The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-02-23

same family after forty-three years
service. None of the winners had beer
in their situations less than thirty
years.
Important physiological experiments
have been made in Russia to test the
e1IdurtI1ce OF school 4GiiiiIaren The re.
jsults prove that in the lower four
iclasses study may be continued for a
period not exceeding twenty-five OF
.tW~enty-seven hours a week, but that
excessive fatigue results from longer
continuance of brain work. This time
for teaching these classes has been
fixed by the latest order of the ministry
bf public instruction. 1t is urged, how
Iaver. that this should be the outside
limit, n that no lessons should be
Studied at home.
A mammoth hydrangea bush, which
mas borne a record-breaking foliage
ithis season, was recently exhibited on
1.-THE continent. The bush had more
than 800 blooms. The highest bloom
was twelve feet from the ground, and
lin diameter the bush was fifteen feet.
1T was planted about sixteen years ago,
and has received no more than ordi-
mary care. Its thrifty growth is at
,tributed chiefly to the soil, being per-
lfectly adapted. The counting Of the
blooms was rather a difficult task.
COMPRISING 100000 by
Hydraulic machinery, an Austrian in
llyenter has constructed a yacht of the
material thus obtained, complete in
every detail and no less that sixteen
feet in length. Everything about the
little vessel is of paper-not only the
huh, but the masts n even the sails.
THE Paris Auto vouches for the fact
iifhst@th yacht is not a mere toy, but a
real vessel capable of fulfilling all the
requirements of any ship of similar
size.
A man hopelessly lost in the bush in
South Australia, after wandering about
lfor four days, came across the tele-
graph line between Adelaide and Port
Darwin. He had not the strength to
go farther. but managed to climb a pole
and cut he Wire. He then made him
self as comfortable az possible and
waited. The telegraph repairers We're
sent along the line, and they came TO
the wanderer in time to save his life.
The silver watch worn by Captain
Meriwether Lewis on the exploration
expedition 100 years & through Ore
igon to the Pacific and which was be-
lieved to have been stolen from him
when he was murdered in Tennessee
has been found. A woman in Weston,
Nv. Va, claims she owns the identical
itimepiece and will exhibit 1t at the
Levi and Clark centennial.
Theretare more than 1000 swans at
Abhotsbury, in England. living a per-
fectly natural life. and none of them
is pinioned. The visitor sees the
largest birds in England in full flight,
for the Abbotsbury birds use their
wings for all Journeys to and from the
sea, or down the long lagoon called the
Fleet, that divides the shore from the
beach.
A Russian theatrical company-the
pioneer of it's kinds playing in Lon
don at the Avenue theater in Tschiri-
koff's famous drama, THE Chosen Peo-
pie 1t deals chiefly with the miser-
able condition of the Jews in Russia,
but the players are not Jews. 1t had
great success In Berlin.
A Liverpool man who had been
parted from his wife for some years
thought he recognized her among the
ballet girls on the stage of d theater.
He sprang up, pointed to her. II cried
My Minnie and fell dead. But he
had made a mistake. The woman was
not his wife.
Pasadena. Cal, held it's seventeenth
NSNooI iitlitAGIIL olHqlQSGS IGGGIilly..
Sixty thousand people participated. The
floral display was magnificent. "A long
procession of fiorally decorated floats,
automobiles and carriages passed along
streets and under arches decorated with
flowers.
A Blackburn. England. man owns a
Shetland pony which is believed to be
the smallest in the United Kingdom.
-Four years old. fully grown. let black,
with a long, shaggy coat, 1t is only
tWenty-seyen one-half inches high,
or one-han inch short of seven hands.
An E.nglisman has erected a cur
Sious weather yane on his house along
side the road near Westerhain. 1t q
pfctS Is motorscar running owe a
pedestrian. while at the arrow. end of
h vane stands dle avenger--a police
man With nplifted arm.
Reporting Sousa's first concerts OF
his new season in London, the Mail.
says: THE audience liked a new ouf
sposition of Mr.. Sousa's, entitled AT
s~fheERingss Court but iey-rw Int
shouts OF delight over a rendition of
sBedelia..
Millions of Hindoos live, marry and
rear families on an Income which rare
Ny exceeds SO cents a week. They never
cent meat and need little clothing.
During the recent fog in England
SdroYer lost q flock of sheep IN the.
streets of Manchesters The ANIMALS.
Scattered All over 5he city,
Gatherings lighthouse, Isle of
Ugh has Just been fitted With 4
replacing one of 100000