Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-04-14

land the Caribbean sea, and bill is
now before the Ottawa parliament to
change It's name to the Canadian sea,
for good political and national rea.
sons, and TO assert Canadian su.
/ premacy over the waters of the bay
and the adjoining territory" Ameri,
can whalers from New Bedford, Mass.
are practically the only people who
have frequented the bay for the past
sixty years.
The public debt of Russia is S.. 800.
100000, anu there is perhaps S340. 000,,
600 gold in circulation in the empire
But M. De Witte said recently in a
meeting of the council of state, The
imposition of direct and indirect taxes
upon the population has reached the
last possible limit. To lay any
further burden upon the taxpaying
power will not only be fruitless of re.
suits, but can hardly be regarded as
permissible in the present economic
condition of the country"
! The Gazette Medicale de Paris
states that in theater panic and fire
about one out of every three
spectators perishes. This was the
proportion at the Brooklyn thsateT
I fire in 1876, with 400 victims: at Nice
in 1880, with IS victims; at Smolensk
in 1883, with $50; at the Opera
Comique at Paris in 1887, with 1871;
the Exeter theater in England, with
127 victims, in 1887; at the Oportc
theater in 1888. with SO, and at the
lroquois theater in Chicago, were SIS
persisted.
Gov. Murphy of New Jersey, in q
message, has asked the legislature t.
levy a prohibitiye tax On billboard ad
lvertising along railways. The cover
nor has caused an enumeration TO bt
made. and finds that no less than l1sOt
isignboards of all kinds, "disfigured bu
all sorts of effigies of impossible mel
and women and advertiser.
remedies for all the ills that human
flesh is heir to- as well as all sorts o
foods and drinks" greet the pas
Esengers on the railway trains as the.
pass through different sections of New
Jersey
The following is the record of a gas
ioline tractor used in England 70
drawing agricultural machines: ST,
acres of grass cut in three hours an,
forty minutes, using five and "a hal
gallons of gasoline; three acres o
grass cut in one hour and thirty-thre
minutes, using three gallons of case
line; two and 0ne-tenth acres of Ian;
with hard surface, plowed to an aver
age depth of seven inches, in fiv
hours and fifty minutes, using
double-furrow pillow and consuming
seven and three-fourths gallons of gas
ollne; nineteen acres of wheat hal
vested III ten hours, using eight an
one-half gallons of gasoline. The cos
of the machine lis said to be $500.
| Speaking of the poisonous ingred
ents OF tobacco. an editor Of the Lor
don Lancet says, in effect that nicotin
occurs in tobacco as an organic sal
which probably breaks up in combus
ton. 1t is doubtful If onesseventh 0
the nicotine in tobacco reaches tn
mouth of the smoker and average to
bacco has but l per cent. of nicotine
Too little attention has been paid t,
the relatively-large quantity of carbci
monoxide gas in tobacco smoke Thi
| gas arises from imperfect combustion
and is in the fumes of burning char
/ coal
The dizziness and stupor, the tremb
ling of the limbs and the hands, tn,
! disturbance of the nerve centers ant
of the circulation, palpitation on ;
slight effort, and the feeble pulse may
be the indications of either carbon