Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-06-12
FACTS I'M FEW LINES

FRONTS OF the Bank or france last
year were the largest in thirty. years
Sixteen of the United States now
have sugar factories, si1ty-four In all.
There are 557 walled cities In China
where there Is neither foreign nos
Chinese pastor. %sE%
\ ffteen-year-old boy has crossed the
ocean seven times as d stowaway in an
effort to get ilto this country.
The pope intends to present gil.
bronze angel. with which it is pro
posed to decorate the top Of the cam
panile at Venice
4 Chinaman sent to the Bertillou
room at Altoona, Pa. to be measured
thinking he was to be beheaded, chant
ed a death song n
a policeman in Pittsburg was SO wei
disguised as Chinaman. including the
cue. that he fooled Sam Yea notet
gambler. whom he arrested Il
A physician in st. Louis in certif yine
that a dependent was unable to az
pear in court wrote that he was "Cycs
Under ME car and Uneble to Wock.'
The Somali soldier keeps himself in
perfect lighting condition on a diet Of
nuts He eats only twenty a day. bu
they are nuts Of a very nourlshin:
kind
The English factory code Is still ii
advance Of that Of Germany. whelz
there Is as yet no legislation prohibit
ing female labor in mining and s4nelt
ing works.
All Nah, Chinaman and goot
swimmer. fell overheard from line
at San Francisco and was killed by
blow from life preserver which wa
thrown to him.
Peruvian capitalists propose to tai
Lake Titicaca by means Of TUNE
through the crest of the CorIlilleras
This would bring 100000 horsepowe
down to the Pacific.
A vivid dream thrice repeated show
ed George Chester Of West Livingston
n j. where to frd his wife's weddin,
ring. which she lost nearly five year
ago. liz each dream he saw The rim,
under big tree.
The aluminium books for the bin.
now being printed In Edinburgh are O
thin sheets embossed in the usual way
They are easier to read than pape
books. do not soil aud are practically
indestructible Their expensiveness i
their drawback
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Fraulein Smitch. Swiss maiden
though color blind and totally unedu
| Gated in art matters. produces oil
paintings while in a hypnotic stats
blending the tints in a truly wonderful
manner. The gift was discovered b,
| q doctor at Geneva. -
Four-ffths of the wheat andsoats TO
seeding purposes. for which 100000
was appropriated by the Canadian gov
eminent. will lie purchased In tn
! United States. Large orders have beel
placed in Ohio. Illinois. Minnesota
lows and Nebraska %>.
The wealth of the Rothschilds a
present, according to London paper
is estimated at f4O0, 0OO. 600 andais be
Heved to have doubled within the, pas
twenty years 1t is calculated that Il
| seventy years more they will posses
f15,Ooo. 600, 900, an amount that ca
hardly be conceived :,
The conclusion Of socioiogist VIII
has lived in New York city for three
quarters of century Is that the pes
pie Of no other city are so often mis-
Judged because wealth, violence an,
dishonesty are so emphasized in new
and conversation that sight Is lost o
the tens Of thousands of the righteous
who are, little in the public mind. n
The rich Barberini collection 4 10
Etuscan antiquities has been Dun
| chased by Signor Volpi. an antiquarian
and the question of the collection bein
kept tn Italy or being permitted to
sent abroad has come up for considers
| ton Of the Italian government. He ha
1 offered to give the state one-fftb fifth
whole collection If it will allow him 1
4 sell the remainder at public auction
/ with the right of expectation s .Sss