The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1903-11-19

sASeAA SNas aN 80 IL ~ 49, 5000
worked up over her adventure.
With the methods now in use, seven
tenths of the force in coal is wasted. A
few years ago the waste was nine
tenths. Mr.. Edison declares that a
bucketful of coal should drive an ex-
press train from New York to Phila-
delphia, and a few tons be sufficient for
the largest ocean steamship, whose
bunlters now hold thousands. The
Ocea mic consumes a ton of coal every
three minutes, or about 500 tons a lay.
Th,a ship canal from Lake Huron, In
Georgian bay, almost due south to Lake
Ontario, near Toronto, upon which
work has been in progress for several
years, viii shorten the lake route $50
miles. The highest point is 600 feet
higher than Lake Ontario, and a drop
OF sixty feet in four miles at Peter
boro, made necessary the building of
the largest locks of the kind in the
world. They are now completed.
Along the lines of the Southern rail-
way there have been added this year
nineteen new cotton mills and eight
knitting mills which have added to
the total equipment 20,134 looms and
1918 5S spind!es. There are now under
construction twenty-three other mills,
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5Q0.312 Notwithstanding a grand total
existing and in sight of 642 mills, 1885,
1913 looms and 6,s76,soo spindles.
When the work of draining the Zuy-
der Zee is completed 1t will be possible
for one to stand on n dyke with the
water of the North sea on one side
only ten feet below him and OH the
other side will be the farmers at work
tillfng the soil from twenty to thirty
feet beneath. The chimneys of the
farm houses will in some cases be be-
low the level of the water on the other
side of the dixie.
Samuel Little. millionaire, street
railway magnate and director of many
of Boston's prominent financial instt-
tutions, was this fall, unable to cast
in owe thirty years, be unable to cast
a ballot at either the state or city
elections. This was u to the laxity OF
the police In collecting for the
police list. Through, some error Mr..
Little was overlooked.
When President Roosevelt said that
a public officers reputation should be
clean as a hounds TOOTH hewas
given a good deal of credit for in
venting an expressive phrase. Some
one has just dug ur the fact that Sen
ator Ed1nunds used precisely the same
words ten OF a dozen years & In de-
scribing a Vermont applicant for office.
j. III. Hale employed on his farm in
Georgia a negro boy named Joe. Were
having hot weather, Joe" remarked
Mr.. Hale, one bltstering day in July.
Yes, sir, boss said Joe, reflectively.
sef I WIZ OWN a man a hot day, an
he wouldn' TEX dis one, fore de Lawd
"a wouldn' know where to look for one
to pay him wid!"
The oldest woman college graduate
in Massachusetts, IL not in New Eng
land, DR.. Sophornia Fletcher, recently
observed her 95th birthday atCan;-
bridge. For thirty years she was the
attending physician of Wendell Phil
lips, invalid wife and has had many
distinguished patients.
london has a new law which might
well be initiated here. 1t provides for
Eprinking old buildings In process OF
demolition 1T is only surprising that
the watering of such buildings during
the pulling down process to stop the
dust nuisance has not been thought Of
before.
According to a Paris physician who
has noted the hour of death of 1850
persons, his observation covering a
period OF several years, the maximum
hour Of death is from 5 to6 a. M, and
the minimum from 8 to IL d. m.
"A new occupation Is opening for
tramps In England. They station them
selves near a police trap and warm ap-
preaching motorists of danger. and, as
result are rewarded with donations of
small pieces OF money.
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Fire ri. s..ze naGEnreign&Bibl society,
which ina few months completes a CEN
turyof work, has issued no fewer than
IS0.0oo.000 copies of the scriptures,
which are now printed In nearly 400
different languages.
Scotland has an area 81 a19.062.4S2