The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-12-18
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Kanaas City alone bas sJ36y0Gtc IL
Tested il Mexico.
Tsttoo.ag is D9w doo@ WITH z rsedls
driven by electricity.
IL New Yprk city scbroEs 100 Grill
dren have tsacboraz.
TIE typewriter IS more largely uaea
in Mexico titan IN Francs
! More than one-t1Iird Of the inbsb.t-
ants Of St Louis are 81 German bsood
Tie United States imports ot tropscaI
and seicitropic2I fruits sLln.O,0 q
day
IL Swiea bricks are laid in ZERO
weather by heating the sand for the
uorta-.
The density Or relative population G.
Cuba Ia Eseariy The sape ss that If II,
Cn!ted States.
Thirysereu per cent Of the Anert-
car people uow sive in cities If NOR
than 400 Inhabitants.
Panama ranks ffth in population
and seTenth in area among the states
Of the Colombian republic
The Ioogest telephone wirc span in
the world is 3.2C0 feet from pole to
pole. spanning the SnsgueEanna at
Lancaster. Pa
4 child Of fYe should weigh forty
n pounds. BE- forty-oue and one-haif
inches In height and have q chest girth
Of t~Eenty-three and oue-haIf inches.
A small fraction OK an ounce Of radi-
Urn. properly employed. would provide
q good light sufficient for several OH
and would not require renewal during
the present century.
The bashi-bazguGs are guerr!Iias from
Asia Minor. are transported by the
Turkish government ~ scene Of trCu-
bic aEl are then expected 10 MAKE their
own living from loot.
/ TT" German state gives TO oDc uni
yeTGi'T 0 than the British govern
EeEt allowrg to all the universities and
university colleges in England, ireland
and Scotland together.
IN she absence Of !.or=as both a psoy7
and Il moEe were usod. tied behind
biz automobile. by SIr. Itaser. an Ohio
farmer. The machine Was geared too
fast 10 give IL" bf=.t results.
White farm labor Is producing an in
creasing proportion Of cotton, and tie
dictum that the negro is absolutely IN
dispensab!e for cotton culture is fast
becoming a WORKOUT tradition.
alaIImite. the composition Of which
Is Il government secret. is about three
timea as powerful as ordinary gun
powder and is a powdcry substance.
melted by heat and poured INTO d shell
While one con tencmcnts in London
have decreased from 1882 to i4J.J24.
or IA per cent, three room and four
room tcncncnts have increased 10 per
cent, IS per cent and 81 per cent re-
spectiyely.
Some flowers appear 10 change their
scents at different times. The common
Jasmine flowers. when first opened
have Il delicate fresh perfume which
after a time becomes grosser and at-
tracts b%lucbottIe flies.
Advance reports indicate that the re
turns OF the recent census Of the Phil
lppines, when tabulated. will show a
population Of 100000. exclusive Of
the wild tribes Of the mountains, which
are estimated at less than a million.
The coal handling machinery at a
Boston wharf recently lowered the
worlds record by raising Goa! from a
steamer ninety feet to storage pockets
at the rate of 32O tons an hour. The
capacity Of the shovel was two tong.
The thin coat OF black oxide left on
Iron after rolling is the most permanent
form Of iron oxide. and a slight amount
or rust does not prevent paint from adj
herring TO iron. Therefore the theory
that iron must be cleaned to a white
surface by sand blast or otherwise DO.
ore painting seems untcnable.
The Prussian war department finds
that in every 200 young men arriving
at the age OF military duty seventeen
are suffering from heart disease. Strick-
Ter. who has been studying the subject,
declares that the cause of the great
prevalence is the increasing d~egencracy
and nervousness Of the youth Of the
land.
me German empress has expressed
tn" desire that for the future all piccca
Intended for representation at the court
t!en'cr shall be submitted to her first.
30 That nothing may be played Of
Doubtful morality or likely to shock
III" audience. Her majesty reserves
the right Of vctoing any play she may
choose.
The most wonderful bird nigll, noted
~ lhr migratory achievement Of the
Virginia plovcr, which leaves its north.
ern liauntS in North America and, TAX. |
Ing n course down the Atlantic, usual- |
~ from 400 to 800 miles east of the
BcrululaS. reaches the coast of Brazil
in one ~unbrokcn fight Of fifteen hours.
covering n distance of 1920 miles at
the rate Of four miles a minute.
Tho great state universities make fine
acquiring nf IN education possible 10
any boy or girl who has sufficient alnbi-
ton 10 apply il. Excluding the charges |
for fptlIlirnl and prpfaCciona ,l,,,r, |