The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-08-28
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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of her old stockings.
Women only are now to be employed
as officials in the Roumanian prisons
for females.
The receipts from passenger traffic
are greater on Japan's railways than
those from freight.
1t is expected that telegraphic COM
munication with Fashoda will be es-
tablished very shortly.
According to the monks Of the Hos
pice of st. Bernard. the famous dogs
save OH an average twenty lives every
year in the mountain.
President Loubet has authorized the
Paris Museum of Natural History to
accept NJ. Boullet's collection Of but
t~ert1ies, which is valued at $4,000.
London is the birthplace Of the Young
Mems Christian association, and, al
though it celebrated some eight years
e its semicentennial, it has not be-
come languid.
Illinois ranks first among the state.
in the manufacture of agricultural i'm
plements, bicycles, cars, glucose and
distilled liquors and in Strengthening
and meat packing.
n. D. Richmond points out that it is
quite fallacious to endeavor to test the
acidity of milk with litmus paper, since
1t is possible to condemn all fresh milk
as the result of applying that test.
In the case of the French ship which
went ashore on the Goodwins evidence
given in the admiralty court showed
that by means Of one short wireless
message property to the amount of
S272.940 was saved.
Ok tail soup. now regarded as a M
tional English dish, was first made by
the very poor among Huguenotrefugees
from France. after the revocation Of
/ the edict Of Nantes. because OK tails
then had nc market value.
The debts of most southern states di-
minish slowly, but the debts of south
ern cities are not generally considera-
| BILE. New Orleans owes $751; 900.
Louisville $4,000, 900, Kansas City &c.
| 600. 900, Memphis S3,3OO,OOO. Atlanta
100000 and Nashville $500, OOO.
In the Irish house of lords, now the
board room of the directors of the Bank
of Ireland. are on view two great
wooden chests, strongly bound in iron.
which are believed to have contained
the money with which King William
III. paid his troops after the battle Of
the Boyne.
An association Of prominent men has
been organized in England to force par
lament to create a royal commission
which shall investigate the question of
feeding England in time Of war. The
association advocates the old idea of
establishing great %granaries to hold a
reserve supply of food.
John Eliot's Indian Bible of 1865 was
! on exhibition at the woman's board
meeting in Boston, having been loaned
by the town of Natick, by which it is
owned. The book is in an excellent
state of preservation. Two other
one in Connecticut, the other in Eu-
rope.
The bubonic plague, which has now
been in India more than six years,
shows no sign of abating. There have
been yer $4,000 deaths a week from
the plague for some time past. One
week the numbeI reached 20,G47. 1t is
calculated that since 1896 over 2,O0O,-
600 people have died in India from the
plague.
The irrigation works recommended
by the geological survey give interest
to the report IN the irrigation works
Of India. The net revenue to the gov
eminent was 1856 per cent on an outlay
of $11O,OQ0.000 The value of the crops
raised on the irrigated area during the
year is estimated at $135.O0O .OO0-a
SUN in excess Of the capital outlay.
Speaking Of freight rates. DR.. LIE
Monnier. privy counselor Of Germany,
said in a recent lecture that the aver
age freight charge in the United States
was exactly one-half that of the Ger
man state railroads. The charge for
wheat from Chicago to New York is
but one-fourth as much as hat from
Bomberg to the Rhine, a distance half
as great.
A leper was exhibited at a lecture to
an audience Of Chicago university stu
dents the other day. DR.. James Nevins
Hyde, the lecturer, said that leprosy is
not dangerously contagious, that it is
durable and that it is gradually disap-
pearing from all countries. He does
not believe that any drug capable of
curing leprosy will ever be discovered.
Cleanliness and good food. be asserted,
are the surest and best remedies.
The Canadian government has issued
q census bulletin which gives statistics
as to agriculture in Alberta, Assiniboia
and Saskatchewan, which united com.
pose theN Northwest Territories. The TO-
tai area of these territories is 100, 9C3,.
1T acres. Of this area 1899 per cent
is unipproved.. Field crops, exclusive
Of hay, occupy 53 per cen Of the i'm
proved land. but only a fair beginning
has been made with fruit trees anG
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