The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-24
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


According to the United States cen
sus tables, based on the present
growth, the population of New York
City will be 5000, 900 in 1880. Man
1attan island will then have 1000, 900.
Siam has adopted the gold stand
ard, which really was promulgated in
1908, and henceforth the unit of the
oiamese monetary system will have a
value equal to sos centigrams of pure
gold.
Baltimore's school board has under
consideration the question of allowing
corporal punishment in the public
schools. The subject has been referred
70 a committee, to confer with the
.eachers.
Portuguese gardeners at Punta Del
gada, on st. Michaels, Azores, are get
ting rich raising fine ~pineapples un-
der glass for the New York market.
They are the biggest and best that
reach hat town.
French lights are the best along the
shores, say the navigators. They are
posted low, close to the water line, and
so do not mislead like the Italian
pharos perched high above the sea.
They have the best lenses and are al
ways visible.
The project for building a new iron
railway bridge across the Neva in ST.
Petersburg has now been worked out,
and the bridge is to be begun with
out delay. The bridge will be of an
extremely simple pattern, and it's
length is to be 1850 feet.
The last statement of the interest
bearing debt of the United States
makes the total 1897, 253, 800, while the
gross bonded Indebtedness of New York
city at fits last statement was $685.
260,115. The metropolis is carrying
5000, 125 more than the nation.
The common law of England is an
ancient collection Of unwritten max
inns and customs of British, Saxon and
Danish origin, which, by long use and
approval, have become fundamental in
English Jurisprudence. Many of the
principles of the English common law
hold in this country, and throughout
the English-speaking world as well.
There has recently been launched at
Bath, Me-, the largest wooden vessel
ever built in the United States. The
Wyoming. as she has been named, is a
;ix-masted schooner of 3,730 gross tons,
with a total length over all of $50
feet. Next to her in size among wood
en- vessels is the William L. Douglas,
with a gross tonnage Of 3,708.
AS to the name Smith. a correspond
lent of the London Chronicle points out
that while there are now about $4,000
members of the great family in Eng
land alone, in Old Testament times, &C
cording to the first book of Samuel,
there was nc Smith throughout the
land of Israel" This verse the late
Bishop WHEREFORE said was the hard
est one in the Bible to quote without
smiling.
Just before the American feet left
for its famous trip around the world
there was some newspaper talk Of a
possible clash with Japan. The yarn
goes that a highly placed person asked
Admiral Schroeder what he would do
if the Japanese fired on his ship.
Schroeder shifted. '"They won't fire on
my ship" said he, positively. "But if
they did," Now" said Schroeder, IN
grily. IF they did. hey? What the
dickens do you think I'd do? Sue
emf"
Love ycur wife like your soul, and
beat her like your carpet" This is a
Russian proverb. Another of the same
spirit: mot long hurt the bumps from
a loved ones humps" Wives have In
doubtedly been subjected to much Ill
treatment in Russia, where most hus-
bands have always held to the opin-
ion that Liberty spoils a good wife"
Some Russian proverbs are cynical as
to the delights of matrimony, and most
married men know how to say: 'tWed
once, wall always"
Not being in sympathy with certain
actions of the hereditary branch of the
British Parliament, the London Chron-
icle has been specializing on the possf-
BILE future of the word lord $50
far it has resisted the characterization
that has befallen lady no one talks
of chorus lords or begins a speech
with Ladies and lords!' In modern
Greek, however, lordos' means simply
Mr. and it would be rash to- predict
that our descendants will not all be
lords in the twenty-first century"
The fiction of a constant bee-that
is, of a bee which keeps to one species
of flower On a single journey-dies
hard. Thus the writer of a note in the
Field on "Bees, Flowers and Fruit"
says: "The same. bee passes from n
to the other colored varieties of the
same species, though rarely, if ever,
visiting other species of similar color.
y + + 1t is probable that bees discrim-
mate between flowers in this fashion,
as the keeping qualities of the nectar
might be interfered with If the loads
from different species were mixed"
Some of the Chicago papers seem to
think that a few of the features Of
reform in that city come pretty high.
For instance, the News reports that the
cost of condemnfng and selling a SUI
perannuated fire horse is $77.50, while
such animals never bring more than
500, and frequently much less. By
way Of contrast, the News says: "Un-
der the old system, which was in vogue
before the city officials became stick
lers in observance of all legal formali-
ties, the preliminaries to the sale of