The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-27
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Qlpu. 49, OiiN III eight
censos 100 III" number of liquor H.
by 422. ""S deem reduced
81 , nod arms of tile United States cove,..
people. ''p''S
The ministry is the only ono of +,o
ie'ihed professions that is NOT ovar
crowded. noI over
AT The burial of a South London NAV
MS SIX dogs draped in black followan
the cortege, ''IN loi'o"ed
The medical schools Of Nashville
lem" graduate more doctors tnan
those of Berlin. N""
a perfectly satisfactory artificial ont
peirla Is being made in England
uluef the Gcntzsch patents.
a London paper gives away I'M. co.
creI mat Irish women's live showIe
are wholly made in Scotland.
great Britain spends S~l12.5O0N&o y
year on the support of the Door. This
noes not INCLUDE, private charities.
eeamen on native river craft il, al.
ma get So a month, on seacoinp Cb;nosa-
vessels SS' They furnish their own
food.
~ requires th& labor of about 10000
W. men ana women for nine months
VI the year to harvest all the crops of
the world.
Inc French Grand Prix in SCULPTURE
provides the successful artist with
means of support for four years in
Rome or Athens.
Ihere are places in Asia and Africa
Where grass will not grow, and vet file
most beautiful flowers and shrubs
flourish in such places.
According to a recent census there
are upward of 600 Chinese in johann
hesburg of whom $50 are in business.
All are reported to do well.
Manitoba is the greatest wheat rails.
ing country in the world. 1t Yields
twenty-five bushels to the acre. North
Dakota yields only thirteen.
such has been the improvement in
engine boilers and fire boxes that the
power derived from a pound of coal to-
DAY IS nearly three times as great as
1t was fifty years ago. "
The bracelet which King Edward
wears on his left wrist is one of his
most cherished possessions. 1t. be,
longed originally to MaXimilian, the i'll
fated emperor of Mexico.
The oldest ship in the world, the
mail schooner Nigilant, running into
st. CroiX, French West Indies, al
though now under the French flag,
was built of Essex oak at Essex, Mass.
in 1902. 49, L..
In order to prevent the extinction OF
the chamois in the Swiss Alps a law
has been passed in Grisons, SwitZer
land, prohibiting the shooting Of cha
mois in the mountains. A real chamois
! skin is now worth 500.
! The Michigan university museum is
now in possession of a complete eXhib
it of Kirkland warblcrs-maIe, female
nest and egg-the only complete col
lection in the United States. This rar,
bird was discovered in 1871.
On Catamount hill, at Colerain, Mass.
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the site Of the first flag raised over
public school house in the Unites
States. The flag in question was. dis
played in May, 1912, from a log schoo
house which stood on the hill.
The queen of Italy, q daughter 0
Montenegro, is 4 splendid shot an!
uses the gun with as much skill an.
upct nc n INV n1o1n conrtCI, q n : TToT. tnv
of shooting has taken her as far mort
as Spitzbereen, where she played hav
O with reindeer and elder duck
Prime Minister Seldom of New ZeG
land announces that the goverllmer
proposes to buy meat in the. colon
and ship it direct to the United kinl
dom, where depots for it's sale at cos
turing centers. The purpose is to driv
out competitors.
The common contagious. diseases til
causes of which are still unknown al
scarlet fever, measles, chicken POI
yellow fever and hydrophobia.. On
difficulty in experimental research fc
the organisms which cause scarlet II
fSE, yellow IcNtl ullO IICdSiS ID t1td
animals are not susceptible to them.
A normal child at two years of as
should weigh tWenty-SiN and a hal
pounds. \ greater weight is not ey
dence of health, but the reverse, an
the amount of fats and sugars given
should be lessened. Its height Shout
be thirty-two and a half inches, an
the circumference of both its head an
its chest should be nineteen inches.
The grip bacillus is the smallest ID
crobe yet discovered which affec1
man. 1t is but ~ of 4 micron broa
and two to three times as long. I'll
limit to visibility with the most powe
full microscope is o. of a micro1
which is the size of the microbe Of tt
pe~ripneu.aonia Of cattle; o. is n OF
hundred and twenty-five t~houSandtl