The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-12-15
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A hundred years ago the best
oysters were sold at five for cent.
More than four-fifths OF last
years murderers were men of no
occupation.
Mosquitoes inject poison into
the wounds they inflict in order to
make the blood thin enough to flow
through their throats.
The Suez cana. is. only eighty
eight miles long, but it reduces the
distance from England to India by
nearly 1900 miles.
Although whales mouth, when
open, is about IL by 1s feet in d.
mensions, its throat is so small
that a hens egg might choke it.
In Australia horses and cattle
are now being branded by elec>
tricity from strong batteries. The
temperature is uniform and the
brand safe and artistic.
There are now more people in
New York State than there were
in England in queen Elizabeth s
time and nearly as many as there
were in the elder Pitts time.
When the civil war began there
were only two cities west of the
Mississippi that had 500 inhabi-
tants, st. Louis and San Francisco.
Now there are fifteen.
If Texas wee as thi ky popu-
lated as Massachusetts, it would
have so,ooo,ooo people. If as
thickly populated as New York it
would have about $4,000, 900 peo-
pie.
The inhabitants of the two Da-
kotas boast that they could pro-
duce enough wheat to feed all
Europe, if the demand and price
justified it. They are probably
right.
The United States is the great
est mineral producing country in
the world, though, SO far as the
| precious metals are concerned,
Australia is. becoming a formida-
BILE rival.
The Mississippi is about thirteen
times as long as the Thames, the
biggist river in England, and
near y five times as long as the
Rhine, the most famous river in
Europe.
A chemist of Algiers has an
nounced that he has Invented pro.
cess for concentrating wine into
tabulets. To make wine it is only
necessary to dissolve ore of the
tablets in water.
About the year B. G 220, edible
serpents were sold at the rate Of
twenty for 4 cents in the Egyp.
tion markets. They were shipped
to Rome. Italian vipers were
dearer, twenty for Is cents.
Prof. Ghoost says that if we
reckon the average depth of the
ocean at three miles there would
be layer of salt 200 feet thick in
their basins should the waters sud-
denly evaporate.
The waters of the Great Salt
Lake in utah are rendered so dense
by immenee quantities of salt that
q mans body will scarcely sink in
them. Bathers come out of the
lake covered with a crust of salt.
By the last cencus one fourth of
the people of the united states
lived west of the Mississippi. The
united states west of the Mississip-
pi is two and quarter times as
big as the united states east of the
Mississippi.
The greatest corn-producing
State in the union is Iowa, The
leadership in wheat fluctuates be-
tween California, Kansas, North
Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois and In
diana. Kentucky always leads in
tobacco, and Texas in co ton.
There is no way to compare the
climate of the united states with
that of Western Europe, because
here the summers are much hotter
and the winters are much colder.
The climate of the united states is