Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-09-02
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After eight years work, Miss Irma
Coke has completed the task of copying
10000 diagrams Of rea estate surveys
which We're partly destroyed by fire in
1906, thereby giving a complete history
pf original surveys of every lot in San
Francisco from 1862 to 1896. Miss Coke
found 1t necessary to split every sheet
OF pape by hand and to mount each
separate sheet on a linen slate so it
could be handled.
With practically no tools, a man in
the Bridgewater (Mass.) state farm,
ma made a perfect teapot out of a cent.
The center of the cent is kept intact
for the bottom of 1t. The handle.
cover. o and entire outline are per-
feet symmetrically. 1t is even possible
to place water in this tiny receptacle
and have it run out through the wee
snout. which is about as large as Il
small common pin.
The Russian ministry of agriculture
is planning to construct a new town. to
be called Darjinsk, in the Hunger
steppe of Central Asia, which has now
been made available for agriculture by
tn irrigation system of the Romanoy
Parcels of land are to be leased
and will ultimately become the prop
erty of the tenants. More than 4,0GO
applications for the land have already
been received.
The Philippine islands as a market
for athletic goods give great promise.
A noteworthy feature of the trade is
the number of orders local dealers are
receiving from China and Japan. The
fnv nnctnry 1,, H. -,I;al,
China and Japan are taking part. orig
mated in the Philippines, and the ath-
lettes of China and Japan are looking
to Manila largely for athletic supplies.
The Detroit federation of labor will
circulate petitions asking that the peo-
pie have a chance to vote on the
question of a minimum wage for ND
nlcipal workers when charter amend
ments are submitted. The proposed
bill provides that contractors violating
the law may be punished by a fine of
800 to $500 for each offense or 10 to 80
days in Jail.
The bark Platina. one of the last OF
the old New Bedford whalers. was re-
Gently broken up for firewood. She
was, according to Shipping Illustrated,
the only vessel that ever captured a
white whale Other sperm whales OF
great age have been taken that we're
spotted with white, but the Platina's
whale was pure white from head to
tail"
'Trlplex" glass, consisting Of two
sheets of ordinary glass Interviewed
with a sheet of celluloid and amalga-
mated under heavy pressure, may play
an important part in automobile manu-
1acture in the future. This glass will
not fly about when shattered but mere
~ breaks up into adhering pieces, and
hence will not cause injuries in case of
accident.
An amusing repartee is recorded of a
sentry in a military school.
Hearing a noise while on night guard,
he called: Halt! Who goes there 2" 1t
was another student in sportive mood,
who answered, Moses" This brought
the retort from the sentry, advance,
Moses. and give the 10 command
ments!"
Reuben Chapman. of Biddeford. Me-,
when near Cape Elizabeth in his boat.
was starteled by a cry like that of a
human being. and found it to come
from a baby seal. He took it aboard,
fed it n put it back into the water.
But when it returned twice, wailing
pitifully and climbing on MIR. Chap
mans lap. he decided to keep it.
~. iSIie, martinique, Wnlcn was de-
stroyed by the eruption of Mt. Pelee in
1902, has lev been rebuilt, but it is
said that even yet the ruins are being
searched for valuables. The place is
under police control. n two or three
streets have been excavated, but 1t is
still q city of desolation.'
A man who lives in the Kansas town
bearing the fragrant name of Correc-
tionville Is justly entitled to be re-
garded as the most popular man in his
n~eighborhood. He was elected a dele
progressive, republican n democratic
parties. y
The new Phipps psychiatric clinic or
the John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore
q g completely equipped theater for
entertaining insane patients. The pa
ttents themselves act in the plays pre-
sented, n this new occupation is said
to have q very beneficial effect in many
cases..
Greater London. with q population Of
100000 and an area of 700 square miles,
ls Q composite district made up OF IS
city bOrOughs and % suburban towns,
governed by various city and town
councils. but In certain matters subor-
oinate 20 the London county council.
In order to prove that natural gas is
harmless. B. j. clifford, OF Little Rock,
Ark. with his three daughters, slept ali
night in q room sealed and filled with
b q to the exclusion Of air. No one
OF the sleepers was affected by the ex-
perience.
The champion longtime smoker is
Herr HEINZ. of Sachsensansen, Ger
many. He established the record OF
two hours. .36 minutes and II seconds
tor smoking q cigar without relighting
Z, winning from two hundred contest