The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-03-26
PARAGRAPHS.

-One-tenth of the earths surface is
unexplored.
For every ton Of gold in circulation
there are fifteen tons Of silver.
The moss modern -four mill in the
world has just been opened at Winnipeg
and has a capacity of 5000 barrels daily.
The Japanese lover, instead of an
engagement ring, may give his future
bride a piece of beautiful silk to be worn
as sash.
Work has begun on the new British
battleship that is to Oyermatch the
Dreadnought. She will be christened
"Coliingwood."
The right hand, which is more sensi-
tive to the touch than the left, is less
sensitive than the latter to the effect of
heat and cold.
Louisville was first settled in 117S
by Col. George Rogers Clark, who land
ed with thirty families from Virginia,
on Corn island.
Real diamonds have been found in
Arkansas, said George f. KunZ of New
York before the American Institute of
Mining Engineers.
New York city has on its police force
1871 men whose business it is to open
and close doors and watch the persons
who enter and leave.
When man was summoned at
North London police court for not send
ing his daughter to school he said she
was his twenty-irst child.
-Hypodermic injections of a serum
similar to that used in the treatment
of diphtheria are being successfully en-
ployed in scarlet fever cases in New
York city.
When the German Emperor attends
a musical comedy he often composes
two or three original jokes, which are
handed from tho rOVal hoy IN the Lead
ing comedian for Interpolation.
Though the population of London's
metropolitan district is 100000 more
than the population of New York city,
the latter does a restaurant business one
fifth larger than that of the former.
Count Leo Tolstoi has received as
present from Thomas A. Edison phonO-
graph Of the latest approved pattern, and
will receive in return photographic
record of the Russian novelist's voice.
Capt. Jack Crawford, the poet
scout. says John d. Rockefeller and
Harold Mccormick will provide funds
for country summer Fairgrounds for
New York city children. Capt. Craw
ford will have personal charge of the
first playground opened.
r. Livingston, Russian writer, per-
sonal friend and follower of Count Leo
Tolstoi. and brother of Countess Amelia
G. Viviani of Russia, was adjudged in
sane at Oakland, Cal, Wednesday, be-
cause it is alleged he persistently forced
his unwelcOme attentions on young wom-
en- students of the University of Califor-
MIA.
Gen. Zebulin NJ. Pixies original
manuscripts and papers relative to his
exploration in 1906, which were taken
from him at chihuahua. Mex. after his
capture by the Spaniards, have been
found by Herbert e. Bolton, a professor
in the University of Texas, who has been
making extensive researches in the Next
can archives.
ASSERTING that man did not live in
California at the time of the three-tOed
horse, and that the claims of early hui
man life in California, made by Prof. J.
d. Whitney, the anthrOpOlogist. are all
wrong, DR.. w. j. Sinclair has just is
sued a bulletin from the University of
California that may reyolutionize modern
anthropolOgical ideas.
The postmistress at Muskogee held
registered mail addressed to the Register
Of Deeds of MuskOgee county for a
month before she would deliver it be-
cause she said she could not find out
who the register of deeds is. When the
supreme court decided in favor of the
Democrats this mail was turned over to
the Democratic register.
Soldier, street cleaner, cowboy and
worker on odd jobs has been the career
of Gerrile Cave-Brown-Cave, recently
discovered heir to the estate and title of
his English father, Sir Mylles Cave
BrOwne-Cave, baronet who died recent
ly In youth he quarreled with his fa-
Their and ran away to America. He says
he will continue to live in this country
after his English affairs are settled.
A rival &c the Sunday theaters, music
halls and saloons in Chicago as places
of Sunday evening resort has enfe-..d
the field Il is the Chicago Sunday
Evening club, organized by business and
where strangers in Chicago and Chica-
go's downtown hotels can gather Sunday
evenings for undenOminational religious
services.