The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-12-19

-DoNkk SoA& thAhe SNaAS AAAANS VI ~V
expensive, say the consul, but plenty
of sunshine can be relied upon ut all
Zines of the year, so that the expert
ments with this practical sun power
plant will be of much interest to agri-
cultural enterprise.
Boston has two foreign born students
to whom a writer refers as the OLD
and the young of it," Jacob Golgohs IS
a Bohemian, At years old, the father
OF -four children, who Is a regular at
eendant at one of the schools after
business hours" The other is Jacob r.
shohan. who was born in Russia IN
1897, and arrived In Boston when he
vas 8 years Did. In two years he
,assed through the seven grades of the
Phillips Brooks school and was grad
uated from the high school in 1911. He
is now at Harvard, making good prog
ress at the age of Is.
M. Ernest Lavisse has turned aside
from his historical labors to relate e
bon mot by his friend Massenet. II
was at a time when the musician was
changing apartments and the historian
inquired the motive of the change. Il
was too well known there" Massenet
replied. Everybody was too oppres-
sively polite. Only the other day 1
happened to buy a penny stamp in a
tobacconist's shop. Pray do not trou-
BILE to carry IT. said the t~obacconist, Tt
will give us the greatest pleasure to
send. 1t round to you.'"-Westminster
Gazette.
Mark Twain was naturally, accord
ing to his own confession as related in
his recently published biography. of a.
1ndolent disposition. In an old volume
of %Suetonius. adjoining a reference to
"F1avins Clemens" as a man distin-
guished FOR his want of energy the
later Clemens made this annexation:
81 guess this is where our line starts"
Yet, as printer. pilot, reporter. lee
turer. traveller and author. fate con
triyed to get q great deal of work out
Of Mark Twain.
A portrait of q young woman has
hung for years in the drawing room
OF a private school in a small tow in
New York. Now it has been discov-
cred, so a newspaper article ayers,
that the picture was painted by Gains
borough and is worth $4,000. Experts
are often called upon for opinions as
to the authenticity OIL value Of sup
posed "old masters and this is one
Of the few pieces In which they have
found such a picture to be of real
value.
Milwaukee. in the opinion Of Mr..
Andreas DippeL is the m city in the
United States which properly supports
a German theater. And this though
g York city has a larger German
population than most of the cities Of
Germany! Still, the Deutsches theater
In New York Is not yet discouraged,
and during he coming winter it plans
to present many famous German plays
with a cast hardly to be surpassed,
even in Europe"
Is there any town in the United
States hat isn't q world beaten" in
something? Fresh discoveries along
this line are constantly being made. A
boosting circular about Hamilton.
ton, which we think will be new to
most readers. that 5 per cent of the
worlds safes are made there and that
1t h the largest machine tool works
and coated paper mill in existence"
That high power Hertzian waves
emitted by modern wireless telegraph
stations are capable Of setting up high
electro-notiv forces In metal struc-
lures In the immediate vicinity of the
stations was recently shown in Paris.
Some workmen on q section of tele-
graph line experienced severe shocks
when they touched the wires. Inyes
tigation showed that the source was the
great Eiffei tower wireless station.
With the exception of the old Great
Eastern. the largest side wheel steam
er ever constructed is the City Of De-
troit III, which has been recently put
Into commission on the Great lakes.
This boat Is 500 feet In length, SIS feet
broad, 100 feet over the guards and
has q nodded depth OF % feet. The
craft is entirely dependent on her side
wheels, while the Great Eastern was
also equipped with a propeller.
af|. NGaANS.
Ductile metallic tungsten Is now pro-
duced In the electric furnace Tung-
stem particles have been hitherto weld
ga into5a continuous filament by pass
ing an electric current through a bind |
ing material containing the metallict
principles and driven of by the high,
heat BY this new method, the metallic
tungsten can be drawn into fine wire
much stronger and more rugged.
In view OF the fact that the number
g persons who want to go abroad eth
Increasing every day, the chief OF the
bureau of foreign affairs In Hupeh and
others are planning for a school to sun
ply courses OF study and information
necessary to those who wish to seek
further education or experience abroad.
Daily News.
The popular belief that the Panama
was constructed at a cost 81
n life for every railroad tie is a
gr0ss exaggeration There are $40, 600
ties. n IA the ave years Of it's con-
structions g total 81 1000 faboters were
Partieaasent out BY the French gov
efnment to explore the Sahara deserf
mAye sreported that the OBSTACLES in
sne way 81 enilding . railroad cro