Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-06-20


A party OF tourists which recently
Travelled over the Grand Trunk railway
Of Canada continuously for five days,
was served during that time. on the
dining cars, with $50 meals daily, or
$500 meals in all. This was done on
w standard dining cars, each having
a seating capacity OF 30 persons and
managed by one conductor, four cooks
and five walters. At this rate each
waiter served at each meal an average
Of % persons, and each chair would be
used an average OF three and two
thirds times at each meal.
Without tunnels. coal. firemen and
smoke, the f%orerunner of the new mo-
torship mas arrived. The Danish East
Asiatic company has made a practical
test with a new a of 10000 o dis
placement. The ship is an oil burner
n is. in fact. an immense motor boat
driven by engines somewhat similar to
hose in use upon motor cars. Thu en-
CINE room has the advantage of plenty
OF light, no oppressive heat, and but
little noise. It's OIL tanks. at the keel.
the world.
Miss Elizabeth Ross has been op-
pointed manager of the household sew
Ice office. which has just been estab-
lished in Jamaica Plain. Mass. by the
Women's Municipal league. The en-
terprise is patterned after the Brattle-
bOrO Mutual Aid association. a neigh
borhood service which affords mutual
aid for the sick. The plan is to furnish
at cost competent nurses, to educate
people along sanitary lines and to fur
nish employment for women and girls
competent as household helpers.
One Of the divisions of France. the
department Of Seine-et-Marne. has is
nVpod tic CnoLo kf11inO h,,1Uot 1t chn,u0
that vipers are almost as numerous as
ever before in the lie de France. They
are in the forest OF Fon-
~tainebleau, where n ~gamekeeper alone
killed 1878 in the course of last year.
Fol this he was paid 1925, and in all
the department paid $3.50 in the year.
being a reward OF Z cents for a c
viper's head presented. Nearly 5000
were killed during h year.
That American engineers have won
world wide fame as bridge builders
has again been demonstrated-this time
in connection with a competition for
Q state railway bridge over h River
JuElna eat Allahabad. India. Twelve
leading bridge building concerns com
peted. and the award was given to ap
American company. whose bid was 26A
per cent leEs tina that Of the lowest
British tender.
A plague Of snails is reported from
the island Of Ceylon, part OF which II
overrun by these animals. All e
tation is devoured as soon as 1t ap.
pears, and the natives have found 1t
necessary to cooperate against them.
Trenches are dug to stay their progress
and they are kept from the trees by
making a circle on the ground aroun
the trunks OF cork or fiber, impregnated
with tar or pitch.
Shaving was practiced among tho
Egyptians early in the 18th century be-
tore Christ. The first mention of it In
h scriptures Is in Genesis, where Jo-
seph made Q hasty toilet when told to
60 before the king n Shaved him
self" Nearly q century after. shaving
the head IL mentioned. Ezekiel refers
to the BARRIERS razor" OF course v
erybody knows that Delilah was the
drst LADY barber" mentioned.
A man who lived at the time Of the
Emperor Tiberitus invented a kind Of
u~nbreakable glass. n fashioned a cup
out Of II. The emperor summoned the
maj to his presence. He was asked
whether anybody else knew the secret.
He replied that no n else did. The
emperor Immediately ordered him be-
headed. His reason was that he feared
the new material would depreciate the
value of gold and silver.
A successful reproduction OF Shake.
pearc's THE Merry Wives Ct Wind-
eor.'' was given at the Imperial thea
Ter In Toxic. Although 1t was per.
- In Japanese language. the comedy an
q WA presented on the stage retained
tn characteristic originality, the entire
costumes ana scenes used being Euro
pean.
An fnmnVnti0n In Rnofnn aoeOnI ~,@~a,