The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-27
LITrIE ABOUT rvrnYrH,ra

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The oldest match factory in thu
world Is in Sweden.
The cost Of city electric lights ranges
rom 2 to cents an hour lamp.
Nearly every city in the interior OF
Egypt Is now lighted by electricity.
The world Is said to contain 10000
locomotives, Of which 56,500 are in Eu-
rope.
/. In northern Italy there is a co-opera.
tive association for every 1000 inhabi.
tants.
st Petersburg has the highest death
rate for any European capital-51 per
1000.
Their are 23o glaciers in the Alps
that are said to be over FIVE miles in
length.
The Office of Premier of Great Brit
ain, as such, does not carry with it any
salary.
In the production Of lumber Califor-
MIA now holds second place among the
States.
Artists models In Berlin have formed
themselves into trade to protect their
interests.
The. Carnegie Institution has S10,.
lOIE0o assets and a cash balance of
e445,472.
Out of every 1000 of the worlds pop
ulation 264 own King Edward as their
sovereign.
A steam plant has. just been shipped
from Philadelphia to China to operate
a woolen mill.
An authority puts the total annual
expense of printed forms of advertis ~
at $600,0Oo0OO. .... ..-
The average diameter Of a hair from
the human head is the four-hundredtn
part of an inch.
1t Is supposed that the average depth
Of sand In the deserts of Africa is from
forty to eighty feet.
The cost Of the pension roll is $1.75
a year for every man, woman and child
In the United States.
More than 100000 people in Massa-
chusetts are dependent upon the cotton
mills for their living.
A bakers oven, in France, which is
heated by electricity, is said to be a
success in every particular.
The horns of the moon always point
away from the sun, therefore they are
always directed upward in the evening.
The average farm laborer's far ~
in England lives C4 $1s5 a year 70
average mechanics family spends $5C4.
The men who teach in French schools
are to get hereafter from $24o to $40
a year; the women teachers get $40
less.
Seamless welding Of iron and steel is
now done in Birmingham, England, by
the use of acetylene and oxygen in a
blow-pipe.
The remarkable echo at Eagles Nest,
IN the banks Of Killarney, Ireland, re-
peats bugIe call 100 times, each clear
and distinct.
Both the Queen of Holland and the
lueen-mother have contributed 10 the
funds Of the Salvation Army in the
Netherlands.
California leads all the States in the
production of barley, and supplies one
fourth of all that is grown in the
United States.
Efforts are being made to collect
sufficient funds to build a church in
Stockholm to the memory of Emman-
lel Swedenborg.
In Germany 15s acres for every 1000
If the population are planted with po-
.atoes-almost FIVE times as much as in
The United States.
The largest tree in the world lies
broken and petrified at the end of de-
lie in northwestern Nevada. 1t is said
to be 666 feet long.
Sir Samuel Montagu has placed at
The disposal of the London County
Council $4,000 for workingmen's cot
tages at Edmonton
The only American machine that Is
popular in Honduras Is the sewing ma
chine, which Is in practical use
throughout the republic.
Captain Fritz-Egger, a Swiss caval-
~ officer, has invented a method of
lorse-shoelng by fastening the shoe to
he hoof with metallic bands.
Only one-third of the worlds popuIa-
ion use bread as a daily article of
'ood. Nearly one-half of the people Of
the world subsist chiefly on rice.
UNFAMILIAR FACTS.