Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-04
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.
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ton In New York have been completed.
1t will cost about $20,0OO,GOO.
The United States produced J1,72O,-
619 long tons OF iron ore, valued at
S131 1866. 147 at the mines. last year.
The addition of three drops OF mer-
curry to each ounce Of Common solder
will make Il solder fusing ut a ow tenn
perature for uniting soft metals.
Princess Henry OF ~Batterberg is the
latest recruit to the list of royal au-
lthors. She has just finished a history
of the Isle Of Wight, Of which she Is
to be sold for the benefit OF the island.
Charles Dawson of Fremington, De-
von, England, who celebrated his nine
Ity-second birthday recently, neither
freads nor writes and has never seen the
sea nor Travelled IN q railway train. He
has worked on the same farm for forty
seven years.
Sarasate, the violinist, had one pc.
Iculiarity-he never wrote a letter. His
Autographs are very scarce, as he car
ried on his correspondence almost en-
tirely by telegraph. The Prince de
Sagan is alleged to have the same hab-
lit, even his love letters being sent by
wire.
There has died in the workhouse at
Dorchester, England, n oma named
Harriet Hammett. a native of Toll
puddle, who was admitted to the work
house In 1914. Az her age at death was
10, she must have donned workhouse
garb when 5 years DID. The only home
she ever remembered was "the house"
What is believed to be the record
potato train even handled in the East
| was pulled into Northern Maine June
4 tion last Saturday. The train was made
up Of seventy-fve cars of potatoes
picked up at different points on the
Bangor & Aroostook. The train con-
tanned $4,000 bushels, worth from $685.
COO to $3O,OOO.-Kennebec (Me.) Jour-
nal.
The rnyages OF consumption, ira
choma and other diseases of a like ma
ture are SO great among the natives
Of Alaska that in a few decades the
races of that section will be extinct.
Statistics from Il typical settlement of
the natives show q greater mortality
than that Of any other primitive race
that has come in contact with Anglo
Saxon civilization.
Alfred Takeda Satow. n Japanese
nobleman, who bought a farm near La
Sale three Years ago and mastered the
art of farming, now does his work by
proxy by renting out his farm in small
tracts to his c%ountrymen. Last spring
he rented 800 acres e Berthoud, re-
renting to japanese, and recently Sc
cured a farm of 100 acres from his
neighbor, G. III. WEIGH, and will sublet
this also.-Denver Republican.
France has always been a great pro-
ducer Of poultry and eggs, but lately
millions Of eggs have beer imported
from other countries, especially for con-
sumption in Paris. OF these importa-
lions by far the largest proportion
comes from Russia. In 1907 about
100000 pounds of Russian eggs were
eaten in Paris. Austria-H Hungary In the
same year furnished only about 1,2OO,-
COO pounds, and other countries less.
Among these, Egypt contributed 25O,OOO
pounds.
b According to the European maritime
papers, it is probable that the Ger
man navigation companies will distrib-
ute this year only q small dividend, ii
they distribute one at all. This was
expected, on account Of the diminution
in the number OF emigrants, which has
continued during the year, and the de-
crease in the freight transported. The
figures for %emigrants for America
through Hamburg and Bremen will be
100000 lower this year than in 1907.
X. Toldt Of Vienna has produced
what he and others regard as virtually
conclusive evidence that foxes are de-
scended from ancestors whose bodies
were clothed with horny scales. like
those of the %pangolins, or scaly ant
eaters. This evidence is based upon the
examination of the skins Of young
foxes, ana depends not only upon the
arrangement of the hairs, but upon
the fact that the skin itself exhibits
q structure such as would be shown
by that of a pangolin after the removal
OF the scales.
A German %geographer named Kaiser,
who has returned from his second visit
to British East Africa, is much i'm
pressed with the effect Of the Uganda
railroad upon the natives along the
line. He says he scarcely recognized
them as the sarse beings he met there
eleven years ago At that time he
would not have dared risk his life in
the Guasso-Ngishu highlands, but last
winter he wandered over them for
seven weeks. with only half a dozen
men to carry his luggage, undisturbed
by fears Of violence.
The department of publicity Of the
Alaska ukon-Pacific Exposition, which
will be held at Seattle next year, has
sent out a circular which states that
the exposition will be dry" No In
toxicating beverages will be sold OH the
grounds. and this action has been taken
despite the fact that the sale Of beer
and liquors is known to have been a
great source of revenue at former ex-
positions. The management takes pains
to make it known that even the Bay
Streak, which will take the place Of the
Midway and will contain a mile OF
amusement resorts and catch-penny
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