Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-31


calorimeter, which is a glass, alright
compartment about the size of a small
steamer stateroom, runs a system OF
pipes filled with cold water The tenn
perature of the water is carefully
noted, the heat generated by the body
in the process of assimilating the food
causing the water to become warmer
Only one kind of food is given to the
subject at the time. One experiment
requires several hours, or sometimes
longer, according to the time required
to digest the food.
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The Department of Justice issued
statement to the effect that a grand
jury investigation of the existing com
bination of operators to buy up ali the
remaining unused raw cotton produced
in this country in the season of 1909
10, with view to bringing about Grim
inal prosecutions under the Sherman
law against trade monopolies. This
statement said that the Attorney Gen
erals attitude had been drawn to this
pool in connection with the increase.
cost of food and other comnIOdities Il
was found that the pool already had sc
advanced the price of cotton that many
mills had been forced to reduce op-
eration5 and that rs per cent of the
operatives had been thrown out OF
work. The Cotton Exchange at New
York, where the investigation was to
be made, was startled by the report
and the price of cotton broke some
what lower
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A reduction in the size of the paper
money of the United States will be
made if Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh accepts recommendations that
will be made to him within a few
weeks by a committee of treasury Off
cials appointed to investigate this and
other proposed reforms, The object of
the proposed change is to supply the
country with size of currency more
convenient for handling and to save
the government 100000 year in pa
per and engraving. The new sized
bank note to ne recommended is about
one-fourth as large as the notes now in
circulation. The present notes are of
size that has been the standard for
generations.
Millions of dollars are involved in a
bill for the relief of the Medawakanton
Sioux and the Santee Sioux The
measure involved proposes to restore
90 h. In h. hot
discontinued because of their partici-
patton in the massacre of 1868. The In
dian beneficiaries are scattered over
the states of Minnesota, Nebraska and
the Dakotas.
According to statistics prepared by
the Agricultural Department, there has
been a phenomenal increase In the |
value of farm products since 1889. |
The increase in dollars from that time |
up to the end of last year is put at |!
$4,000, 100000. The total value OF |
wealth produced on United States |
farms in 1889 was s2,460, 900, 900, while |
the latest figures are sS.760,O00,00O
The sixth year OF American construc- |
ton of the Panama canal has ended. |
The canal record presents an interest |
Ing review of what has been accom-
plished. Altogether 105.SsS,072 cubic |
yards of earth and rock have been re-
moved. That leaves to be taken out |
of the water approaches to the canal |
29,232, o52 cubic yards of material, |
while the steam shovels have yet to |
dig out 3S,S27.617 yards of solid earth |
and rock.
A bill providing for the opening to |
agricultural settlement and develop |
ment of the surface of lands which |
have been classified as coal lands was
passed by the house. The measure
seeks to reserve about 100000 acres
as coal lands. TO be worked on the |
surface for the purpose of agriculture
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One of the giant trees in the Muir !
woods, California, has been dedicated |
and named in honor of Clifford Pinehot |
by the members of the Secret club OF
San Francisco.
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1t is announced that President and |
Mrs. Taft will not reach their sum-
mer home at Beverly. Mass. until the |
LIST Of July.
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The government is taking steps 70
learn the extent of damages TO the |
property of Americans at Chang Sha, |
China. during the recent rioting there. |
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Delegates to the convention held at |
Washington by the Daughters Of 1872
were received by President Taft at the |
White House one afternoon