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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
AN IDEAL DAIRY.
Where the p rinceSs of Wales and Her
Daughters Make Butter.

Where the + Princess of Wales and Her
Daughters Make Butter.
Probably the most ideal dairy in ex-
istence is that of the Princess of Wales,
in which not only she, but her various
daughters, have learned to make the
most perfect of butter. The walls are
covered with tiles presented to the Prince
of Wales, who placed them here as a
surprise to the royal dairymaids. They
were made in Bombay, and are of a
deep peacock blue, the rose shamrock
and thistle being intertwined, with the
motto. Itch diem"
A white marble counter running around
the room holds silver pans of milk from
the Attorneys grazing without. Above
this on broad bracket shelves of marble
is collection, in every imaginable ma
terial, of cows, bullocks and calves; Ital-
ian and Parian marble; alabaster, porce-
lain, terra Gotta and silver-all gifts. A
long milk can, painted by Princess Louise
to match the Indian thing, stands in one
corner, and opposite is the head of the
Princess pet Attorney, with silver plate
recording her virtues. Here the Princess
sometimes churnS in silver churn. and
in the next room the butter for the family
is made and sent up fresh every morning
when they are in London. The DAVIS sup
ply is made up into little pats and scrolls
all ready for the table, and the prince
requires a special order of pats. Not
grain of salt is allowed in them. and
they are made the size of a half dollar
and the thickness of three, with either
the crown, the coat-of-arms, or the three
feathers stamped on each.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
JIM FISK'S WIDOW IN NEED.
Living in Boston Almost Penniless-What
Became of Her Fortune?

Living in Boston Almost Penniless-What
Became of Her Fortune?
The widow of Jim Fisk, who was the
victim of Ed. Stokes pistol, is almost
poverty She is living at present
in humble apartments IN Boston. She
has an income of $50 month from her
family property, but not one cent comes
from all that colossal fortune which Jim
Fisk risked his fair fame to gather to-
gether by the most audacious and stu
pendous achievements known to modern
finance. When Fisk, shot down by an
assassin's pistol, died at the Grand Cen
trail hotel, New York city, January 6,
one Of the wealthiest men in New York
When, three months later, James D.
Clark, the friend and business adviser
of the widowed Mrs. Fisk, filed an in
ventory of the dead mans estate in the
office of the surrogate of New York, he
appraised it's total value at 100000.
The contrast of circumstances between
her present state of living and the lux
ury in which her husbands assassin now
lives brings wildly to mind the crime
which shocked this world twenty-three
years ago. 1t was partly for his wife's
sake that Jim Fisk embarked in these
enterprises. Despite the stormy passions
that shook his mature years, she was his
only real love, his first and his last. In
his will he left her all his property, real
and personal, subject only to a legacy of
100000 to his sister. But all that great
wealth has vanished. Mrs. Fisk claims
that she signed over S3,O0O,0OO Of real
estate to the Erie road and never received
a cent. She did this at Gould's sugges-
ton. She exchanged her interest in the
Narragansett Steamboat company (now
Fall River line) to Mr.. Gould for $780,
600 New Jersey Southern stock and $15,-
600 additional. She realized $500 on
the stock.
Gould afterwards purchased the real
estate, which he induced her to transfer
to the Erie road A further problem is
presented by calm review of all the
facts. Col. Fisk is we'll known to have
owned large block of Erie stock. Only
a few days before his death he made a
statement to this effect to William III.
Morgan. The amount is currently re-
ported to have been 5000 shares. Their
total value at $1OO per share would have
been $780, 000-more than enough to have
soothed the declining years of his widow.
But neither that lady, nor her relatives,
nor her business representatives, have
ever been able to discover a trace of
these enormous holdings. Where have
they disappeared? A subscription list for
the widow is suggested
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
Memorial Day in Scotland.

A special invitation to participate in
the decoration of the Lincoln monument
in Edinburg Scotland, was received in
Milwaukee today by Capt J. III. Wood
north from Allen B. Morse, United States
consul there. The invitation announces
that the decorate of the monument to
Lincoln would take place on Memorial
day, May 30 and that flowers for the
purpose had been sent by Lincoln post,
g. A r., of New Jersey; Charles G. Ba-
con post of Neillsville, Wis, and by a
post in Michigan. The monument erect
ed by Americans in Edinburg is in Cal
ton Hill cemetery.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
Learnine to Walk.

Here is picture of baby learning to
walk It's mamma is bending over IT
and holding out her hands to keep it
from fa1g and the baby ods is trying to
dering how it can take step without
tumbling down. Amt it funny that
babies have to be taught to walk? A
puppy, or a kitten, or a calf, or a colt,
never has to be taught to walk. Almost
the first thing they do is to jump up on
their legs and run around; but babies are
not even hold up their heads and do not
know what their hands are for; and most
of them are year old before they learn
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24

to use their feet to get around with. l
knew baby once that was nearly year
and half old before he would try to
walk Every time his mamma set him
on his feet, as this woman in the picture
has done her baby, down he would sit
on the floor. His papa almost began to
be afraid that he would creep all his
life.
One day a colored woman came to the
house to do some washing, and she had
a little black baby not so old as Johnnie.
Johnnie's mother put this little negro in
the hall where Johnnie was sitting on the
floor, and it ran all around. Johnnie sat
and watched it very attentively for
awhile. The little black fellow ran to
one end of the hall, and Johnnie twisted
himself around to see it run, and when it
ran to the other end, Johnnie turned
around to see. Presently he seemed to
make up his mind that he would not let
a negro baby do what he couldn't, so up
he got in the middle of the floor, without
anybody's helping him, and started to run
after the black baby. He fell down, but
that did not discourage him. Up he got
again and started. Down he went, and
up he got twenty times, and pretty soon
he could run faster than the little negro,
and he never crept again.-E. L. L. in
New Orleans Picayune.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
\ BIRD with Thirty-six Names.

One no longer hears the insistent call
and rat-tat-tat of the high-hole wood
pecker in suburban woodlands. Part of
his hammering is for the purpose of max
ing hole for his nest and when the nest
is once made the hammering ceases:
Audubon Iikened the ordinary call OF
the high-hole to a prolonged and merry
laugh. but those that are neighbors of
the bird soon cease to find anything
agreeable in the noise Popular interest
in the high-hole is testified by the fact
that he is known in various parts of the
country by thirty-six local names.-New
York Sum-
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
Glycerine.

Equal parts Of bay rum and glycerine
applied to the face after shaving make a
man rise up and call the woman who pro-
vided it blessed. Applied to the shoes,
glycerine is a great preservative of the
leather and effectually keeps out water
glycerine put in the fruit jars the last
thing before sealing them help to keep
the preserves from moulding on top. For
flatulentcy Their is no better remedy than
a teaspoonful of glycerine after each
meal. It will prevent and cure chapped
hands. Two or three drops will often stop
the baby's stomach ache. It will allay
the thirst of fever patient and soothe
an irritable cough by moistening the dry
ness of the throat
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24

ribbons and have little silvered gouge-
spoons slipped under the satin straps
Society Fads'' in Demorest's Magazine.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24

Lady Sutton, the widow of Sir Rich
ard Sutton. who tried to win the Amer
ica's cup with the Genesta.. is going to
marry again; curate this time.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
TelI-taIe Meters.

81 suppose you just guess how much
gas people use and charge accordingly"
Collector-"No, indeed, sir. These bills
are all carefully calculated from the last
census returns"
useholder-"What have the census
returns to do with it?'
Collector-''They tell how many grown
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
Women in France.

Women are the stronger as well as the
better half of France. They do every
thing but build houses. The best inspec-
tor in the French custom-house is a wom-
an. She is in the Havre Office, and she
has nose that can detect dutiable goods
without opening a lock. She is naturally
anna BILE and slow to anger, but woe to the
foreigner or countryman who provokes her
ire. There is no sadder spectacle in the
republic of France than the woman shoe
polishers, who doze under the sheds of
the markets and quay, one eye shut and
the other fixed on the bootbox over the
way, patiently waiting for trade They
ask 5 cents and accept 2 cents for their
unwomanly work. At Theirs, the black
est town in France, the women sit out
side of the grimy little machine shops
mating scissor blades and polishing knife
and scissor handles. The stream that
turns the 10000 little mill wheels is black
er than the Chicago river, and. as the
furnaces never burn without belching,
the toilers and their devoted lifelong ap-
prentices are sometimes Malay and some
times Aongolian, but seldom Caucasian
in color. Not long ago a college woman
went down to Theirs to teach school for
the winter. The promise of eighty pupils
was a temptation. but on reaching the
colony Of soot-begrimed and smoke-stained
smithies she found that the position paid
S. a month and the teacher was expected
to furnish the fuel for the winter.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24

A four-foot body of ore, averaging
5000 per ton in gold, has been struck in
the Acme mine at Gold Hill, Wyo.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
Home Wedding Best.

The quiet church wedding, with only
half q dozen pews filled with gloomy
visage friends the half-lighted auditorium
and the dismal. lonesome seats, savors
strongly of things shivery and drear. The
swell church wedding, with the crowds
of casual acquaintance and mere curiosi-
ty-SeekerS, loses all it's Solemnity and as
sumes a jovial, frivolous circus air that
i'll becomes the marriage ceremony. The
bridesmaids are in a hutter of excitement
over the hang of their skirts and the
+'Set" of their bOdiceS; the groom fears
that his cravat has edged around on the
bias, or that his front hair has Tapped
down APPROXIMATION.
The bride is in fever of dread lest she
sneeze, trip on her train, drop her bouquet
or stammer when she repeats the re-
Sponses; the crowd is stretching its many
neckS and buffeting hats and bonnets in
its wild efforts to see whether or not the
brides gown is trimmed with real lace and
TO catch a glimpse of the diamond hair
ornament. The papa of the bride sits in
the first seat feeling sad and nursing the
thought that he has not only been robbed
of a daughter, but that on the first OF
the following month he is to battle with
a strong and lengthy line of bills from
modistes, caterers, florists, milliners-
and only the bride herself knows who
else.
For ordinary, everyday folk the little
home wedding is the thing. There the
rigid bars of formality are let down and
Cupid can sit on the minister's shoulder
and smile gleefully as he rearranges his
arrows in preparation for his next set of
victims. Then the groom can kiss his
bride and whisper some silly sentence that
will never after sound quite so sweet as
it does then. The mother can weep a lit
tie as she hugs them, and there can be
a general kissing bee all around.
After that comes the cutting of the
wedding cake and the showers of rice and
old slippers as the bride and bridegroom
drive hurriedly away.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
The Art of Breathing.

It is perhaps one of the signs of the
times to those alert for indications that
the art of breathing has become more
and more a subject of attention. Ocu-
lists as well as psychologists go deeply
into it's study in a way hardly to be
touched upon here. Physicians have
cured aggravated cases of insomnia by
long-drawn regular breaths, fever-strick-
en- patients have been quieted, stubborn
forms of indigestion made to disappear.
A tendency to consumption may be en-
tirely overcome, as some authority has
within the last few years clearly demon
strated, by exercises in breathing. Sea-
sickness, too may be surmounted, and
the victim of hypnotic influence taught
to withstand the force of any energy
directed against him.
There is a famous physician of Mu-
mich, who has written an extensive work
upon the subject of breathing. He has,
besides, formulated a system by which
asthmatic patients are made to walk
without losing breath, while sufferers
from weaknesses of the heart are cured
At Meran, in the Austrian Tyrol, his
patients almost every royal house of
Europe is represented are put through
certain system of breathing and walk
ing. The mountain paths are all marked
off with stakes of different colors, each
indicating the number of minutes in
which patient must walk the given dis
tance the breathing and walking being
in time together. AS the cure progresses
the ascents are made sleeper and sleeper
-Harper'S Bazaar.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
English Girls Colleges.

A defect in the college life of American
girls that must be noted, says a writer
in the English National Observer, is this:
1.-THE arrangements are too much after
the fashion of a boarding school, and do
not allow sufficient scope for the devel-
opment of individual character. The
girls are expected to retire to bed at
fixed hour and to take a definite amount
of exercise each day; and-a more seri-
Gus defect-they do not each have
separate study. Where the students
board out, which is the case in most of
the mixed universities and some of the
women's colleges. they share the life of
the family they join; but where, as at
Nassar, halls of residence are provided,
two or three bedrooms to one study are
the usual rule. At Oxford or Cambridge
every woman student has at least one
room to herself, arranged with much in
genuity as a bedroom study; here she
works. meditates or idles as she likes,
receives her friends, and, mistress of her
time, enjoys the independence and soil
tude which are too often entirely absent
from the everyday life of the average
middle-class girl. Under these influences
she quickly develops sobriety and self
command which are the best corrective
of giddiness or of what past generation
entitled comprehensively 'vapors;' while
the social life of the college, with its
clubs, entertainments and debates, suf-
fees to check any tendency that may
exist to turn the student into hermit"
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
BridaI Favors ON Horses.

When a group of carriages-private
turnouts or unpretending cabs-are this
month drawn up before a church door
whence an awning extends, every coach
man on every box will be sure to wear
a handsome boutonniere in his button
hole. This is provided by the person who
has arrived in the carriage; for word has
gone forth to the effect that whoever now
rides to a wedding must show an appro-
pirate badge of the festive occasion.
Only the brides footman and coachman
wear white fayorS; and these, for the
beadstalls of the horses, the brides and
for the buttonholes of the coachman's
and footman's coats, are White flowers,
or white satin The JehuS of the guests
can wear any other color. and roses are
regarded as in excellent form. One small
pink or red rose is in eminently good
taste if it has a graceful backing OF
greenery. A couple of carnations is con-
Sidered quite correct and cornf1owers
share the honors with daffodilS and for
get-me-notS. En- PEASANT, 1T is well to re-
mark that Wedding-cake boxes are now
very splendid souvenirs, given when ali
ones acquaintance are invited to the
church ceremony, but only limited num-
Der of friends and relatives to the recep-
ton. Big silver fieur-de-lis, washed in
gold with the entwined initials of the
contracting parties enameled on the tops.
were used at one very splendid nuptial
function. Less costly, but more effective,
are round porcelain bonbonniere boxes,
with the heads of the bride and groom
photographed on the lids. The porcelain
boxes, round, square, oblong and three
cornered, are very much used when orna-
mented with appropriate painted pat
terms. Not so dear as either of these de-
vices are little square baskets woven OF
perfumed wildwood Or of gilded and sill
vered withes. These are tied with satin
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-06-24
American Women.

American women.
The Marquis de Castellane' article, eff
teen Days in the United States occu,
pies twentyfour pages of the Revue
de Paris" Here is an extract:
'"This concentration of the American
brain on two ideas-the wish to be free
and the seeking of a fortune by work
has not failed to impress upon the race
certain physical characteristics. Without
being of exceptional beauty, the race is
vigorous One feels that it is young.
The men walk briskly and boldly without
nonchalance. They are supple, fond of
open-air sports, horseback riding, swim
ming and yachting.
'"The women are neither painted nor
covered with rice powder, nor are they
anaemic. All, or almost all, of them
have superb compilations; they are tail,
and very few appear in ill-health. But
in vain one seeks upon their faces the eX,
preston of their sensations or sentiments.
Certainly, and perhaps happily for them.
they have not been initiated into the
refinement of sensibility, into artistic en-
thusiasms. Their souls, too, have only
gravitated since their childhood around
the two ideas that have animated their
fathers and which will animate their hus,
bands-the passion of independence. and
the passion of work. The characteristics
of American beauty are pride and curiosi-
ty, as those of the French beauty are
grace and submission"
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-12
Tic Koign OF lnnnnns.

Tho use Of ribbons is increasing until
ns mahy as three pieces may bo put
upon ono tiress. Pulled sleeves have five
bands of ribbon from shoulders TO ell
bows over the putfs. Tho waist has
three or five bands from shoulders to
waist line, with any number Of loops
and ends attached to tho belt; tnen rib
bons arc SGT in at tho bolt and fall two
thirds of the way down tho skirt, whore
there arc enormous loops, rosettes and
ends. and in some instances very largo
bows midway of the length Of the rib
bon from waist limo to hom of skirt. -
New York Ledger
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-12
wonders of Life Reproduction.

According to tho nnturalists, scor-
pion will produce 60 of its species in a
single season; common fly, IA; n
leech, $50, and "a spider, 40. Tho hy-
drachna produces 600 eggs and com
mon frog /. 100. The female moth is
credited with exactly tho same number
OF eggs rs tho frog and the tortoise 100
less, or an even / 900 The gall insect
lays 80, 600 eggs, the shrimp 6, 900, and
over 10, 600 eggs have been found in the
ovarics Of captured nscaris. Ono nat
uralist reports finding over l2, 600 eggs
i'll a female lobster, and another found
$1,000. The mutilla, an insect very
similar to tho ant, has boon known to
lay so, 900 eggs in u single day, and
Lcuwonhook attributes 100000 for
tho season rs the female crabs share in
reproducing her speCiesl More than SO, :
600 eggs have boon counted in her-
ring, 3S, 600 i'll smolt, 900, 900 III a
sole, $50, GOO i'll the roach, 3, coo, 900
i'll tho sturgeon, 3i2, 0Go in tho carp,
$50, 600 in n tcnch, $40, 900 in mack
erel, 992, 600 i'll perch and 1857, 900
iii founder But Of all the fish hither-
to discovered the cod appears to be tho
most wonderfully prolific. One reliable
naturalist reports 3,GSG, 600 eggs from
single female in ono season and an
other as many rs ., 44l, 00o!-St. Louis
Republic
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-12
1hoy Get S5, 900, 900 More.

Without bounties domestic sugar
growers now get by the now tariff 40
per cent nd valorem moro on all their
products than they could get had sugar
boon made free of duty. This is n yast
bounty Ill itself, which should satisfy
producers And they have been getting
this bounty over since tho now tariff
went into operation III August last. 10
carry the bountying beyond the gener.
Gus bounds afforded by the ad valorcfn
duty of 40 per cent is protection run
mad. New York Herald.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-12

Ex-Speakor Reeds tnnidity is becom.
ing monumental. On rising vote on
tho bill to pay the house clerks month
extra salary each, known ms the grab
biil, " he voted aye" Tho roll was
then called. and when he found that he
mad to 30 on tho record he voted mo. ;"
The ex.speaker's notorious nerve oyi.
IDENTITY Is thing of the past Chicago
UerAld
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-12
GEO. w. DUVAL g. CO.,
NORFOLK IRON WORKS,

~ W.T. CUt'
ENGINES. BOILERS. SAWMILL ana AL,
klnis of machinery OF the most improved
patterns Also pairing at the shortest
notice. Particular attention to steamboat
Work Dl Walls PATENT ROLLER TUBES
FERRUiES arc tho only perfect remedy
for lcaky boiler tubes. = hey oan be iuser ted
III few minutes by any engineer, and ara
warranted 10 atop leaks.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-12

"And these our ships. arc stord with wheat
10 make Your needy bread"
Pericles. l. 4.
Tao ships speak tor themselves. Some
ships pass in the night Ours speak
every port where people need brrad-good
bread. Daisy Patent. Daisy Bale. Flood
Tide are our brands We also manufacture
meal. If you haven't tried it yet YOU are
lost in the shuttle
DAISY ROLLER MILLS.
215, ~. 2I9. Water street.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-12
As 10 Llbelous Prayers,

A California court holds that libels
in public prayer may be judiciously
punished. Tho conclusion ress OH be-
lief that libelous prayers never got be-
You'd the ceiling and therefore remain
we'll within human jurisdiction. New
York Recorder
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-12
On the Market

Messrs. Reed and Mckinley should
not overlook the fact that the prosiden.
tial preferences of the southern delegates
are not stationary franchises. st. Louis
Post Dispatch.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-12

The hour 10 cold By Sawyer Eros, L b
East. VI Fl Gregg. Mrs 2 White, L Fen.
tress Dam. George W Goolson, S
Dalby d Co, Gallup Wright, Win Har. ~
Pro. d K J Blick. Is Baxter. H
Moylan, Chas Barnard, o Nottingham Il Co.
VIM Mcfarland. f ] White. A i Whitehurst.
p Whitehnrst. II O Gallup " Co. i Hart.
ii wilson. J Sacks. A Perry s Cohn. b
J. SN.rsAy. l. Parr, j w buchanan Soc
others in Landmark
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-04-12

hardened therein. Ho turns upside
down the proverbial wisdom which
most OF us regard as eternal verify and
shows us that it looks rs we'll one way
as the other. New York Sun.