The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-08-19
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY
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Boys grow most rapidly in theil
seventeenth year; girls in their fiji
teenth.
A Dutch newspaper cOntroverts the
prevailing notion that sandy soil i:
essential to the cultivation of bulbs.
Miss Margaret Ashton, sister-in-laW
of James Bryce, has been elected
town councillor in her native town in
England.
Recent successes in the art of sky
sailing have stimulated the toy de
signers, and already there are mum
Der of f1ying-machine toys to amuse
the children.
Italian women may not engage in
any industrial pursuit which occupies
their time at night. Males under 10
years of age are also barred from
/ night work.
The stock of gold in European
banks is greater by nearly 100000
than it was year ago. The increase
in the Bank of France alone has been
about $140,000,000.
Two big vessels for use in the Pa
Mitsubishi dockyards for the Oriental
Steamship Company One is of 1850
tons and two of $3.50 tons each.
! Opalescent glass for use in the man
ufacture of stained glass windows is
made in lnls country in a manner
| which can not be duplicated and this
material is shipped all over Europe.
Prof Kirsopp Lake. of Leiden, has
undertaken the preparation of photo
graphic facsimile of the New Tesla
ment leaves of the COdex Sinaiticus.
The work is being done at Oxford, by
the Oxford University Press, and is
to be completed this year.
There are more than twenty varie-
ties of tulips to be found growing wild
in the country about Florence, the
earliest of these, scarlet one with
very handsome flowers, being general
ly found among the corn; later on
there is dainty, small, striped red
and white one, and various lovely yell
lows, in shades varying from pale
lemon to deep orange tint, with re-
fiex petals.-"In a Tuscan Garden"
In 1905 the value of buttons manu-
featured in the United States, as given
in a special report of the Census Blu
reau, was $10,074,S72. This was an
increase of 1854, 709, or 66.5 per cent
over the value of the product in 1900.
OF the total button product rearl but
tons constituted nearly one-half (4S.3)
per cent?, or $4,870,274 in value. Over
two-thirds of the pearl buttons were
made from fresh-water shells and the
rest from ocean shells.
Before he entered politics, boss Shep-
herd was an employing plumber in
Washington, afterward turning the
business over to a younger brother. He
made most of his money by taking adj
vantage of his knowledge of where
contemplated improvements were to
be carried out at the public expense.
When the new government Of the Dis
trict of Columbia was 2created, Shep-
herd got out in disgust; buying a sill
yer mine in Mexico, where he died.
New York Press.
Miss Mary E. Richmond, general
secretary of the Society for Organized
Charity in Philadelphia, has been
elected secretary of the Russell Sage
Foundation for the Improvement of
Social and Living Conditions. She
will write, teach and organize along
the lines of social science, in which she
has been successful in Philadelphia
during the last twenty years. She will
have charge of all the work of the
Foundation relating to the extensions
of charity organizations.
One of the highest authorities in the
automobile trade gives it as his opin-
ion that the value of the output for
the current year will reach the stu
pendous figure of $125,000,000. This
is the product of 1853 factories, 100 of
which are operated on a large scale
and manufacture all but small por-
ton of the machines. The same au-
thority places the value of the plants
which turn out these machines at
$500, O00,0 0O When it is considered
that this business has been developed
almost entirely in eleven years the fig
ures are astounding-Omaha Bee.
Two years ago the heads of large in
dustries in Providence, r. l. and
neighboring towns started plan for
the elimination Of contagiOn from their
works by cooperating with special
list. They aimed to discover whether
any employees suffered from tuberculo-
sis, and to aid any such in getting EN-
ployment where the chance of check
ing the malady would be greater than
in the shop or factory. Coupled with
constant watchfulness special sanitary
measures were taken to reduce the liza
bility to contagion. Tie effect has
been to check the progress of the dis
ease. In Massachusetts physicians are
now employed by the State to act as
factory inspectors, with power to rern.
edy unhygienic conditions Tuberculo-
sis is naturally the chief concern in
this work.
Jules Huret, in recently publish
ed article in Figaro, continues his
criticism of the German people be-
cause of their lack of humor Moth
ing, he says can better illustrate the
low level of their sense of humor than
the expression of Frenchman who