Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-16
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

conf e old maids.
Korean bachelors wear skirts and
are not promoted to trousers until they
marry.
The electrical house OF Siemens &
Holske, in Prussia, employs more than
1000 men.
Mail orders for merchandise are
practically unknown In China and the
East In general.
Plans are making for supplying
Cairo, Egypt, with a modern sewerage
and drainage system in the nea. fu-
ture.
Until a few years ago Moham-
medans were greatly opposed to pho
Biography, but now they have taken 1t
up seriously, and some photographers
OF real merit are found among them.
A mill at Great harrington, Mass.
was shut down in a most unusual man.
ner few weeks ago, when water hugs,
crowding into the space around the en-
| gine-stop push button, produced a short
circuit and the consequent stoppage.
Consul General Robert J. Wynne. OF
London, reports that before commit
tee Of the British House OF Commons
interesting details were given of the
scheme for establishing In Ireland a
new electric supply generated by peat
gas, the a-st OF the kind in Great
Britain.
In Spain about the only kind OF pillow
| In use is a primitive wooden affair
with one handle and tongue. To this
is hitched a pair of small oxen or Of
mules yoked up like oxen. The driver
rests his right foot on rear extension
to keep the pillow from jumping out of
the ground, steadying himself by touch
ing his left foot when he seems likely
to lose his balance.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward at a women's
luncheon In New York said Of the lit
erary style OF popular novelist: 1T
Is an insane style. 1t makes me think
Of the schoolgirl novelist VINO wrote:
He sprang ardently forward, hut a
look of soft entreaty from one OF
PEARLS eyes and glance Of warning
darted from the other in the direction
Of her aunt forced him regretfully
back into his chair"
Senator La Toilette says of the mill
lionaires who complain about the harm
that they and their affairs have suf-
fered from governmental attacks:
'These winners, with only themselves
TO blame, remind me of bad little
! boy. He ran bowling to his mother.
oh, ma, Johnny has hurt mav And
how did bad Johnny hurt mothers little
darlingT Why, ] was a-goin' to punch
him in the face and he ducked his head
and / hit my kEucl1les against the
WALL"
THE late Bishop Fowler" said
Buffalo Methodist, had the happiest
knack of illustrating, with one lumi-
nous sentence, traits of character.
faults, yillainles. Once, / remember,
talking of gambling houses and the lit
tie mercy shown to ruined players.
Bishop Fowler, with a grim smile.
said: The men who took Jonah's
money were the same, remember, who
threw him overheard. Things like that
still happen
Tampa, Fla, was the background of
| Golding's narrative Of 'The Young Ma
rooners." 1t and its surroundings were
wilderness. Tampa is to-day the busi-
ness metropolis of Southern Florida.
Last year 1t made and sold 2S9,000,000
cigars, the largest number of clear Ha-
vanas ever made in one year in any
city in the world. 1t has 165 cigar fac
tories, employing 1000 people, with
pay roll of nearly S10000,000 year,
and an output of $c0,0O0.0o0. Tie pop
ulation is about $4,000.
"Servility will disappear" said Fred
erick Van Eeden, the Dutch poet and
economist, with the disappearance OF
our present unjust social system. Ser
vility-what a despicable thing 1t Isl
A young Dutch bookkeeper lunched one
day in Amsterdam with his employer,
millionaire tulip dealer. Suddenly
the millionaire shifted. But, my dear
Hans he said to the bookkeeper, I'm
afraid your egg is bad oh, SIR
| murmured the servile clerk, flushing
deeply, 'really-er-some parts of 1t
are very good, indeed"
In humorous defense OF outspoken
and frank methods Senator TillmaD
says: ''These people who always keel
calm Gil me with mistrust. Those that
never lose their temper | suspect. lie
who wears, under abuse. an angelic
smile is apt to be a hypocrite. An
old South Carolina deacon once said
to me with a chuckle: Keep yo' tenn
pah, son. Don't 20 quarrel with no
angry pusson. A soft answah am allus
best. Hits commanded, an fuhther-
mo-, sonny, hit makes 'em maddahn'h
anything else 20 could say"
Mrs. Minnie Madden Fiske, the ac-
tress, tells this of a sailor she once
met: There was a ship In the offing.
and the salt took from bis pocket a
collapsibIe telescope. He extended II,
and then babe me have a look at the
ship. What a fine telescope, ! said,
after l had looked duly. BY Tar, yer
right there said the old SALT heartily.
There amt no finer spyglass In the
world. That glass, lady. was give me
by the great sea fighter. Paul Jones'
Paul Jones = said I. Why, he has been
dead over Q hundred years "A hun
| dred years he muttered. An 1t seems
ike yesterday SILVER my timbers,
how time does fyF"
1t may become ere long a seriously
debated point whether tax upon
bachelors might not be imposed to the
advantage not only Of the imperial ex-
chequer, but to the position OF the ever
growing army Of women In our popu-
lation. Such a tax would be a revival,
not a novelty. In the reign Of VIII