The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-11-23


The Citizen Republican
p. p. BLISS, Editor and Proprietor.
SCOTLAND, SOUTH DAKOTA
An emergency door for theaters hai
been invented by a Chicago man which
cannot be opened from the outsid'
without the use of a special key, an
is, therefore, secure against the en-
trance OF unauthorized persons, and ye
the slightest pressure on any part o
the inner surface Of the door opens /
at once. In its construction the dool
Is built of two parts, each comprising
q shell. and upon pressure from within
the han the one shell collapscs into the
otRer. and in doing so throws the bolts
II catches out Of operation and the
door swings open.
Daniel Defoe Is generally thought tc
have been caught mapping, although
ne Is proYerbiaIly accurate as a rule,
When he makes Robinson Crusoe fill his
pockets full Of biscuits before he swan
from the wreck. Perhaps Crusoe liked
ms biscuits soft and SAT-, or perhaps
they We're dog biscuits and could with
stand a large quantity of moisture.
sailors would perhaps insinuate that a
shof SWIM TO shore from a wreck would
nave no effect, but rather
the opposite. upon the dainty with
winch they are commonly regaled on
shipboard.
In reducing milk to powder, a pat
ented Swiss process evaporates about
30 per cent OF the water at a tcmper-
azure of so to 60 degrees c. The milk
Is then exposed four seconds in n layer
of an eighth or q quarter OF an inch
IN depth on Il surface heated to lO5 de-
gfeeS' The second heating removes 0
or ~ per cent of the remaining water,
ana the resulting milk powder is not
only sterile, but the albumen is not CO.
asulated.
Miss Elizabeth Altnorp NIcFadden, of
cincinnati has Q at:s .c::::- :--ai-
prlzo for the best original PLAY submit
tea by a student of the Harvard course
IN play writing. She was a special stu
dent in Radcliffe last year and had pre-
Vlously been a settlement worker and
voluntary probation officer in Cincfn-
Aaa. The prize Is $500, half of which
goes To the winner M the other half
70 the college library. Miss McFaddeu's
pay "lb be produced by the John Craig
STOCK company.
Writing is an art with a history as
complete as that of the arts of sculpture
and painting, The material used by
the early Romans was wax spread unon
tablets. The letters were formed on
the soft smooth surface with the point-
Cd end OF the stylus. The other END of
the instrument was fiat. and this was
used to smooth over the surface where
errors were found and prepare il for the
correct writing, IRON this use the sty-
rus mas given the name style" to tn,
WRITER'S manner of composing.
France is we'll supplied with nlace,
Tor the sale of drink. We read In a Paris
newspaper that there Is one drinking
pace FOR every so persons; IN other
words. Tor every 30 men. In certain de-
partments we find n debit" for everv
90 persons and in the Pas de Calais
there Is one for every Is inhabifants
which In other words means a drinI,
shop for every seven men. In Paris
there are $1,000 such places; in London.
e.oe0; Chicago, $40; Edinburgh. $40: 4
n MOSCOW, 314.
The cost of duels is dwelt upon nv
Scholl in his "Reminiscences"
tells of the elaborate preDaratinns
made for q hostile hetwean
Journalists whom he kr.ew. One Of
them borrowed 20 pounds from SchoII
70 meet his shar of the expenses. This
UNI was never returned. "After IN
pe~rfunctory fencing he ada
the principals embraced each other
anu both left the ground without a
scratch was the only man hit.'
according 10 q British consular re-
port, q new process of gaIvanizfne
siaimed to be most practical and srfan"
nc, mas been invented by a Zurich
engineer. The method con
lists IN distributing pulverized and
melted metal over the surface Of anv
p.icie by means of a special apparatus
,nnc h eJec.s the solution with such
'educed metal adhere in the form IF
: solIa coating that possesses a re-
afhapie ~noinogenefty and appearance.
according to the estimates made. 30 :
~ ysars VIII pass before The solar ra- :
sus olminlshes enough to produce an !,
IIect appreciate by the most deiicata !,
surprising that tba :
stronomfcal instruments of the fnture !
IN pc similar to the instruments of tbe :
resent. by like calculations 1t is estl- $
aa.eu ina the sun will send heat to +
90 years longer. SUM- ]
women have already reaped :
of the benefits of ASSOCIATION ,nitt !
.eslerners. The man who wslRed :
roadiy ahead OF his wife when she !
ore ner native costume, permits her !.
pass hrst when she is attired In !.
2 fashion. Some of the youna !,
sopls Whe were educated abroad, as :
,nish their elders by actually making
matches. Aihs {
auslsalia has cows enough to give
.cn man woman and child in theta. y
no continent three apiece; while the 4
e ss Az sah DO even better. There v
= south American renublic. a
"nsse lepho wires are overland a
g speed Of transmission is at the rate q
apou. Io,mlV miles a second. But
LIZ iEes y are through eables Il