Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

Korea had, last March, eighty-hve
telephone and 172 telegraph offices.
British colonies supplied the mother
country with 100000 worth of wool
last year..
During his nine years Of experiment.
plane investigation.
Ozone is the best agent for purify
ing water, because it adds nothing ex-
cept oxygen, which assists in aeration.
The Zeppelin III has two 15-horse
power motors. the working of which
costs in petrol and oil G1 los. an
hour.
BY the purchase of its coal on the
basis of its fuel content, the United
States has already saved 5000, 900 on
it's annual fuel bill of $lO,O 600. 900.
Good prices are paid in Switzerland
for the flesh of kids from six weeks
to- two months old. The meat is ten.
der, and some prefer it to lamb.
The average catch at the Norwegian
cod fisheries for a period of forty
two years, covered by statistical re.
ports, is So ZOO. 900 cod per annum.
The British government has organic
ed a special department at the national
physical laboratory for Investigations
in aerial construction and navigation.
A new railway station to cost $780,
900 is being built at La Rochelle,
which has a population OF only $4,000,
1t is the second largest fishing port in
France. however.
Six bottles of Danish brandy were
discovered in the huge accordion Of
a wandering minstrel who had regu-
lar1y Travelled between Denmark and
Sweden during the Swedish strike,
when the sale of alcohol was prohibit.
ed.
For some trifing service a man gave
I dime to a young colored boy. The
youth handed 1t back. "Now, Marse
Billy" he said. you knows l doan'
want no pay for what l does for you
Des gimme dat ole suit O. clo'es youse
got on"
To-day the collection in the National
III SolIplloCS uSdliy A,oOO,OOo
!tems-1,500 900 printed books and
pamphlets and nearly one million
other articles manuscripts, maps,
prints and music)-by all means the
largest collection of the western hem.
lsphere, and perhaps the third largest
In the world. They are increasing at
the rate of about seventy thousand
! hnoLc anH ron,nh1ofc and fffv thou.
and other articles yearly.
The duchess of Rosburghe is unlike
the former Miss Vanderbilt in that
she manifests not the slightest desire
to visit her native land. Since her
marriage to the Scotch duke The
heiress to the Goelet millions has been
content to stop on the other side Of
the Atlantic. The duchess of Ros-
burghe, in fact, has become wholly
Anglicized. She talks with an English
accent, and follows with undivided in
terest the exclusively English news
from day to day. A year ago it was
said she intended returning for a
short time to New York, but she dis
appointed her friends.
some lI6Sl ueL6IlulIldIiOlS Ol lut
amount of radium present in sea water
have been made with specimens taken
from the Atlantic at various places.
All possible precautions were taken to
eliminate error, and the mean result
for the six samples was 9X1O-16ths
grams a gram of sea water. This Is
only about one-seventeenth of the value
n cv10 1dthN ohtainoJ hv Tn1v hut
agrees fairly we'll with the value OK
10-16th previously obtained by A. S.
Eve. 1t is also shown that, when test
ing for the quantity of radium emana.
ton present in a given solution, about
equal accuracy is obtained by collect.
ing the emanation owe water or over
mercury.
THE highest village in Europe IS
the inscription Oh a post card which
shows a group of wooden cottages on
a bleak hill, with no sign of vegetar
ton in sight and having as a back
ground a range of Recovered noun
tains. The name of the place is
Cumaez. in the Canton Wallis. 1t lies
2,047 meters above the sea level,
where Monte Rosa raises its gigantic
head into the Clouds" The village
consists of four families, and the lat
est census gives it a population OF
twenty-six. THE storms of spring and
fall n the SHOWS of the winter
months" says the sender of the card
make life a dreary one. and still the
people look happy, and doubtless they
are So
Anna Hawtrey has resigned as pro
fessor of history and literature in
Elizabeth College, Isle of Guernsey, to
talk through England in opposition to
socialism. She was graduated from
/ st. Hilda's Hall, Oxford, and is an au.
thority on the literature of this coun'
try and England. In recent years she
has been constant in a study of so
cialism- and has come to the convic'
ton it is a foe to public progress. She
has found that socialism has been
working an evil effect on the wives OF
workingmen in England and will
make appeal especially to them. y
am intensely interested in all ques'
tions of social REFORM says Miss