The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-04-04

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low tide the seals returned to their
place in the sun and were not dis
tufbed. The next day nearly 100 seals
gathered on the sands, and the eXplo-
sive was touched off by a battery from
which wires led to the seal ground. The
explosive fssfled every seal, tearing the
animals into small fragments. Other
blasts will be set off, for this is the
big sockeye salmon year and protection
OF the run Is vital.
Lord Derby, in advising us not TO
get ratified" has added another word
to our war vocabulary, or, at any rate,
given an Old word a new meaning. In
this sense ratified is an Americanism,
and we remember reading an article by
w. d. Howells some 80 years ago., in
which he said he was not very easily
ratified. OF course we have used the
word in this country with other mean
ings for many centuries. Even Pepys re-
lates on one occasion how he "rattled"
his wife, but that vas more in the ma
tuIe Of grumbling, while Lord Derby
evidently intends us not to get alarmed
or excited, which is the real American
sense Of the word.
If anybody thinks that the American
Inventive genius is missing anything,
let him take a look at this list OF in
ventions which the patent office has re-
Gently granted: An automatic hat-tip-
ping device, a t~ornado-proof house, a
bit to curb snoring, a corncob polisher
FOR artificial teeth, spectacles for a
fighting rooster to keep his yes from
being peclsed; a blind to keep chickens
from flying over the fence, a noiseless
alarm that arouses the sleeper by a
Ing him, an ingenious arrangement Of
cords by which the garage keeper is
awakened Shis bed collapses), q device
to shower pepper upon the burglar.
One Of the many explanations that
have been offered TO account for the
fact that migrating birds are able to
find their way by night and in cloudy
OF foggy weather is hat they are sens
ative. in some way, to currents Of ter
restrial ma gnetism, and therefore direct
their flight by the magnetic meridians.
This suggestion was put forth by M.
A. Thauzks, n French pigeon ~fancier,
who declared>that carrier pigeons make
poor flights during the occurrence OF
magnetic storms. He also asserts that
the general $ Of wireless biography
has diminished the reliability of the
birds to a surprising extent.
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Among the Chinese Of Hongkong
there is a population afloat OF nearly
$4,000. These strange people live on
the waterways in fantastic Households,
says Eleanor Franklin Egan in the Sat
uYday Evening Post. They are corn
n brought up, they marry and pro-
duce children, become grandmothers
and grandfather, and die, many Of
them, without ever having lived ashore
a day in their lives. Yet some of their
curious floating homes-a majority Of
them, in faot-are no larger than an
ordinary rowboat.
Industrial chemists are constantly
finding new n useful ways OF dispos-
Ing of bypyoducts. One Of the latest
troublesome wastes to rise to the dig
nity of a valuable commercial product
is acetyleAe ash, says the Popular
Science monthly. This stuff, which
could not be disposed of profitably u
shsrtdime ago, is now worth $50 a ton.
An employe OF a Los Angeles plant,
Frank J.. Thompson, discovered that il
could be used to make plaster, white
wash n a substitute for marble lust
that Is used ia the s~urfacing Of asphalt
highways.
The making OF candles is not ordi-
Rarily considered n fine art, but the
allan have made it such. The dis
tinctively lsalian votive taper is made
by hand. The materials are pure bees
wax, which is kneaded and tempered
and mixed with a secret ingredient TO
retaSd combustion, inc which has spe-
cial Egyptian cotton for wicks. The
cotton, toe, is treated with chemicals
to keep it from feeding too fac. Small
candles are nodded. Large Snes are
made by relling up sheets of wax.
A means OF making use of the cleo
trio magnet under water has been de-
vised in japan, and it promises to be of
great assistance in locating sunken YES
sells, to recover which salvage opera
tons on q big scale are expected after
the war. Tests on this magnet have re-
Gently resulted in bringing up thous-
ands of japanese shells, fired in prac-
tice at sea, and ii is now understood
that it Will be used in extracting shell
scraps from European battle fields. The
value of tine iron at present is huge.
Maine has come to the front with a
young fellow Of % who has gone to
work as n sawyer for q lumber com.
Dany. Last spring he retired and went
to live with q son, but a rest so I'M
proved'his health hat he has gone back
to work at active labor, says Campers
Weekly. This husky veteran has one
son, known as the baby Of the family,
that he is very partial to. The baby"
recently celebrated his 72nd birthday.
Toistoy's prediction Of the great war
which has been devastating Europe was
a remarkably accurate forecast. In
conclusion he prophesied that THE end
of the great calamity will make a new
political era for the old world. There
will be left no empires or kingdoms.
but the world will form a federation of
the United States Of nations. There
will remain only four great giants
the Anglo-SaXons, the Latins, the Slavs
and the 5kongolians.'
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In Exodus iii. s, Palestine is described
as a land flowing with milk. and
honey" Bees are abundant ever to the
present day. In the remote parts of
the wilderness they deposit their honey
in the crevices of the rocks and in hol.
low trees.
In lieu of a lake Of water. one Of oil
has been utilized at Mannford. Okla.
as a recreation center and a band stand
has been erected in its midst.
Cerro del Mercado, near Durango. is
is the largest iron deposit in Mexico. II
Is a great mound, Gao feet high and is
said To be almost a mass of iron.
According 10 a French electrician, the
temperature Of the carbon filament in
an incandcsIent lamp approaches 1000
degrees.
Elephants travel from three to four