The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-02-10

CITIZEN REPUBLICAN
p. A. BLISS.
ecoTLAND. SOUTH DAKOTA
One of the unusual Serbian instis
tuition that bids fair to vanish under
the ~conqueror's hand is the Zadruga,
a glorified family system said to have
saved the Serbians from poverty ana
all its attendant evils, and left them
one of the gaiest races of MANHOOD.
In the Zadruga one house grows from
another until a little community Is es-
tablished on something like sociallstlc
principles. The starshine, or heads
man, and his wife live in the biggest
house and direct the industries OF the
satellite houses.
The owner of q granite cutting es-
adjustment in Los Angles has success
fully used the compressed air starter
on his automobile for driving the pneu-
matte tools used in lettering on mon
uments. Air was conducted by nose
from the air reservoir on the autoIno-
bile to the pneumatic tool and the pan
worked admirably, saving considerable
time and expense in the work OF let
tering on a monument standing in a
cemetery far away from the shop.
Is it the fast horse or the slow horse
In a team that pulls the greater part of
the load? The department of agri-
culture engineering of the Iowa col
lege of agriculture says it is the
slower horse. 1t says that suppos1ng
one horse of a team is eight inches
ahead of the other, the load divides in
- ., a 1F 1nn 10 INC r1ntfr1C in naCa
the center hole in the equalizer is four
inches out of line with the holes at the
ends OF the equalizer.
When the Duke of York was living in
Edinburgh in 1851 he was told that a
certain shoemaker named Patersone
was the best golf player in Scotland.
The duke, later James ii, chose the
shoemaker as partner in a foursome.
winning a huge stake. He promptly
turned over the money to Patersone,
who forthwith built a house, in which
the duke placed a stone with a Pater-
some crest bearing the motto, Far and
Sure"
1t is estimated that $4,000 Canadians
enlisted in Union regiments during our
civil war, and until recently at least
the Toronto post, Grand Army of tho
Republic. a a dozen members, which
may explain the fairly matter of fact
way Canadians are viewing American
enlistnlents in their contingents for
the front. The killed in our greatest
war included $4,000 adventurous fell
lows from across the border.
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On many of the best salmon rivers
In Canada. power work have been, or
are being, constructed, the dams OF
which bar the salmon's way up TO the
spawning grounds. To bviate this
difficulty, New Brunswick has tried the
experiment of erecting close to one OF
these dams an automatically worked
lift, which raises the confiding salmon
to a higher level. The salmon have
jumped at the idea.
The first Tommy Atkins, the name
since applied to all privates in the
British army, was gunner Thomas At
kins. Gunner Atkins, in the reign of
George III. invented a pocket ledger
which won tremendous POPULARITY
among the soldiers. The little book
came to be known as a Tommy Atkins.
and soon, since every private had one,
the men were called by the Same
name.
Pennsylvania Railroad company
brought in $2,15T,241.24 or 1000, 900
less than in 1913. Waste paper alone
sold for Sl9.211, oil barrels for $22,439
and old rubber for $15.222. Locomo-
lives and wooden passenger cars sold
TOR Sll4,o26. Other odds and ends
brought in $121, 997. Old wheels, metals
and wrought iron yielded more thar
t7S0,008.
A notable instance Of the Kindness
pf those in charge of transatlantic
nners developed recently aboard the
inner Rynda1n, which was stopped in
n held on an even keel
while the appendix of a passenger was
removed. Besides the ships surgeon
n the captain who stopped the ship
IN American dentist c~ooperated by adj
ninistering the anesthetic.
Pit ponies of n of the English
mines were brought to the surface
when the miners stopped work some
weeks ago. Not one of the animals
aad seen daylight since it was frs,
e into the mines, some as long as
~ years ago. al of them were be-
Eildered and many were as frightened
~ though they had been deposited or
! new planet.
Workmen on the Rogue river ANA
In Oregon set off a blast and thereb,
a buried treasure. The coin,
were OF the mintage of the SOS am
there were some Spanish coins anon,
fhem- How the money came to b.
buried. or when. or why, is unknown
according to some o there wa.
Gbout $500. and to others. about 81. 500
Tomnnaso Salvini, the world famou
italian actor who died the other day
forbade his sons acting in Italy durin,
the years OF his own activity on tn
stage, although three of them-Gus
tavo. Alexander and Tommaso-wer
thespians- The fathers namesake /
said to be the most talented OF the triS
Italy is now producing d~ealcoholize
wine. a drink that differs from infer
mented raj juice in the same way