Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-04-06
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The speed of the electric current IN
copper wire is 463, 100000 meters a Sec
ond. The fastest ocean steamer make3
only 9.S meters a second.
For swinging a monkey round his
head by its tail. George Brown, a
Snowman, was sentenced to twenty
eight days Imprisonment In Liverpool.
The population Of Morocco can only
be guessed. No census has ever been
taken. The best authorities estimate
the inhabitants to number about 7,5OO,-
600.
Manhattan, Nevada's latest gold min
Ing camp, which is eighty-two miles
from Tonopah, now has a newspaper,
the Mail. w. F. Bond paid $40 for the
first copy Off the press.
Miss Margaret Putnam, Of Westfleld,
Mass, was the only woman who had
the honor Of passing the examination
for admission to the bar Of that State
out Of a mixed class Of 235.
In the first edition of the London
Medical Credit Guide, shortly to be Is
sued, will be the names Of 10000 liv-
Ing in London and vicinity who have
forgotten to pay their doctors bills.
In order to test the quality Of mind
Of French soldiers, a set of questions
"a kind of general paper'-was sent
to sixty-two soldiers at random. OF the
sixty-two, seventeen could not write,
and so did not answer at all.
Tobacco, which used to be the me-
dunn Of exchange in the early Colonial
days Of Virginia, is to-day the cur
rency Of British New Guinea. The
British administrator there reports that
the medium is not the ean of a live.
ly trade.
Europe, in comparison with America,
has not one-f1fth the railway mileage
per capita, the figures being As miles
per 10000 of population, as against
25.9 miles in the United States. The
milage in Prussia per 10000 Of the
population is about 10.
W1nifred Davidson bought an auto
mobile from a dealer at Santa Rosa,
Cal, and started for a town called Oc-
cidental. The machine did not take the
grades as we'll as Mr.. Davidson had
expected, and on his arrival at Occi-
dental he borrowed an ak and chopped
his auto to pieces.
Linley Sambourne, the famous Eng
lish cartoonist, always works from mod
els, and the details Of his drawings are
subject Of the greatest care. He goes
to considerable expense and trouble to
get n uniform that lie may sletch it,
and he has a collection Of 10000 photo
graphs of all sorts.
The widow of Don Miguel Of Brazil,
who ruled for several years over Portu-
gal, Is the only member Of any royal
family in Europe who las taken full
VOWS as a nun Don Miguel was driv-
en- into exile to make way for his niece,
Queen Maria della Gloria, the grand
mother Of the present king.
The recent visit OF the Prince Of
Wales to Burma has attracted notice
to the wonderfully rapid growth in
size and prosperity of Rangoon during
the last twenty years. Then it had a
population of only 10000, whereas to-
day 1t has nearly a quarter Of a mil
lion, and a trade inferior only to that
of Calcutta and Bombay.
The first inmate Of the new Jail at
Grants Pass, CAL, a public improve
ment Of which the Grants Passers are
proud, is a pretty 1~9-year-old girl, who
is accused of numbering her father.
She is not confined to her cell, is pro-
vided with every comfort, including
the latest magazines, and is allowed to
go out shopping when she SO desires.
The Gaekwar, of Baroda, the Indian
~potentate who has been entertaining
the Prince and Princess of Wales, pos
sesses the most wonderful necklace in
the world. 1t is a collar composed of
five rows Of 100 diamonds each, the
whole set between rows OF eemeralds.
Some Of the stones are as large as wal
nuts and all Of them are Of the great
est purity.