The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-09-21
c IN FEW LINES

"A ldlCOn mas nUWn from Ionerlfe TO
A~ndalusia. $50 miles. in sixteen hours.
From 1906 TO 1858 Scottish bank
rupts were compelled to wear a sort OF
convict dress, half yellow, half brown.
A Winthrop (Me.) man celebrated
his ninety-tifth birthday the other day
by leaving off using tobacco in any
form. He had used it steadily for
eighty years.
The national Baptist convention, the
largest body of colored Baptists in
America, has decided to establish a
theological seminary of it's own. 1t al
ready has a large and prosperous pub
fishing house.
The largest and costliest building
thus far undertaken in New York, the
city of immense structures, is the
magnificent $10,O0O,OOO Episcopal Ca
thedral of st. John the Divine, now
being erected on Morningside heights.
Among the curiosities of church ar
chitecture in America may be men
toned the fact that in Santa Rosa,
Cal, is a church with q seating capac-
ity of 200 which is built entirely of
timber sawed out of a single redwood
tree.
The big elm tree known as the La
fayette elm, where Lafayette met his
New Hampshire soldiers in the Reyo-
luton, has been struck by lightning
and destroyed. The tree was more
than a hundred years old and was
planted by a patriotic citizen to mark
the spot where the great general re-
.ceived his greeting from Granite State
people.
There seems to be a pan-Islamic
propaganda movement afoot. Mushir
Hosein of Oudh and Abdul Kadir OF
Lahore, who have spent some time in
London, are now in Co%nstantinople.
and it is said they have been invited
by Sheik vi Islam, who is the Moslem
archbishop of Turkey, to confer with
Of Mohammedanism in Asia.
Relic hunters in New York have
whitfield up a dozen or more tables In
the Madison Square roof garden, think
ing they have secured pieces of the ia
! BILE at which Stanford White sat when
Harry Thaw shot him. The attendants
place a new table OF the correct spot
rs soon as its predecessor has been so
chopped up that it will not longer
stand. Chairs are going about as rap
idly.
The last of the estates of the late
Charles Stewart Parnell, which have
been in the Irish land courts since his
death, has been disposed Of by the sale
of houses situated in st. Stephens
Green, Dublin. The Avondale house
and demesne, the home Of Mr.. Parnell.
are now the property Of the govern
ment and are used as a school Of for
estry by the Irish department Of agri-
culture.
King Leopold of Belgium, on coming
out of the water after q bath at Bar
ritz, CHANGED to collide with a nan
who evidently did not know the king
In a bathing suit. what do you mean,
sir?" he snorted %savagely. BE more
careful! I would have you to know
that 1 am a member of the Paris city
%council!' "Then / offer a thousand
apologies replied Leopold at once. 81
am only the king of the Belgians."
Buenos Ayres has more newspapers
in different languages than any other
city of it's size in the world. The num-
Der of papers is about $50. Besides, Of
course, the "national" language, with
its wide Emergencies from Spanish,
there are papers published in Castilian,
in Catalan. in Italian, French, German
and English; in Basque, in Norwegian
and in Danish; in Arabic, Syrian, He
braic. Servian and in several dialects.
President Roosevelt has an account
at the Riggs National bank In Wash.
ington. The bookkeepers have no end
Of trouble keeping the presidents bal
ance straight, because so many people
who get checks from the president fail
to cash them, preferring to preserve
the checks as souvenirs. So many
persons arc willing to pay from 81 to
$40 for an uncashed check signed by
the president that hundreds Of dollars
are saved by him every year.
Ever since 1910 the skull OF Sir
Thomas Browne has been on show In a
museum at Norwich. 1t has now
been restored to the vault whence
1t was taken. Sylvanus Urban in the
Gentleman's Magazine condemns, this
morbidness and that of certain people
who proposed to have Shakespeare's
skull similarly examined. Let such
ghoulishly inclined busybodies," he
says emphatically, "conine their atten-
ton to the anatomy of Jonathan Wild"
Winston Churchill, who triumphant
ly carried through the parliament just
adjourned the bill for a constitution
for the Transvaal, has been given the
sobriquet of the "Blenheim pup" and
for several reasons, One is the fact
that he Is n Churchill, a descendant of
the great Duke of Marlborough who
humbled the pride Of the French at
Blenheim. Another is the bulldog
fashion in which he fights his political
battles. His face is said also to have
a bulldog look. He won his victory
for South African autonomy as under
secretary for the colonies, q position
that does not give him a seat In the