Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-04-18

Among foods ra;sins. dates and figs
are about equal as energy producers.
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Italy consumes less tobacco per cap
tia than any other country in the
world.
The United States and Russia to-
gether W about half the horses in the
world.
The area appropriated in India for
the new city at Delphi is 125 square
miles.
Picking. the only capital in the world
without a street car system. soon is to
have an electric line.
In q tobacco establishments In Ken
lucky 3,O45 women are employed. at
an average~weekly wage OF s4.62.
The worlds largest bird OF prey is
the bearded vulture. From tip to tip
OF wing 1t measures nine or 10 feet.
The 20Cth anniversary of the founda-
ton of the Royal society Of London
will be celebrated July 10 to is, 1912.
Cement collins for dogs are the lat
est innovation In the use of cement"
shown at The cement exhibit in Chi
cage.
A blue fox farm is to he started on
Kargarin island. K~amchatka. and to
be managed like similar farms in North
America.
Emperor William has offered a prize
OF $12. 900 from his private funds to
encourage building OF motors for aero
planes in Germany.
Desertions in the United States army
In 1911 amounted to only 2.SS per cent.
q lower rates than in any other year
for 80 years. except in 1898.
Cape Colony now sends more thu
20. 900 boxes OF fruit weekly to the
Covent Garden market-the outgrowth
OF a consignment OF a few boxes of
pears In 1886.
A society called the loan of Honor
has been established at Lyons. France
to loan money without security to per-
sons In need and judged worthy OF
relief.
Petroleum fields covering cast areas
In Turkestan, extending to the Chinese
frontier. have recently been surveyed
by Professor Hjaimer Sjorgen. OF
Stockholm.
A bit OF wood cut from the apple tree
In Sir Isaac NewtOn's garden which
gave h world the theory of gravita-
ton has been presented to the Royal
Astronomical society.
Because few typewriter inks are in
,delible or unalterable, the Venezuelan
government has forbidden the official
registration or authentication of type
written documents.
Clifford Pinchot. Of the National Irri-
CATION congress-, declares that there
are 1900. 900 acres of swamp and over
now lands In the Mississippi valley
h q can be made into farm inc at a
cost Of IS to 81 an acre. 1t costs from
500 to $40 to claim lane by irrigation.
The Vienna electric plant is making
arrangements with the bakers syndi-
cate to have electric wen adopted
widely throughout the city and to sup
ply the current at special reduced
prices. Use of electric ovens for bread
baking 10 being promoted in other Eu-
ropean cities also.
Cotton stalks. it is thought. may be
used for h manufacture Of paper. A
machine has been patented which Will
separate the Drown bark from the in
ner ptth. n 1t is claimed that excel
lent paper pulp may be made from the
latter. From h bark q substitute for
excelsior IL manufactured.
Red rains are very rare, but in VOL
canic regions gray rain 10 compara-
lively Sicily has had many
showers OF this she lie. They are caused
by h upper atmosphere being full of
ash colored volcanic dust from Etna
This dust 10 Enthusiastically fino and
col0rs h rain as 1t falls.
General Baden-Powell. originator Of
she Boy Scout movement. has had a
watch made which he can read in the
dark. Instead Of the thin hands usual
"a watches they are very thick. while
n quarter hours are also denoted by
heavy marks. Thus the watch can be
seen almost in the inky darkness.
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Experiments made In Germany as ia
the value Of different foods for fatten-
ing hogs disclosed that 100 kilos (220
pounds) Of barley brought an Increase
g SIS pounds; 100 kilos Of hominy,
e0.6 pounds: 100 kilos Of mixed corn,
$50 pounds. and so kilos zach Of bar
ley and gulten feed. 7O.4 pounds.
Snow meters have been provided
outside the new passenger station Ol
tho Chicago & Northwestern. at Chi
cagO. They are steel pans with semi
coils. They are set In the track and the
melted snow 10 carried on by drain
pipes to ewers. Snow IL shoyeled "a
tho pans n there melted.
Some Of the fastest trains IN the
world arc to be found In England. and
France. England has eight regular dali,
trains with speeds OF SOL to 59.2 miles
m hour. whose stOp-tO-stop runs are
from q to 11sx miles In length. The
French roads run four daily trains over
= distance Of TN to 170M miles. al