The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-03-29

Poung officer had been wounded, and
this surgeon had dressed the wounds
General Grant sent for the surgeon
later to ascertain the young officers
chances. He is wounded said the
surgeon to the commander-in-chief, in
three places Are these wounds ia
tal?" General Grant asked. The sur
geon nodded a grave assent. Two OF
the wounds are fatal" he said. THE
third is not, If we can leave him to
rest quiet for a while, l think he will
pull through"
An innovation Is said to have crept
into the English house of commons re-
Gently, when hand-c!apping, familiar
the world over, but forbidden in the
mother of parliaments, was for the first
time heard. The custom of the house
calls for Hear. Heart" as the *
preston OF approval, often ironical,
Hear! Heart" according to earned au-
thorities, Is a modern shortening of
"Hea him! Hear him!" the regular
parliamentary shout Of approval down
to the early part OF the last century
Icelanders have a strange but effect
I've plan for preventing horses from
Btraying away. They tie the head OF
one horse to the tail OF another, n the
head of this to the tail of the former.
In this state 1T is impossible for the
horses to move on, either backward or
forward. If disposed to move at all, 1t
will be only In a circle, and even then
there must be mutual agreement to
turn their heads h am way.
The voracity OF the eagle is a we'll
known fact, but it has been left to q
Swiss hunter to define exactly the var
iations which take place in its daily
menu. In a nest in the Alps, side by
side with an eagle, he found a hare,
freshly killed. twenty-seven chamois'
feet, four pigeons feet, thirty pheasants'
feet, eleven heads of fowls, eighteen
heads of grouse, and the remains of
rabbits, marmots AND squirrels.
DR.. Nicholas Sem, of Chicago. will
start on April 4 for a -four months trip
through Africa, to make a study of the
lowest types Of humanity. He will go
from New York direct.to Lisbon. Por-
tugal, where he will attend the an
nual session of the medical congress
from April 10 to %. Crossing the Med
~lterranean to Africa, he will travel the
length of the continent by caravan and
rail to Cape Town.
With the exception OF the larger
towns the precautions against fire in
France are remarkably inadequate.
Many towns of from 500 to 5000 people
have. no water supply other than or
e11nary wells, operated generally by
bucket draws instead of pumps, and no
fire apparatus except occasionally a
hand force pump. such as is used by
contractors.
The Chinese imperial commissioners,
IN the Boston public library the other
day, expressed great establishment that
no one could tell them which book in
the library was the Oldest. From the
Chinese point of view the Oldest book
Is the best. There are no '.six best
sellers" in China. A book under 1000
years old is read by no se~lf-respecting
man.
A curious circumstance in connection
with the death of the king of Denmark
is the fact that n of the Danish col.
onies. Greenland, will not learn the
news for three months, owing to the
difficulty OF ships reaching the land.
In ignorance of the event. the Green
landers will celebrate King Christians
birthday on April 8 in the usual man
ner.
The British government stands to
lose Its naval reserve unless II changes
recent. regulations. which require twen-
ty-eight consecutive days service at
sea on a battleshsp each year. AS most
of the men are engaged In liners and
other seagoing vessels, his gives them
h choice 81 leaving the reserve or
losing their ships.
Fishes have nj eyelids. and necessar-
fly sleep with their eyes open; they
swallow their food whole having no
Sentai machinery. Frogs, toads and
serncnts never take food except that
witch they are certain is alive. Ser
pots are so tenacious Of life that they
viii ive5for six months Or longer with
ort food.
Tseron Tasahi says four-1fths OF the
.iesssas1ese boys are now studying Eng
list and that 1t will soon become the
irsrstage of Japan and later of the
sesrne's. The language seems to be fol-
jnss;frg the drurnbeaa In It's circuit OF
a'sc globe. and it represents a conquest
u a far higher order.
recent years the construction Of
Teftways proceeded in Germany at the
Tatc,.pf about 621.5 miles d year. THE
essflre trackage exceeds at present a.
1sr mites, The efectriflcation of rail-
ryn Es is still confined | o a few suburban
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