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

III Enghsh schools three hours a
week are given TO needlework: in New
York schools puu one.
The only important independent
states now remaining in Africa are
Abysslania and Liberia.
Out of $50 automobiles in the an
nual exhibition in New York city.
fifty are electrical and IT'S gasoline.
The French government received
last year from taxes on 979. $50
bicycles in use in that country S1.3S4.
PAT.
Experts who visit the annual auto
mobile show in New York say that we
will soon be abreast of the French as
builders of self-propeiled vehicles.
Our trade with Canada in 1908
amounted to nearly 100000, 900, haY,
ing more than doubled in ten years in
spite OF the preferential tariff against
US.
The United States sold S193, 900 900
worth of bread stuffs abroad last year:
an increase of $6,000,00O over the
best previous year.
In volume of commerce the great
ports stand in this order: London.
New York, Antwerp. Hamburg, Hong
kong, Liverpool, Cardiff, Rotterdam,
Singapore, MarseilIes, Tyne ports.
Gibraltar.
The people OF the United States
spent S10,000,000 year in adulterated
foods, which are classed as having
poisonous and otherwise noxious in,
gradients" by the government analyst.
AS "a protection against consumption
IT is proposed to inoculate' every calf
in Germany with specially prepared tn,
berculosis bacilli, on the plan of vac
cfnatiOn, in order that the animal may
not contract tuberculosis later.
The nnisane of whi@tlns by sw tch
engines, which work All night in the
railway yards in and near cities. )
Permitted in no country other than
America. 1t is a serious detr .mtn. -
public comfort and health
The more severe accidents upon t.
football field during last year have
been gathered by the Journal OF t..
Medical. Association. In these 500 -
were accidents thirty-five were ia al
and eleven were spinal injuries result
ing in permanent paralysis
Nine-tenths Of the external trade o.
the Bahamas, which amounted to ST.
275,060 last. year, is with the United
States. The principal exports o. l.
islands are pineapples and sponges,
and the imports -four and earthen ana
glassware
In 1929 Sweden had one saloon t.
every leo inhabitants, and the CON
sumption of pure spirits was 6.17 gal
Ions per capita; in 1900 there was but
one saloon to 5000 inhabitants, anu
the consumption had fallen to L.,
gallons per eeapifa.
There ARE only three counties
whose exports exceed $ 00UgJa D.
The experts from the Tn re- 6 ates
and Great Britain are almo t exactly
equal-s1 ,457 100000 rom one. and
S1,415,000000 from the other Ger
manyis exports amount to only ST..
200, 1000 000
A primeval forest, containing 49,.
900 camphor trees, measuring from
seven feet to eighteen feet in cir.
conference, has recently been dis.
covered in Formosa. The value of this
discovery is, however, greatly dimin-
ished by the fact that German
chemical factories are making
artificial camphor
The American exports to South
Africa in 1903 were s33, 100000, or one
seventh of the British exports. We
now have to face in that market a
preferential tariff in favor of Great
Britain, such as that employed by
Canada since 1887.
The lives of persons in theater au-
dience are endangered by smoke, fire
gases, heat, asphyxia, exhaustion, fire
burns. jams. knocking over, falling
downstairs. trampling, crush, direct
shock or fright and by accidents, such
as the falling of the central chandler.
In a German factory which employs
2107 men, making agricultural nipple
ments and traction engines, 25 per
cent. get II cents to 95 cents a day;
is per cent. get above Sl.31 This does
not include boys or apprentices and is
for a nine and half hour day.
Hardin. Manchuria, is but three
years old. but it is one of the greatest
cities Of Asia. and has the largest Eu-
ropean population of any Asiatic city,
CONTAINING 10000 Russians, besides
HE soldiers. and 10000 Chinese. 1t
will be the great fiour-milling city OF
that region.
Speaking that the superstition ina,
re cnanges of the moon influence the
tler Prof. Pickering points oaii
.since the moon changes every
ind half days, every change
Weather must come within four
a change in the moon, and
anges will necessarily come
no days of lunar change.
een said that thunder storms
gced by the moon. Nearly
- ryations collected by the
= weather bureau show a
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