The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-03-10

1890
imports of the countries of the Asiatic
coast north of the twentieth parallel
of latitude.-New York Sun.
A library browsing room has Just
been opened at Smith college. 1t was
fitted up as a memorial to Edith Char
ters Gallagher by her father. In the
new library building and near the
browsing room there is a shelf devoted
to publications by Smith graduates.
The shelf now contains books by Jo-
.ephine Daskam Bacon. Zephine Hum
phrey, Grace Lathrop Collin. Caroline
NJ. Fuller, Fannie p. Hardy, Edith Ell
mer, Anna Chaplin Ray, Maude Bar
rows Dutton, Mary Calkins, Alice p.
Norton and Florence Merriman Bailey.
It is perhaps worth recalling that
the art of baking loaves am to Eu-
rope quite late in history. Flat cakes
were baked even in the earliest times,
but as late as the beginning of the
nineteenth century loaf bread vas
comparatively unknown In many parts
of the continent. In 1912, for instance,
when an English captain ordered
caves to the alu of So in Gothen-
burg the baker stipulated for payment
In advance, on the ground that he
would never be able to sell them in the
city If they were left OF his hands.
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His ignorance of history recently
shocked one of the woman friends OF a
young Buffalo society man. 1t was after
a dinner party at his house and she
was telling him what she had learned
in her private history class. One thing
led to another and at the tim he was
getting into deeper water. At last she
surprised him by inquiring: Nov, tell
me. Mr.. -, what are the knights of
the Bath?" He stammered for a while
and finally blurted out: why, Satur-
day nights. l suppose"
The Bank of England is considered
to have one Of the most nearly inpreg-
nable vaults OF any bank In the world.
It is &C feet below the level of the
street. Above it is "a feet of concrete.
holding Z feet of water, and below. the
same concrete barrier and depth of
water. In this manner tunneling be-
comes impossible. while with the SOL
der guard posted every night, the con-
sentative Briton has reason to believe
in the security OF his "Old Lady of
T~hreadneedle street"
A new method of preserving -four has
recently been adopted with success in
England. 1t is done by means of COM
preston. With hydraulic apparatus
the flour is squeezed into the forms of
bricks. and the pressure destroys all
forms of 1arval life thus preserving the
flour from the ravages of insects, while
1t is equally secure from mold. Three
hundred pounds Of compressed flour
occupy the same space as 100 punds
In the ordinary state.
In the Complies Rendus of the Bio
logical society, of Paris, NJ. Picard
gives an account Of q useful wasp
found in Senegal and Nigeria. 1t is
one of the %burrowing wasps, and feeds
It's larvae on a species of tsetse fly.
In xyinrv Cf tho no ri Mo &,nI alx, !, AZ,
species of the latter in spreading dis
ease, this wasp might prove a useful
ally to those who are fighting malaria
In tropical countries.
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Although the first turbine steamer
was equipped with turbines as recent
y as 1901. there are now 81 vessels car
rying this equipment, the aggregate
horse power represented being COS, 200.
It is estimated that because OF the
pressure which can be used with
the turbine, no less than 100 tons of
largest Of the turbine -propelled
American show window lighting is
being introduced in London It is Gus
tomary IN the English capital for shop
heavy iron shutters just as soon as
the days business is over. This is q
relic of those ancient days when 1t was
not safe to leave the shop unprotected,
but the American plan of window dis
.Plays I'M we'll lighted store fronts is
being successfully introduced.
The two savings bank departments
with insurance features for workings
men, established in Brockton and Whit
man. Mass. in accordance with the law
passed IN that state a year ago, have
maid a Jfufdard nf g 5zs rnat. rn~x s, %I>
first years premiums or investments.
Al serious attempt is to he. made to
develop ,SRussia's mercantile marine.
The ministry of trade has laid before
the d~ouInaAcf the empire a propose to
allow iron built ships to be imported to
Russia, and also to grant government
subsidies to merchant vessels built In
Russia. sSs
II requires many hands to clothe
the New York women and some wom-
en outside OF The city, for there are
gS,162 employees in the metropolis
working on woTaen's clothing and their
yearly output IS valued at $26l.o49,2s7,
There are $685.. 100000 OF nationaI
banknotes extant, backed by govern
ment bonds. There are $4,000. 900 q,
United States notes backed by a golj
reserve and $4,000, 900 of treasury notes
In the London streets there are near,
~ 10000 boy traders under IA years q
age, and over 800 girl traders.
lowe has l.G2a banks, or one for ev
cry l,380ainhabitants. Kansas is mex
with one bank for every I.5o0 people.
The negroes Of Virginia own s1s. 500.
900. Theyscontrol eight banks and fiv,
1nsuranceScompanies.
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