Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-01-04
FACTS IN FEW LINES


Lushunkow.
The most common form of color
blindness is an inability to distinguish
red.
According to the latest returns to
the. territorial board of equalization,
there are 237 ,696 cattle in Arizona. val,
ned at $1,57s,625.
Great Britain's public revenue from
April to the latest date at hand was
$1S,312, 535 less than last year and ex.
penditures $16,4S3, 500 less.
The Lewis and Clark centennial will
commemorate the acquisition of the
only territory possessed by the United
States the title to which was obtained
by. discovery.
More than 1900 experiments on liv-
ing animals were made for British gov
eminent departments of public authori-
ties in 1908 and 1913 for the tubereu-
losis commission.
Liverpool's death rate-thirty- in
q thousands more than twice that OF
London. Much of the difference is due
tolthe extraordinary loss of infant life
in Liyerpool-from 107 to 245 in
thousand.
The people of the Caucasus are said
to be concealing imported arms by
burying them in cofflns, with the usual
funeral ceremonies, the police not no.
tfcing that the death rate is rather
higher than usual.
An angry man who called telephone
girl ''sheephead' over the wire in
Nuremberg, Germany, has been fined
$6.25. A Viennese who called the wo-
man operator a Chinese" in similar
circumstances has suffered to the ex-
tent of So.
There is a young woman in New
York who makes her living by acting
as valet to lap dogs. She charges 81
week for her services and visits the
dogs each day, comhipg and brushing
them and sometimes taking them out
for q walk.
Patrolman John Bentley of Staten Is
land, N. Y, was kicked off the running
board of trolley car by mule tied
to the rear of wagon which the car
passed. 1t grazed the hind quarters of
the mule, and instantly the animals
heels were flying.
While women are allowed to vote in
Australia. no disposition is shown to
elect them as legislators. The most
popular woman candidate at the last
election received only 10000 votes as
against the $4,000 of the man lowest on
the list Of competitors.
For cutting down with his sword and
afterward stabbing a drunken man
who had ieered at him a German ser
geant has been sentenced to forty-fve
days Imprisonment The same court
sent to prison for four months a pri-
vate who had neglected to feed his
horse
The Canadian maritime board of
trade recently passed a resolution re-
questing the government to place such
restrictions on manufacturers as will
compel them to mark plainly all wool
en- fabrics with the proportions of
pure wool and adulterants contained
in them.
The Tacoma smelter, controlled by
d. o. Mills and associates, is making
$4,000 a month by saving precious
metals that have heretofore been car
ried away ia smoke from its furnaces.
The smoke is passed through cooler
and then strained through light can
vas. The result is harvest of gold,
silver, copper, etc.
Only two obstacles are met, say Ger
man papers, in the employ ment of big
sailing vessels. First, it is hard to Sc
cure assurance of sufficient cargo,
and, second. 1t is difficult TO secure
crew of sufficient skill. These obsta-
cles are important, because sailing ves-
sells in order to be able to compete
with steam must be much larger than
heretofore.
1t will require five years to construct
the Ratclif-Rotherhithe tunnel now
being built under the Thames. Its
length will be 6,S83 feet, witt an ex-
ternal diameter of thirty feet, which
will allow a carriageway of sixteen
feet and two footways four feet eight
and half inches wide. When it is fin
ished there will be three tunnels under
the Thames at London.
The hardest fare that six young men
and a boy of fifteen ever kept alive on
was the daily menu Of the Windover's
survivors, who were cast on the Irish
coast near Kilsegg. They lived for six
teen days on stewed rope yarn, without
a crumb of anything else to help di-
gest it except water, and, though 1t
made them III, they kept alive on it
and did not waste away very much
An American Pullman, with its
crowded and unavoidable intimacies,
Is decent and polite hermitage COM
pared with a packed coach in Japan.
All sorts of unexpected things happen.
Daring additions are performed and
complete change of raiment Is fire.
quently effected, the constantly recur-
ring tunnels serving to screen the as
tonishing character of these pro-
grammes.
OF the 56,675,000 acres which form
Great Britain, exclusive of foreshore
and tidal water. over 2,225,00O acres
are under crops and grass and 1876
600 acres are accounted for as being
mountain and heather land used for
grazing, while 2,675.000 acres are oc-
cupied by woods and plantations. and
100000 acres are covered by inland wa
tiers. Only 10 per cent of the surface
remains TO be accounted for.