The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-01-23

THE CITIZEN REPUBLICAN
p. A. BLISS, Editor and Proprietor.
SCOTLAND. SOUTH DAKOTA
The always original F. HorH'n ,or
Smith. artist and author, has found d
new way of sketching the london
streets. He does it from a taxicab
which he declares to be the best way
1T rains about every five minute in
London" Mr.. Smith is reported as say
Ing, land when 1 carne to a place where
l wished to work, I'd just lower the
front hood. sit up on the seat, and look
u over the heads of the people" The
artist has been sketching places made
famous by Thackeray or Dickens.
Blue sky laws" as discussed at the
recent convention OF the Investment
Bankers association, do not, as might
be supposed, refer to the height of
buildings on city streets, but are aimed
to prevent the selling of fraudulent Sc
curides. The name is derived from the
Idea that makers Of these securities
wouid capitalize the heavens themselves.
Blue sky" legislation is. it is said, on
foot in several states other thar Kan
sas. which already has such a Jaw.
To the deadly fly is now attributed
another disease-that of ~infantile par
alysis. The Harvard medical faculty
as a result OF it's investiga-
lions, that the common stable fly dis
tributes the germs of this disease.
common flies, apparently harmless, are
now known to be the carriers of ty-
phoid fever. OF the sleeping sickness of
ophthalmia, and of ~infantile paralysis,
n are thus among the worst enemies
OF the human race.
The function of whalebone in the life
OF the whale is of the utmost import
ance. The inner edges of the whale
bone plates are frayed into innumer-
able hairlike processes and the whole
forms n sort Of sieve whereby the
whale may sift out its food from the
sea water. It must be ~membe
that the food of this gigantic creature
consists chiefly of minute organisms.
crustacea, mollusca, ETC., floating near
the surface.
so perfect In color, hardness, refrac-
ton, durability and composition are the
most recently manufactured specimens
or rubies that European brokers now
reiuse to take rubies in pawn, as they
cannot distinguish the synthetic gem
from the product Of nature. The Ger
man Jewelry trade has petitioned the
government to take legal steps to pro-
.ect the public by requiring the syn
theuc gem to be sold as such.
Appropriately enough, the home Of
an Window Steaming Ia
London. England. The Jogging of win
COWS Is doubtless a serious trouble to
shopkeepers in that city. and the com
pany prevents this by a simple device
Wnlch blows q current of dry air on
me glass. A window which had been
steamed TO ~opaquensss is said to have
peer cleared perfectly within 80 seconds
by the new apparatus.
oltver Wendell Holmes was a class
mate OF DR.. Charge at Harvard. and
according to the "reminiscences nf tha
latter. the ~autocrat was as witty than
as later. One day the w were talk
.ng metaphysics. when he bright
Iongued little great man exclaimed. sTu
ten you, James, what I think meta
physics is like. 1t is like a man snlit.
ing a log. When it is done he has two
a novelty In the way OF a text hook
Tor teaching English to FOREIGNERS 10
y Is stated, to be used by the Chicaro
1oung Mems Christian association. II
Will De calied Safety First for foreign
=. ASooOl VIII consist Of a
picture showing the best way of avoid
ing danger. 1t is hoped in this way to
reouce the large number OF accidents
10 foreigners in Chicago.
Dr. w. b Cell. who in 1908 %journeyed
from to end of the Chinese walI
says that with it's extensions ito Total
iengtn is really 1850 miles, and that
10000 stone towers guarded
u; HIS book THE Great Wall ~
Emma, contains Photographs showing
s we wall crossing rugged mountains u.
200 feet high. T.
After Bleriot, who has a monument
hIected near Calais to ommemorafe
nus cross channel flight, Hubert T.aths
am rs now to have a monument as
Wen; This will be Iocated on the
neisnts OF the Sangatte cliffs at the|
point Where he started his flight
Dr. g. r. Van de Water. recto, ~
81. Andrews Episcopal church M,
York, blind for some time. has reron
sreo s1ght by removal of the lenses
rom both eyes ees
Count CHARLES de Chebannes tic
french portrait painter, who~fs nou, Ia
TINS country. says that the, most haa,,n
liIui american women are in Philadai-
II is now declared that Il . hr;ah4
shild Is capable Of doing the worl ~
the eight grades in seven years he
be permitted to do it in thai
In Costa Rica the beppar,
privileged characters on Tnasd.n me
Is, they are allowed that dav -
week IN which to beg from sbon
F4NFEF4N@ N9EH4E4sNJH HgLGsTt ~
Pl.tsnurghers are raising funds for
lost his life In the destructian ~ wto
Dattleshp Maine. in Havana harhor.
Sol. Abe Harris. Sd, Of Fort worm
TEX, IS e Mexican war veteran. and
= 9ne oIsthe men who in 1915 founded