Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-30

less fruits. Iney are not the outcome
of the work Of man. Man perpetuates
them; he does no more. The seedless
orange was found in a state Of seed
lessness.-Vegetarian.
A Boston woman who has just cele-
brated her golden anniversary as q
COOK boasts OF having made and cooked
$4,000 pies, 100000 doughnuts and
something more than 100000 pud-
dings, besides a multitude of other
dainties and no end of baked beans.
Her receipts are all her own ard she
refuses to write cook book.
The clubwomen Of Massachusetts are
fighting against the movement to lower
the milk standard In that State. This
fight is said to be winning more re-
cruits to the cause of woman suffrage
than anything that has come up In the
last ten years. Mothers have come to
agree with Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gil
man In assertips that politics which af-
fects the purity Of milk and water is
mot outside the home, but inside the
baby"
During he year ending last month
there were 4S5 new electric plants put
into operation In the United States,
Canada and Mexico, which makes the
total 5,49S. The activity In the electri-
cal industry from the most recent fig
ures shows decided inclination to re-
cover from the financial stress which
has been affecting all business during
the last year. The gain is equally pro-
nounced wbeE the item OF capitaliza-
ton is considered.
"Bushranger," once a respectable
term, has now sunk to the lowest
depths. In the early Australian news
papers such advertisements as want
ed, a good bushranger," were quite
common. The word then was synony-
nous with "bushman," one skilled n
knowledge and experience of bush life.
But now good bushranger'' would be
as ridiculous as an honest burglar, for
a bushranger is the speculative bad
man Of lie antipodes--a bank robber, a
despoiler Of gold escorts and mail
coaches and the terror of the country
side.
Alligator" is merely another form Of
the Spanish Eel lagarto," the lizard.
Shakespeare classed the alligator as
fish, to Judge from Romeo's description
of the contents OF the apothecary's
shop: "An alligator stuff'd, and other
skins of ill-shaped fishes" Somewhat
like alligator the lizard is the Thy
ena," which merely means sow, and
ostrich" which comes from the Latin
word for bird and Greek woro that
meant either a sparrow or an ostrich,
as the case might be-any bird, In fact.
The ostrich is just the ''bird-bird," ac-
cording to etymology.
So great have been the ravages
caused by the dodder-a leafess, twin
ing, parasitic plant-that a decree has
been ISSUED by the French president
prohibiting Its importation into the
country. 1t Is veritable agricultural
scourge, attecking and destroying hops,
vines, clover, peas, tomatoes and many
other kinds of agricultural produce.
Once having found its way into any
district, 1t is most difficult to get rid
of, and constitutes permanent source
of anxiety to the farmer. Cutting
down, burning and poison have all been
tried with unsatisfactory results
London Globe.
Massage, as a remedy for insomnia
and other Ills, is most ancient. The
very word massage" comes from the
Arabic word mass" 1t was stolen
from the Arabian doctors by the
French doctors. In the Odyssey" the
heroes are massaged after battle. The
word shampoo" is from the Indian
word "tshampua." Masseurs were en-
ployed In India by Alexander the.
Great. Massage is one Of the things
they discovered In ancient China. Cap
tain Cook was massaged for a quarter
Of an hour By twelve natives Of Tahiti
They cured his rheumatism. PARCEL
sus tells how the Egyptians practiced
massage
The Roman Catholic Church at Ok
ford has just obtained possession Of an
important legacy Of relics left to 1t un-
der the viii Of the late Hartwell De La
Garde Grissell, who was one of the
four chamberlains di numerc to the
Pope, and who died at the Vatican In
June last He had exceptional oppor-
tunities for satisfying his taste for the
collection Of relics, which he preserved
In his private oratory at Oxford. 1t Ia
claimed that nowhere In Great Britain
or America Is there collection 50 val
liable or 50 well authenticated Apart
from primary relies Of the Passion and
the Crucihxion and Of the apostles. the
collection is richest 10 relics OF the
early Christian martyrs, and poorest
perhaps in those Of English martyrs Of
Tudor and Stuart times Most valued
b the long catalogue are fragments OF
the cross, a portion OF the inscription
placed upon IT, Of the crown Of thorns.
md of the robe IN which Christ np-
oesred before Herod. Chief among the
relics Of the English saints Is portion
II the chasuble Of ST. Thomas OF Can
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