The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-09-16
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Methodist foreign mission schools
have over 10000 pupils.
Key West has a salt water fire and
sanitary flushing system.
The deposits In the savings funds Of
japan total S1O0,0o0,O00.
Football was a crime in England dur
Ing the reign Of Henry VIII.
The municipal expenses of New York
city are $14,7O0 each hour.
The egg collection OF the King Of
Denmark is valued at $3.50
Niagara Falls as a power generating
plant is worth sac 100000 a year.
There are Twenty-Five Adventist mis-
sionaries in the Chinese empire.
A well at New Burlington, Ohio,
yields both salt and fresh water.
Steel piles are now economically cut
off by the use Of the electric arc.
The electric clothes dryer is now be-
Ing put in the houses Of the luxurious
class.
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According to statistics at Toledo,
90 per cent Of the japanese are tee
~totalers.
The manufacture OF an absolutely
weldless chain is nov an accomplished
fact. ~
Nevada seems destined to forge to
the first place in the production Of
precious metals.
|. Architects In many instances are
specifying electric plate warmers In
new houses being constructed.
Cape Colony is developing into a
wine country. 1t has 10000 acres Of
vineyards and 60.O00,0OO vines.
New York city contemplates the ex-
penditure Of 100000 in the next two
years for a municipal Office building.
Japan How has factories which refine
5000 tons Of sugar a month, and the
capacity win soon be nearly doubled.
Among the objects found in recent
excavations in Egypt was a whole com
pany of wooden soldiers fifteen inches
high.
Over 100000 pens are used daily.
The victims of sleeping sickness In
Uganda now number a quarter Of a
million.
A "te~n-penny" nail means that one
thousand nails weigh ten pounds. The
word penny" in this sense is a corrup.
ton Of pound,
Calico discovered the use of the
pendulum. In 1889 he published q
work dealing with the use Of the pen
dulum in clocks.
Calico printing was a new industry
In Japan twelve years ago. To-day a
single firm has factory buildings COW
ering nearly four acres.
The London Daily Mail notes. that a
Swiss village has been decorated with
nags In honor of a hen that has laid
her thousandth egg.
Lightning is most destructive In
level, open country. Cities, with their
numerous projections and wires, are
comparatively exempt. !.
Archgologlsts have discovered the
marble quarries which supplied the ma
|~terial for the famous Temple of Diana
of the Ephesians.
Records of the homes for the aged
in New York city show that all of the
forty Institutions are now full and
have long waiting lists.
No city In the world has so many
nearby pleasure places as New York
city, and no city presents so many dis
comforts in getting to them.
The most northerly railway in the
world viii soo be opened for traffic
on the island Of S~pitzbergen. The Fine
Is about eighteen miles long.
During the year 1906 s~eventy-seyen
American patents were taken out In
India. The only country exceeding this
number was Great Britain.
Gold is nearly twice as heavy as
silver, thus a cubic foot Of the former
weighs 1,210 pounds and the same
quantity of the latter 655 pounds.
In parts Of northern Australia the
natives live chiefly on the rats which
swarm everywhere, and on a dlminu.
tive species of dog hardly larger than
q rat. ~
With a few exceptions all turbine
steamers have three shafts with the
high-pressure turbine upon the central
shaft and the low-pressure turbines on
the wing shafts.
The name of j. s. Sargent, the artist,
has been struck Off the London mu-
nicipal voting register on the ground