Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-18
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


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The exposition being arranged for
1912 at Tokyo VIII cover 292 acres.
The entire population Of the world
could De placed on the Isle Of Wight.
There are silver ingots in the Bank
Of England which have lain there for
more than 200 years.
JEWS societies In London are agi-
tating the problem of restoring the pure
Hebrew OF antiquity to use as the Jew
ish nftional language.
Large quantities Of machinery are
being ordered by Japan from Great
Britain Among the latest orders IS an
immense heating plant for group Of
manufactures, and a complete out.sl for
q new sugar-making industry.
Every night while the British Parlia-
ment Is in session letter Is dispatched
from the House of Commons to King
Edward, giving summary Of the pro-
ceedings during the sitting. At present
the letter Is written by Herbert Glad
stone.
OF the 100000 miles OF railway In
the world. only about 10 per cent are
found In strictly tropical territory, and
no more than 10 per cent within what
would be termed tropical and subtrop-
ical areas. TRACTS abound in the tenn
| perate zone.
THE NJ Spelin Leag OF Anurrika
has," the says the Glasgow Herald,
Just added seventy-five more wurds
to the language. 'Tisis' and 'tung' are
two of the wurst. 1t wood Civ us six
feeiin about the diafram to eat an eg
speit with wun e. We get numness
thru all our Inns at the site of such
loren wurds as 'agast' and gard LAIN,
and indicted There are about sixty
more, but these are more than enuf for
wun parragraf."
driver on the Avontuur railway,
South Africa. while staying at the Gam
toos, caught large cobra de capello
alive The cool way IN which he did
the trick (says local paper) sent
cold shiver through every ore who saw
it. He simply caught hold of the joint
of its tail, gave 1t sudden jerk toward
him and caught 1t by the back of the
head. He then placed it in a biscuit
tin. The snake was three inches in
diameter and about four feet long
We hear that Partisan metallurgi.
cal engineer claims to have perfected
process OF welding copper to steel
wire so as to make noncorrosive coat
ing. Many advantages. 1t is said, will
result from the use of this new wire
such as high tensile strength and elias
ITCHY, combined with smaller surface
exposed to wind and sleet than would
be the case with iron wire of the same
conductivity. This wire Is especially
useful over long spans, as pole intervals
may be much greater when 1t is used
Engineer
The inhabitants of Groden, in the
Tyrol, recently celebrated the advance
ment Of their town to the grade of
market place" The streets were elab-
orately decorated. and in place of stat
nary, says a correspondent In the Welt
Spiegel, great images were made OF
snow, of which there was great guam
tity. A gigantic statue of st. Ulrich
and busts of heroic size, on artistic
pedestals, of former burgermeisters ard
of the Emperor Francis were produced,
and the unique street decorations show
ed that the little place contained much
artistic talent.
Another hot spring was recently
added to the nineteen which Carlsbad
had for years enjoyed. Workmen who
were engaged In clearing out the chan
nels of the "Muhlbrunn" suddenly
broke into a new spring of hot mineral
water twenty-five feet below the sur
face Of the ground. The water gushed
up and, overfiowing the promenade, ran
into the river Tepl. The appearance OF
the new spring was not altogether well
come to the citizens, because they fear
that its flow may diminish that of the
SPrUdel fountain, which Is Carlsbad's
mort valuable asset as health resort.
An Austrian engineer has discovered
that trunks of trees retain the salt of
sea water that has filtered through In
the direction OF the fiber. He has con-
structed an apparatus designed to util-
lie this discovery in obtaining drinkable
water for ships crews as quickly as
the process of filtration is accomplished.
This apparatus consists OF a pump
which sucks up the sea water into a
reservoir and then forces It into the
filter formed by the tree trunk. As
soon as certain pressure is reached
the water is seen at the end In from one
to three minutes, according to the kind
Of wood used. 1t makes It's exit from
the other extremity of the trunk at
first In drops and then In fine streams,
the water thus filtered being drinka5le.
freed, In fact, from every particle of
the salty taste.
As long ago as the thirteenth century
a Chinese nam> \ Ye-Jinyang, discov-
cred a metSSd Oh inducing the forlaa-
ton of pearls In the Chinese river mus
sells. The mussels were gently opened,
and small pellets, usually OF clay, in
serted. The mussels were then placed
in about two feet OF running water. AT
the end Of two or three years, says a
writer In the Manchester Guardian,
they were again opened. when It was
often found that nacreous matter had
heen denOsited on the nplIefs forp,Ina
pearls, millions Of which are sold In
China The most curious pearls repre-.
sent the form Of small seated Image
Of uBddha. The figures are cast ip
thin lead or stamped on tin, and In.
serted In the mussel. instead of the or.
binary pellets When covered with the
Forthcoming matter they become OBJ
jects Of great veneration to the people,
who pay high price for them.