Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-03

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The Salvation Army OF Europe has
an anti-tohacco league Of $4,000 per-
sous.
The Nile valley Is all there is OF
Egypt from a productive point OF
view.
A whole bunch of bananas can be
bought in Colombia for from 90 to IS
cents.
The worlds stock of gold money is
practically - per cent more than a
decade g
Buenos Ayres is to have an interna-
tional railway and transportation ex-
position in 1910.
Submarine cables cost $41,0 0 a mile
to lay, and the length of their life is
between thirty II forty years.
The per capita consumption OF to-
bacco is lower in Italy than in any 9th.
er European country, being a trifs
over a pound.
OF the $l5,OO0.O 900 paid last year by
Egypt for the whole line of machinery
and metals. only $500, 900 went to the
United States.
Italy has seventeen tobacco factories,
Ninety per cent of the operatives are
women who are paid on a piece sys.
TEN and earn from 4S to SO cents a
day.
Plaster portraits are the fashionable
form of counterfeit presentment" in
London. They are done in the form Of
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low price CT $3.50 apiece.
K Americans have developed one Of
the largest and best coffee plantations
in Colombia, besides installing in
many places telephone and electric
light systems and ice-making plants.
In Italy tobacco has been a state
monopoly since 1888. The results have
been notably successful from a finan'
cial standpoint. The gross receipts
rose from $3.50 900 in 1S97-1S9S to
SIG, 900 in 1906-1907.
Europeans have discovered that
American syrup barrels. once used, are
better than new ones. They are used
especially for the picking of meat,
and if of hard wood, even in the Unit
ed States, bring better prices than
new one
The thirty million people Of the
Turkish empire are still practically
without motor cars, The government
is now about to spend several million
dollars on good roads and between
Damascus and Bagdad a motor car
service is likely to be established soon
The new and beautiful villa IN,
earthed at Pompeii is situated, writes
the Naples correspondent of the Lon.
don Daily Mail, near the house Of Die
med. 1t consists Of a row Of rooms
of great elegance, the largest having
q marble floor and frescoes on three
walls.
A member of the French tariff com
mission having stated tiat cotton seed
oil was injurious to the health and
destroyed the abdominal tissues, DR.,
Crawford. of the bureau of animal In
dustry, made experiments which indi
Gated that purified cotton seed oil is
no more injurious than olive oil OF
cod liver OIL"
Every day a new society for the bet
terment of something or other is born
in New York. Nobody has ever yet
listed or classified all these societies,
and most of them are never heard Of,
Born dead, they keep on being dead,
though each thinks it lives, is very
much in existence and greatly in the
public eye.-New York Press.
Cresswell, afterward Sir Cresswell
C~resswell, the famous English divorce
lawyer, was a most pompous man. His
name once so irritated Justice
Maule, before whom he was arguing,
that the latter at last burst out with:
"Mr. Cresswell, I wish o would re
member that I am a vertebrate ami
NAL. Your manne to me would be
i%nsolence from God Almighty to 8
black BEETLE
An early summer crop Of colonels
lieutenant colonies, majors and cap
tains is reported from Louisiana, Gov
ernor Sanders having appointed
eighty-nine citizens to his military
staff. There are only four in the lot
who have to be content with captain
cies. the rest Of the commissions being
about equally divided among the three
higher grades. Louisiana has about
], 200 mel in its organized militia.
From a medico-legal standpoint
X-ray pictures are now considered in
~dispensable evidence In damage suits
for bone and Joint injuries. Of great
value, undoubtedly, but they lack the
gertrude attributed to them by the
legal profession and the laity. X-ray
pictures (radiograms) can now be in
simultaneously snap-shotted in the hun
dredth part of a second with extreme
~ powerful streams of X-rays.-NeW
York Press.
In Burmah an automobile train sys.
tenn has been established at Rangoon
A train usually consists Of an S0-horse
power motor. with four carriages for
either freight or passengers. This
train turns a complete circle, back
ward or forward, in a space Of thirty
feet in diameter. There are gear At
tings for eight different speeds, en-.
aiding a train fully loaded to mount
an IS per cent grade. The capacity
of the freight car is five tons and OF
the passenger carriage twenty-five ia
thirty persons. The maximum speed
&c twelve milca