The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-09-19
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up the system.
Magazine rifles will be issued shortly
TO the Moorish army.
French submarines will in future be
manned by volunteers only.
The wife of the governor Of New
Borneo has a baby rh.noceros for a pet.
There are. but nine subscribers to the
postof6ce telephone ia Swansea, Wales.
The Russian consul at Salonika has
suddenly resigned his appointment to
enter a monastery.
Beetles in the East and West Indies
are so brilliant in coloring that they
are beautiful as gems.
The volume Of the worlds commerce
Is two and a half or three times as
great as it was thirty years ago.
Antwerp town council has opened a
servants Of both sexes to obtain en-
ployment.
Efforts are being made to establish
a university at Jerusalem for the Jew
ish students expelled from European
universities.
A4ISA doAAhS SOLpOldA WIZ Auu
Ill treated them eight German cavalry
men have deserted to France and en-
listed in the foreign legion.
Its neck broken by a passing train,
a fine dog otter weighing twenty-one
pounds was picked up recently at Cal
gate, near Leicester, England.
Within the last fifty years 1874 S9
= norcorc ~ ro y, r,o toll fvo,oE Co,,o+-
Mayo, Ireland-nearly as many as in
habit the county at the present time.
w. j. Ryan, a blind man in Milwau-
kee, has invented a writing frame
with wire lines to enable blind per-
sons to write with evenness and sym
metry.
OF ninety-three emperors who gov.
erned the whole or a large part of the
Roman empire sixty-two were muir
dered or died under suspicious circum-
stances.
Orders for some 10000 tons of ar
NOR plate for the new war vessels King
Edward VII, Commonwealth. and Do
minion have been shared by three Shelf
field firms.
Finding a niEe leaved shamrock, a
farm laborer at Groningen, Holland,
sent it to Queen Wilhelmina, who ac-
cepted the gift and rewarded the donor
with f2 Is. Sd.
President Roosevelt has appointed a
man to look after the remnant of buf-
faloes now remaining in this country
and to prevent that animal from be-
coming extinct.
Pineapples grow so plentifully in
Natal at certain seasons that it is not
worth while carting them to market,
and they are often given to the pigs
In consequence.
Inspectors of the Bristol (England)
factory district have figured out that
more than 5000 miles of machine made
cigarettes are turned out weekly from
the districts aforesaid.
Probably the smallest village in the
United Kingdom is Bagley Wood, about
three and a half miles from Abingdon.
1t was formerly the abode Of a hermit
and has only foul inhabitants now.
Jonathan Hutchinson's allegation
years ago that the prolonged use Of
arsenic gave rise to callosities on the
palms and soles which in certain cases
turned to cancer are said to have been
confirmed.
Betting on the results of the recent
municipal elections at Rome was per.
mitted by the government. The wager
ing was conducted IN the parimutuel
system, and the profits were devoted
to charitable purposes.
The authorities in Cape Colony have
made an enactment %forbidding the
| practice of medicine to all foreign ply
sicians in whose home countries a SIM
ilar privilege is not accorded to resi-
dent practitioners in Cape Colony.
!, Within the last two years two new
words, with many others, have been
introduced into the English language.
Communicating" a polite word for
, theft, and 'morganeering," the lega!
acquisition of the property of others.
While demolishing an ancient church
at Lalinde, near Perigueux, France.
some workmen found an egg apparent
: ly in a perfect state Of preservation
Embedded in the mortar of a wall that
had been standing for fully 800 years.
The smallest state in Brazil is Ser
gipe, with an area Of 1915 square
miles and a population Of 100000, most
ly a mixture Of Portuguese, negroes
and Indians. 1t is purely an agri.
cultural state, yet there is an almost
: entire Lack Of agricultural implements
! There are 257,O06 names in the new
y city directory OF Boston, an increase
( of 4,722 over the number last year
Surprisingly, the John Sullivans this
: year outnumber the John Smiths
e three to one, but there are no indica.
tons that the Smiths are in danger
. of extinction.
Five Of the twenty fellowships re
Gently awarded in the department o.
philosophy, University Of Pennsyl
vania, We're given to women. Most O
) these fellowshfps carry with them al
D income during the academic year O.
v $500 and free tuition, with an add