Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-12-10
LITTLE ABOUT EVERYTHING.

England and Wales have three
quarters of Il million paupers.
In Great Britain there are nearly
W million trade %unionists.
A ton of dead sea water will yield
1877 pounds Of salt when evaporated.
There are 2OO, 100000 copies of the
Bible scattered throughout the world.
For IS steam will do the work
which would cost $500 if done by
hand.
North America supplies more than
tllree-ffths 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
SOS, 900, 900.
About 4S per cent of all the crimes
committed is the work Of habituai
criminals.
Argentina has 245, 900, 900 acres Of
unoccupied land which is suitable for
cattle grazing.
The average elevation of North
America is 1850 feet, and OF South
America 1000 feet.
The Salvation Army in England IL
sending emigrants to Canada in batch
as Of 600 monthly.
In London there are about 1890
charitable agencies, dispensing $780,
100000 annually.
Five hundred American Sunday pa
pers would make 100000 volumes Of
900 pages each.
The state woods of Germany cover
100000 acres and give employment
to 100000 persons.
The smallest coin In use 10 coined
by the Portuguese government. 1t 10
worth 8-10O Of q cent.
The cigarette appetite OF Korea's
2 100000 0 natives amounts to S4O,-
100000 smokes a day.
Australia covers 20 times as much
area as the British isles, but Its popu-
lat1on is less than that of London.
One Of the newest domestic nven
fences is a jointed clothes prop which
away.
The Poor Clergy Relief Corporation
of England In the last year has made
grants to 766 persons, ag%gregating over
$4,000.
The meteor1tes 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 q new company. COM
posed OF Europeans of high standing
and wealthy natives.
Excluding about $4,000 small vessels,
the m Of the world is carried
on by 3O,1OO 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 $39O,OOO.OOO.
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.
LII 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
$4,000 a day, inc probably reach Slo,-
600 a day when the flower season be-
gins.
The %pinguicula is a plant which is
q natural ny-paper. Its leaves are
constantly covered with a sticky sub,
stance that traps all insects allghtinG
thereon.
The United States has more news
papers thar any other country. Ev'
cry week day there are 100000 cop
les issued and on Sunday the number
is d, 600 copies.