Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-01
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


OF the worlds supply of india rub
Der SO per cent is estimated to pv tur-
nished by South America.
Successful experiments have been
made at Poitiers, France, with a wheel
ed stretcher, drawn by dog for ambu-
lance work.
The number of books exported from
Germany by German publishers last
year exceeded 100000, weighed A.
100000 pounds and were valued at $751;
100000.
Japan has thirty-two timepiece fac
-Jrtes, which turn out annually goods
valued at nearly 100000; the latest fig-
ures being 209,792 standing clocks, Al,
755 hanging clocks and 25,36O watches.
Belgium has a Sunday postage stamp
issued for those who do not wish to
have their mail delivered on Sunday.
All mail bearing the Sunday stamp is
held over by the carriers for delivery
Monday.
The Yellowstone National Park, com
prising 1892 square miles, was set
apart by act Of Congress in 1872 as q
national park to preserve from destruc-
tive molestation the most wonderful
group OF natural features and phenonl-
ena known within the boundaries of the
United States.
After fifteen years Of labor, Professor
Brown, of Yale University, has COM
pleted series of many thousands of
minute observations by means of which
he hopes to determine the exact posi-
ton OF the moon. He is about to re-
tire to his house in Maine to begin the
work of calculation, which he estimates
will occupy at least ten years.
The tantalun lamp is very desirable
from the fact that it is of high efficien-
the fixtures at present in use, for the
reason that it must hang vertically,
whereas more often than not, the lamps
In the existing fixtures hang at an an.
gle. An adapter has been recently
invented by which this discrepancy is
overcome.
Kipling is a town which has just
blossomed out in Canada, where there
Is only one town of Shakespeare. There
is a Shakespeare in Kosciusko County,
Indiana. However, the great English
dramatist was never popular among the
newtown manners in North America al
though there are in the United States
thirty Millions, three Goldsmiths, four
Dickenses, thirty-odd SCOTS, twenty
Byrons, two Tennysons and one Thack-
cray. But there is no Browning on the
American map.
Every precocious boy does not be
come brilliant man, but some brilliant
men have been precocious in childhood.
John Ruskin, the great English essayist
and critic on art, was such a child. At
the age Of he wrote verses in rhyme
and kept journal or diary. This jour
nal was really record of trips through
England that he took with his father.
His interest in the old cathedrals and
in the bits Of scenery that he saw dur
ing these Journeys betrayed the tastes
that in later years decided his career.
1--WE Two" send the following to the
London Express: I'VE are a young cou-
pie and at the present rate of salaries
for bank clerks it will be eight, or even
ten years before we can marry. AS this
is too far ahead to think of, and we
have f200 ($1,000) between us, we are
determined to strike out for ourselves,
and at the thousands of breakfast ia
bles all over England where the Elk
press is daily read we would, with your
kind permission, appeal for ideas as to
the best way Of making a good start"
With the recent return of the yacht
Galilee, at San Francisco, the ocean
magnetic survey work is closed for the
present, until the construction of a YES
sci specially adapted for the work has
been completed. Plans for the new YES
sci are now being prepared by Henry J.
Gielow, naval architect and engineer
The Galilee was chartered by the Car
negie Institution, of Washington, and
under the command of w. j. Peters, she
was away nearly three years, The to-
tai length Of the cruises traversed in
the Pacific ocean during this period Is
about $4,000 miles.
The passing of the windmill in En-
gland, Anticipated by such recent power
producers as the gas engine and cleo
trio motor, has given life to a new in
dustry-windmill wrecking The old
windmill builders understood their bus
mess and meant their handiwork to
last, and so the demolishing of such
structures is no simple task. Many Of
the old mills stood 100 feet high and
had eight or nine floors, fitted with four
runs of stones, and contained tons upon
tons Of brick. Often these huge mills
stand close to other buildings, and, says
Popular Mechanics, accidents would be
inevitable If the wreckers did not have
experience.
In the northern part of India sheep
are put to a use unthought of in Euro
pean or American countries. They are
made to serve as beasts of burden, be-
cause they are more sure-footed than
larger beasts, and the mountain paths
among the foothills of the Himalayas
are steep and difficult. The load for
each sheep is from sixteen to twenty
pounds. The sheep are driven from vii,
lage to village, with the wool still grow
Ing, and in each town the farmer shears
as much wool as he can sell there and