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

has 1850 postohces.

FC1ONAPCuC Il tHlCu by
Drais in 1917.
Fabrics looking like silk are made
from wood.
The officers of the British navy
alone make a formidable squad of 100.
21O.
One of the novelties of the vaudeville
stage in Europe is a drove-six in mum
. ber-of performing pigs.
The thickness of q razor edge has
been reckoned at about one-millionth of
an inch.
The mines of Belgium yielded H.
SOP. 40 tons of coal the first six months
last year.
The American system of office towel
service has caught on in several Eng
lsh cities, including London.
1t is expected that aluminium coins
of low value will be in circulation in
France by the end of this year.
The total value of church property
in the United States reported in 1906,
for all denominations, was $1,257, 575, 1867.
Honduras now permits free importa-
ton of fence wire and staples to help the
agricultural and cattle raising interests
of the country.
Use Of rat skins in the manufacture
of fancy articles is increasing. Last year
the trade i'll Great Britain alone amount
ed to $25O,OOO.
The Germans are laying the founda-
lions for increased foreign trade by more
attention to the teaching Of languages in
the public schools.
Hamilton college has increased it's
endowment by 100000 in the last year:
S2OO,OOO of the amount was. given by
Andrew Carnegie.
The worlds market for rice. measur-
ing this market merely by the imports of
tho npInaIN0I aOTInfpinc Of +h4 -r0r11
amounts to from $150,O00,O0O to $780,
00O,OOO per annum.
japanese chOpsticks are delivered to
the guests in a decorated envelope. The
two sticks already shaped from one
~tongue-like piece of wood are broken
apart by the guest.
The women of the Methodist Epis-
cOpal church in the United States are
reported to have collected and disbursed
100000 for home and foreign missions
during the last year.
The greatest hindrance to the devel-
Opmert of Asia Minor is the absence of
bridges at three points where the
Euphrates is now crossed by ferries. 1t
is now proposed to build bridges.
Letters can now be automatically
registered in Berlin by an automatic pen
ny-in-the-SlOt machine placed in the post
OAAAOOo hAOh SPNNAOAAJ I'LL LIZ ~
ters and saves the sender from waiting.
More lard. according to the British
returns, is imported into Great Britain
from this than from any other country
S1S,OOO,O00 worth in 1908. The same is
true of bacOn-S30,0 100000 worth, and of
hams. $11,OOO,0OO worth.
AT present the highest salaried wom-
an doing departmental work in Wash
ington is Miss A. III. Shortridge of New
York city. The state department recent
ly recognized her services by promotion
to a salary of $4,000 per annum.
-Paz Ferrer, the daughter of the re-
Gently executed Spanish agitator, whose
violent a%rraignment Of the Clerical party
made her a conspicuous figure shortly
after the death of her father, is credited
with having much histrionic ability.
Sir Richard Burton was dispatched
ON a mission TO the King of DahOmey IN
1868. Queen Victoria sent her fellow
monarch a crimson silk tent, a richly
embossed silver pipe, two silver walters:
a coat of mail and a pair of gauntlets.
There are probably not many land
owners who ply the hoe and rake. at the
age of 80, but Lord Haddington has al
ways given the closest personal atten-
ton to his property, and gardening in
particular has always been one of his
aeenest delights.
In the vicinity of Conception of Tai
cahauno. Chile, there are more than So
100000 cubic meters of soft coal of
fair quality within an area of $4,000
square meters, or about 30.7 square
miles. The vein is % meters, or about
11.5 feet thick.
According to French law a certain
reserve is established which no t~estator
can bequeath away from his offspring.
A Frenchman with one child can dispose
of half his property according to his
pleasure: the other half must inevitably
pass to the child.
While German meat is subjected to
ante-mOrtem and post-mortem eXamina-
ton by government inspectors, every
piece of meat approved being stamped,
the authorities exercise no control over
the methods employed by the meat pre-
pairing establishments.
Elizabeth Hirsch of Liegnitz, Ger
many, who is at the head of and per-
sonally manages a large factory in that
place, has been recognized as a factor
in the business community and has been
chosen a member of the governing cOun>
Gil of the Hansa-Bund.
The Paris Eclair announces that an
absolutely stable smokeless powder has
been discovered and is now at the serv-
ice of the French army and navy. Chem
ical agents, heat, excessive cold, humid
ity, light and Herzian waves have no
effect upon this powder.
Much none is made by the sale of
old rope and string. Thousands of dol
lars are netted by the buying and selling
of old fishing nets alone; but this
amount is a mere bagatelle to the cash.
hat is turned over in the handling of
old cordage at the docks.
The Chinese are superstitious people,
and think it is a bounden duty to keep
the body intact, and if by any misfortune
they are compelled to lose a limb by am
putation they invariably ask for the sew
cred member and keep it in a box, to be
buried in due time with the owner.
The Manufacturers Record of Balti-
more asserts that during the past decade.
the cotton crops of the south, including
seed, exceeded by $2,5O5, 10000 the
value Of all the gold produced in the
world, while it was $1,472, 9SO,3O0 ina
excess of the combined value of gold and
silver.
BY the opening of the last section of
the Kyushu railway, the Grand Trunk
line of Japan has been completed from
Sapporo on the north to Kagoshima on
first part of this line to be thrown open
was the observation-disclosures section, which
began to carry passengers and goods iii
1872.
-Chicago's mounted policemen are
pleased with a new "~anti-skidding' APP
pliance they are now using On their
horses to prevent slipping on the icy
The device is of leather and fits
over the hoof like a boot. On the bot
tom is a chain, which insures a more
certain footing for the high-spirited ami
mails.
Masks for the use of street sweep
ers have been adopted by the street !