Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-15
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


sleeps horns.
Turkey holds the record for the num-
Der of aged persons in proportion to the
population.
Some of the screws made for the use
OF watchmakers are so tiny 100000
could be placed in an ordinary thimble.
There is an average OF seven car col
lisions day on the steam, subway, ele-
waited and surface railways of New
York.
During the summer season the bor-
ough of Richmond, New York City, dou-
bles its population on every pleasant
Sunday, but only for that one day.
The newspaper was invented by
Paris physician, who, finding his visits
welcome whenever he brought any news
or gossip, applied to Cardinal Richelieu
for patent to publish the Paris Ca
zette in 1902.
For the last fourteen years brood
of tomt,ts has been reared each spring
| in the letter box Mt Uttoxeter work
house. Since the parent birds first took
! possession of the box they have Matched
200 eggs.-London Standard.
Several German firms Gin Eibenstock
and Zwickau) have purchased large
forest sections In the vicinity of Chiojd-
nj, Roumania, where they propose to
erect sawmills and ship from there au-
nually about 10000 cubic meters Of
| lumber to Italy, France and Germany.
Negotiations among the German man
ufacturers of wall paper have finally
led to the organization of a trust. The
seven leading manufacturers who have
already joined have q combined annual
production Of about 100000. The
total output of wall paper in Germany
is estimated at 100000 per annum.
Miss Jean Gordon, who has won a
national reputation by her work In be-
hall of women and children, done as
factory inspector In Louisiana, is not
to be reelected to her office. 1t is as
serted that she has incurred the enmity
| of the manufacturers and the politi-
clans and in spite of the protests of the
women of the State she will be turned
| out of office.
The blood OF the rhinoceros is very
highly esteemed by Burmese and Chi
nese as a medicine for all kinds of all
ments. Whenever a party of hunters
are successful in shooting a rhinoceros
they are less numerous than they
used to be-the native beaters carefully
| draw off the blood and bring it to RAN
! COON stored in hollow bamboos. The
| precious liquid is worth its weight in
| silver.-London Standard.
The sheath skirt is not new in Bur-
nah, where the women wear a garment
split to the waist, NOW concealing, now
revealing" The men wear the same
sarong, unsplit In Cochin and Travan-
core, India, the reputable native wom-
en- wear nothing above the waist except
noserings and earrings; the Syrian
Christians wear a Jacket and comical
little Cochin TAIL" something like the
obi Of Nippon, on their sklrts.-New
| York Press
Pear-shaped balloons are the fashion
In Belgium. The point is upward, the
base of the balloon is spherical 1t is
! claimed that balloons Of this shape
pierce the air vertically with far great
er speed than the ordinary spherical
balloon. Consequently they are stead
| Ter. Also the upper pointed end pre-
vents the accumulation of moisture ~
snow on the surface, which frequently
weighs balloon down and destroys its
power to rise.
Though Russia has much coal and
| iron, her Industries are quite undevel-
oped. Her Industrial backwardness may
be gagged from the fact that with a
territory and a population twice as
large as those of the United States,
Russia produces only one-tenth of the
quantity Of iron produced in the Uni
ted States, and that sine raises only
one-twentieth of the quantity Of coal.
Alphabetically and industrially, Russia
is medieval country.-New York
Evening Post.
DR. II. @. Stevens, of Seattle, repol IS
recent experiments which show that
objects seen by indirect vision ordi-
narily appear larger in the right half
Of the field Of vision than In the left.
With a smaller number Of persons +hls
is reversed. From these facts he de-
duces possible origin of right and
left-handedness. Right-handedness, or
It's reverse, develops Mt about the age
Of seven months DR.. Stevens suggests
that they may be due to the phenomena
Of vision Just described. By reflex
effect the infant reaches after the OBJ
ject best seen with the arm nearest to
them.
Miss Martha Van Rensselaer,, super
visor Of the reading course for farmers
wives conducted by the Agricultural
College Of Cornell University believes
that there should be a woman judge In
juvenile courts where girls are tried
She bases her opinion on personal OBJ
servation of various Juvenile courts,
notably those In New York city. She
believes that there are many questions
which girls would answer truthfully If
there was a woman on the bench, but
which they now invariably lie about
when questioned by a man. This is
one Of the very few instances In which
Miss Van Rensselaer, believes segrega-
ton Of the two sexes would be benef-
cial.
In the total number Of mammals,
birds, reptiles and ar1phibians (4,034),
on exhibition, the New York Zoologi-
cal Park stands to-day at the head OF
all the geological parks and gardens
of the world. Berlin comes next with
total Of $40. The area Of the New
York Geological Park in land and
water embraces 24G acres. OF walks
and roads there are about eight miles,
and Of fences ten and one-half miles.
The maintenance force Of the park,
constantly on duty, embraces 141 per-