The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1906-10-18
LITTLE ABOUT EVERYTHING.

LITTLE ABOUT EVERYTHING.
There are 1000 rivers In the British
empire.
Russia has eighty-six general hoii.
days In year.
Single eyeglasses are prohibited In
the German army.
There are 400 mineral waters bot.
tied In New York City.
A French soldier has been sentenced
to six months Imprisonment for pro-
family.
There are twenty -three football
teams In the Syrian Protestant College
at Beirut
Cossack tKosak) il a word Of Asiat.
ic origin. meaning a highwayman on
horseback.
Bolivia and siam-are the only C. II.
lied or semi .civili1.d powers without q
national debt.
There are 1880 boys and 4.059 girls
In the Industrial schools OF Great Brit
ain at present
For making 1000 cigarettes In
japanese factory n girl gets 8 sen,
equal 20 4 cents.
Cotton grows wild in Colombia, and
the natives are beginning to think seri-
ously OF cultir ating II.
In the pln sue districts Of South ~.
RIGA the government pays 9 cents ior
every dead rat delivered to IL.
A copy Of wycliffe's New Testament
which Is nearly 500 years old. was
sold recently In London for $3.50.
The Dominican government has voted
$4,000 annual subsidy for a steam.
ship fine from Montreal 20 Mexico.
A Swiss watchu .aker has invented
an electric watch which will run lor
fifteen gears with out being rewound.
The average life of horses in the
British cavalry Ia live years. The ar "
draft horses last half as long aga n.
Specimens OF pitchblende, which
have been expos ID In the meuseum ut
Vienna for 100 years, show radio ac-
tivip.
Chemulpo. tn e.port OF Seoul. the cap
ltal OF Korea, looks out over a v. IT
shallow bay. where the tide rises thlr.
~ feet.
Fresno Conniy, California. produces
10000 tons OF raisins yearly. The
profit on 'A,em ranges from S. to 500
an acre.
Missionaries isre at work In PAT OF
the walled citsaJ OF China. There are
still 800 wfal>d cities without mis-
siona ries.
A memorIas church 10 10 be erected
at Pretoria to. the soldiers OF the Pres
BE- terisn Chu:ssh who fell In the South
African war.
In Norway the.upper house has voted
almost unanimously 10 let women act
as attorneys nd advocates In the Nor.
wegian conrts.
Seven Germ an steamers recently re-
turned from Iceland TO the Germ IN
harbor OF esstemunde with 100000
pound, OF flslL
In. 1882 the deaths from typhoid fe-
yer In Paris were l42 per 100000 In.
haB .tants; to. day the proportion Is only
10 per 100000.
In Lapland. the crime which 10 pun.
is1ed most seyerely. next to murder,
IL. the marryf az o a girl against the
express wish 'of her parents.
The experIe nee gained In the use Of
pressed peat . locomotive fuel In Ba.
varia, Austria Sweden and Russia ls
stated to be = cry satisfactory.
The FiJlrin fossil coral Is the bst
bvilding stone In the world. Soft as
cheese when :ffxat cut. II hardens In the
air TO the constituency OF granite.
One OF the e. ,gine drivers on the
Paris MetropolIta u Railway IL the IN
Of a vice presldent Of the French 81 n
ate, who was foi umerly minister OF
finance.
or the s5.6oo,0o 1000 OF gold in the
world. the Uniteot States possesses
81. 800. o0o. 900. or ,early one-fourth.
Over one-fortieti OF China's popu-
iation of 400o0o0 % 10 slaves. Every
family Of means x ecps its girl slaves
Il being cheaper 10 sAbuy them than 70
hire them. - -