Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-02-19
This and That,

| Kansas has more national than State
banks.
Hawaii is getting its first share of gar
den seeds and the Congressional Record
New York c0roners. with their staffs,
cost the taxpayers more than $150,000
year.
In the English army a soldier is drum
med to church just as he is to drill or
dress parade.
The estimated population of British
Guiana ut the end of December last
| was 2S7 ,2SS.
Montana's Governor signed the eight
hour law for mines and smeters. Law
will be effective in ninety days.
Chinese residents at Pekin presented
Gen. Chaffee several umbrellas because
of their regard for him and his troops.
Winter tourist travel is very heavy TO
South California over all the roads, anu
the hotels at Los Angeles and other re
sorts are crowded.
The first mulberry tree in America was
brought from France in 1926, with the
expectation of establishing mulberry
groves in New York.
An unnamed beneficiary in Cleveland.
Ohio, has given Chenille, Ohio, clergy
man unlimited credit for the relief of the
poor in that community.
The head of one Of Queen Nictoria's
priZ" Hereford steers has been bought
by the British museum as the most typ
zeal of its class ever produced.
Disturbing the burial grounds in the
Orient is looked on as henous crime.
Itobbing graves is the only crime under
Chinese law for which the thief may be
justly killed on the spot 10y any one find
ing him out.
In the last weeks Of our war with
Spain there was Il project Of raising
money by selling the famous Prado gal
lery in Madrid. The value Of the pictures
is about $l0.000,000. and this would have
paid the war expenses. for one month
only.
The attention of fruit growers in New
Zealand is being seriously directed to the
question of the eradication of fruit pests
But for the ravages of the Goblin moth
and kindred pests New Zealand has ex-
cellent FACILITIES for doing a large export
fruit trade.
Lyons. France reports that the wine
crop Of France for the wear 1900 will cX-
ceed ! .721 100000 gallons II yield that
has been unsurpassed but three times in
history.
Forest experts in Germany admit that
the empire will never be in a position
fully 10 supply her own market. In 1899
the import. of wood were 3G,0O0,000
cubi" feet
Poland was the only conquered nation
in the last century prior to the present
events in South Africa whose conquerors
have offered 10 terms but humiliation &c
the yanqHished.
The Turkish language is said by schol-
ars 10 be the softest and most musical
language Of modern times being better
adapted to the purposes Of musical nota-
ti0n and recitatiyc than even the Italian.
4 man in western Kansas keeps ten
others at work digging snake root and
roSin weed from the prairies for the drag
trade. In tine last eighteen months he
has shipped $4,000 pounds, some Of Il to
Europe.
The Lancet promounees the present un-
dprgr0upd steam trains in London Eek
ceediugly dirty All attempts at yentila-
ton haye failed. and the proposed substi-
tuition Of electric traction seems the only
remedy
The attention Of fhe pension bureau
has been called to one regiment in the
Civil War in which. according 10 the
rolls. twcuty-eight c0lored George Wash
ingtons served. \ single company shows
q membership Of thirteen George Wash
iHgtons BY Tie applications filed.
Since the IVES; Indian colonies were
lost the production Of beet sugar in Spain
has almost monopolized the attention OF
Spanish agriculturists Large capital
has been subscribed for the purpose Of
eultigating beets on an extensive scale
and Of erecting sugar mills throughout
the country. The result has already been
a considerable over-production and a con-
segment uneasy feeling in the trade.