The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-09-16
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

The price of a gOndola ride in
Venice has been increased from a
franc to franc and half.
The London Lancet says six hun
dred children of leprous parents are
being educated by the Mission of
Lepers, and the children show no signs
of leprosy.
For the year ended March 81, 1908,
the municipal gas department of Bir-
mingham, England, was able to con-
tribute $347,754 to the reduction of
city taxation.
Death from fright in the first stages
of ether and chloroform before con-
| seriousness is lost Is best avoided by
letting the patient hold and inhale the
stuff himself.
| The seaweed known as Irish moss
Is used to some extent as food by
the peasantry along the coasts, also
as jelly for invalids, and as stiffen-
| ing for calico in the printing process.
Bermuda producers are beginning to
find it more profitable to meet the
wants of the increasing influx of Wis
itors than to compete with the Gulf
and South Atlantic truck farmers in
the New York markets.
DR.. Roberts suggestion in 1881 of
sewing wounds Of the heart was re-
ceived as a joke. DR.. REIN, of Ger
many, in 1897 got the first recovery
from heart wound. Altogether there
have been sixteen such operations.
with seven amazing recoveries.
In answer to the question, What
passages in holy scripture bear upon
cruelty to animals7" one boy said:
Cruel people often cut dogs tails and
ears, but the Bible says, Those whom
God hath joined together let no man
put asunder.' Christian Register.
DR.. Wurtzen has had great results
In many cases of smallpox. quick cures
and no pitting. He keeps the patient
in total darkness. and finds Finsen's
red light treatment uncertain No
white light is allowed even for Sec
ond, but red light lamps are momen-
tarily used to examine patients.
There are 1890 Young Mems Chris
tian Associations in Germany-only
1889 in America; yet, where the Ger
man associations have but 117,000
members, the American have 100000
And German association property
holdings have a value of s2,400,000,
contrasted with value of $40,000,000
in America.
Although the young oriental under
stood ordinary methods and occur
rences very well in his new California
abiding place. he occasionally found
puzzle. Japanese boy pretty smart
when he can speak American in
year." he said. "but Missouri boy he
speak good after he has been here
only six months"
In commenting on and gloating over
the ocean breezes which tear 10 from
the eastward over Massachusetts Bay
Boston paper rubs it in by saying:
What an experience 1t Is TO read the
Cincinnati Enquirer's vivid account of
the general suffocation in the Ohio
and Miami valleys, and then call for
an extra blanket and go to sieep!"
Devil fish weighing up to 200
pounds are sometimes caught In Japan
These fish are amphibious; they are
often seen wobbling on their tentacles
like giant spiders in search Of patches
q 10 IxiN
them with clubs. In the water they
hre caught in jars lowered 20 the bot
tom. which the octopus enters. think
ing them a good retreat from which
to catch its food.
The wooden front corsets OF George
III. time were commonly worn by
handles, as shown In Hogarth's por-
traits. The doughty warriors of Gus
favus Adolphus wore corsets to man.
Catherine de Medici loved small waists
Ind poison. She introduced the ruff
md a thirteen-inch waist This mon
ster invented steel corset. No wonder
The portraits Of that day look SO SOL
New York Press
Whalebone was first used by Queen
Bess. James. after her compelled all
men and women courtiers to have
wasp waists. Terence. 16G B. c.,
speaks of town ladies who saddle
their backs and straight lace their
waists to make them well shaped
May "a, 1865. Item: For nine ellis,
Paris measure, for summer robes.
corsets, and cloaks for the same" from
diary of Eleanor, countess of Leices-
ter. First mention of corsets.
This is a story told by a commercial
traveller after trip through southern
Canada: Being impatient to get out
of sleepy little town hurried to
the station. After a while an object
slowly emerged from the distance and
skunk up alongside. / boarded the
solitary coach and, after tedious
wait, the engine began. to gasp feebly,
the old coach creaked little, but the
train did not move. / was about to
get out to see what was the matter
when the forward door Of the coach
was suddenly flung open and head
popped in. Hey, YOU said the en-
gineer, leering at me, climb off till /
get start, will YEP"
A poor foreign musician was dogged-
ly wrestling with his trombone out
side village inn. He knew that