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

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be worth about 100000.
England's imports of meat for 1902
to date have decreased 6 per cent.
Over 720 tons of flowers were export,
ed from the Scilly isles last season.
The number of pieces of separately
assessed real estate in New York is
476,640 this year.
Few Of the people in st. Pierre were
pure black. and most of them showed
only a trace of colored blood.
An Austrian iron trust was formed
recently, and Hungarian and Bosnia
firms have been asked to join.
The mosquito eggs are, it is said,
hatched in from four to seven days, &C
cording to the warmth of the weather.
For a rare patterned silver %halfpenny
Zone cent piece f1O los. Ia little over
$3.50 was paid recently to a London
firm.
Battersea England town councillors
have a plngpong table in their council
chamber and play sets between
speeches.
Joseph Andreszswerownitzka is the
name of a young Polish girl that ar
rived in Philadelphia from Liverpool
recently.
Arrangements are being made to
carry on a parcel service in connection
with the municipal tramways in Hall
fax, England.
Some timber built houses are as good
now as when they were built 200 years
ago, said a witness in a London police
court recently.
Southern Minnesota's present pros
perity is said to be due to the many
creameries, which have made it the
t'butter state" Of the Union.
A government expedition has found
a Mexican cactus known as "dry whis-
KY" for the reason that the leaves,
when eaten, cause in~toxication.
A party of British agriculturists is
visiting Berlin, there to study ma
chimes. artificial produce, etc, con-
trolled by the minister of agriculture.
Evanston, ILL.,, has a scissors guild
composed Of boys and girls, who clip
pictures and notices in their leisure
hours and send them to sick children.
For using the word '.archduke' on
the stage at Vienna and thereby In.
fringing a police regulation Fraulein
Frisch, a German actress, has been
fined SO.
Enough coal was produced in the
United States last year to gire three
and a half tons to every one of the
100000 men, women and children
in the country.
Before the Siberian railway was
available a trip from London to Shang.
hal cost from 1925 to S475. Now it can
be made for from S65, third class, to
s1e0, first class.
The first stamped envelopes were is
in 1853 of the two denominations
3 and 6 cents, and it was not until
two years later that the ten cent en-.
was added.
70 save expense the French govern
ment has set its soldiers the work OF
tearing down the ele%ctioneering posters
that now deface practically every
boarding IN France.
The great feet of sailing vessels
which for more than q century has
been going out from Gloucester, Mass,
Is destined to give place to steam pro-
fishing boats.
Hemp is by far the most valuable
of the Philippine archipel-
ago, the province Of AIbay being the
greatest producer of it, with an output
valued at nearly S5,0 ,OGO a year.
Incitatus, the famous horse of the
Emperor Caligula, was actual
ly consecrated as a priest, had a man.
ger Of pure ivory and was never given
drink from anything but a gold pail
The lake built steamship Asuncion,
went to the Pacific coast a year
ago, has been sold to the Standard
Oil company for $95, 900 and will carry
oil in bulk between Ventura and San
The druggists of Philadelphia have
organized for the incorporation of a
stock company, capitalized at $500, 900,
to and manage retail drug stores.
They expect to ultimately control 200
stores in the city and state.
Hailstones nearly three pounds in
weight fell during a recent storm at
Jessore, in Bengal. Metal veranda
roofs were perforated, cattle manned,
trees beaten down and a man killed
outright by the downfall
The umbrella and Darasol were used
by the eastern nations many centuries
before the Christian era. the oldest
chinaware shows pictures of ladies and
mandarins shaded by parasols Of pat
terms similar to those now in use.
You cannot swear at or abuse any
body in the Japanese language. The
worst you can say Of anybody is that
he is a fellow" and if you want to
express your very, very pointed indig-
nation you shout. "There, there!'
Thirty years ago the census dfscov-
cred but four ice plants in the coun-
try, all of them in the south. In 1900
the number had increased to 1877, not
including firms that made ice for them
selves, and not more than half of them
are in the south.
The election "barker'' is peculiar to
French soil. At critical moments in q