The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-05-08
FACTS IN FEW LINES

feSuNluS, the famous Italian vOlca.
no. is 3,94S feet high.
Next to Liverpool Bremen is now the
leading cotton market of Europe.
Scotland shipped 11,279,422 tons Of
coal last year, constituting a record.
The growth of vegetarianism in the
United States is gradual, but persistent
In engine propelled cycles British
makers ear claim pre-eminence of the
world.
Fifty million gallons Of petroleum
were produced in Burma and Assam
last year. =:
The Roman Catholic nuns in the
world are alleged by a statistician to
number 45S,OOO. 1
The tight fitting British uniform is
alleged to be the aus of much heart
disease among soldiers.
Within twenty years the south has
increased it's railway mileage 1872 per
cent and it's exports 95 per cent.
The hicentenary of the founding of
st. Petersburg by Peter the Great in
1703 will be celebrated this year
Two sections Of the city Of York,
England, have a public house to every
thirty males over seventeen years of
age.
One hundred and seven thousand
tons Of peanuts We're bought at Mar
settles in 1902 for use in making olive
oil soap.
The Homestead mills produce, with
about 1000 men, three times as much
stool 90 t1n r,1r,, r>,J,o -~al,,aa it'll
$1,000 men.
hat the a engine, large or small,
Is now developed to an efficiency at
which it can rival the steam engine in
reliability is admitted.
A link with Ireland's literary history
Of the last century has been severed by
the death Of the wife Of Colonel Rob-
ertson of the Gordon highlanders.
The Royal Geographical society has
recently acquired the boats compass
used by DR.. Livingstone on his first
journey down the Zambezi valley in
1856.
An English writer has recently de-
scribed Il %battleship as the last word
mechanical genius, naval construction
and cash payment can say in aggres-
%siveness.
Six employees of a Barrow eng
land) engineering firm have received
prizes ranging from SIS to $50 for sug-
gestions tending to the more econom-
ical production of work.
In the electrical furnaces now in use
quartz is volatilized at relatively low
temperatures, and lime and magnesia
become vapor before the highest EN-
perature possible is reached.
During practice at st. Helena's fort,
Isle of Wight, ut a lowed target a shot
ricochetted from the sea and struck the
passing steamship Serbistan close to
three men standing on the deck.
Out Of 10000 children whom the
surgeon ut Leeds, England, has exam
ined as to their fitness for factory la
Dor $4,000 were found to be rickety in
consequence of improper feeding when
babies.
The British government recently ap-
pointed unpaid vice consuls in four
large towns in France, where such
posts have not hitherto existed, and
found in each case well qualified Brit |
ish residents willing to undertake the
! duties.
The total value of the exports of
animal products in 1902 was about
$3,OOO,OOO greater thar the like export
OF the previous year, but there was a
decrease of nearly $S,OOO,O 900 il the
value Of cattle exported. This was
due to the sharp demand for beef cat
tie in this country.
The nearest star, whose distances as
tronomers think they know, is Alpha
Centaur, and it is distant from us foul
light years-that is to say, it's light is
four years in reaching us, although
travelling at 10000 miles a second.
This estimate places it $4,000 times
as far away as the sun.
The national trades and labor con-
gress of Canada has issued an appeal
to organized labor to join with it in adj
vancing the interests Of Canadian la
Dor. The congress is a new body, re-
sulting from the action of the Domin- ,
ion trades congress In favoring inter
national as against national unions.
The governments of German cities
were prior to the law of 1892. which
Bismarck championed, VIGOROUSLY cor
rupt through spoils Of politics, but are
today the models of efficiency and hon
esty. The prominent features of the
law for their deliverance are home
rule, compulsory service Of the citi-
zens in municipal affairs, long tenure
of Office and civil service.