The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-12-01

Inc IItlZen hepuDlicaf
?. A. BLISS, Editor and Proprietor,
SccyLAMn, SOUTH DAkoTJ
Commenting on the speeding up o,
n Metropolitan underground railways
hnd tubes, the London correspondent
or a northern journal states that sc
great is the rush that passengers for.
get their belongings, with the result
that umbrellas and gloves are left By
thousands. At a recent sale of these
stray commodities, according to the
correspondent. a nine-stop organ, fou:
refr1gerators, 66 toy pianos and 500 mi.
croscopic slides were among the ar,
Slcies put onward as having beer for.
gotten by their owners.
SO g%allantly disposed is the Austrian
government toward It's fairer subjects
that postal authorities have decided tC
devote special parcel delivery vans tc
n transportation Of the large hats
which are the mode in Austria lust
now. Many complaints were received
from their customers by the leading
millinery firms OF Vienna that these
costly Creations reached their des-
htAdIioh IA LIS 10TH OIL all u"1lreCORl1lZ-
able tangle OF velvet and feathers. Rep
RESERVATIONS were made to the post
office with the result that special hat
collecting vans" are to be used.
This years vintage In italy IS ex-
Pected to be very bad. In fact 1t has
been estimated thSt the Loco, 900 acres
of vineyards throughout the country
will not yield more thar 103, 293. PA
tons of grapes, As per cent less than
tast year, and that consequently only
F5S,0G0.06 gallons OF wine viii be pre-
fuced, as against 1856, 000. 900 gallons
produced In 1909. The wine production
fast year was exceptional and retail
prices We're SO low that until May wine
growers hardly derived any profit from
Them.
The cultivation Of tobacco in Italy
ttfas been gradually but steadily IN
freasing. During the year 1869 the
plants numbered 13s, 1855, which Is the
largest number ever reached and g.
100000 plants in excess OF the preced-
ing year. The average price paid by
the monopoly to domestic planters was
50 cents a pound, against 5.5 cents in
1908. Accessory expenses brought the
ultimate cost of home grown tobacco to
the monopoly to 81 cents a pound,
against SIS cents in 1908.
To make a fortune OF $3.50, 900 as q
Jockey is a feat which places the late
rom Loates at the pinnacle OF his pro-
lession SO far as mere worldly wealth
Is concerned. OF course, the fees in
Lnese days are much greater than when
Fred Archc& who left eG6, 900, and
tordharn, who was worth under a2o,-
VUu, were III the prime OF their racing
careers. But then 1t is not every one
VINO has 8 Leopold de Rothschild to ad-
wise IN The matter of investments and
u IS sa1u tnat Tom Ixoates wa. thu.
favored.
Few people know that h
Of the Malay peninsula sometimes pro-
suce pearls that are highly priced by the
natives. The stones are not unlike the
pearls OF the mollusks and are SINH
oar in composition to the oyster pearls,
having calcium carbonate and q little
organic matter. These concretions
form just beneath the stem, and q pure
white pearl brings a high price, as 1t
Us supposed by the natives to possess
Rome kind of charm. Cases have been
known where the cocoanut pearl
peen sold as a moilssk product, but
such instances are rare.
Consul General James A. Smith
writes from Genoa that the italian min
fstry of the interior has recently d.
fected O circular to the projects OF the
several provinces i~nstructfng them to
report on the spread of alcoholism in
their respective districts. In order to
enable the government to adopt re-
strictfve measures 1t requests the full
est statistical information az to the
comparative quantity OF alcoholic IL
quors, wines, etc. sold in the various
sections of the kingdom during the last
10 years II the apparent results
which bava attended o,,nh rala
Paper clothes were worn by the jap
Hnese troops, who found them very
serviceable and much warmer than
those Of cloth. Paper dressing gowns,
bath and similar articles of at
Ifre are now being turned out by the
carload In England, France, Germany
end other European countries. The pa
per whereof they are made Is of the
5shlotterf variety, and after being treat
Cd by a new process is dyed In various
coiors or printed with a pretty floral
design.
Smiles trradiated the fi~oorwaiker,s
FACE, Business had beer poor, but 1t
was picking up for that day. How did
ne knowl Women Were shopping IN
pairs and trfos. They always buy so
much more" he said, when they come
~ lunches. When a woman shops alone
49, Ai1 SttS ttcEsl5H Ut can
afford. but when she shops with friends
n buys what she wants them to think
she afford"
An English manufacturer has sue
ceeded IN making a fabric from old
ropes He obtained a quantity OF old
rope and cordage, unraveied il and
wove II by a secret process into 4 kind
OF cloth. The resultant material he dyed
9 dark brown. A suit OF clothes made.
1ron his queer stuff was worn by the
manufacturer himself and 1t is said
thai rH mas q large trade in this line
In the British colonies.
h Russians are manufacturing 4
fabric from the fiber OF a filanentous
elone from the Siberian mines which,
= SAID to be OF SO durable a nature a
Z is practically fn~destructible. sayg
The material is soft TO ti,e
touch and piiable In the extreme. and
soiied has only TO be placed ia
= fra "a he S.tl IA