The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-10-14

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Umbrellas were first used ID china
and Japan.
China produces 100000 ounces Of
gold yearly.
Young condors remain nestlings for
one whole year.
A human being breathes about 20
times a minute.
Motors killed twenty-five in Lon
don's streets last year.
Fewer than 5000 people own all the
land Of Great Britain.
British automobile exports now
amount to about $22.OOo.OOO a year.
Tobacco is served out to the Italian
soldiers as part Of their regular ra-
lions.
Seventy-fve per cent Of. the meat
consumed in Great Britain Is Inn
ported.
Some authorities claim that a diet
II goats milk makes one immune from
tuberculosis.
Disks Of iron, without teeth, turning
with great velocity, are used for saw
Ing metal.
European military engineers are
working on a form OF automobile to
iraw artillery.
AT the present rate OF increase the
population OF this country In 1919 will
be 100000.
Three hundred thousand concrete
cross ties have been ordered for the
italian railways,
Il is likely that a monorafl system
VIII be experimental with In the upper
part Of New York city.
There is received daily at the port
Of New York an average OF $2740o0
In gold and silver imports.
Bakers Of Pompeii made their bread
circular and fiat, as appears from
loaves found in the ruins.
The largest pin factory III the world
ls az Birmingham, England. 1t turns
out 100000 pins every day.
A Japanese electrician has invented
a wireless system which Ia asserted to
be superior to anything now in use.
Joseph Nannetti, lord mayor Of Dub
lin, is the son Of an Italian modeler,
and has sat in Parliament since 1900.
The japanese government holds a
monopoly on matchmaking. The gov
eminent controls the trade in the East.
The machine which cuts up wood to
make matches turns out 10000
'splints,' as they are called, In a sin
gle minute.
King Leopold has offered a prize Of
$4,000 for a remedy for the sleeping
sickness which is wiping out his sub
lects In Africa.
A Berlin scientist has made 10000.
examinations to get to the conclusion
that woman's brain is undoubtedly
smaller than mans
A healthy adult hreathes from four
teen to tw~enty-four times a minute.
The rate of the pulse is four times
that Of the respiration.
An English sea captain who died the
other day at eighty had crossed the
English channel 10000 times In his
dfty-three years Of service.
England has 1000 golf clubs with
100000 members who use 100000 golf
balls per week and walk over the links
lbout 26o,ooo,OOo miles per year.
A leading German electrical company
has in contemplation the erection Of
a new plant for the exclusive manufac,
lure Of airships and aeroplanes.
According to a report from Kabul.
the Amer is erecting pillar boxes and
is Introducing postal facilities. A new
stamp has been recently issued.
There are ten government polytech-
nic schools in Germany, having a total
Of 1888 students. The one at Berlin
leads with an enrolment of 3,129.
Russia has $4,000 miles Of naviga-
bic rivers and $4,000 miles Of rail-
roads. At last accounts the river traf.
dc amounted to 10000 tons a year.
1t is quite likely that an American
bank VIII be established soon in Pekln
That city has had British, German,
French and japanese banks for some
time.
Chile, which has the reputation Of
5eing the most progressive OF the Span
ish speaking countries, has over 5000
miles Of railroad and 1000 miles OF
telegraph.
The Japanese government Is making
energetic fight to prevent the
plague. In Toxic alone, between 1000
and 5000 rats are killed and examin-
ed every day In the search for a pos
sible source OF infection.