The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-02-01

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Since last year the coal companies OF
india hive advanced prices nearly 100
per cent,
Fifty years ago aour was slo u bar
rel. pork $50 Il barrel aud butter 30
cents a pound In Minnesota
The Russian navy has ftty-thrce ad
mIrals, vice admlrals and rear admi-
rails and only eight hattleships.
The Who's Who" for 1907 IS such Il
bulky volume that the London World
says the question now does not seem
so much who's who as who Isn't.
Some scientists believe that North
America was in contact during prehis
toric ages With Africa and with Eu-
rope. the former connection coming
| first.
No live creatures except bees will be
carried by post between Great Britain
anG Nicaragua, according to u parcels
| post agreement Just concluded between
the two countries.
There is in India n large element of
wealth which is wholly inactive. The
boarded wealth In the form Of orna-
ments. jewelry and buried treasure
has been estimated at many millions.
1t is largely held by princes. rajahs
and other mobiles.
1t has been stated that the average
| earnings of the laborer In India is 81
rupees or about 50 a year. but q table
in the Indian directory Of 1906 enables
one to figure out the average earning
for the cody laborer to be sc rupees. or
about $1S.G6 a year.
During the early fall, when the ne
groes of the south are shocking corn.
they build the shocks over several
large, ripe watermelons, Their leave
them until Christmas. The shocks pro
tect the melons from freezing and also
keep them cold enough to be fresh.
Japanese articles are stated by d Rus
sian editor to fail to make much head
way In the Manchuria markets, being
for the most part articles Of luxury,
| SuCll us SIN ltAtlltS, CuDlllelS anu lOllcl
accessories. which are beyond the
means of the masses of the people.
Probably the smallest inhabited house
in the country is at Llandyssul, South
Wales. Built by the owner, a bachelor.
who occupies it, it has n frontage Of
five and a half feet, is six feet from
front to back, six feet from the ground
to caves and about four feet more to
the ridge.
Near Il entrance OF the Cathedral OF
! Seville hangs a patched and painted
crocodile, which once served as Il
mission. In 1860 it was sem by the
sultan of Egypt to Il beautiful prin-
cess of Spain, who declined a sutton
whose first present could scarcely be
said to speak of affection.
The fact that America, through its
missions. puts rs much money into In
dia as England does and draws out
nothing. whereas England draws out
100000, 600 a year, was cited by Mr..
w. j. Bryan as evidence that the Unit
ed States was the most altruistic ma
ton in the world, when this statement
was challenged by a group of Anglo
Indian officials in India.
The rapid reconstruction of a trestle
was recently carried M at Galveston,
Tex. Fire destroyed 400 feet of the
long railroad trestle which extended
from the mainland to the city and
stopped traffic. The construction forces
and materials We're Immediately start.
ed to the work, and by midnight of the
same day the trestlc was sufficiently
repaired to allow traffic to be resumed.
Some Of the most noted Partisan art
lists have contrived to transform Ed,
mond Rostand's country home, Arraga,
In the south of France, into a fairy,
land. The walls of his magnificent
apartments, whose windows look out
over the crests of the P%yrenees, are
covered with the very delightful tales
which Hans Christian Andersen and
the Grimm brothers have immortalized
Germany and Japan have made good
use Of the idea, first suggested in the
United States, of equipping ships with
products for sale abroad and sending
the vessels to the ports where trade
might be developed. In that way, &C
cording to a report transmitted by
Consul General Michael, Japan got he1
first order from the Argentine Repub.
lie, with which she now has consider
able trade.
While preaching in Pueblo, Colo, q
few years ago Rev. Edward j. Wilcox
found himself in the embarrassing Pc
sition of being unable to pay his debts
, Knowing that if he stuck to the pulpit
he would have small chance of getting
ever with the world. he quit preaching
and went into the mining business
Today he owns mines in Colorado
worth 100000, besides a great dea.
of other valuable property.
1t has just been discovered that
Gashavant G. Pandit, a very wealthy
high caste Hindoo and n protege OF
the gaekwar of Baroda, is working as
a common laborer in an acid factory
at Roscoe, N. D. Pandit, though seid
to be worth millions, works and lives