Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-02-10

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
tering on a monument standing in a
cemetery far away from the shop.
Is 1t the fast horse or the slow horse
In q team h a pulls the greater part Of
h load? The department of agri-
culture engineering of the Iowa col
lege Of agriculture says it is the
slower horse. 1t says that %supposing
one horse of a team is eight inches
ahead Of the other, the load divides in
q ratio of 100 to 100 pounds, in case
the center hole in the equalizer is four
Inches out of line with the holes at h
ends of the equalizer.
When the Duke of York was living in
Edinburgh in 1851 he was told thai a
certain shoemaker named Patersone
va he best golf player in Scotland.
The duke. later James III, chose the
shoemaker as partner in a foursome.
winning q huge stake. He promptly
turned over the money to Patersone,
who forthwith built a house, in which
The duke placed q stone with a Pater-
zone crest bearing the motto. "Far and
Sure"
It is estimated that $4,000 Canadians
~ AS5t y Aat W.
::ivil war, n until recently at least
;;he Toronto post, Grand Army of the
Republic, q q dozen members, which
nay explain the fairly matter of fact
ray Canadians are viewing American
enlistnlents in their contingents for
ne front The killed in our greatest
var included $4,000 adventurous fell
W from across the border.
On many of the best salmon rivers
n Canada, power works have been, or
re being. constructed, the dams of
Shich bar the salmon's way up to the
tpawning grounds. To obviate this
i%ifficulty. New Brunswick has tried the
experiment Of erecting close to one OF
iheSe dams an automatically worked
1T, which raises the confiding salmon
% q higher level. The salmon have
Jumped at the idea.
The first Tommy Atkins, the name
since applied to all privates In the
British army. was gunner Thomas At
kins. 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.
q soon. since every private had one,
tne men We're called by the Same
name.
In 1914 the scrap material sold by the
pennsylvania Railroad company
in $2,157,241.24 or 81, 900. 900
less than in 1913. Waste paper alone
SOLO Tor 1921, oil barrels for $22.439
aho Old rubber for $15.222. Locomo-
ttves n wooden passenger cars sold
Tor $ll4,s26: Other odds and ends
brought In $121.997. Old wheels. metals
ana wrought iron Welded more thar
$7S0,00O. A
g752FI&,Ss LNHEn
a. notable instance of the
OF those in charge of trans-Atlnntie
liners developed recently aboard the
inner Ryndam, which vas stopped in
and held on an even keel
Whlie the appendix Of a passenger was
Besides the ships surgeon
TAG the captain who stopped the ship,
nm american dentist cooperated BY adj
Mlnlstertng the anesthetic.
Fit ponies of one of the Englisl,
mines We're brought to the surface
Wren the miners stopped work some
weeks g Not one Of the animaln
had seen daylight since it was first
\ into the mines, som as long as
~ years ago. Al of them We're be-
Wlinered and many were as frightened
vs. though they had heen deposited on
q new planet.
Workmen IN the Rogue river canal
~ Oregon set off a blast and thereby
a buried treasure. The coins
were OF the mintage OF the '5Qs and
there We're some Spanish coins among
tneIn. How the non came TO be
ourted. OF when, OF why, is .unknown
according to some accounts there was
about $500, and to others, about $1,000.
Tommaso Salvini, the world famous
It8 Han "a rtOr uphn l{nI 49,, oxt 49,,
his sons acting in Italy during
years OF his w activity on the
although three OF nc
tAvO, Alexander and Tommaso-.were
.fhespians. The fathers namesake is
aid 70 be the most talented Of the trio.
Italy Is o producing dealcoholized
vine, g drink that differs from unfer-
CMented grape juice in the same way a
Hon with his teeth pulled does from q
cub that has not yet cut It's molars
l1d incasors. 1t is said to be pleasant
md nonrishing. containing ali the or
dtnary wine ingredients exccpt the bite
Foltcewomen are now EMPLOYED in
e6Scfties. Chicago has 81. Baltimore.
Los angeles n Seattle, S each: Pitts
purg,a4: San Francisco, Portland. Orc.
md St Paul.. 3 each; and DAYTON
Ohio Topeka. Kan. and Minneapolis.
tAasli.s edSHs rlIfeen other cities
have one each.
5s1t seems probable that no steel YES
yels will be used in the Newfoundland
~ fishery mex spring. Five such
goegAels were recently sold to the Rus
y1AnsGovernment. and 1t is said that
peher1 will soon be bought for the
transportation of freight to Europe.
Falls. q thriving modern city
nsl1outh central Utah. stands In q spot
kxn1sykhictL.gl AZ years ago. the prirneval
is44&@@hr1lBh had not been removed. AZ
MaqN94S09e Irritation dam at Miner. d
2dN59saGS1 MISUNDERSTANDING for much of
3S1fs&lBsA horticultural prosperity.
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