The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-04
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India's gold output in 1908 was
worth $12,000,000, or about an eighth
Of that in the United States.
Pekin has had British, French, Ger
man and japanese banks since 1o02,
and Is now likely to have an American
bank, also.
The British Protectorate Of northern
Nigeria, Africa, has an area Of 100000
square miles, and a population Of at
least 100000 Railways are being
built there.
Consul Charles VI. Freeman Of Du-
range City, Mexico, writes that nearly
all OF the engineers, conductors, master
mechanics, station agents and chief
officers of Mexican railroads are Amer
leans. Few openings exist, though, for
Americans in the mercantile line.
Trade of the United States with the
Republic of Panama in the last five
years amounted to about $66,000,000.
OF this total, $6,OOO,00O, speaking in
round terms, represented the value Of
the imports from Panama, and $60,00O,-
600, still speaking in round terms, was
the value of merchandise exported to
Panama.
The District of Columbia comprises
an area of 69,245 square miles. The
government consists of two civilian
commissioners appointed by the Presi-
dent and confirmed by the Senate, and
one army engineer officer, detailed by
the secretary of war, the three consti-
tuting the board of commissioners for
three years.
Turkey is to have a new national
headquarters at Constantinople. It's
starting capital is to be S15,000,000,
with the right to increase to $50,000,-
eco. The capital, $15,00O,00O, of the
present Credit Foncier, may be in
creased to $100,000,000. The concession
for the new bank is for ninety-nine
years, and it will have branches in all
the large cities of the empire.-Con-
sular Reports.
Some queer advertisements appear in
the Australian papers. Here is one
from a recent issue of the Sydney
Morning Herald: 'Wanted-Some
kind person to adopt young gentleman
absolutely homeless and deserted; pres
ent boarding house just sold out; guar
anteed harmless. Please be quick" 1t
reads like joke, but people, as a rule,
do not pay advertisement rates for the
publication of their Decentralization
don Chronicle.
Brazil grows several kinds of Eng
lish potatoes as we'll as the sweet pO-
tato. Our English potatoes are OF va
rious colors, red, white, violet and
yellow. The violet colored potato is
the most nutritious, but the white po-
tato, which contains large quantity
of starchy matter, is best for the man.
ufacture of starch and for the fatten-
ing of pigs. When the raising Of pigs
is more developed the cultivation of the
sweet potato will also be greatly in
South Boston boasts the most modern
type of portable schoolhouse, which has
lust been put into commission. The
building may be taken apart and set
up with less difficulty and at less ex-
pense than the older types, because it is
lighter and because of the use of bolts
instead of screws and nails in its con-
struction. The material is California
redwood and the building, which is
twenty by forty-two feet, is designed
to accommodate forty-five pupils. The
lighting, heating and ventilating sys-
TENS are excellent. The cost was
$1,000.
When knights were clad IN complete
armor from top to toe it was essential
that they should bear some sign by
which their followers could distinguish
them in battle, and this was the func-
ton of their armOrial bearings.
Knights who omitted to wear their own
arms ran considerable risk, and it is
related that at the battle of Bannock-
burn the last of the Declares owed his
death to his omission to wear his bear
ings He was slain unrecognized,
whereas had he been known he would
have been held prisoner for the sake
of ransom or as hostage.-The Eng
lishman.
The Bureau of Statistics announces
tba+ in 1873 the number of nairs of
boots and shoes exported from the
United States was but 351 900; IN 1888.
$4,000; in 1898, 1907 ,000. and in 1908,
1852, OOO The value of these exporta-
lions in 1873 was S46S,OOO; in 1888,
$3.50, 900; in 1898, $1.S17, 900, and in
1908, $11,470,0O0. The United King
dom sends abroad more shoes than the
United States, the number of pairs hav-
ing reached 9,442, 296 during the last
fiscal year but they had value of
only $9,93O,356, or $1.05 per pair. while
those exported from this country aver
aged $1.S4 per pair.
In the year 1714 one Daniel Gabriel
Fahrenheit brought to the chancellor
of the University of Halle two Their
mometers which agreed so perfectly
in registering temperatures that they
were considered marvels. All scientists
were amazed. His method is now one
of the three accepted standards. Fab
renheit was by birth Prussian, bat
after his fifteenth year he lived long