discovered a way Of making stove
III that yield at least so per cent MOI
ne heat than those commonly sold. II
a.. uses huge sheet iron drums arrange
in such a way that the smoke must
down one side Of it and up the other.
Since Jan. /, 1907, siXty-tive ope
air schools for children afflicted wit
~ No or predisposed to tuberculosis hay
W been established in twenty-eight cite
o. according to an announcement mac
'e- by the National Association For Il
ea Study and Prevention of Tuberculosi
he The boring of the nine and one-qua
)st ter mile tunnel through the Alp
it which will shorten the railroad jou
he ney from Italy to London from two
mt three hours, was finished March 8
,rs The French contractors who unde
:, took the work were engaged In it TO-
years and a half.
"Parson" Davies, the veteran pri2
fight promoter, was given his sob
-, quet by the late William II. Vande
bilt one night at Madison Square Ga
den. Vanderbilt said, "That fello
'oo looks more like a parson than a spo1
on Ing man." Davies right name, Charl