The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-10-24
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Australia supplies 500, 100000 worth
at wool a year.
Armour approves Of his butchers
Joining a labor union.
Germany's annual consumption Of
beer works out at over tlirty-six gal.
Ions per head of population.
The Wisconsin dairy industry en-
ploys LOO hands at an annual cost
for wages Of nearly ST. 1000.
Experiments recently made have
demonstrated that the brain is suscep-
tible to peculiar influence from cleo.
tricity.
Two Of Dickens novels, "Oliver
Twist and "a Tale of Two Cities"
are running as serials in Partisan daily
papers.
There are forty-seven typewriter fac
tories reported to the census bureau,
with an annual product worth about
100000.
Russia will send her Siberian ex-
hibit to the worlds fair at st. Louis
through the agency of the East Chi
nese railroad.
Thirty-eight miles an hour was the
mean speed attained by the new tur-
bine destroyer VeloX during her pre-
llminary run at sea-
A woman in Newcastle-on-Tyne, q
sufferer from lupus for thirty years,
is said to have been cured by the ap-
plication of the X rays.
Farmers and fruit growers Of Cali
fornia are saving samples Of this years
crops for exhibition in the California
sections at the worlds fair of 1904.
The ascent Of the Wildstrubel has
been easier for Alpine tourists by the
erection Of a chalet at an altitude Of
0,750 feet by Herr Hildebrand Of Dres-
den.
Experiments in Dublin recently dem
onstrated to the satisfaction Of the
experimenters that bacteria could be
carried a great distance by the wind
despite a heavy rainfall.
By literally chasing it on to a sand
bank some Dee fishermen recently cap
tured a royal sturgeon weighing over
200 pounds and measuring 8 feet 3
inches in length and 4 feet in girth.
A meeting of the Women's Union Of
the Church Of England Temperance
society deplored the lot Of the 100000
women employed in drinking bars and
urged that barmaids be done away
with.
The census shows that there are six
ty-ive sewing machine factories in the
country, whose annual output is worth
S21,OO0,O 900. The business has multi
piled thirteenfold in the last forty
years.
A new material for table pads has
recently been placed upon the market.
It is made of asbestus cloth woven so
soft that it cannot injure the most
highly polished table, and it is abso-
lutely heat proof.
One hundred years Of age and totally
blind, Catharine Sgrisa has just been
released from an Austrian Jail, where
she had been imprisoned for selling
poison to a oma who wanted to
murder her husband.
The interior department has started
a free telegraph school under the aus
pieces Of the insular telegraph service
at San Juan, Porto Rico. The school
has twenty-five pupils, all girls, who
will be fitted for becoming operators in
the island.
The famous mosque Of Sultan Has
san at Cairo is to be completely re-
paired. The sum Of 100000 necessary
for the purpose has been furnished,
and a first installment has been paid
to the committee for the preservation
Of the monuments in Cairo.
M. ]. Thoulet has investigated the
constitution Of the ocean bed and finds
that the more deeply it is penetrated
the less the proportion Of slime and
the less calcareous matter. On the
other hand, the proportion Of sand and
pure clays increases with the depth.
What undoubtedly is the largest
known tree in the world has been dis
covered on the government reservation
far up in the Sierras in Fresno county,
!. Cal. Six feet from the ground it took a
line 154 feet 8 inches long to encircle
the tree, making it over ffty-one feet
in diameter.
Tintoretto's great masterpiece, "Par.
adise," in the Ducal palace at Venice,
+ suffered but slightly from the fall of
1 the st. Marks campanile. A little
careful work by the clever Italian re.
storers and the great painting will be,
} It is said, in as good condition as be.
.ore the nearby bell tower collapsed.
Whereas light Of various kinds is be-
!, ing advocated for the cure of various
germ diseases, DR.. A. T. King of New
, York holds that light aggravates ma
larial fever and that by keeping the
5 patient in a dark room the disease cal
be made less virulent, bright light evi
IDENTIFY being favorable to the growth
of the germs.
The London Express notes that Den
mark was ruled IS three generations
within the period of one week not long
! ago. On a Friday Prince caristian, sol
Of the crown prince. was Ehe regent
n on the next day the rown prince as
sumed the sway. and on the following
e Thursday Denmark was again ruled