Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-11-25

through the big toe and nearly
he laid Bud off Inc charged him 81 q
week board. Hard luck. Bud.
According to a bulletin Of the Uni
TED states geological survey, fuller's
earth wa discovered in Florida in 1893
tnrough mere accident. An effort was
made to burn brick near Quincy; the
effort failed; but an employee of the
mpan called attention to the close
esemblanc of the clay to the German
fuller's earth. Florida is now the lead
Ing state In the production of fuller's
earth, having reported for 1914 more
than IS per cent OF the total quantity
n value.
A German chemist is working on a
process which Is expected to make
wood pulp available as a substitute
Tor cotton IN the manufacture of high
power explosives. The pulp Is par
and made n sheets much the same
as IN the manufacture of paper. The
only difficulties yet remaining arise
from the fact that the material con-
tains Impurities which make the ex-
plosive uncertain and highly danger
Gus to handle.
Z. P.s London Weekly. in answer to
q correspondents demand for 1.-THE re-
patriation OF all German born inhab-
itants OF other countries" says: This
would include the duchess of Con-
naught. Prince Christian, the queen of
Greece. the queen Of Sweden. the en-
press OF Russia. the king and queen
OF Rumania, the queen dowager Of Hol-,
land. the queen OF Denmark, the queen
OF Belgium and h king OF Bulgaria.
Quiz PEN were made in the fifth
centuyy. There is no record Of their
earlier use. T%heOdoric. the Ostrogoth
KING, IS said to have been illiterate and
unable to write his own name. A gold.
en- plate was made with the letters of
me- ms m name cut through it. This was
placed over the document he was ex-.
pected to sign. n he traced his name
through the open spaces. with a quill.
acknowledge the corn,' meaning
70 retract. 70 take back. has a number
Ol explanations. the most plausible OF
which Is that in 1928 one Stewart, of
mo. made a speech in congress in
which he declared that Ohio. Indiana
md Kentucky sent their haystacks mi
corn fields to New York and Philadel-
pnia 1or q market. Wickliffe, OF Ken
lucky, questioned the statement.
The ukulele is not strictly a Hawai-
Ian musical instrument, having been
brought 5thither from Portugal. but the
islanders have become wonderfully
adept both at making and PLAYING II.
The department Of commerce has re-
Gently received a protest from Honolu-
e2lsu, because American manufacturers
pave been stamping their ukueles
made in Hawaii"
After Mr.. and Mrs. q. NJ. Erickson
pf Grand Rapids. Mimi, had reused the
w TO hunt for their lost 4~-year-old
raughter. after fire whistles had been
blown n many men kept several
nours from their usual duties. the dis
tracted couple went home and found
the child sound asleep in bed, about
me only place that had not already
leen searched.
There are still three survivors of the
original Mormon band to find it's way
IN 1S47. One is Lorenzo Sobieski
Young, who belonged to the third 80"
Of the original company, to which Brig
ham Young also belonged. Ills first
home was a wagon box lifted from it's
truck and SUPPORTED by posts.
When q Sudbury (Pa.) man pulled
his horse out OF h we'll into which the
thoughtless equine had fallen he found
attached to one of its shoes a rusty
bucket containing more thar $4,000 in
spanish Die n money is supposed
legend assigns residence in the vicinity
90 or more years
Potash fertilizers seem to give pro-
lection from frost. A French market
gardener has found that plants In a
field strongly fortified with kainit suf-
fcred little from a series of heavy
1rosts. hose on a lightly fertilized
area were more injured and those on
surltreated land were much damaged.
The consumption Of salt in the Unit
ed States amounts to almost 100
pounds per capita. a huge proportion
OF the whole going into various manu-
featuring processes. Discovery Of tre-
mendouss new fields has served to keep
the price consistently falling.
Recent sales by the government to-
falling 12e. 100000 feet of saw timber in
the Olympic national forest, In west
ern Washington. mark the opening OF
this hitherto inaccessible s%torehouse Of
timber estimated to- contain a stand
S3.000.000.0 00 board feet.
Finishing Of the new Canadian gov
eminent grain elevator at Calgary
marks the completion of the chain OF
g0vernment elevators between tho
gEeat and the Rocky mountains,
those at Saskatoon and Mooseiaw be,
Ing in operation now.
MAS
One Of the recent heroes or the war
was a. poodle. which. during a Paris
6yes caused BY a German bomb. dashed
the tenement house and brought.
Dec "a ~ his mouth q doll. which was
s~Ngslcoined with glad cries by the little
french mother
The first president born In the United
gNStates ~ America after the signing 81
The d~eclaration OF Independence and
THE establishment Of nationaI unity
ANRGN Martin Van Hnrnn w,t,n. u,oe horn