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


'itoANSlN Ol i4OhNSSS'
The eggs OF wild birds are smaller
thar those of the same species OF birds
when domeSticated.
No fewer than 60,407 articles found
in public carriages were last yeas
taken to Scotland Yard, London.
OF all places of Importance, Sydney
New South Wales, is farthest from
London as the crow tlies-1O,l2O miles.
St. Louis has a concrete building
tifty-seven feet high, which is entirely
without windows. The illumination IS
by means of skylights in the roof.
Al Irish woman, Miss Lillian e.
Bland, has designed and built for her
self a biplane glider twenty-eight feet
wide. Several satisfactory glides have
been accomplished with the machine
controlled from the ground by ropes.
The engine and propellers will be fit
ted later.
Use of tobacco is universal in the
orient, and the word cheroot and Its
use come from Madras. The first CT
CARS seen by Columbus were wrapped
with corn Shucks. Some Himalaya
tribes take the leaf of the palassa and,
with a cunning twist Of the wrist,
make the bow and long. narrow stem
of a pipe in the most perfect way.
Miss Helen Y. Carson OF Bedford,
Ia, has entered upon her second year
az superintendent Of the high schools
of Extra, Ia. She was recommended
by the Governor of Colorado for the
place and was just twenty-five when
she was elected. She is said to do the
work just as well as her masculine
predecessor and to receive the same
salary.
1t is estimated that there are ESQ,
600 hives or colonies of bees in Swift
| erland, each of which produces forty
| pounds of honey during the season,
a total of ten million pounds a year.
| The average price Of Swiss honey for
the year 1909 was 25 cents a pound,
giving the years product a total value
OF So, SOC, 900. which is mostly profit,
nature providing the raw material in
an abundance of flowers.
Eookha, the hubble-buhble or Turk
ISL water pipe, is always being smoked
by Burmese women partly because
they like it, but mainly to supply the
men with nicotine water. This hub
ble-bubble nicotine water habit is, in
fact, a lazy form of tobacco chewing.
A mouthful Of the nasty beverage is
held in the mouth as long as possible.
They carry about gourds full of it, and
claim it preserves their teeth, and 1t
may.-New York Press.
In our army machine guns have
been supplied from time to time, but
only eXDerimentally and not as an in
trinsic part of the army organization.
The question has been studied, no
doubt, by the general staff, but the
definite organization and supply of this
new arm has been postponed to make
way for other more pressing consider
atoms and also to profit by the expert
ence of European nations before adopt
ing any definite organization or tao
tics for his new but highly important
arm OF the service.
Some English seem to think all
meats coming in should be marked
either foreign" or '~colonial' to SHOW
the buyer that he was not getting Eng
lish meat. Every one of the chief
Joints would ave to be stamped, and
the exporter would have to do the
stamping. Further. the butcher deal
ing in foreign" as well as English
meat must announce the fact on his
shor front, so that his customers may
know he deals in both foreign and
English meats. Some of the farmers
complain that much foreign meat is
passed off as English to bring down
their prices.
'Nob" is the only one of the abbre'
waited words protested against by
Dean Swift which has conquered even
the purists of speech. 'Incog' is still
short of responsibility, and "phiz'
(physiognomy) very far so. However
other abbreviated forms have won. A
cabriolet is a cab to everybody now
though to Dickens Mr.. Raddle it was
still a "cabrioly.' Miss" for mis-
~tress." piano" for "pianoforte' anG
|"sweets' for "sweetmeats' are unlver
sal. Nevertheless, many people still
Iapologize for bus instead of "onni
bus" and wage a losing fight against
i"phone' and against photo
Consul Thomas H. Norton, of Chem
Initz. tells of the Importance of the
DOta in the LIE or rma lns
potato occupies a relatively more i'm
portant position in Germany than il
other European countries. 1t is mo-
only employed largely for food fol
both man and beast, but also for con
version into starch and alcohol. Thu
1908 crop was estimated at 46 ,500,O0(
metric tons (51,256,950 short tons)
10. 600, 900 tons being used for human
food and 19,00O,0 coo tons for feeding
domestic animals. Starch factories
utilized 100000 tons, distillerie:
$500 900 tons. while 5.5O0,0o0 tom
were required for seed"
Miss Bessie NJ. G.. Dare, of Bowsho
farm, whose marriage has taken place
at Wootton-Fitzpaine church. enjoy:
widespread fame as an expert in dairy
ing. She has won over a hundre
prizes, certificates and medals for he
butter making. her fancy designing II
|, butter gaining for her high distinc
t ton. She was champion silver medal
isl for milking at the Bath and south
ern counties show in a competition
open to farmers wives and daughter
throughout the kingdom. Out of on
hundred competitors in each comes
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