The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-06-17
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Der of Japanese girls marry is between
twenty and twenty-one.
Andrew Carnegie has the best collec.
ton of autographs of crowned heads
and famous persons in contemporary
history.
The Tamarack copper mine, in the
Lake Superior region, is said to be the
deepest shaft in the world. 1t is now
down 1913 feet.
The production of steel ingots in Ha.
vre, France, in 1903 was 1,S54,62O tons
against 1,56S.303 tons in 1902, an in.
crease of 2S6.317 tons.
Growers of the famous Rockford
cantaloupe at Rock ford, Colo. repor,
an average net return of $3.50 an acre
for the season of 1903.
DIR. Cecilio Baez, the newly appoint
ed minister from Paraguay to the
United States, is the first minister that
country has had here in fifteen years.
For "a new variety of rhubarb it is
claimed that it not only fruits all the
year round. but that its flavor resem.
bles a combination of the raspberry
II strawberry.
The oldest brewer of lager beer in
the United States died in New York
recently at the age of eighty-four. He
was MaN Schaefer, and he learned the
brewers trade in Germany.
In an article on the eating of rats
and mice the London Medical Press as
serts that, apart from prejudice, there
is no particular reason why we should
not feed ON our domestic rodents
The gold dollar of the United States
is the monetary standard of Canada,
British Honduras and Colombia, and it
is anticipated that Mexico will attain
the gold standard, with the American
dollar as its unit, at AN early date.
DR.. Dawson Burns has published his
annual analysis of England's drink
bin. The total amount of the expendi-
ture on spirits, Wine and beer during
1902 was 1114,445,271, a decrease of
over ~to.O0O.OCO as compared with 1902.
Lake Baikal, the Holy sea-" is, e.
ceptins Victoria Nyanza, in Africa,
the largest lake in the eastern hemi-
sphere. 1t is 300 feet deep, it's bot
tom being LOGO feet below sea level
and in area corresponds to Lake Michi-
gan.
At NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., York.
shire, live John and Ellen Baxter. sup.
posed to be the Oldest married couple
in England. John is ninety-six years of
age. and his wife is ninety-eight. They
have been married seventy-five years
and have lived in one cottage over six.
ty years.
Eifty-three women have been regu.
larry ordained and are doing the full
work of ministers. Forty-five of the
tifty-three are married, although some
of them We're ordained before mar
riage. Most of them have independent
parishes, where they preach, make
pastoral visits, ofiiciate at marriages
and at funerals.
Hundreds of boys from the Denver
Juvenile court will be sent into the
sugar beet fields near Longmont, Colo,
to work this summer. The boys will be
sent out in parties of twenty-five each
in charge of a probation officer and
will be equipped with tents and camp
ing outfits. They can earn from $1.2C
to So per day each.
Rev. Thomas IL. Laslie, principal of
the public schools of Owensville, Ind.
believes in iogging. In one day re
Gently he whipped thirty-two boys
ranging i'll age from to fourteen
years. All the boys We're in one room
and the ioggings We're administered
only after the principal had been called
to that room three times to quell dis.
t%urbanceS.
A clever smuggling plan has come t.
light on the Dutch-Belgian frontier
where a farmer had some buildings
put up, part of which We're in the one
country and part III t,,.e other. The
customs officials, hearing strange
sounds, made a search and discovered
an underground passage for the lille
gal passing of cattle and pigs across
the frontier.
AT Il recent examination of young
men in England three of the answers
to the question. What is the Monroe
doctrine!' We're 1.-The religion of
America taught by DIR. Monroe on the
transmigration of souls The doc
trine that people may be married sew.
eral times" "One that has to do with
the vaccination and smallpox: it was
brought out by Professor Monroe
The adulteration of and use of in.
ferior materials in the making of can.
dy are beginning TO attract much at
tention in England. Professor Oostol
recently lectured on '.saccharoma
niacs." He expressed the opinion tina,
future scientists would place the evils
of sugar gluttony on u pedestal as con.
spicuous as the drink question, as caus
ing deterioration of individuals and
races.
Fruit growers i'll California complain
loudly of delays in getting their prod
ucts to the eastern markets and blame
the railroads for an insufficient supply
of cars. Oranges have beer so clleal
in the principal cities of the east thai
there is some question whether a more
rapid movement of citrus fruits to the
Atlantic seahoard and the Mississippi
valley would have bettered condition,
for the California growers.
The man in Thomaston. Me-, wht