Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-03-20
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the brain Of the idiot is deficient IN
phosphorus.
The Lusitania has on board forty
nine clocks, which are all controlled by
a master clock In the chart house.
Theodore Sutro told a congressional
committee that as many murders were
committed through mince piles and Ice
water as through strong drink.
large business In making over old
firearms is carried on in Belgium. AT
Liege 5000 gunsmiths, working princi.
pally at home. turn out ''antiquities.'
They transform modagn eSAso 8BAo fint-
| locks.
A young elephant WITH q Samdevillc
troup en- route from Udea, n. Y. to
Reading. Pa. in baggage cor pulled
the bell rope and brought the tzaan to
sudden stop At the end OF the Courtney
he ate lot of tar soap and Seemed
| lively.
A white patent leather tod bag as Il
rear signal for bicycles IN place Of
troublesome second lamp d recen;
novel suggestion. IL 90 affirmed TIM
this can be readily sssa ca ess@ 6arkes;
night, giving motorists am tho Nserning
needed.
An owl few out Of a buFnang chin,
ney at Coverach, Cornwall, England.
with its feathers on fire and perched
on a hayrick near at hand. The result
was that the rick was completely de-
stroyed, and several stacks Of straw
barely escaped.
Emigration has benefited the working
classes in Sicily. Labor is scarce now.
and In some places where only 30 cents
| day was formerly a wage rate IS
cents Is now paid. The emigrants leav.
ing Palermo for the United States last
year numbered 1883.
An Englishman has just died from
putting carholic acid in his bath for a
skin ailment The poison was absorb
! ed through the pores. the doctors say.
One should be extremely careful In the
use of any acid or poison for outward
application to see that 1t Is properly
diluted.
Acting under instructions from the
board of war, the authorities at Ten
tsin have selected a large piece of
ground on the north bank Of the river
on which it is proposed to erect a
block of buildings to serve as tie
headquarters of the Chinese navy
when it is organized.
The Burma agricultural department
continues to devote good deal Of at
tention to the introduction of Ameri
can tobacco into the province. During
the year ending June last the depart
ment distributed 159 pounds Of Ha.
vana and Virginia seed in twenty-one
districts and the Shan states.
The Indian government is. 1t is said
considering the desirability of using
motor transport wagons for freight in
moving produce of out Of the way dis
tricts to market. This is quite practi
cable, considering the good roads Of
the plains In India, and it would solve
a problem that has perplexed the gov
eminent
Joe Rivers of Chateauguay, N. Y.
after partaking Of three pounds Of
sauerkraut. two ten-cent loaves Of
bread, two pounds Of potatoes, three
cups Of tea, two glasses of beer, si@
cups of water, pound and a half o.
steak and three dozen fried eggs ha:
issued challenge to any man in tn
world to an eating contest.
Mrs. Ellen Toothaker of Soutl
Harpswell, Me-, has as keepsake al
apple that was thrown at her In f.,
kindly manner by young man Will
she was returning from church on
Sunday afternoon fifty years since. Sh
picked up the apple, took 1t home an.
filed it with cloves. and today 1t /
very small, but well preserved.
Old papers, sour milk, plaster AM
the whites Of eggs are the ingredient
, used in the construction of a churc
In the slums Of Paris. The architec
who invented this building material de
clares that old papers, allowed to hard
en-, then covered with a coating o
, sour milk, plaster and whites of eggs
equal stone, brick or stucco In durabil
; ity.
Steps are being taken in Peru to pre-
1slsa Sadaa&sA2s2a9 WAssdzaV e4sasz ssHezza.
cxSermInneed. This fnounra1n anlrnz
is hunted for its wool and for tn
hide, rug made from vicunas bein
> worth SIS to. $50. In consequence o
being so persistently hunted the AMI
: mails migrate to the higher attitudes
where many Of them perish becaus
veRetation lie SO scarce. j.. -$>SE
A copy of the first edition of ever.
book John Milton wrote, with man
;, second, third and even fourth editions
= have been put on exhibition at tn
, Columbia university, New York. TIL
largest contributor to the collection
J. Pierpont Morgan, from whose libra
ry comes the original manuscript o
the first book OF Paradise Lost,
bought by Mr.. Morgan in. London a
an almost fabulous price. Z M ~ Il;
That his servants may converse wit
their friends Of either sex without an
noying members of his family Charlie
3. Brush, the Cleveland millionaire
electrical inventor, has installed aEsee
!, ond private branch telephone exchang
In his Euclid avenue home. The az