Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-03-07
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FOREST CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA.
The committee on printing discovers
that the paper used in government
work has been so adulterated that the
durability of public records is serious
ly imperiled. The a%dulteration con-
sists In substituting clay for the more
substantial wood or rag fiber. Hence
the paper is likely to crumble in less
thar a century. Every year the gov
ernment spends for ape 81, 600. 900.
The public printer has advertised for
bids on 25,OOO pounds OF paper, but the
use OF clay and mineral filters for the
future will be closely watched and re-
Btrtcted.
Through telephone service between
Los Angeles and New York will prob
ably be established by the first of next
November. The cost of the line win
De 100000 and the tolls for each con-
versatlon Will run between $14 and SIS.
"A new submarine cable between Eng
Iand and France has resulted in the
successful telephone transmission of
messages between Great Britain and
switzerland. Satisfactory commercial
conversations are now carried on be-
tween England and Geneva.
AT Hamburg there are two bridges
the masonry of which was threatening
10 1all IN ruins. being %traversed by in
Vulnerable cracks of varying size. A
remarkable process has lust been made
use OF to rejuvenate these bridges. A
number OF holes We're border through
OUT tne structure so as to give access
10 nc Interior and cement was in
yeSsea Dy pumps undo pressure. Re-
ports on the present condition of the
TWO bridges are favorable.
A man discharged from the Bexley
has applied to the guard
lans Tor IA shillings 6 pence as COM
p~ensation for damages to a silk hat
which he was wearing when first taken
10 the institution. A firm of carriers
mas already paid him 4 shillings as
compensation for damage in transit to-
a SILK umbrella forwarded to Lewis
haha' the parish to which he belonged.
according to the c~zarina, Russia's
troubles are due to the education OF
women. All girls. says she, should be
ugh to sew, to care for their homes
ana 10 become helpful wives and good
Inotners. but they should never be
Taught history. philosophy or science.
because these studies. when offered to
women, only result in such terrible
times as Russia is now passing
through"
New Zealand's gold mines have
come to be in the cows, and it's ali
because of the milking machines. Ow-
ing to the scarcity of labor, there was
no.nlng IN The dairy business for New
Zealand until the milking machine mr.
rived. Now the whole country is be-
ing turned into a great dairy farm.
ana the cows, next to sheep. are its
greatest prosperity.
Perhaps the worlds record for I'm,
service Is held by the occupant Of q
grave IN the c~hurchyard at Battle. Sus-
sex. h Is Isaac Ingall. who died in
sssS at the age Of 100. For 80 a
of Battle Abbey. Sarah THOMPSON 81;
Belfast. served SO years with one fam
lily, dying in 1895.
In 1880 we exported less thar 400. 900
600 pairs: in 1900. over 5000, 900 pairs:
IN 1905. over 5000, 900 pairs; in 1910.
over 1000, 900 pairs: in 1911. the num-
Der exceeded 5000. 900 pairs. to say
nothing of the million pairs going to
Porto Rico mi Hawaii.
Montreal is to have a costly railway
terminal. A subsidiary line of the Ca
madam Northern has completed plans
Tor erecting an entrance into the heart
- SuC SISy VI MOIltTcdI ny OullQlnS q
three-mile tunnel under Mount Royal.
The total cost OF the tunnel and termi-
nal together will be $25. 200, 900.
President Lowell's new $4,000 house.
which Is going up in the Harvard yard.
next to the philosophy building is
his home and built with his own
money. It Is on land owned by the COL
lege. however. and an interesting
agreement Is being drawn by which It
becomes, at his death. the property
OF the university.
A little boy who lives near q river In
Georgia, set q trap for an opOssum the
other night in the marsh along the
shore. HeSfound in the morning hat
his trap door was closed end. on open-
In git, saw that he had captured. not
n OF the animals he was seeking. but
. four pound catfish.
The idol shatterers have now assailed
the gulf stream. and say that the talk
abou 1t carrying warm winds to tenn
per b stOltd cold Of the British islands
10 all bosh. In the name Of science they
lay that the stream has no influence
whatever on the climate Of Great Brit
ain.
Possums are abundant around Watts
Doro. Va. but q man In that neighbor.
hood went u hunting the other night.
q after his dogs got after something
no U down two trees and finally ran
his own cat into the dining room at his
own home.
"A suit growing out OF q iire set In q
patch OF heather. and involving dam.
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