The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-06-30

very pound or tue! with the pulVeriZe
coal, II 10 pounds per pound of fut
with hand firms. On the basis of con
bustible the equivalent evaporation i
the two cases was lO.4T and 50 pounds
respectively.
Congressman Curtis of Kansas has
RIVAL for his seat in Charlie" Martel
Il PottaWattamie Indian, who is maxim
a novel ava of the district, holdin
oid-fashioned Indian war dances an,
IoN-wows, Mr.. Curtis mother was
IN~tl-hlooded kaw sQuaw and the Potta
Wattamies think ii time they We're rep
resented in congress. Martell physic
ally is n fine specimen of the Indian
-SIii1ough well educated he is partial t
i!ie open life OF his ancestors and live
IN q teoee.
Inc society of German Ironmaster
recently celebrated at Dusseldorf tn,
completion of the twenty-ffth year o
us existence, and also Of the twenty,
ifth year of the presidency of Mr.. Car
itpes, Inc society is in a very flourish.
Ing condition. The meeting was at.
tended by about 500 members. The an.
hothcement vas made that a golt
medal had been instituted to be called
the Carl Lueg medal, and to be award.
ed for conspicuous services to German
metallurgy. The first award was made
10 Mr.. Lueg.
General William Fouche, Boer pat
riot. is now a Kansas farmer. He has
purchased a quarter section of land
near GeIlesso, in Ellworth county and
mas taken possession of the property,
Ahe purchase by General Fouche is said
10 mean that a Boer colony will be es-
tablished there. General Fouche is in
correspondence with former con1nan-
IONS in arms who are still in South
Africa, and who have been waiting for
General Fouche to find a suitable Ioca-
tlon before they came to America with
their families.
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie cares little or
nothing for jewels. When she goes ONT
10 a function or to the opera she some
times wears pearls, but these are not of
fabulous size or price. They are ex-
tremeiy modest and afford quite a con-
trast to the jewels which some women
wear AT best Mrs. Carnegie does not
care for functions or society in general.
she makes a delightful hostess at Sktbo
castle, where she has received royalty.
ana these are qualities which ALWAYS
win with the highest classes abroad.
Tho day Will, 1 believe, come when
the sweet potato will furnish the starch
or the world SO said DR.. Harvey w.
Whey. chief of the bureau of chemistry
IN the agricultural department.. in re-
ply to the appeal Of Congressman
brantley of Georgia, that the govern
nlent, having developed the possibiI-
a.les or the sugar cane syrup industry.
mould make a somewhat similar study
of the sweet potato.
In recent European experiments
corpses have been kept for a certain
m in a oath Of chloride Of calcium
heated to 1928 degrees, Their taken out
ana STEPPED for twenty-four hours in
a coiu solution Of sulphate Of sodium.
Inc bodies are transformed into perfect
nummies, which may be kept indef-
nitely.
The first railway in Iceland probably
Will be begun soon Dy an English com
pany recently formed for the purpose
or working the sulphur mines ut
Iheisstarelkir, in the north of Iceland
Inc mines are about miles
tfom Auavik, the nearest harbor. to
which the proposed railway viii run.
Steps are being taken to develop
deposits of fuller's earth. near
bueian, Pueblo county, and near Ak
ron, washington county, in Colorado.
me rev deposits OF this substance al
ready located IN the Centennial state
are sald to be among the purest found
anywhere in the world.
The wool season has lust closed in
Montrose county, Colorado, with the
record Of I'VE 800, 900 pounds of wool
shipped out, the largest output in tho
history of the county. About 500. 600
heac Of sheep We're maintained on the
range IN TINS one county, last season.
Valuable deposits Of uranium and
Vanadlum oxide or c]arnotite. have re-
Gently been discovered near Bonlder
Colo. These are Theories so eaperl,,
sought at present by scientists engaged
IN experimenting with substances nos
sesslng radio active properties.
Judge Curran, who found no criminal
business at Mullingar, on visit to that
city recently, attributed the happy cir
cumstance to the pope's blessing. At a
private audience he had asked the none
70 bless the four counties which formed
his circuit.
The German government has nre
pared a bill to promote the erection Of
s1nall dwellings,, u~nimpeachable from
sanitary, moral and social points of
view, n at the same time obtainable
at a reasonably low rent.
h census returns for Cane CoIony
snow that the population OF the Cana
proper totals 1,4S5, 634 persons. of whom
e4S, 926 are white. At the census Of 1891
tn total was 1888, $50. the whites then
numbering 366, COS.
h d~eaconesses of the Chicago home
are a campaign of fresh air
work Tor the summer. Last year thew
provided outings of one week or more
TO 100 poor children ana worn out moth
ers n babies.
rarln iaborers In Liberia receive from
S1.aP TO S4.bo a month and rations of
Elce and fish. Men do all the work
done elsewhere by horses hecansa
horses would cost more.
money market Is over
stocked. Piles of useless coin are living
IN the banks and heavy remittances ne
soaI are stu being made from London
Ihe chances of preventing the ultt-
mate collapse of the Doges' palace IN
Venice have been greatly increassS ~ ~,