The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-07-29
LITTLE ABOUT EVERYTHING

LITTLE ABOUT EVERYTHING
An electric line is projected up Mon
God.
Formosa exported tea last year to II
alue Of s3,5O0,O00.
The present population OF Birmin,
am, England, is $4,000.
The railroads are raising the age lit
I Of employees, owing to the scarcity Q
abor.
New York City 23,290 gal
of spirits, malt liquors and wines
Zach day.
The whole of Chile is ~trayersed by
an almost uninterrupted chain of vol
canoes.
The siamese government is about to
install a telephone system in the city Of
Bangkok.
The ancient civilization of Rome In
Guided the doll as an instructive play
thing for children.
The average valuation of the paper
money printed daily by Uncle Sam to-
tails yer 100000.
In proportion to its size, Belgium has
more miles of railway than any other
country In the world.
A German hygienic expert maintains
that lying in the open air is much more
beneficial than walking.
There Is about 800, 0O0,0 900 invested
In Transatlantic passenger boats steam
ing from New York Bay.
In 1896 William luke, a Quaker,
opened the first national asylum for
the insane In York, England.
The Chinese Minister of Finance is
planning reforms In the silver and cop
per currency of the Empire.
Wrestling is the popular sport Of Per-
STA. Great tournaments are held to de-
eide supremacies Of districts.
Lava may be blown into beautifully
green-colored bottles, lighter and
stronger than ordinary glass.
AT the Tobacco Exhibition in London
some women made cigarettes at the
rate Of 120 in thirty minutes.
One of London's West End dealers
predicts that walking sticks forty-two
inches long will soon be in fashion.
Paris cab horses work only every
other day and are fed on the days they
work only, not on the days they rest"
A chair of automobiling has been Gre
ated by the King Of Spain, at the
School of Arts and Sciences at Madrid.
AS many as 1910 metric weights and
measures were submitted for vertical
ton In the city of London during last
year.
New York City has more telephones
han London, though London has 2,OOO.-
100 more inhabitants than New York,
City.
Winston Churchill receives a royalty
II 80 cents a volume, and already his
eceipts from one book are said to have
zen $4,000.
The British Yukon, it is said. will
xhibit 200 varieties of flowers at the
Naska-Y Yukon exposition, to be held in
ieattle in 1909.
There are no laws in Germany pre-
emitting the use or the check rein on
lorses, with the exception of the police
ordinances of Berlin. ...
There are 100000 ostriches in the
Oudtshoorn district, Cape Colony, the
lverage annual value of the feathers
1elded by each bird being $35.
According to an estimate made by a
)anker who is fond Of figures, each
adult person In New York City is carry
ing an average Of $26.
In the population of New York City
there are $4,000 persons of German
~parentage, $4,000 of Irish, 100000 of
Russian and $4,000 of Italian.
The Korean government has decided
to grant the right to work gold mines
to citizens of England, Germany,
France, the United States and Italy.
The Lake of Constance in switzer-
land is becoming so shallow heal Lin
dau that it may soon be necessary to
oil 1t up with soil for sanitary reasons
In no place is there more trouble be-
tween landlords and tenants than In
New York City. There is a daily aver
age Of 100 cases tried in the courts
growing out of their relation.