Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-30
BITS OF INFORMATION.

Berlin has a permanent automobile
exhibition.
The first Europeans entered China
in 1917 A. d.
Liverpool is just 2.45O miles from
Halifax
Men use hair dyes to much greater
extent than women, according to a
New York druggist.
More than 100000 Africans were
taken from their country as slaves be-
tween 1902 and 1907.
Miniature Indian corn grows in
Brazil. The ears are about the size of
a little finger, and the grains are as
small as mustard-seed.
An electric car capable of making
sixty-fve miles an hour is operated
between Providence, r. l.. and Fall
River, Mass.
Senator Caffery's unvarying summer
outfit consists of suit of linen home
spun, panama hat and a great green
lined umbrella.
England has special palace car for
dogs, with nickeled food receptacles,
running water, velvety mats and
plate glass windows.
General Cronje amuses himself at
st. Helena by golf with other boer
prisoners. The players frequently
spend whole days on the links.
One of New York's landmarks, a
towering elm that stood in st. Paurs
churchyard and which was said to be
hundred years old, has been cut
down.
In the regular army of the United
States there are % per cent of foreign
ers, while in the navy So per cent OF
the petty officers and AZ per cent. of
the seamen are foreign born.
Missouri's surplus products marketed
in 1899, as compared with the previ-
GUS year, show an increase of over
$5,OOO,0O0, the aggregate value of last
years productions being $135, 070,2S9.
A young girl in Missouri was taken to
an insane asylum the other day suffer-
ing from the remarkable delusion that
she is compelled to lit on a red hot
stove and peel potatoes. She has been
working in hotel kitchen.
Free lectures given under the aus
pices of the New York City depart
ment of education show an increase in
attendance of 1858 during the last
winter and spring, as compared with
the same period of year before
Damages of $4,000 are asked by
Kansas City baker from a woman who
spread report that he kneaded his
bread with his feet. The defendant
says she will put in evidence a loaf OF
bread with footprints on it.
Carrots. eaten early in the morning,
are said to produce a most astonishing
effect upon the skin, hair and eyes. II
is asserted that in six months the
most faded and elderly complexion
will have become fresh and youthful"
Cypress telegraph poles along a
Georgia railroad, which must have
been planted with their roots, have
begun sprouting at the top. They serve
as shade trees as well as a support for
the wires,
Professor Gotch says the electric
fish of the Nile have a battery
power equal TO 200 volts. The electro
cal organ is situated in the skin, in
closing the whole body in micro
seopic sections.
Cyclones or general storms may be
!, 900 miles in diameter. Hurricanes
operate on path averaging 600 to
500 miles wide. rornadoes may be
only mile wide at the top and but
few feet at the bottom, but they are
much more dangerous than either a
cyclone or a hurricane.
A Philadelphia genius has Invented
hat for horses to wear during hot
weather. 1t resembles a poke bonnet
and is made of braided straw. There
are holes in the side of the headgear
for the ears of the animal, and in the
top of the device is a receptacle for
ice or wet sponge.
Ginseng is parsnip-shaped, and when
freshly dug Is of "a white, creamy color.
The root is bitter to the taste, but not
unpleasant, and is highly valued in
China for its supposed medicinal prop
critics in combating fatigue and old
age. In that country it can only be
gathered by permission of the ruler.
Scotch collies are used in ambulance
and bearer work on German battle
fields. They wear a saddle bearing
large red cross, and attached to this is
a flask and dressing for wounds. The
dogs are so well schooled they will
scent a man who in the ordinary
course would have been overlooked by
the bearers and perhaps left to die
The Muir glacier in Alaska was
named after Professor Muir of Cali
fornia, who first explored it some
twenty years ago, 1t is about thirty
five miles in its front portion 10 fifteen |
miles further back. 1t rises from 100
to ESQ feet above the surface OF the sea,
and extends under 1t at least three
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