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

IL CeulS u uiN anu the highest Skilled
laborer 90 cents for Il twelve hour day.
A statue of General Nicholson. the
mutiny hero, has been unveiled at
Delhi by Lord Mimic. he viceroy of
India.
In western Kansas there is Il little
hamlet called Paradise. while in Mis-
souri, a little burg goes by the name
of Hades.
Billiards was brought into fashion by
Louis XIV. of France in the seven
teenth century because his doctor or
dered him to take exercise after his
meals.
A wine merchant of Edingen found
guilty by the courts of adulteration
was punished by having his stock of
1900 gallons of wine poured into the
river Neckar.
The sultan of Turkey is said to pos
sess a fire screen 200 years old made
from the tanned skins of twelve faith
full slaves who rescued a former sultan
from a blazing palace at the cost OF
their own lives.
Lord Strathcona stated at the annual
meeting of the Hudson Bay company
In London recently that forty years ago
the compauy's lands in Canada could
not have been sold for a cent AN acre.
Now the average price an acre is 5000.
WorkmeD making repairs on the
Methodist church in Rockville, Conn,
found at the top of one of the two
lowers a very large birds nest inside
a column. The nest had apparently
accommodated as many as 100 birds at
a time.
The deepest lake in the world is be
lieved to be Lake Baikal, in Siberia.
Nine thousand square miles in area, or
nearly as large as Lake Erie, it is
1000 to 5000 feet deep, so that it con-
tains nearly as much water as Lake
Superior.
the red dye produced from the glands
of the mature food of a tree named
Malicious philiipinensis. The tree is
also called the monkey face tree,'' be
cause monkeys paint their faces red by
rubbing them with the fruit.
Five dollars was given the hatters in
a Bethel Comm factory by one of the
workmen in order that his shopmates
might celebrate his marriage. Instead
of spending the money for beer and
clans, as was expected, the men voted
to spend 81 for ice cream and 81 for
lady fingers.
The Ark is at Indian Neck, Conn. 1t
To n chf, L.-, ,,1 +1o -a~,,;.,- % 4lo
! Jenny Lind of Sag Harbor, which was
, wrecked near where the Ark is now.
AT the time the vessel was some forty
feet from Shore. but the shore grew to
the. aship, which now serves the puf=.
| pose of a restaurant.
Mark 1'wain's famous sketch, How
l. Became Editor of an Agricultural
Paris theater. The adaptor and transs
lator, NJ. Timmory, is credited by a
critic with having succeeded in trans
ferring to the stage Mark Twain's
humor without losing its SAVIOR.
A memorial to the Anglo-Irish poet,
James Clarence Mangan, is to be erect
ed in Stephens green, Dublin. Oliver
IL. IL. SA., udS Gu NCu III ma
bic a beautiful head for the memorial.
The head will be set into a pedestal
| eight and Il half feet high, and in this
pedestal will be placed the heroic bust
of the poet in bronze.
The Cape to Cairo railway has reach
ed a point in Africa 374 miles north
| of Victoria falls and 2,O1G miles from
Cape Town. The 2S1 miles from Kolomo
to Broken Hill We're constructed in 546
days. On ninety-nine days, however,
NJ work was done, so that the rails
were actually laid at the rate of over
a mile a day. From 5000 to 5000 n a
tives are constantly employed and
about $50 whites.
Nicholas Pullman, a nephew Of the
late George NJ. Pullman, has filed his
first citizenship papers, despite the fact
that he was born in Chicago. Mr..
Pullman has spent many years at Hell
delberg and Paris, and when he re-
turned to this country in May the au-
thorities Informed him that he was not
a citizen of the United States. Mr..
Pullman proposes to take the case to
the supreme court.
A quiet restaurant has been opened
In New York, says the Press, where a
telephone is placed upon each of the
thirty-ive tables, the latter numbered
con%secutively. You enter hurriedly and
want to be served instantly. No wait
er in sight. You run over the bill of
fare, select your meal, pick up the
phone and talk to an orderly in the
Kitchen. Hello! This is table No. 2!
In a great hurry. Order at once a
small sirloln steak with mushrooms!
Some caulitiower! A baked potato and
olives; Romano salad! Small cup of
hot black coffee!!' "Al right, sir; No.
q Coming righta lnngl"