Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-12-15
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


States.
To cleanse the streets of the city Of
London. nearly S0000.000 gallons of
water are annually required
Printing from movable type was
known in Korea over a century before
the invention of the art in Europe.
Freights to India. formerly S3.65 to
S4.S6 ton from European ports. have
fallen as low as s1.22 to $1.7O ton.
Including Hayti. Santo Domingo,
Panama and Liberia, there are now
tweny-four republics in the world
The Turkish day begins exactly at
sunset. and at that time the Turk sets
his clocks and watches on the hour of
-
Although the sand in the Sahara
only averages thirty feet in depth. It
has been found 200 feet below the sur
face.
In a single minute a machine which
cuts up wood TO make matches will
turn out 10000 "splinrs." as they are
called
The Calcutta constable~-or ''parawal-
lah," as he is called an apparatus
attached to his shoulders to support an
umbrella over his head
After twenty years of experimenting
an Edinburg firm has brought out an
essence of tea which is said to preserve
the aroma and cheering qualities Of the
prepared leaf
Italians of the poorer class generally
enjoy good health. This is partly at
tributed to the fact that the working
classes of Italy eat less meat than those
of other European nations
1t has been stated in the Calcutta
press that the government railways in
India will next year use coal brought
to Indie by steamer from Natal, be-
cause it is better than Bengal coal and
more economical.
The intellectual man OF forty is the
worlds greatest asset as far as work is
concerned though the discoveries which
have advanced the world are all made
before that age. The planting is done
before twenty, the crop grows from
twenty to forty and the golden harvest
is from forty TO sixty, occasionally I'M
til seventy. Army and Navy Life.
America has now triumphed over
Egypt and India in holding what will
soon be the largest irrigated tract Of
desert land in the world This is what
is known as the Twin Falls country in
the State of Idaho. The ultimate area
under irrigation, when the entire Twin
Falls project shall have been complet-
ed. will be 100000 acres Harper's
Weekly.
The total amount of pensions paid by
the United States between 1866 and
1908, inclusive, was $685., 663, 1854 40,
and the cost, maintenance and expenses
of the organization for the payment Of
these pensions during the same period
were $122, 574, 1926, total of S3,777,-
237, S2S.3S, exceeding the amount of
money in circulation in this country in
1907 by more than $1,120000,0 00.-
Army and Navy Life.
Uruguay is taking a national census.
From 10000 to $4,000 persons are en-
gagged in the task, which works out at
about one person In every twenty-five
of the population OF the republic. This
large proportion is found necessary ow-
ing to the very scattered character of
the population in certain parts of the
interior, where there are only two or
three inhabitants to the square mile.
The maharajah gaekwar of Baroda
has melted down and converted into
bullion the celebrated gold and silver
cannon of Baroda OF these costly but
useless toys the silver guns of for
mer gaek were the inspiration. In or
der to "go one better" than his prede-
cessor, the late gaekwar had the gold
guns cast and mounted at cost, 1t is
said, of 100000. They reposed in the
state armory and were the wonder and
admiration of all visitors
Matamoras newspaper calls atten-
ton to a test of the pui1ping of water
in the Rio Grande region for irriga-
ton compared to the older method of
constructing dams. A 36-inch pump
with $4,000 gallons capacity on a "a
foot lift, was operated at a fuel cost
of 6212 cents an hour. Whatever irri-
CATION is being attempted on the Mex
lean side is being done through the
pumping system, and there is every
prospect that more and more of 1t will
be attempted by the owners OF land
along the river.
Japan's first school for the education
of actresses has been formally opened
1T Toxic under the direction of saba
Yokka OF the young women who pre-
scented themselves for admission about
twenty were accepted and they Will
take two years course. More than
twice that number, all having the edu-
cational requirements, applied for ad-
mission. but could not be accepted be-
cause, as the head of the school ex-
pldlUeu, their slDdli hidluTe pFetIuucu
their assuming the heroine parts which
belong TO the dramatic literature Of
Europe"
In New Zealand the native Polyne-
sian race, crowded by Europeans, is
becoming extinct Many Of the import
ed animals run wild and multiply rap
idly at the expense Of the native spe-
cies, even the streams being filed with
European and American trout. which
grow TO great size. Introduced plants
thrive quite az remarkably. New for
ests are being created designedly be-
cause the native trees. though yieldi.g
excellent timber. grow very slowly and
already many millions OF larches, oaks,
spruces, Douglas frs abd eucalyptus
have been planted, while seedlings from
them are being continually added.
An addition to the list Of phraseolog-
ical condolences has just been made By