Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-03-30
NOTES Or THE DAY.


An old clock three feet in height
recently was given to Warren, III.
academy for the use of the class in
physics in demonstrating the laws of
the pendulum. When set up in the
laboratory the clock refused to keep
time. Miss Mary E. Gloss, an in
structor, investigated the cause ana
found roll of bank notes aggregating
$242 tucked away in the clocks works.
The outer bill had been rusted through
and was Of the issue authorized by the
act of 1882. 1t had been sent to Wash
ington to be redeemed. The clock he3
been for long time slowed away as
a useless piece of furniture.
To those familiar with the enormous
salaries paid to the judges of the
higher English courts it may come as
something of surprise to learn that
the president in chief of the French
cour de cessation gets only about &c.
600 a year. In no country save the
United States do judicial salaries reach
in amount to even a third of those paid
in Great Britain. The heavy rise in
judicial salaries in England began
about the middle of the last century.
based on the assumption that the pay
ment should be in ratio with the earn
ings of barristers from whom judges
We're selected.
The speech upon the natuarl history
of the London cabman, delivered by
the earl of Crewe, at the annual fes-
tival dinner of the Cab Drivers Be-
nevolent association, contained a good
deal of interest. 1t is certainly sur
prising to learn that there are in Lon
don 1000 cabmen over so years of age,
and $50 who are over 70, to say moth
ing of three who have turned. Oh.
This is remarkable testimony, not
only to the advantages of life spent
in the open air, but to the salubrity
of the much abused climate of London.
Manhattan will soon be an island no
longer save in name. Bridges of steel
unite it to Brooklyn and Bronx, and It
will soon be united to New Jersey by
tunnel under the Hudson river. The
tunnel was begun years ago, but finan-
cial disaster overwhelmed the company
and the panic prevented any new capt.
tai engaging in the undertaking, but
English capitalists have now taken
hold of the enterprise and there is good
prospect of its speedy completion.
Miss Jennie Hancock, a nurse, of
Pill Belmore street, Philadelphia, has
received a letter from Berlin, Germany.
stating that George Richtman, a law
yer, who for short time lived in Phil
adelphia, recently died there and be-
queathed to her $4,000. Miss Han,
cock, who is 20 years DID, says RIGHT
man fell in love with her some time
ago and offered to marry her, but she
rejected him because she dio not love
him, as he was above her station.
Machinery for what is said to be the
largest paper mill in Europe has been
furnished by an American firm, the
Pussy & Jones company of Whining
ton, Del. The mill is situated in the
province of Dalecarlia, Sweden, and is
owned by the Stora Kopparberg COM
pany. which utilities the immense water
power at Domnarfvet for its immense
Bessemer steel mill at Falun. The
paper mill has begun work with a daily
output of 100 tons.
When the clearinghouse building in
New York was completed three years
ago 1t provided room for sos, 900, 900 in
gold. But during the last year the in
flow OF gold has been so great that not
only is the vault entirely filed, but
even the passageways have had to be
utilized for storage of the precious
metal. The amount of gold now on
hand exceeds s155, ZOO, 900, and the ca
paeity Of the vault is to be doubled.
The Standard Oil company has ten
active gas wells at lola, Kan, one of
which produces 10000, 600 cubic feet of
gas daily. The average depth of the
wells is 900 feet. and the total supply
Of gas is said to be enough to light
Kansas City, st. Louis Chicago and
New York. 1t cost sI50,000 to sink
these ten wells and eight others, which
have since ceased to produce.
Society in New York is now tattooed
by electricity. Men and women whose
skins are white and thin, but who De
to do as others do, to be conside1 Il
proper must have some figure pricked
on arm or shoulder with indelible ink