The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-09-05
FACTS IN FEW LINES

A German inventor is now spinning
yarn from peat.
Class and ehinaware made in the
United States are becoming popular in
Bio Janeiro.
London bridge, when wiGened, win
be lighted from the center and not
from TIE sides
The New York board Of health has
established a department for Pasteur
treatment free.
Japan has given q Frankfurt mar an
order for i've machines for printing
and perforaung posEage stamps
The most expensive and roomiest
railway station in the world is that of
| the Peninsular railway at Bombay.
On the date at which the census was
taken there was $50. 9 worth Of
poultry on foot in the United States
By the burning of a British petro-
leum ship on the Bitter lakes the Suez
canal was recently blocked for three
days
Thirty directors of the chief British
railways have seats in the house Of
lords and forty-nine in the house Of
COMMONS.
Pablo Neumann, q naturalist, has
discovered the remains of a myIodon
OF huge grinder teeth fossil sloth neal
Terra del Fuego.
Bya majority of sixty-one the French
chamber adopted q motion, extending
the period for which deputies are elect
ed from four 10 six years.
Paris. according to the latest census
returns, has 8 population of 2,650,O0o
persons. OF whom over 100000 are Ell
the- foreigners or provincials.
a number OF Viennese ladies have
started q dress reform league. with the
object of suppressing the corset and
Introducing . new kind of divided skirt
There is q man in Havant, England,
who. having been completely bald from
.he day of his birth. has now started a
kae crop OF hair at the mature age Of
n~ineIy-Iwo-
The Union veterans of German birth
are 10 raise a fund for a monument to
General Friedrich Wilhelm Won Steu-
ben of the American Revolution TO be
erected in Washington
a motor omnibus may now be seen
plying in London streets. The vehicle
is run as an experiment by the Road
Car company between Hammersmith
roadway and oxford circus.
Experiments with petroleum for fuel
are being made by the Norwegian navy.
OF the refined Oil imported annually
into Norway 100000 worth comes
from America and S99, 600 from Russia.
a gold plate which Charles Bona
parte pawned in order to pay the tray-
cling expenses of his son, Napoleon, to
the military school at Brienne has been
placed in the town museum at Ajaccio.
Subsequent to a recently promulgated
law a youth of France of any height
above five feet, if he weighs 100
pounds, is liable to CONSUMPTION. Pre-,
yously the minimum height was 5 feet
2 inches.
Smallpox in the United States, as Of
dciaily reported from Dec. Is, 1901, to
March 81, 1902, reaches a total of a.
1874 cases, with 7os deaths. The total
for the same period in 1901 was 11,496
cases, with $40 deaths.
Germany's oldest army veteran has
Just celebrated his one hundredth birth
day at his home near Osnabruck. He
is a master builder named Wellmayer
and Joined the Thirteenth Westpha.
ham infantry regiment in 1922
ALI the tenants Of the Paris new8
paper kiosks have been personally
warned by the police commissioners CT
the respective districts against expos
ing for sale any journal CT publication
which may be personally offensive to
King Edward.
To secure prompt dispatch Of bust.
ness the japanese war Office has done
away with the chairs used by the jun
Tor officials of the accountants de-
partment as well as those provided in
the waiting rooms. The result is stat.
ed to be most successful.
The Turkish navy consists of eight
cen cruisers Of from 1000 to 5000 tons,
twelve coast defense ships. six gun
boats and tw~enty-six torpedo boats, but
every one Of them is useless except q
few small gunboats stationed at diff
ferent ports along the coast.
Among the treasures preserved at the
residence of the Earl Of Clarendon Is
the original gilt key Of Hyde park. sent
by Queen Anne to Lord Chancellor
Clarendon to give him at all times adj
mission to the parks of London-a
relic of singular historical interest