Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-08
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY



by levers, are the principal feature in
new clothes pressing device.
In new electric device for drying
the hair with an air blast resistance
can be switched In for heating the air.
At Sholapur, British India. factory
is successfully making matches with
sticks Of peculiarly stiff form of ma
tive grass.
A French engineer has invented a ro-
tary rudder by which he says 4 YES
sci of any size may be turned In its
own length.
An italian physician has discovered
that carrots act as an. intestinal anti
septic, and will cure many forms of
digestive disorders.
A species Of ant In Australia builds
its nests along north and south line
SO accurately that a traveller may d.
rect his course by their aid.
In connection with the extermlna-
ton of rats from Honolulu, an official
OF the Marine Hospital Service is pre-
pairing to develop breed Of cats of
high rat-catching ability.
Hamburg is the only one of the three
leading seaports on the northern coast
Of Europe which shows an increase in
business during the first eight months
of this year as compared with 1907.
Many workmen are planning to leave
the island Of Samos, in the Mediterra-
mean, forty-three miles southwest from
Smyrna, because of the Introduction OF
cigarette machines, which permit
daily output Of 100000 cigarettes.
A young professor of mathematics,
immense at mathematics and games,
dangerous at chess, capable of Haydn
on the violin, once said to me, after
listening to some chat on books: YES
must take up literature" as though
saying: II was rather forgetting lit
erature. However, I've polished off all
these other things. I'll have shy at
literature now."-T. P.'s Weekly.
w Kyuin Wellington Koo, a Chinese.
has been chosen to edit the Daily Spec
tator at Columbia University. 1t is
said to be the first time that a Chi
nese student has been placed at the
head of an American college paper.
Editor Koo, who is only twenty-five
years old, is slender chap and is
Lpayvu fhrnu0hop. tha ,,pfvarSt+v &c 4,
master of pure English. He speaks with
out accent. knows more about Amerl-
can politics than the average American,
is a debater of wonderful ability. and
one of the most popular men In the uni
versity.
Sam Shubert used to tell this: "A
rustic came to Buffalo and bought
ticket for the theater. Through blum
dering about the doors he found him
self in the adjoining billiard saloon.
Seeing novel performance going on,
with big crowd witnessing the same,
he settled himself In a chair and pa
tiently watched the play for an hour
or two. Having satiated his appetite
he left the room, and going out in the
street was asked If the show was over.
Over? Oh, no. he replied; it's a-goin'
on yet. They are knockin' away like all
the world In thar"
A French medical man advises peo-
pie to drink buttermilk for long life
He says that the Tactic acid attacks
and dissolves every sort of earthly de-
post in the blood vessels, keeping the
veins and arteries so supple and free
running that there can be no clogging
up; and hence there is no deposit or
chalky matter around the joints or of
poisonous waste in the muscles. 1t is
the stiffening and hardening of the
blood vessels which bring on old age
Buttermilk is likely to postpone 1t ten
or twenty years If freely drunk. A
quart q day should be the minimum,
the maximum according to taste and
opportunity.
Out In Burmah and the far East
where sandalwood is worth its weight
in silver, the pest2<erous ant is a valu-
able assistant to the loggers of the pre-
cious timber The hard and fragrant
heartwood alone has value but as the
tree grows this valuable heart is over
laid by a soft and worthless layer,
forming two-thirds of the trunk. When
tree is felled and cut into lengths the
loggers let the timber lie. At once the
ants begin work upon the soft wood.
which is sappy and sweet enough to
attract them. In a few weeks-less
than month In the case OF the largest
butts-the ants deliver the heartwood
free of all worthless sap wood
Washington Post.
An English scientist gives some inter-
esting figures regarding the occurrence
and distribution OF radium in the
earth The total amount Of radium in
the ocean is reckoned to be 10000 tons.
Regarding the sediments accommodating
in the sea, it is found that those most
slowly formed exhibit the greatest IA
dio-activity. If all the deposits In the
sea were as rich In radium as the gio-
bigerina oooze the total amount of this
element in them would be 100000
tons. With regard to the rate OF
change Of uranium, by which radium
is produced, 1t Is calculated that the
amount present In the earth 10000, $50
years ago was only / per cent more
than now.
Under the headline, "Coureid's Re
tirement," the Berliner Tageblatt says:
'NConried's fame as a manager reached
its zenith in the winter OF 1904, when,
despite the curse Of Bayreuth and In
the face Of the war council, he took
possession Of Parsifal' The Presby-
terrain bishop ca who wept over the
offense to religion helped to advertise
II. The rich we're seizeti with a 'Parsi-
FIJI fever and had to see the perform
ance. The receipts ran up TO 10000
marks, and th. back stair dramatists
wrote that Bay-euth had been ontdone.
The same business capacity was shown
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