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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21
VAMPIRE BATS.
THE Panama Variety Is the Pest or carrie
but VIII Not Touch Men

The plnar.la Variety Is the Pest OF Cattle,
but VIII Not Touch Men.
There are some raWbacks to tne
Isthmian cattle business that WGuld
rather astonish the American cow
how were he to 20 there. Chief OF
these is the vampire bat. says CORE
spondent OF the New York sun. one
reads stories Of the vampire sucking
the blood OF human beings, and at
least two books by naturalists or re-
pute say that these bats do suck hu-
man blood.
Vampire bats are found by the
thousand in Veraguas and ChiriqW.
I asked at every place for a person
whose blood had been sucked by
vampires, but could not find soul,
and yet people sleep out OF doors
without even a blanket to proUect
them sleep bareheaded and bare
footed.
The vampire had every chance to
alight on the human big toe, as he is
said to do. and while soothing the
foot with its tanning wings to suck
out the life blood. l could not fnd
any such case, however, nor had an
observant Englishman, c. Preedy, who
had lived twenty years in David, ever
found any.
But the vampire is the pest OF the
cattlemen. He is particularly fond
of veal blood, but older stock and
horses, colts, mules, and burros all
suffer
| did not catch vampire at his
work, though | saw hundreds OF
them, bat the cattlemen all tell the
same story. The vampire settles
somewhere on the back Of the beast
in the pasture at night, and then,
while slowly tanning it's wings to
and fro, cuts out circular piece or
skin one-quarter Of an inch in diam
eter. Through this hole he sucks the
blood till satisfied.
One wound would be of little con-
sequence, nor would the loss OF blood
do much damage were that all, but
a half dozen vampires may feast on
one poor calf or on the back of sad
dle-horse in one night. The Calf Is
badly weakened by the loss of blood,
while a saddle-hOrse SO served is
worthless until the wounds are en-
tirely healed.
But that is not the worst result OF
the bite. The region swarms with
pestiferous fly that soon after day
light finds the wound and lays eggs
in it. Unless the wound is properly
cleaned and dressed with Waxy
salve within twenty-four hours after
the vampires attack, the animal will
be destroyed by the progeny of the
fly. The percentage of calves thus
killed is large, in spite of the watch
fitness of the coW-herders.
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freed by a Moose.

One cold January day, Mr.. Hamil-
ton, who was in the Maine woods as
foreman for numbering company,
went out prospecting for spruce. He
rrudently left his rifle at the camp,
fearing he might be tempted to break
the game laws.
While picking his way through a
fir thicket he was Suddenly start
led by a resounding below, and
found himself close upon bull moose.
The man lost no time in lodging be-
hind great birch.
For moment the moose stood
still, as if surprised, then vented his
wrath upon pile Of spruce tops and
boughs that lay near, tossing them
about as if they had been stack of
jackstraws. Meanwhile Mr.. Haml-
ton climbed into the birch.
And there in the bitter cold he
was forced to stay for six long hours,
while the moose kept watch below,
quite regardless Of the cramped mus
Giles and aching ZONES OF his victim.
At last he moved off, and the fore
man ventured down.
Unless the game commissioners
send him body-guard, Mr.. Hamil-
ton declares that hereafter he shall
carry his gun into the woods.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

cars are usually covered with pieces
torn or dropped from such bales, and
the danger from fire is great, for cot
ton ignites easily, and sparks from
cigars or locomotives, famed by the
winds, even those caused by the
movement of a train or wagon, could
cause, not only the burning of the
cotton, but of other valuable prop
erty.
"Contrasted with the packing of
Egyptian and Indian cotton, the
American must be regarded as very
bad. Both Egyptian and Indian
have close, compact, tough coverings,
are rather long and smooth, and
leave little or none of the cotton ex-
posed. The Indian and Egyptian
bales are so tightly pressed SO well
covered and bound, that injury from
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

it is urged that legitimists have no
choice but to indorse his rights. On
the death Of Ferdinand VII. in 1888
without male issue, the succession
passed, according to the legitmist
theory, to his brother, Charles v
In 1855 the latter renowned his
rights in favor of his son, Charles
vi, count of Montemolin, who
was succeeded in 1861 bv Don
Juan, the father Of Don Carlos, and
Don Juan renowned his rights IN IA
vor of Don Carlos in 1868. Mean
while the throne was assembled in
1883 by Ferdinand VII s daughter,
Isabella, grandmother to the present
King Alfonso XII. The contention
of her supporters was that the Sale
law in Spain had been abolished by
decree issued in 1880 by Ferdi-
nand VII, but, on the other hand, it
is alleged that he was without the
right of altering the constitution.
The contemplated second marriage of
Don Carlos is not uninfluenced by his
position as a pretender.
The princess of Rohan, upon whom
Don Carlos choice has fallen, does
not belong to either of the royal
categories which fill the first two d.
visions of the Almanach de Gotha,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

THE Board of Health Of Orange,
N. j., has issued circular warning
people to desist from kissing, holding
that oscillation is a decidedly un-
healthful practice. The degree of it's
unhealthfulness depends, of course,
upon whether she is married to some
other fellow or not, and, if she is,
secondarily, upon his size and muscu-
larity. But the proclamation of the
sapient Board of Health Of Orange
does not enter into discussion of
degrees at all; it just announces
briefly that kissing is unhealthful and
must be stopped. 1t is likely, how
ever, that it will take more than the
edict of Board Of Health to put a
stop to kissing, even in Jersey. I'M
healthful or not, it's epidemic the
world over, and no Board Of Health
ever constituted can maintain quar-
antine SUFFICIENTLY close to control it.
a
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

COLLEGE authorities are likely to
begin another spasmodic investiga-
tion into the results of athletic COM
petitions because of several deaths
that have occurred recently among
college athletes. 1t is declared that
certaip of these deaths were due
directly to entertaining. The official
Investigations will probably amount
to nothing. The college authorities
wouldn't dare to interfere with ath-
letics for fear that students might be
driven to one Of the opposition shops.
But there is very little doubt that
serious results follow the hard train
ing which college athletes undergo.
1t is well known that professional
athletes are by no means long-lived
class. They seldom attain old age,
and when they break down the col
lapse is speedy and complete. If this
is true of seasoned and expert pro-
fessionals it cannot be doubted that
the collegians, who are scarcely more
than boys, not fully developed and
lacking experience, are likely to do
themselves harm in the extraordinary
efforts which are necessary to attain
proficiency in athletic feats. The
spirit of emulation is responsible for
this evil, and so long as intercollegi-
ate contests are encouraged so long
there will be entertaining, with pos
sibly fatal results.
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taken in hand at very early age
This would be one advantage Of rear
ing these birds in confinement. Un-
der such conditions also it would pc
practicable to vastly improve the
Speaking faculty by mating the best
takers together for generations
Thus would be produced such feath-
cred conversationalists as are IN
known up to date. 1t would certain
" be profitable to breed and raise
the parrots known as Carolina para
keets. These are rare now and bring
high prices, though they used to be
very common as far north as Penn
svlvania and Illinois. At present
the few survivors are almost wholly
confined to scattered localities in
Florida and the Indian Territory.
They have been successfully bred IN
captivity. The green Australian
parrakeets, of the sort used by stroll
ing fortune-tellers on the streets, are
among the easiest birds to rear.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21
What the DoctO. Is.

Let any one, when his life is in the
balance, try to realize what he would
like his doctor to be and TO know. IL
does not need a vivid imagination IN
any man to conceive how much may
depend on his doctors knowledge, on
his skill, and on his experience. II
is trite question, what is life with
out health?" Few persons but nave
had its truth wildly before their
minds when in pain or weakness.
Ones doctor may make all the differ
ence whether life is worth living or
not. He is welcome when no one else
is admitted. Not only his knowledge
and skill and practical resource, but
his tone of mind, his honor, his cour-
age, his sympathy, and his innate
power of inspiring confidence, may
make a vast difference to any of us,
a difference it may be between sanity
and insanity, between penury and
competence, or even between life and
death.
Few realize how much they are de-
pendent on the sense OF duty and the
honor of the doctor apart from his
professional skill. What do they
know about the effects of the power
full drugs he gives? How can they
detect or counteract his mistakes!
Their bodies and their lives are in
his hands far more absolutely than
are the lives and fortunes of his sub
jects in the power of any Eastern
despot. From the public point of
view the profession of medicine is
filing year by year larger space.
The community is looking to it for
more light and leading about santa
ton, about education, about the
choice of occupations and professions
for young people, about how to keep
we'll and happy. Practical questions
connected with heredity loom in the
near future.
Well might Mr., Gladstone say that
of all the professions it is the one
which is in the ascendant at present.
Mr.. Disraeli did not without cause
construct his epigram. ">anitas SAM
tatum omnia sanitas," as being the
question of questions at present.
Lord Salisbury has lately added his
emphatic concurrence as to the power
and usefulness of the medical pro-
fession in modern life. - Scottish
Review
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

TURPIN, the Frenchman who in
vented melinite, is said to have trait
orously sold a new explosive and an
engine which will revolutioniZe war
fare to the nations composing the
dreibund, and patriotic Frenchmen
are highly excited and indignant in
consequence. But what could they
expect of man Of the historic name
of Turpiu? France is in luck that
he didn't try his diabolical contriv-
ances on the Government buildings
during office hours.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21
THE Idea of Red Lodge, of Mont,

THE Idea Of Red Lodge, of Mont,
has hated contemporary which it oc-
sonally shows the error of it's ways
in language both forcible and pictur-
esoue. Here is sample: "The brush
piling jaws and pumpkin rollers of
the childlike and bland Otto (Wy. J
Courier are squirting their venom at
us through their blacksmith poster
publication. Hal Blakesley is the
local editor of the Courier and the
tonsorial artist of the town of Otto.
Louis Blakesley is the editor in chief
and professor of the Otto college,
and runs blacksmith shop and edits
a pillow point to perfection, and does
the horse-shoeing for the neighbor-
hood of the Grey Bull country by
moonlight. We have too much OF
the milk of human kindness in ouI
breast to abuse such genius" The
balmy days of personal journalism in
Georgia and Kentucky produced nc
more edifying bits of editorial rep
artee than this.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

If the terrible railroad accident at
Meanwhile was the work Of train
wreckers it is not likely that any pre-
cautions would have averted it. To
patrol every mile Of long line Of
railroad is practically impossible.
Men who have made up their minds
to wreck train will accomplish their
purpose in spite of all the vigilance
that can be exercised. If it be true,
however, as limited, that the wreck
was due to a defective switch, the re-
sponsibility should be easily located,
and the company should see to it
that the person whose negligence
caused the disaster is properly dealt
with. Train -wrecking is crime
that can hardly be guarded against.
Criminal careless ness on the part of
employees can and should be punished
with the utmost severity.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

LADY TENNESSEE CLAFLIN is fur
nishing the press with free manu-
scripts of her article on the failure of
marriage. Lady Clalin is perhaps
more interested in her own views
than is the public, as they appear to
be personal in the narrowest sense.
She certainly had d variegated ex-
perience as bride, but when she as
serts that nine of ten marriages are
failures she should make it plain
that the criticism applies to her
own efforts.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINsoN
says that he thinks Charles Sumner
introduced envelopes into the United
States, as the Senator brought some
samples of them home with him
when he returned to Boston from
England in 1910. Col. Higginson's
first recollection of envelopes goes
back to 1S43, when he saw them in
Cambridge, Mass. This being the
case the envelope antedates the post
age stamp n the United States.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

THE grain elevator monopoly in
Buffalo, which for many years ruled
the trade as with a rod Of iron, is be-
ing strained if not broken. The float
ing elevators have done it. They have
offered to transfer grain at reasona-
able rates and have done so much of
the business that the stationary ele-
vator combine has had to give way.
The latter has made it a rule to levy
toll of / cent per bushel on all
grain handled from vessels, and did
this in spite of an effort of the Leg
islature to lower the tariff. The as
ISOLATION now claims to be charging
/ cent per bushel, but probably is not
collecting it in single instance. 1t
charges it up and if payment is not
made cit is all right" while rebates
are freely made to those asking for
them. When the floating elevators
began to do business in Buffalo the
combination made heroic efforts to
drive them out, and gained assist
ance from the city authorities, but
without avail. The case was taken
into the courts, and the right Of the
floating elevators to do business was
conceded there. Now the question
is what will the combine do with its
vast mass of elevator property, in
Guiding several elevators that long
have been closed while their owners
were paid dividends outcf the profits
of the rest2
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MONEY IN RAISING PARROTS.
Imported Birds Are Delicate, but When
Trained Fetch High Prices.

Imported Birds Are Delicate, but When
Trained Fetch High Prices.
An industry which invites the at
tention of enterprising Americans is
the breeding OF parrots. DR.. Stejne-
ger says that it would be entirely
practical to propagate and rear them
in lighthouses. The best takers
among these birds, according to the
Washington Star, are the gray Afri-
can variety, with the red tail. They
are very delicate and make risky
stock for the importer. If one par
rot in an invoice dies, all of them
may be expected to succumb almost
Immediately. 1t is suspected that
the water in this country does not
agree with them. They are worth
from SO to Sl2 unframed, and when
trained they fetch almost any price
They come from Liberia and Monro-
via, where they are caught is great
numbers by the blacks. The latter
make business of catching parrots,
and have regular parrot farms in
their villages. At the breeding sea-
son the men, women and children
scatter in the wilderness and rob
nests. They wait until the young
are nearly ready to leave the nest,
and then they take them. Trading
vessels buy them in quantities and
carry them to ports where steamers
in the African trade stop for cargo.
Thus they are forwarded to Europe.
The talking powers Of a parrot de-
pend to great extent on its being
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21
DON CARLOS OF BOURBON
Sketch of the Claimant of tho SPANS,
Throne.

Sketch Of tho Claimant Of tho SPANS,
Throne.
The announcement Of the no.
trothal OF Don Carlos to princess of
Rohan is confirmed by statement
in the leading organ Of the Carlist
party in Madrid, the Correo Espano)
Don Carlos is now in his forty-sixtb
year and is widower, having lost
his first wife, who was princess Of
Bourbon and a niece of the Comte de
Chambord, last year. Since 1869 he
has been prominent figure in
Spanish politics. He has made
several armed efforts to establish his
rights to the throne Of that country
and the agitation on his behalf is
carried on with unremitting activity
by an organization specially sub,
mentioned by him. His claims to the
Spanish throne are genealogically
well founded. He is the direct male
heir of the Spanish line Of kings, and
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

reach Chemnitz that the cotton is
exposed to mud, water, fire, and
theft. OF the original six or eight
iron bands, two. three, four, and
sometimes more are loose or broken;
the cotton bulges out, takes up dirt
and dust when in dry place, mud
in the docks, sea water when in the
ships, and rain water when on land,
on wharves, or in transportation by
boat, rail or wagon. In transport ev-
cry gust of wind tears away pieces Of
the valuable commodity. The GUS
tom-house floors, wharyes, and freight
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

THE discussion in England of the
question of excluding Canadian and
American cattle is quite active.
Sometimes you can get closer to the
truth by noting what is denied than
what is admitted. The following
cable report of a debate on the sub
ject shoes where the shoe pinches
with the powers that be over there:
"Mr. Gardner, President of the Board
of Agriculture, repudiated the idea
that the Government should exclude
American and Canadian cattle mere
ly to maintain the price of English
stock. The Government only desired
to exclude disease"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

The ice water drinker is just as
much a "fiend" as the morphine eat
er. In many cases the habit of the
former is just as strong as that of
the latter, and just as hard to break.
1t has been frequently demonstrated
that the drinking of ice water is an
acquired habit, and not one that
comes naturally. Give an infant ice
water, and you will notice by its ac-
ton that the drink is very distaste-
full. 1t usually has the same effect
upon an Indian or person not accus-
toned to it. Besides. il is very I'M
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21
Thrifty Jams.

Its matter Of singular interest
that Japan is now manufacturing
modern war material for the use of
western nations. Six guns manu-
featured at tn Japanese government
arsenal at Osaka have just been sup.
piled to the Portuguese government.
A month or SO since a British firm
took the first steps in the establish
ment of watch making concern in
Japan for the manufacture by Japan.
csc Workmen of watches for western
markets.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21
Natural Result.

A man living in Hastings, B. c.,
taught a pet monkey to drink gin
and beer half-and-half every morning
before breakfast. Strange as it may
seem, the anthropoid acquired lik-
ing for this beverage, and when it
was stopped the monkey took revenge
on the man by biting off one of his
ears. One thing led to another I'M
til the monkey was dead and the
man so badly off that two doctors
were called in.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21
London,s Narrow streets

A proposed law that any new build
ing erected in London shal have its
front not less than twenty feet from
the middle of the street has brought
heart OF the city thirty-two miles OF
streets less than forty feet broad. II
the principle were generally applied,
on plan of reconstruction Of streets,
land to the value Of about $40, 600, 900
would he sacrificed
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21
Queer Stationery.

When the petals Of the great aurel
magnolia are touched, however light
ly, the result is brown spot, which
develops in a few hours. This fact
is taken advantage Of by a lover, who
pulls magnolia flower, and on one
OF its pure white petals writes a
motto or message with hard, sharp
pointed pencil. Then he sends the
flower, the young lady puts it in a
vase of water, and in three or four
hours the message written on the
leaf becomes visible and remains SO.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

SHOULD a man fail in business.
which often happens, no knowledge
of painting on china, embroidering,
or smattering of music, will help the
girls to support the family. One
might as well yoke circus dancing
horse to a pillow, and expect it to do
good work For this reason, every
girl and boy should be taught some
thing practical.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

and hence some amount Of opposition
to the match is to be expected from
his leading supporters. The Rohans
are a non-sovereign princely house,
although by descent they may claim
to consort with the ruling houses of
Europe. They are the descendants of
the former sovereign dukes Of Brit.
tany
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

THE Mikado of Japan has recently
issued decree allowing Japanese
woman to lead, if she choose, sim
gle life Hitherto if found unmar-
ried after a certain age, a husband
was selected for her by law.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

IT must have often occurred to the
ant, in dscouraging sort of way,
that universal admiration is paid to
the butterfly. 1t is little consola-
tion at such times to reflect that an
ant is never seen with pin sticking
through it in some enthusiasts glass
case
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21
fire, water, dirt, dust, etc, is mini
mixed. Take this table as to space
occupied by the different bales:

Egyptian. Indian. can.
Weight pounds ....... 700 400 475
Space occupied(cubic ft.) Is 10 %
1.-THE Lloyds, who can pack into
their vessels holds 5000 to $4,000
bales of Indian cotton, can take only
5000 to 10000 American, when, ac-
cording to the ratio of weights a to
Az, they should take in IA, 900 bales.
Consider this in the figuring Of ex-
penses, where SO, 81, S., ETC., is
paid per cubic yard for ocean freights. :"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

WHEN England shall have gobbled
up all the eligible land on earth it
can still enlarge its dominiOns by lev:
cling the useless mountains and build
ing the land out into the sea.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21
ERe ctiVa-

In some Of the German towns when
a man is convicted of beating his
wife he is allowed to go to his work
as usual, but his wife gets his wages
and he is locked up only 90 Saturday
nights and remains in prison until
the following Monday. The punish
ment usually lasts for ten weeks
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Thought He Was a Witch.

In 1145 DR.. Watson stretched a
wire across the Thames and sent an
electric shock through it from one
observer to the other. He was ac-
cused Of witchcraft and had much
trouble in proving his innocence.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

UNCLE SAM burned the old carpet
in the Philadelphia mint and took
out of the ashes $500 in pure gold.
He used $40 to buy new carpet.
Your uncle is about as close a trader
as they make