The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-10
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

feathers of the wild ostrich are

iXed at $1.iS a week.
Peanut cake seems to be supplant-
ing cotton seed cake as the preferred
food for Swedish cattle.
Vacuum suction combs are now in
use in stables to curry horses. An
electrically driven fan produces the
necessary vacuum.
height of more than twenty feet. The
price of the product is s and 9 cents
B pound at the plantation.
The wireless apparatus on the Gu
nard liner Caronia is the most power
full of any in steamship service, nav
ing a radius of 1,200 miles.
A new windmill apparatus for gen.
Grating electricity for farm use has
been perfected in England. A storage
battery supplies the current when the
wind is not blowing.
At one of the most important gro
ceries in Hamburg they think they
are doing well to dispose of thirty
to forty pounds a month Of sweet po-
tatoes to resident Americans.
American cranberries sell at 16 to
20 cents a quart in London. Outside
Of the metropolis there Is small de-
mand for the succulent berry in Eng
land, largely owing to an imperfect
comprehension Of the means of MAX
ing 1t palatable. About sixty or sew
enty barrels each season are
in Paris, where the retail price is 80
cents a pound.
1t was a year ago that he London
| post Office directory contained for the
first time among the list OF trades
"aeropiane manufacturers" There was
only one then, but now six are emu
merated under that heading. Substd-
larry trades are springing up. Two
firms announce themselves as aero
plane engine manufacturers, two are
%aeroplane fabric makers and there is
one propeller maker, as well as a
provider Of ~"aeroplane timber and
bends"
Whitefield, one OF the founders Of
Methodism, who died in 1870, was a
strenuous preacher. His usual pro-
gram was forty hours solid speaking
each week, and this to congregations
measured in thousands, but he often
spoke sixty hours a week. This was
not all. For latter his labors, instead
of taking rest, he was engaged in Of
fering up prayers and intercessions or
in singing hymns, as his amer was.
in every house to which he was in
vited."
Is a woman ever justified in poi
goning her husband? The question is
suggested by a recent incident In
Servia. Sara Chumitch seems to have
had an undesirable husband, for he
was a notorious and implacable usurer.
At the moment when he was about to
ruin several families who were in
debt MS wife interviewed and poisoned
him. Next day she received a letter
OF gratitude, signed by hundreds of
citizens. She was acquitted by the
jury and left the court amid cheering
crowds.
Says the Pekin and Tien-Tsin Times:
"a novel sort Of crime was discov-
cred by the Tien-Tsin police when a
portly native was arrested and asked
to explain his embonpoint. He had a.
thieves bag around his waist, filed
with dead cats to the number Of seven,
One of them. a very fine specimen of
the tortoise shell, was still quite warm.
In a smaller bag was found the lure;
it consisted of bits of dried fish treated
with some deadly poison. The man
was sent up to the yamen, where he
received thirty blows and one months
Imprisonment"
Ernesto Nathan, Mayor of Rome,
who declined on several occasions to
accept a decoration from King Victor
Emmanuel, was finally forced by a
clever ruse on the part of the king
to take the grand cross of the row
of Italy. Nathan was making a call
at the Quirinal, and when about to
depart was asked to take from the
queen a little parcel to his wife. The
box contained the decoration, which
the mayor was compelled to accept,
and by virtue of which he became a
member of the small fraternity Of
which his sovereign is the head.
Although the use of telephones in
mines is not of recent origin, the adj
vantages are, perhaps, hardly really
appreciated until they have once been
tried. Probably ateno time in the his
tory of mining has there been a great
er demonstration of the great need of
telephones in mines than at the Cher
nv coal mine disaster. How many more
lives could have been saved had the
mine been fully equipped with tele-
phones is entirely problematical, but
it is certain that the number would
have beer greater a opportunity
been afforded for communication be-
tween the rescuers and the entombed
men.-Phi1adelphia Record.
Employees of the Krupp works can
easily be distinguished, even when at
tired in their Sunday best. Every
workman, on his enrolment, is pre-
rented with a curiously fashioned scarf
pin. composed of a miniature artillery
shell made of platinum and set in sill
yer. After twenty years service he
receives a second pin, modelled on the
same lines and mounted. in gold. The
higher grades of employees, including
the engineers and those employed in
the counting house, wear their shells
in the form of sleeve links. The work
men are very proud of the distinction,
which they call the Order Of the Shell,