Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-22
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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than is available at Niagara Falls.
Nearly one-third of the immigrants
who arrive in the port of New York
meyer go beyond the city for home
There is a lot of poverty on Manhat-
tan Island, but the assessment rolls give
$1,000 in taxable property to each In
habitant.
Courts are great expense to New
York City. The jurors alone last year
cost S415,16S. The year before the cost
was 1921, 293.
In China there are mattel factories at
which only hand labor is employed. One
of them, at Hsieh Chang, has 600 work
erS, 400 of whom are women.
When New York Citys Catskill aque-
duct is completed the city will have wa
ter enough for population of 100000,
without any cause for anxiety.
In Paris last year 1925 horses were
killed for food, which was 5000 more
than the previous year. These animals
yielded 26,600,0o0 pounds of meat.
Hot weather has brought a marked
Increase in the number of children who
are taken to the New York hospitals for
treatment, and the diagnosis shows that
80 per cent of the trouble arises from
improper feeding.
There has been a large increase in
the number of emigrants from the port
of New York during the last year, but
the net result is that the city is growing
at the rate OF about $4,000 q month
through immigration.
An electric railway is being built on
the Zugspitze, the highest peak in the
Alps on Bavarian territory. Its height
is about 10000 feet. The railway will
run to the summit, while q hotel will
be built at the 7,000-foot level.
W. w. Hilditch, of the Sheffield Sci
entifc School, has by laboratory tests
aScertained that the bacteria found on
paper money, while running up into
the thousands for each bill, are not
usually of an infectious or virulent
type.
There are some large profits made on
goods sold In New York City, but the
greatest percentage goes to the retailers
of jewelry that has imitation precious
stones in its composition. The profit is
often one thousand times as much as
the goods cost. To get $40 for what
cost 40 cents is quite usual
THE Swamp Angel was the name
given by the Federal soldiers to an
eight-inch Parrot gun which was
mounted on a battery built on piles
driven into a swamp outside Of Charles
ton, S. c., and used during the siege of
that city. 1t burst Aug. %, 1868. After
the war 1t was bought with some con-
demned metal and sent to Trenton to
be melted, but, having been identified,
was set up on granite base on the
corner of Perry and Clinton streets in
that city.
Two odd-looking craft are to be seen
at work on the st. Lawrence ship
canal. They are used for removal of
powders which are too large for q
dredge to lift or to clear the bottom
before the dredge is placed to work at
any locality. The litter consists Of a
wooden-hulled boat with middle well,
through which the large sixty-ton ca
pacity tongs or grips can descend to
the river bottom, there to pick up bowl
ders, which can be hauled to the deck
by the hosting engine situated aft.
The new Chinese Board of Education
proposes to establish a Shih-fan
Hsueh-tang, or civil normal college, in
Picking, for training teachers for SER
vice in the various civil schools and
colleges throughout the empire. In adj
dition to Chinese classics, says Har-
pers Weekly, English, French, German,
Russian and japanese will be taught in
the proposed college, under the instruc-
ton Of experienced teachers. The col
Iege will be established in the Chinese
city in the course Of the present year,
and the annual expenditure is esti-
mated to be about 100000 taels (about
$70,0OO).
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
was IS years old on Aug. ID, but he
is still an ardent hunter. Having set
tied down at Ischl for his summer hol-
day, the Emperor lost no time in be-
ginning his favorite sport of deer shoot
ing. In the first formal court shoot the
Emperor and his party drove in car
riages as far into the mountains as pos
sible and then took to horses. But
after riding for a quarter of an hour
his Majesty was forced to walk the rest
of the way up the Steinberg, 5000 feet
high. An hours climb brought the
party to the hunting ground, and the
Emperor shot four stays.
The readiness Of Japan and China
in adapting themselves to Western
methods of electrifcation, says the
Railway News, is to-day amply evil
denced in the work going on in the
large cities of these two countries.
Yokohama has its electric tramways.
Toxic, the capital of Japan, has a fine
system Of electric railways. The rail-
way engineers and directors are Japan
csc. Shanghai has recently completed
a splendid system Of tramways, and
Hong-Kong has operated street rail-
ways for several years with good re-
suits. There are many other cities In
Japan and China which will undoubt-
eddy follow the example of these cities.
Good anecdotes Of Saphir, the great
German humorist and editor, are still
In circula ton. A young couple, newly
engaged, were favored with letter OF
introduction to him, which they duly
presented. Now, the gentleman was
notorious for his effeminate habits and
ways, and his appearance at once
struck the eyes Of the obseryant jour
nallst, who had heard about him. He
said nothing, received the pair with EN-
pressement, insisted upon their being
g. l.