The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-02


The great majority of immigrant ar
rivals at the present time are coming
from Austria, Russia and Italy.
News paper is made by machinery at
the rate of $50 to 400 feet minute,
according to width and quality.
Lettuce as a food plant has a. rec
ord of being eaten by Persian kings
more than two thousand years ago.
The Carnegie Steel Company pays
about one-seventh of the entire taxes
collected by the city of Youngstown,
Ohio.
Using electricity, Nome, Alaska, the
most northerly town in America, is
one of the best lighted cities in the
world.
An elephant in the wild state has
such delicate sense of smell that it
can detect an enemy nearly mile
away.
Chicago made a new building rec
ord for itself in 1909, when the cost
of buildings of all kinds erected made
grand total of $90,000,000.
A recently invented rescue stretcher
for mines has oxygen tanks at one end
opening into bag into which mans
head and shoulders may be placed.
There has been invented in Spain a
cylindrical barrel for grapes, divided
into four sections, to ventilate the con-
tents and prevent them being crushed.
The Marblehead, one of the oldest
cruisers in the navy, has been COM
missioned in the service of the Cali
fornia state naval militia at Mare
Island.
For use in manual training schools
a Wisconsin man has patented tool
chest which may be converted into a
work bench by clamping it to the top
of two desks.
A balanced grand piano has been
invented in England. One side is
duplicate of the other, and the lid is
hinged in the center so as to distribute
the sound waves evenly.
An arm to be suspended over a roll
Of wrapping paper, carrying a roller
to imprint merchants advertisement
on every piece of paper torn off, is
New York mans invention.
A Pittsburg widow, who was COM
PEELED to sell her beautiful hair in
order to keep her children from starv-
ing, has received an offer Of marriage
from a rich man in Oklahoma.
To ha ocf
were in Holland about 100000 head
of live stock, nearly one-half cattle.
The dairy ration is composed largely
of oil meal or oil cake and grass or
hay.
A metal seat, hinged and suspended
| by chains from window casing, has
been patented by an Ohio man for
window cleaners as we'll as for use as
shelf on which food may be placed
to cool.
Gold pieces are the only coins of
| the United States which are worth
their face value intrinsically. A dou-
BILE eagle contains $40 worth of gold,
without counting the one-tenth part
of copper.
On the principle of the slide from
bone is a gas fixture invented by an
Indiana man, so constructed that the
burner may be slid to any point along
the wall of a room where the light is
most needed.
The Porto Rican agricultural exper-
iment station reports that Java coffee
| Sc inf int
the island to meet the demand in the
United States for "a highly favored
aromatic coffee"
For telephoning from a moving train
an Iowa man has patented a device
consisting of metal bar to be sus-
pended from locomotive or car low
enough to come in contact with stand
ards set in the ties.
(, The first trust in the United States
to pass the $100,000001 mark in cap
italization was the United States
Leather Company, organized in 1893
It's capital stock combined with an is
sue of bonds amounted to $13S 1000, 900.
Calgary, with it's 10000 population
and the commercial center of 50,000,-
600 acres of rich farm land in the
province of Alberta, Canada, owns it's
own street railway, electric light plant
and water works and has 500 employees
on it's city pay roll. Ten years ago
the city had in it less than 5000 peo-
ple. and it expects to have 100000 in
1915.
To get rock for the Moreno dam in
Southern California, one of the biggest
blasting operations on record has just
been successfully carried out. A tun-
mel 125 feet long was first driven into
the face of the granite. In this cham
Der was placed 1880 pounds of pow
der and dynamite. This was exploded
by electric fuses, and dislodged $780,
600 cubic yards of rock--Engineering
Record.
i. While some tobacco is produced in
almost every State, less than 1 per
cent of this country's crop is grown
west of the Mississippi, Texas being
the only trans-Mississippi State in
which the industry has gained much
Importance. Kentucky leads all the
States in tobacco growing. 1t produces
more than one-third of the United
States crop and about one-ninth Of