The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-05-16
SOUTH DAKOTA


TABOR, SOUTH DAKOTA
In England experiments have beer
made showing, it is said, that a vibra
ton of SOUND having an amplitude OF
less than observation-disclosures of 6
centimeter could still affect the sense
of hearing. Such a vibration would b.
so short that 1t would have to be en-
larged 100 times before h most pow
erful microscope could render it Wis.
ible, supposing that it were susceptible
of being seen at all. Aged persons, Il
is said, do not hear high notes which
are audible to young people, and there
is reason to believe that babies hear
notes that are inaudible to their elders
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Mr.. Farrell, president of the United
States Steel corporation, in testifying
as to steel rails as made at present
has incidentally thrown some light on
railway accidents caused by rail break
ages. "The liability of breakage," he
says, sis much greater than I'm the old
time softer rails. In many respects the
steel is more dangerous and more
treacherous. 1t is unquestionably,N In
my judgment, an unsafe grade of steed
in view Of the severe conditions of SER
vice." This kind of rail, he states, has
been made because of the demand for
hard rails in order to get greater wear.
On one of the Canadian railways q
train agent is the official same Of
the fare collector. The train agent is
said to be notable for his politeness,
and to ask for a passengers ticket with
the Words, Your ticket, please" to
wait patiently till he gets it, and then
invariably say, Thank you" The name
train agent" is harry felicitous for this
ChaSfarfinI6fnn nCn61rtnr If sounds
too much like road agent" a name
which in the west has not always been
associated with agreeable manners or
practices.
Rome is busily laying plans for an
electric railroad running to the sea-
coast at Ostia, together with a subway
tunnel for the part which crosses
town. Work will begin as Don as the
government grants the franchise. The
subway starts from the center of town
e the Forum and runs to the city
limits at the st. Paul's gate. 1t will
accommodate a double track tunnel. II
is planned to finish the subway part Of
the line In three years and then begin
on the Rome-Ostia line, which will take
about two years to build.
Admiral Evans was once taken
through the Vanderbilt stables in New
York. The stable manager showed
him walls n floors of pale translucent
thing, marble drinking troughs, man
gers Of Circassian walnut. solid silver
fittings and SO forth. ID you find any,
thing lacking. admiral? said the man
ager, proudly, at the end. Nothing"
the admiral replied, nothing excepHR
leather upholstered sofa for each
horse"
During the year 1911, SO small plan
a h.N -t-lA 100
were found, or examination, to be iden-
teal with bodies previously observed,
so that or balance there are so aster-
oids to be added to the family that
circulate around the sun between Mars
and Jupiter. OF these, more than so
were discovered at Heidelberg, the next
largest contribution coming from the
T~ransvaals observatory at Johannes
hErgh. .
YEEk ---
tFoets sing OF hi deep blue sea, but
1t Is not always blue. Millions upon
millions of microscopic algae or sea-
weeds n subaquatic plants give the
Red sea it's peculiar tint, and the yell
low sea Of China Is said to be colored
by the floods Of the great rivers which
wash down vast quantities of mud.
in ratio to ffs saitihess.
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! Spelling bees are the rage in the state
Of Washington this spring, and for the
final roundup candidates have been
ccurteously warned of the perils that
Turk In the words: Prefer, klickitat,
cautious, justle, cipher, capsiZe, vanilla,
recipe, tandem, insertion. If there are
many words like Klickitat tenderfeet
will 90 wei e Keep out Of thaI game.
Plans have been made by the board
Of education to give the graduating
class of the Coshocton high school an
excursion in lieu OF the usual COM
mencement exercises this year. The
class, chaperoned by members OF the
faculty, will be taken on a weeks trip
to Pittsburgh and return by BOAT on
the Muskingum and Ohio rivers.
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Motor sleighs. would. seem at first
thought to be inpracticable on account
OF the difficulty of propulsion, but Eu-
ropean inventors have overcome the
difficulty in several ways. One form of
motor sleigh is driven by the action of
a screw, or worm, which cuts into the
snow, and this is said to have attained
a speed Of 80 miles an hour.
The Barnard college girls at Column
bia university have a new song, the re-
frain of which is Buy a Brick" This
does not signify that the girls are COM
sAAAAkSa W = ooiii a II out Ni1dt
they are taking an active part In rails
ing money for 9. new building much
needed by the college.
The Portland, Me-, Press says the
stage horse Of Moose river, owned by
Jonas Holden. who transports mail be-
tween Moose river plantation and the
railroad station, in the last six years
has been in harness 2,1S0 consecutive
days, travelling 39,676 miles.
To give an idea of the extension of
the world petroleum industry within
the last few years the Near East men
lions that at present A petroleum
steamers are being constructed in
Great Britain, with a total carrying ca
pacity of SIC, 900 tons.
Pulp remaining after the sugar has
been extracted from beets in beet sugar
factories has usually been thrown away
as worthless, but now It is used for
feeding cows. The assertion is made
that 1t is a good milk producer.
For ironing laces and dainty fabrics
an iron has been brought out in Eng
LAND in the form Of a polished steel