Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-02-09

The FOREST CITY PRESS
E. P. THoRNE.
FOREST CRY. sourH DAKOTA
One Of the unusual Serbian insti.
tuition that bids fair to vanish under
the c~OnIueror's hand is the Zadruga.
a XlOrified family system said to have
saved the Serbians from poverty and
all tts attendant evils. and left them
one of the gaicst races of manhood.
In the Zadruga one house grows from
another until a little community is es-
tablished on something like socialistic
principles. The starshine, or heads
man. and his wife live in the biggest
house and direct the Industries of the
satellite houses.
The owner of a granite cutting es-
Adjustment in Los Angles has success
fully used the compressed air starter
on his automobile for driving the pneu-
matte tosls used in lettering on mon
umentS. Air was conducted by hose
from the air reservoir ON the automo-
bile to the pneumatic tool and the plan
worked admirably. saving considerable
time and expense in the work of let
ferlnS OH "A monument standing in a
cemetery far ava from the shop.
Is it che fast horse or the slow horse
in a team that pulls the greater part of
the load7 The department of agri-
culture engineering of the Iowa coll
lege Of agriculture says il is the
slower horse 1t says that s%upposing
one horse of a team is eight inches
ahead Of the other, the load divides IN
q ratio Of 100 to 106 pounds, in ease
the center hole in the equalizer is four
inches out Of line with the holes at the
ends of the equalizer.
When the Duke Of York was living in
Edinburgh In 1851 he was old that a
certain shoemaker named Patersone
was the best golf player in Scotland.
me duke. later James II, chose the
az partner In a foursome,
winning a huge stake. He promptly
turned ever the money to Patersone,
who forthwith built a house, in which
the duhe placed a stone with q Pater-
sone crest bearing h motto. Var and
Sure"
1t Is estimated that $4,000 Canadians
enlisted In Union regiments during our
wi var. n until recently at least
the Terento post. Grand Army of the
Republic. had u dozen members, which
may explain the fairly matter Of fact
way Canadians are viewing American
enlistMeylts in their contingents for
the rent. The killed In our greatest
war included $4,000 adventurous fell
lows from across the border.
On many OF the best salmon rivers
IN Canada. power works have been. or
are being. constructed. the dams Of
which h salmOn's way up to the
spawning grounds. To obviate his
difficulty. New Brunswick has tried the
experiment OF erecting close to one Of
these cams an automatically worked
INT. which raise h confiding salmon
to "A higher level. The salmon have
jumped at the idea.
The first Tommy Atkins, the name
since applied to all privates in the
BRUSH army. wa gunner Thomas At
klnS. Gunner Atkins, in the reign of
George III, invented a pocket ledger
which won tremendous POPULARITY
among the soldiers. The little book
came to be known as a Tommy Atkins.
and sOon. since every private had one.
men were called by the same
name. ~
In 1914 the scrap material sold by he
pennsylvania Railroad
brought in $2,157.241.24 or $1,000. 900
less than in 1913. Waste paper alone
~ AVs ~ASsSl1s OIL barrels for $2g439
and old rubber for $15,222. Locomo-
tives and wooden passenger cars sold
Tor 31l4,S26. Other odds and ends
brought n 1921. 997. Old wheels. metals
and wrought iron Welded more than
$78O,0Oo. "
A notable instance of the Kindness
q those In charge OF transatlantic
liners developed recently aboard the
lines Ryndam. which was stopped in
n held on an even keel
while the appendix Of u passenger was
Besides the ships surgeon
and IL captain who stopped the amin.
an American dentist cooperated bv adj.
mtnABtestng the anesthetic.
Pm Doaies OF one Of the English
mines we're brought to the surfaco
wnen Ne miners stopped work some
weeks ao0. Not Of the animais
had seen daylight since 1t waa first
taken INTO the mines. some an long m
60 years agO. AL OF them were be-
wttderea and many were as friehtened
~ though they had been deposited on
. new planet.
WesAmen on the Rogue river canal
" Oregon net OF . blast and therehv
uncovered q buried treasure, me coin
we're o1 the mintage Of the sos and
here were some Spanish coins amnns
theL How the money came Ia f.
bUx1e4, r when. or whv 4. ,,nlrunv,~