The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-09-19
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Ferns from the woods are best fol
the garden.
Every year salmon becomes scarcea
In Scotch rivers.
An epidemic of scarlet fever has
been traced to tame pigeons In Cincin
natl
Gray has been decided on by the
kaiser as the color of the German ar
my war uniform.
The Detroit river is the outlet Of the
greatest bodies of fresh water in the
world, aggregating $1,000 square miles
of lake surface.
Ajaccio, In Corsica. the birthplace OF
Napoleon, has a new telephone serv.
Ice. At present its subscribers are
three In number.
The population of the entire Austria.
Ian commonwealth is but a few thou.
sand greater than that of New York
cty-yiz, 3,775.12S.
The electrical police ambulance aft
CT a severe test has been placed In reg.
ular service by the police commission.
ers of Hartford, Conn.
During a recent cyclone at Karachi,
British India, trains were stopped by
the force Of the wind, which blew at
the rate of 100 miles an hour.
Singapore possesses a curiosity In
the shape of a Chinese dwarf who is
barely forty inches in height and is en-
dowed with a fine gray beard
Enough coal was produced in the
| United States last year to give three
and a half tons to every one of the
100000 men, women and children
IN the country.
The great feet of sailing vessels
which for more than a century has
been going out from Gloucester, Mass,
Is destined to give place to steam
propelled fishing boats.
A L.. Rotch, who has been studying
the German scientific methods of OBJ
serrauons in the upper air, says that
everywhere he found the Blue hill kite
had been adopted by the German OBJ
servers.
Ore OF the most important industries
attaching to the cheap power now pro-
duced by Niagara is the electrical tear
ing apart of the moIecuie of common
salt resulting in the formation of
caustic soda and bleaching powder.
On the Pacific coast are found nu
merous little shells of sea snails of d
species called the ~''olivella" because of
their resemblance to olives, out Of
which the Indians used to cut disks
that were extensively used for coins.
OF the silks used in the United States
S26,0O0,000 worth are imported and
S107,0OO,D00 worth homemade. The do
nestle silk industry employs 24,O0G
men, $4,000 women and 5000 children
Ia 4s3 mills, with sS1,00o.00o capital.
Many steampipe explosions are due
to water hammer action. A plug Of
water only six inches long propelled
only TWO feet under a pressure of ff-
teen pounds can exert a pressure OF
6,400 pounds on being suddenly stop
ped.
Colorado is a great honey producing
state, One Colorado apiarist keeps his
bees busy collecting honey all the year
round by turning them loose in his
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winter shipping them to a plantation
in Florida.
A peasant Toman at Salcine-des-Sus,
Roumania, has just died at the age Of
LII years, the figures being fully sub
stantiated by documents in the pos
session Of her family. For the past ten
years h had lived entirely on milk,
being toothless.
The leading swine raising states are,
in their order, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri,
Nebraska. Indiana and Kansas. Iowa.
with 9,7233,79 has 1871 per cent of all
the hogs in the United States, and they
constitute nearly one-ffth Of TIE
wealth of the state.
Garrick's villa, at Hampton, is to be
demolished to make way for a tram
way extension. The granite posts at
the entrance to the house. where Da-
V1d Garrick. the actor, resided for
years. were originally part Of the foun-
dations of old London bridge.
A Kansas City woman who made
some shirts for her husband a few days
ago mad a discovery that was curl
u to her. In a woman's waist the |
right half of the front buttons over |
the left half. In a mans shirt, open |
In front, the left half buttons we the |
right half.
A petition of Berlin land and house |
owners against the new elevated cleo |
trio railway on the ground that ito |
CHATTER deprecated their property by /
driving away tenants has found no IA |
vor with the president of police. He
says that Berliners will get accus.
toned to the innovation.
The flag that was first raised over |
Fort Donelson, Tenn, after it's surren. |
to General Grant, on Feb. 16, 1862,
has been presented to the state Of Col
orado as an addition to the collection
Of war relics In the capitol. 1t is made
of bunting. 8 by 10 feet in size, and
shows b effects of much use.
Belgian cities are liable for all dam
age done to private property by riot
ers, and Brussels has accordingly been
ordered by the court to pay $4,000 for