The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-01-21


p. A. BLISS, Editor and Proprietor.
SCOTLAND, SOUTH DAKOTA
Sir Hiram Masfm's prophecy as TO
the use of airships in war is a sericas
parallel to Horace Walpole.s facetious
speculation, made in 1884, after Bfanch-
ards first ascent-in England--in a
hydrogen-filled balloon. The sea-
ports" he said, will become deserted
villages, and Salisbury plain, New
market heath and Sussex downs win
be utilized as ~dockyards for aerial YES
sells; there will be fights in the air with
wind guns and there Will be q pro-
digious increase OF land for tillage by
the breaking up of all public roads as
useless"
Andreas Pellisarti. who said he lived
somewhere in Mulberry street, was ar
raigned in the New York children's
street. Don't you know it's wrong"
asked Magistrate Olrlsted. Yes, sir"
sobbed Andreas. Don't O know that
you are likely to hurt somebody? The
streets don't belong to you. Now tell
me, son, to whom do the streets be-
long?" DE automobiles" answered The
culprit. discharged" said the judge.
iC o. 6tSt so a. siV WIZ u
are used in one OF C~hicago's huge con-
struction plans, says Popular Me
chanics. They cut through a 10-inch
steel I-bearn in II seconds. These saws
or disks are so made that they generate
enough heat at the point of contact
literally to melt their way through the
metal being cut. The cutting edge OF
the disks is roughened by simply hack
Ing with a fish-ta!l ehisel.
The method OF discriminating locusts
most generally adopted IN Panama has
been to dig q trench about so feet in
length, two feet wide and one foot deep,
with perpendicular sides, In which the
locusts are driven by men beating the
grass and trees with switches. In this
way millions are collected and are de-
stroyed with a solution OF strong I've
Soapsuds. The trench is then refilled
with earth so as to allay the odor.
Our consul general to France writes
of a rubber asphalt pavement which is
being used in that country. The ma
terial Is a product resulting from the
association of asphalt and rubber. 1t
1s said to be more plastic and more ad-
hesive than pure asphalt and to resist
higher temperatures. Experimental
work covering q period of six years In
such cities as Paris and Lyons has
given good results.
]. Pierpont Morgan and Waldorf As !
" Ol vi adNISCIy C0iIlIIltItSe Oh
the Golden West, an American ndu
tries exhibition which is to be held in
Earlscourt, London, next May, for
which extensive preparations have al
ready been made. Associated with
them or the committee are about every
one of note in Burke's peerage and
ether distinguished men, including AL
tired Austin.
1t is reported that more thar 400
women have already registered at Wal
than, Mass, with the intention of vot-
Ing for Dr. Eloise Sears for the school
committee. DIR. Sears was nominated
for the office by the republican, inde-
pendent and democratic parties. Be
sides the votes of the women of Wal
than, 1t Is believed hat she will re-
ceive a majority of those cast by the
men.
While the q old country gentle
ana and his wife were walking on the
beach one evening they suddenly nos
the revolving light Of a lightship.
for some minutes, then she turned to
her husband with a puzzled look.
@Well," she exclaimed. IF the man in
ship hasn't lit that light this 40
times. and II has gone out every time"
Mrs. Isaac T.. Rice, the anti-noise
crusader, is the wife of the president OF
the Holland Submarine Torpedo Boat
SOIAkpAlys que SOlQ ilGT# DSdullIul nome
on Riverside drive. New York, because
The tugboat captains against whom
he began her antf-noiSe war, too spe-
delight in footing their whistles
1t all hours of the night when they
their houses.
All thc5women prisoners at the Clerk
dwell sessions recently appeared IN the
lock wearing their hats. The rule of
mo hatpins, was strictly enforced. but
heir absence In no way troubled the
vomen Indeed. one balanced a hat
more than six feet In circumference
the slightest race Of anxiety.
low she did 1t only a woman can tell.
= pac 10 feet square IN a bill board
acing Lafayette square, in New Or
eans, has been given to the members
the New Era club by Junius Gar
outrage club Is carrying on. Each week
facts concerning the move
nent will be announced on the space.
n
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's reply to Mrs.
Wards ape on the suf-
rage question in America has been
published as a leaf1et and copies are
,efng bought by the thousand. The
various suffrage clubs OF this country
Ind England.
Motorists who suffer with cold hands
' ~ y \ ldIS&AIId " have Iell0I &c.
uHin;: q steering wheel provided
vith electric heat. An English inven-
Ion describes a steering wheel with a
ore that carries two electrically-h heat
q coils Insulated one from the other
from the outer rim.
strengthening machines are now
lsed quite extensively in Australia. In
tasmania they are just beginning TO
q INSTALLED. 1t seems only a question
time when all the sheep shearing iii
his island will be done by machinery
lrtvan by steam. electric or gasoline
,0Wer.
b University . Michigan reports
year a. enrolment of 1850 stu
tsnts IN All Departments. and iii q re-
sexft xbulletarl proudly says that when
s1InInerAschoolS are not counted the
University stands. next to Harvard, the
argest inthe country.
The rangessof Impressions witch we
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