The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-09-18
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way.
Uncle Sans annual income is $685.
sS7,14S.
Russia has fifty-seven war ships at
Port Arthur.
Manitoba raised $500, 900 bushels OF
potatoes last year.
Florida's orange ard pineapple crop
is estimated at $2,50O,O00.
Our manufactures are now three
times as valuable as Great Britain's.
Rice is n of the most expensive of
the cereals and is deficient in protein.
Chile sells Germany $1S,OOO,OO worth
g year of nitrate of soda for use in fer
t~ilizers.
We buy from British India $26, $780,
600 a year, or eight times as much as
we sell that country.
British Columbia has produced $780,
72S,53S worth of gold and $685. S9, 572
worth of coal and coke.
The fly develops twelve or thirteen
broods every season and an average Of
12O eggs are laid for each brood.
Sicily is the home of sulphur. The
island exports 100000 tons a year, Of
which the United States gets one-third.
The postal receipts for the fiscal year
ending with June were 81, COS, 967, an
increase over the previous year of $780,
632.
Augustus c. Carey of Boston claims
to have operated a system Of wireless
telegraphy on the Marconi plan as early
as 1856.
The trust controlling the manufac-
ture of the salts of potash in Germany
has almost a world monopoly of that
business.
At Tokyo the Japanese postal author
tiles are considering the ACCESSIBILITY Of
purchasing motor cars for the convey
ance of mails.
The ~tluctuation of the light of Nova
Geminorum is often as much as half q
magnitude in twenty-four hours, like
that of Nova Persei No. 2.
In 1870 the German people barely ex-
ceeded 100000. in 1885 they had ris-
en- to nearly 100000 and in 1900 the
census return gave 56,345,O14.
Germany leads the world in the
chemical industries, notably aniline
~ 80 AAS Io.coc olstbltSlllIltlllS tlH-
ploy more than 100000 persons.
Harvard university is to have the ia
nous geological collection of Baron de
Beyet OF Brussels through the kindness
Of Mr.. Carnegie. It is rich in extinct
birds.
Mr.. Carnegie's gifts to countries other
than the United States are recorded to
the amount of $5,S61,35O, making Mr..
C~arnegie's total gift to libraries $44,-
36G,95O.
The German manufacturers of ma
chinery are loud in complaint of the
new tariff, which puts 3 to 5 per cent
on their product, while the tariff of the
United States is 45 per cent and the
new Austrian tariff is 20 per cent.
In the higher Cambridge local ex-
aminations the examiners report that
the chief stumbling block in arithmetic
was Il question on the speed of motor
cars. The sve varied from a few
yards to several million miles per hour.
Four hundred and fifty acres of lane
have been obtained in Blairgowrie to
enable Scottish peasants to try the
Irish scheme of small holdings, but
without aid from taxation. Fruit
growing and fow rearing are to be in
sisted on.
During its stay the scientific eXpedi-
ton to the Bahama islands under the
patronage of the Geographical society
Of Baltimore will give considerable at
tention to the verification of the claim
that Waiting island is the San Saliva
dor where Columbus first landed.
The French Society Of Musical Com
posers is reported to have decided to
take action against a number of gro
GERS who are using gramaphones as an
advertisement in their shops. The So
ciety maintains it has the right to
authors fees for the tunes played on
the instruments.
Every animal is said to have it's own
kind Of flea, sometimes several differ
ent kinds. Many thousand specimens
Of these feas have been gathered in the
unique museum of Charles Rothschild-
kept by DR.. Jordan at Tring Park, the
giant of this strange collection being a
mole flea a fifth Of an inch long.
In view Of the fact that chickens do
not suffer from tuberculosis DR.. Vi
guier de Mi!iane Of France tried to cul-
tivate the bacillus of consumption in
the serum of fowls blood and CON-
pletely failed. He is now experiment.
ing, with encouraging results, in the
use Of chicken serum as an antitoxin
for consumption.
Two students of Cornell university
have discovered that by using higher
temperature and electrical currents in
the refining of copper the cost, which
Is now SIS a ton, can be reduced by halt.
About $SO,OOO,O 900 worth Of cope is
refined in this country annually, and
$12, 900 worth Of silver and $4,000
900 worth Of gold are recovered there
from.
The large insurance companies now