The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-07-19
SOUTH DAKOTA

p. A. BLISS, Editor and Proprietor.
SCOTLAND, SOUTH DAKOTA
Most persona probably think tina,
winged seeds from trees -.avel tc
great distances on the wind. But the
studies Of DR.. Ridley, of the Botanic
gardens, at Singapore, indicate that
winged seeds have d far narrower range
o. flight than do powder" seeds and
pluned seeds. Tie greatest distance
Travelled by the winged fruit Of a forest
tree, observed by DR.. Ridley, was 10l
yards. Under the most favorable cir
Cumstances, he calculates, it would
take this plant 100 years TO spread 300
yards, and 1900. 900 years to spread
from the Malay peninsula to the Phil
tppiaes, If q long connection existed.
Fourteen years ago a bottle manufac-
turer, Claude Boucher. In Cognac,
France, was forced to close his factory
by the continuous strikes and exactions
OF his employees. He then set to work
to invent a machine for the manufac-
ture of bottles. This machine is now in
use in various parts of the country;
$50, 900 bottles are turned out by 1T
daily. A single machine produces 5000
bottles in t~wenty-four hours; n any
one can learn to run 1t in a week. The
bottles are stronger and look better
than those made by the blowers.
Julian Trask, formerly labor cor
missioner of New Hampshire, stam-
mers greatly in his speech, and his
popularity is we'll known throughout
the state. One day he was approached
by a stranger who. after some prelim-
mary talk, confessed that he had q
son who suffered. He was anxious to
nave the lad cured and asked MI.
Trask for advice regarding the matter.
The labor commissioner reflected grave
ly for a few moments n then re-
sponded with all the emphasis he could
command: "S-s-s-hoot him"
Ever since 1870 the skull of Sir
Thomas Browne has been on show in a
museum at Norwich. 1t has now been
restored to the vault whence it vas
taken. Sylvanus Urban, in the Cen
tleman's Magazine, condemns the NOR
bidness and that of certain people who
proposed to have Shakespeare's Skull
similarly examined. Let such ghoul-
fshly inclined busybodies," he says, m
phatically, "confine their attention to
the anatomy Of Jonathan Wild"
Asbestos stockings are now being
Ailulit1lCluiSu " USc ny WOIkfllSIl III
boiler rooms and foundries. In these
and other situations the floor often be-
comes uncomfortably hot. though not
hot enough to burn through the soles
of shoes. The workmen in these posi-
tons suffer tortures from their feet,
and 1t Is declared tina the non-con-
Quoting properties Of asbestos enables
them to Withstand higher temperatures
with absolute comfort.
There is a plant in Chill and a sim
liar II in Japan called the flower of
the air" 1t is SO called because it
appears to have no root, and is never
fixed to the earth. 1t twlnes round a
dry tree or a sterile rock. Each shoot
produces two or three flowers AXE a
transparent and odoriferouS.
1t is capable of being transported 600
to 700 miles n vegetables as it travels
suspended on a twig.
In view OF the astounding fact that
IN n year 1854 London children have
died in consequence OF injuries re-
ceived from open fireplaces, an effort
is being made to have a law enacted
to punish parents who leave children
In rooms that have such
f:replaces. A similar inquiry might be
made with important results in Amer
lea, is the comment made by the New
York Observer.
Captain T. Bentley Mott. for several |
years our military attache at Paris, is
advocating a radical change in the
present training Of the American army.
With Aldershot as a model, Captain
Mott advises the concentration O flarge
bodies of troops, so that the general
officers In the army may have exper-
ience In handling brigades and divis-
ions In actual war.
Ea#.g.W.LE |
A young Japanese who ~recently COM
suicide by leaping into the era
ter or the volcano at Asama left be-
mind him a note, in which he said:
Suffering a feeling of despair impels
me to throw myself into the crater Of
Asama, thus winning a
splendid death, and ascending the
mountains smoke to a lofty life above
sky"
The evidence before the British army
commissioners as to graft dur
the Boer war shows that there
only one regiment the contractors
were unable to cheat. That proud dis
inction belongs to the Seventh Hus-
sars. They weighed everything and
checked the quality Of everything sup
Piled them.
All the efforts made by a Liyerpool
irm to promote the cultivation of cot
on In Palestine have been fruitless.
though labor costs only 25 cents
! day and land is one-tenth the price
Egyptian land. The chief cause of
he failure is said to be the %incapacity
laziness of the natives.
a gallant motorist had rescued beau
y In distress from a dog cart in a
itch, where a scared horse had landed
T, says Motor Illustrated, when the
ady isped sweetly: Thank you SD
much. Would you mind doing 1t again?
DO so want our horse to get used
9 those horrid things"
The following notice was recently to
seen outside a church door In a sur
ey village; The Rev. Z. Tt viii
reach his farewell sermon on Sunday
The choir VIII render an anthem
: Joy and Thanksgiving, specially COM
osed for the OCCASION
Bertha L. Fowler. a l2~-year-old girl
I Lewiston, Me-, has been astonish-
patrons OF h fair grounds there
y driving a big Hambietonian PAGER
. something under 2:3O on a half
lille track She began handling the
eins when she was half her present
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