Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-06-29

che Forest City Press
e. p. THoRNE, Publisher.
FOREST CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA.
The present German house Key oul
be used as a weapon of attack and de-
Tense besides serving its original pur-
pose. 1t weighs on an average about Ia
or a pound, and as each person entitled
to carry "A house and corridor key has
nearly a quarter of a pound of soft
iron in his pocket it is co~nservatively
estimated that the amount of iron in
circulation in Germany In the pockets
OF the men and in the handbags of the
women amounts to 1855 tons, besides
an additional 1850 OF for the keys
TO the interior of German homes.
A factory erected at Khartoum for
the manufacture of fuel from sudd was
officially opened recently by Captain
Bennett Dampier in the presence of all
he principal government officials
and leading residents. A complete dem
onstration of the entire process Of
manufacture was given with %unuualis
~ liz = vi nv EIOIJ-
lem of providing the Soudan with cheap
fuel is generally regarded as marking
an immense step forward in the econ
omic development of the country. The
new fuel is to be known as %"suddite."
1t is impossible to ignore history
dealing with the University of Pennsyl-
Sania. One man car not get away
from 1t. All the walls are covered with
1t. The buildings are genealogical
museums. Paintings. bas-reliefs. in
scriptions, windows, relics, manuscripts
and similar memorabilia catch the at
tention of the visitor wherever he goes
The painted faculty outnumbers the
living.
Sir James Crichton Browne, the well
known London doctor. recently paid "a
compliment to the nurses employed in
the asylufns n remarked that if
young scions of the nobility must mar
~ women outside their class the asy-
lum nurses were we'll acquainted with
mental foibles and would on the whole
make better wives than gayety chorus
girls.
In one form INC another, the British
income tax has been in force for short
and long intervals for 40 years. Since
1872 Its operation has been almost con-
tinuous. When first applied in 1895
Ireland was not included. The popu-
lation Gp which it was then levied wa.
1O,6OO.OOO and the annual revenue OBJ.
tanned was approximately $50. 600, 900.
Egyptians were the first to make use
or artificial eyes. which were made OF
gold n silver and subsequently OF
copper and iron. Hundreds Of years
later, In the 10th century, when they
were ade In Europe, porcelain was the
substance used, and the maker usually
stamped his address or the white OF
the eye.
Under Hong-Kong ordinances the
company, limited has been formed with
$4,000, 900 capital to take over the de-
velop mining concessions in China. It's
directors are Yokohama and London
business men and 1t has secured valu.
able mines in he Tung Hwa and Hual
Jen districts in southern Manchuria.
California lion hunters did a pretty
good business last month, according tc
q recent report issued by State Comp.
-troller Nye, which shows that SO lions
were killed in % counties, and the state
Mendocino county leads the other
counties. five lions having been brought
to earth by hunters up there.
All saints chapel at Newport, r. /.
which a few years ago was one of the
most fashtonab BILE churches In New Eng.
land. attended by the most exclusive
OF the Newport summer colony and the
scene of several notable society we'd
dings. Is to be sold under a court order
Tor the lack Of a congregation.
OF h thousands of Mono and Yo.
semitic Indian tribes who roamed the
districts In this country many years
ago, only n OF each remain. accord
ing to the Indian census, which has
just e completed by Miss L. Tib-
bets and c. G. Dorsey. who are en-
ployed by the government.
Conservative estimates place the
number OF people who will emiRrate
from the United States t Canada dur
Ing the year 1909 at from $4,000 Ia
100000. A. q large number are we'll
to-do farmers, they will take with them
many millions Of dollars.
Attention has been called by a sci
entitc periodical to the fact that not
only water color but oil paintings OF
the last halt century seem doomed to
fade. and that typewriter documents
Will ultimately be blank paper.
n Chile nearly all the civil, mechan-
1cal y electrical engineers, archi-
tectD and salesmen are Europeans.
This - the reason America gets such
= small share Of that country's busi-
l