The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-12-17
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lIauI 10 the square lille.
In Paris it has been decided that gam
bling on the part of Il wife constitutes
sufficient grounds for divorce.
Women constitute twO-thirds of all
the church members of the United
States. but only One-thirteenth Of all the
criminals.
Among the curiosities in the Richards
free library museum at ClaremOnt. y.
H.. is the anvil on which was manu-
featured the first scythe in the United
States.
have had Il very prosperous season III
cotton raising. They will have more
cash money this winter than before in
ten years and are paying up their debts
rapidly.
The ancient copper mines Of Sinai
have just been re-eXplOred. These
were worked by the Egyptians, or their
slaves, 1000 years ago. II are be-
lieved to have been abandoned about
5000 years go.
One successful venture which has
come of the Manchester ship canal Is
the steamship service between the cot
ton metropolis and London. 1t is Il long
way round. but the saving in freight
dues is m
One of the features of California life
which is not often noticed in print is
the large decrease of the Chinese labor
ing population Of the State. San Fran
ciSco's Chinatown has fallen off almost
2ne-half during the last three years.
Mathematical calculations show that
an iron ship weighs - per cent less
than Il wooden one, md will carry 11o
tons of cargo for every 100 tons carried
by a wooden ship of the same dimen-
siOns, and both loaded to the same draft
of water.
Newest of L.ondOn's periodicals is the
.AutomotOr and Horseless Vehicle Jour
nal. IA 6-penny monthly paper, which.
in it's own words. participates the field
which will doubtless soon exist for its
operations Its o~riginators are con-
yinced thar in the near future the auto
car industry must become an important
one in England and other countries.
The marriage rate in Scotland is 1892
in every 10000 of the population. To
every 100 marriages 4J6 children are
born. as against 41S in England. OF Il
total Of 21.6O4 marriages which took
place during the year l,1G6 We're irreS-
nIn. hn yinn haan parfop~D,nJ u-ithnnt
proclamation of purpose and without
reference to the intervention of relig-
iouS ceremony.
Italy Is about to publish at the gov
eminent expense a Photographic repro
duction of the manuscript of Justinian's
"Pandects," now preserved in the Flor
ence library. The Florence manuscript
is the oldest and most correct we have
of the great code of Roman law. 1t is
of the sixth or seventh century. ut least.
and may perhaps have been written rs
early as ~Justinian's own time.
Twenty-three colleges in the United
States We're founded before the begin
ming of this century. Among the lead
ing. ones are: Harvard, 1896; William
and Mary, 1903: Yale, 11O1; University
of Pennsylvania, 1740; Princeton. 1746;
Washington and Lee. 1T43:. Columbia.
1914; Brown. 1864; Rutgers. 1866. Dart
mouth, 1863; Hampden-Sidney. 171j:
Washington (Md.). 1872, and Dickin-
son, 1885.
At the "Theater Salon" the first of
the single-performance entertainments
to open this season in Paris, the show
consisted of the recitation of new bal
lads of low life. with living pictures rs
illustrations. All the songs were indie
Gently ambiguous. while the pictures
were not ambiguous ut all. providing
the exhibition Of woman's underwear
now common to the variety stage. The
show was presented as IA parlor enter
tainment.
\. learned scientist has recently been
investigating the effect of food. partic-
ularly vegetables. on the human char
acter. He finds that Il diet of carrots
ameliOrateS harShneSS of character and
reduces nervous irritability; peas create
fatty tissue and encourage iOyousneSs;
white turnipS have a depressing inliu-
encc. Cabbage is good for pulmonary
complaints, while lettuce acts as Il Sed-
ative upon the human frame. owing to
the opium contained in its milky juice.
At Trieste three experienced divers
are Just o engaged upon Il highly
interesting task. In 1911, Il terrible *,
plosion took place in the harbor there,
the causes of which have never been
explained. Much loss of life and prop.
erty was caused, and the Danae, Il
French frigate, was sunk. The divers
soon ascertained the position of the