Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-07-26

soAeor os1v, SOUTH DAKOTA
Most perso,s crotab.y think thu:
winged seeds from trees -.avel 70
great distances Oh the Wind. But The
studies Of DR.. Ridley. Of the Detantc
gardens. at Singapore. indicate that
winged seeds have 4 far n%arrowe! aase
o: night than do powder seeis and
plunned seeds. Tie reatest distance
Travelled by the winged tru.t o. 2 forss,
tree. observed By DR.. E.c1ey. was 10
yards. Under the mos. favorable CIR
cumstances- he calculates. & would
take this plan, 100 years 70 spread go
yards. and l.s1G,U0 years 70 spread
from the Malay peninsula 10 the Phil
lppines. IL a long connection existed
Fourteen years ago a bottle ,nanu.ac-
France. wac forced 70 close his fartory
by the continuous strikes and exaciioas
OF his employees. He then get to wo..
TO invent a machine for the !nanItac-
ture OF bottles. This machine rs nor In
use In various parts Of the country,
100000 bottles are turned oct by II
daily. A single machine produces $3.50
bottles In t~wen.y-tour hours. ana any
one can learn 10 run Il in d "eek. The
bottles are stronger and look better
than those made BY the blowers
Julian Trask. formerly labor com
missioner OF New Hampshire. STAN
mers greatly In his speech. and hi.
peculiarly is well known throughout
the state. One day he Was approached
by a stranger who. after scne preiiIn-
1nary talk. confessed that he had n
son who suffered. He was anxious to
have the lad cured n asked Mi.
IT. fn. ,Ht.t4n r..ayttr -, tho - -.
The labor commissioner reflected grave
ly for a few moments and then re-
sponded with all the emphasis he could
command: "s-s-s-hoot him"
Ever since 1910 the skull OF Sir
Thomas Browne has been on show In Il
museum at Norwich. II has now been
restored to the vault whence 1t was
taken Sylvanus Urban. In the Gem
tleman's Magazine. condemns the NOR
bidness and that OF certain people h
proposed to have Shakespeare's skull
ishly inclined busybodies." he says. en-
pS%atically. "confne their attention to
the anatomy OF Jonathan Wild"
Asbestos stockings are now being
manufactured for use by Workmen In
boiler rooms and foundrics In these
and other situations the floor often be-
comes intentionally hot. though not
hot enough to burn through the soles
of shoes. h workmen In these posi-
lions suffer fortunes from their feet.
and 1t IL declared that the n%on-eon-
Quoting properties OF asbestos enables
them to withstand higher temperatures
with absolute comfort.
There IS II plant in Chill and Il sim
ilar one in Japan called the flower OF
the air" 1t Is go called because II
appears TO have M root, and is never
fxed 70 the earth. 1t twines round &
dry tree or a sterile rock Each shoot
produces two or three flowers like n
1ly-white transparent and odoriferous.
1t Is capable OF being transported 600
to 100 miles and vegetables TT IT travels
suspended on a twig.
In view OF tho astounding fact that
in one year 1.G34 London children have
died In OF injuries re-
ceived from open nrep1aces, AN effort
is being made to have a law enacted
to punish pareRtS who leave children
lireplaceA A similar inquiry might he
made With important results In Amer
ica, is the comment made by the New
York Observer.
Captain r. Bentley Mott. for several
years our military attache ut Paris. is
advocating a radical change in the
present training OF the American army.
With Aldershot as a model. Captain
Mott advises the concentration OF large
bodies OF troops. so that the general
officers In the army may have exper-
fence In handling brigades and divis-
ions in actual war.
A young Japanese who recently COM
mitted suicide by leaping into the era
ter of the volcano at Asama left be-
hind him a note, in which he said:
Suffering a feeling OF despair impels
me to throw myself into the crater OF
vehement Asama. thus winning a
splendid death. and ascending the
mountains smoke to n lofty Me above
the sky"
The evidence before the British army
stores commissioners as to graft dur
ing the Boer war shows that there
was only M regiment the contractors
were unable to cheat. That proud dis
tinction belongs to the Seventh Hus-
sars. They weighed everything and
checked tho quality OF everything sup
piled them.
All the efforts made by n Liverpool
arm to promote tho cultivation of cot
ton in Palestine have been fruitlcss
even though labor costs only 25 cents
q day and and Ia one-tenth the price
the failure is said to be the i%ncapacity
and laziness of the natives.
A gallant motorist had rescued beau
~ In distress from a dog cart in 81
ditch, whore n scared horse had landed
e, says Motor illustrated. when the
lady lisped sweetly: Thank o sc
much. Would you mind doing 1t again
We do SO a II horse to get used
to those horrid things"
The following notice was recently to
be seen outside n church door In n Sur
fey village: "The Rev. T.. t will