The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1902-10-03
FACTS Inv FEW LINES

cost from $500 to $500 an acre.
The appropriation for the care of
Grants tomb for 1902 is 5000.
Paper Irvine stockings at 3 cents a
pair are the latest thing in hosiery.
There were 3,516 immigrants refused
admission to the United States last
year.
OF all the newspapers published in
she world 6S per cent are in the Eng
ksh language.
Russia will throw open the peninsula
extending into the Siberian sea to pros
pect for gold in April.
Rock salt is mined and prepared for
use in the states of New York, Kansas,
Louisiana and California.
The per capita consumption of spirits
In the United States is smaller than in
any other of the great nations.
Europe has five reigning princes who
are over eighty years old and nine 9TH
ers who are more than seventy.
A Kansas man has celebrated two
silver weddings, having lived twenty
five years with each Of his two wives.
A sugar company In Hawaii will get
an average OF five tons Of sugar per
acre for its whole tract Of 1900 acres.
By the use of a process invented at
Bridgeport, Conn, wooden doors are
being ~electroplated with copper o.
brass.
The Yucatan mahogany and logwood
forests are to be exploited by a COM
pany which will build 275 miles Of
railway.
Russia has planned a deep canal
from Riga, on the Baltic, to Kherson,
on the Black sea, near the mouth of
the Dnieper.
Isaac S. Taylor Of st. Louis proposes
to make midair observations in a bal
loon of the construction work on the
worlds fair site in that city.
A wine cask which holds $1,000 gal
Ions and is the largest ever built may
be seen at Maltermoro, Cal. The steel
hoops around it weigh 10000 pounds.
The increase in population in Venice
has been not less than $4,000 during
the last twenty-five years. During the
last ten years it has been nearly 1900.
When Johns Hopkins left his great
fortune in Baltimore and Ohio stocks
for the university that bears his name,
the stock was worth almost $500 a
share. 1t afterward fell to about SIS.
There are in the leper home in Lou
tsiana thirty-siX inmates nineteen
males and seventeen females. Five
sisters of charity nurse these unfortu.
mates. The leper colony is a state in.
stitution.
France, with upward of 40, 100000 of
population, has but one really large
city, Paris, with 2,715,OOO Inhabitants.
The two next largest are Marseilles,
with 494, 1853, and Lyons, with 453, PAS
Inhabitants.
In a recent book Of travels in China
special point is made of the general
honesty Of the people, as illustrated by
the numerous stalls and shops that are
left to look after themselves without
danger Of theft.
California leads the country in the
development of electrical power from
water. She has the three largest pow.
er transmission lines in the world.
The first successful experiment in that
line in this country was made in Pc
mona in 1891.
Hungary hopes to be able to raise
cotton, although the warm season il
only five months long and the plant
requires seven months to ripen. The
difficulty is to be overcome by special
preparation of the seed and by adding
certain ingredients to the soil.
Since its doors were thrown open O,
Oct. l, 1897, there has been a daily AZ
erage Of 1900 visitors to the Congress
sional library, making an aggregate
with the omission of Sundays ard "cc
ular holidays Of 676, 600 persons from
all parts Of the country whose itp.
have trod it's tessellated corriI :.
1t is said that in France 81 GW,."F
picture postcards pass through ii,
postofices annually. That cou.l.r,
takes the lead Of all others. Austria
Hungary coming next, with 81, OOO, UOG
The total in circulation throughout tn.
world in n year is said by experts
to be 1890, 600, 900.
st. Louis has a peculiar sect in 1he
shape OF q community Of sand eaters,
composed Of seventy-fve men and wo-
men. The sand eaters take every day
a spoonful Of sand. They believe that
grit is necessary in every animal and
that many stomach troubles are duo
to the absence of grit in the stomach.
At Hanlon's heading, on the Colorado
river, just above the international line.
on the California side Of the river, 8
headgate is about to be constructed
which will make possible the irriga-
don of 100000 acres in California and
100000 acres in Lower California. It
lis expected that within two years this
whole area, which is now a desert, will
be brought into cultivation.
The Berlin electric tramway conduct.
ors, or "wattmen." as they are called
on the continent, are subject to special
ailments. One is an ophthalmia caused
BY the air current, another is an In
hammation of the knee due to ringina
the alarm bell, and a summer disease