The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-01-27

SOUTH DAKOTA

ecOTLAND. SOUTH DAKOTA |
When John Rice, of st. Paul, MINI,
found himaelf in the British army at
the opening of the Boer war. he wrote
to his parents asking for money with
which to buy himself out. This was
forthcoming, and his mother prepared
a delicious plum pudding against the
day of John's Homecoming. hat was
i6 years ago. and the parents nave
from the boy. The story came out
recently when the mother, injured in
an accident and confined in a st. Paul
hospital, expressed the wish that IN
case of her death the pudding might
be placed in the grave with her bcdy
Gen. Sir Sam Hughes, Canada's pic
turesque and efficient MINI ter of mill
tia, the result of whose untiring eff
forts for years past have been so mani
fest since h war began, has been
In turn a chool teacher, country editor.
politician and soldier. ears 6 he
was professor of English in the Col
legiate Institute of Toronto. The militia
"a long been his hobby. During the
Boer war he obtained a commission
though his offer of a regiment was re-
jected.
The various species of Astragalus,
known in Persia as kelvin, from which
gun tragacanth is obtained, grow on
the ranges which surround
the Persian plain. The bushes produce
ing the gum grow to a height Of two
feet. In the spring. when the sap rises,
q part of The branches is cut away,
thereby allowing the SAP to flow out,
which ~coagulated within a few hours
on the surface of the stalk.
DR.. Samuel Johnson heard so much
talk bou balloons in the last year of
his life, 1884, that he became unspeak-
ably bored, and cautioned his friend
about bringing up that subject of con
versation when in his company. He
was confident that the balloon could
serve go good purpose but that of fur
nishing a rather foolish and decidedly
dangerous amusement to the wealthy
few.
1t is anticipated that large quantities
OF and ether citrus fruits will
be available for shipment frem South
Africa to England during the coming
season. In another four years the South
African shipments of UGH fruit will.
according to the estimate of G.. du p.
Chipptni. British government trades
commissioner to South Africa, amount
to 100000 boxes, and In 10 years to A.
100000 boxes annually.
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With regard to the alleged shifting
OF the canals of Mars over the face Of
the planet, Professor Lowell states in
Popular Astronomy that this phenom-
enon was detected at his observatory
10 years ago, and is therefore no novel;
ty. He believes hat there is not an
actual displacement OF the canals, but
that there are, in each case, several
canals that become successfully visi-
BILE.
MAlIrEN~ N4sw3Z- rrN.
When Secretary of State Won Jagow
of Germany, is not engaged on a diplo-
matte note or something he's a car
toonist and decorator. AS you enter
his big office o note q large, clean
blotter on his desk. AS he talks he
sketches, humans, animals and all
sorts of things. 1t is sale hat his
servants brings him a new blotter for
every visitor.
As a result of the war, American
glass manufacturers have discovered
that the supposedly superior clay they
have been importing from Germany is
really inferior to the domestic clay.
Well trained German statesmen, II
seems; had hypnotized them n be-
IevinS that the imported substance
vas better for the refractory pots in
which glass is melted.
The cultivation OF spices in Grenada.
Windward islands, Is confined almost
entirely to nutmegs. with their deriva-
tive mace. Mace has Of late years
commanded a relatively favorable
nrice, and has had the effect of max
Ing nuutrnegs q profitable crop
Until recently 10 per cent or moro OF
the waste molasses from Hawaiian
sugar factories was thrown away
Furnaces are now being installed to
burn this mO1asseS and use the heat
for making steam.
The street railway in a German city
provides all its cars with telephones
enabling their crews 10 communicate
with headquarters by connecting the
instruments with wires that run beside
sle tracks.
IA Frenchman has invented rods tc
be on the sides of automo-
biles to swing u and prevent them
capsizing when running on the side
OF a road.
Believing that chickens need exer.
else, a Nevada poultryman has invent.
ed drinking fountains to reach which
fowls must fly up to an elevated plat.
form.
Recent experiments seem to have
shown that richer sugar beets can bs
grown In some parts OF England thar
are produced on the continent 81
Europe.
Norway will build a canal, min,
miles of which will be through a tun.
mel to open I q navigation a lake sep,
arated from the sea BY q mountain
ridge.
Al Michigan inventor has patented
milk bottle with d hole in one sid,
through which cream can be draw
without disturbing the rest OF the milk
Batteries carried in a fisherman,
pocket supply current to an electri,
lamp inside "a celluloid minnow which
has been invented for night fishing.