The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-10-20
BREWTIES

TASMANIA mas q population OF 2OO,-
600.
To practice hypnotism is illegal in
Belgium.
Nova Scotia has one bank to every
1000 Inhabitants.
A combination crowbar and truck
has been invented for moving heavy
articles.
The president Of Argentina travels in
a private car equipped with three bed
rooms and baths.
In India the mean duration Of life is
only twenty-three years. In England
it is forty-one years.
Including uniform, the wardrobe of
the German emperor is said to be val
ued at about 100000.
Manhattan Island is increasing in
population ut the rate Of 1900 persons
to the square mile each year.
To keep a diners fingers clean there
has been invented a silver clip to hold
and squeeze a slice of lemon.
AS part Of his scheme for reforming
convicts the governor Of a Swiss pris-
on has introduced chocolate and mu-
sic.
If the land in England and Wales
we're equally divided there would only
be q little over one acre for each per-
son
The druggists assistants Of France
have formed Il union. and are demand
ing the closing of pharmacies at 9
o'clock.
In the new liner Olympic there are
twenty-nine boilers, each measuring
twenty feet long and fifteen feet nine
inches in diameter.
Coal is handled on the Great Lakes
in large bulk. more than 13,5OO,OOO
tons having passed through the 500
canal the, past year.
A workman named Celestin Leroy.
aged fifty. died in Paris the other day
while trying for u wager to eat a large
beefsteak at one mouthful.
Weighing 700 pounds, or nearly a
third Of a ton. the largest halibut on
record was recently landed by a Hull
trawler at Billingsgate market.
In 1904 there were only two motor
cabs in London. By 1909 they had
grown to 1886. and at the end Of
March. this year. the number was
7,165.
Great Britain and ireland now have
a total population Of 45,216.665. ex-
Guiding 14S.934 inhabitants of the Isle
Of Man. Jersey. Guernsey and other
islands.
Forty-six dollars for q cord Of wood
seems a high price. but that is what
New Workers pay for it when they
buy the usual packages at three for
10 cents.
New York city has had many ma
tionaI distinctions, but with all Of the
representatives that it has had in con-
gress in the last 12O years it has never
had =: speaker Of the house.
The mint in New Orleans is now a
thing of the past. and the old building
in future will hes utilized as a govern
meni assay Office. principally for the
handling of bullion from Nicaragua
and other Central American countries.
The five large islands Of Hawaii
have telephone systems. Rates are
about the same as in the United States
proper. The postotfices number nine
ty-three. Postal receipts last year
amounted to $1773249. and expenses
we're $2O9.G11.
A New York Jury has awarded to u
model in Il cloak house $3.50 because.
owing to her prepossessing figure, she
was instrumental in selling $4,000
worth Of goods in n year. When the
firm tried to settle with her for a few
hundred dollars she brought suit
The latest type of scout cruiser of
the British navy, the Dartmouth. is of
$3.50 tons. carries eight six-fnch guns
and will probably have a speed of
twemty-six to twenty-seven knots. The
scouts. like every other type of war
ship. are increasing rapidly in size.
Though Director Joseph e. Ralph Of
the bureau Of engraving and printing
handles an average Of 100000 post
age stamps daily he has never lost OF
misplaced one. Director Ralph turned
UuI lOF luS idSL uSCdi year 0ppAOAA-
mately 11.1OO.OOO.OO0 postage stamps.
A Japanese newspaper man told an
American traveller that bis expense
while Mt the Imperial university had
been So a month. His food. room and
light cost S1.2O a month. the tuition
was 20 cents. paper and books cost 81
cents. and he had 81 left for spending
money.
James Jennings. a merry-go-round
proprietor Of Trowbridge. England. has
been collecting ~horseshoes in his spare
time for the past two years. and he
now has a pile Of them about seven
teen feet high and ten feet through.
The pile weighs about $50 tons and is
worth about $4,000.
At Niagara Falls graphite IL nov
made artinciaily BY electric power.
several thousand tons being produced
there last year. Anthracite coal that
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