The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-05-16

large DOdy OF the warrant oEicerl
from all the garrisons have become &C
dissatisfied with th&- aassai.cu, and sc
hopeless OF seeing It impsHyad through
the ordinary channels, tho. thsy have
sent a collective petition Direct to the
war minister. And now at every pos,
q court martial consisting of a colonel
Two lieutenant colonies and two cap
tains Is trying the delinquents on the
question Shall They Be Degraded"
AT Milan alone, twelve quartermastera
are being tried.
The naming of the n in the
southern part of Philadelphia after
governors of the state which has been
In progress for several years, was
further exemplifed recently, when
stuart avenue was SO designated In
honor of the present Equatorial in
cumbent. Other such are PEN
nypacker, Stone, Snyder, Patterson,
Beaver and Hastings. There Is room
Tor only four more and the next four
governors will probably be the honored
ones. After that some other way OF
Incorporating the names of governors
will have to be found.
The Monument, London's famous coll
umn, which. as Pope wrote, like a bul-
ly lifts its tall head and lies" Is a
source of profit to the city corporation.
says the Pail Mall gazette. The act
ual surplus for the current year is
placed at about $500. The tolls charged
to visitors appea at $2,700, and the sale
of the booklet is estimated to pro-
duce $40. On the other side of the ac-
count, internal painting will cost $500
ind gas N water SEQ and $780,, re-
spectively, while a. and clothing
Will absorb $1,000, and the grant to the
pension fund is S225.
1t is said, hat d long time back. the
En ~ ~ L>n-J-,l 49,
mathematical errors of the clerks were
at a minimum in the early morning
hours, but progressively increased as
fatigue occurred. The worst time was
In the late afternoon and there was so
much money loss. due to errors at that
time, that as a matter of econom clerks
were forbidden TO work after a certain
hour, which we understand was 8
O'CLOCK. In France the same law of Sc
auence was brought to light, as was to
be expected.
Curious ways the Japanese mer-
shant ha9 OF doing business. A spe-
etal agent of the United States govern
ment who is now in Japan gives come
Illustrations The buyer, he says,
makes no payment until the arrival of
Inc goods. If in the meantime the
market has dropped, the japanese will
pIten go to the American and intimate
That he Is not prepared to stand all the
loss n that the American should di-
vide the loss with him, though to do so
might wipe out all the profit on the
transaction.
New York state health commissioner
Porter has given out advance copies of
IN article on the pollution and self
P~uri1cation of Ice, which will be pub
lished in the bulletin of the department,
Boon to be issued. The article sum
m ari0Qc the fef,r, - - -.11t - -.
Eecrlon from ice n makes it clear that
Lnere IS less danger of infection there
FROM than is popularity supposed. DR..
Porter points ont that ice tends to
purify itself by reason of the low tenn
perature.
While some excavations We're going
On at San Patrizio, a suburb of the
LoWn or Pav1a, Italy, seventy skeletons
were found placed in a straight line.
also some fragments of 1t
appears that the bones are those of
eoldierS killed at the famous battle Of
fought on February "a, 1926, be-
tween King Francis /. OF france and
EH1peror Charles ", when the former
was taken prisoner while writing the
historic sentence: All is lost but
honor."
ADMIRAL Fl. N. Manney. one of the
representatives at the wire
ess conference in 1906, is quoted in Ber-
NJ as uthcrity for the statement that,
whereas before the conference a quar-
eE OF a mile was the limit for wire
leiephonlng. 1t is now possible to
mmunicate over a distance of thirty
mes. Inc system experimental with
meant tor marine use only, as it is
nore costly and less effective on land
ban the ordinary system.
That ct rirt ao,..1 1.:.
efVec IN The construction at Fairfield.
9 or the cruiser I%ndomftable
III henceforth be enforced in the case
I ali ships built for the British navy.
staff will be sworn in before be-
1ltrusted with the carrying cut of
ill be able to learn ANYTHING like
omplete details of warship designs.
missionary work among the British
,orth Sea fishermen has it's difficulties
rector of Lowestoft saws that yha.,
e first boarded a fishing smack five Of
le men rushed down into the cain.
jumped into the funnel AND an
Their sprang overheard.
The London Building Journal hears
lat two distin guished architects, noted
y their forceful language, are about
, issue a book ON "TEe Bricklayer,s
with an appendix of special
'ords by an American building super
ltendent.
The progrs.ss of the Catholic church
! Australia is perhaps the most strfk-
q religious fact in modern history.
nee are men living who remember
..e Time when there was not one priest
y q Australian continent.
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senior Carlos Silva OF Santiago. editor
~ Mercurio. the Oldest daily news
aper in the republic Of Chill, is visit
ns TINS country for the first time, ana
: accompanied by his wife. Ee is at
resent In Washington.
an the Neuchatel courts the speeches
lawyer will In future be tannated to
en minutes. five minutes being allowed
cross-examinations. An official
lmskeeper will see that the regulation
, observed.
A one-act play In the French Ian
Inage has been written by Queen Vic
oraa Of Spain. IN all probability Il
VIII pc produced by aristpcratic ana