The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-05-31

Horse racing in Italy is dead since
the introduction of automobile speed
contests.
+ The British Medical Journal asserts
that mems necks are longer than they
used to be.
Los Angeles has appointed an expert
to report on the feasibility Of munfc-
ipal electric lighting plant.
Alabaster is called from AlabastrOn,
a place in Egypt. where is was found
in great abundance.
The first attempt to illustrate news
was made in 1907. It depicted flood
in Montmouthshire England.
Part of the cargo of the steamship
Korea. which arrived at San Francisco
on July II was $344500 worth of
opium
The steamship Zealandia arrived at
Seattle from Nome On July 8, bringing
S1,500,000 in gold dust-Nome's record
shipment.
Pet dogs, in sunbonnets and blue
glass spectacles are to be seen follow
ing their owners through the streets
of Berlin in hot weather
Sir Frederick TreveS is authority for
the statement that the use of alcohol
| hoe in no
profession during the last rs years.
The Mexican Herald says that CHI.
| nese proved a failure at hard labO
in Mexico. John Chinaman is fox!
| enough TO let the other fellow do the
hard work.
According to the official statement
of the mining bureau of Madagascar
tbs value of gold produced in that
island during 1904 and exported was
$1,476, 900.
A lion and a lfoness in the ZOO at
Frankfort Germany, roared in terror
and tremblingly crouched in a corner
cdentally entered it.
The London Express gives it's word
that among the latest inventions pat
ented is a contrivanve which, fitted to
an ordinary sewing machine, will fan
and massage the operator while she is
! working.
The Florida phosphate beds were
first discovered by the government
biologists about 1884, but nothing was
thought of or done about them until
1889 or 1890.
An inventor has hit upon a method of
putting what are practically stone
soles on boots and shoes. He mixes
q waterproof glue with a suitable
quantity of clean quartz sand, and
spreads it over the leather sole used
as a foundation. These quartz soles
are said to be very flexible and prac-
tically indestructible, and to give the
foot a firm hold even on the most
slippery surface.
Official figures show that only twenty
persons in Great Britain have incomes
exceeding S250,000 a year.
In consequence of a plague of flies
traffic in the principal thOroghfares
leading to Cardiff docks had to be di-
verted recently.
Sea turtles are caught in very large
numbers on Ascension Island. They
each weigh between 500 and 800 pounds
and so shillings is their average price.
concrete chimney completed re-
Gently for Tacoma smelter is 307 feet
in height and is said to be the highest
in the world of it's kind
The authorities of Nordhadsen, Sax
! ony, have forbidden the use of the
streets to any person wearing an arti-
Gle of dress that sweeps the pavement
In Manchuria, Siberia and North
China much use is made of Chinese
! brick tea, not as beverage, but as a
vegetable, boiled with rice and mutton.
! A woman's conference lately in Ses-
sion at Bathurst, New South Wales,
| passed resolution that all girls be-
! tween the ages of Is and Is should re-
| ceive instruction in the use of firearms
Statistics compiled by the various
automobile trade associations show
that there are about $4,000 motor cars
in use in this country, the first cost of
which aggregated $7O,O0O.OO0.