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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
Fastest Runs in Railroad History.
Some Great Forest Fires.

Among the first of our historic forest
fires was that of Miramichi, New
Brunswick, in 1925. This started ear
ly one October afternoon and by mid
night had entirely devastated a strip
of country eighty miles long and TWEEN
ty-five miles wide-a space as large as
the State Of Delaware in which every
living thing was killed, including the
fish in the streams. The loss Of life in
the Peshtigo, Wisconsin, fire Of 1871
was the worst this country has expert
enced. In burned area it was little
larger than the Miramichi, but at least
1900 persons persisted, and in connec-
ton with simultaneous and contiguous
fires in Michigan the total was 1000.
Ten years later great forest fires swept
Michigan, with an aggregate burned
area of almost 1000 square miles, de-
stroying more than 100000 worth
of property exclusive of the timber it.
self, rendering 5000 persons homeless
and destitute and killing no less than
400. The great Hinckley fire, which
ragged in Minnesota in 1894 was not so
large in area burned, but it resulted in
a loss Of 500 lives and $25,0OO,OO0 in
property. In 1902 eighteen lives and
100000 were lost in fires in Oregon
and Washington, and the next year
The East had a severe visitation, from
Maine to Virginia, which had its worst
example in the Adirondack regions Of
~,
no less than 100000 over a burned
area aggregating 1000 square miles,
The Chautauquan.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
VICTORIA AND NIAGARA.
There is No Possibility of Compare
son Between the Two.

son Between the Wo.
It was on the 22d of November 1855,
that the friendly natives with whom
he was travelling brought DR.. David
Livingstone for the first time within
aract on the Zambesi River now
known as the Victoria Falls. Before
finding it, the good missionary had
jOurneyed for nearly two years, and
from his point of departure at Kuru-
man, in Cape Colony, had Travelled
quite 1000 miles of hitherto unknown
country.
Today one takes the train at Cape
Town on Wednesday, passes through
Kimberley on Thursday, reaches Blu
luwayo on Saturday, and late in the
afternoon of Sunday begins to see
in the distance the rising pillar OF
mist from the great cataract.
The natives call it ''Mosi-oa-tuni,"
meaning the roaring smoke" TWEEN
ty miles away the spray thrown back
from the depths Of the tremendous
cavern into which the river tumbles
appears like a column of smoke from
a burning village, and during the last
mile of the railway journey the roar
of the falling water becomes notice
able. Finally, when the edge of the
chasm is reached if the river is in
flood, dle eye and ear are assaulted by
a combination of phenomena that
probably cannot be duplicated as
marvels anywhere else on the planet.
The first question that is asked OF
an American who has seen this Afri-
can wonder generally is, How does
it compare with Niagara? ?" There is
no possibility of comparison. The
two are as different as day and night.
Niagara is a perfect picture in love-
ly natural framework. Every point
and line and curve of motionless
trembling yerdure and gliding water
is touch of majestic beauty. Vic
toria is simply phenomenon, a ter
rife cash in tie floor of an appar-
emily unending plain, which, as one
gazes, simply swallows a river in a
manner that produces almost a thrill
Of horror.-From Theodore F. Van
Wagenen's ''The Victoria Falls" in
the Century.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
/. cAeeAeE-woRM SCARE.
Government Bulletin Issued TO coun-
+ar,ct Effart If Wild Stories

Government Bulletin Issued TO Coun-
teract Effect of Wild Stories.
The Department of Agriculture has
just issued a bulletin which describes
in effect the operation OF land sea-
serpent. Not since the kissing bug
craze of 1895 has there been any
thing like such a Juror as was Great
ed by the discovery of the so-called
cabbage snake" the bulletin de-
clares, in Tennessee, South Carolina,
and Louisiana, in 1903. That year
the scare was practically confined to
Tennessee and neighboring States
southwark. This creature and its
still Whatever mysterious occurrence
in cabbage has become great annoy
ance to many correspondents, to
economic entomologists, and to chem
lists and physicions. Many reports
have been received from reliable cor
respondents of rumors of persons be.
ing poisoned by eating cabbage af-
fected by this hair-Worm. Among
them were alleged reports from a
physician who stated that when cab
bage thus affected was eaten it pro-
duced instant death, and from q
state chemist" who made an exami-
nation of the worm, and reported that
it contained enough poison TO kill
eight persons"
1T should be unnecessary to add"
the bulletin says, that none of these
reports hal any foundation in fact.
Nevertheless the known presence of
the hair-worm in an affected district
seriously injured the demand for cab
bage there, causing very considerable
loss to truckers and grocfrS. What
was in reality a hoax assumed most
serious proportions, not alone because
of widespread alarm caused by err
roneous reports of loss of life, but
also because of the very material loss
to cabbage growers and others who
handled this commodity, and the de-
cided extension Of the area in which
the hair-worm was detected. The
scare soon became widespread, caus-
Ing SeuGIdl l6dT. VI pOlSOuluS hOul
Virginia and West Virginia south
ward and westward to Kentucky, IL
linois, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, and
Colorado"
The cabbage hair-worm is describ-
ed by the department as resembling
a piece of basting thread, OF the
thickness of a strand of corn silk,
white in color It's length varies two
to nine inches, but reports have been
received of a creature found in the
heads of cabbage measuring nine
feet! The imagination of newspaper
writer's as to color runs riot through
green, white, light red, olive green
and yellow"
Many popular names have been be-
slowed upon it, including cabbage
snake" snake" snake worm" ser
pent," reptile" and cabbage rattle
snake. Washington correspondence
of the New York Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
The RuIinp Passion.

THAT story about Ed Butcher, the
noted old Iowa race horse man, re-
minds me of tale the boys used to
tell of Butcher" said Morris Lynch re-
Gently 70 the Des Moines Register and
Leader. Butcher was a good fellow,
as the men who follow the races go.
His family was religious. One time
Butcher got sick, very sick, in fact.
His wife, fearing the end, sent for a
minister Butcher talked to the min
lister, who urged him that he should
not stay away from his God. The
road to salvation was not very plain
to Butcher. He questioned the minis
ter closely about what he thought
would happen if he should reform just
prior to his death. The minister told
him he would be saved.
"'Will 1 have wings just like the
picture angelsY asked Butcher.
"'You most certainly will,' replied
the minister.
"'Well, then, just bet you SIS can
beat you flying when you meet me in
heaven retorted Butcher, his eye
lighting up with the accustomed flash
THE minister left in despair and
Butcher recovered and followed the
races for many years afterward."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
"POLLY PORTER"
Parrot Who Never Forgot What He
Once Had Learned.

Perhaps all parrots have equally
remarkable memories, but twenty
five years acquaintance with Polly
Porter" enables me to say that he
never forgets what he has once learn
ed. Like other parrots, when he is
alone he exercises his memory, as if
amusing himself. Then it is that
Polly Porter chatters in sentences;
laughs aloud, Historically; calls, in
various tones, commandingly or be-
seemingly; calls the names of 1erv-
ants who, but for Polly, would have
been forgotten; calls the cat; whis-
ties for dogs who were about him
years ago.
Polly's cage is IL the bow window
of the dining room-a good place for
keeping an eye on the family. When
the father rises from the breakfast
table Polly advises: Hurry! Hur-
ry up! Hurry"
Later, with the first movement
preparatory to the children's start for
school, he repeats sharply: Hurry
up! Hurry up! Hurry"
When a guest comes in he says
briskly, why, how dye do?"
When he calls "Good-by" to persons
passing on the street it seems almost
certain that he reasons about the COM
ing and departing guest. He quickly
notices little children; coming to one
particular corner of the bottom of his
cage, he flutters before little one,
attempting baby talk, which is very
funny, ending with Beautiful child!
Beautiful child" and a loud laugh.
When the house is quiet and his
mistress has a visitor in the parlor
Polly Graves attention.
He repeats the children's names, al
most as if he were calling the roll,
in sweet, low tones. Then he says
"Mama!" over and over, in a child's
voice, till it is common for visitor
to say, do answer that child" or
Some one is calling you" He comes
very near to telling tales, saying,
"Ah, ali! naughty boy!" with great
severity.
Polly is most impatient at break
fast time, when he shrieks till he
receives attention: Polly wants cot
fee! Polly wants breakfast"
He takes a piece of bread cautious
ly; examines it; if it is not well but
tered he throws it down. He enjoys
a bunch of grapes. holding it down
with one claw while with the other
and his beak he opens grape after
grape, eats the seed and casts the
pulp away. He easily brushes a pear
or an apple to get at the seeds.
Last Christmas Polly was sent by
his owner, New York boy, to friends
as a present. They were told of his
liveliness and astonishing powers of
speech.
For some months Polly moped and
said nothing, but at last began calling
members of the family by name If
let out of his cage he fought the pug
and whipped the cat; when shut up
in his cage for punishment he would
persistently work at the wires till he
would force them apart and walk out
defiantly Recently he began upon
his old lessons, and now repeats the
cries of the newsboys in the street:
"Extrahl Extrah! Journal'-'Sun'
-'Herald'!" And he sings quite well
Yankee Doodle" which was taught
him last summer.
Good-by. Polly Mary Rice Miller
in ST. Nicholas.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
FIVE HUNDRED WHALES DIE
Go Ashore in an Inlet in the Straits OF
Magellan and Perish.

Go Ashore in an Inlet in the Straits of
Magellan and Perish.
II saw 500 whales ashore at one
time on a beach in the Straits of Ma
gellan," said Captain James Heylet,
of the British navy, at the Union de-
pot. Some years ago my ship lay
off Pearl Inlet, a small creek a mile
and a half long, opening into Port Sal
vador, which in turn opens into the
South Atlantic by q very narrow
opening. One morning a whirlwind
appeared to be approaching over the
water in the Bay of San Salvador,
and soon this was made out to be
an enormous school of whales, so
thick that they seemed to be jostling
each other. Nothing was seen but
fins and tails and the water in foam
all around.
This was In a flowing tide, and
they came into the inlet itself describ-
ing sort of cycloidal curves until the
inshore part of the squadron took on
a kelp reef. Then a sudden pause
seemed to seize them all, and the I'M
fortunate animals went up the inlet
full speed, with the sea boiling in
upon them and a great wave coming
after them, and they piled up in hun
dreds on the beach. Then, as there
was a rising tide, they got off again,
but only to charge the opposite beach,
and this continued till the following
tide and loss Of strength left them
high and dry all round the dreary
bay.
Very few, old or young, lived more
than a quarter of an hour after their
final stranding. Some died quietly,
others beat the sand and water with
their tails. dyeing the water with
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
Dancers of Travelinn.

One of the best stories told about
Artemus Ward concerns a journey
which the humorist took on a little
"one-horse" railroad line in the Mid
die West. After the train had crept
from station to station at snail's
pace for half day, Ward beckoned. to
the conductor as he passed through
the car.
Say, conductor" he drawled, do
you mind if 1 give you little advice?'
well. what is it," said the conduc-
tor prufly.
Seems to me-" continued Ward, "it
would be safer to take the cowcatcher
off the engine and hitch it to the end
of the rear car
What for?" demanded the conduc-
tor
well, I've been thinking it over, 3"
said Ward, "and 1 don't see what's to
prevent one of them COWS out there
from coming into the car and biting
tae passengers '-Harper's Weekly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25

miles of the run. At only few Of
these places will the trains take on
passengers, most of the stops being
made merely for the purpose of chang
ing engines or taking water.
While trains frequently attain a
| speed rate OF 100 miles an hour for
| short distances, train that runs 900
miles in eighteen hours regularly has
no rival in any other country in the
world. While the American roads
| hold the most important records for
long distance runs and for regular long
distance trains, they likewise hold
them for the fastest record runs for
! short distances.
| World Famous Runs.
In May, 1893, the Empire State ex-
press on the New York Central ran
one mile in 80 seconds which is at
| the rate of 112 miles IN hour In Au-
| gust, 1895, the Pennsylvania road ran
train 81 miles n minutes, which
| is at the rate of 102 miles per hour.
The Plant System in March, 1901.
made the fastest run ever made, COW
ering five miles in minutes and 30
| seconds. This Is at the rate of 12O
miles an hour, or two miles a minute
In January, 1899, a Burlington train
ran "a miles in 1 minute and 20 sec
onds, or at the rate of 108 miles per
| hour.
The New York Central Road made
another record in January, 1903, when
IT ran a train 729 miles in 4 minutes
fiat. The speed attained was at the
rate of 109.35 miles per hour.
In April of last year a Michigan
Central train ran 1913 miles in 2 min
utes, or at the rate of lilo miles per
hour Last July a Philadelphia and
| Reading train Travelled 4.S miles IN
minutes and 80 seconds, or at
speed of 1852 miles per hour.
| One Of the fastest short distance
regular trains in America Is a New
York Central train which makes the
run of 143 miles from New York to AL
bany in 160 minutes. Several trains
on the Baltimore and Ohio Road cover
the distance of forty miles between
Washington and Baltimore in 45 min
utes. The Congressional limited, on
the Pennsylvania road, makes the run
from Jersey City to Washington in
2S6 minutes. The distance is 227
miles.
The Pennsylvania road in 1897 made
now famous long distance run from
Jersey city to Denver, 1887 miles, In
forty-elght hours, an average speed of
40.3 miles per hour In 1891 the Cana
dian Pacific ran train 2,S02 miles in
II hours and 8 minutes, which gives
an average speed of 3632 miles per
| hour.
Another long distance run which
created 4 sensation at the time was The
trip of the Jarrett {; Palmer special
theatrical train, which made the run
from Jersey City to Oakland, Cal,
1911 miles, in SO hours and 40 minutes,
an average speed of 1858 miles per
hour.
In January, 1904, the Clark special
train ran from Albuquerque, n. NJ, to
Chicago, 1873 miles, in thirty hours,
maintaining a speed of 45.9 miles per
hOur
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
odditlss Of a. Human Rndu

The two sides of a persons face
are never alike. The eyes are out
of line in two cases out of five, and
one eye is stronger than the other in
seven persons out of ten. The right
eye is also, as a rule, higher than the
left. Only one person in fifteen has
perfect eyes, the largest percentage
of defects prevailing among fair-hair-
ed people. The smallest interval Of
sound can be distinguished better
with one ear than with both. The
nails of two fingers never grow with
the same rapidity, that Of the middle
finger growing the fastest, while that
of the thumb grows slowest. In fifty
four cases out Of 100 the left leg is
shorter than the right.-Indianapolis
News.
A man is easily carried back to an
old love affair By the appearance of
forgotten photograph.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
Might GIVE Him a Chance

A story is related of a nan who, on
visit to Scotland, went to the kirk
on the ''Sawbath." Feeling very
drowsy, he succumbed entirely after
The first sentence or so of the sermon.
An elderly man. who had been
Watching with rising wrath the obvi-
usly 'irreleegious' attitude of the
stranger, bent forward, shook him and
whispered in his ear:
Gle the mon chance. Wait till he
gets along a bit, and then if he's no
worth listening to gang to sleep, but
d'nna gang before he gets COM
menced."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25

their blood. BY evening, after this
tide mad ebpcd, there were only five
whales afioat out of the more than
500 that had come into the inlet SO
majestically that morning.
Next day only three were to be
seen. They swan around for while
and then, as II disdaining to live
when all their companions were dead,
they made straight for the beach, and
in a few minutes had passed out Of
existence. The whales were from four
to thirty feet long, the four-foot
whales being just born. milwaukee
Free Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
Asked and Answered

They had been trotting in matrimo-
NAL harness for six months, and the
pace was beginning to tell.
What" she asked, after the man
ner of a woman, ever made you fall
in love with me?'
Love-" he answered, with the blunt
ness of his sex, lis blind, you know"
Detroit Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
DARING FEAT OF A Merry WOMAN.

catering thrlers"
daredevil kesness anything
thrills themselves individual
audience all the faster the performer is known
strikes other
BILE
hude smiles asked ycung
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
Whispering She Would Meier Consent.

If the crinoline comes, the most
courageous of women will have to
wear it. She will begin by declaring
that nothing will induce her to adopt
so meaningless and so hideous fash
il i; and for several weeks, no doubt,
the knowledge that she possesses
greater courage than other persons
will sustain her as the bathrooms and
reception roms become every day
more crowded with silk-coyered cages
and Venetian-blind cotrivances for the
nice disposition Of steel-ribbed skirts.
But the weeks will go on until one
day, in the utter desolation of her I'M
fashionable prettiness.- 1t is i'm
possible to contemplate the end with
out emotion-London Speaker.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
Peculiar Damage Award.

Damages have been awarded in a
London court to an engineers filter
named Mansfield, who, as the result
Of a sudden muscular strain, has sus-
tanned an affection Of the heart which
caused it to emit a musical murmur
loud enough TO be heard at some dis
lance
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
The Commercial Spirit.

II notice that William Waldorf AS
tor is spending 100000 in restoring
an English CASTLE"
.'Bosh! Snch waste of good money!
why. for 100000 he could put up
two more hotels in giddy old New
York .''-Clev Gland Plain Dealer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
Does Tobacco Cause BIindness7

A doctor stated in an English coun-
ty court recently that he considered
one ar half ounces of tobacco quite
sufficient to impair the eyesight, and
that he had known a case where a
man of middle age was sufferer from
the effects of half an ounce a week.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
Premium on the Single Life.

She-I see by this paper that sin
gle Greenland while is worth $4,000
He-I judge from that statement
that a single whale is worth more than
q married one.-Yonkers Statesman.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
Ban on Sacred Bull.

Recently a sacred bull was brought
from India for exhibition at the Crys-
tai Palace, near London But the
British authorities refused to let it
be landed, except in the form Of beef
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25
WORLDS FASTEST
LON6-DISTANCE TRAINS.

Dis Miles
lance per hr.
New York Central lines, Chicago
New York ............9 $50 81. 40
New York Central, New York
Buffalo .7tV % 90
Pennsylvania Line, Chicago-New
1Ork .SOO o. oO
London & n. w Il. r., London
Aberdeen acknowledgements 23 60
London & n. w. Il. R., London
Carlisle ................. .0UO 10
Orleans & Midi, Parts -Bayonne. .486 81. ID
Great Northern & n. E., London
Edinburgh .................... 1888 90. II
L. Il n. w. & CALIFORNIAN Ry.,
London-Glasgow ..............4 O1 90. IL
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25

How people who can't keep one lot
looking we'll in town, love to ride in
the country and speak disparagingly
of the weeds on a farm!
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25

If you are convinced that the world
is growing worse every day. take
something for your liver
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25

For every mean man who dies at
least two more are born.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-25

Ons of the most energetic nest
Builders is the marsh wren.