The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-30

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The latest mechanical furnace stol
er not only puts the coal on in tn
most approved manner, but it also di
poses of the ashes automatically.
While the number of violent death
thousand among miners has undel
gone in European countries a decide
decrease, in this country it is steadil
increasing.
Switzerland las 14,717 miles O
telegraph and telephone lines In 1870
the 2,255 telegraph Offices handle
4,942.0O0 kilograms, producing a rev
enue of s6S0,444
After six years contest Peter Coope
Hewitt has received patents for hi
mercury vapor electric lamp TIL
patents have been in dispute almos
since the date when they were frs
applied for, in 1901
One cannot be long in any hotel o.
restaurant in Canada without seein;
halibut on the bill of fare" says
writer in Canada" I'm this .respec
1t assumes the position of nationa
dish. 1t is there on Christmas day
and again on Midsummer day"
The comets tail could have beer
packed in an ordinary .trunk-if pack
ed by man. If packed by woman
she would still have had room fol-
eighteen dresses, four nebul@, two bon
nets, six pairs of shoes, the children:
clothes, and two entire comets.-Chi
cago Post
Noting a projecting ledge "a poor
prospector struck it casual blow
with a sledge, and one of the worlds
famous gold mines was discovered
The poor prospector was Stratton. Nc
wonder he called his mine the indie
pendence, for it made him independ
ent. converting the prospector into q
rich man.
The finishing touches have juse
been placed on the exterior of "the
model power plant of the world"-a
$1,5O0,000 structure erected by the
United States government a stones
throw from the capitol at Washing
ton. This station is to furnish heat,
light and power to the entire group
OF immense government buildings on
Capitol hill.
Vacant lot cultivation In Kansas
City. Mo-, is done this season under
the direction of the City Club. One
nine-acre tract and several smaller
lots have been set out In vegetables,
the farming being done by needy per-
sons. They are not taxed for soil,
seeds or tools, and the City Club has
engaged practical gardener to super
wise the work.
Much attention and thought, states
the Chemical Trades Journal, have
been bestowed by those engaged in the
breaking up of battleships and other
craft as to the profitable disposal of
the large quantities of wood obtained
from the various vessels in course of
destruction. Although there is much
useful timber got that can be sold for
THY that is splintered to such an ex-
tent that renders it practically value
less. One or two firms are contem-
plating putting down wood distillation
plants to utilize the hitherto value
less wood
Trial by ordeal still exists in some
parts of Japan. If theft takes place
in household, all the servants are
required to write q certain word with
the same brush. The conscience is
supposed to betray it's workings in
the waves of the ideographs written.
Tracing an telegraph involves such
an effort of muscular directness and
attention that this device
often leads to the discovery of the
guilty party. The test is, at all events,
more humane than the ordeal by boil
ing water, to which accused persons
we're formerly submitted in Japan
London Chronicle.
Professor Elliot Smith, of the Uni
of Manchester, has lately made
minute examination of the mummy
If Ra-Nefer in the museum of the
Royal College of Surgeons, England,
ind finds that it is older by eleven
centuries than any other known
The body of Ra-Nefer,
high official in the court of Seneferu
If the fourth dynasty $4,000 B. c.,
vas found by DR.. Flinders Petrie at
Iedum, Egypt, in 1892, and presented
" him to the museum of the College
# Surgeons. Although discovered so
ong ago, it is only now that it's i'm
has become apparent.
Street traffic in Chicago is now be-
ng handled by the police according
o an elaborate code of rules recently
Under the new regula-
ions driver before stopping or slow
ng up must signal by raising the
light hand. Horse drawn vehicles
ave the right-of-way over all others,
treet cars excepted. An important
ule requires drivers of vehicles to
Sc great caution when passing street
ars, so as not to injure passengers
lighting or getting on the car. An
Their stipulates that 'No vehicle shall
merge from an alley, stable or garage
t a pace faster than walk; at the
after place an attendant should pre-
EIDE the vehicle to give warning"
why do / do that? Why" said
usy business man who was spending
lot of time picking at knot in
cord around bundle, in an effort
} unite it, 81 do that to discipline
lyself l used to slash a bundle
pen, always, but I found it didn't
ay l did everything that way then,
oh hicrh