The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1911-01-04
TIMELY bREVIT|ES

The German and Austrian Alpine
society now has SS,45O members.
The British are spending 100000
600 on a naval base in the Firth Of
Forth. Scotland.
New York county records show that
an average of 22S real estate mort
cages are filed each week.
Thrift on the part Of United States
soldiers is indicated in a steady in
crease in their savings deposits.
New York bakers bake $13 worth Of
bread, biscuits, rolls and cakes annu.
ally for each one Of the city's inhabit-
ants.
At Guaymas the federal government
of Mexico will expend $3.500,O0O gold
in building a sea wall to inclose the
inner harbor.
In 1909 fiscal year the government
Of Italy made a profit Of $685. APO
out Of its lotteries, the receipts Of
which were $16,4O1,S 800.
Firewood valued at $3.50. 100000 is
used every year by the people of the
United States. according to the latest
estimate of the forest service.
While %eXcavating the ruins Of St.
Piran's oratory. Cornwall, many skele-
tons have been dug up, several of
them of human beings seven feet in
height.
A British surgeon has advanced the
theory that appendicitis is due to the
intestinal worms. assembling its preva-
lence to the passing Of the practice of
using vermifuges regularly.
Denmark is trying out a new pom.
toon bridge in which the pontoons are
anchored beneath the surface Of the
water. the bridge remaining notion
less irrespective Of the rise and fall of
the tide.
1t is said that a pig belonging to Mr..
Gilman of WoDdmancote. Sussex, Eng
land, recently shed the whole Of its
skin. which weighed ffty-four pounds.
A new skin has grown. and the pig is
apparently in good health.
Havana imports it's granite paving
blocks from Norway, getting them
cheaper than it can from any Ameri-
can port. 1t is said that the low Nor.
wegian freight rates, combined with
the low cost Of material, prevent COM
petition.
The total population of the Russian
empire. according to the census taken
this year. is lGO, 200. Russia differs
from other European countries in the
comparatively small proportion-only
1875 per cent-of it's population living
in towns.
In the days of Chaucer fashionable
men wore clothes as many colored as
Joseph's coat. so that while one leg
would be a blaze of crimson the other
would be tricked out in green or blue
or yellow, without any regard to har-
mony or contrast.
The largest anchor ever made is now
being exhibited in London. 1t weighs
fifteen and one-half tons and has a
chain Of which each link weighs 100
pounds. The anchor is intended for
the Olympic, the new White Star liner
nov being built at Belfast.
The president of the Prussian gov
eminent district Of Frankfurt has fix
ed the wages Of ordinary day laborers
in the city of Frankfurt and suburbs
as follows: Male adults, 1928 cents; fe.
male adults. 60 cents; youthful males.
4S cents; youthful females, 1873 cents.
The annual contributions per capita
to the state lottery in Italy from some
Of the important cities are: Naples,
$2.75; Leghorn, $1.65; Palermo, $1.63;
Genoa, $1.2O; Rome, $1.04. Venice and
Turin averaged about so cents per in
habitant, Bologna about 40 cents, last
year.
A letter by Benjamin Franklin to a
medical friend with the sardonic
taunt, "Half the lives you save are
not worth saving, being useless. and
almost the other half ought not to be
saved as being m~ischievous," was sold
at auction in London recently for
f32 los.
Everybody knows that George AIDE
accredited the sultan Of Sulu with
eight wives when he made that po-
tentate the central figure of his merry
comic opera. but the fact is, according
to the latest news dispatches. that
there are fourteen sultanas and that
they are supported on 1925 a month.
W. II. Frey Of Slug Gulch, CAL,
owns an orchard that is worth cult
waiting whether the fruit crop is good
or bad. Frey has a cigar box full of
gold nuggets and specimen ore picked
up while he was blowing and harrow
ing his orchard this eason These
specimens range in value from 81 to
$119 each.
Frankfort. Germany. has a joint
stock company organized for the bene-
At Of the poorer and working classes.
This company now maintains eleven
restaurants, even canteens, four COT
fee kitchens, a portable kitchen, two
lunch rooms and a lecture hall. The
company gives a we'll cooked and
ample dinner for S.3 cents.
Before 1880 most English railway
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