Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-03-27
FACTS IN FEW LINES

wheat mas Deem invented.
In ancient Rome all conveyancing
was done on brass tablets.
In Wales a measure called blue"
holding two-thirds Of pint is still IN
use.
The average valuation Of the paper
money printed daily by Uncle Sam to
tails over 100000.
There were 1863 stock and 234 mu-
tual fire insurance companies in the
United States Jan. /. 1907.
OIL painting was an art thoroughly
understood by the ancients, but vas
lost sight of and only revived about
the end Of the thirteenth century Il. ID.
A boy ten years old has been com
mitted for trial at Kimberley. South
Africa, ON the charge of abducting
girl of fifteen. The pair We're stopped
as they were boarding the mail train
for johannesburg.
BY whom the game of chess was in
vented or when 1t was first played is
not known. Its earliest history can be
traced as far as the beginning of the
history of India, one of the Oldest
countries in the world.
Copra oil used to go into the soap
industry exclusively, whereas today
several Of the most important mills in
Marseilles are converting this oil into
high priced domestic grease, sold com
monty as substitute for butter.
A Spanish laundry has stationary
tub In it, but this increases labor in
stead of tightening 1t, for unless rain
has filed the tub, which is out of
doors In the courtyard. water has to
be drawn from the well TO fill It.
A German biological periodical pub
fishes the result of investigations which
indicate that among the bacteria found
In bottled beer there is one which
seems to occur nowhere else. 1t has
been named Pseudomonas cerevisiae.
An international motor boat exhibit
ton will he held from June 10 to 80
next in Kiel, under the patronage of
Prince Henry of Prussia, and support
ed by the imperial navy, the German
Sea Fisheries union and other bodies.
The British South Africa company is
said to have offered the salvation Ar
my 100000 acres of land in Rhedesia
free of charge for colonization pur
poses, all the land TO revert to the com
pany In case the colony should not sue
eee1
Though the name of Siberia is still
popularity accepted as a synonym for
all that Is arctic and sterile, it is be
coming clearer every year that few
regions OF the earth are more capable
OF producing immense stores Of human
food.
Probably the oldest carriage in ex-
istence today in this country is that
which belonged TO General Henry Knox
OF Thomaston, Ne. The vehicle is about
I25 years old, but is still used occasion
/ ally by its present owner. Frank b.
| Hills.
| A London medical journal inveighS
| against the curse Of presents in hospi-
| tails. There are cases where a young
| nurse In training must spend about
two months salary in giving holiday
| gifts to matrons, mattresses, porters
and postmen
The dreaded nut butterfly is appear
/ ing everywhere in Bohemia, threaten
| Ing the devastation of the forests. The
neighboring woods of Saxony and Sile-
STA are also threatened The ministry
of agriculture has named a commission
! to investigate.
/ A man who was summoned to a Lon
don court by his wife for alleged per
/ sistent cruelty said the woman had
/ painted on her body facsimilies of
/ pictures from a medical book and had
/ represented that they We're bruises.
/ The summons was dismissed.
/ A firm in Saxony has established a
! process by which they combine paper
and cotton and Iaake it into a seryicea-
/ BILE cloth. Papel and cotton and paper
/ and wool are 50 combined that suits,
| jackets, shirts and many other articles
| of dress wear are nov being produced
Some teeth are valuable even when
no longer useful One If Sir Isaac
/ Newton's teeth sold for $3.400 and
! $4,000 was offered for one Of the teeth
| of HelOise at the time her body was
exhumed A tooth said to have been
/ drawn from Napoleon's mouth was
sold for $3.50.
-Four hypothesis for telepathy have
been suggested: That telepathic com
munications may be due first, to
/ some kind of vibration, etheric or 9th
arwiS@, emitted by one brain and i'm
! pinging OH the other; second, by direct
/ action of the mind on another's brain
In such way as to evoke the desired
thought; third, by insight of the re
! ceiving mind into the brain when the
/ thought arrives (clairvoyance), or,
/ fourth, by some direct and incompre-
hensible communion of mind with
/ mind.
Lions of east Africa are becoming
greatly interested in railway opera
tons. The Uganda railroad has thir-
ty-nlne small stations in the 5S4 miles
between the Indian ocean and Victoria
Nyanza, and in the last year the ami
mails have frequently visited these
lonely places. especially Simba. which
has only station building, with wa
| ter tank and u side track. One lion
! passed several successive nights at the
Sinba station, walking about, scratch
| ing at the office door and eleeping on
| the platform.
Hiram n Lathrop of Boston. the new