The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-01-06
PARAGRAPHS.


, cents Il pound.
Siberia exported nearly $4,000 tons
of butter last year, chiefly to Denmark,
Germany and England.
The center door type of cars has
been found to be the best suited for use
in subways of New York.
- More than two hundred thousand
pounds of human hair are exported from
Hongkong to this country annually.
Electric power is used on 1886 miles
of street railways in Great Britain to
14S miles operated by other means.
An alloy of iron and thorium, when
lightly struck like a flint, gives off very
bright sparks which set shavings aire.
The British museum possesses a
chair - the throne of Queen Hatasu-
which was in use some $500 years ago.
The Gauschaufel is simply an open
air sanitarium for healthy people opened
last year by the municipality of Vienna.
The Chinese city of Foochow, which
is about the size of st. Louis, gets all
its milk through half a dozen walking
dairies," that is, men who bring cows to
be MIXED in front of customers houses
1t is reported that Ehata Eitaro, a
wealthy resident of Omi province, will
present 10000 frefies to the Emperor in
a few days. These firef1ies are said to
have been caught by himself and his
mother and wife.
"A German writer pleads for leaving
wooden articles implanted and un-
polished. He maintains that they are
not only more beautiful in their natural
state, but actually keep better and are
more easily cleaned.
Out Of 206 railway charters granted
by the Canadian Parliament in the TWEEN
fu only o.rrbt
have resulted in any construction, eighty
six have lapsed and the others have re-
ceived extensions of time.
The negroes of this country formed
in 1900 1873 per cent. of the population;
in 1910, 1908 per cent; in 1850, 49,
per cent; in 1860. 14.12 per cent; in
1880, 1911 per cent; in 1890, 1892 per
cent, and in 1900. 11.59 per cent.
After the completion of the railroad
from Christiania to Bergen the jour
ney between the two largest Norwegian
cities can be made in Is hours, instead
of in so by sea. The total cost of this
railway is estimated at $15,0O0,OOO
In a process recently patented in
Germany for the regeneration of vul-
caniZed india rubber fragments of old
rubber are mixed with from one-tenth to
one-ffth their weight of anilin, and the
mixture is heated until 1t becom as fluid.
When steamers first came into use
very little attention was bestowed upon
the consumption of fuel. 1t was not I'M
I'll" the Cunard steamers were started
crossing the Atlantic In 1910 that rel-
able records of fuel consumption began
to be kept Systematically.
A record run of 1854 miles by a mo-
torboat travelling at the rate Of 27.2
miles an hour throughout the distance
has been accomplished by the Brer Fox
H., which left Cincinnati recently to
make the long distance speed test run
to New Orleans.
The eel has a singular formation by
which it is enabled to retain life longer
than any other fish. This is bladder at
the back of it's upper fins, which it fills
with water and is thereby enabled to
mOisten it's gillS for a considerable time
when out of water.
1t is understood that majority both
of the Canadian and American commits
sioners of the international Waterways
commission will recommend that dam
be built on the Niagara river, opposite
Buffalo and Fort Erie, for the purpose
of raising the level of Lake Erie.
"A sensation was created in a church
near Leeuwarden, Holland, the other
day, by the announcement made by the
pastor from the pulpit that he considered
prayers superf1uous, and that he would
no longer deliver any, as they were in
consistent with his Socialistic convic-
tons.
One of the main reasons why the
per capita fire loss in Europe is only one
tenth of that of the United States lies
in the fact that the fire insurance laws
abroad are more stringent, and that, in
all the larger cities and towns the dan
ger of fire is minimized by strict building
restrictions.
The Gunnison tunnel, which is part of
great irrigation project in western Col
Orado, is rapidly approaching completion
and will be the largest underground
waterway in the world. 1t is six miles in
length and will carry 1900 cubic feet of
water a second. Its cost will be over
$2,500,0OO.
The battleships Massachusetts and
Indiana, the armor for which was manu-.
featured about 1895, carry a main belt
of armor which contains plates Is inches
thick at the top edge, continuing Is
inches in thickness to a point below the
water line, and tapering from that point
to inches thick at the bottom edge.
-Tantalum, regarded as a rare metal,
is becoming cheaper, and is being tried
for raZors and surgical Instruments 1t
seems to be superior to fine steel. A
thread of tantalum, almost too fine to be
seen by the naked eye, supports great
weight, also makes fine flament for in
candescent lamps and is more economical
than carbon.
Artificial ice making in the tropics
comes high. Water of 60 degrees or
So degrees can easily and cheaply be
thrown into icy ingots of cooling joy, but
when it comes to cooling water of IS
or 80 degrees the difficulty is strangely
increased, even to doubling prices. Ice
in Buenos Aires retails at $1.25 gold
hundred.
"A splinter that has been driven into
the flesh can be removed by the aid of
steam. Secure a wide-mouthed bottle
and fill it nearly full of hot water, place
the injured part over the bottles mouth,
and press slightly. The action thus pro-
duced will draw the flesh down, and in
a minute or two the steam will extract
the splinter, also the inflammation.
One of the biggest official flag fac
tories in the world is in the Brooklyn
navy yard. Between eighty and one
hundred women work there all the year
round making flags for the use of Uncle
Sans fighting ships. They use up 120,-
900 yards of bunting year and fashion
41S different kinds of official flags. The
flags cost $4,000 a year.
Japan can boast of the most lux
urious prison in the world. 1t is about
fifteen miles from Toxic. In the midst
of gardens, encircled with ponds bearing
fine crops of water lilies, rises the mass
of spacious and airy cells. Lighting
throughout is by electricity. Among 9TH
er features are bathrooms with marble
baths, hot and cold water, dressing
rooms and reading rooms.
"A New Jersey farmer has discovered
that music pays in the dairy business.
He employed a Swiss milkmaid who yo-
deled, and the daily supply of milk in
creased. The milkmaid left, the cows
moped and the milk supply decreased.