Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-02-23

of the inner history of the Chaldean
exile published in Bibliotheca Sacra.
Job, he thinks, nay be a cryptic name
conveying to that generation comfort
find open expression. The fact that
Ezekiel couples the name of Job with
that of Daniel as a contemporary
seems to sustain this conclusion.
German scientists are said to have
found substitutes for nearly all the
commodities in demand. the supply
of which has been cut off by the war.
According to a recent consular report,
German manufacturers have found a
way of making willow herb take the
place of jute n hemp, which grows
profusely in that country and in the
United States. In Germany encourage
ment is now being given to the Gull
tivation of this plant, which has been
heretofore regarded as a weed.
1t has been announced at the UNI
versity of Illinois that the Draper
committee of the National Academy of
Sciences has granted $500 to Prof. Joel
Stebbins, head of the department of
astronomy. in support of his researches
at the observatory. The special work
which is now being carried on at the
observatory is the improvement of a
new method of measuring the light of
SSAA al WIASl ~ OSIIlS 0CNclODSu III COl.
alteration with Prof. Jacob Kunz. of
the department of physics.
If graduates of the law school of the
University of Minnesota nave their
way, members of the Minnesota bar
will no longer be lawyers. Not they!
They will be barristers at law, coun-
selor at law or attorney at law, and
only the persons SO addressing and
referring to them will be marked
double A on their social registers.
The chrysanthemum is the oldest
cultivated flower in the world, and.
though Japan's national emblem, was
first developed in China. Confucius,
who lived approximately 500 years b.
y, mentioned 1t in his writings. and
antique Chinese pottery in the Brit
tsh museum is decorated with conven-
final designs of the same flower.
Under the direction of the imperial
museum of P~etrograd, agricultural lee
lures are being given for wounded SOL
diers In 80 hospitals in and near the
Russian capital. Patients who are
aDle 10 do so are also encouraged to
visit the museum, where cinemato-
graph pictures on agricultural subjects
are shown once a week.
A remarkable record Of longevity is
TO be our in some of the rural par
ishes OF France. In the village of st.
Thomas de la Fliche. there have been
only Il parish priests in 300 years.
The parish OF st. German du Val. i'm
Paris. has had only three pastor in
100 years. while that Of Givry en- Ar
come has had only five in 100 years.
A new material for insulation has
Deen brought u in Germany recent.
ly made Of wood charcoal mixed with
paper pulp and pitch or tar. 1t is made
In the form Of plates, and 1t is said To
be Just as efficient as the material
which a been heretofore used. and
much more economical.
Much sympathy is being shown in
England for the widowed mother
whose dead sons last letter the censor
DESTROYED. The man seems to have
adhered to this red tape to a point Of
needless cruelty. showing no mercy,
merely because h letter was in an
envelope of obsolete type.
In order to encourage the sheep in
austry IN Manitoba, the department
of this seasons wool clip on a cooper
alive basis. which has resulted in a
satisfactory market for the farmers.
children at 16 public schools in the
aty Of Leeds. England. The board Of
EDUCATION defrays one-half OF the ex-
1ense from the city taxes and one
aalf from q government grant.
To enable an automobile to pull IT.
self out OF a mud hole there has been
invented q reel of broad tape which,
men fastened to q mired wheel. Is un.
wound by i to form q dry pathway.
The wood consumed in this country
In the manufacture OF paper amounts
annually to 100000 cords, and every
year the demond for some substitute
grows more urgent.
A century's supply Of peat near Mos
COW has been acquired by a Russian
company, which viii erect q plant and
convert II into electricity to light and
heat the city.
Maintaining the rate OF increase
ohown during the hast 40 years
Rusa3nss p6pulation at b end OF thu
present century will number 60.000,0O0
" 1akoqin Tasmania ct an altitude o
e.Aoo 3I0at - to be harnessed n til,
05octr1ctty produced used TO suppl!
int ard power for the en4lye island.
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