Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-03-06
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FACTS IN FEW LINES

"A drug store in Moscow has a star
Of 700 employees. %'-
Alexander the Great when on a cam
paign ate the rations Of a. common
soldier.
The passenger traffic over the Eng
lish channel last year was 418,4so, an
increase Of $4,000 over the preceding
The aggregate value of Canadian
cheese and butter exports for 1907 was
about S23, o00, 600, which 10 sc, GOO 900
less than the figure for 1905. -
The Times Of Ceylon says that the
lottery operated in Colombo and made
attractive by specious advertising Is a
fraud and warns the public against it.
The stamps at Kalgurli's golden mill.
New South Wales, have produced
gold valued at 100000. 1t costs s25
to haul cord Of sagebrush, the mis-
cradle fuel used at the batteries.
Because the clerk of the license court
had lost the key to his Office ]. P. Bar
tholow and Miss Rina NJ Pedcock of
Chicago were forced to climb a twen-
V foot ladder to get inside the house
in order to get their marriage papers.
French business interests in the
western Sudan have grown until the
telephone has become a necessity. Hun
dreds Of natives are now engaged in
string1ng telephone wire to the Niger
and down that river to Tisnbuktu.
All the dramatic critics Of Lugano,
Switzerland. have gone on strike. They
refuse to attend the theaters unless
they are given three tickets for the
first performance Of each new produc-
ton.
A stamp collector, aged f1fty-six, at
st. jesse. Belgium, was so overcome
with grief because his album had &C.
cidentally been burned that he commit
ted suicide by suffocating himself with
the half charred pages Of the book.
BY the use of steam launches in the
rubber industry on the upper Amazon
the town Of Iquitos has risen to such
importance that monthly steamship
service has been established between
that town ard Liverpool, only rubber
being carried.
Tzu Hsi, the dowager empress Of
China, has issued an edict giving the
servants Of the imperial palace three
months In which to abandon opium
smoking. Any one caught using the
drug after that date Is to receive 100
Gtr0k OF With an irnn po1
A gigantic tray Of solid silver weigh
ing more than 10000 ounces has. just
been made by firm In London for an
oriental potentate. The tray Is seven
feet in diameter and Is said to be the
largest ever executed. 1t has been in
the hands of workmen for over a year.
Conrad Skarstedt, prominent Swed-
ish horticulturist, is in New York, hav-
ing come from Sweden with the object
Of attempting to introduce into Ameri-.
ca the lignon berry, which is similar
to the American cranberry. The. berry
is one Of the popular fruits of Sweden,
and Mr.. Skarstedt believes that 1t will
prove no less popular in America.
Colonel Edward B. Fox, who has re-
tired as executive clerk to the governor
Of New Jersey after continuous serv.
ice Of more than forty-two years, has
been accorded by the legislature the
unusual privilege Of taking with him
into private life the well worn desk at
which he has labored SO long and 30
faithfully.
The Santa Veracruz church, one Of
the oldest and most artistic Catholic
temples Of Mexico, is threatening to
collapse as q consequence Of the dam
age caused by the formidable earth
quake Of April IA last. The church was
erected between the years 1920 and
1926, nearly 400 years ago, but its con-
sruction Is superb.
While 1t is estimated that there are
in British Columbia approximately
150, 600, COO acres of timber lands re-
naming unsold and Unbiased, it is also
true that 50 far 6,50O,OOO acres, COM
prising the most valuable and accessi-
bic portions Of the whole, have already
been staked and generally are in pos
session Of nonresidents, mostly Amer.
leans or syndicates backed by Ameri-
can capital. 49, -.
frequently the real estate. transfers
in New York remind us that the wife
Of Bishop Henry 9. Potter Is a woman
Of vast wealth. The latest report
shows that she has taken title to the
entire block on Washington heights
bounded by Broadway and st. Mich
olas avenue, One Hundred and Seven
ty-frst and One Hundred and Seventy
second streets The block contains
about fifteen lots.
''The Heavenly Twins is the appel
lation attached to two members of the
house. They are James Sherman Of
New York and John Rothermel Of
Pennsylvania. Sherman is. a Republic
an and Rotfiermel is a Democrat. That
seems to be the only difference be-
tween the two. Otherwise they might
well pass for twins, for their facial APP
pearance, physical build and peculfari-
ties seem almost identical. r s:3%ss55
A Paris dispatch declares that con.
enental sleeping cars will soon have a
strong rival In the vaudeville" car, of