Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-09-03
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The number of worlds cattle 10 -
umated at 16O, 600, 900 head.

The number of worlds cattle 10 es
umated at 1G0. 100000 head.
The organ grinders of Vienna play
only between noon and sunset.
In Japan a convict may earn enough
money while in Jail to maintain his
family. He has the best of food and
lodging, is taught a trade, and if he
wishes pursues the study of foreign
languages.
Bakers of Birmingham, England,
have raised the price of four-pound
loaves of bread l cent. British house.
holds depend upon the baker for their
daily bread, and it is impossible to
obtain a cook who can make bread at
home.
A commission, composed of the ma
tional telegraph department, a wire
tional telegraph department, b army
and the navy, is establishing a wire
less telegraph system for all Brazil.
Not only will it be used for army,
navy and national purposes, but for
a public service as well:-Popular
Mechanics.
The only road in Honduras worthy
of the name is the cart road from
Tegucigalpa to San Lorenzo, and this
one, owing to lack of funds for re-
pairs, has become almost impossible.
The auto trucks which were In use
during 1906 were laid up and the ex
pertinent declared a failure.
Marseilles produces much oil be-
sides olive oil. It's forty-tive mills
crush about 465, 900 m of seed each
year. Peanuts, sesame, copra, linseed,
cotton seed. colZas, poppy seed and
castor seed are crushed there. About
400, 900 barrels OF olive oil and about
15O, 900 barrels of cotton seed oil are
bonded annually. Most of the cotton
seed oil is mixed with other oils and
sold as table oil.
Japan's interest bearing debt in 1873
was $33 900, 900. In 1909 it Is, in
round figures, SLIGO, oo0, oos. The in
terest bearing debt of the United
States was 1880, 600, 900 in 1878. 1t
is $913, 0O0.0 900 to-day. While u debt
is only about half as great as it was
thirty-one years ago Japan's is thirty
four times as large as it was at that
time; and while we were reducing our
Indebtedness our population vas grow
ing rapidly.
One of the Objectionable features Of
the ordinary street cars in large cities
is the fact that they are provided with
leather hand straps, which are liable
to accumulate dirt and disease. AS a
substitute for these unsanitary straps
a steel hanger has recently been de-
vised, which is covered with porce-
lain enamel, so that it may be kept
absolutely clean. These straps are be-
ing tried by the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company, of New York City.
Norwich has almost topped the four
hundred mark IN population. Accord
ing to the census compiled by Assessor
Boatright, there are 391 persons in
the city, or were on March 1. His
| figures on the rural population out
side of Norwich and in Bennett Town
ship show 3S1-ten less than in the
| city. Norwich has taken off the brakes,
and by next spring the assessor will
| find far more thar four hundred in
the corporate limits.-Norwich (Kan.)
Herald.
Mrs. Hide Inowye, a wealthy and
cultured Japanese woman, is complet-
ing a course in domestic science at
teachers college, Columbia University,
in order that she may teach her coun-
trywomen the fine points Of house
keeping as practiced in America, Eng
lard and Germany. From teachers
college Mrs. Inowye will go to the Uni
eersity Of Chicago, where she will
spend some months. She has already
saken a brief peep into the University
Of Michigan. Later she will go to
england and thence to Germany.
One of the hens belonging to Mrs.
William Childs last week laid an egg
which was a curiosity. In long cir
conference it measured nine inches;
in short circumference. eve inches.
After keeping the egg for several days,
Mrs. Childs broke the shell, when to
her surprise she found on the inside
another egg we'll developed with a
hard shell. The inclosed egg was as
large as the ordinary egg, the space
between 1t and the outer she'll being
filled with the natural contents, the
yolk and white of the egg.-Danville
American.