Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-04

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gathered on the sands, and the explo-
sive was touched off by a battery from
which wires led to the seal ground. The
explosive Killed every seal, tearing the
animals into small fragments. Other
biasts will he set off, for his is the
Dig 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, OF, at any rate.
given an old word a new meaning. In
this sense ratified" Is an Americanism,
ana we remember reading an article by
w. ID. 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-
Iates on one occasion how he ratified
MS Wife, but hat was more in the ma
ture OF grumbling, while Lord Derby
evidently intends us not to get alarmed
Or excited. which is the real American
sense of the word.
II anybody thinks that the American
inventive genius is missing anything,
let him take Il look at this list of in
rentions which the patent office has re-
Gently granted: An automatic hat-tip-
ping device, a tornado-proof house, Il
bit TO curb snoring, q corncob polisher
Tor artificial teeth, spectacles for q
fighting rooster to keep his eyes from
being pecked; a blind to keep chickens
from flying over the fence, a noiseless
alarm that arouses the sleeper by shak-
Ing him, an ingenious arrangement of
lords by which the garage keeper is
awakened (his bed collapses), a device
70 shower pepper upon the burglar.
One OF the many explanations that
nave been offered to account for the
fact that migrating birds are able to
ilnd their way by night and in cloudy
Or foggy weather Is that they are sens
htlve, in some way, to currents of ter
restrial magnetism, and therefore direct
their flight by the magnetic meridians.
This suggestion was put forth by M.
a.. Ihau2les. a French pigeon fancier,
who declared that carrier pigeons make
poor flights during the occurrence of
magnetic storms. He also asserts that
enc general use of wireless biography
has diminished the reliability Of the
birds to a surprising extent.
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 1Ggan in the Sat-
urday Evening Post. They are born
and brought up, they marry and pro-
iuce children, become grandmothers
nnd grandfathers, and die, many of
them, without ever having lived ashore
u day In their lives. Yet some of their
curious floating homes-a majority of
them. IN fact-are no larger than an
Z ordinary rowboat.
Industrial chemists are constantly
6 tindlng new and useful ways of dispos-
Ing OF byprOducts. One Of the latest
troublesome wastes to rise to the dig
znlty of a valuable commercial product
ls acetylene ash, says the Popular
Science monthly. This stuff, which
Y not be disposed of profitably u
An employe OF Los Angeles plant.
Frank y. Thompson. discovered that it
could be used to make plaster, white
wash and a substitute for marble Gust
that Is used in the s%urfacing OF asphalt
highways.
The making of candles IL not ordi-;
narily considered q fine art, but the
Italians have made it such. The dis
unctively Italian votive taper is made
BY hand. The materials are pure bees
a which is kieaded and tempered
and, mixed with q secret ingredient to
retard combustion, and which has spe-
cial Egyptian cotton for wicks. The
cotton. too. IL treated with chemicals
TO Keep 1t from feeding too fast. Small
candles are nodded. Large mes are
made by rolling up sheets of wax.
A means of making use OF the cleo,
trio magnet under water has been de-
vised IN Japan. n 1t promises to be of
great assistance In locating sunken yes
sells. to recover which salvage opera
lions 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 1t Is now understood
h 1t will baused in extracting shell
scrap from European battle fields. The
value OF the iron ct present is huge.
Maine has come to the front with q
young fellow OF 95 who has gone to
work as q sawyer for a lumber com,
oany. Last spring he retired and went
70 ltv with q son but a rest so Inn
proved his health that he has gone back
70 work at active labor, says Capper's
Weekly. This husky veteran has one
son, known a. the baby OF the family,
recently celebrated his 72nd birthday.
Tolstoy's prediction Of the great war
which has been devastating Europe was
remarkably accurate forecast. In
conclusiOn he p~rophesied that 1.-THE end
Of the great calamity will make a new
political ora for the old world. There
VIII be left no empires or Kingdoms.
hut b world will form a federation OF
the United States OF nations. There
wtlls remain only four great giants
81 US the I4atins, the Slays
"a Exodus III. /. slsalestine Is described
gss 10 hand flowing with milk, and
oaey Bees are abundant even to the
~ wilderness they deposit their honey
IN the crevices of the rocks and IN hol-
ssl0M trees.
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