Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-02-09
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


Longwood. the house Napoleon occu.
pied on st. Helena, was given to the
French by Queen Victoria
New York city ranks high as lover
OF dogs. The sales of dogs for the last
year amounted to about $4,000.
The United States consumes more
than half Of the worlds production OF
sugar. This means 5000, 600, 900 pounds
a year.
The greatest monolith of modern
times is the Alexander column In Adj
miralty Square. st. Petersburg. 1t is
eighty feet in height and weighs 400
tons.
Great Britain would like to rid itself
OF rats. Recently deputation from
the Incorporated Society for the De-
struction Of Yermin, headed by Sir
James Crichton Browne and the Duke
OF Bedford, waited upon Lord earring
ton at the offices of the British Board
or Agriculture and urged him to APP
point a commission to inquire into
the destruction of crops by rats.
Mr.. Knox will be our fourth mono
syllable Secretary of State since 1897.
He succeeds Root, who succeeded Hay.
who succeeded Day. The earlier mon
osyllabic Secretaries of State were
Smith, Clay, Case, Black, Fish and
Blaine. Only one Secretary of State
Frelinghuysen-had four-syllable
name. There are seven syllable
names In the list and twenty-one two
syllable names.
The record compiled BY the Journal
of Commerce shows that In the year
now closed there were issued by vari-
GUS corporations of new bonds, notes
and stocks, to the nominal value of l.
this is an increase. com
pared with 1907, of nearly $4,000
O00 New securities authorized, though
only partially distributed. amounted to
81, 1S9,000,O00, or eighty-seven and one
fifth millions more than In the prev
ious year.
When the German Emperor was the
guest of the Archduke Franz Ferdi-
nand at Eckarstan for deer shooting he
spoke every day to his encourage at
Berlin over a special telephone line
This wire, forty miles long, was spe-
cially laid at great expense to suit the
kaiser's convenience for few DAYS.
and because the ordinary wires did not
carry the voice clearly enough. To
prevent the Kaiser's telephone talk be-
ing overheard all other lines were dis
connected before his majesty began to
speak.
Chief among the natural riches of
Asia Minor are the vast forests which
cover the interior mountain ranges of
the country. In the Vilayet of Smyrna,
for example, there are 100000 acres
Of valuable woodland, which comprise
nearly one-eighth of the entire vilayet
Or province. The kinds Of timber con-
sist chiefly in larch, oak, lockwood.
pine, cypress and cedar. In the vilayet
Of Adana there are 100000 acres of
Forest and there is considerable TIM
Der, tar aud resin explored from the
port of Mersina every year.
Miss Ella G. Wilcox has been elect.
I'd to the School Board Of Maiden,
Mass. This is looked upon as a great
triumph by the women of Maiden, as
both political parties refused to NOM
nate her and she was forced to run
Independently. In Everett Miss Belle
D. Curtis was elected to the same Of
ice without opposition. In Somerville
he regular Republican candidate de-
Gated Mrs Mary b. Brewer on the
citizens ticket, while In Ha gerhill
Hiss Anne Wheeler was elected by a
handsome majority over her male COM
EDITORS.
Mrs. Jennie L. Doane OF Brockton, |
lass, has been appointed to admin
ster the 100000 estate Of the late r.
I. Packard and also is to have COM
'lete control Of his large shoe fac |
DRY. Mr.. Packard died suddenly with |
ut making will. His heirs were q
rother and two sisters, none of whom
new anything about his business. Mrs.
)oane had been in the employ of Mr..
'ackard for number of years and he
ad often spoken of her ability to his
elatiyes, declaring that she had more
rains than any two men OF his ac.
uaintance. For that reason his heirs
sked to have her appointed and put
a full charge of his business.
The mineral wealth of Asia Minor is
roverbial In me Vilayet of Smyrna
here are about sixty mines being
'orked under flremans and seventy
We under licenses. On the shores of
ne Black sea the coal fields OF Her,
clea form an actual source of vast
otential wealth to the Turkish En-.
ire. The beds extend Ion, the shores
Z the Black sea for nearly forty miles
nd run inland, coming to an apex at
ngora, a distance Of nearly 200 miles.
he coal, though lying In very thick
cams, contains too many impurities
,r it to compete with English coal
Ecept after being hand picked and
,reened.
An Austrian inventor appears to
ave solved the problem OF the regu-
tion Of clocks by wireless telegraphy,
hich has heretofore been rendered
Ificult because Of the various disturb
Il influences in the atmosphere The
.ntral clock On this inventor sends
signal only once every sixty seconds
I'd the clocks to be controlled are
-ovided with apparatus which Will re-
i've the Hertzian waves for that sec
Id only, while for the remaining fifty
ne they are unaffected by any Hert-
an waves. In case OF a disturbance
lring the one second when they arc
circuit with the receiver. the dis ,
rbing wave may set the clock In
,rrectly, and for the next minute II |
III be a fraction OF second fast or !
DIV. However. this inaccuracy will
corrected by the master clock min |