The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-25
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


operating a mica mine near KOdarma,
India on the East India railway, about
25O miles from Calcutta. Seven humid
red hands are employed under a prac-
tical American mica man.
Contracts have been let for Winni-
pegs new municipal electric power
plant, to cost approximately $1,O14,70O
The Winnipeg Electric Railway Com
pany has three times offered to sell
it's Lac du Bonnet plant to the city.
Preliminary work for the construc-
ton of India's large new steel plant
near Kalimati station is making good
Roadway. The plant on the Ramrana
manganese property has proved to be
of the highest value. A forty-five mile
railway is already under construction.
John Brown was executed at Harp
ers Ferry on Dec, 2, 1859. 1t was short
ly after II o'clock in the morning Tive
thousand Virginia soldiers were ranged
around the scaffold when he was
brought from his prison house and
placed in a wagon which was to convey
The curator of the museum at Brus-
sells has just been pursuing an interest
ing claim in the Belgian courts. In
May last Nine. Bouriant, the widow of
an Egyptologist, offered to the museum
two scarabs with Inscriptions, which
! the lady claimed related to a voyage on
the coast Of Africa referred to by Hero
dotus. The curator purchased the sea-
rabs for $4,000, and, as may be mag
ined, they created great deal of inter
est in the learned world, the final judg-
ment Of which was that the so-called
antiquities were forgeries. M. Capart,
the CURATOR has sued the widow for
the return Of the purchase price and
the courts have decided in his favor.
From the War Department comes no
| tice of an interesting relic formerly the
property of President Lincoln. Upon
the occasion of his memorable visit to
Gettysburg the President cut with his
own hands a cane, which he afterward
presented to his War Secretary, Edwin
NJ Stanton, by whom 1t was naturally
| highly priced. This cane is now in the
possession of Mr.. Jahncke, president of
the Jahncke Navigation Company Of
| New Orleans, who married q grand
daughter of Secretary Stanton. 1t has
gold top with an engraved inscrip-
ton, which was probably placed on
the treasured souvenir by Secretary
| Stanton.-National Magazine
Few Swiss scholars have had more
brilliant career than the new principal
of the University of Lausanne. DR.. ii.
Charles Louis Blanc was born in Lau-
same, fifty years ago and began his
studies at one Of the primary schools
in the city. At nineteen he took his de-
gree in science, afterward going, as SO
many Swiss scholars have done, to Ger
many, first to Stuttgart. then to the
University of Fribourg- en-Brisgau,
where he won his doctorate in philoso-
ply with honors. Since then he has
made his mark as zoologist, and now
enjoys European reputation. He has
had a hand in research work and in
experimenting geological museums in
Switzerland and in Germany.
There is at present an interesting ex-
hibit in No. 6 tank at the Brighton
Aquarium, says the London Globe. 1t is
something like a dogfsh, only much
larger, while in the matter of sheer
ugliness it stands unrivaled. Its tech
nical name is the topper shark. 1t is
six feet long and weighs from eighty to
ninety pounds, while its mouth looks
large enough to take an elephant single
handed. The shark came into the pos
session Of the aquarium in rather a
curious manner. man named Lane
Of Brighton was fishing some two miles
off the Palace pier with long line,
when he felt vicious tug at his hook.
He quickly "hauled in his slack" and
then the topper came to light. Mr.. Lane
at once hurried ashore and placed the
topper in his new home
Consul ]. N. McCun Of Glasgow, fur
nishes the following information con-
corning he waste in coal consumption
and the prevention Of smoke and dust,
as recently presented to his associates
by the chairman Of the Glasgow and
West of Scotland Technical College:
1.-THE more recent knowledge on these
subjects showed that in most cases
smoke and dust were quite unnecessary
concomitants Of industry. Investiga-
lions of the recent royal commission ON
coal supplies have shown that the pres
ent inefficient consumption Of coal in
Great Britain leads to waste Of from
100000 to 100000 tons per annum,
and is also responsible for the greater
proportion of smoke and dust from
which they suffer. Thirty per cent of
the total British consumption Of coal
might be saved by employing the best
known means for such purpose"
There was recently introduced in the
House Of Representatives bill for the
purchase of the house in Tenth street,
Washington, in which Abraham Lin
coin died on April 10, 1865. The bill
PROPOSES the acquisition Of the two adj
Joining houses and the entire collection
of the Oldroyd relics of Lincoln, of
which there are some 5000 pieces in
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