The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-30
OLIO OF EVENTS

patches sent by his wireless method.
He disapproves of "marcOnigrams, be-
cause, he says, lit SavOrS too much or
self-advertisement
Benjamin Leo, of Cleveland, the in
ventor of new type of street car fem
der with hollow rubber cylinders along
the edge, allowed himself to be Istruck
by q car going twelve miles anihour the
othertday and escaped injury
New South Wales (Australia) laws
against child labor are very stringent,
and all girls in shops and stores must
have seats. All stores must close at 81
p! M. and public houses from II p. m.
Saturday until Monday morning. @
The six most important Swedish
match manufacturers have formed
trust, with plants worth more than ST.
600 900. ~ SWede matches furnish the
principal competition of the Diamond
Match company of the United States,
Great Britain'a and Ohile.
Prof. Adam p Haupt, the noted ed
ucatOr, has just died in Cleveland. The
Haupt system is we'll known through
out this country and Canada, and Sec
rotary Hay and Representative Dick
have been pupils of Prof, Haupt.>
DR.. Leuriaux, a Brussels physician,
announces the, success of his serum for
the cure of whooping cough. The ser
UNI is injected under the skin, on the
abdomen, and a, cure is performed in
ten days, whereas the disease 'ordin-
arily runs six to eight weeks.
! "A number of tests made by the Yer
mont experimental station found that
Of oil
soda mixture are very satisfactory for
killing weeds along walks and drives.
These can be kept perfectly free Of
weeds by the use of these mixtures.
Ten portraits of heroic size are to
adorn the .colonnade of the Industries
building at the ST. Louis exposition.
Ten great inventors have been selected
as the subjects of these statues: They
are Howe, Fulton, Bessemer, Chicken
ing, Clark, Erickson, Watts, Colt, Hoe
and Goodyear.
s During the, last few years expert
ments have been carried on in the La
hore territory to cultivate beet roots.
The results having been very satisfac-
tory in every respect, it is now intended
to start work on large scale So far
India has imported almost al, the sugar
required from continental Europe. /:
Instead of beating swords into 'plow-
shares now, the Beers of South Africa
have thrown their swords to the scrap
heap and ordered their plows from
American dealers. One dealer in New
York has agreed to ship 1900, it is
said and orders for agricultural imple-
ments of all kinds have been received
here. - bC1CGiCs IN
Large new deposits of bitdninou3
coal have been discovered in tie dis
trict of Campine, in Belgium,E The
field is reported to be over AS miles in
length by miles in width. boring
trials have shown several veins of a
thickness of %, feet The government
has already granted II concessions for
the exploitation Of these deposits. 81
Madame Emelka Szigavari. WHO was
once. the most popular actress On the
Hungarian stage, has died in the work
house at Moiskolez, in Hungary where
she had spent the last ten years Iof her
life as a. pauper, She went On the
stage at the age Of twenty, and for
nearly thirty years she was I'M receipt
of an annual income of over $4,000. e
Since, Japan has gone to school in
throughout, the East has been steadily
growing In the interior of .China,
where no European merchant has ever
thought of going, the Japanese ARE To-
eating themselves, and in Manchuria,
where Russia is supposed to have SUI
preme control, the Japanese tratlesmen
~outnumber the Russians so to 8. 500.
Dr. Charcot, who is projectingla polar
expedition, is a son of the late DR..
Charcot, who was famous for the use of
hypnotic suggestion in the treatment of
diseases. Last spring he made IA three
months trip, pushing as far as Jan
Mayen Island. In the expedition he is
now planning he intends to proceed to
Franz Josef Land. No French eXpe-
dition in that direction has been under
taken since Dumont d'Urville's, in 1926,
and DR.. Charcot says it is high time to
repair this omission.
Nate Salisbury, who died at Long
Branch on December "a last, by his will
left S210,000 in personal property and
no real estate. His widow, Rachel Sal
isbury, is made sole legatee, knowing
that she will devote the income of my
estate to the care and education of our
children" as the will reads. The will
names Milton 3. Minor of Fort Benton,
Mont, as executor, but it is understood
that he has renowned in favor of the
widow. =
The author of new biography of ex-
Queen Margherita, LA prima regina d.
Italia" relates that when the present
king was a boy his mother shared his
lessons in Latin and music. To the
music teacher she said: eff the prince
does not attend to his lessons, do not
hesitate to pull his ears" The queen
has translated those of Elizabeth Bar
rett Brownings poems which relate to
her country into Italian, and she has
written poems of her own in Italian,
French, English and German. Guber-
natis gave her lessons in Sanskrit. zee
sera pour mes vieux jours," she said.
She associated much with Italian art
lists and poets-except D'Annunzio,
whom she. never liked. Among her
musical proteges were Puccini and Ter.
esina Tua; also Sgambati, whose cham
Der music concerts she helped along
The British and German govern
ments have decided on the immediate
dispatch to West Africa of a mixed
commission to demarcate the boun-
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