The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-09-28

waiting twenty-five years for ii.
Tile Chinese WIN eat anything tf1Hti
comes out OF the scat All, thelAshrsa
are good to their IL "a mi -are cnughtl
with great skill. Seaweeds are USED To
.thieken9 soups ana gravies. g4 VI
Ii required t%hirty-one pairs of horses
to drag a big bowlder in Camden. Me.
The rock is to be used as a monument
to William Conway. 1t stands six feet
high and weighs twenty tons.
Christian LANCER, a Danish lifeboat
man who has just died at Harboe,
Jntland, at the age of eighty-three,
saved over 500 persons from drown
ing during the last forty-eight years.
A movement for the purpose having
been set on foot by the Italian poet,
Gabrielle dAnnunzio, q monument is.
to be erected to the poet Ovid at Sui
bona, the ancient Sulmo of Samnium.
Caught in a schoolhouse in New Jer-
sey. where he was heating water for a
bath, a tramp worked several difficult
| problems in algebra, showing himself
! to be an unusual tramp in many ways.
A trades union in New York voted a
gift of So to a Young Mems Christian
association because it had transformed
a brother timer from an unreliable
drunkard into a sober and efficient
workman.
The American Tract society has vot-
ed to contribute $4,000 worth Of pub
LEGATIONS to aid in replacing the Sun
day school libraries which were de-
stroyed in the various churches of San
Francisco.
In Alsace and the German part of
Lorraine many families send their
children over the French frontier to
buy meat. They can get it for 3 or
4 cents a pound less than they are
charged in Germany, and there is no
duty on small quantities.
Twelve of the leading women of
Ridgebury, Conn.,, turned out in a
company to paint the new fence which
! surrounds the cemetery. The men
having built it with lumber purchased
by the women baked at painting in
midsummer, with the seasons haying
to be done.
A series of lectures on the Religions
Of the World' will be delivered at
Hartford Theological seminary next
year. The first course will be given
by II of the most distinguished schol-
airs Of the Church of England, Pro
fessor Frank B.. Jevons Of Durham
university, England.
A marriage bill introduced in the last
session Of the British parliament al
lows the marriage of q seaman to take
place by license in the diocese of the
port where his ship is lying, if he has
1 been resident for fifteen days on the
ship or partly on the ship and partly
on shore within the diocese.
One of the largest smoky quartz
crystals in the world is in the posses
sion of r. S. Bauer of Lynn, Mass.
The crystal came from Japan. 1t is
perfect in shape, stands eighteen
! inches high and is about fifteen inches
in diameter. In color it is a very dark
gray, shading, into a black, with veins
Of clearest transparent white crystal.
"I'm the only man in the world who
can sing a song standing on my head
in a bucket of water said James Col
lier when charged with vagrancy in
the police court Of Grimsby, England,
the other day. He was discharged on
leaving did a gurgling solo for the ben
eft Of and to the admiration of the po-
lice.
Thomas Power O'Connor, member of
the English parliament, who is ia
miliarly known in literary circles as
"Tay Pay went to London to start
in life with no other capital than
pluck and a good education. In ap-
pearance he is described as tall and
well built, with iron gray hair and
good features, and has a smile that is
the essence of geniality.
The oldest Zulu-indeed he Is declar-
ed to be the oldest la in the world
is Stuurman, a bushman who lives on
the top of a hill at Stuur1nan's Puts, in
l46 wears old, and his wife-his second
is said to have passed her one hun
dredth year. 1t is known for certain
that sixty-live years ago be vas a very
old man and that his son is over
ninety.
More than 100000 pieces of mail
went astray in the United States last
year because they were not directed
even we'll enough for the experts to de
cipher the names and addresses. Mil
lions of this immense total went to the
dead letter office, where a lot of 1t was
opened, the addresses Of the writer's
a~scertained and the letters or packages
returned, but IN a good many cases
the writer's address is never found and
the letter is really dead"
Thirty years ago Jeremiah Moore Of
Lakewood, Me, heard of the then Won
derful moving machine and bought
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