The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-02-06

field.
Palestine has 100000 Jews at the
present time.
! King Edward has a collection Of 10
curious walking sticks.
Key West has a salt water fre anc
sanitary flushing system.
The ancient Egyptians used a form OF
blast furnace 1000 B. G.
The population Of London Is rapidly
reaching the 100000 mark.
Steel piles are now economically cut
on by the use of the electric arc.
T~wenty-seyen thousand vessels enter
the port Of Lordon in the course Of a
year.
The electric clothes dryer is o be-
Ing put In the houses OF the luxuriant
class.
Nevada seems apt to forge to the first
place In the production Of precious
metals.
Paris has 48,933 telephones, or about
one instrument to every fifty-seven In
habitants.
The Austrian government gives her
aged natives a pension of nearly $3.50
per week.
Hamburg is said to have a fire rec.
ord larger than that Of any other city
In the world.
midas exports have increased AN
per cent in ten years, and her imports
4sh per e n
Canada's trade with this country is
three times greater than with tle
mother country.
The f1rst-class railroad fare of Bel
GUM is the lowest OF all the worlds
railroad services.
Colorado, Montana and Utah have
shown a decided decline In the pro-
ductton Of precious metals.
Architects in many Instances are
specifying electric plate warmers in
new houses being constructed.
The Ordnance Survey Department Of
Great Britain makes use OF cameras
carrying plates 45x30 inches.
Tho English people eat more butter
than any other nation. The average Ia
Is pounds per head per year.
France has no old-age insurance
measure, but a large amount is an
nually spent in relief to aged natives.
There are about $4,000 Chinese in
the T%ransvaal gold mines, which Is
giving the Britishers some concern.
The steel sleeping cars which the
Pullman Company is building will
weigh % per cent more than the pres
emit cars.
The Edison Company of Milan, italy.
Is at the head of the largest hydro
generating syndicate ever formed In
that country.
The mandril baboon has the most
brilliant ~colorings Of any quadruped.
It shows blue, red and purple Of the
most vivid tints.
The third-class passenger service OF
the English railroads Is constantly In
creasing In popularity at the expense
OF the other classes.
The highest elevator service In the
world Is that at Burgenstock, a mouu
tain near the Lake of Lucerne, where
tourists are raised 500 feet to the top.
Of q vertical rock.
India has 1895, 047 acres Of Irrigated
land In the Punjab, an Increase of 453.
561 acres in one year. The crops are,
mainly wheat, sugar cane, grain and
winter oil seeds.
The largest sum OF money ever pail
for a collie was paid recently to AZ
English breeder, Mr.. Mason, Of South
port, when he received $6,250 for the
champion, Squire of Tytton.
In Norway and Sweden thirty-six
persons out of every 1000 live by sea.
faring. The next best average in this
particular is in England, where there
are seventeen per every 1000.
The record OF the six ducks which
laid 2O7 eggs between March 4 and May
IL Is beaten by the performance OF
four ducks belonging to Mr.. Albert
A.lmutt, Wittenham, Abingdon. In tue
same period they laid 240 eggs.
Electricity is now being largely used
in the bookblnding industry for EN-
bossIng and such work. With the aid
of the current 1t Is possible to MAKE
$50 impressions per minute, which more
.kan atcnes fer tine increased cost Of