Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-11-03
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY



four vessels of the merchant marine.
Gold, silver and lead mines are, 1t
is said. to be worked extensively IN
the bleak district Of Innishowen, coun-
ty Of Donegal. Ireland. overlooking the
Atlantic
Three women were among the eighty
nine applicants who recently took the
examination for postal clerks at Buff
,falo. The highest grade, S9.7o, was
obtained by Miss Mary Pfann. All OF
the women applicants were successful.
while only 80 per cent of the men
passed.
Mrs. Louise Waterman Carpenter Of
Brookline, Mass. has just passed her
one hundred and second birthday. She
was born at Warwick. R. l., and is a
direct deseendent of Roger Williams,
She is in good health and active enough
to get about unassicted and until three
years ago felt no need for glasses.
Girls have gone In for many Chinese
fashions, such as the mandarin jacket,
the kimono sleeve and the chrysanthe-
mum embroidery, but the wearing of
five buttons on the coat or jacket is a
new idea, unknown TO the many. The
Chinese wear these FIVE buttons to re-
mind them of the five moral virtues
which were recommended by Confucius.
These are: Humanity, justice, order,
rectitude and prudence
See Kans-i-to,, Caddo Indian, at
tracted considerable attention and won
der at the Rock Island depot on Sat
urday as he went north on the noon
train from Binger to his home town.
He beats the old German of New York,
Wouter Van Twiller, who was 5 feet
inches tall and feet inches
around. This Indian is feet inches
tall and Z feet inches around. He
is &c years old and weighs 696 pounds
-Watonga (Okla.) Herald.
Large or small gamer" asked the
Englishman invited by New Yorker
to 60 hunting on Land Island. you
don't expect to find lions and tigers on
Long Island, do your" answered the
New Yorker. Hardly" responded the
Briton with a laugh, "but like a spice
of danger in my hunting" IF that's
the case" answered the other, "Pm
your man, all right. The last time
went out l shot my brother-in-law in
the leg"
The Women's Progressive Associa-
ton of New South Wales has won
what it considers greatvictory. Three
hundred thousand dollars had been
voted to Increase the salaries of the
teachers of the public schools. The
men teachers, If reports are true, tried
to gobble it all up but the association,
whose meg surs are ali voters, thought
the women teachers were entitled to
share. They fought the point and
won.
| Peat beds In Ireland may yet be-
come a valuable asset in the country's
industrial development other than for
fuel. as it is now claimed upon the au-
thority Of an Austrian experimenter.
| the fbres of the remains of the reeds
and grasses of which peat is composed
can be utilized not only for paper max
ing and carpets, but for weaving tho
finest fabrics as well. The claim Is put
forth that the fiber Is elastic and dur
able and, being a nonconductor of heat,
the cloth manufactured from it is as
tough as linen and as warm as wooden.
Sir William Ramsay's declaration as
to the probable near achievement of
the transmutation of metals Is a vivid
Instance of the way modern science is
re-establishing what only short time
| ago was dismissed as superstition. In
a book oply fifty years old a writer
describes as folly the medical practice
of the middle ages of putting smallpox
patients in red room, draped with
red hangings, curtains and red bed
! clothes. Yet the value of red light In
preventing the sufferers being marked
by smallpox was scientifically discover
ed anew a few years ago by Flnsen,
| of the violet light rays fame.
One of the most successful hoaxes OF
history was the mechanical chess play
| er with which Baron Kempelen OF
| Hungary. astonished Europe about the
year 1769. This was apparently fig
ure controlled by mechanical devices,
and which was able, Notwithstanding
the fact that apparently no intelligence
was concerned in its movements and
decisions. generally to beat its human
antagonists The cabinet connected
with the automaton appeared entirely
too small to contain hidden operator.
And yet it did conceal man who was
an expert chess player. He was
Polish patriot who had lost both of
his legs. This man. Woropsky by
name, was an expert player. With
him in the cabinet the rest was easy.
For 1,4oo years the Faust legend
the sale of human soul to a devil
has existed. The first recorded hint OF
its vitality is given In the sixth CEN
fury story of ''Theophilus." That story
suited the early Christians 10 their eff
forts to stamp out the merchandising
devices of eviily disposed persons prone
10 seek power by unholy means. The
association Of the name of Faust how
ever. with the legend is not more thai
400 years old. The likeliest prototype
Of the modern Faust IS the man Of the
same name who in Cracow boldly pro-
claimed himself a professor OF magic
In the sixteenth century stories Helen
| OF Troy was bestowed by Mephistophss
les upon Faust and not until the mid
die Of the eighteenth century does there
appear a shadowy Margaret, In the
form OF a beautiful but poor girl
who afterward develops into the Mar
garet OF Goethe.
What a writer calls "the most ORR
ginal telegraph line in the world" once
extended between the city Of La Pr,
the capital Of Bolivia and the town Of
Oruro. In this part Of Bolivia there
are no growing trees and wood Is so
a.