The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-09-08

The CITIZEN REPUBLICAN
p. A. BLISS, Editor and Proprietor.
SCOTLAND. SOUTH DAKOTA
Not all of the spirits, about two
thousand barrels a day, manufactured
in the central Illinois district, becomes
whisky. Japan takes thousands of bar
gels of spirits for the manufacture of
smokeless powder and the United
States government is a big customer
for the same purpose. The old de-
scription of whisky that kills at 40
rods' takes on q new application when
the produce is smo5eless powder that
Kills a. q mile or more.
Yesterday the last male descendant
Of the great Corneille died at Bernay, in
Normandy, the province with which his
family had been associated for three
centuries, lie was NJ. Eugene Cor
nellie, a journalist on the staff of the
Bernay Independent. Pierre Corneille,
e'the great Corneilie" left three sons to
perpctuate his name. His less distln-
gulsled brother. Thomas, supplied a
good many collaterals, and these are
likewise extinct.
Among old-tiGne laws against kissing
those OF Iceland appear TO have been
che most severe. Punishment vas the
penalty laid down for kissing another
mans wife, either with 1r without her
consent. The sainc punishment was
enforced for kissing an unmarried
woman against her Will il 1t could be
proved that she had consented to be
kissed the offender was still liable to
q fine of a great quantity Of cloth for
each offense
Among the Roman remains found at
Caersws is an object of human inter-
est in the shape of a heap of cherry
stones which was discovered at a depth
of IL feet. Evidently some stern SOL
der, who hadn't a pipe to fall back
upon like our more favored Tommies,
had been amusing himself by eating
cherries and throwing the stones on
one side Al! trace OF the soldier he's
disappeared; the cherry stones emain.
Here are some definitions from the
Schoolroom: "A Jacobite is a man de-
scended from Jacob" Snoring is our
breath meeting the air which is coming
coffin In the throat" Another boy
writes: When you are cold the in
side of your body rumbled and then it
makes a noise which is called sneez-
ing" "a telephone is a kind of long
wire with a spout at each end"
Porto Rico is the largest purchaser,
among the noncontiguous territories,
OF American goods. The shipments OF
merchandise to Porto Rico in the IL
months ending with May were in round
terms S22,0 600, 600, and should the June
figures equal those of May, the total
for the year will approximate s24. OOo.-
NG0 a paingf 0pEg than 60 nm nm a }ar-
ade ago. Hawaii ranks next to Porto
Rico.
Fresh from the Italian riviera, where
the sojourner's happiness used to be
seriously married by the state OF the
horses, mules and donkeys. q cor
respondent writes with extreme sat
tsfaction of h improvement made in
q very few years. Good treatment OF
all working animals is the rule rather
than the exception, and this implies to
a wholesome change of habits and pre-
sunabiy of mind.
Columbia university is putting up a
new building In Amsterdam avenue
near Observation-Disclosures street.
Travellers along the avenue paused the
other cay To note the headgear of a
husky Elshrnan who was shoyeling dirt
Into g a in the excavation. A black
mortar board. its tassel dangling. was
tilted sau7taly over z eye. Some out
eoing senior had discarded it and Pat
found IL an admirable Surshade.
A stranger coming into Georgia
would suppose thgg we were the most
military and professional people in the
world Every man who runs q soda
tount is . doctor" every dancing mas
ter a professor" every filiterate coun-
ty commissioner is q Judge every
crossroads lawyer Is 2 colonel The
result of Ii all is that we are making
ourselves ridiculous.
"Kneading dough with the feet stiii
prevails in some Italian shops in New
York according to an official report OF
the New York department of labor. The
report adds that our inspectors have
essayed to stop 1t, but have not been
sustained by the department for the
reason that there is nothing positively
illegal or necessarily u~nsanitary in the
practice"
1t Is said of the late John G.. Car.
Isle that he never walked when he
could help 1t, nor otherwise exerted
himself physically, yet he was q
healthy man. This was true of Will
lam H. Eyarts, who boosted that he
never took any exercise and who lived
to be SO years old. 1t was also true Of
the late Chief Justice Fuller.
Nowhere does one come across more
queer items OF news than in the goid
fields papers,. Their was recantlv nd.