The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-07
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A movement Is spreading through
Wales for the recognition of st. Da-
vid's day as "A public holiday.
An lnglishwoman a few years ago
invented a button hook for gloves
which is now worth $1,000 a year to
her.
BY a judgment of the supreme court
of Pretoria the old Boer law forbidding
natives in the Transvaal to acquire
land has been annulled.
The Swiss police are being trained In
the London model. The chief, who re-
Gently visited England, was much i'm
pressed BY police methods there.
The kaiser is getting worried about
the color Of the German uniform again.
He is now trying to see whether blue
or black would not be better than the
light gray.
The students Of Stanford university
will buy a magnificent bronze vase,
which will be placed on the marble
steps of the Stanford mausoleum, and
every day, year in and year out, kept
full of fresh flowers.
Railroads in Africa are approaching
the heart of the continent from the
INongo Oh the west, from Cairo on the
north, from Cape Town and Lorenzo
Marques on the south and into Ugan-
da and .Abyssinia on the east.
In the old %churchyard at Kilkeel,
Ireland, is Il tombstone With the fol
lowing inscription: "Here lie the re-
mains of Thomas Nicholas, who died
in Philadelphia in March, 1853. Had
he lived he would have been buried
here"
a Stanford university faculty colony
is to lie started at Carmel-by-the-Sea,
southern California. Among those who
will build summer homes there are
President Jordan, Professors Gilbert,
Stillman, Fish. Pierce, Merino, Gilmore
and Cannon and Mrs. w. A. Kimball.
Mrs. Lucy Seymour of Great Bar
rington, Mass. has a hen which lays
eggs With a rough shell. The letters NJ
and W are plainly noticeable on each
egg. Every time this remarkable hen
lays an egg it pecks on the window I'M
u NILS. oCJ ulOul HOCS Oul OUu fClS l4C
egg.
The house marking the official center
Of population of the United States, near
Columbus, Ind, owned and occupied by
Henry Mari, was unroofed by a recent
windstorm. This house has marked the
center of population since the last cen
| sus and has been an object of great in
terest.
Henry *. Bradbury Of Hollis, Me-,
| who recently died after practicing law
for over half a century, is said to have
had the distinction of being graduated
from Bowdoin college at a younger age
than any other of it's alumni. He n
graduated at seventeen in the famous
class of IA.
An %uncounted treasury bill for f1OO,
dated 1T45, was presented to the Bank
Of England the other day. 1t is genu-
inc, and it is believed that it was issued
at 3 per CEN compound interest. That
makes its present value $13O,O00. The
treasury has not yet paid it, but the
general opinion seems to be that 1t will
have to do SO.
When the italian cruiser Umbria en-
tered the harbor of San Jose de Guata-
mala the other day she fired a salute.
A burning wad from one of her guns
dropped Oh the roof Of the government
building and set fire to it. The crew
was ordered ashore and assisted in q
hard fight, which resulted in saving
most of the buildings.
China has recently issued an edict
prohibiting, except in the treaty ports,
the sale Of metal trimmed %spectacles.
Tan shoes are also tabooed, and any
one dealing in them renders himself H.
able to dec%apitation. This latter dras-
tic regulation is due to the fact that
yellow is there the imperial color, to be
worn by none save members Of the
royal family.
At the Austrian court articles are
v permitted to appear a second
time at the royal table, but become the
perquisites of the servants. The I'M
corked bottles of probably the choicest
of wines go to one, the joints to anoth-
er, the liquors left in the glasses to
another, and so IN, q sale of the dain-
ties being held in the lower regions Of
the palace every morning.
The gold production of Australasia
in 1904 was 4,194,s22 fine ounces, val
ued at $50, 76O, 900. against 4,296,237
fine ounces, of a value of $SS.S57 500,
in 1903. There is thus a decrease Of
1O1,415 fine unces in quantity and 3d.
097,5O0 in value in 1904. The falling
off has been principally in Western
Australia, where a decrease of S1,571
ounees occurred. and in Queensland,
where the decrease was 1920 ounces.
Japan has named her big battleships
after great mountains and the small
war vessels from some we'll known
natural features of the country. 1t
may also be mentioned that at the end
of the name of every japanese ship is
either the termination kan or ma
ru.' Kan" means war vessels and is
applied. of course. only to the emper-