The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1914-02-11
ROUND THE WORLD

In 1912 751 ocean vessels were bull,
in German yards.
Worlds stock of none is estimated
ut $12. 792. 100000.
Cabs are cheap in Naples. where d
short ride costs only 10 cents.
In the Falkland islands there are
five times as many men as women.
Sweden is said to be the foremost
nation in the knowledge of personal
hygiene.
Furnace refuse from ocean steam
els is now discharged from an open
ing below the water line.
Cleveland has a city hall complaint
bureau. Over 10000 kicks were reg
istered there in the past twelve months.
The largest motor vessel in the world
is the Siam. recently built at Copen-
hagen. with a displacement Of L 5000
tons.
The Turkish government is seeking
for ways and means to check the
steadily increasing emigration to North
South America.
A powerful searchlight on top of the
tallest building in indianapolis is a
valuable adjunct to both the police
and fire departments.
The seventh centenary OF Roger
Bacon's birth will probably be cele-
brated in England next year by the
erection of a statue in his honor.
New English eyeglasses are so form
ed that when not in use and folded
they resemble a locket and may be
orn OF a chain for an ornament.
A youth named Abdul Latiff was ar
rested at Calcutta for having climbed
up a waterripe 12O feet long in order
to hold converse with his sweetheart.
Russians buy a good many hats that
are made in Germany or Austria
despite the fact that they bear a print
ed label New York." Chicago or
Boston"
was responsible for the introduction
into Shantung of many varieties of
California fruits to displace the poor
native products of China.
According to two French bacteriolo-
gists, modern ventilators are danger
GUS to human health, as they distrib-
ute disease germs in places where
otherwise there would be comparative
~ few.
It costs twenty-five typical American
cities an average of less than a dollar
a year to each pupil to provide free
textbooks, according to w. S. Deffen-
baugh of the United States bureau of
education.
DR.. W. E. Scripture of New York
city says that ambidextrous persons
never dream, while right handed per-
sons dream with the right half Of the
brain and use the left brain lobe for
conscious thinking only.
In Maskat, Arabia, a sewing machine
agent rented the best stall In the ba-
zaar. placarded the town with tin
signs. trained women as demonstrators
In the harems and made presents Of
machines to high ~personages.
Colonel Cocktails private car which
he uses In his work Of directing con-
struction on the Panama canal, is an
d affair, having a powerful gas en-
CINE, with a hood like an automobile
and a cowcatcher like a locomotive.
BY an ingenious arrangement of re-
Electors a thirty candle power incan-
descent lamp recently mounted on a
lightship off the Virginia coast is
made to give flashes Of more than
100000 candle power in certain direc-
tons.
The excavation of the numerous pre-
historic sites in the island of Malta is
being actively prosecuted under the di-
rection Of Professor r. Zemmit. Skel-
etons with pottery lamps, spindle
whorls and a circular bronze mirror
have been ~unearthed.
In line with scientists recommended
lions that a series of stations be estab-
lished in Europe from which balloons
can be regularly liberated for air cur
rent study, Germany has opened
than fifteen such stations. and Russia
plans to establish fifty.
While. as a rule. land may be had
cheaply in Central America except on
the canal zone and settlers effects
may be brought in free Of duty. the
problem Of clearing and putting the
land in cultivation is a serious one and
calls for considerable money.
London's proposed postal tube is to
be nine feet in diameter and six and a
half miles long. 1t is to be fitted for
two tracks, each two feet wide, carry
ing steel trucks operated by motors.
The line proposed will be constructed
throughout in the London clay.
Said to be the first stone arch bridge
erected in this country, the "Choate
Bridge, Built by Town and County,
1894" as the inscription states, still
stands, a monument to the builder,
Colonel John Choate. at Ipswich, Mass.
1t is seemingly as strong as ever
During the coronation Of King Ed
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