The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-09-08
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One-third of the area of the United
States is stin public land.
The Cunard Steamship company is
fitting its entire fleet with the subma-
rine signal bells.
Official figures show that only twenty
persons in Great Britain have Incomes
exceeding S250,0O0 IL year.
"A full mail,' as carried by.a big At
lantic liner, averages 100000 letters
and 300 sacks of newspapers.
In some of the cantons of Switzer-
land all the dead, rich as we'll as poor,
are buried at the public expense.
Only 66 per cent of the Russian peas
ants who till the soil in the department
Of Moscow are able to keep horses.
The Japanese nightingale. or Picking
robin, is becoming naturalized In the
parks of London, where some were re-
leased recently.
The authorities Of Nordhadsen, Sax
ony, have forbidden the use Of the
streets to any person wearing an arti-
Gle of dress that sweeps the pavement.
One Of the attractions at the Palace
theater, London, is a dance in which
eight girls take part, lying fiat on their
backs and going through the motions
of a dance with their feet.
Five men have left England for
South Africa to demonstrate whether
white men can do the work Of Chinese
in the mines. Their Journey is the out
come OF a controversy between two
members of parliament.
At a recent meeting of Orient lodge,
knights OF Honor, at Holyoke the
anne Of a Woman was proposed for
membership amid wild cheers from the
members present. This is thought to
be the first case of it's kind in the his
tory of the order.
1t is said that the importation Of dia-
monds into this country has increased
so per cent during the last ten years.
The customs official who inspects all
the stones taken through the port Of
New York says that the Increase Is
bound to continue.
A Savoyard shepherd named yachat
entered a barn near Vaucluse and
found a COW in the act of chewing up
his savings, which, consisting of $3.50
in bank notes, had been hidden in a
corner Of the barn. Only two notes
for SIS remained uneaten.
MI. Wilson, the junior surgeon on the
Discovery during Captain Scott's u
arctic expedition, states that the taste
for alcoholic drinks dropped suddenly
when he and his colleagues entered the
ice region and that the dissemination
increased as time went on.
Thirty years ago hawkweed first up.
pearcd in Strong, Me. 1t had a bright
pretty flower and was much cherished
for that reason. 1t has a downy seed,
which is scattered by the wind, and
now the Towering plant of thirty years
ago is Il noNious weed for forty miles
around.
There are about $4,000 persons en-
ployed in the watch factories Of Swift.
zerland, not including several thou.
sand engaged in the "house Industry"
There are 627 factories, 21S of which
manufacture complete watches, 200
cases and the rest dials,. crystals,
hands. springs, jewels, etc.
While Maine is said to be the easiest
state i'll New England in which to OBJ
tain Il divorce, things are different
across the line in New Brunswick. The
ties which bound two couples were sew
cred. at the last term Of court at Fred
ericton after the cases had been under
judicial consideration for six years.
Three brothers were welded to three
sisters and a sister of the brothers to
a brother Of the three sisters at Dur
rem, near Thoune, ILL.,, recently. Bride
and bridegroom in each case were of
the anne age. varying from nineteen
years TO twenty-eight. They stood in q
row at the altar and answered the
questions together.
The sawmills at Machias, Me, and
those up the river at Whitneyyille. have
been in operation something like 40
years. In that time there have been
sawed. acc ording to conservative esti-
mates. 3.O32, 100000 feet Of lumber,
and now the same ground from which
this timber has been cut is worth more
per acre as timber land than it aver
was.
Chicago enjoys the distinction Of be-
ing the only city in the world in which
over LOO fire alarm boxes are to be
found In an area covering one square
mile. This is the case in the stockyarl
district, where q hundred watchmen
are employed. The boxes are 80 close
together that q Waterman Is never
more than a hundred feet from one
while on duty.
The famous throne of Delhi 10 to be
restored, for Lord Curzon has written
to the British ambassador at Rome to
send him the best man who can work
In hard stones. He has succeeded in
securing one of the greatest Florentino
artists, and the work begun by Ital-
fans three centuries " will now bs
cont nued IN accordance with the de-
sign originally planned.
The freezing system is to be adopted
in the construction Of the new tube
railroad FOR parfa at tho nnint whArA