Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-06-20

feet wide and forty feet deep they
should not be compelled i to engage
pilots. 1t costs $3.50 to bring the
giant Oceanic in and take her to sea
again. The pilots are not worrying
over the matter. They say that a
single accident to one of the big ships
would be so costly as to stop all such
attempts.
A German expert in the east points
out that as time goes on more and
more men are required to coerce China
into doing the will of another power.
The opium war required only 1000
Europeans the Anglo-French war
against the Chinese 10000 and 4,S00
Indians. The Japanese needed 95,-
900 men aud $4,000 coolies and today
we find ninety men-of-war and almost
} men attempting to compel
obedience from the giant empire.
The Ontario government is negotiat.
ing gigantic railway deal involving
grant OF 1,542, 900 acres of unsettled
land in the Algoma region, in the
northwestern part of the province, to
syndicate of capitalists as assist.
ance toward building railway
through the region 800 miles long, the
government to control the rates. The
estimated value of the land to be
granted is s shillings per acre. The
railway will cost 91,200,00O.
From the latest official reports in
the British war Office it is ascertained
that the total killed, wounded and
missing among the, army during ac-
lions in south Africa up to March 81
was 1893 officers and 1882 non
commissioned officers and men. In
addition officers and 1891 non
commissioned officers and men have
died of wounds or disease, making
the total casualties foot up to the
enormous total of 47,637.
To overcome the difficulty caused by
the loss of time and the reluctance of
postoffice clerks to weigh letters the
French authorities are installing small
automatic weighing machines in post
offices. You place your letter on that
part of the balance which cores
ponds with your idea of the weight of
your letter, and if it is too heavy a
label containing that information
comes into view. .. i-;-
The slot machine has been adapted
in England to the directory. This
useful volume is held fast in a closed
position by the arms of the machine
until you drop penny into the slot;
then the arms relax and you can con.
suit the directory. The book is kept
open as long as required by holding
one cover, but as soon as this resist
ance is withdrawn the directory closes
automatically.
A monster lathe has just been
made in Philadelphia. 1t is eighty.
six feet long and it's total weight is
135 tons. 1t has been constructed
for preparing the thirty-two huge
granite pillars to be used in building
new cathedral, each pillar weighing
16O tons. 1t has eight cutters and
the granite block is reduced twenty
four inches in diameter at one pass
over its length.
Plans for the new Stock Exchange
building in New York have been sub.
mitted to the architects. The new
structure, which is to cost about
100000, will occupy the site of the
present exchange and three adjoining
buildingfis. 1t is to be ten stories high,
with marble facades, and the upper
floors are designed for offices.
The Japanese university, in Toxic,
exclusively for women, is approaching
completion and will be opened some
time this year. The institution is the
outgrowth of advanced ideas held by
Japanese families of education Three
rich Japanese men have given enough
to insure the completion of the build
ings.
In Wichita county, Kansas, recently
young woman died leaving a lover
and brother, who are not good
friends. The sweetheart ordered a
handsome headstone for the girls
grave, and now the brother has gone
into court for an Injunction to prevent
the erection of the proposed memorial.
A dairyman in Indianapolis, Ind,
supplies his patrons with what he calls
"noiseless milk" His wagons have
rubber tires, his milkmen wear rub
ber-soled shoes and he has supplied
each of his customers with a little
rubber mat on which the vessels are
silently placed.
Unknown practical jokers created
sensation in Redwood, N. j., one
evening last week by bringing to town
and turning loose swarm of strange
cats, which have been making life
miserable for the residents ever since.
A Missouri paper announces that in
order to make President McKinley's
visit especially interesting "the Hon.
Jam A. Reed, Kansas City's incom.
parable mayor, will deliver the adj
dress of welcome" at that place.
On the battle-ship Maine, sunk in
Havana harbor, are 1872 complete en-
gines, and the contractor who is
raising the wreck is confident that all
are uninjured. The ship is worth
S2,OOO,OO0 If she can be patched up.
There will be state elections this
year in Maryland, Massachusetts,, New
Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Vir.
ginia. A governor will be chosen in