The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-10-07

England and Wales have three
quarters Of q million paupers.
In Great Britain there are nearly
two million trades unionists.
A ton OF dead sea water will yielc
1877 pounds Of salt when evaporated.
There are 200,0Oo,O0c copies Of the
Bible scattered throughout the world.
For So steam will do the work
which would cost $500 IL done by
hand.
North America supplies more than
three-fifths of the worlds consumption
OF copper.
Dynamos have been successfully and
economically driven by gas engines in
Boston.
The gifts of John ID. Rockefeller to
Chicago University now total over
$25,O00,ooo. ....
About 40 per cent of all the crimes
committed is the work Of habitual
criminals.
Argentina has 245.O00,O0O acres Of
unoccupied 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 emigrants to Canada In batch
es Of 900 monthly.
In London there are about 1900
charitable agencies, dispensing $780,
100000 annually.
Five hundred American Sunday pa
pers would make 100000 volumes Of
500 pages each.
Ghe state woods Of Germany cover
100000 acres and give employment
to 100000 persons. r
The smallest coin In use is coined
by the Portuguese government. 1t is
worth 3-100 Of a cent.
The cigarette appetite of Korea's
100000 natives amounts to S40e
100000 smokes a day.
Australia covers 20 times as much
area as the British isles, but its popu-
lation is less than that of London.
One Of the newest domestic conven-
fences is a jointed clothes prop which
folds up for convenience in storing
away.
The Poor Clergy Relief Corporation
OF England in the last year has made
grants to 766 persons, a~ggregating over
$4,000.
The meteorites which hurl them
selves at this sphere add about one
thousand tons 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
IN by 30,100 vessels, Of a total tonnage
of about 25,ooo,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.
la Braddan Churchyard, on the isle
Of Man, Bishop Straton preached TO
$4,000 visitors. the ~overreacbing trees
forming a vast natural cathedral.
The gross earnings of the Toki0
street railways are from $4,000 20
$1,000 a day, and probably reach $t5.-
GOO a day when the flower season be-
gins. ~. .
The pinguicula is a plant which Is
a natural hy-paper. Its leaves are
constantly covered with a sticky sub
stance that traps all insects alighaing
thereon, ..r
The United States has more news
papers than any other country. Ev-
cry week day there are 100000 cop
les issued and on Sunday the number
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