The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-18
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


year.
The Argentine government has re-
ceived authority from the Chamber of
Deputies to expend $70,000,000 on arm
aments for naval increase, including
two battleships, and the purchase Of
artillery material and rifles.
Japan makes 10000 to $4,000 bicy-
cles yearly and also imports 10000,
besides separate parts enough to make
$4,000. The country now has $4,000
in use, mostly for business purposes.
The demand for tires is 200 pairs
daily, two-thirds of which are i'm
ported.
Census returns in India show some
remarkably candid statements. In AL
lahabad thirty-fve citizens described
themselves as "men who rob with
threats of violence" There were twen-
ty-five hereditary thieves" There
were nine professional false wit
nesSes."
New York ice skaters are to enjoy
their sports 800 feet in the air when
the latest rink is completed on the roof
of an office building on the corner of
Broadway and Twenty-third street. AS
the building will not be completed until
May 1, the skaters will have to wait
until next winter.
Canadians are accommodating money
| at much faster rate than the banks
and business men can profitably invest
/ 1t there. The Ottawa October bank
statement showed a decrease of $64,-
100000 in home loans in one year and
an increase of 100000 in the loans
made abroad, says a consular report
Booker L. Washington, in an adj
iress to negroes at Montgomery, Ala,
recently, said: "Since the emancipa-
ton proclamation by Abraham Lincoln
there has been no benefit conferred
upon the negroes of the South equal to
that conferred by the closing up Of
The barrooms throughout these South
crn States. and we should show our
gratitude by seeing TO it in every way
possible that we help the officials en-
i force the temperance law and that we
TO not patronize the blind tigers and
other institutions which are likely to
spring up in defiance Of law"
Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett is the
only woman who has ever been asked
to address the University Debating
Society at Oxford. At the request Of
the students she took woman suffrage
as her subject At the end of her
speech a resolution i'll favor of woman
suffrage was put and lost by ma
5ority of sixteen. There is a rumOr
that Mrs Julia Ward Howe will in
the near future receive a similar in
yitation from Harvard. Those who
! pretend to be Informed assert that
! Harvard's majority against woman
suffrage would be many times greater
than OXford's.
Prof. Kirsopp Lake. who holds the
chair Of New Testament exegesis in
the University Of Leyden, has complet-
ed the work of photographing the
""Codex SiIaiticus,' one of the three
Oldest New Testament manuscripts.
The manuscript, which is written ON
yellum in capital letters, four columns
of writing to the page, was discovered
by Tischendorf in monastery on
Mount Athos some sixty years ago
| and is surpassed in age only by the
Vatican manuscript. The third of
these yellum manuscripts of the New
Testament is the "Codex Alexandrinus"
in the British Museum.
DR.. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson,
mayor of Eldeburgh, England, gave a
dinner recently to forty councillors and
other guests. She was the only woman
present, and she Wore a black dress,
with a widows cap and diamonds. Re-
plying to the toast, "Aldeburgh's Pros
perity,'' she said that during her year
of Office she would try her best to
prove good, motherly housekeepel to
the town. She declared that nothing
could be done by talking, but a great
deal by the councillors agreeing to take
action and work together for the good
of the town, She hoped to better the
roads and to make the town more at
tractive to visitors.
The Bishop of Durham England. la
ments the fact that Every formidable
degree Of English Christian life in the
neglect and isolation of the Lords day.
has set in and blames 'the pernicious
custom of the weekend" 1.-The very
day." he says, when the charities of
home should be in their strength, when
the family should meet with special
devotion for home worship, and. should
also meet, a family amidst other fami-
lies, in the church which is the center
of the surrounding religious life-life
in which the family should have a re-
sponsible parts now too often the
day for separation, Incidence, irrespon-
sible acknowledgement
Observations in India indicate that
just as agricultural land, after many
repetitions Of the same crops becomes
exhausted for that particular species,
so in forest lands, after long periods,
the seedlings may fail owing to changes
in the soil, and new varieties may take
their place. Forests Of blue pine in
that country have been observed to
fail, the deodar tree tending to take
the place Of pine. In another case for
ests of pine and oak have been found,
each invading and tending to take I'D