The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-04-23
ROUND the CL0bE

Amber is divided into 100 different
kinds.
Fowles versus Katz was the title of
a legal case in England.
Sixty-nine banks hold city funds of
Chicago. totaling $21,5oO.O00.
Lyons, France. is trying to drive QUO
cocaine fiends and to restrict sales.
AS a butter exporting country Aus
tralia now ranks second. Denmark be-
ing first.
Pittsburgh clubwomen have decided
to abolish the hatpin as a dangerous
nuisance.
Operated much like a job printing
press is a new rapid printing machine
for photographs.
Esperanto is taught in some Of the
state supported schools in England.
France and Germany.
All over the world oil fuel is grad
ually taking the place of coal and 9TH
er less easily handled fuels.
A steamship line has offered to carry
free to England the first 1000 tons Of
cotton grown in South Africa.
An electric alarm that gives warning
when a mine roof begins to move has
been invented by an Australian.
Brazil is to have the largest reser-
voir in the world after the dam at
Oros. in the state of Ceara. is built.
A manufacturer Of artistic furniture
in Davis hCc i,,ck o>r,,,1okO1 ,roI,;u
the fore legs of which are Of solid gold.
A Michigan knitting mill is making
| artificial silk from vegetable fiber and
converting it into hosiery and under
wear.
An electrical machine for cutting
umbrella covers in a New York facto-
ry cuts $50 thicknesses Of fabric at
once.
AS much as $1,000 has been paid in
South Africa for a male ostrich of a
good strain and producing exception
ally fine feathers.
DR.. E.. II. Sven of Washington pre-
diets that the woman of the future will
| have a thick neck, broad shoulders and
other masculine features.
The Germans are doing a great road
building work in Africa, and at no dis
tant date the possessions of that coun-
try In the dark continent will be in
touch with each other by motor routes.
For cleaning floors a New York in
ventor has patented an electric ma
chine which applies water to a floor
and scrubs it as it is pushed forward
and picks up the soiled water as it is
drawn back.
In the stomach of a crocodile which
was shot by Mr.. Wells on the Merguan
estate, Madras, were found Il python
thirteen feet long, two tobacco pipes,
a number Of pieces of whisky bottles
and a pair of trousers.
Tan Teong. a Chinaman residing in
Malay states. was recently fined ego.
with the alternative of three weeks
imprisonment. for selling his adopted
baby girl for f1O to buy a coffin in
which to bury his wife.
Exports of American pianos havI
trcblcd in the last nine years. Amer
lean monographs are popular in ali
parts of the world. In Mohammedan
countries monographs are used to re-
peat portions of the Koran.
There is a good deal of vacuum clean
Ing done in France by large machines
that go through the streets and clean
houses and apartments by hose reach
ing to any floor. The individual vac
uum cleaner is little known.
There is today in Paris a concierge
who is reaping a small harvest Of tips
from visitors to an attic which a quar-
ter of Il century ago was tenanted by
the present king or Servia in the less
palmy days of his pretendership.
An officer Of the United States navy
has found that the power of a high
speed vessels propeller Is increased
about 10 per cent by placing ribs on
the faces of its blades to decrease the
partial vacuum that always occurs
there.
Silk merchants of Tientsin. China,
) have learned a lesson from the footing
Of their shops during the revolution.
The entrance to each shop now is mar.
row and the door made very heavy
and plated with iron. The small street
windows are protected by iron bars.
Miss Mary Blake of London was re
Gently charged with Insulting beha'
vior" in the Bow street court and fined
IS ito be Of good behavior for six
months" Her offense consisted Of In
sisting uron remaining with a woman
prisoner who was being tried by mel
in 4 court full Of men.
A dog in n bread pan. a woman with
dirty fingers poking chocolate cakes, q
woman clerk carrying a half dressed
baby and waiting on customers with
her free arm were among the sights
that greeted the Chicago councils sub.
committee on health recently on a
bakeries inspection trip.
DR.. f. r. Bergius. the scientist who
has been conducting experiments in
nrOducinD artificial coal hos nv ON,