The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-11-05

knots an hour. 1t is now in order for
the sensational reporter to circulate the
story that this fast and efficient ''scor-
pion'' is to be sold to the japanese gov
ernment.
A London dispatch states that an
American inventor who has been working
ING in Coventry for some time has pro-
duced an automobile engine which does
it's work without noise or vibration. If
this be true the improvement will be
generally adopted, and then inventors
will nave before them the harder task
of making engines odorless.
Wireless telephony has been tried with
complete success between the Brooklyn
navy ward and a station on the roof
of the Waldorf Astoria hotel, New York.
This is evidence that the wireless method
of transmitting human speech may event
ually have commercial value in a re-
stricted way. 1t is now valuable at sea,
where ships of various natives communi-
cate freely over comparatively long dis
distances.
According W IuC OpAuNOh VI LIZ ~
torney general, that milliners in Wis
consin can offer for sale the plumage Of
birds which are not natives or habitants
of Wisconsin, will give the plumage-
hunter of other states a market for the
nlumage of certain birds. This shows
the need of uniformity in game laws,
and laws for the protection OF birds
whose plumage is sought by millinery
supply hunter.
The slide into the river at New Orleans
of railroad land 3OOx2OO feet bearing
four lines of tracks occupied by seven
loaded freight cars, is evidence of the
n in which the Mississippi river
will trouble those who imagine that 1t
can easily be kept within bounds Tor the
maintenance of deeper channels. The
river was boring its way under the prop
erty while railroad operations were III
progress on the surface.
The dismasting of the old cup-defender
Mavfower during a hurricane OFT the
south Atlantic coast reveals the 'charac-
ter of the yachts which formerly did the
racing for the Americas cup. Racing
machines like the Defender or the Re
lance could never be taken to sea on
expeditions such as that upon which
the Mayfower was bent when she was
struck by the hurricane which wrecked
MANY >stanch merchantmen.
a report of the Geological Survey
shows that since 1899 the United States
has held first place in coal mining and
is now producing 1913 per cent. OF the
worlds annual output. Supremacy in
this regard is due to the fact that in
dustries are multiplying and demanding
increased supplies of coal, and miners
have been striving so effectually to meet
that demand that the United States has
had coal to export in large quantities.
Navies are expensive war sdjuncts in
directions other than their maintenance.
Statistics of the French navy show that
since August, 1900, twenty-one wrecks,
explosions and other cataStrOphes have
caused the death of 2SS officers and men
and the destruction of property valued at
Sl7,OOO,OOO. The United States navy
has had heavy losses of this kind, but
the French navy seems to haFe been es-
pecially afflicted during the past eight
years.
Paris has discovered that she rs badly LII
need of a cleanup if she is to make a
successful fight against a visitation of
the cholera. She is also short OF funds,
and will therefore experience difficulty in
providing for the necessary sanitary
work. The municipalities OF the Old
World seem to nave difficulties similar
to those which are experienced by cities
in the United States which are laying
their troubles largely to politics and mis-
management.
The corn crop has thriven gloriously.
1t is now out of danger, and is officially
estimated at 2,614,Q00,OOO bushels. This
is 100000 bushels more than the ac-
tual yield of last year and has been eX-
ceeded only twice in the history OF the
country-in 1905, when the total crop
was 2.7OS,O 900 bushels, and in 1905,
when it was 1927, 100000. The bounty
of the harvest will help to hasten the
return of ,prosperity-if the election re-
suits IN iInG ueledI VI DAJoh o"N LILY
.isms.
The report of the superintendent OF
Chicago,s department of compulsory edu-
cation relative to the number OF starry
ing and .underfed children recalls similar
report from New York city which recent
Nv caused much commotion among phlian-
thropists and elected denials from those
whose duty it was to look after the needs
of children. Chicago is a large city and
it would not be surprising under the
existing business conditions to find
homes in which breakfasts and other
meals are too light for the average grow
ing child.
In reviewing "A Year of Business Re
covery." in the current issue of the Re
view of Reviews, Charles +. Speare de-
clares that although the situation is not
one to he greatly enthusiastic over; while
there rs a long, hard pull ahead for many
of us, and consequently room for econ
omy Just as much as there was last No
Tember, or in February of this year, the
tide has turned permanently, and each
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