The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-09-11
ROUND THE GLOBE

Finnish women have become a ma
tional asset as bank clerks.
As an exhibit in the London museum
q hanson cab is to be found.
The English Royal Geographical So
ciety now has nearly 5000 fellows.
The largest stone statue in the world
Is in Japan. a figure forty-four feet
high.
The telephone line across the isthmus
| of Panama is strung on old railroad
tracks.
Old age pensions in England for the
| current year are expected to amount
to f12. 1876 900.
Ton for ton, warships are built in
this country as quickly as those abroad
and at less cost.
The coal consumption Of the world
has just about doubled every ten years
for the last century.
Queensland is estimated to have 49,
| Co., 900 acres of forests as. yet unin-
| spected and unreserved.
A single vessel recently carried os-
| trich feathers valued at 100000 from
South Africa to England.
Formerly cancer of the tongue oc-
Cured only among men. Now that so
many women have taken to smoking
it also occurs among them.
A new high record was established in
the Transvaal in producing gold worth
$17O,2S6,71S last year. an increase over
the previous years figures Of $l4.J1O.-
| 375.
So many streets of Eerlin are paved
with asphalt and wooden blocks that
1t has been found necessary to fit the
horses with rope" shoes to prevent
slipping.
"A night telegraph letter service was
tnaugurated by the British postofiice
on June /. The ate is II cents for
thirty-six words and l cent for each
additional word.
Hobart. Tasmania. has a machine
for spraying hot tar on the streets to
prevent dust. 1t contains a furnace
which heats the tar to the boiling point,
and the tar is applied under pressure.
A tablet and foundation designed by
John Duncan, A. r. S. A., has been
unveiled by W. r. Blaikie on Edin-
burgh castle esplanade to mark the
place where witches used to be burned.
In telephone service New York city
may well claim precedence over Paris.
Official tests in each city show that a
telephone connection may be obtained
t. Nyo1, Vorl- i, 4,,c% halo thu kiro1 Tho
is required in Paris.
Two girls in Budapest who had de
cided to fight a duel owe a young mar
with whom they were both in love
have settled the matter by becoming
engaged to the two men who volun
l teered to act as their seconds.
That a man is not too old to worl
after he is sixty years Of age Is proved
by the figures just made public by thu
Pennsylvania railroad, which has II
4 active service 4,717 employees who ar
between the ages of sixty and seventy
The t%wenty-four hour day has JUS
been adopted officially in France, bu
4 it has not been received with any en-
. thusiasm. The people fail to see it
q advantages over the old fashione
twelve hour day and twelve hour nigh
b Americans are now consuming Is
d pounds of meat annually per capits
The people Of Great Britain, who ran
next in the meat eating scale, &c
n along with 115 pounds, while those G
pounds.
I'll Every German city Of consequence
~ has a number of palatial cafes whic
- are nothing else than huge clubhouse
10 without membership formality. In an
o one Of these cafes are hundreds
ut thousands of patrons glancing over d.
t, nestle and foreign newspapers al
1e magazines.
e. Black rain recently fell in Ham,
Id shire, England. but such a thing hs
been known before. In Novembe
=, 1910, ink black rain fell steadily fl
several hours in New York, and
least twice during the last century
y similar phenomenon has been obser'
!. ed in England.
A Massachusetts woman has inven
ed an individual a strap" for the co
r, venience of women strap hangers wi
dislike to hold on to the soiled leath'
at straps that are provided for their su
Il. port by the public service corporation
The new device Is made of webbir
= and hooks on to the leather strap.
Recently patents have been taken o
for an artificial silk the base Of whit
differs from those now in use. 1t h
u the advantage that it is uninlamm
BILE, unaffected by humidity and !
be destructible by acids or by alcoh'
Ict The new silk is at base spun glass
at spun at one-eighteenth of a hairs
he ameter.
re- An international exposition Of boo
tie making and the graphic arts connect
NJ with it, including photography, will
held at Leipzig, the center Of the boz
industry in Germany, from May
October, 1914, the N hundred and t