Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-12-18
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Lava from the volcano of SavalA III
fhe Samoan islands, which has Deeh III
constant eruption for over three years.
has formed a river eight miles WIDE
flowing into the ocean.
An aluminium alcohol lamp, with a
cup for heating water or boiling an egg
the whole to be carried on a hanole
like a candlestick, Is something ne"
for kitchen or sick room.
Under the name Of "llthOderm, a
Scotch chemist has invented a wash Tor
stone that he claims will preserve us
surface from the effects Of moisture for
an indefinite length Of time.
A telephone system will be completed
in the near future in the French Afri-
can colonies which will permit OF COM
munication with the most distant posts
In the interior of the dark continent.
The United States in 1907 produced
1880 short tons Of tale and soap
stone, worth $1,531,O47, IN increase
over the preceding year OF 1S.e per
cent in quantity and Z per cent nj value.
In England, in 1907, there were en-
acted by Parliament 1855 laws contained
in 700 pages Of printed matter. In the
same year In a single American State,
| New York, there were enacted 754 sep
arate laws occupying $500 pages"
The largest static electric machine
ever built is owned by a New York
physician. Twenty forty-inch glass
discs revolve against twenty others to
produce sparks thirty inches long by
three-fourths Of an inch in diameter.
A recent Partisan caricature shows a
bearded Turk in a turban upon the roof
of his house, looking through a field
glass. "Allah Is just he exclaims.
"Now that my neighbors' wives go
about with faces uncovered l see thai
they are quite as homely as my own"
A train of cars half a mile long is
nothing. President Underwood of the
Erie has an engine that weighs o73,-
OCO pounds, the largest and most power
sul locomotive in the world. This mon
ster, and monstrosity, with sixteen dr1v-
ing wheels, hauls a freight train of go
cars, two miles long.
Every monthly magazine carries as
many as two continued stories In 1T:
When a man takes six, it means that
ills wife Is carrying twelve continued
stories In her head IN addition to doing
the cooking and trying to find out how
much the new hat cost worn by the
woman next door.-Oil City Derrick.
AlasHa is almost ideal practice
ground for the signal corps, and the
Tacoma Ledger hears that wireless
messages are now speeding daily Jack
and forth between Nome, Gibbon, Fair
banks, Eagle and Circle. The bowling
winter storms that have wrecked tele-
graph poles n wires in the past are
now set at defiance.
The Brentford (E1agland) magistrate,
Montague Sharpe, in a case In which a
boy admitted that he had slept In a
shed and played pirates, said that 1T
would be a good Idea If there vas a
slot machine outside the court, where
fathers could get their hayward o m
birched automatically for Il penny. The
young pirate was taken to a cell and
birched by his father.
Paris surgeons are using, in some
cases, nails for the cure of simple frac-
ture. For fracture of the shin bone or
Of the thigh bone a nail Of nickel,
aluminium or magnesfum-preferably
aluminum-is used, and Is driven in to
hold the two pieces Of bone together,
much like two. pieces of wood. 1t Is
believed that the mailing of broken ends
is the quickest way to repair a frac-
ture. 1t does away with the old sys-
tenn under which a patient had to lie
in bed for three weeks with his foot
attached to a ffty-pound weight.
People walking in a wood in the
Wishaw district, near Glasgow, after
dark. were startled the other night by
what they tool to be an apparition in
the wood. On making Investigation
they found the trunk Of an ash tree in
an upright position giving forth a light
resembling phosphorescence, but more
brilliant. Those who have visited the
spot stoutly insist that the trees light
is more Of an incandescent brightness,
sufficient for the reading of print in its
vicinity. Large crowds were attracted
to the place to witness the spectacle,
while young people secured chips Of
the tree and wore them on their clothes
in the dark.
The making of laws is fast becoming
one Of the larger industries of the Unit
ed States. In an article in the Allan
tic we find the interesting statement
that our legislatures, most Of which
have biennial sessions, pass every two
years some $4,000 separate laws. In
10O6-'O7, for example, there were pass
cd by Congress and State legislatures
25,446 acts and 1875 resolutions. In
England, for the whole United King
dom, In the SANE period, there were en-
acted 200 public acts or general laws,
III d the whole time Of Parliament was
devoted for practically eighteen months
III those two years to the work Of critI-
c,s:ng, debating and passing them.
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