The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-31
FACTS IN FEW LINES

From Washington to Athens is 5,O05
miles.
Russia makes 10000 brentwood spoons
q year.
The natives of Kisiba carry coffee
beans in bags of dried banana leaves.
Germany's consular service consists
of 126 professional consuls and 621
merchant consuls.
The japanese embassy in London has
made a collection Of 10000 objects Of
British and other European art, which
soon will be sent to Japan.
A. battleship canal across Scotland.
twenty miles long, thIrty-six feet deep
and 120 feet wide at the bottom. is one
Of the possibilities of the future.
American cotton seed planted in the
experimental grounds Of Korea, lie
acres being cultivated, yielded last sea
son 900 bales, weighing $4,000 pounds.
Many bears that hibernate dig into d
hillside to find a nest, but for a mild
winter they are likely to roll up in
some shallow excavation or q hollow
tree.
In English law a will that is to be
revoked must be destroyed. 1t is not
enough to obliterate it with a pen.
Marriage in every case acts as a revo-
cation of a will.
The Chinese laborers in the Van Rhu
gold mines recently presented to their
white manager a handsome silver tray
to mark their feelings Of affection, las
deep as the sea-"
New South Wales offers $50 a head
toward the passage money Of approved
agriculturists and domestic servants to
that colony and $50 a head for other
desirable emigrants.
Italio Campanini, who a quarter Of q
century ago used to be the operate
idol of New York, is buried in Parma,
and his grave lies between those Of
Paganini and Bothsini.
In the auction rooms of Thomas Bor-
rows at Hamilton, Ont. stands an old
clock that has not been cleaned for
125 years, yet keeps perfect time. It
has hammered brass works and face.
There are altogether, foreign and ma
tive. $3.50 persons that are actively
engaged in bringing the gospel to In
dia, while ten years ago there were
only 16,189, a gain of nearly GO per
cent.
The British government will devote
$4,000 to start the cultivation Of hemp
In <h1 toNo~J ~ O. IY4l1-0 <Lo :o1>.1,
itants Of which have been reduced to
restitution by the withdrawal of the
British garrison.
Some new trades included in the
London directory for 1907 are cast iron
repairer, inventor Of safety breathing
appliances, the soluble coffee creator.
folding baby car constructor and the
atrlcal halter.
Frau Foros, the wife of q Hungarian
farmer, seeing that he had fallen I'M
der the charms of a rich young widow.
offered to sell him. The widow offered
$125. but Frau Foros wanted $500, so
they compromised for $3.50.
A mar who visited Spitzbergen last
summer reports that a party Of tour
lists killed upward OF 100 reindeer,
leaving the %carcasses where they fell,
only bringing away a few Of the finest
heads and antlers for mounting.
Luxury Hall is the name Of a farm
near London where stranded Germans
can find q home for a time. Within the
last six years 2,S75 men were cared
for, and OF these 1867 earned enougi,
on the farm to pay their way back to
Germany.
1t is not generally known that the
ashes of the famous ~theosophist Nine.
Helena Blavatsky are in New York
city. They are inurned in a niche of
Aryan hall, IA Madison avenue, where
the Aryan Theosophical society holds
its meetings.
During his stay at Feshawur the
ameer Of Afghanistan, in talking with
his English friends, invariably pref
aced his stories with the remark, "Sir,
l am going to make a joke" This he
would say most gravely in English
and then tell his story in Pushtu OF