The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-06-22
SOUTH DAKOTA

P. A. BLISS, Editor and Proprietor.
SCOTLAND, SOUTH DAKOTA
The present German house key coU8
be used as q weapon OF attack and de.
kense besides serving its original pus.
pose. II weighs on an average about i
81 a potiiidj and aS eaCii person s:ft:ttss
&c carry a house and corridor key ha,
nearly q quarter OF a pound of SOC
aron in his pocket 1t Is conservatives
estimated that the amount of iron In
circulation in Germany in the pockets
of the men and in the handbags OF ths
women amounts to 1855 tons. besides
an additional 1850 tons for the key,
to the interior OF German homes.
A factory erected at khartoum fni
the manufacture of fuel from sudd was
officially opened recently by Captain
Bennett Dampier In the presence of al
the principal government oflciai.
and leading residents. A complete dem,
onstration of the entire process Of
manufacture was given with unQnali-
ned success. The solution Of the prob
dem of providing the Soudan with chez,
Suel Is generally regarded as MARKING
an immense step onward in the econ
omic development of the country. The
new fuel Is to be known as "suddite."
1t Is impossible to ignore history
dealing with the University OF Pennsy!-
vania- One man can not get away
from 1t. All the walls are covered with
1t. The buildings are genealogical
museums. Paintings. bas-reliefs, In
scriptions. windows. relics. manuscripts
and similar memorabilia catch the at
tention of the visitor wherever he goes,
The painted faculty outnu,nbers the
living.
Sir James Crichton Browne, the weil
known London doctor. recently paid u
compliment to the nurses employed in
SiS .asy.atssS and fSiiasiass ssat *
young sc1ons of the nobility must mas
ny women outside their class the asy-
saFS nurses We're we'll acquainted with
mental foibles and would on the whole
make better wives than gayety chorus
girls.
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In one form II another. the British
income tax has been IN force for short
and long intervals for ITO years. Since
1812 Its operation has been almost con-
tfnuous. When first applied in 1893
ireland was not Included. The popu-
tation on which 1t vas then levied was
10,50o.ooo and the annual revenue OBJ
tanned was approximately $50. 900, 000.
Egyptians were the first to make use
OF artificial eyes. which were made Of
BoAA N~lie VI D. SiiDsNQtVtllly 0E
copper and iron. Hundreds OF years
later, In the 10th century. when they
were made IN Europe, porcelain was the
substance used. nd the maker usually
9taInr"d his address on the white Oh
h eye.
Under Hong-Kong ordinances tha
Chuan FL Manchurian Development
company. limited has been formed with
92,000.000 capital to take over the de-.
veiop mining concessions In China. Its
directors are Yokohama u London
business men M it has secured valu-
able mines In the Tuag Hwa and Hual
Jen districts in southern Manchuria-
California lion hunters did a pretty
rood business last month. according to
q recent report issued by State Comp
troller Nye, which how that 38 lions
were killed In 20 counties. and the state
mas paid g total Of $3.50 for the scalps.
Mendocino county leads the other
counties, five lions having been brought
20 earth by hunters UP there.
All Saints chapel at Newport, r. l.,
which a few years was one of the
most fashionable churches In New Eng
land, attended by the most exclusive
OF the Newport summer colony and the
scene OF several notable society we'd
dings. Is to be sold under a court order
TOT the lack Of a congregation.
OF the thousands of Mono and To-
eenite Indian tribes who roarnad the
districts In this country many years
ago, only one of each remain, accord
Ing to the Indian census. which has
Just been completed by Miss L, Tib-
bets and g. c. Dorsey, who are en-
Dloyed by the government.
Conservative estimates place the
number of people who will emigrate
from the United States to Canada dur
ing the yea 1903 at from $4,000 10
100000. As a large number are we'll
to-do farmers, they will take with them
man. millions Of dollars.
Attention has been called by a sci
enSiffc periodical to the fact that not
only water color but oil paintings Of
n last half century seem doomed TO
o and that typewriter Documents
will ultimately be blank paper.
In Chile nearly all the civil, mechan-
acas and electrical engineers, archi-
Gects statesmen are Europeans.
This Is h reason America gets such
= small share OF that country.s bust
ness.
Edison is at work on a new tele-
phone transmitter which Is very sensi-
tive n enables conversation to be-
CARRIED on with greater ease and less
Inability OF error.
a New York man who has been
drawing a salary OF $4,000 a year has
gone into bankruptcy. explaining that
ne had to borrow money with which
70 buy an automobile.
An old offender was introduced Ia 4
new country Justice as ssI0hn yry,r