The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-10-05

search of the bonbonS which she carries
with her for the delectation Of any little
one she may meet.
Where did Tommy Atkins" the Brit
tsh soldier, get his name? Years ago
Sir Garnet Wolseley published a little
volume called THE Soldiers Pocket
book of Field Service To show how
TO fill out q blank space in the field re-
ports he happened to use the name,
i'Thomas Atkins" The pocketbook is
fhe British soldiers military bible, and
the name. Thomas Atkins was at
bnce adopted as his proper nickname.
Seattle wishes an Alaskan exposition
In 1907 to celebrate some anniversary
or other. Los Angeles would COM
melnorate the centennial of the pony
express in 1909. Sedalia, Mo-, already
has on foot a project to centraliZe Mis-
souri, in 1920. And lately some one has
proposed an exposition in Panama in
the Year 2205, in celebration of the first
centennial of the opening of the Pan
ema canal.
performing monkey named Dolly
Is being treated for pneumonia at the
4Charing Cross hospital, London. When
she was brought to the hospital a DR..
strickland asked her where the pain
was. She placed her hand on her chest.
The doctor avs she is very human"
though they d that "she does just
what she is told and Is most grate-
full" which is somewhat contradictory.
The biggest cannon ball ever made
weighed $500 pounds, and was manu-
featured at the Krupp works, Essen,
Tor the government of the car. The
sun from which this projectile was
Tired is also the largest In the world.
ind is placed in h Notifications Of
Cronstadt. This gun has a range of
twelve miles, and 1t has been estimated
that each shot costs $1,000.
In some parts of the world, especially
italy and India, it has been customary
TO employ emoval of the nose as a
form Of punishment, sometimes judicial,
put chiefly as q mode of carrying out
private revenge. Especially in some
districts Of India Is 1t considered a suit
pble form of punishment for a husband
to intlict on n wife of whose conduct he
does not approve.
In the Colorado desert there are
transforms during which not a drop of
water touches the earth. The rain can
be seen falling from the clouds high
t,bove, butWhen 1t reaches the hot, dry
tir beneath the cloud it is entirely
absorbed. These strange transforms
Jake place in regions where the Their
tnometer often registers 12S degrees in
The shade.
Only 200 Piutes. the remnant of a
fnce powerful indian tribe. have gath
lred from all parts Of California, Ari-
Eona and Nevada, near Los Angeles,
Ind are busy with services in honor of
he m of their great chief Te-
iopah, who died about a year ago. 1t
win be probably the last muster of the
tribe.
The new Williamsburg bridge, In
New York, is to be lighted by a muni-
ftpal plant. the power for which will
g developed from the burning Of street
~lWeepings. It is announced that the
lcinerating plant has been installed
ind that everything will be in opera
lion by October /.
Mrs. Ellis Rowan. the well known
fower painter, has a collection of 500
pictures OF Australian flowers, for
Which the German government has.of-
Cred $4,000 on condition that she
(akes up her residence in Germany and
ieyotes her time TO that country.
The new steel car equipment ordered
for the electrical conversion of the sub
ftrban service of the New York Central
consists of lbs cars. All the cars will
he equipped as motor cars, and will be
operated on the multiple unit train sys-
tenn.
Philip Black, an aged western pioneer,
who for forty years has lived among
oklahoma Indians. was married at Eel
Reno to Miss Euplaha Conner. of Wa
tonga. his fourteenth wife. Several of
Blacks former wives were Indians.
&
A dozen sea lions are said to have
taken up their quarters O a sanibank
between Calais and Boulogne, France.
where they are destroying great guam
titles of fish. Boulogne has sent out a
torpedo boat to disturb them.
Miss Paulding, daughter of the late
Industrious admiral, has for ten years
kept a trade school running at Hunt
Hngton. u. =. where their home was,
and hundreds of children have been
helped to learn trades.
The crater of Mauna Loa. In the
Sandwich islands, the largest volcano
I'm the world, is twenty miles In diam
feter. Sometimes the stream OF lava is
suing from 1t is fifty miles long.
An elephant at jena, Germany,
seized a man who was teasing him with
Ea knife and dashed him to the ground.
Three days later the MAJ succumbed to
his injuries.
I In the course of the trial of a case In
ii London court recently it came out
that imported canned fruit is often
STORED in London warehouses for ten
years.
Horses go cheap In South Morocco.
Recently one sold in Mogador by auc-
tion for AZ p~esetas. The animal will
lhe used to turn a grinding stone In a
mill.
Finland has q larger percentages OF
area In COrY,nnrfcnu U4fhHifgM
fetal surface, than any other European
country. 1t leads with BIZ per ent
More than 1000 people earn a living
by fortune telling. and their
total Yearly earnings are estimated at
91s00nsann