The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-04-16
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SIGNATURES in lead pencil have been
held good in law.
Doctors are of the opinion that the
left leg is usually stronger than the
right.
The consumption of soap in lndia
only reaches the modest amount OF one
ounce per head annually.
Professor Crookes, in a letter to the
London Times. says he is inclined to re-
gard telepathy as in possession OF the
scientific field.
Vaccination has just been introduced
into Afghanistan by the advice OF MISS
Hamilton. an English physician. VINO Is
in attendance upon the Ameer.
A free circulating library for the
blind. with books printed in raised let
tiers, has been started in Rome by some
charitable women, encouraged by the
Queen.
Australia could be made to support
40O,OOOO,OOO inhabitants of the black or
yellow races. able to endure the Gil
mate. The present population is only
100000.
Isaac keenan,, a colored man under
life sentence in the Baltimore penlten-
tiary, sent S5 to the city marshal to be
used in aiding the distressed poor OF
the city.
In France hospitals for infectious dis
eases are furnished with telephones. so
that the sick may converse with their
friends without danger of communicate
ing disease.
A canary owned by Baltimore mu-
sician is said to sing at a signal from
him, given on the violin, the "POpag-
ano' from Mozart's Magic Flute" He
has had the bird two years.
There was large increase last year
IN the farm produce imported into Eng
land. The increase in butter alone is
estimated at over a million sterling,
and of cheese at quarter Of that sum.
1t is stated that the recent loan of
S5,000,OOO made to the Brazilian Gov
ernment by the new French bank es-
tablished at Rio de Janiero was made
at the rather unusual rate Of s per cent.
per annum.
West Virginias S Supreme Court hay
ing affirmed a decision under the State
law requiring all oleomargarine sold
there to be colored pink, the matter, it
is said, is likely to be carried to the
Federal court.
One of an order of rat traps which a
Christian County, Kentucky, farmer
ordered from neighboring city reach
ed him with half a dozen rats in it,
which it was supposed had been caught
at some station.
A few years ago 100000 bronze
2-cent pieces were set atloat Three mill
ion Of these are still outstanding. Three
million 3-cent nickel pieces are scatter
ed over the United States, but it is
very rarely that one is seen.
An unusual report came from Etowah
County, Alabama, when the records of
the United States Marshal of that dis
trict for 1896 were made up. 1t appear
ed that not a moonshner had been dis
lul DNu ClIclt Ille y cuI.
In speaking Of a performance of
"Hamlet"i in North Carolina town. the
critic of the local newspaper remarked:
''The plot of the play and the history
upon which it is based is too we'll
known to need any description at this
late day
A project is on foot for the construc-
ton of new railway across the Alps.
1t is announced that group of capital
lists in Piedmont have memorialiZed the
italian Government for permission to
construct a railway crossing the great
st. Bernard.
A New York paper has figured up the
cost of inaugurating a President, and
makes the total sum more than $2.5OO,-
600. OF this amount of money all but 6
per cent. is computed as being spent by
sightseers in transportation and in ex-
penSes to Washington.
The willy Japanese are invading the
Indian market with manufactured art-
cles fraudulently labeled 'U. S. A."
There is large supply of waterbury
clocks all made at Osaka, and Bel
mont sperm candles" protesting to
come from New York, are common.
The largest bog in Ireland is the bog
of Allen, which stretches across the
center Of the island east of the Shan
non, and covers nearly 100000 acres.
there are nearly 100000
acres of bog in Ireland-that is to say,
about one-seventh of the total area of
the country is bog.
Next to gold and diamonds, wool is
the most important of South African
exports. and upon its value in the Euro
pean and American markets colonial
pastoral prosperity or adversely closely
depends. Wool-growing in South Afri-
ca has been almost contemporaneous
with British occupation.
A Kentucky paper has discovered
that so far as the tax assessors books
show there are in its county only
twelve diamonds, a very few pianos of
a very cheap character, and $lOO worth
of paintings, and it ''can't understand