The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-11-28

the Prussian universities, 1862; in the
three Bavarian universities, 2f9; in the
two Baden universities, AIT, and for the
others In the German empire, 500; $500
of these students are of German ma
tionality, 1,635 of them are following
h courses Of literature and history:
500 are engaged in natural sciences
and mathematics; 625 in medicine; IA in
political economy or agriculture; 80 in
law study: % in dentistry; z in phar.
macy. and II in theology.
Lord Dufferin delivered an address
before the Greek class of the McGill
university, about which a reporter
wrote: His lordship spoke to the
class in the purest ancient Greek, with
out mispronounctng a word or making
the slightest grammatical solecism.'
Good heayens!" remarked Sir Hector
Langevin to the late Sir John A. Mac
donald. how did the reporter know
that?" II told him." was the conserva-
u statesman's answer. But you
don't know Creek True, but I know
q little about politics."
The government of Uruguay has beer
considering the ~advisability of making
Paysandu a great port with a free
zone for the handling of foreign gooL-.
This port is situated at the head OF
the water nayigable, for ocean-going
vessels, with II feet of water always
Ayailable; 1t is assured that 20 feet OF
water win be maintained in the port
IN the near future. A bill has been
laid before the legislature proYidine
for the creation and regulation of tho
general port and free zone.-Shipping
Illustrated.
Few of the natives OF Turkey OWE
watches, yet they have an ingenious
way of approximating the time. They
locate two cardinal points of the com.
pass and then, holding their hands to.
gether in such a manne that the fore.
fingers point upward and in opposite
directions. they observe the shadow
cast. In the morning or evening, al
certain known hours. one finger or the
other will point directly at the sun. A
comparison Of the two shadows will
determine the hours between. I.
Last May J.. r. Steele planted an
acre that had been planted in alfalfa
for 10 years to EARLY Rose Gar
Held varieties of potatoes. They were
irrigated twice. Last week he started
to dig them and found that the hills
had run together so that each row was
continuous line of solid spuds.
Many of the plants had enough on
them to fill a five-gallon oil can. Most
of the spuds are a foo long n some
weigh four pounds each.-Portland
Oregonian.
Every wise cavalry officer keeps a
mari y upon the horses Of his COM
mand. as the success of the next en-
gagement may depend upon their con-
dttion A sergeant was out of pat
n with an awkward recruit. New
er approach the horses from behind
without speaking" he exclaimed; II
you do, they'll kick you In that thick
haad nf vn3IrG a md fhaEard re ~ x,;1Jalx,
that we shall have nothing but lame
horses in the squadron"
In order to take care of the traffic
on the New York barge canal, which
will be completed in 1916. an expendi-s
ture of SIS, 800, 600 has been authorized
Tor cal.al terminals in New York City
and other cities along the canal, In
New York City there will be fourteen
canal terminals, costing altogether
$s,74o,0oo. h remainder of the
money will be spent in building ter
and towns.
The vacuum cleaning apparatus has
been applied in Strassburg to clean the
namway tracks Of that city. In the
operation of the machine the roadbed is
sprayed with water, then the dirt Is
loosened by q scratcher and drawn up
into h car by the suction apparatus.
With this machine one man clean
- miles Of track a day, replacing the
Of A men working in the ordin-
r way.
New records for depth were estab-
lished by h United States submarine
boat FL, during 8 six hour submerged
cruise In San Francisco billy this fall.
The boat went down to q depth af ESQ
The vessel maintained this depth
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