The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-11-29

The ClTIzEN-REPUBLICA
e. A. BLISS, Editor and Proprietor.
SCOTLAND, SOUTH DAkOT.
The only railway station In Englan
that can boast of being really old !
that at Bourne, Lincolnshire, which !
Nh ancient Biizabethan mansion, for
merry in the possession of the Digb
family, some members of which wer
implicated in the g~unpowder plot
When the Great Northern and indian,
railways came through this district
memorial was sent from the inhabi
iants of Bourne asking that, instead o
pulling the old landmark down, 1
might be converted into q, railway sta
ton, for which purpose 1T now serves
Part OF the house is used as a residenc,
by the station master.
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After February 1 neXt the American
bank Note company will manufacture
United states postage stamps. Under q
contract just made public the concern
must deliver $4,000, 900 stamps daily six
Times a week. The American Bank Note
tfNt JIG ~ POolLi6C SldIllpS
Tor the government and held the con-
tract up to thirteen years ago., when
lhe government manufactured the
Columbian issue, and down to this day
ihe bureau of printing and engraving
,ias turned out all stamps. The change
was made a private concern
San do the work cheaper.
Greece is threatened with an odd
strike. At q public meeting the physi-
nlans n druggists of Athens declared
that their professions would soon be re-
duced to starvation. Many physicians
or the city are actually in straits be-
cause OF the ever-increasing clinics
where patients receive free treatment.
The disciples Of Esculapius intend,
therefore. to strike. unless the govern
ment prevents the further establish
ment OF clinics n permits them to
increase their fees from two drachmas
20 three drachmas Ca drachma is about
10 cents).
Under the old English law a personal
chattel which had caused the death OF
q person was declared a "deodand." or
forfeited to God. The crown took
charge of it and it was sold, the pro-
ceeds to be distributed by the high
aimoner in. pfous uses. Thus q cart
Wh1ch had run over inc killed a man
1853 eSoabiiAi 81 WAS d Morse Wnlcl
kicked Its master to death. All things.
and inanimate, which caused
the death of a human being were for
feited as "deodands.'
The Australian synod met last fall, at
tl.rromango, in the New Hebrides. At
this place the islanders. Their cannibals,
murdered the missionaries, John Will
1ains and James Harris, in 1886, the
missionary Gordon and his wife in
1861, and Gordon's brother a few Years.
later. But at this synod the native who
opened M meeting with prayer. a
useful and tried elder in the P~resbyte-
ran church OF Erromango, was Usuo.
son OF the heather murderer OF VIII
iams.
Inc extraordinary resuscitating pow
er OF light recently received a curious
illustration in the silver mines at
Laurium. A mine had been abandoned
z,oo years., when some poppy seed was
round beneath the Stag. The Stag be-
ing removed, in a short time the entire
space was covered with the most pors
geous show OF poppies. After their
twenty. centuries rest they had
bioofaeAd as vigorously as IT they had
been borne by flowers of yesterday.
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Mrs. Agnes Lewis of England, is said
TO be the only woman who has received
the degree OF D.. D., which has been
conferred upon her in recognition Of
e1er labors In deciphering some ancient
maruscrips OF the bible which were
in a monastery on Mount
SNlai. she Is regarded as the most
world. =
IN the London hospital ward was a
iiIue glrl whose brother had died re-
Gently enough to make his sister still
e SUBJECT Of rejected interest. TT was
al aiols OF EARN too much ice cream
ana ginger cookies she said to the
doctor who was attending her. T,eY,
sne smiled beatifically and piouslv. .It
was a beautiful death, doctor"
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when they meet d friend
siahs hands SIX or eight times. Once !
it mot enough. Should. however they
persons Of distinction, they embrace
ana KISS one another several times and
kiso kiss their own hands. In Turkey
the greeting is to place the hand UNION
LAe breast and bow. which is both
graceful and appropriate.
A little boy was on his knees recent
" at night and auntie, staying at the
mouse, was present. ut is a pleasure
she said to him afterward, ..to hear yo,,
saying your prayers SO well. You speak
~ earnestly n seriously and mean
you say and care about it,, "Ahi"
ne answered, aah, but. auntie. YOU
sholld hear me garglei"
Since 1878 to the present time nearly
avery year has seen a continued and
ead decline in the amount Of RAIN
Lall IN Ecuador. No exact statistics are
.optainable. but there lis said to b Mt
[le reason to doubt that the decline
within the period cited is upward Of 80
New York City's fashionable non,-
atlon frst took root In Bowling Greana
moving thence to East Broadway. Rond
slreet. Bieecker street, Aston Place
washington Square, Fifth avenue. and
low gives only four months each wear
g city life, being in the country AT
or IN Europe, for eight months.
The pay Of the Russian army of1eer
: very small. A full general gets from
Ilsoue 20 $2,oc a year, according to the
ength OF service: d lieutenant general
rom LILO to S1,750; major generai
roni $3.50 10 $i,to0. and a colonel COM
nanding q three-battalipn regimen
$50 strong. gets 5000.
Cockney III hecnuirr nn