The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-06-08
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e~coTLANO. SOUTH DAkoT
The first extraction Of ~quinine fror
h bark of the tropical cinchona ire
by two French chemists in 1920 marke,
an epoch in the medical world. and ]
was Sir Clements Markham Of Eng
land. burned to death recently in hi
SSth year. who in 1852. after Il visit t,
Peru, persuaded the British govern
ment to plant and raise the drug II
seriously ~harassing the population
there.
Prof. Roscoe Pound. who has beer
appointed dean of the law school o
Harvard university, is a native of Ne
braska He was admitted to the bal
in 1890, and fDr several years practicee
at Lincoln. He Is also well known as {
b~otanist. having been director of the
botanical survey of Nebraska. 1892
1903. He has written many mono:
graphs and articles for European and
American botanical journals.
William E. Coddington, discharged
recently from the Minnesota peniten-
tiary after II years, had one most bit
ter regret; that the unfeeling wardens
should have turned him loose just the
week before Easter, with a prison hol-
iday coming on, a ball game, Good Fri
day !ayoff and prison dinner. If the
idea hadn't been done recently for the
movies one would do it.
Russia and Serbia. also Austria. may
allow young women to fight in their
armies, but Canada will not. although.
according to a recruiting officer in
Winnipeg, several have applied. and
two could hardly be kept from joining
by force in response to a call for
l"stenographers for the second service
unit of the Nineteenth battalion"
The output of copper in Alaska was
more thar four times as great in 1915
as it was in 1914. Copper mining there
began in 1901 and the total output to
ith close of 1915 is 219, 913,375 pounds,
valued at S34.919.581. OF this amount,
according to the United States geo'ogi-
cal survey, 5000, 312 pounds, valued at
$15.13s,129. was produced in 1915.
More h 1000 women are employed
In cleaning the streets of Vienna. At
least half the men in the streets de-
partment ave left their posts. los
of them are in the army, the others
have obtained more lucrative work.
The women who take their places re-
ceive the same rates of pay-from 55
cents to 60 cents q day.
A New York judge who refused a
man a divorce sought because his
wife was imperfect in everything said
to the fellow: 'If you are a perfect
human being, or think you are, watch
your step. A perfect human being"
continued the justice, still bruising the
head of the nail, would be an intol-
cradle nuisance
Prof. G. G.. Hertzog, of California,
Pa. father ef DIR. w. S. Hertzog. prin-
cipal of the Southwestern State Nor
ma school at California. and himself
q member OF the faculty for SO years.
will retire after this year. He was
the guest or honor at a banquet given
by III alumni of the Institution in
Pittsburgh.
One of the ~posthumous awards of the
Victoria cross has been to q soldier at
Gallipolf. who let a hand grenade slip
from his grasp and fall into his own
trench, where, for the sake of saving
his many nearby companions, he threw
himself down on it and was blown to
pieces, while no II else was even
wounded.
"A huge bowlder having 10 acres OF
surface above the ground. from which
granite is being taken for Building the
new Oklahoma state capitol. is said
IlLNS GCSkl eH ldR0IllcM M D1IlQlt
rendezvous. II is a solid mass tower
ing above the tree tops and formed Of
nm excellent grade of stone.
Speaking of dreamy police forces,
there is thateof Montgomery City, Mo,
where the Warren county Jail has had
no inmates for two years, although
there are II saloons in the county and
where, for more than one year, there
has been no call for a petit jury in the
circuit court.
One OF the choicest "~sinecures'' In the
British service Is that of the man who
tastes TX OF k,s" food befors it is
served to the war chief, q process thai
has been rigidly followed since 1t was
discovered some months ago that meals
had been cooked for Kitchener by a
German spy.
Perhaps there is something in that
story by the Richmond Times-Dispatch
an which some one asks: do YOU
think Miss Oldgirl will ever change her
mind and marTy?" The answer is NO.
mansof her acquaintance has changed
his mind
More than 100000 Belgian refugees
are now being cared for in Britain.
many OF h skilled artisans having
uy WSt0ohiCS anu SVeduy EN-.
ployment in the English industries,
while others are following professions.
though It is much more difficult for
these to fit In.
Siberia produces the best graphite
Tor lead pencils thus far discovered.
mat Is the source Of supply for the
German pencils. Australia, as we'll 40
Siberia, produces the materials for an
pencil. America has q fair
amount Of lower grade graphite.
Projects for drying the zuyder Zee
IS now before the Netherlands parlia-
ment to appropriate none for the /
work. The cost is estimated at 900 I
part of which is to L,
demnity 10 fishermen.
missionary asserts that / KIM mn |