The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1913-08-13
ROUND THE WORLD

States farms.
New York annually nsu $685.
OOO.O worth of eggs.
The production of copper has trebled
in the last twenty years.
The cost of living has gone up 80 per
cent in Russia during the last ten years.
Los Angeles women have started a
club to attract new settlers to the city.
Buffalo plans the erection Of statues
of Grover Cleveland and Willard Fill
more.
The New York Housewives league is
demanding greater cleanliness in gro
Gerry stores.
New York found vice agents wearing
religious attire to trap immigrants and
ignorant girls.
1t is stated that 1000 tons Of apri.
cots are used in South Africa jam
making annually.
Spokane's dog pound gives away
dogs every Wednesday to persons pay
ing city license fees.
Cleveland's new Salvation Army
home for girls is to be governed by a
board Of representative citizens.
The Russian government has sent a
commission to the United States to
study refrigeration for food products.
Battleships Of the United States navy
will be equipped to assist city fire de-
partments in fighting fires near water
fronts.
The value Of the ammonia obtained
from the sludge virtually covers the
entire cost of the disposal of London
sewage.
Automobile crematories to follow an
army in battle to dispose OF the dead
are suggested by a German military
surgeon.
DR.. H. s. Tanner. noted faster. has
celebrated in Los Angeles his eighty
fourth birthday. He says he will mar.
~ at 100 and live to be 100.
The Greater Honolulu chamber of
commerce is being formed to merge
the several trade and commercial bod
les in the capital of Hawaii.
Frozen beef and mutton from South
America sells in France ut prices aver
aging 20 per cent less than is paid for
meat that has not been frozen.
A new rubber tree has been identified
in Mexico from which a high class rub
Der ran be obtained. 1t thrives best in
sandy or stony soils among rocks.
Light is admitted to a lensless cam
era invented in Germany that seems to
have many practical uses through slots
either vertical or horizontal as desired.
By removing a strip Of bark from
around an orange tree a Florida man
made it produce more and larger fruit.
but at the expense of the trees longev-
ity.
James T. Hunt. business manager Of
the Bowery mission. New York city.
reports that a majority Of $4,000 down.
born.
London's night schools. most of
which are carried on by the municipal
ity. are losing pupils because OF the
counter attractions of the moving pic
ture theaters.
A substantial prize has been won by
a Belgian inventor in Italy for an arti-
fetal leather made Of cotton, which IL
said to he as durable and elastic as the
genuine article.
Strange uses are being found for
some Of the cues lately cut or in vast
numbers by the Chinese. A British
| wooden manufacturer recently received
an offer Of five tons of such hair for
weaving into wooden fabrics.
Life saving has been adopted as part
Of the regular course in swimming at
Columbia university. Hereafter IL stu
dent will have to show proficiency in
saving persons from drowning as we'll
as in swimming to get a degree.
Experiments have been made with
dynamite on India tea farms. While
it was shown that exploding cartridges
in the ground help the growth of the
plants. the cost. as compared with
cheap cOOlie labor. was p%rOhibitive.
Keep OF the Grass" signs will be
robbed Of their terror for children in
the Bronx. New York city. ii a move.
ment now under way Is successful.
More room for healthful exercise. with
all the elements Of danger removed. Ia
the aim Of the settlement workers.
Moving 10000 pounds Of machinery
from one section of the Everett high
school building. in Boston. down a
four step stairway and into the new
annex was the task accomplished re-
Gently by the boys Of that school. stu
dents in the technical science depart
ment.
Gustave Eiffel. the French engineer
who built the famous tower in Paris
bearing his name. has been honored
by the Smithsonian institution. whose
regents have voted him a Langley
medal "for his researches relating to
the resistance of the air in connection
with aviation"
Edward +. Terry IS an erecting con-
tractor who has put his sign manual
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