Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-19
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


Nj. Paris, young scientist of the
Pasteur Institute. claims TO have dis
covered the secret how to make sap
phires.
In an English village an official no
tice reads as follows: The public are
warned against using the well for do
nestle purposes unless previously
boiled"
}. Pierpont Morgan belongs to thirty
five clubs, and his membership dues fig
ure over $1,000 annually August Bel
mont is member of thirty-four and
Chauncey II. Depew belongs to thirty
two.
A company has been organized in
Georgia with a capital of $3,000000,
for the purpose of developing Suwan
nee Falls to furnish electricity for the
operation Of electric railroads TO be
constructed in Southern Georgia and
Florida.
The ideal meal consists of bread, but
ter and cheese, according to DIR. ]. E.
Squire. who delivered a lecture to the
British National Health Society. "These
| foods" he said, contain all the ele-
ments necessary for The proper work.
Ing of the body. and thus form COM
plete meal"
| While there is an abundance Of suit
able timber in Brazil, it is difficult to
| find many districts where the trecS
suitable for lumber are close enough
together for profitable work. Trans
portation causes much difficulty, often
making it impossible TO transport logs
to a mill or lumber to a market.
| Lincoln's ancestry has been traced to
Samuel Lincoln, who lived at Norwich.
England Emigrating to America, he
settled at bingham, Mass, in 1888.
Some Of his descendants, who were
Quakers. settled in Rockingham coun-
| ty, Va. The presidents grandfather
removed to Kentucky. Thomas Lincoln,
the presidents father, was carpen-
| ter.
A Zurich newspaper published the
following advertisement In English:
Residing board house among a charm
ing set of mountains Very beseem-
ing for families or singular individuals.
Swallowed glades and amiable places
| for resting for guests of the cure. All
facilities for mountainous expeditions.
Excellent kitchen, with lager beer run
ming from the tap"
The Rev. DR.. John H. DeForest, a
veteran Congregational missionary, at
Senday, Japan. has been decorated by
the imperial government with the Or
der Of the Rising Sun, the distinction
having been conferred In recognition Of
his services In dispelling anti-Japanese
misconceptions among Americans. DIR.
Deforest has been doing mission work
in Japan for thirty-five years
Prof. Frances Spire Porter, whose
paper read before the Buffalo conven-
ton for equal suffrage attracted much
attention, is the mother OF four child
rem. Besides her work as professor of
English at the University of Minneso-
ia, she finds time to do considerable
writing. She has just completed her
second novel, has written a successful
play, and is frequently called upon to
lecture on economic subjects.
venison was selling not long ago in
Vermont for s cents cheaper than good
beef, for the slaughter of deer was un-
precedented this year. The usual bag
for the state is about seven hundred
and fifty, but careful estimates indi-
cate that upward &C two thousand deer
be taken out Of the state except by a
hunter from out of the state who has
paid a IS license fee, most of it re-
manned to afford cheap living while 1t
lasted.
Paris is at present interested in the
maharajah Of Kapurthala, who Is
there with his wife, whom he first met
In Madrid as a dancing girl. Anita
Delgado was graceful and beautiful,
and the maharajah lost no time In win
ming her regard. He took her to Paris
to be trained for the position she was
to occupy and she developed into a
handsome woman of dignity and pres
ence. Later he carried her to his home
In India and last winter married her
with Oriental ceremony.
In q letter to the Boston Transcript
favoring humane education In the pub
lie schools, correspondent says: I'm
one public school in London, England,
where. in the course of twenty years,
1000 children were given a thorough
| humane education during this period,
which would make many Of these boys
men of twenty-five and thirty -fve), not
one of them was ever arrested for q
criminal offense. demonstrating the
value of humane education to prevent
crime, as well as cruelty"
Nine. Johanna Gadski has brought
to this country a fad that has become
quite the rage in Germany, where 1t
was introduced by no less parsonage
than the crown princess herself. 1t is
a new form of visiting card, containing
not only an deliberately engraved Dor
der, but a silhouette of the person 1t
represents The custom calls for a de
sign appropriate to the holders station.
Thus, In Nine. Gadski's case the prlma
donna's head is framed in a border of
laurel, while a Tyre forms the base OF
the design. The card is not only
unique, but exceedingly pretty and eff
fective.
Lincoln had four sons. They were
Robert Todd Lincoln, born on August
/, 1S43; Edward Baker Lincoln, born
on March 10, 1916; William Wallace
Lincoln, born on December p, 1850
Thomas Lincoln, born on April 4, 1883.
Robert Todd Lincoln is the only living
son Of the martyred president. He is
the head Of the Pullman Car Company
In Chicago. Edward Baker Lincoln
died in infancy. William Wallace Lin