The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-08-07
ROUND THE GLOBE.

LIE A-oIluou Stoch GAcnange brings
together $4,000 persons daily.
Only about / per cent of the area of
Ireland contains marketable timber.
Public works in the Philippines are
to be pushed during the current season,
The Bavarian postal service utilities
IA motor vehicles. operated on fifty
sever lines.
The japanese are laying a new sub.
marine cable between their country
and Chosen.
Bone marrow oil is used in Bohemia
for oiling sewing machines. It costs
only 6 cents a pound retail.
The personnel Of London's fire bri.
gade has grown from 420 officers and
mel in 1878 to 1880 at present.
1t is estimated by the japanese that
their coal supplies in the Fushun col.
liery amount to 800. 900 tons.
The Chilean government has decided
to spend $12.7 75 during this year for a
cooking department in some Of the pro.
fessional schools.
The total population of Japan. ex-
elusive of Formosa. Sakhalin. Chosen
(Korea) and other distant possessions.
is upward of 100000.
Radical changes in the clothing Of
the Chinese in all stations of life are
indicated by the expanding Of the Chi
nese market for clothing.
A. Berlin scientist claims to have
found a way to build up diamonds
from chips with ordinary illuminating
gas and a mercury amalgam.
The big trees of the Australian for
ests are rapidly disappearing. The
giant stringy banks, which reach q
height of 800 feet. will soon be a thing
Of the past.
Petroleum fields covering a vast area
in Turkestan, extending to the Chi
nese frontier. have recently been sur
veyed by Professor Hjalmar Sjogren
Of Stockholm.
The capitol in Washington is 11S
years old. The cornerstone was laid in
September. 1893. But. old as the build.
ing is, it is not vet finished and proba.
bly, never will be.
Italy purposes to establish life insur-
ance as a state monopoly. Life insur-
ance companies are to be allowed to
continue operations for ten years I'M
der certain conditions.
Such enormous quantities of fish are
obtained from the Caspian sea that
promoters in Baku are to attempt sup
plying Russia with all the fertilizer it
requires from this source.
Arrangements have been made by
the British admiralty for charging the
oil fuel depots on the coast to supply
the demands of the increasing number
OF oil burning naval vessels.
Two policemen in Montreal were
compelled to work an extra hours duty
a day for a fortnight because they de-
clined to give up their seats to ladies'
who were standing in a street car.
Free markets have been established
in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the effort
to reduce the high cost of living. In
these markets the prices of foods are
fixed by the municipal authorities.
The free lodging house in HOMO
ward, Tokyo. has housed $4,000 per-
sons since it's institution eleven years
ago. Most of the dodgers have been men
between the ages of twenty and forty.
Lead production in the United States
last year reached 100000. 900 pounds.
an increase of 100000 0 pounds over
1910. Imports last year were 100000
600 pounds, a decrease Of 100000
pounds.
The city Of Manila is building ten
tennis courts for the use of the public
in the sunken gardens, opposite the
city hall. The courts will have the
Accomplishments Of baths, lockers and
reading rooms.
The women Of 1dria, in the Austrian
province of Krain, were so dissatisfied
with the fire brigade that they have
formed n Of their own, consisting of
sixty "irewomen," with Frau Marie
StraOs as their commander.
Lloyd's reports for the three months
ended Dec. l last the loss or condem-
nation of 235 ships of 100 tons or over.
OF these twenty-four were abandoned
at sea, seven burned, twenty-one we're
lost by collision, thirty foundered and
1913 wrecked.
Medland Hall, Stepney, a London re-
lief organization instituted in a small
way in 1901 by a few young clerks in
an Australian merchants office, has
sheltered 100000 homeless. men in it's
twenty-one years Of existence, at q
total cost Of f26,606.
Oxygen applied by hypodermic in
lection has been tried by two French
surgeons to retard asphyxia in con-
fined air. The skin was puffed out.
but the gas was gradually absorbed
and was used by the organism the
same as inhaled oxygen.
According to Consul George N. West,
the Japanese city Of Kobe is especially
interested in the determination Of rats
as a prevention against epidemics of