The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-06-24

sHl OltizLN I'LL UULJUAN
p. A. BLISS, Editor and Proprietor.
sGoTLAND. SOUTH DAKOTA
What might be called a tabloid watch
mas just been made by a MATCHMAKER
OF Locle. Switzerland. says the Londor
GLOBE. The thickness is said to be only
three miliimeters. SO. a meter being
only 80 inches, one can estimate the
case and the glass 1T is found the works
occupy = space OF 10 millimeters. The
spring is half a millimeter. What
makes this achievement of the Locle
matchmaker more extraordinary is tina
t1t is asserted that the watch keeps
time. varying only five seconds in "a
hours.
Recent exploration Of the Athabasca-
mackenzie region shows tina 1t con-
tains many valuable fur-bearing ami
tsnalS. and 1T appears also to be the
nome OF the last wild remnant of the
american bison family. The herds Of
pison are no numerous, and they are
l0elng rapidly exterTninated by wolves.
The Canadian musk OK also nhabits
This region. and in the spring, when the
rivers n springs escape from the
frost. great focks sof birds, including
NiooS VI tle migratory game Dlr0S or
America, resort thither to breed.
An electrically wired tablecloth, upon
which ornamental electric light fixtures
o1ffuse illumination the moment they
are set down, is of the latest and
most interesting illuminating devices
designed in England, says Popular Me-
chan1c To the uninitiated the ability
TO get light by simply placing a fixture
on h table is nothing less thar ex-
n q nv EH- hYJ I tna ~yn1 sr
simple.
Beans, bean cake and pear oil are the
principal products of Manchuria. The
prices of these during the last season
have been higher thar ever before, but
now much of this Is due to the ability
tof Japan, a gold standard country, to
pay more in silver, because silver has
been cheap, cannot be positively
stated.
The cost OF The central station plants
existing in 1907 in the United States
was just LOCO, 000, 900; the capitalize
ton Of telephony was $1,100, 600, 900
roads was close upon 81, 600, 600, 600,
masking q grand aggregate OF s6,1O0,-
100000. or for 1908 about $1,000. 200, 900.
At a little town In Arkansas the
Methodist and Presbyterian churches /
are located near to eac other One
Sunday morning the Presbyterians |
were heard singing. WI There Be
ANY Stars in My Crown" The next
SUNDAY morning the echo came from
-e-
Miss 81. D. Todd, of New York. ex-
poets to have an %aeroplane ready for
Its trial fight early in June. The ma
poets to drive 1t herself. It is to be
propelled by o gasoline engine and is
Planned to have a maximum speed of
- miles an hour.
Ttitanim is said to be the only metal
suitable for the bearings and axles of
certain modern gasoline motors, which
run at speeds as high as 5000 revolu-
lions o minute. The metal is obtained
from rutile, or titanium dioxide, a min
eral Of little commercial Importance
hitherto.
Cultivation of the Soil is not merely
done to kill weeds, but 1t is a moisture
ccnservatof; 1t makes the soil more
porous, SO that the plant roots more
easily penetrate in search OF plant food.
time of protracted drought the Gull
1ivator should be kept going whether
there are weeds or not.
The Prussian government is to issue
= loan, he proceeds OF which are to be
used Tor the construction and equip
!nent OF new branch line railroads. One !
OF road is to have electric traction, |
Tor which $476,000 Is set aside. The
total amount to be expended under this
loan is sSs,75s,ooo J
At the close OF the fiscal year 1908 :
the railroad mileage OF the United :
States was 100000. as compared with :
1888 in 1888 and 1874. S48 in 1898. :
The net capitalization is $13, 00O, 007. 012. I
N increase OF 1913 per cent over the :
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker and the I
newly formed Public Service League Of
ONE have made o successful fight {
against the ordinance which had been
'sneaked through" the Denver board OF
asldermen to permit the feeding OF 5
brewery swill to mich cows. !
--&-e :
Western Europe is beginning to ship !
freight to the Far East over the 81 :
Derian railway which formerly went by :
water via Hamburg exclusively. An in :
crease OF passenger traffic to Japan :
2 China by way OF Vladivostok is !
also noticeable. :
The wealth of the United States In =
1860 was $4,000. 006, geo, speaking in !
terms; in 1860, $4,000. O00. q !"
y 1870. 100000 zoe, 600; in 1850, $40.
!IO0 100000; In 1890, $65, 1000, 100000. ia
lsoo. sSs.boo,o00,0 600, and In 1904, $107,- r
Among the 5000. 900 working women e
e this country there a~re4nearly# 1000 q
400 widows n nearly 500, 900 married Y
women whose husbands have failed "a Fl
provide for them. Nearly 100,O 900 di- ii
acrced Wonen@ar among the wage u