Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-10-08
LITTLE ABOUT EVERYTHING.

England anu Wales have three
quarters of Il million paupers.
In Great Britain there are nearly
two million trales uniomists.
A tor Of dead sen water will yield
1877 pounds of salt when evap"rated.
There are POO, 900, 900 copies of the
Bible scattered throughout the world.
For So steam will do the work
which would cost $500 if lone by
hand.
North America supplies more than
three-tifths 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
500, 100000.
About 4S per cen of all the crimes
committed is the work of habitual
criminals.
Argentina has 245.OOO,OOO acres of
tiicNNtpitt tiiu ! 10 "
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 600 monthly.
In London there are about $500
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 300 of a cent.
The cigarette appetite of Korea's
2O,OOO,OOO natives amounts to S4O,-
100000 smoke Il day.
Australia covers 26 times as much
area as the British isles, but It's popu-
lation is less Ii that of London.
One Of the newest domestic conven-
fences is 4 jointed clothes prof. which
folds up for convenience in storing
away.
The Poor Clergy Relief Corporation
of England in the last year has made
grants to 76G persons, aggregating OYER
$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 Il new company, COM
posed of Europeans of high standing
and wealthy natives.
Excluding about $4,000 small vessels,
the of the world is carried
on by 3d. 0 vessels, Of a total tonnage
Of about 25,0OO,OOO.
The project for electric railways
LII lllSS liz wal I bNSh liL
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 Oh 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 Ch%urchyard, 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, and probably reach 3d.
600 a day when the flower season be-
gins.
The pinguicula is a plant which is
a natural fy-paper. Its leaves are
constantly covered with a sticky sub
stance that traps all insects alighljng
thereon.
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 lumber
is II 100000 copies.