The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-01-27

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snow statue and two other prizes, each
OF s25 in gold. are offered by business
Arms.
Ammon, in his studies OF the people
Of the small cities of Carlsruhe and
F~reiburg, proves that city-born people
dinlentsh In the curse of one and two
generations from 100 per cent to 20 per
cent n 10 per cent. He believes that
families that TO- from the country
to the cities on an average almost die
out In the course of two generations.
It Is asserted that one-half of the in
habitants Of the German cities are Inn
migrants from the country, and the
conclusion from this fact is that the
cities must renew themselves COM
pletely In the course of two genera,
tons.
In curing meats, Germany forbids the
use of boric acid and salts thereof, for
maldehyde and all substances that give
OF formaldehyde In their use, the hy-;
droxfdes and carbonates of alkaline
salts, sulphurous acid and the salts
thereof, as well as the salts of hypo-
s%ulphurous acid, h%ydronuoric acid and
salts thereof, salicylic acid and com
pounds thereof, chloric acid and salts
thereof, and all coloring matter. It is
further required that meat picked in
alt or brine must contain at least 6
Per cent salt in their innermost parts.
The ingredients used are salt, saltpeter,
and vinegar.
There is In the constellation Pegasus
. little variable star that ma reasona-
Oily be said to wink. Two OF three
times In the course OF a single night
this curious star can be seen to fade
n then to brighten like a signal light.
For about two and three-quarter hours
II becomes fainter and fainter: then
comes a change, and at the end of two
and th~ree-quarter hours it is as bright
az at the beginning. Unfortunately, 1T
can be seen only with a telescope. Yet
1t ranks as a sun.
William O'Brien, the Irish political
leader, is reported to have taken up his
permanent abode in Jerusalem. Half
9 century g another Irish leader, Sir
Charles Gavan Duffy, got disgusted
with the situation in the Emerald isle,
threw up his seat in the house of
commons and went into voluntary ex-
He. But he preferred Australia, where
ne entered on a new career, became a
minister TO the crown, premier, speak
or n the recipient of q political pen
sion OF $1,000 per annum, which he en-
1cyed for 40 years.
German inventors have at last PRO-
duced a product which should minimize
the casualties SO frequently caused by
the exploding. of spirit lamps. This is
no other than denatured alcohol In the
form Of solid cubes, which can be burnt
Ia a special lamp by simply igniting
them with a match. The cubes. which
are about the size OF lump sugar, look
like gelatin and bur slowly with q
not, blue fame. They will o evap-
crate n are said to be cheaper, for
the heat developed. than is LIQUID alco-
hol.
In 1891 there were in Europe only
4 cities which had more than 100000
lima These We're London, Dub
lin, Paris, Marseilles, Lyons, Amster-
dam, Berlin. Hamburg, Vienna, Naples,
Rome, Milan, Venice, Palermo. Madrid
Barcelona, Lisbon. st. Petersburg. Mos
COW, Warsaw, Copenhagen and Con-
etantinople; Two only of these cities
mad more than SOC, 000--London. $50, 900.
and Paris. 100000. Naples came third
10000.
The congressional library is render
q e great service not only to the 9TH
er libraries OF this country, but to those
~ Canada, Europe and Australia. by
tts catalogue division. by its compila-
zion OF rules governing cataloging, by
its classification methods, which are be-
ING generally Initiated. and by It's dupli-
cate cards that now go to 1000 Nbraries |
Of this country. Four million cards
have zone during the last veal.
Tor the operation Of the locks under
present plans shows that the available
amount Of water on the isthmus is not
eun1c1ent to maintain, at all times, In
she canal. the 40 feet OF depth stipu-
lateo Tor py the law. In dry years the
large carriers OF freight and the army
transports Will not be able to use the
canal.
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