The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-06-26
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Ihe limit OF a soldiers credit at the
canteen was 20 per cent of his pay.
Americans are making an effort to
establish a steel plant at Flushing,
Holland.
b proportion of policemen to popu-
latlon Is one to 307 in Paris, one to 4OS
m London and one to 45S in New York.
American tourists annually spend
abroad an average of SIS, 600, 1000, and
foreign tourists leave about $50, 900. 900
here.
Goose quill pens and drying powders
are still used in English law courts and
the house of lords and in the French
chamber Of deputies.
Ihe editor of a weekly newspaper in
Australia offers himself as a prize to
the woman who writes the best essay
on the duties Of a wife.
Andrew Carnegie has given 100000
In cash to the Western Reserve univer-
s1ty of Cleveland, O., the money to be
used in b training of librarians.
In England the annual consumption
of southern fruit amounts to fifteen
pounds per head. In Germany it aver
ages not quite three pounds per head.
The average passenger haul on steam
railways has increased from twenty
three to twenty-seven miles since cleo
trical lines have been competing for
suburban business.
The botanical papers report that De
Vries, the great Dutch experimental
evolutionist, has by long continued
selection produced a variety Of clover
which has normally -four leaves.
OF the 140 steamships now in Nor
CAMS combine, operated as the Inter
national Mercantile Marine company,
but ten were built in America and but
twelve carry the American flag.
Two black oak chairs said to have
belonged to Mary, queen OF. Scots, ana
to have been rescued when Hawley's
Dragons set fire to Linlithgow palace
were sold in London recently for 1920
each.
OF the five new battle ships author
lied by congress the three 10000 ton
vessels will be named Vermont, Kan.
sas and Minnesota, and the two 10000
ton vessels will be named Mississippi
and Idaho.
Successful experiments have been
made in generating electricity to light
railway trains by placing a fan on the
front end of the locomotive. The pres,
sure Of the air revolves the fan and
produces the power.
The Monterey (MeNico) steel plant,
with a capital of about $4,0OO,oOO gold,
in which several wealthy Americans
are largely interested, started working
on the list of March. 1t is expected to
produce 300 tons a day.
There are 1000 varieties of postage
stamps in circulation today, all OF
which awe to be identified by the
postmasters. There have been upward
of 10000 different varieties issued since
stamps came into use.
A medal has been struck by the Ger
man Samaritan union in honor of Pro.
fessor Won Esmarch's eightieth birth
day. This medal will be awarded to
those who have distinguished them
selves in the service of the sick.
The marine cable industry was con-
fronted by a scarcity OF gutta percha,
which is used to incase the wires, until
a tree producing it was found on the
Amazon. Now it has been discovered
In abundance in German New Guinea.
AS the result of the official inquiry
into the collapse Of the campanile at
Venice it is declared that the case of
the disaster was the cutting Of a trench
without the adoption Of precautions.
The report censures the district archi-
tects.
The Automotor Journal, London, de.
scribes a new traction engine called
the "pedrail. which literally walks up
stairs with the stride and SURE footed
ness of an elephant and hauls loads
far in excess of those the wheeled trac-
ton engine a move.
-Four hundred and fifty acres of land
have been obtained at Blairgowrie,
Perthshire, Scotland, to enable Scottish
peasants to try the Irish scheme of
small holdings, but without aid from
taxation. Fruit growing and fowl rear
Ing are to be insisted IN.
The deaths from pneumonia per 10,-
600 Of population in 1860 were 40: in
1870. 1924; in 1880. 1858; in 1890,
1884; in 1900, 1878, IN aggregate in
rease of 349.6 per cent Of pneumonia
as compared with an aggregate de.
crease Of 1915 per cent of consumption.
The Elgin dairy report says in speak
ing of the Lawrence-Kennedy milking
machine, a New Zealand invention, s
far as the experience of users has gone
the results are Of such a satisfactory
nature as to justify the belief that at
length the mechanical mixer has ar
rived"
An interesting feature of the applica-
ton of electricity on shipboard is the
so called Schotten telegraph, or bulk
head telegraphy. In the moment of
danpar n a1,Sad nv a collision This tele-