The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-07-11

Il am an American, and l 90 as 1
please" was the astonishing reply.
Whereupon General Muller such was
this S~alvadoran's name) knocked the
hat off and kicked it into the sea. Il
suppose" he grumbled, In speaking OF
1t an bou later, that there will now be
filed with your secretary of state a
claim against my government. Ono
hat, $4.'"
The death is announced at the home
of the Little Sisters of the Poor at
lRouen, at the age of IS, of Melanie
iChevaiier, the nurse of Guy de Maupas-
SAINT. Very young she entered into the
service of M. Pierre de Maupassant, a
wholesale tobacco merchant, the poets
grandfather. She had many stories
concerning the younger days of the au-
thor of "Mademoiselle Fill" and when
she was free to wander from the home,
and the weather permitted, she would
take herself to the Solferino arden
and there contemplate the bust of her
illustrious charge.
Violinists of the northwest have been
invited to try their bows on an In
strument fashioned from Minnesota
common cedar by Homer Stevens, q
resident of Eureka, Lake Minnetonka,
says the Minneapolis Journal. Mr.. Ste
vens found an old cedar log, which
he had sawed int boards and from
which he carved the violin, which, he
says, is his masterpiece. His achieve
ment in making q good toned violin
out OF red cedar is astonishing, when
1t is known that the standard instru-
men is made of So pieces, and usually
of four different kinds of wood.
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Admiral Peary says hat in some re-
spects the old fashioned wooden ship
is less vulnerable to the dangers of the
sea than the huge steel liner. He once
crashed int a partly submerged ice
berg while going at full speed in broad
daylight: The stout little ship" (the
berg like a billiard ball, without in
jury; a steel ship would have had her
bilge torn open from bow to quar-
ter"
Canada has the greatest railway
mileage in proportion to population Of
any country in the world, with possibly
n or two minor exceptions, and ac-
cording to the Railway Age Gazette,
she is probably about to enter upon an
era of great additional expansion in
railway building. One of the projected
railways is to provide a outlet for the
great wheat crops to Hudson bay and
thence by steamer to Europe.
Royal letter writer's may expect that,
in the vicissitudes of he centuries.
their popularity will come to the test
of that democratic implement, the auc-
tioneer's hammer. Judged by this
standard, King Edward III. and Queen
ed. In London the other day n of the
kings letters sold for s1,450, and a let
ter from Queen Elizabeth to Henry III.
of France brought s1,2e5.
Sulphur production, not including
that derived from pyrites, in the United
States in 1900, amounted to 3,147 tons,
n 1896 tons were imported, the
greater portion from Sicily. In 1910 the
imports from Italy had fallen to 10. 704
tons, and the production of the United
States had increased to 25h,534 ons
There are SO few flies in Bavaria that
they can in no way be regarded as q
pest. This Is, perhaps, due to the ex-
IRENE cleanliness of cities.
Court yards, alleys, vacant lots, all are
kept clean. and the Railways and en-
frances to the FUSES are as fresh as
soap and water can make them.
Use Of cigarets is increasing among
the Chinese. An American and British
tobacco company hires statesmen to dis
tribute packages among the natives,
giving away thousands, and then ar
ranges with some native merchant to
carry the stock in these goods. BY this
process has been built an enormous
trade, which is steadily growing.
secretary OIL WAT SI1flSOn mas LrdnS-
mitted to congress the report of Col
.onel Black. engineer officer in charge
of the New York harbor, containing a
recommendation that 81, 5T0,0 900 be spent
during the next five years in improving
the Hudson i've to meet the require
mentS of the big ocean steamships.
Mrs. II. j. Camp, the first white
woman who ever made q permanent
missionary home In Central Arabia. is
$50 --..- - = - 80 L. -fA - -.
in Maine. Mrs. Camp speaks and reads
Arabic like a native.
Lord Rosebery, in a London address
on tuberculosis, said that preventive
measures had reduced the mortality
from consumption in London by 33 per
cent between 1901 and 1911, n by Ia
per cent in England and Wales for
the same period.
Scotland contains a considerable
number of we'll preserved and impos-
ing forests. cared for and protected
for centuries. One of these forests
contains more than 5000 acres, with
many trees more thar three feet In
diameter.
Russia, 1t is reported, is to build
two new battleships at the Cramps
shipyard In Philadelphia and two at
the Vickers works in England. The
4AxllStkEu SittDo GNItlsACOSl pIOOdOly $lSs~
100000 each.
A United States naval officer has in
vented a torpedo carrying a gun which
discharges an explosive shell into the
vttals OF a vessel after the torpedo has
punctured the hull below the water line
armor.
A Quincy Mass.) boy persisted in
chewing gun In the Holbrook Metho-
dist church, and the pastor forcibly
elected him. The pastor was tried for
assault, but the Judge decided against
the gum.
None Of the sewage Of Berlin is al
lowed to empty Into the river or annals
Of that city. It Is all pumped through
large pipes tosthe city sewage farms.
Ships IN the Atlanti ocean are sup-
piled with weather. information from
the station on top OF the Eiffel tower
The whalebone is not bone, strictly
speaking. Y bristles found In the
mouth OF the whale by which the ani-