Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-04-29
FACTS IN TABLOID FORM.

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In the last ten years 1926. 900 people
have emigrated from England and be-
come Canadian farmers.
In the rural districts of England and
Wales the death rate is about 20 per
cent lower han In the urban districts.
Twenty tons of ostrich feathers, val
ued at more than $500. 600, were re-
Gently carried by the Mauretania to
New York.
The Koh-i-noor diamond originally
weighed eight hundred karats, but by
successive cuttings has been reduced
to LOG karats.
At the end Of the last fiscal year in
the United States 27S life-saving sta
lions had been established, of which
more han two hundred were on the
Atlantic and gulf coasts, %sixty-one on
the coasts of the Great Lakes, seven
teen on the Pacific coast and one on
the Ohio River at Louisville, KY. More
than six hundred persons are number
ed in the crews and there were 1913
disasters in which the service took an
active part.
According to report a section of the
amphitheater in King Arthur's round
table field in Monmouthshire, England,
has been partially exhumed. The
Archaeological Society has made five
excavations around the walls and the
searchers found the main entrance,
the sand which formed the bed of the
arena, and a corner stone. From In
scriptions on the stone they trace the
date of the theater back to 40 A. D.,
or eighteen hundred years.
At the Court Theater at Darmstadt
a Christmas play In five acts, entitled
"B~onifacius." was performed a few
weeks ago. The plot is laid in the
Black Forest; the time the eighth CEN
fury. The subject treated is the con-
version Of the heather by st. Boni-
face. The play was well received and
it now becomes known that the author,
on the bills as e. Mann, is the grand
duke OF Hesse, who Is hailed by h
German press as the latest recruit to
the ranks Of royal dramatists.
The year 1909 will always be re-
membered as the year in which the eff
fort to maintain finished steel prices
collapsed, but in the light of the his
tory since made 1t will be well to re-
member that the year is also conspicu-
VI rs witnessing a healthy and rea-
sonable reaction toward fair prices
with an absolutely open market, but
with a spirit of fairness and good will
the trade which never be-
fore existed under similar outward
To- nN.~I1 @,rt1r l
There is no incident of Christmas
within our knowledge of
such f~ar-reaching scope for future
good as the gift Of Henry Phipps to
University of pennsylvania In fur
therance of his plans for the study.
and prevention of tubercu-
losis. Mr.. Phipps, who has now ex-
$~3,000.o00 with a view to the
OF this most destructive OF
effectiveness of his object by putting
It's direction in charge Of a capable in
stitution already organized to make
most competent use Of the weap-
ons placed in its NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Record.
Nearly one million new farms have
been created in the United States dur.
ing the last ten years. In the last ten
years the total number of farms has
Is per cent. In the older
States, from Ohio eastward, there has
been going on for twenty years a ten
dency toward the amalgamation of
farms distant from market into larger
holdings. On the other hand, this sec
ton has witnessed the cutting up into
smaller sizes of many farms nearer to
market. There are now almost three
times as many farms as in 1870. and
unprecedented increase in the value
OF farm lands and live stock.-Ameri-
can Agriculturist.
frequent: Tilak Ga caste mark on the
Piyari (~beloved). Chh
Kouri (six little shells), Tonga e
clove), Kurbani (sacrifice). Mott
(pearl). Suraj (sun), Kharg (swordl.
Bali ~(strong), Phul (fiower), Bahadur
(brave). There sometimes they give
their children bad names SO that evil
will pass them by and not
harm them, thinking they are worth
less-as Bhikari ~(beggar), Bhangi
(scavanger), Chuha (rat), Gobar (cow
dung. know a high caste family
who lost several children in infancy.
When the fourth was born they called
him Bhangi. and he lived. They at
tribute his life to the name they gave
him.-Muxaffarpur Christian Advocate.
Some people believe that the banana
the original forbidden fruit of
the garden OF Eden. In any case, it 10
one Of the curiosities OF the vegetable
kingdom, being not a tree, a palm, 81
bush, q shrub, a vegetable o raj herb,
but . h~eroa5eous plant with the status
OF . tree. Although it sometimes at
tains q height of thirty feet, there IL
woody fiber in any part OF its struc-
ture. and the lunches growing or the
dwarf banana plant are often heavier
than the stalk which supports them.
No other plant gives such a quantity
food to the acre as the banana; It
yields forty-four times more by weight
than the potato and 1873 times more
than wheat. Moreover, no insect will
attack It. lad 1t Is always immune
from diseass of any kind.
Public henefactions OF the larger
sort during the year now closing are
believed to have reached $141;000, 900,
heats tho record nv $40 n00 OO0 |