The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-04-25

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Prof. F. A. Perrin, OF Chicago uni
versity, In a lecture before the Auaer
lean Psychological association at
Washington. dwelt on the sagacity of
h lower animals, which ne declared
Is often greater than that of man him.
self. For example, said he, a raj will
reason Its way out OF g complicated
Enclosure with more ease than an edu-
Gated human being would In an ana
Joyous case.
Now they are feeding that whale to
the Passport chickens with wonderful
results The flesh OF The whale is very
much iIke ordinary beef in texture and
appearance The poultry man maintain
th2- Ii IS the Sgs- and -aGsI economic
al egg producing food that they can
buy because Il Is really very nutritious,
r!ch tu sasA free from bons ana prac-
Ccs1aE fresh owing 10 The intense cold
CT SAs past few weeks.
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What Is probably the worlds record
as 8 SDbaic Singer Is held by Mrs
GssclrEs V Johnson, who for more than
e. YEARS flAs been soloist in the Pres
sg1sraHn church. She mas Travelled a
Of IrIurs than 10000 miles in
.nar'ely ratng TO and from her choir re
StsElsRls Rnd church services, while the
scrnRl time she has spent in q choir
seat would amount to the equivalent of
"a EG-i III L. A1Al
William A Paffer, the only populist
ever elected TO the United States SEN
Rfe, Is now. al the age of 50, engaged
IN writing the story of his life and
times. He works lahoriously with his
pen In q little upstairs room in Topeka.
K2n- his only recreation being an oc-
casional automobile ride in the car of
q friend. In The early '90s he was the
most talked of man in the country.
Miss Mary Woods, OF the Brooklyn
navy yard, cuts the patterns for all the
Tags mace there, She has been making
fags for the government for more than
30 years Besides Miss Woods there
are 20 women employed III the Brook
ayn navy yard making flags at the rate
OF $4,000 each year. A .nodern ships
outfit consists of about 43e flags.
r. II. Scott. who has JUST been
elected president of the North Renfrew
Agricultural society. of Ottawa, Cam
d has been blind from childhood. He
is a machinery agent and horse dealer.
and travels the United States and Cam
ada unassisted, buying horses. which
ne Judges solely by the sense of touch.
Hls Judgment is rarely at fault.
There was once a Scotchrnan who
was down in the world, without hope.
and with only 3 pence in hts pocket
He decided on suicide and entering a
chemists shop asked for three penny
worth of arsenic. What do you want
1T fors" demanded the chemist. Two
pence" said the -Scotchnan.
Miss Maude Darlington Booth is on
her annual tour of prisons in the south
ern states. She will inspect prisons in
MARYLAND, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee,
Alabama, the C%arolinas and Louisiana.
Ia q ~ Ia ~. E
League OF the American Volunteers.
The proportion of Mohammedans to
the aggregate population of Indian has
steadily risen since 1881. 1t is esti-
mated that the number of Moslems I'M
der British authority In the Indian
empire is now $4,000, 600 IS compared
with 10000, 900 80 years ago.
The aluminium industry has grown
enormously from a production or less
than 100000 pounds In the United
States In 1883. In the next 10 wears 1t
had become $4,000 pounds and in 1903
Il was 10000 pounds, while today it
is 5o.ooo.Oo0 pounds.
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Recently a letter of Introduction was
handed by an actor to a manager.
which described the presenter as an
actor OF much merit and concluded:
lie plays Macbeth, Richelieu, Ham
set, shyiock and billiards. He plays
billiards best
As solid rubber tire to be placed over
2 pneumatic tire that has been pune
tured has been invented to enable an
automobile to continue trip after
meeting with mishap.
newspaper file patented by a
washington man Is equipped with a
wirc frame to hold d paper open for
convenience in reading as well as to
prevent tearing it.
For testing the power Of x-rny ap-
paratus there have been invented skel-
ton hands, made OF paper, which are
about az opaque to the rays as real
banda.
London clearing bankers returns
. 1911 aggregated $1,000, 900, 600. Thu
Bank OF Englandss gold bullion stock
~ the end Of h year was sl57,
Apparatus to determine the percent
Smye of carbon In steeis by burnins
S1en In pure oxygen under pressI,re
u lee8heen Invented IN France.