The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-23

-. ~ 1880 ihilS "
building bricks and eight Zach for toy
typeWriters and mechanical horses.
Forty girls-a solid majority-declared
without hesitation that q doll was su-
perior to any other implement of recre-
alton, The superchild seems happily
. long way off. And as diabolo had
only two boy and six girl supporters,
the Devils Disciple may still be
called an infrequent object of the play
ground.
French engineers have lately made
successful tests of wireless ~telegraphy
the lofty observatories on the
crown of Mont Blanc and the valley of
Chamontx. 1t had been feared that the
absence of moisture in the frozen sur
race might interfere with the earth
connection, but no such trouble was
experienced. The only difficulty arose
when the alternating current dynamos
or the electric light system in Chamonix
We're at work. AT such times the wire
less messages could not be transmitted
nor received.
investigating the effect of compressed
air on health two British engineers
nave shown that a pressure OF 90
pounds a square inch-more than six
atmospheres-may be endured without
unpleasant results. The pressure must
be taken off at a uniform rate. how
ever. at least 20 minutes being allowed
Tor each Is pounds of reductions, and
capillary circulation in the body must
De Kept up by muscular exercise dur
ing compression. Slight temporary
neuraiglc pain In the arms was the only
Al erect of the great pressure.
Before leaving Christ church for the
Antart1c regions, says the Westminster
Gazette, Captain Shackleton. the COM
mander of the latest British south nolar
GAISUlIlOn WAS H2nlC curnr II, - - -@xx
master OF King Edward the Seventh
Land. He has been authorized by the
postmaster general Of New Zealand to
open an office in that most southerly
OF me kings d%ominions, to issue stamps
ana transmit mails as opportunity of-
1ers. These south polar stamps will
~doubtless be priced by philatelists and
other lovers of curios.
Speaking of gambling and high play
an Inc eighteenth century, r. p. O,Con-
nor.s London Weekly avs Mr..
byrne. an Irish gamester, had won
&loo'0o0 OF young Mr.. Harvey. OF CHG
Wen, just started into an estate nv his
Slner brothers death. O'Byrne said:
Z 10y. can never pay me-. Il can" said
dept." NO" said O.Byrne. Il viii win
5lVooo, n you shall throw me for the
q ESQ, 900" They threw for it and
Harvey o
reHT84@&
New york city has 2ss pawnbrokers.
III sucn Is the nature of their bust
ness tiat the law requires that fhair
books snail be open to the MAYOR erin
ma courts. magistrates and police,
aluminium books for the blind
now being printed in Edinburgh are or
thin sheets embossed In the ns,,aI H,.s,
Iney are easier to read than nansr
books, do not soil and are practicauu
1noestructible. Their expensiyeness is
their drawback. 40
caused annually in Burma by snaEes
Oltes lt has been decided to distribute
u widely as possible through the nrov-
nee the lancets designed by Sir Lauder
s1sTnnton for the treatment of snakehita
raan of potash, the eff
Sacy y which, II the treatment Is al
once applied. Is now established,
l.urlugal contains 81, 254 square miles.
1A1na. - LILO square miles more than
. Ma.,de ana ! os6 less than Indiana, IT'S
reputation in 1900 was substantiallv fha
ans as that OF Illinois. Portugal haw-
g 5.0l6.e67 to the 4,S2l. $50 Of Illinois
me population of Illinois is now esti.
mated to be $3.50. 900.
Dr.. v. A. Latyarn. 81 cnIc.so
Mss Mary A. Booth, of Sprineaeld
lass 1s.ass.. are said to he the only exnarf
W n!Ilen photomicrographers In this
Gounlry, PhotomicrographY, be ii I'M
osrstood is the delicate art OF taxing
'.o'osispn thfei'gh q microscope.
- IS said that the method of nro-
lucins a~naesthesia by means OF elec-
.ricits, discovered by Professor Ia
44s1Is, oI France. is applicable
n .,,.ess execution Of criminals.
0Iders have been posted in the shons