The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-02-24

The Introduction or tungsten lamps Is
doing much to advance the use of cleo
tricity on farms. it is possible for the
farmer with a small plant, driven either
by u gasoline engine or by damming a
small stream, to obtain sufficient cur
rent to light his hous and barn with
this economical type OF incandescent
lamp. The use of electricity on the
farm, by the way, Is growing and, as
pointed out by the Electrical World,
farmers will in time come to consider
electricity a necessity. Then It will be
found profitable to establish central
generating stations for farming dis
tricts to take the place of the small In
dividual plants now being installed.
Interesting remains of Viking rule,
believed to be the first of their kind
in Brittany. have just been discovered at
Port Maria, on the southern Breton
coast. 1t Is al ancient Viking burial
ship such as were set afire IN the days
of old and sent adrift with a Morse
chieftain's dead body on board. Exca-
yations Of a umulus known as Erguel
disclosed the remains Of a half burned
sloop SO feet long and eight feet Wild
containing bows, arrows. battleaxes,
bucklers and swords. and gold and
bronze ornaments, all of which were
badly damaged by fire.
In all of the United States an Ameri-
oi AZ liSl IlSIiSS dS I'LL
American citizen when she marries a
citizen of another country, and this
though h continues to live in the
United States and to carry on her oc-
cupation just as before. A noted ex-
ample of this is Harriet Stanton Blatch,
Elizabeth Cady S%tanton's brilliant
daughter. By her marriage to an Eng
lishman she has forfeited her Ameri-
can citizenship, though she has lived
and worked in the United States con.
stantly since her marriage.
h Chicago Record-Heral says:
Plans are In contemplation for giving
the University of Chicago the finest
physical laboratory in the United
States, If not in the world. 1t Is said
that before all the plans are consum-
mated the plant will have cost $1,000
900. All of the money is to be furnished
by Martin Ryerson, president Of the
board of trustees of the university, who
also was the donor of the present Ry.
erson laboratory at the university
Colonizers of all races seem to be
careful saver of their earnings in the
countries to which they emigrate. In
recent years there has been a consid-
cradle migration of East Indian coolies
to the Island OF Trinidad, 1888 having
landed there last year. There was a
return to Calcutta of 726, carrying with
them $4,000 In money, besides a large
quantity of Jewels, in which the coolies
invest their savings. In the year there
were also remittances to India of about
$1,000.
The only coin in use in China until
recently vas the copper cash COT which
there are about 1900 to the Mexican
dollar, or 1850 to the American dollar),
but these nre fast disappearing except
in the more or less remote Interior. A
new coin or "ten-cash piece" has been
made at the provincial mints, and 1t
Is rapidly displacing the old copper
cash. The relative value between these
and silver dollars or taels Is huctu-
-ating.
In Deyonshire any person bitten by
q viper is advised to kill the creature
at once and rub the wound with its
fat, This practice has, to some ex-
ten survived In this country, where
the flesh of the rattlesnake is accounted
to be the best cure for Its own bite.
but as a rule the leading superstition
In the United States Is OF the efficacy
of numerous potions of whisky as an
antidote for snake bite.
AT "a William Pitt was chancellor Of
the e~xchequer, Ruskin had written his
Modern Painters" in five volumes.
which established his reputation as
England's greatest art critic; Sheridan
Q produced The Rivals" Byron
published the first canto of "Childe
Harold" and Rossini produced his most
Annnnlar nnara "The Rarher of SaviIIeU
At % Browning wrote "Paracelsus,"
Bailey gave us "Festus," Wagner had
written "~Lohengrin," Emmett had
thrilled ireland with his pathetic elo-
quence. Michael Angelo had completed
his .Pieta" and Newton had discovered
the iaw of gravitation.
One may read in a guide book OF
strangers, this notice: when visiting
this palace strangers should show
themselves especially generous IN their
tips, as the prince who occupies this
palace g no other means OF support
h to share in the money given to
his domestics."
In an address before the American
Civic association, Herbert M. Wilson.
chief engineer in the United States geo
logical survey, places the annual dam
age and waste by smoke In the United
States at $bG0,000s000 in the large cities
Alone or about IS to each man, woman
and child of the population.
5 Twenty-four electric locomotives II
be used in the New York tunnel <
tension ofsthe Pennsylvania railroad
are now being built. Each weighs $780,
900 pounds. and will develop 4.000-horse
powers Whtct9ts about three times as
Mucnaas e giant steam locomotive.
November was the coolest az wei,
assths wettest month in the history Of
the lsthmus OF Panama. Tha maxi
mum temperature In h sun at Gu
Zebra wa only So and the average tem-
p%erature w~assbelow that OF any pre-
vaous month on record.