The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-10-31
FACTS IN FEW LINES

A copyrigls, law has been promui-
gated in Siam.
Basel has the only geological garden
in Switzerland.
Lacemaking is declining as an in
dustry in Belgium.
Antwerp is about to spend $1,4Oo,Ooo
On the construction of new docks.
Several cab drivers have been fined
In johannesburg for driving coolies as
fares.
In meridinal Russia people gain a
~remunerative living by fishing for
leeches.
o. ]. Bodley of Richmond lays claim
to the title of champion ~cornhusker OF
Kansas.
The sonokoto, a board, bridges and
strings, is the representative instru-
ment of Japan.
Snowstorms and hail have ruined the
crops in many of the agricultural dis
tricts in France.
Because of a disagreement with his
congregation, Denmark's chief rabbi
uiS IeSlSIleu LIS Charge.
Bubonic plague has appeared among
the kangaroos in the geological gar
dens at Sydney, N. S. w.
eff you can't raise 10 cents, raise
whiskers," is a sign in a barber shop
in a certain Indiana town.
A portion of the cone of Mount Vesu-
Vius has fallen in, and precautions
are being taken against possible land
slides.
President Loubet granted pardons to
or reduced the sentences of 900 French
criminals in honor of his recent visit
to Russia.
1t is estimated that more than a mil
lion pineapples are used every year III
this country by confectioners and can,
dy makers.
Automobile stage lines have been es.
tablished, OF are to be established, in
many states, according to information
in the Motor Age.
The famous Angel hotel, Islington,
London, is being demolished and will
be replaced by an up to date structure
with granite front.
Canadian boards Of trade and manu-
f~acturers are sending resolutions to
the Dominion government requesting
a revision Of the tariff.
The steady Increase in the price of
the necessities of life has become a
very serious matter to the poorer citi-
zens of Sydney, N. S. W.
A storm recently tore down the
breakwater at Civita Vecchia, the sea.
port of Rome, for a length of 600 feet
and completely blocked the entrance
to the harbor.
Great Britain's house Of commons
is turning more than ever into a club
house. 1t has already restaurants and
bars, and an attempt is being made
now to introduce billiard tables.
Large orders for coal and rails for
the Danish state railways, which have
hitherto gone to Germany, will this
year probably be given to English
firms, says the London Daily Mail.
Abraham Eisler, recently admitted
into the Budapest workhouse (alms-
house,, has for fifty-four years carried
a bullet in his head which he received
while fighting in the Austrian rebellion.
Because Manchester England cotton
operatives have decreased 20 per cent
in number within the last few years,
while men engaged have trebled in
number, Manchester is no longer
as Cottonopolis.
Some one has calculated that if a
man made $500 every day beginning
with the year 1 and continuing to the
present day, consuming none of his
earnings, he would just about have as
much al MI. Rockefeller has today.
The London Chronicle says hat the
word "loafer' anne from a Spanish
word and that we got it via Mexico,
as we did "galoot;' but the Century
Dictionary says it from the
and originally meant a per-
son who wandered.
Cats have been known to "mother''
chickens, but it is somewhat rare to
lind a dog displaying similar tenden-
cies. Fritz, an intelligent terrier in q
suburban family, was observed to
adopt a half grown brood of chickens
that had been left to scratch for them
by the mother hen.
There are said to be thousands OF
people who make comfortable livings
IN London by buying or manufacturing
which are later pledged with
paWnbrokers, who advance more than
the goods are worth. 1t is hard to be-
lieve a pawnbroker so green, but Pear.
sons Weekly vouches for the fact.
About twenty p~ickpockets, some OF
them with London experience, have
managed to make their way to 10.
says the London Daily
Mail. London experience has about
it an dir Of superciliousness that will
jar on the sensibilities of tile cracks
men on this side Of the big wetness.
The United States department of ag
now has well equipped labo
ratories for the investigation of the
diseases Of plants in Washington city,
Florida and California. There are
fifty experiment stations where
plant diseases are studied, and in per.