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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

of the commanding figures in the
House of Commons was that OF Sir
Robert Peel, and in the second half a
central and equally commanding
figure is that of his youngest son, the
Right Hon. Arthur Wellesley Peel,
the present Speaker, whose portrait,
from a recent photograph, is here
given.
For many years before his election
to the Speakership in 1884, during
Mr.. Gladstone's second administra-
ton, Mr.. Peel was one Of the best
known men in the House Of Com
mons. For twenty-seven years he
has uninterruptedly represented
Warwick at Westminster. Three
years after his admission to the cas-
sembly of Great Thinkers" as the
Anglo-Saxons called the Parliament
of their day, Mr.. Peel became Parlia-
mentary Secretary to the Board of
Trade. In 1878 he was appointed
Patronage Secretary to the Treasury,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

much nav for presiding over the noisy
branch of Congress as is given the
Speaker Of the House OF Commons IN
England. But he does not have to
wear the curly wig. His head is not
upholstered. That is one compensa-
tion for the difference in salary.
Though the Speaker of the American
House wears less hair and draws less
nav than the corresponding official OF
the British Government, he occupies
immensely greater influence IN
legislative affairs, and his rel
alive rank in the government
is higher. The Speaker of the House
is properly next in rank to the Presl-
dent. The Vice President is great
chiefly in the fact of his nearness in
succession to the President and the
possibility that he may become Presl-
dent, but as long as he remains
merely Vice President he is an alter
nate to rank and a comparatively I'M
important parsonage in the govern
ment. The Speaker of the House,
however, has the appointment of
committees who shall take charge OF
the business of the House, and he
practically dictates the policy OF the
House. There have, perhaps, been
some Speakers of small influence, but
they have been exceptions. Speakers
Reed, Blaine, Randall, and Carlisle
each in his time exercised a powerful
influence upon legislation.
In appearance there is striking
contrast between Speaker Crisp and
Speaker Peel, even leaving out OF
consideration the difference in their
dress while exercising their official
functions.
The only other office the Speaker
holds by reason Of his position in the
House is that of Chairman of the
Committee on Rules, to which Com
mittee is referred all questions Of the
order of business. The Speaker usu-
ally dominates that committee,
though, of course, he may be voted
down by a majority of his four as
sociates.
He has no perquisites of power be-
yond his salary OF $40, 900 year, can
hold no other office under the govern
ment during his incumbency as
Speaker, and has neither title nor
pension after retirement from the Of
fee. 1t is an office won through popu-
larity and ability and held only by
those qualities which give man a
commanding position in his party. 1t
is in the power of the Speaker to re-
ward his friends and punish his enc
mics in many ways, but though the
contest which resulted in Mr.. Crisp's
election was a hot one, there have
been no punishments for those who
preferred another to him, and the
rewards have been measured out to
ability and trustworthiness almost
without regard tU faction.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11
He Was an Nj. p.

It is not generally known, says ~
Pail Mall Gazette, that it is to Isaac Hwy
den, M. p, that we owe the invention
of the lucifer match. The discovery
was, he has told us himself, the result
of a happy thought. lin the morning
| used to get up at 4 O'Clock in order to
pursue my studies, and l used at that
time the flint and steel, in the use of
which | found very great inconven-
fence. Of course | knew, as other
chemists did, the explosive mate
rial that was necessary in order to pro-
duce instantaneous light but it was
very difficult to obtain a light on wood
by that explosive material, and the idea
occurred to me to put sulphur under
the explosive mixture. | did that and
showed it in my next lecture on chem
istry, course ofwhich | was delivering
at large academy.
"There was" said Mr.. Holden, "a
Young man in the room whose father
was chemist in London, and he i'm
mediately wrote to his father about it.
and shortly after luciter matches We're
issued to the world. | believe that was
the first occasion that we had the lucifer
match. / was urged to go and take ont
a patent Immediately, but | thought it
was 80 small matter, and 1t cost me so
little labor, that did not think it prop
er to 90 and get patent, otherwise |
have no doubt it would have been very
yrotitah1a -
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

JUST because one woman has hap
pened to lame herself permanently
by closing bureau drawer with her
knee, newspaper Solons are rising up
to say that the use of the knee for
the purpose is universal among
women, and that they are all likely
to be lame if they do not reform.
Woman is watched so closely in these
progressive days that she has no
chance to indulge even in small vices
without being caught at it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

in telephones in the United States;
in 1890 the amount had increased to
over s72, 900. The gross earnings
increased in the same time from 49,
900, 900 to more than SIC, 900, 900, and
the net earnings from 1924, 900 to So
100000. The employees of telephone
companies numbered 8,545 in 1890,
as against 1888 in 1880, and the
number of subscribers increased in
the decade from 4S, Ala to 227, 357.
The number of conversations over
the telephone in 1890 was 452, 200, 900.
And yet the business is only in its
infancy
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

A NEW life Of Thomas Paine, by
M. d. Conway, furnishes some curl
Gus evidence Of the comparative sud-
denness with which the idea of sep
araton and independence of the
mother country finally crystalliZed
among the revolutionary patriots.
For a year or so before the Declara-
ton Of Independence they were all
at sea as to what course should be
pursued. There was great commo-
ton among the people, but no unity
Of action. In March, 1875, Benjamin
Franklin maintained the assurance
previous year, that he had never
heard in America an expression in
favor of independence "from any per-
son. drunk or SOBER" And this only
sixteen months before the Declara-
ton. Paine says independence was a
doctrine scarce and rare, even toward
the conclusion of 1775." In May,
1115, George Washington, on his
way to Congress, met the Rev.
Johnathan Boucher in the middle Of
the Potomac River While their
boats paused the clergyman warned
his friend that the path on which he
was entering might lead to separation
from England. If you ever hear Of
my joining in any such measures"
said Washington, "you have my
leave to set me down for everything
wicket" This was after the battle
of Lexington. About a month later
Washington was elected Commander
in-chief of the Continental army, and
started Immediately for Cambridge,
Mass, where he assumed command
July 8. These incidents show how
rapidly history is made in times OF
excitement, and how irresistibly men
are carried along by the current of
events.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

Ravenna is the end of the old, the
beginning Of the new, says a writer in
Scribner's: Toward Rome all ancient
history tends, from Rome all modern
history springs" but here for brief
moment the broad current of history
was damned up into this little space,
then ebbing away, even as the Adri-
attic has done. it left Ravenna full of
strange, stranded monuments of a
time that has elsewhere been swept
out upon the tide into the ocean of
oblivion.
Among the graves of the buried
past the sarcophagi Of eXarchs, cap
tains and priests which lie scattered
in the churches and the streets-waifs
from the shipwreck of Italy when
Alaric burst upon her-are the sepul-
cheers and effigies of three rulers who
epitomize the art history of the city:
of Gala Placidia, the conquered Ro-
man Princess, who subjugate1 in her
turn and married her captor. and pre-
served to Ravenna what remained OF
old-time splendor; Of Theodore the
Ostrogoth, who infused the vigor of
the North into WORKOUT forms; of
Justinian the Emperor, who lowered
the city with the art heritage of the
Greek. The mausoleum of Placidia
and the baptistery represent the first
OF the three groups into which the
buildings of the city fall; those re-
mains OF the Theodosian epoch being
followed by the works of the Ostro-
gothic period, San Apolinare Nuovo
and the tomb of Theodore: while the
last group, that of Justinian, boasts
San Vitale and "St. Apolinaris in the
Fleet"
The little mausoleum Of Placidia
may claim a first visit There for
1,l0O years her body sat upright in
ieweled cerements in her sarcophagus.
and was the very type of her city's
mission. For in Ravenna antique
art grew rigid, swathed away in the
embalming clothes of conventionality,
gilded and stiffened, mummied within
the stone walls TILL eight centuries
having rolled by, the spirit of an
tlqulty rose again and the chrysalis
was forgotten, even DIS Calais actual
body crumbled in fire and ashes at a
moment when the renaissance had at
tanned its full strength.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11
IT is striking, although it is WI

IT is striking, although it is what
was TO be expected, that the advo-
Gates of the Baconian authorship Of
the plays Of Shakespeare should have
become so greatly lessened in number
in SO few years. 1t will be the lot Of
the rising generation to live to see
the whole thing treated as one of
those incomprehensible delusions
which 1t is all but impossible to sup
pose ever to have been taken seri-
0uSlY
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

THE newspapers are more poten-
tial than stump speakers in a cam
paign. The Wilmington Messenger
says; ut is line upon line that does
the work. There is great power in
iteration. You hear a speech or a
sermon and it soon becomes mere
impresSion-an echo. But you can
take out your tract, or your political
pamphlet, or your filed newspaper,
and read again and again the senti-
ments enforced. \ party would fare
badly that relied only upon the talks
upon the hastings, and gave the
documents and newspapers up to the
opposition"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

WHEN a boy begins to wash his
neck without being told it is sign
he is passing into the ordeal of his
first love affair, says a contemporary.
1t is either that or for the reason
that some other portion Of his anat-
omy has suffered for his neck
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11
A Careful Storekeener.

A man living in New York suburban
hamlet recently went to the general
store to buy some potatoes. "How is
this ?" he asked the storekeeper, "you
are asking almost double the regular
price for potatoes. Haven't you made
a mistake ?" "Oh, no." cheerfully re.
piled the storekeeper. "You see, /
bought the potatoes when they was
much dearer than they is now, end of
course can't afford to sell them at the
present price,"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

PEOPLE who think that the young
doctor charges enormous fees forget
the awful weight of responsibility
that every young doctor palpably
carries around with him for a couple
of years after he gets out of the med
ical school.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11
The Cheerful ChaDeron.

Chaperoning young girls on travel
ing expeditions, or conducting older
women of little experience in travel
ing, is becoming regular summer
profession among bright, capable
women. One young woman who has
salary of about $4,000 secures for
herself each year delightful summer
vacation abroad by taking small par
ties OF women about the Old World,
where her exceptional linguistic abil-
ity, her knowledge of routes, places.
people, and points Of interest are
most excellent stock in trade for the
duty OF a courier. She will have
fifteen women in her party this sea-
son.-New York Sun.
MOST sheep die before they are a
year old.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

THE execution of Ravachol is dis
tinctly a thing to be thankful for, if
only because it goes so far to prove
that Partisan justice is not to be alb
solutely cowcd by the threats Of the
anarchists
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11
Popular, but Erroneous.

'The dramatic manner in which
newspaper reports of railroad wrecks
frequently refer to the heroic engineer
who died with his hand on the throt-
tie is amusing" said the General SUI
perintendent of a Chicago line. cot
course nothing too good can be said
about a man who loses his life at his
post of duty, but the plain fact is
that an engineer who dies with his
hand on the throttle does so because
he has nothing else to take hold Of.
l have made few runs myself in my
time and l speak by the card. 1t is
generally admitted by experienced
locomotive engineers that the safest
thing to do when collision is about
to occur is to drop down behind the
boiler head and grasp the throttle
regulator with both hands. This
may prevent the engineer from being
hurled out of the cab, and the boiler
head protects him to certain extent
from being crushed when the cab is
telescoped from the front. OF course
if the tender is thrown upon the cab
he will be caught from the rear, but
he takes his chances at the best. If
he jumps he is very liable to strike
stone pile or to have the engine fall
over on him before he can get away,
and l think the records will show
that fully as many engineers are
killed by jumping as by sticking to
their cabs and holding to the throttle
regulator, which is the mostconvenient
and substantial means of support"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11
THE late Occu ltatiOn of Mars has

THE late occultation of Mars has
failed to discover any new facts about
it. The interest Of astronomers and
others in this planet, millions of
miles distant, makes them little
inconsistent when they criticise the
women of the family for being curl
Gus about the new people who have
just moved next door.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

WHEN some of the workmen Of
Pittsburg demanded that the City
Council return to Mr.. Carnegie the
81, 00C, 900 he donated for public
library, they showed that they were
right mad, and also that when men
get right mad they can part with a
fright smart of their common sense
in a little while.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

A CHICAGO Judge granted eight di-
vorces in flfty-two minutes. This
puts the windy City" far in advance
of all competitors, for it breaks all
previous records.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11
Victoria's Two Bracelets.

Queen Victoria wears two enames,
bracelets. The one on her right VIZ VI.
contains portrait of the Prince VI
sort, and that on her left a plctuITTll
her youngest great-grandchild1; ~, y
Queen says: "Ou my right wrist CD1
my first and greatest love, and Oh n y
left the last bud that it has pleased v
to allow me to look upon"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

IN England it is the general opin-
ion that the only statesmanlike thing
the recent Parliament ever did was
to dissolve. And the Queen had to
help it even to do that.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

Mr.. GLADSTONE likes tea, particu-
larly when made by his wife. If he
doesn't also dote on it "cold," that's
another point where he differs from
some of our own prominent states
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

A LITTLE girl entered rope jump
ing contest at Wilkesbarre, Pa. She
won, jumping $40 times without stop
ping. Then she died. But her be-
reaved friends can console themselves
with the reflection that she was the
champion rope-jumper of her town.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11
Cumulative Punishment.

In Persia the first time man il
caught in the act of stealing he is bias
tinadoed" (beatan on the soles of the
feet with an iron rod) and made to sign
a paper declaring that that will be bis
last offense. If he forgets this when
the soles of his feet quit burning and
tries it again, the second ohense calls
for the amputation of his right hand. II
be is still obdurate and goes at it left
handed, the third, and of course, last
resort. is determination
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11
Nationality OF the Cardinals.

Of the 81 cardinals now living 81 ~
Italians, 4 are Austrians or HungarlaanJ
s are French, are Portuguese,
Beige, 2 are Americans, l is an l1l'.I
man, l is an Englishman and "
Spanlards. Of those three are BrlI's...
subjects-Cardlnal Howard, now Y
Rome, Cardinal Moran in Australia SDY
Cardinal Tachereau in Quebec.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11
CEN. JAMES B. WEAVER.
The Candidate of the Peoples Party TO
President.

Gen. James B. Weaver, the candl-
date of the Peoples party for Presl-
dent, was born in Dayton, Ohio, June
II, 1888, and graduated from the law
school of the Ohio University, Gin
cinnati, in 1854. In April, 1861, ne
enlisted as private in the Second
Iowa Infantry, and on Oct. 3, 1861,
was made Major. In 1865 he was
brevetted Brigadier General for gal
lantry in action. After the war he
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

INFORMATION is lacking as to the
exact date upon which Victoria
Woodruff and Tennie Clafin will
convene and nominate each other for
President and Vice President.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

Mr.. AsTOR can draw check based
on an income Of 1913 minute, but
it shows the relative value Of things
that just now it's doubtless more sat-
isfaction to him that he can draw his
hraofb
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

THE growth of the telephone bust
ness is one of the most wonderful
things in this age Of wonders. In
1880 only sl4, 500, 900 was invested
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11
The English Speaker.

HEN the story Of
the min e n t n
century in IN e
popular branch OF
the British Parlia-
ment shall have
been written the
name of Peel will
be found in bold
type beside those
)of Gladstone, Dis
raeli, O'Connor,
Parnell and other
great parliament
tarians who have
therein figured. In
the first half of
this century one
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

THE process may be disguised, but
1t is a fact that good many men
carve out their fortunes by hard
"chiseling."
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

ASPIRATION is the path to in
SEPARATION.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11
Where Eagles Are Common.

The gigantic bald eagles of DuncaD
Mills, near Cazadero, Cal, have bee,39
making it very lively for certain kind;
of live stock and fowls in that vicinity
Pigs, full-grown Shanghai chickens ar9
even calves have been carried away y
the talons of these great birds. All tn5l
sportsmen of the vicinity are keeplHH
their rifles loaded for the big eagles.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11
TWO NOTED OFFICIALS.
M ARkED DIFFERENCES BE-
TWEEN TWO SPEAKERS.

The Right Honorable Arthur wellesley
Peel and Speaker Crisp-Wherein Ahey
Are Alike and Wherein They Diner
An Interesting Contrast in Public ana
Private Life.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

A LITTLE depression is more favor
able to improvement than much
complacency.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

The humble are rarely Inundated;
the proud often.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

0. B. MOON, Editor and Proprietor
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11

Most sheep die before they are a
year old.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-02-24

Two Indians from the La Pointe reser.
walton arrived in bayfield, a few days
ago paralyzed with fear. They told a
wonderful story Of adventure. They
had started on hunt on Madeline island
and intended to visit some friends. They
camped on a spot about four miles from
the village. At midnight the Indians
were aroused by a fearful struggle. Be
fore them We're two men and woman
battling, the contestants being covered
with blood.
The Indians say the forms disappeared
afterward, but the sounds and grcans
were kept up all night. People in that
vicinity claim there has been terrible
murder committed on the island some
time in the prst. and that the GHOSTS"
Of the parties We're seen by the Indians,
milwaukee Wisconsin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-02-24
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