Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1913-02-21
HEARD IN THE FIFTH GRADE.
An angle is "A triangle with only two

HEARD IN THE FIFTH GRADE.
An angle is a triangle With only two
sides.
Geometry eaches us how to bisex
angles.
Parallel ines are the same distance
all the way and do not meet unless
O bend them.
Horsepower is the distance one horse
can carry a pound of water in n hour.
Gravitation is that which, if there
We're none. we should all fly away.
A vacuum is a large empty space
where the Pope lives
Algebraical symbols are used when
you don't know what you are talking
about.
A regenade is a man who kills a king.
In India a man out OF cask may not
marry a woman out of another cask.
The Salic law is that you take
everything with a grain of salt.
The Zodiac is the Zoo OF the sky,
where lions, goats and other animals go
after they are dead.
HOW TO CATCH REED BIRDS.
George Fitch. the famous author Of
the Siwash stories and the m%otorboat
stories. was dining contiguous to the
writer recently and reed birds were on
the bill of fare. Reed birds are so
small that Ii is almost necessary to
take a microscope to perceive them
on the plate.
George, how do they get these mi
crobes. anyhow: do they shoot 'eln.
spear EN- or catch them in a metz" was
asked.
Well" drawled George. Il am sur
prised that you don't know. They
catch them on fly paper, Of course
HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL.
(By Beatrice Ronehead.)
BE born with a pretty face keep
it all your life.
The best way to tighten your cor
set laces is to put the corset on, tie
h strings to the leg OF the bee and
then jump out of the window. In that
way YOU can get one of those wasp
like waists. which is ard to see, but
beautiful to look at.
Do not growold. This is one of the
first principles OF remaining young and
beautiful.
If your hair is coming out. keep it
i'm a paper sack and have a switch
made Of it. Then YOU can always
say your hair is all your own.
Enamel your face with white Ala
bastine and then put the rouge on top
of that.
If YOU have one OF those noses which
curve Upward. you can make it behave
by tying a fatiron to 1t. In time ii
will begin to grow downward instead
of upward.
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.
Laura Lean Jibbcy says nine-tenths
of the girls marry for love alone. At
any rate. love is about all thai nine
tenths OF them get out of 1t.
A new perfect Woman is discov-
cred nearly every day and there Is
some question as to whether there
will be in vaudeville for all Of
them.
Before a is married. she is
pensive. -Afterward. she is expensive
A scientist claims that early maj
could not talk. He makes no such
claim concerning woman, early or mod
ern.
They are shipping prunes by parcel
post. There Is apparently no escape for
the boarder now.
Those Boise editors who are in jail
for contempt of court are receiving
many flowers. Most editors have ts
wait until they are dead.
The Orient railway has IL receivers
After the receivers and h parlor ca
porter get theirs there cant be much
left.
Mary Garden says she hopes to mar
ry a western man. but h hasn't Sc
lected him yet. Here's q chance fol-
Death Valley Scotty.
An eastern man asks: Can RoOse-
welt really write history" Write 1t.
Why. thunder! He's the man whit
makes 1t.
Canadian bartenders ask for fewer