Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-02-20
Odds and Ends.

Dawson banks say the Klondille output
the ensuing spring viii be not less than
S2l 100000.
A bullet landed in Gen. Botha's pocket
while British were Smelling Doors before
Ladysmith
Forty-three per cent OF the fruit trees
in Southern California are orange and
ID per cent lemon.
Cuba, Hawaii and Porto Rico viii have
American exhibits under "Old Glory" at
the Paris exposition.
Stage scenery of the late Salyini was
sold ut Columbus, Ohio, for 81 79J. It
originally cost $4,000.
Count Won Buelow's speech in the
Reichstag has aroused fresh anti-Brit-
ish sentiment in Germany.
1t was reported that the Admiralty
Island natives Killed and ate the crew OF
the trading schooner Nipamarra.
Medical inspectors excluded 452 pupils
from the public schools OF Chicago on ac-
count of more or less contagious diseases.
In anticipation Of the passage of the
shipping bill, many orders for merchant
vessels have been placed with American
ship builders.
A volunteer in a Colorado regiment an
Manila has been cured of suffering Nv
being shot through the throat by Maj
ser bullet.
A man in Philadelphia makes a living
by selling foreign hotel. express and rail-
road labels 70 people that paste them ON
their baggage to create the impression
that they have been abroad
President Mckinley has been invited
by the executive committee Of the Zen.
menical Conference on Foreign Missions
10 attend one Of the sessions of that con-
ference, to be held in New York in April
Each battalion chief of the New York
fire department IS shortly 10 be supplied
with a pocket telephone, which may be-
affixed 10 any fire box and win then en-
able the operator TO talk directly with
headquarters. The attachment is sinple
and the device may be carried in an IN
side pocket.
: Centralia, Mo-, has a hourishng organ.
ization known as1be Backbone Club. Ey.
cry member must sign a pledge that n.
will not use tobacco during 1000 The
rules provide that If any member shall
break his pledge he must wear on the
lapel Of his coat badge bearing IN largo
letters the words, Il have No Back
bone"
Plans are undsr way for the construc
ton Of 300 miles Of trolley lines in Ha
wall.
The wages OF Pullman ear conductors
are to be cut, some TO the extent Of -
per cent.
Capt John X Waring, Second infau
try. physically incapactatcd, has been re-
tired from active service as a major az
infantry.
Halffa million dollars IS the estimated
cost OF repairing the Olympia, according
10 the reports 10 the board Of naval cor
stFuction. The work win occnpy about Il
year.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000
apiece 70 York, Pa, and East Orange,
u. T. FOR public libraries.
fhe Mississippi Legislature has elected
ex-Gov. MeLaurin United States Senator
for the long term and w. V. A. Sullivan
Tor the short term.
The Chinese Six Companies % San
Francisco will assist the police IN ter
the highlander war. The com
panies have put up si7,J0O as reward
for the murderer.
Mrs. Edgar s. Siorer, wife Of C0lum
bus. Ohio. banker. has found among old
papers a grant signed by one 81 Wash
ingion's generals for 5000 acres % land
located in Kansas.
Chicago teachers. ansercd nj the cut-
ting Of their salaries. appointed tag in
auisitors 10 watch alleged tax dodgers
In future vessel captains arriving at
Pacific ports from the Orient viii be fined
81, 600 unless they can show properly
youched bills OF health.
The Drainage Board Of Chicago has
ex-Congressman W. NJ. Spsinss
er OF Washington to take full charge OF
the legal side of the drainage canal for
the sanitary district.
The House library committee fayors a
memorial to President John Tyler. az
Va, and 10 Gems. Francis
Nash and william Lee Davidson. rrvo-
I6ts5aary heroes IN North Carolina.