The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-02-24

p. A. BLISS.
Z ecoTLAND. SOUTH DAKOTA
A Baptist home missions council for
work among non-English speaking
people in New England has been
formed, DR.. Hugh A. Heath. of the
Massachusetts, Baptist Customary So
ciety. is president: the Rev. r. s,
Jenkins is state supervisor for New
Hampshire; the Rev. w. E. Water
bury for Massachusetts, n the Rev.
John Stewart for Rhode Island. The
first work of the council will be to
make a careful survey Of the work
and needs Of n~on-I1nglish n~ationalities
in New England, with a view to pre-
vent overlooking and overlapping.
In the production of ~acetylene gas
from the union of calcium barbon and
water, the residue consists of a con-
siderable amount OF carbide mud.
Hitherto this has been regarded as USE
less, but the increased use of acety-
lene during the war has resulted in
such large quantities of this by-prod-
uct that German chemists nave been
trying to find a use for it. 1t is nov
in the Chemiken Ieitung
that when mixed with 40 per cent or
building sand it provides a very disable
mortar, which bardens we'll and binds
he stones firmly together.
h experiences of the captive King
Jehoiachin and his subjects ma well
have furnished the basis for the book
of Job, Prof. John Franklin Genung,
Of Amherst college, suggests in a study
Of the inner history of the Chaldean
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Job, he thinks, may be a cryptic name
conveying to that generation comfort
which would not have been allowed to
find open expression. The fact that
Ezekiel couples the name of Job with
that of Daniel as a contemporary
seems to sustain this conclusion.
German scientists are said to have
found substitutes for nearly all the
commodities in demand, the supply
OF which has been cut off by the war.
According to a recent consular report,
German manufacturers have found a.
way OF making willow herb take the
place of jute n hemp, which grows
profusely in that country and in the
United States. In Germany encourage
ment Is now being given to the Gull
tfvation of this plant, which has been
heretofore regarded as a weed.
1T has been at the Uni
verSity of Illinois thai the Draper
committee of the National Academy Of
Sciences has granted $500 to Prof. Joel
Stebbins, head of the department of
astronomy, in support OF his researches
at the observatory. The special work
which ts now being carried on at the
observatory is the Improvement of a
new method Of measuring the light Of
stars, which Is being developed in COL
alteration with Prof. Jacob Kunz, of
the department of physics.
lf graduates of the law school of the
University OF Minnesota have their
way, members of the Minnesota bar
will no longer be lawyers. Not they!
Ihey Will be barristers ut law,
sellers at law or attorney at law, and
only the persons so addressing and
referring to them will be marked
double A on their social registers.
The chrysanthemum is the oldest
cultivated flower in the world. and.
tnougn Japan's national emblem. was
1irst developed in China. Conf1cins
who lived approximately 500 years B.
q, mentioned it in his writings. ana
antique Chinese pottery in the Brit
ish museum lis decorated with conyen-
uaai designs OF the same flower.
Under the direction of the imperial
museum OF F~etrograd, agricultural lee
lures are being given for wounded SOL
diers In SO hospitals in and near the
Russian capital. Patients who are
aple TO do so are also encouraged to
Nlsie me museum, where c~ineinato-
graph pictures on agricultural subjects
are shown nee q week.
a remarkable record Of longevity Ia
70 pc ound in some of the rural mar
lShes OF France. In the village of St.
Ihomas dc la Fliche, there have been
only IA parish priests in 300 VANS
The parish of st. German du Val in
Parls, has had only three pastor in
IVY ear while that of Givry en- Ar
gonne has had only five In 1870 years
a new material for Insulation has
peen brought out in Germany recent
- naae OF charcoal mixed with
paper pulp and pitch or tar. 1t is made
IN the form OF plates, and 1t is said r.
Oe lust as efficient as the material
Wnlcn mas been heretofore used ana
U more economical. -
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Much sympathy is being shown In
england for the Widowed mntbar
whose dead sons last letter the ce,,aor
destroyed. The man SCENE ia haya
adhered to this red tape "a q MONT ~
needless cruelty. showing no mercy.
merely q the letter was in an
envelope Of obsolete type.
IN d to encourage the sheer IL
oustry IN Manitoba, the departrnen,
oI agriculture undertook the han5Iing
Of this season's wool clip on a cooners
atiye basis, which has resulted II .
satls1actory market for the farmers.
Free meals are served ia scboa,
oilildren at I6 public schools In the
City Of Leeds. England. The board nS
uucat adefrays one-half of he ey-
Rense from h city taxes and one