Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-11-26
LITTLE ABOUT EVERYTHING.

England and Wales have three
quarters of a million paupers.
In Great Britain there are nearly
| two million trades u%nionists.
A ton Of dead sea water will yield
1877 pounds Of salt whell evaporated.
There are 200, DOC, 900 copies of the
Bible scattered throughout the world
For S. steam will do the work
hand.
North America supplies more thar
three-ffths of the worlds consumption
OF copper.
Dynamos have been successfully and
economically driven by gas engines in
Boston.
The gifts Of job. D. Rockefeller to
Chicago University now total over
$25, 100000.
About 4S per cent Of all the crimes
committed Ia the work OF habitual
criminals.
Argentina has 245, 5000 acres OF
unoccupieu land which is suitable for
cattle grazing.
The average elevation Of North
America is 1850 feet, and of South
America 1900 feet.
The Salvation Army In England is
sending ~eInigrantS to Canada In batch
es Of 600 monthly.
In London there are about 1.SOO
charitable agencies. dispensing $780,
100000 annually.
Five hundred American Sunday pa
pers would make 100000 volumes OF
800 pages each.
The state woods Of Germany cover
100000 acres and give employment
to 100000 persons.
The smallest coin In use is coined
by the Portuguese government. 1t is
worth 3-1OO Of a cent.
The cigarette appetite of korea's
2O,OOO,OOO natives amounts to S4O,-
100000 smokes Il day.
Australia covers % times as much
area as the British isles, but its pOpu-
lation is less than that of London.
fences Is a jointed clothes prop which
folds up for convenience in storing
away.
The Poor Clergy Relief Corporation
grants to 766 persons, a%ggregatins over
$4,000.
The meteorites which hurl them
selves at this sphere add about one
thousand IONS to its weight every
three years.
For more than forty years Goodwin
Smith, Charles Eliot Norton and Dan
lei Colt have been contributors to the
New York Nation.
Sapphire mining in Kashmir is be-
ing revived by a new company, COM
posed of Europeans Of high standing
and wealthy natives.
Excluding about $4,000 small vessels,
the commerce of the world is carried
on by 30, 100 vessels, Of a total tonnage
Of about 25.0OO,OOO.
The project for electric railways
which since the war have been put for
ward in Japan aggregate an estimated
expenditure of $500, 100000.
Burmah is one of the worlds single
crop countries, basing her prosperity
on rice, as Hawaii does on sugar, and
the Philippines do on hemp.
The larger kind of West Indian fire
fly gives a light so brilliant that by it
printed matter may be read at a dis
lance of two or three inches.
III Braddan Churchyard, on the isle
of Man, Bishop Straton preached to
$4,000 visitors. the overreaching trees
forming a vast natural cathedral.
The gross earnings of the Toxic
street railways are from $4,000 20
5000 a day, and probably reach 49,
600 q day when the flower Season be-
gins.
The pinguicula is a plant which is
a natural tiy-paper. Its leaves are
constantly covered with a sticky sub
stance hat traps all insects alighljng
thereon.
The United States has more news
papers than any other country. Ev-
cry week day there are 1860, 900 cop
les issued and on Sunday the number
is II, 600 copies.