Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-07-20

FRED w. WRIGHT, Publisher.
DE sMET. souTH DAKOTA
Most persons probably think that
winged seeds from trees travel to
great distances on the wind. But the
studies of DR.. Ridley, of the Botanic
gardens, at Singapore, indicate that
winged seeds have a far narrower range
of flight than do powder" seeds and
plumed seeds. The greatest distance
Travelled by the winged fruit OF a forest
tree, observed by Or. Ridley, was 100
yards. Under the most favorable cir
c~umstances, he calculates, 1t would
take this plant 100 years to spread 800
yards, and 1900, 900 years To spread
from the Malay peninsula to the Phil
ippines, II q long connection existed.
Fourteen years ago a bottle manufac-
turer, Claude Boucher, in Cognac,
France, was forced to close his factory
by the continuous strikes n exactions
of his employees. He then set to work
TO invent a machine for the manufac-
ture OF bottles. This machine Is now In
use in various parts of the country;
$50, 900 bottles are turned out by u
daily. a single machine produces $4,000
bottles In twenty-four hours; and any
one can learn to run II In a week. The
bottles are stronger and ook better
than those made by the blowers.
Julian Trask, formerly labor COM
missioner OF New Hampshire, stam-
mers greatly in his speech, and this
regularity is we'll known throughout
the state. one day he was approached
by a stranger who, after some prelim-
mary talk, confessed that he a q
son who suffered. He was anxious to
have the lad cured and asked Mr..
Trask for advice regarding the matter.
The labor commissioner reflected grave
~ 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 q
museum at Norwich. II has now been
restored to the vault whence 1t was
taken Sylvanus Urban, In the Gen
tIeman's Magazine, condemns the NOR
bidness and that of certain people who
proposed to have S~hakespeare's skul
similarly examined. Let such ghoul-
ishly inclined b~usybodies," he says, m
phatically, "confine their attention TO
the anatomy of Jonathan Wild"
Asbestos stockings are now being
manufactured for use by workmen In
boiler rooms and foundries. In these
and other situations the floor often be-
comes uncomfortably hot. though not
hot enough to burn through the soles
OF shoes. The workmen In these posi-
lions suffer fortunes from their feet,
and II is declared that the non-con-
Quoting properties of asbestos enables
them TO Withstand higher temperatures
with absolute comfort.
There is a plant In Chill n a sim
liar one in Japan called the flower or
the air" It Is so called because IL
appears to have no root, and Is never
fixed TO the earth. 1t twines round a
dry tree or a sterile rock. Each shoot
produces two or three flowers fike a
lily-white transparent and odoriferous.
IT Is capable of being transported 500
to 700 miles and vegetables as 1t travels
suspended on a twig.
In view OF the astounding fact that
in one year 1854 London children have
died in consequence of injuries re-
ceived from open fireplaces, an effort
is being made to have a law enacted
TO punish parents who leave children
unguarded In rooms that have such
freplaces. A similar inquiry might be
made with important results In Amer
Tea, is the made by the New
York Observer.
Captain Il. Bentley Mott, for several
years our military attache at 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 n 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 a lofty life above
the sky"
The evidence before the British army
stores commissioners as TO graft dur
ing the Boer war shows that there
was only one regiment the contractors
were unable to cheat. That proud dis
tinction belongs to the Seventh Hus-
sars. They weighed everything and
checked the quality of everything sup
piled them.
All the efforts made by a Liverpool
firm to promote the cultivation OF cot
ton In Palestine have been fruitless,
even though labor costs only 20 cents
q day and land Is one-tenth the price
OF Egyptian land. The chief cause of
the failure Is said to be the ~incapacity
and laziness OF the natives.
A gallant motorist had rescued beau
fy In distress from a dog cart in q
ditch. where a scared horse had anded
1t, says Motor Illustrated. when the
lady lisped sweetly: Thank you so
much. Would you mind doing 1t again?
We do so want our horse TO get used
20 those horrid things"
The following notice was recently to
be seen outside a church door In a Sur
rev village: THE Rev. X. T. VIII
preach his farewell sermon on Sunday
next. The choir will render an anthem
OF joy and thanksgiving. specially com
posed for the OCCASION"
Bertha l.. Fowler. a 12-year-old girl
OF Lewiston, Me-, has been astonish-
Ing patrons OF the fair grounds there
by driving a big Hambletonian PAGER