Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-08-11
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


neries and large fur trade, both local
and export Prices are 10 to 20 per
cent lower than year ago.
A color resembling pewter may be
given to brass by boiling the casting in
cream of tartar solution containing
q small amount Of chloride of tin.
The average cost of supplying 1,oo0.-
600 gallons of water, based on the re-
port of twenty-five cities, is 500. This
sum includes operating expenses and
interest on bonds.
Orders have been posted in the shops
Of the Pennsylvania railroad system
prohibiting swearing among the men
while at work. The penalty viii b. an
enforced vacation.
1t is said that the method OF produc-
ing an9sthesia by means Of electricity,
discovered by Professor LIE Due OF
Nantes, France, is applicable to the
painless execution OF criminals.
The aluminium books for the blind
now being printed In Edinburgh are of
thin sheets embossed in the usual way.
They are easier to read than paper
books, do not soil and are practically
indestructible. Their expensiyeness Is
their drawback.
Representative Burleigh OF Maine Is
one Of the few members Of the House
whose biography omits the familiar sen
tence: STUDIED law at the - Uni
versity." He is real newspaper man.
the publisher Of the Kennebec Journal,
and has been governor and state treas
urer OF his state.
Mrs. Boorman Wells, the 'suf-
fragette." said at women's luncheon
In New York: "You may ridicule lis
as you please, but when we get the sur
frage in London we shan't abuse 1t as
some Of your Colorado women do, l
heard two Denver men talking at din
ner the other night. Hello said the
first, here's Philadelphia genius who
has invented buttonless underwear
oh, that's nothing said the second,
I've worn 1t ever since my wife got
a vote"
Father Ehrle the director Of the
Vatican library, has been appointed
member of the Academic des Inscrip-
tons, which Is one Of the five academies
that make up the famous Institut de
France, and the one that presides over
history, archaeology and ancient Orien-
tai languages. Father Ehrle is Ger
man and Jesuit. He is said to be
the living authority on the care of
books and onsthe preservation and re-
storation of Old manuscripts.
The "Priory" at Bicester, near OK
ford, England, which, as Its name In
dicates, occupies the site of a former
religious house, has quite lately been
purchased by the Community of Olive
tan Benedictine nuns, who, having been
expelled from their house in Normandy,
sought refuge In Bicester some FIVE
years ago. They had the happiness re-
Gently OF celebrating religious pro-
fession therein-the first that has taken
place there since the Reformation.
For centuries Europe has enjoyed
monopoly on cathedrals, the highest ex-
ponents of Christian architecture. Dur
ing the last few years, however, nearly
a dozen beautiful structures have been
In course of erection or have been COM
pleted in the United States, and the
time may come when the whole land
will be dotted with these masterpieces
of art. One Of these, now building at
St Paul, under the direction of Arch
bishop ireland. will be one of the finest
in this country.
Aerial letter boxes have been placed
In all large tenement houses and apart
ment buildings in Budapest, Hungary.
When the postman enters the hall on
the first floor Of building he places
the letters In the boxes allotted to the
different families A spring is then
pressed and electricity does the rest.
The boxes are shot up to the floor re-
CURED, where they remain until
emptied, or until the postman comes
again and brings them down by touch
ing another spring
Before leaving Chrstchurch for the
Antarctic regions, says the Westmin-
ster Gazette, Captain Schackleton, the
commander Of the latst British south
polar expedition. was duly sworn in as
postmaster of King Edward the Sew
enth Land. He has been authorized by
the postmaster general Of New Zealand
to open an Office in that most southerly
Of She Kings domlnlons, to issue
stamps and transmit mails as oppor-
tunity offers. These south polar stamps
will doubtless be priced by philatelists
and other lovers of curios.
Investigating the effect ofcompressed
air on health. two British engineers
have shown that a pressure Of ninety
two pounds square inch-more than
six atmospheres-may be endured with
out unpleasant results The pressure
must be taken of at uniform rate.
however, at least twenty minutes being
allowed for each fifteen pounds Of re-
duction. and capillary circulation In
the body must be kept up by muscular
exercise during compression. Slight
temporary neuralgia pain in the arms
was the only Ill effect Of the great
pressure.
The Rev. DIR. r. s. Macarthur OF
Calvary Baptist Church, New York,
said at a dinner, apropos Of interna-
tionaI marriages: "Some- OF these mar
riages are, from every point Of view,
desirable. Some again are-but a dia-
logue will illustrate my meaning oh.
Helen cried a girl worth $18OOO.OO0,
do you think the duke is slncereY
sSlncerey was the reply. Why, Of
course he's sincere. He hasn't got a
dollar to his name" DIR. Macarthur
paused. cor this" he added: "a
young marquis rushed upon his Ameri-
can naEcee and shouted bitterly
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