Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-01-19

numbers on the plates viii be preceded
by A. in the second by u. while in New
York city they will have 40 alpnabeti-
cal prefix. In this way the numbers in
each zone viii be restricted tn five fig
ures. To give additional lcgibiiity to
h figures. the hundreds and GUS
ands will be separated by n hyp!ieE
thus. $4,000.
DR.. Wellington koo. who had been
appointed Chinese minister to this
country. IN succession to kai lTu-Shih.
was until his appointment, minister to
Mexico, Peru and Cuba DR.. kou WAS
an undersecretaiy in the Chinese for
eign office until recently, and as such
was a member of a diplomatic commits
sion which conducted the negotiations
in Picking with the Japanese minister.
He speaks English perfectly. and IL 81
graduate of Columbia university. where
he received his doctorate.
Wisconsin has from time to s.nlc
been an annex OF various other states.
After Ohio was admitted to the union.
Wisconsin from 1906 to 1903 formed a
part OF Indiana territory. From 1909
to 1878 Wisconsin embraced in the ter
ritory Of Illinois,. When Illinois be-
came n state all the country north OF
1t, including Wisconsin. was joined to
Michigan. After more than 40 years OF
shifting Wisconsin was admitted into
the union with her present boundaries
In lS48.
Detroit, Mich, wants to he a county
al! by itself because Of a new automo-
bile law which will exact $24O.O 900 a
year from city motorists, half to go to
the county. half to the state. AS a
county Detroit would retain one of
these shares in It's alternate capacity,
which makes its desire seem an entire
~ reasonable one, at least until the
contrary arguments a be heard.
Two motion picture players. recently
married at Texarkana, which is on the
state line between Arkansas and Tex
as, stood one in n state and one in
the other while the ceremony was GO
ing on, a harmless little publicity
scheme which cost them nothing, but
necessary to have both Texas and Ar
kansas sanction for the nuptial.
The war has practically paralyzed
the trade III wild animals, of hic
Germany has always been the center.
hut the Philadelphia ZOO has beer
fortunate enough to acquire some very
remarkable specimens, a pair of Tibe-
tan blue bears. Ursus bruinosus. which
were sent over as Russian brown bears
and are he only examples of the
species in this country.
rheumatism is nothing to a man who
will find q church spire in which bees
have a hive, suspend himself near the
entrance and submit to a good gener-
singing. A Minneapolis man I'M
derwent this heroic treatment recently
and now says that others may get
stung by the patent medicine route II
they wish. but he will collect his sting
ings at the source.
The office of the English coroner is
n Of the oldest recognized by the
common law. having been mentioned
as "coronator'' in the rule of King
Athelstane. in the Tenth century: but
his duties no longer include %inquests
into the death of royal fish," such as
the whale and the sturgeon. that func-
ton having been repealed by the cor
Oner's act Of 1887.
Commenting on the fact that the
menttng with ringing up the curtain at
6:S0 O'clock, a writer in the London
Chronicle recalls that at the time Of
b restoration The curtain rose ut
= O'clock, and Garrick in 174l rang
up his curtain at 4. By 1924 the hour
o'clock.
The Cheyenne Indians near Clinton,
Okla. held an elaborate ''at home in
NOuOC VI TIC u0lSnDOrlnX NlOWG chiefs
and their people. Everything was in
high style. man. Of the tents of both
hosts and visitors being furnished with
q beds, carpets and q variety Of
such ornaments as most appeal to the
Cheyenne and kiowa sense of the ar
tistic.
With Great Britain and her allies
calling for grain, grain and more grain.
II IL said that literally millions of BUSH
els Of wheat are lying on the ground in
western Canada in imminent danger Of
decaying from lack of elevator and
storage facilities. The valuable heaps
+ being covered with straw in an ef-
fort to protect them against the wealth
or.
Official returns from Smith town.
ship, Ohio. show Mrs. John GRADER, an
ardent suffragist, has bee elected con-
stable. an office for which she was not
candidate. She did not even know
she was being voted for. Men OF the
township as = joke wrote her name on
their ballots. So many were let in on
f4Ael& ~.rs a : EhtHnk AGsso rNnn kn,, ~r,o,