The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-09-19

Glneer ne displayed unusual aptitude
in the mastery OF details. He was only
% when the first idea OF his torpedo
occurred to him and from that time IN,
I'll he was 30, when the invention was
purchased by the British war office for
$3.50, 600, he was working night and day
to bring 1t to perfection and interest
naval and military authorities in its
powers and potentialities.
Al the University OF Kansas a ply
stefan has been appointed to look after
sick students away from home; to con-
suit with students In all matters re-
lating to health, and to prevent, when
possible, trivial matters from becoming
serious; to provide necessary medical
services gratuitously to those who are
sity; to work with the university health
committee In seeking out and eliminat-
ting special sources OF infection, and in
preventing the spread OF infectious and
contagious diseases among the students
Of the university.
Bread is not the only product Of the
breadfruit tree. From 1T cement, cloth,
finder and lumber are also obtained. A
e%lutinous. milky Juice oozes from the
excellent cement when boiled with CO.
peanut oil. From he fbrous inner
bark n kind OF coarse cloth Is made.
md the big leaves make good towels.
The lumber is used for building houses
Ind many other purposes. Besides all
this the dried blossoms are used as
finder when fires are kindled.
It is from Hazelton, Pa.
that the Lehigh Valley Coal company
Heved to be the largest stripping in the
world solid bed OF anthracite L.
700 feet wide and thirty feet in thick
pess. extending from Lattimer to Drift
k~n - 40 20 - 1~~~x -tr H.
It is estimated that with an output
Sf 500 tons a day 1t would require
steady operation for two hundred and
nfty years to exhaust the newly dis
covered deposit
In Melbourne. q movement has been
Started to erect a statue OF John Bat
man. the founder of that city. Seventy
W years have passed since Batman,
hitter tying his boat close to q tree
bow stands. wrote in his diary: This
will be the place for a village" The.
village is now a city with a population,
" more than 500. 900. Batman did not
v to see more than the small be-
Etnnings OF the city he founded.
Mahogany trees do not grow in clus-
hers, but are scattered throughout the
forests and hidden in a dense growth
pf underbrush, vines n creepers and
require a skilful and experienced
woodsman to find them. He seeks the
highest ground In q forest climbs to
lhe top of the tallest tree and surveys
the surrounding country. The mahog-
Any has peculiar foliage and 10 prac-
tlccd eye soon detects the trees within
Hght.
Lord Kelvin. who has the d~istinctfon
d having occupied a chair In a untver-
bdty Longer than any professor living
Md who won great fame before being
elevated to the peerage as Sir William
Thompson, has had innumerable honors
Germany. Belgium n the United
States. He is now In his $50 year
nut shows no signs OF diminishing ac-
nvtty or lack OF intellectual power.
The new Venezuelan national leper
hospital on the seashore near La
Guaira has been completed and IL now
ready for occupancy: The old hospital
II Caracas has been abandoned and
the ITO leper patients have been trans
eerred to h new hospital. The new
hospital IL a large and commodious
building and Is in an isolated spot on
the seaahore between Cape Blanco and
MaiQuetia.
Two German bacteriologistss claim to
have discovered an effective serum
against typhus-fever. 1t Is obtained
t tsom oerrssi a out as ene rssuII q s. m RaEy
- $&A 49, 00A VI ACIe
lin. Vienna and Prague, It has been
shown to assuage the fever. regularize
the pulse and arrest d~iarrohea. The
names OF the bacteriologists are Meyer
and Bergell.
The Indian government 10, 1t Is said,
ConAidering the desirability Of using
motor transport wagons for freight IN
d~istricts { market. This is quite a
OcAble, considering the good roads OF
h plains In India, and 1t would solve
= roble that has perplexed the gov
eminent.
The noble families OF Prussian, Po-
land, have become so numerous as al
most to swamp I h common people OF
fhe province. The priest OF the village
Ct Konitx replied to a circular issued
the 400 families In his CONGREGATION
was OF noble birth.
Ono Danish gardener has succeeded
m growing edelweiss. the Alpine flower,
peculiar to h dizziest heights of the.
kwtss Alps. The gardener is D
Ing large quantities OF the flowers to
Swiss hotels, where they are sold to
tourists.
The gold production OF the world In
1905 put the total at $405, 000. 600, an In
crease OF nearly $50. 900. 600 over 1905. In
africa alone the increase was $21, 900.
q United States with a total Of $685.
SO0s0O0. rnade an increase OF Sc, 000, 900.
There are tobacco lands In this
country which are bringing their own
srs z yearly profit 81 $4,000 an acre.
Theggtown OF Orsen. Sweden, IL with
out Taxes The necessary revenues are
Aerived from forest reservation.
France "a n 10 old age insurance
hut a large amount Is annual
~ spent In relief to aged natives.
Al the tobacco exhibition In London
aoxne women made scigarets at the rate
{ 10 IN thirty minutes.