Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-12-12

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growth in the various orchards. La
Dor saving devices have been applied
10 the handling, polishing, grading and
backing OF oranges, and Il system of
,co-operative direction In their market
ing, tin row the average cost To the
grower for both packing and market
Ing is 30 CENTS a box.
There Is a group of African rodents.
designated scaly-tailed squirrels, the
the necessity of additional aid for the
purpose OF tree-climbing. They have
accordingly developed on the under sur
SAGE of the tail certain structures which
may be compared to the climbing irons
used by workmen. These take the form
OF "a Few transverse rows Of large, tri-
angular, horney scales. with their
points directed backward. These scales,
when pressed against the Dark OF Il
tree. must afford material aid in
climbing.
Sue Moon. q Chinese. was brought
before the Melbourne magistrate the
other day charged with having workc ID
after 2 O'Clock on II Saturday after
room. contrary to the provisions Of
he local factories act. He pleaded
that he had washed only one collar
after tho statutory closing time.
Via Only n collar from . to s
O'Clock" exclaimed the chairman.
Him veliy dirty collar rejoined Sue
Moon. This defense was deemed too
INN n Sue was fined $3.50. After
paying. he remarked: "Fackly act
make Chinanlan very lazy fellow
College clubs are becoming WONDER
ful employment agencies and the uni
versities themselves also. The Yale
club of New York n and the Bureau
Of Self-Help of the university in New
Haven report a greater demand for
Yale men than they can supply, and the
same story Is true of Harvard. Recently
a wealthy Pennsylvania. IL Harvard
graduate. came to Cambridge and Won
over to his business Il western Harvard
graduate who had just entered the law
school. The university was the medium
which brought the two together.
Experiments are in progress at the
New York Skin and Cancer hospital, $50
Second avenue for the alienation of
pain by the use of intense light. So far
h physicians are unwilling to express
any definite opinions AS to it's efficacy,
and content themselves Ivy saying that
their hospital tries every device which
promises to be of assistance in curing
or alternating cancer. The results with
the light cure" however. have been
sufficiently satisfactory to induce them
to continue the experiments.
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those people whose lands are vast and
barren, and whose obstacles tending to
shorten h sight are few. lsskimos will
detect "a white fox in the snow at n
great distance. The Arabs of the deserts
of Africa have such extreme powers Of
vision thai on the vast plains of the
desert they will pick out objects invis-
tb1e to the ordinary eye ut ranges Of
from one to ten miles. Among civil
ixed peoples the Norwegians have the
best eyeSight.
WOmen's hats are both common and
costly. as q rule. but a woman in
brunswick. who made no great pre-
tenttons to fashion. holds the record
for the highest price paid for an article
OF millinery. She bought a hat with q
lottery ticket which the merchant ac-
cepted IN place Of the money. A few
weeks later the ticket drew the great
ans husband tried to induce the mer-
chant to share the results, he only re-
ceived E25. That hat cost E14,S75.
The road over the Andes which Chile
and Argentina are building and which
is the last link In the line across South
America between the Atlantic and Pa
ciftc. IL nearing It's completion. 1t is
said that the entire line will be open to
trade next year. The Andes section Of
the road begins at Mendoza in Argen-
taAt0s ZIG ALluC bBIIOukn a luUs
mel -four kil0meters long and extends to
the Chilean town Los Andes, which has
rail connection with the Pacific.
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In his report for the quarter ending
September 80 the fishery officer for the
northeastern district states that he re-
ceived one marked crab during the
quarter. 1t was captured at Boddin.
close to Montrose. Scotland. It had
travelled from -four miles north Of Scar
borough castle. a distance OF about 156
n lift on the way from some sportive
person 1t must on the average have
crnwled not less than 500 yards a day.
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All the cxars Of Russia have been
crowned in the Kremlin in Moscow, the
treasury OF which contains the most
historic jewels and the choicest plate
now owned by the Russian crown,
There il $500. 000. 900 worth Of gold, sil.
ury. Among the more notable items
are basins of gold an big as a small
.bathtub and two card tables built en-.
tirely Of solid silver.
On small econ6mies the following will
be dihicult to beat for smallneSs. A
lab0ring man who hands owe his week.
" wnges to his wife in allowed by he,
an ounce " tobacco a week. She buy,
It hereelf In two separate half ounces-
I'm order. b declares, to get the ad.
vantage Of the i've turns Of the scale