The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-31
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miles.
The Southern Pacific Railway of
Mexico has now extended its line to
A%coponeta, ninety-fve miles south of
Mazatlan.
Notwithstanding the duty OF 40 per
cent a barrel, large quantities of apples
rom Oregon. Washington and other
States are consumed in Western Can
ida.
The largest type burglar-proOf safe
S built to withstand the gas cutting
burners used so effectually by many
crooks, and r%evolves, when it is closed,
~ means of an electric motor.
Between the whole press Of Copen-
hagen and all the theatrical managers
1 curious contest has started because
he managers want to compel the
critics to write only favorable notices.
The contest began when the board OF
theatrical managers forbade the ad-
mission of one critic representing n
special theatrical paper.
- 1CpO1C hum WIISICOs 0Ohh oI@SNS
hat while Ed Chaffee, who runs a
stage coach between Winsted and
6andisfield, Mass, was driving IN a
Ollnding snowstorm, a fox jumped on
The seat beside him. The exhausted
animal dropped to the bottom OF the
coach. and after about ten minutes
TEST jumped out and disappeared. Rev
lard threw two hounds which had
been chasing him off the scent when
he jumped into the coach.
Mrs. Florence Kelly and Mrs. J.
Borden. Hartman of New York AMI
Hiss Grace F. Ward of Boston were
The only women on the program as
speakers at the recent annual confer
snce on child labor which was held in
Boston. There is no woman among
he officers of the national child labor
committee, only two on the board OF
fifteen trustees and only four among
he thirty-one members of the commit
ice, in addition to the trustees.
Soldiers have been used to provide
artificial majorities in English cleo
ions. In 1884 $50 of the guards were
sent to vote as householders against
Fox in the Westminster election.
Upon that occasion the device failed.
sut it succeeded in an Irish election.
The patron of a large Irish borough,
anding that there WAS some uncertain
~ as to the return of his nominee,
marched in a regiment of soldiers from
their quarters at Loughrea and had
Them all elected freemen. Their vote
put the victory of his candidate be-
Fond doubt.
Miss Martha Berry, head of a school
for poor white boys near Rome, Ca.
has just succeeded in raising the $780,
boo necessary to secure an equal sum
from Mrs. Russell Sage and Andrew
Carnegie. This school grew out of a
little Sunday school that Miss Berry
started in the mountains of Georgia
about ten years ago. The school now
owns a thousand acres of land, a large
part of which is under cultivation, and
several good buildings. 1t has $50
pupils and fifteen teachers. The $780,
300 will be used as an endowment
fund.
Apropos of w. H. S. Jones' applica-
ton of his theories of malaria and
decadence to Rome, r. T. Hewlett, n
Englishman, suggests that malaria has
played a part in the distribution of
population in England. Parts Of Nor
fO1l1 bo cove uoro onpa m11ch mora
populous than at present. The same
is true of the region in Kent about
Romney marsh. Both of these re-
gions are infested with anopheles and
were at one time extremely malarious.
Has malaria been one Of the factors
causing the d%epopulation of these 20
calities?'' asks Mr.. Hewlett.
Marrying for votes was a device Ct
old-time British election agents. AS
the law stood before the reform act
Of 1882, widows of freenlen on marry
ing again made their second husbands
freemen and therefore voters. At
election times widows were conse-
luently paid handsomely to go through
a formal marriage with a v~oteless
bachelor, who for a consideration SIM
ilarly agreed to support Smith or
Jones, as the case might be. The pair
we're married, the man voted accord
ing to instructions. and then he and
his wife, standing On either side of a
tombstone, said Death us do part"
With this literal fulfllment of the mat
riznonial vow they regarded their mar
riage dissolved. At the last election
in Bristol before 1882, a hundred wom-
en- gave votes to men.
The fiftieth anniversary Of che birth
Of DIR. Ludwig Zamenhof was the DC
casion of many meetings at which the
progress of esperanto was the chief
topic. One speaker, before a large
audience in London, quoted Professor
Oswald, who declared in 1906 in a lee
ture delivered at Breslau that there
were at that time more than 500, 900
people who employed the language.
Many improvements have suggested,
but they have not impressed the Els
peranto students favorably, and, ac-
cording to DR.. Forester, tended simply
to confuse people and ito injure the
foundation which has been firmly
laid" The Internacia SCHEMA Reyuo,
which has been published for six years.
gives the names of a number of large
business concerns of Germany whose
annual catalogues are now issued in
the new language.
The estimated area of southern
Nigeria is $1,000 square miles, that of