Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY



o00,000) is yearly spent by foreign
visitors in Japan.
No fewer than 372 different ways of
spelling Ypsilanti have been copied
from envelopes and recorded by post,
master.
The African peanut is less delicate
than the American as an article of
food. but it yields more generously iE
oil, and is more easily crushed.
When a vessel is on her trial trip
she runs four times over a measured
mile, twice with and twice against the
tide. Her average speed is thus ar.
rived at
Sailing vessels are coming into vogue
again. especially within the last five
years, after having been practically
banished from the ocean by the quicker
and more easily controlled steamships.
Owners Of even the smallest toy man.
nfacturing establishments in the Nu-
remburg district, Germany, cater for
the foreign trade. Factories employ
ing from six to twenty people are no
exception.
Doki Indians in Canada are to be
made wealthy by the sale of their pine
lands. The total revenue from the sale
of the lands will approximate $1,000
900, and some families will receive as
much as $4,000.
kilograms from Kiev state that
there is plague Of caterpillars in
many parts of southwestern Russia. In
some places the railway tracks are
covered by swarms of the insects and
traffic is being Kindred owing to the
state Of the rails.
China is a bad place for furniture.
In the summer months it is so damp
that furniture put together with glue
fails apart and drawers stick, while in
the dry months furniture goes to the
other extreme and often exhibits cracks
half an inch or more in width.
Several earthquake shocks have been
felt recently in the Congo district At
RIGA. There have been no casualties.
but the natives were panic-stricken.
Many of them ran for miles and re-
fused to return to their villages unless
they received guns and ammunition.
Canada's government has sent out a
survey party to lay out the town site of
Fort Churchill, the future metropolis
of Hudson Bay. The only settler who
Is now on the proposed site, which is
on the east side of Churchill river, OPP
posite the Hudson Bay post, will be en-
titled to a free grant of 100 acres.
The following advertisement recently
appeared: Being aware that it is in
delicate to advertise for a husband,
refrain from so doing; but If any gen.
tleman should be inclined to advertise
for a wife, will answer the advertise
ment without delay. | am young, am
domesticated and considered ladylilze.
Apply" etc.-Philadelphia Gossip
Some navvies in a railway carriage
were once in loud conversation, swear
ing boisterously the while. One Of
them was especially fluent my
friend" said another passenger In
shocking tones, where did you learn
to use such languageT Learn"
cried the navy. "You can't learn It.
guvnor. It's a gift, that's wot it is"
Dundee Advertiser.
OF the late Langdon Smith, the jour
nalist and author, a Denver reporter
said the other day: II remember my
first visit to Washington. Smith, big
and handsome and vivacious. showed
me about. From au eminence a great
pale dome rose up against the blue sky,
he dome Of the Capitol. What is
that? said l. "ThatY said Smith, oh,
that's the national gas works"
A process for protecting iron and
steel from rust has been invented and
patented by T. w. Coslett, of Temple
row, Birmingham, England. This con-
sists In immersing the article in hot
phosphorized solution containing an
iron compound. The surface Of the
iron is converted into a mixture Of
ferrous and ferric phosphates, and pre-
sents a pleasing dull-black appearance.
This process makes the iron highly re-
sistant to corrosion, and is being APP
piled to all kinds of light engineering
work, such as cycle frames, gun bar
rels, etc.
Otto E. Schaar, president Of club
Of New York walters, said the other
day Of a parsimonious young maR:
HE resembles a chap they tell about
In Bucks county. This chap lived
alone with bis father. On the old
mans death he would inherit the farm
Well, finally the old man took sick
His end drew near. The son sat up
with him night or two, expecting him
to pass away, but he fingered ON. On
the fifth or sixth night the son, in
stead Of sitting up, put a lamp, turned
very very low, on table by the bed
and went to his own room with the
caution: When you feel that 1t is all
over with you, father, don't forget to
blow out the lamp"
beautiful story is told somewhere
of Sir Hubert Herkomer, the great
painter. His father was poor man,
and the professor brought him from
his native land Of Germany to live
with him in his beautiful house near
London. The old man used to model
In clay in his early life, and now that
he had leisure he took to it again In
his old age. But his hands trembled
and the work showed signs of imper-'
lection. 1t was his one sorrow. At
night he went to bed early, and when
he had gone his son would go into the
ssudio, take his fathers poor work and
make it as beautiful as possible. When
the old man came down In the morn.
ing he would look al the work and rub
his hands and say, "Ha! l can do as
well as ever / did."-Scholars' Own.
To the outside world the greatest
pathological oddly In this country
Is the kookaburra, says the Sidney