The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-07-01

81 per cent are under fifty acres,
whereas only 31a per cent are over
800 acres.
Of late there has been an extrordi-
nary development of service in fine,
new, modern fast ships between South
America and ports in England, Ger
many and Italy.
One kind of Mexican pineapple,
known as the cayenne, is entirely
free from spines, and the flesh is much
more tender and juicy. These cost
up to Is cents apiece, and the demand
is far ahead of the supply.
The city of Los Angeles has solved
the pole nuisance to large extent by
providing joint pole committee,
whose object is to eliminate unneces-
sary poles and cause the various COM
panies to run their lines on the same
poles. The committee has been at work
for two years, and 10000 poles are now
being used jointly by the different
companies.
This worlds most powerful search
light is now part of the equipment of
the Connecticut of the United States
navy. The great mirror is five feet in
diameter and was made for the govern
ment in Germany. The searchlight
will throw such a powerful stream of
light that it will be able to detect
submarine or torpedo boat at dis
lance of ten miles.
Later information on the results OF
Lieutenant Shackleton's expedition to
the Antarctic revealed much that was
not discussed in the preliminary dis
patches. 1t is now brought out plain
ly that the south magnetic pole, like
the north magnetic pole, shifts its po-
sition The discovery will enable geo.
graphers to revise the magnetic charts,
and this will render navigation safer.
That the German government be-
lieves ships of war will be much big
ger in the future is shown by the en-
largement of the Kaiser Wilhelm
canal, which is to be deepened at once
to thirty-six feet, with provision for a
later deepening, If necessary, to forty
six feet The width of the canal is to
be doubled. The new dimensions of
the locks will considerably exceed
those at Panama.
Justice Clark, of the Supreme Court,
sitting at Rochester, recently had
word to say for people who go about
public highways on foot. Addressing
the grand jury, he declared: 'The au-
tomobile is an institution which has
come to stay. But the pedestrian was
here first. He has certain defined
rights. One of these is that he must
be protected in travelling on the pub
lie highways. Careless, reckless and
criminal operation of automobiles must
be stopped
Measurements by scientists bring out
the interesting fact that the Ameri-
can college athlete of to-day is much
larger man than his father was. and
is constantly growing. The average
height of the Yale athlete to-day is an
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years ago; he is twenty-five pounds
heavier with three inches more chest
development and forty-two cubic
inches more lung capacity; the aver
age height of the Yale athletes is now
5 feet go inches, and their weight
exactly 170.5 pounds. At an examina-
ton of Harvard athletes Professor Sar-
gent found that they were an inch tall
er and from four to five pounds
heavier than were the students of
thirty years ago.
The Bishop of London made some
striking statements when he presid-
ed over the annual meeting of the Lon
don diocesan branch of the Church
of England Temperance Society. He
said, with reference to the great for
ward movement in the temperance
cause in England which is to begin
in the autumn: IT am not going to
sit down, and I hope the society is
not going to sit down, under drink
bill of $830,000,000. People are talk
ing about the cost of Dreadnoughts.
Let any school child reckon how many
Dreadnoughts we are drinking every
year. Then, again, sixty thousand of
our fellow countrymen and women per-
ish annually from strong drink.
An odd judicial sentence was
brought to light the other day from
a lot of musty old records of Ashe
County, North Carolina. 1t was the
formal Judgment of conviction of one
Carter Wilmington on charge of per-
Jury. and read: Fined ten pounds
and the said Carter Wilmington stand
in the pillory for one hour, at the ex-
piration of which time both his ears
be cut off and entirely severed from
his head, and that his ears SO cut off
be nailed to the pillory and there to
remain until the setting of the SUM-
and that the sheriff of this county
carry this judgment Immediately into
execution, and that the said Carter
Wilmington be confined until the fine
and fees are paid"
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