The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-04-30
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All the mummy cats mummitied IN
Egyptian tombs have red hair.
The first Christian Endeavor society
ia Denmark was only recently organ
| lZed
A Newton. y. H. minister remarked.
Oh Il recent Sunday, that he would not
give "a cent word for noisy revival
| meetings.
The imperial opera management at
Vienna. in the hope of stopping Jeal-
ouSies among the stars. has just issued
new regulation, permitting no more
| than three recalls after the close of
acts except in the case of first nights
| and special engagements of foreign ar
| fists.
The Lend-a-Hand Society of Boston
| is preparing to celebrate the seventy
| fifth anniversary of the birthday of
Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale, on
Saturday, April 3, by presenting to
the Ten Times One Society the Hale
endowment fund of $4,000. Both So
cieties originated with DR.. Hale
y number of papers of interest to
Methodism have been discovered in
two boxes at the Wesleyan conference
office in London. Among them are for
ty-four letters of John Wesley to his
brother Charles. and eighty by Selma,
countess of Huntingdon. the founder
OF the sect known as the Countess of
Huntingdons Connection. written to
Charles Wesley.
Near Phoenix, Ari.. James Boyce
found a steel lance point that appears
to date long way back. Some of the
local antiquarianS refer it to the march
OF Coronado. A few inches of wood.
much decayed. remain attached to it,
lhe grain shows the wood to be live
oak. which is not found nearer Phoenix
than in Mexico, but was plentiful in
SPAIN
The present department store system
originated about forty years ago with
the great dry goods firm of Todd.
Burns Il Co, of Dublin. When A. 7.
Stewart revisited Ireland. about 1861,
he examined the innovation closely,
ana began to introduce some of the
features in his New York store. 1t was
John Wanamaker who first elaborated
them on an extensive scale.
Inc curious way word is manufac-
tufed is found in the history of the
word "demicked." AS a Yorksbireman
Will say. Them taters is demicked"
he means the potatoes are suffering
from some disease of the plant. Dem
lex comes from epidemic. When the
hfst potato blight came, half century
ago. the farmers heard it called an
epidemic" Thus new words are
coined.
Among the American manufactures
that are exported are barber chairs.
We send barber chairs to Mexico and
Central America, and American bar
Der chairs are sent also to the continent
OF Europe and to England. Barber
chairs in limited numbers have been
sent TO Europe for considerable time.
out the demand for them from that
'quarter is increasing.
y break in six-inch water main in
Salt Lake City, Utah. was found on
digging up the pipe to have been caused
by electrolysis, the iron in the main at
the break having been made so soft
by the action of the electric current
that 1t could be readily whitfield with a
knife The condition of the 124 miles
OF piping in the city is about to be fest
ed and report made by the city engi-
neer.
An old Russian lady, who was believ-
ed to have means. died a year ago al,
AJacclo, in Corsica. Nothing of value
however, could be found among her
neither money nor Jewels. and
two days later she was accordinplv
buried like a pauper at the public ex-
pense. The landlord subseouentlv
found behind the door of her room. in
a small, dirty linen bag. 1000 900
francs (s2Oo,oo0) in notes and gold.
The Masonic grand lodge of A1assa-
has decided to rebuild its fem
pie on the site it has occupied for thirty
years, at the corner of fremont and |
boylston streets, Boston. The temple |
was burned Sept I, 1895, and where to |
rebuild has since been a perpleSinp |
question, many Masons advising that
l less expensive site be chosen and the
Did site sold. expecting that it would
orlng enough to erect new and com
,ortable building.
There is excitement among Virginia
peanut dealers over the big jump in the
price of nuts. A 30 per cent. advance
IN account of the prospects for an un-
Usually short crop has occurred within
he past few days, and prices are still
Using. This is the first rise in the mar
let since the dissolution of the bie
rust six months ago. One-third of tho
present crop is now cornered in this
way, and the larger dealers are active
buying up all the stock they can Sc
ure. 1t is thought the prices will al
most reach those of $780, when the hest
trades held at cents per pound. They
re now 2A cents.
There ere rumors that the agents of
certain lottery company which was
lriven out OF Louisiana some wears apo
re now in Nayo1o