The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-04-20

st Anthony is claimed to have lived
daily diet of twelve ounces of bread
and water.
Joseph Nix, the Wesleyan reforrner.
took 3,S45 signatures to the pledge in
a nine days gospel temperance meet
Ing recently held in Bradford, Eng
land.
Australia lis emulating the United
States in wholesale and wanton de-
struction of animal and bird life. Pot
hunters are exterminating the famous
black swan.
From the Chinese point of view the
Oldest book is Thea best. There are no
six best sellers in China. A book I'M
der a thousand years old is read by no
self respecting man.
Arabians when they meet a friend
shake hands six or eight times. Once
is not enough. However, should they
be persons of distinction they embrace
and kiss one another several times aud
also kiss their own hands.
Cardinal Wolsey is given a surpris-
ingly immediate connection with the
present time by the report from Eng
land that a fine old tree in Bushey
park said to have been planted by him
was uprooted by a recent gale.
Adansonia, a species Of tropical tree
found in Africa, is one of the largest
trees in the world, its trunk attaining
a diameter of more than twenty feet.
Some OF these trees by a vague means
of estimate have been declared to be
5000 years old.
The coffee crop of Sumatra has be-
come almost equal to that of Java. The
latter island Is smaller, but much more
populous, n it had a long start in
coffee before the plantations in Suma-
ira began to cut any figure in the
worlds supply.
In the PruSsian army the command
ers of fourteen regiments are ONE
and, although the position is purely
formal, yet these female colonies enjoy
like military rank with the male hold
ers of the title and on occasion wear
the uniform of their Office.
Few wild animals are left in New
Zealand. The government takes good
care of The remnant and seeks to add
new varieties. Among lacent importa-
lions are chamois from the Austrian
Alps, which ought to flourish in the
mountains Of New Zealand.
The famous Willamette meteorite has
been sold to a New York scientist.
who will present it to the American
Museum Of Natural History in New
Work 0ffv Tho nri0o inoid woo COO G00
which Is said to be the highest price
ever given for a meteorite.
Probably the British law will be
changed SO as to allow trades unions
to bank money up to any amount in
the postotfice savings bank, as is now
permitted to friendly societies. In the
case of ordinary depositors interest Is
not allowed on more than $1,000.
The board of trade Of Portland, Me-,
has taken up the matter of establishing
a regular apple line between that port
and Liverpool. 1t is claimed that the
only reason that Portland does not
lead in apple shipments is the inability
Of the steamers to carry the great
Maine crop.
An oyster dredger recently put into
commission by a New Haven irm is
twice as large as any other oyster
steamer in the world, being capable Of
carrying from 5000 to 10000 bushels
Of shells on her deck. There are six
sdredges on board, whereas the ordi-
nary steamer operates only two.
The recent visit of the Prince of
Wales to Burma has attracted notice
to the wonderfully rapid growth in size
and prosperity of Rangun during the
last twenty years. Then 1t had a popu-
lation of only 10000, whereas today it
has nearly 100000 and a trade inferior
only to that of Calcutta and Bombay.
Esperanto, the world" language, got
Senior Pujala Wales into deep trouble.
He wrote in Esperanto a series of arti-
cles on "Home Rule For Catalonia" for
an English paper. The translation Of
the article which reached Madrid gave
the title as Independence For Catalo-
MA" The authors prompt flight alone
saved him from twenty years in prison.
William Pattison, who was appoint
ed chief constable Of Scarborough,
England, in 1865, and whose death was
recently announced, declared on taking
up his duties that he would make the
town so clear of crime that he could
hang his watch on a lamp post and it
would not be molested. The night after
this boast some one stole the postoface
clock.
Trade in human skeletons, which is
a regular business with certain houses, |
is most active in September, when the
medical schools and colleges open for
the year. While some skeletons are OBJ
tanned in this country, the great bulk /
Of the supply m from Bavaria, and !!
the price rules high or low as the death !
rate in that country moves up or
down.
It Is remarked with surprise that the
labor members of parliament are not
large men nor are they apparently es-
pecially robust. T. p. O'Connor, writ