The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-07-08
FACTS IN FEW LINES

OF the so; newspapers printed In
Germany a per cent are in other Ian
guages.
Coal is dtater in South Africa than
in any oth..r part of the world. 1t is
cheapest ii China.
There is trouble over the new two
shilling EneliSh coin. AS it shows Bri-
tannia she has only one fool.
a copy of Poor Richards Ain mac"
printed in l1:*i. WAS sold at auction in
Philadelphia recently for $685..
A cargo of l4.uO Australian birds
has been taken 10 London by II
steamer. They We're sold at the dock
| to dealers.
In a recent case i'm Il Paris court II
was stated that the defendant. IA young
officer of Cavalry. had spent 100000
in five months.
Owing to the improved plague nut
look in Johannesburg some 5000 ma
tives who had been segregated at
Klipspruit camp have been allowed 10 i
re-enter the town.
Spruce gum is becoming scarce and
harder to get in the Maine woods, and
schoolgirls WHO chew that sort viii
have to pay more for it hereafter. The
gum now costs Sl.:;5 Il pound.
Thu Mount Vernon Ladies' associa- |
ton has received a valuable gift, an
original portrait of Washington by Gil
bert Stuart, presented by Mrs. Ida A.
Richardson. v~iceregent for Louisiana.
According To Professor Mosso people !
are able 10 live longer the more their
nerves are enfeebled. The less robust |
q person is, he points out, the ADLER he
is to resist the ravages of time and
disease.
Bay, n. y. which WAS built 22O years |
ago and which is 10Y run by Jesse
Mollineau. is to he demolished. The
building has not been changed since
the Revolution.
Including The higher officials London
has over 10000 persons on its police
force. A policcman's pay is at first
only Sc a week, rising to IS. Inspect
ors get $1,000 Il year. The commits
sioner's salary is $4,000.
The district of Guayaquil, in the re-
puDllC vi iLtIldNot. ieduS l4C NolI0 III
the production of cacao and has a lar.
ger output than the whole Of Africa,
which continent, however, is in many
parts we'll adapted for its culture.
A London postnaan stole stamps from
the letters he collected from boxes.
Finally stamps marked with invisible
sensitive ink We're posted for his bene-
fit. HI was caught with some of them
upon him, and they We're developer
in his presence.
In Algeria the grinding of corn is
considered Il mental employment and
! falls to the lot of women now as in
S%criptural times. h performs this
+, duty on a portable hand mill, which is
strapped Oh a camel or donkey, during
the nomadic tribal wanderings.
The pipe line from the Baku petro-
leum fields, on the Caspian sea, to Ba-
tum, on the Black sea, $50 miles, will
be completed during 1905 and will dou-
BILE the transportation facilities for oil.
A part of this line, 143 miles at the
eastern end, has been in operation for
several years.
According to a recent report of the
geological survey the total anthracite
production for 1903 was G6,351,7 13 tons.
The average price of $3.50 brought the
value up to 1852, 36,44S. The number
Of men employed to mine the output,
which amounted to 5000. 900 more tons
than in 1902, was 15O,4G3.
By q recent decision of the supreme
court Of Illinois against Chicago that
city will be called upon to eXpend from
81. 100000 to $6,O0O,0o0 in deferred
street paving, besides much more for
sewer, water pipe and other specia! as
sessment work. More than one hun
dred miles of streets are affected.
81 have not much doubt that the
French in a few years will be able to
supply themselves with cotton, princi-
pally, if not wholly, from their west
African POSSESSIONS says United
States Consul Strickland of Senegal.
An italian syndicate, with a capital of
100000, will foster cotton growing in
east Africa.
British automobilists are discarding
the words chauffeur" and garage"
for ''motorman" and motor house"
The former are too Frenchy. But, on
the other hand, ''motorlnan" in this
country is pre-empted by the street
railway. The Britons, however. will
call this an -Americanism and go on in
their insularity.
New York boasts Of some fair imita-
tons of the Tower of Babel. Such are
the Manhattan Life building. % sto-
ries, 34S feet: the ST. Paul building. 20
stories, 3OS feet. and the Park Row
building, 90 stories. 49, feet. Build
ings of from Is to 20 stories and $50 to
300 feet are such common incidents of
the landscape as scarcely to attract at
IGNITION.
In the Military college at Sofa a uni
versity student dressed as a peasant
was observed IN the college kitchen en-
%deavoring to empty the contents Of a
bottle into the dish that was being
cooked. He was arrested and confess
o1 that ho had hoan commissioned nv