The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-02-07
bREWTIES

Divorces in Germany are heavily on
the increase.
A Transatlantic cable costs about
s., 100 q mile to build.
Havana is meditating an auto omni-
bus service. as in many European
cities.
White canary birds have been bred
in France and are on sale in the pet
shops Of Paris.
California mines have yielded more
than $1OO.O00.000 of quicksilver in the
last sixty years.
Classed according to color, there are
b,422. 1872 white farmers in this country
and a17.46S others.
The worlds largest drydock, 1856 by
100 feet, has been completed ut Belfast
after eight years work.
The present population of Belgium, a
country containing only 1873 square
miles. exceeds 7,317.OOO
The great volume Of China's book
printing is still done from stones and
blocks. on one side Of the paper only.
Last year there were 10000 persons
in the United Kingdom with incomes
Of over $3.50 0 a year. The average of
these was $63. 1O5.
The worlds hop crop for 1911 is esti-
mated at 132.O00!O0O pounds. which is
100000 pounds below the average of
| the last ten years.
There have been more patents issued
in the last twenty years in the United
| States than in the entire century pre-
ceding that period.
The Suez canal rates will be lowered
on Jan. l, 1912. For freighted ships
they will be $1.3O and for ships in bal
last s. cents per ton.
The population of Switzerland is
3,5OO,OOO. Per capita there were m
and one-half kilograms and fifteen
telephone talks last year.
The largest Photographic negative
ever taken of a sitter was GA by 33
inches. or practically life size. 1t was
the work of a Dublin firm.
The Union Of South Africa, which in
cludes the Transvaal. Cape Colony,
Natal and Orange Free State, has a
population Of 100000 people.
The stage lights Of the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York number
over 1900; there are 700 white lights
and 1853 each of blue. red and amber.
The Scotch have paid little attention
to poultry raising except for eggs.
Dressed fowls are largely imported
from Ireland, Russia. Germany and
other countries.
In Switzerland there are 10000 peo-
pie engaged in making articles at
home, and Of these $4,000 are engaged
in textile work and 1900 in the
matchmaking industry.
Trinity corporation, New York. the
richest church in the United States,
has filed plans to have another branch
church and rectory at Washington
heights, New York. to cost over $780,
600.
Swamp lands in this country cover
a sufficient area, If reclaimed, to pro-
vide homes for nearly 100000 fami-
lies, according to NJ. o. Leighton, chief
photographer Of the government geo.
logical survey.
A New York man returned from q
trip around the world, going westward
by way Of Vancouver and Yokohama
and the transsiberian railway. He
made the circuit in forty-seven days
} and says anybody can do it comfort
ably on $7OO.
As a transportation factor the mighty
} Amazon, including it's tributaries, offers
not less than 1900 miles suitable fol
=, steamship navigation. Manaos, a pros
, porous community, situated 1000 miles
from the mouth Of the river, in ont
year cleared more than 5000 ships.
The marble bathtub that was re
moved from the Mubarik Mahal in the
Y fort after the mutiny and which was tt
d have been taken to England for pre-
s~entation to the late Queen Victoria
It has been put back in its original place
> by the order of the durbar committee
Before the opening Of the world ex
position to be held at Tokyo in com
9 memoration Of the lftieth anniversar.
of the GROWING Of the mikado tn
Japanese authorities have decided t.
u install a complete system Of moderl
sanitary sewerage, modelled after tina
q Of modern western cities.
e With the opening Of the America
q factories at Niagara Switzerland los
l. control Of the aluminium market
D which the little republic had held fo
several years. Neither Switzerian'
nor France possesses such rich mine
Of oxide Of aluminium or such source
of electrical energy as the Unite
States.
N The consumption Of meat In Ge1
many is officially reckoned accordin
to the number of slaughterings and th
average weight Of the animals kille@
ne Taking the estimates Of the imperi'
r. board Of health, which are rather h1gl
70 It appears that in 1910 there was q