Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-10-18

fTench pOStOmce prOuISO Dy more
than 81 900 from the stamps sold for
affixing to postals for friends at home.
With the great increase in the num-
Der of women bowlers In recent years
came a demand for bowling balls
lighter than those of lignum vitae
One of the woods used for this pur-
pose is called sappacue and comes
from Cuba. Rosewood is now also oc-
casionally used and so is mahogany.
ormerly all bowling balls were
made without finger holes. Now 1t is
common to make them with finger
holes. Some bowlers prefer only two
finger holes, one for the thumb ami
aothner for one finger. Others balls
are made with an opening large
enough to accommodate all the fin.
gers, such being called slot balls.
Bowling balls are sometimes COW
cred with rubber, as are also, where
such balls are used, the pins This
arrangement makes the game less
noisy.
There is now made a solid hard
rubber bowling ball that is asserted
to possess extraordinary merits. It
Is said that 1t will outwear many
wooden balls and remains always ture
! in shape.
A regulation ligunm vitae ball costs
| about "a. A solid nard rubber bow.
ing ball of regulation size and weight
! costs 500.
| Three hundred and seventy mil.
lion years is the Approximate age of
the oceans, according to the calcula.
lions Of Professor r. D. Salisbury of
the department of geology of the Uni
versity of Chicago.
1t has been calculated" writes Mr..
Salisbury, that If the salt now I'm the
sea were precipitated it would make
something like 100000 cubic miles
IL TO this be added all the other min
eral matter in solution In the sea
water the amount would. be swollen TO
about 100000 cubic miles,"
PROFESSOR Salisbury estimated the
quantity of salt and water brought to
the sea each year by rivers and on
this basis obtains 37O,O0O,O0O as the
estimatd number of years 1t would
take Tor the amount of salt now in
the sea to have been brought to It by
rivers at the present rate
| rev cigar smokers are aware that
| all cigars are named according to
their color and shape. A dead black
cigar, for instance, is an Oscuro. a
very dark brown one a Colorado 4
medium brown Is Colorado Clara
and yellowish light brown Is a Clare
Most smokers know the names of
the shades from Clara to Colorado
and that is as far as most of them
need to know. AS to the shapes.
Napoleon is the biggest OF all cigars
IL is seven inches long; a perfecto
swells In the middle and tapers down
| 10 a very small head at the lighting
end; panetela is straight up-and.
down cigar without the graceful curve
oi the perfecto. except that 1t does not
taper to so small head at the Iignt.
ing end, Reina Victoria is a Lon.
| ores that comes packed In a ribbon.
tied bundle of fifty pieces instead az
IN the usual four layers of thirteen
twelve, thirteen and twelve.
norther' In Oklahoma a weel, or
two ago brought with Il heavy
night of wild geese and ducks. Al
uuthrie and other towns having cleo.
tric nghts geese circle all night IN
the Illuminated mist, often aving on
low as to be In reach of snotguns. A
number OF geese were killed.
! An old hunter said that on such n
nisht WIG geese in high flight mistool,
'hese radiant spots In the darkness for
wafer. Once in the light. the geexe
qulcgly lost their bearings. became
confused and seldom extricated tbam-
serves until daylight revealed the
cause OF their deception. "Knowledge
Oh tue attraction of fire beacons for
VIA geese on stormy nights was used
10 auVantage by native sportsmen in
southern Kansas and the norther,
Usage country where / lived In earlv
days." said the hunter
| haA dppTOdCneQ high Land.
mark would be chosen by the hunta,
ana on Its top he would pile wood for
Dig fire. Then he waited for tho
storm that brought the geese. Light.
ing his fire, its glare could be seen ,or
miles Geese were drawn to the snot
oy hundreds. have known hur,ar,
10 Kill wagon load of geese IN =
single night" ~ =" :
a sign OF coming rain or stro,,
wind is evident when herd OF COWS
sathered together at one end Of q n,.-
lure with their tails to winawaas
Again when cows are unuspai,x
lrisky-so that sedate old yrand.
mother cows caper about the field ana
outt imaginary objects with .hs,-
horns' while they fling up their heals
-often storms are in the air. Cows
are sometimes thus playful IN tna
witehing hours of twilight. to the tsr.
ror OF nervous ladies who must cross
their pastures. o''
but when In twilight ss,vS so,,