The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-04-30

Russia celebrates SO general holidays
each year.
Color blindness is more prevalent
J among men than women
1t is estimated that there are $780,
600 dogs In Great Britain.
Caruso. piqued at lack Of applause,
wept while singing In Austria.
Harvard leads all American colleges
In point Of number of students.
In northern Australia there Is one
white man to each 700 square rules.
There are 10 American colleges with
an enrolment OF more than 1900 stu
dents each.
In 1880 the world contained but 210
miles of railway: now there are over
10000 miles Of line.
Payment OF interest given as great
obstacle to starting postal savings
banks by government.
Annual statement OF Standard on
Company OF New Jersey showed total
surplus to be $~2e1,O0O.0O0
Germany produces more honey than
any other European country, furnish
Ing 10000 tons annually.
A brigade Of ''poljce women. has
been organized at Client. Only mature
women are accepted for the service.
Mexico is very musical, ana a great
deal Of the demand for musical instru-
ments Is taken care OF by the United
States.
st. James Episcopal Church, Of
South Bend, Ind, has secured a SUI i'll
piece Of marble as a relic from the
tomb Of st. James, In Jerusalem.
signor Caruso has been engaged 10
sing at the imperial opera honse. Wen
ma, for four evenings. He will receive
$500 for each performance.
President Hartshorn OF the National
Association of Cotton Manufacturers
says that the cotton mills must be
training schools FOR young recruits.
An American Drm from Chicago Is
opening the largest 4, 10 and 15-cent
store ever started In Kingston. There
are several other branches In Canada.
The Peacock Throne" Of Persia Is
the most e~xtrayagant thing OF the
kind in the world. It's value is esti-
mated between ten and fifteen million
dollars.
The impression given at the latest
exposition in Berlin OF invention Is
that liquid air VIII soon enter the field
as a very serious competitor Of steam
and electric power.
Besides the locust, the insects which
are eaten for food are the bngong
moth OF Australia, and the gru-gru. a
fat white moth found among the palm
trees Of the West Indies.
Colonel Robert NJ. Thompson. o.
New York, charter. the S,OOO-ton
steamer Mineola and viii take a party
OF fifteen on a yachting cruise around
the globe at a cost OF 100000.
The Increase Of the rice crop In this
country has been the means OF boom
ing a great portion OF Texas land, so
that 1t Is now worth ten times what 1t
was valued at ten years ago.
There Is being built In the City OF
Mexico the largest bull ring in the
world. When completed 1t will seat
1900 people. The framework is OF
steel and the cost will be 100000.
Seattle claims to be the sixth largest
city In point OF area in the United
States. New York. New Orleans, Chi
cago, Philadelphia and San Francisco
are tie cities with larger areas.
Munich, with a population of over
$4,000, has, on an average, one estab-
lisment for the sale OF liquid refresh
ments to each 319 persons, exclusive Of
the floating population, which is q
large one.
IL all the tenement dweliers In the
lower East Side OF New York City
should be In the streets surrounding
their homes at one time they would
be so crowded as hardly to be able 10
move.
Tschang Ying Tang. the highest Chi
nese official In Tibet, has started q
school for Chinese and Tibetan boys ut
Lhassa, where they are to be educated
for official positions In Tibet. He has
also started the first paper at Lhasss.
Craps" or throwing dice, is said
to have been originally a religious act.
In the turn OF the dice was supposed
by the primitive peoples to be the an
swer Of the gods to their prayers
There was no element of chance in
volved.
Statistics on the suicides of the
country, compiled by Frederick l.
Hoffman, statistlcian for the Prnden.
tial Life Insurance Company. show q
slight decrease in percentage for 1905
as compared with the average for the
preceding ten years.