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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
DO GuLLs FOLLOW SHIPS ?
One Instance Recorded which Goes tC
prove that RirdS no GO

OnO AnStAAC0 1NCCOTu0O which toes TO
Prove that Birds Do So.
On late trip of one of the steamers
plying between Portland and San Fran
cisco, the question came up among the
passengers as to whether the gulls which
appeared around the ship each morning
were the same birds as had been with the
ship the day previous. To test the matter
line and fish hook were procured and
with bait of salt pork the fishing for a
sea gull was commenced. The first cast
of the line was successful, a big, gray
bird swooping down on the bait. He
was hauled aboard and found to be un-
injured. the hook having caught in one
of the glands of the beak, from which it
was readily loosened. After detaching the
hook strip of red flannel was brought
and carefully tied around the CULTS left
leg by one of the seamen of the steam
er. the bird being then turned loose. Cir
cling for a moment in the air, the gull
started for the distant blue streak, which
denoted the coast line, and it was general
~ allowed that each day brought new
contingent of gulls to follow the steamer
and pick up the waste scraps from the
table, but on coming on deck after break
fast the next morning there was the
fannel-bedecked gull to be seen, the most
clamorous of all the birds. To test the
CULTS reasoning power, if it had any,
the same line and bait were drifted
astern, the gull caught the day before
being one of the first to strike for it
Northwestern Magazine.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
Nine. Reiane Considers Us Queer.

Rejane cannot make the Americans out.
They show, she says, no feeling as spec
tators. Zone sees lines of eyes fixed on
one. but one has no idea of what passes
in the brains behind them. If theaactress
has pleased, heaps of flowers are left next
day at the hotel-by ladies. The Amer
lean man is too devoted to business to
run around complimenting actresses, like
the French. Ladies' admiration only
counts when the actress is a person of
honorable life. If the ladies stood aloof
the star would cease to attract. The
ladies get. up subscriptions to present SOU
venirs. They give theatrical matinees
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19

friendly old Noko had given her, when she
called out:
MAY the snakeberry vine spring up
and trip her. when the path behind her
was covered with the scarlet vine. Old
Mukakee and her children tripped and
stumbled until, becoming tired, they sat
down and began eating the berries, Of
which they were very fond. The good
mother and her son had gone many miles,
when again the dog warned them that
the witch was near at hand. They had
reached a stream that was nearly dry in
its rocky bed, and as they crossed it the
good mother cried out: MAY it rain as
if the bottom of the sky had tumbled out, =
when the rain came down in torrents, the
stream overfowed it's banks and Nukakee
and her children could not cross it. Again
the fugitives had gone many miles, when
they caught sight of their plrsuers. Just
before they came up with them the good
mother thought of the third charm, and,
throwing her sons flint and steel to the
bottom Of the hill, she said MAY the
flint and steel keep her forever" when
the steel spread itself out into a smooth
mass and the flint broke up into thou
sand fragments, on which the old woman
and her children cut their feet. They
could not stop themselves until they were
half way up the hill of glass, and there
they slipped about trying in vain to get
anywhere, like horses in a treadmill, not
being able to move forward or back, and
there they are to this day, for anything
that is known to the contrary.
The good mother and her son, guarded
by old Unnemoosh, reached home safely
from the ends of the earth. and were
warmly welcomed by the husband and
father. They all lived together happily
for many years-Louise Phillips in New
York World.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
Alabaster Mining.

Alabaster mining, very remarkable
and ancient industry, is still carried on
thirty-two miles to the southeast of Pisa,
in the province of that name. The mate
rial, which is Of five main varieties, is
found in nodules embedded in huge
masses of limestone. At the end Of the
cavern whence it is extracted two or three
men are to be seen working away with
small T shaped picks. Sometimes the
block of alabaster is found well projected
from it's bed of limestone in which case
the operator carefully picks his way all
around it in order to extricate the COM
plete block Other times, however. the
workman is obliged to break down large
quantities of limestone before he lights
upon the white nose of what looks like a
block. In which case he picks his way
carefully so as not to injure, the block
When there seems a likelihood of a large
moved blasting with gunpowder is re.
sorted TO-
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
Calling Servants with a Pole.

A quaint practice exists at the bishop
of Londons palace at Fulham, and this
consists in what appears to be time
copal domestics by means of long pole.
At Fulham the palace lodgekeeper has a
regular morning duty to perform in arous-
ing certain of the servants at successive
hours, beginning at about half-past ..
The pole he uses is not employed, how,
which came in handy in churches in the
case of inattention or doing members
of the congregation to bring them to a
proper sense of their positions The ven
cradle man is provided with asslender rod
some fifteen feet in length, and with this
he raps on the antique easements of the
servants bedrooms III the quadrangle
within the massive wooden gates of the
large western archway, and he continues
his attention until the sleeper gives a
more or less grateful answer.-Montreal
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19

of the correct time. AS, for instance, you
on retiring wind up your watch and put it
under your pillow. During the night
YOU wake up and wonder what time it is.
All you have to do is to pull that watch
out from under the pillow, hold it to your
ear and count the ticks as you wind. If
you count IS. then you know that your
IL o'clock, and that the time must be
very near 2 o'clock. To be sure, you
can't tell the exact time, but you gener-
ally get within quarter of an hour of it.
National industrial Review.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
A Big BIunder.

It has been remarked that the habit of
beginning dinner with soup doubtless
grew out of the fact that aliment in
this readily-digested form soon enters the
blood and rapidly refreshes the hungry
man. In two or three minutes after
taking plate of good warm consomme
the feeling of WEAKNESS disappears and
The custom of taking glass of sherry
before dinner is spoken of by Sir Henry
Thompson as .gastronomical and physi-
ological blunder."
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19

forfeited handkerchiefs, ribbons, knives,
pencils, etc. These young folks stand up
in ring, hand in hand, but facing out
ward, and the biggest, holding a small
hearth broom pointing its handle at the
next player, says rapidly and solemnly:
Buff says Buff to all his men,
And they say Buff to him again,
But neither laughs nor smiles,
But carries his face
With a very good grace
And passes his broom
To the very next place.
Ha! Ho! Hal Ho!
To my very next neighbor,
Go, Broomie. go!
If Buff makes any mistake, laughs or
even smiles, during thus saying, he must
begin it all over again. If he keeps quite
solemn and serious, he hands the broom
on to the neighbor and retires from the
circle to receive back his forfeit, while
the next player, holding its handle toward
her neighbor, repeats the rhyme, and so
on till the broom is landed with the last
child, who hands it in in return for her
own forfeit, or if buff is being played
at merely as a game the ring is reformed
and the next tallest player begins it again
with
Buff says buff to all his men.
-Kennebec Journal.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
ODDS IN THE DARKEY'S FAVOR.
Gave His Boy Two Jugs to Fetch the
MOIasses Home.


MO1asses Home.
/ came along to the gate of a humble
cabin in a town in Alabama just as an old
negro handed a couple of jugs to his SOB,
who was about 10 years of age, and said:
''Now, Julius, yo' gwan down to de
grocery an git quart O. lasses i'll one OBJ
dem jugs an hurry back"
When the boy had gone l said to the
father:
you didn't tell him to get anything in
the other jug. Is he going to leave it
at the grocery
.'No, sah-gwan to bring it right back
home" he replied.
.'Bnt why send two jugs to get quart
of molasses!
Its jess dis way. sab. If he only
took one jug, he'd be powerful suah to
bump it or drap it an lose de 'lasses. If
he takes two he's jess as liable to drap
de- empty one as de 'lasses one, an dat
makes de odds in my favor. Anyfing
else yo'd like to ak about, white man ?''-
Detroit Free Press.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
Must Deal TenderIy.

When Prof. Aytoun was wooing Miss
Wilson, the daughter of Christopher
North editor of Blackwood's Magazine,
he obtained the lady's consent conditional
This Aytoun was too shy to ask, and he
prevailed upon the young lady to ask for
# herself. eve must deal tenderly with
his feelings" said hearty old Christopher.
''Tll write my reply on a slip of paper
and pin it on your back" "Papa's an,
swer is on the back of my DRESS" said
Miss Jane, as she entered the drawing
room Turning her round, the delighted
sl1itor read these words: with the au>
thor's compliments"
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
Balloon Ball.

There are many ball games, but one
especially suited for girls is the balloon
ball." played with bats and bouncing In
dia rubber balls within a large circle
chalked on the ground. The moment the
seized on by any onlooker, and the player
must instantly give up the bat and take
turn outside the ring, into which her
playmate steps, keeping sharp lookout
in case the ball should bound or roll her
way, which it may do at any moment.
Everybody knows about ''blindman's
buff but there, is another buff of quite
different kind. 1t can be played as a
game, and it is also often used as forfeit
buff It is very useful when there are
several children wanting to get back their
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
Ne Had walked 96. 500 Miles.

One of the famous umbrella members,
Stephen Boaler, died last night in the
almshouse at Williamsport, Pa. He was
IS years old. and his father is 81. They
were known as "Moody and Sankey,'
and had a route covering Lyconiing,
Union, Snyder, Miffiin, Juniata, Perry
and Dauphin counties, which they tray
,ersed. They have walked 96.36O miles
in thirty-three years in plying their yoca-
tion-Philadelphi Record.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
Utah's Jury system.

Utah has inaugurated a very decided
change in the jury system, and the result
will be watched with interest. Its juries
will consist of only eight instead Of
twelve members, and the votes of only
three-fourths Of these will decide the YER
dict. It is doubtful if this will prove any
more satisfactory than the system in gen.
eral use in other states, and is open to
considerable argument. In many cases
If might result harmfully.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
Motorman.s Car was His Hearse.

The remains Of Motorman Robert SEN
ram were conveyed yesterday to their
last resting place in Mountain View
cemetery by the trolley car of the Grove
street line which he had operated since
the road was opened for business, says
the San Francisco Chronicle The car
was draped with Grape and was laden
with many floral tributes from employees
of the road, who were present at the
funeral in large numbers. The car
moved in advance of the cortege and
was rolled up to the gates of the Gene
tory
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
Miss Wizards Romance.

The recent rumor regarding the engage
ment of Miss Frances 3. Willard, presi-
dent of the National Woman's Christian
Temperance union, to an elderly English
gentleman of means. who uses a large
part of his annual income in the further
ing of reform movements, has recalled to
the minds of many of Miss Willard s
friends in this country the romance OF her
early WOmanhOOd.
In her youth Miss Willard prepared her
self for teaching, and while pursuing her
studies, met a young man who was study
ing for the ministry and who gave prom
chosen calling. Their common love of
study attracted them to each other, and
the young man felt that in Miss Willard
he had found the one woman who, as his
wife, would help him upward and would
gracefully share the honors of the lofty
position at which he was aiming. Nor
was Miss Wizards heart untouched, and
the Young mans matrimonial hopes might
have been realized but for her discovery
that he was addicted to the use of to-
bacco. She very promptly told him that
he could choose between tobacco and her
self, and to all his pleadings opposed the
one cry:
IF you love tobacco more than you do
me, find some other woman who will toll
crate such habit.
At length he ceased to urge her, and
they went their separate ways, 81 to re-
main single and become president of the
National Woman's Christian Temperance
union and one of the best parliamenta-
rians in the United States, and he to
marry some one else and become one of
the most prominent bishops of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
81 WENT TO PARIS WITH PAPA
Lottie Collins New Song Wins the Brit
Ons' Hearts.


made another hit with a. song which
promises to become another ''Ta-rara-
boom-de-ay" for her. 1t is called II
Went to Paris with Papa" and pos
sesses a jingle which seems to have
made the aural tympanums of the Brit
ons vibrate vigorously. The chorus
goes:
/ went to Paris with papa, to see what
kind the Frenchmen are.
Such funny ways they've got, which Eng
ishmen have not
You really should to Paris go; you learn SC
very much, you know,
I saw lot in Paris that they never taught
at school.
Her arch ways seem to have caught
the English public, who have forgiven
her for her temporary desertion of the
with that dreadful ''ta-ra-ra'' throughout
this country
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
Her Bloomers.

She vowed she'd wear boomers that night
at the fete,
Whereat accused her of horrible taste;
'You are prejudiced, SIR she returned.
eff you wait
Till you see them you'll alter your verdict
in haste
Quite dreading the vision the night had in
store
1 walked to her house with mind i'll at
ease
Eureka! With praises my lips dubbed DER
When I saw at her girdle bunch OF sweet
peas. Richmond Dispatch.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
BOY Resuscitates His Playmate.

A little Saco lad profted the other day
by his '"schooling.'' While in swimming
one Of his little playfellows sank. The
learned to swim, diyed for the drowning
boy, brought him ashore, and then. be,
thinking himself of the instructions in his
physiology, went to work and resuscitat>
ed the lad, who otherwise would undoubt-
edly have died. Both boys were so
frightened that they didn't dare to tell
their parents, and several days elapsed be-
fore the story leaked out.-Augusta (Me.)
Io11rr1a oil
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19

and soirees. theatrical readings, recep-
tons and talk-lectures, only attended by
themselves. The American man is spe-
arbitress of taste, the soul of refinement,
the handspring of all sorts of movements.
Nine. Rejane fancied herself in an Eleu-
sinian country out West. Men found
time to go in the evening to the play, but
were too tired to find pleasure in what
cost each moment a mental effort to I'M
derStand''
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
Telling the Time in the Dark.

A Chicago man has a new way OF get
ting at the time in the dark in that city,
where the people are so ungodly that they
do not sleep well, and often desire to
know how near the light of day may be.
By taking note of the time when his
watch was last wound he allows ten sec,
onds for each click of the ratchet as he
turns the crown of his stem-winder, and
by adding the number of seconds thus as,
certained-reducing them to minutes-,to
the time at which his watch was las,
wound he can come within few minutes
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
GoOd-by.

Good-by, dear eyes; a little while
You lit the darkness of my days;
Now life is naught, and nothing stays:
Good-by, dear eyes and tender smile
And loving ways.
Good-by, dear hands; and now press
For the last time your whiteness slim,
And if my eyes with tears are dim,
You will not love them, dear, the less
For tears in them.
Good-by, dear lips, where death has set
His kiss a colder one than thine;
But, in your dwelling place divine,
Shall you, dear love, one hour forget
This kiss Of mine?
Pail Mall Budget.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
A LITTLE STREAM OF WATER.
Only Eighteen Inches in Diameter, but
Furnishes Power for q CITY.

EuruASH0S OWeE HOE ~ NAUys
At Fresno, CAL, work is progressing on
the electric power transmission plant,
which is to carry power from the north
fork of the San Joaquin river thirty three
miles to Fresno. 1t is to be in operation
within 12O days and is to deliver from
1000 to 1900 horsepower here. 1t win
supply 1000 incandescent lights, 100 arc
lights, and motors for four mills, planning
mills and various other purposes, with a
reserve for street railroads.
The enterprise surpasses in some re-
spects anything to be found on the Pacific
coast. A column ofsMater only Is inches
in diameter at the bottom. falling down a
precipice 141O feet, will drive large dyna.
mos and will develop power deemed
sufficient to run the machinery of Fres,
no, even when the population shall have
increased MANIFOLD. One-third of the
power delivered will drive all the mills,
the waterworks, machine shops, planning
mills, laundries, printing presses, eleva>
tors. packing houses, street cars and other
machinery. The remaining 600 horse.
power will be available for factories and
machinery in the future Manufacturer
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
THE FARMER LOST PATIENCE.
She Threw Her Eyes Into Too Many At
titudes for Comfort.

titudes for Comfort.
Farmer Hodge (reading novelette,
'SI'm out Of all patience with the Gladys
Fitzallwyn in the story-the way she's
abusing her beautiful eyes. She doesn't
deserve to have none.'
Mrs. Hodge whats she been doing
now?"
Farmer Hodge This book is full Of
it. First she threw her eyes up to the
ceiling and then let them drop on the
floor; then she darted them down on a
long corridor and rested them on the cool
have called them back somehow, for it
says she bathed them in sad salt tears,
wiped them and swept them with long
lashes. Once she was fool enough to rivet
them on the dome, and when / left off
she was fixing them on a mantelpiece. =
PearSOn'S Weekly
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
A Graye.digger.

A number of ladies on steamboat on
the Thames were Mortified on having an
ordinary-looking man among the passen-
gers pointed out to them ''as one who had
buried seventeen wives" He was a
grave-digger. but that didn't occur to the
ladies-Tid-B Bits.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
With Cordwood.

She-'I presume the country editors
pathway is not strewn with f1owers!'
He (pleasantly)-N not: exactly; but we
stumble on bushel of potatoes occasion
ally, or a cord of WOOD. Detroit Free
Press.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
CHURCH ORGANISE IN BOOMERS.
Miss Ada Coleman Breaks Up C Prayer
Meeting at Mason, q.

The good people Of the Methodist
church at Mason, O.. received a shock
when Miss Ada Coleman. one Of the
bellies Of Warren county, the daughter
of one of the wealthiest farmers in this
section, and the organist of the church,
marched down the center aisle of the
church at prayer-meeting clad in red
boomers of the most fashionable cut.
The members Of the church fed to their
homes. Mortified beyond description.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
No Distin ction to be presented. p

There has been prodigious hurry
burly about certain presentations at the
drawing rooms some of which are un-
derstood to have been privately Cancelled.
When there are upward of 900 presenta-
tons in a season it is no wonder that
mistakes should occur; but in these
DAYS it is no sort of advantage to go to
court, nor is a particle of distinction
gained by doing, 50. The idea that any
thing is now achieved by attendance at
either a levee or a drawing ROOM can
linger only in the minds of very credu-
lous persons or among those who are en-.
tirely unsophisticated. No inquiries of
any sort or kind are now made by the
court officials respecting the horde of un-
known slip-slop whose names are sent in
before every drawing room or levee.
The person who undertakes the presenta-
ton IS held responsible if any mistake
occurs, and, as rule, such offenders
are forbidden to appear at court for a
wear or two, while in fragrant cases they
are permanently excluded.-London
Truth.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
wanted puffed sleeves

Superintendent of Insane Asylum
''What'ss that woman bowling about!
Attendant-"She doesn't like her
straight jacket" o,,
docs she want it taken off,!
sleeves. Detroit Tribune.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-08-19
ATTAINED His Object

In order to reduce his weight
He purchased him wheel;
Before he'd ridden it week
He fell off,sa. good deal.
Dayton Fla.) Journal.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-01-31
DON'T STOP TOBACCO.
ROw to Cure Yourself While Using

The tobacco habit grows on a man I'M
til his nervous system is seriously af
fected, impairing health, comfort and
happiness. To quit suddenly is too Sc
we're shock to the system, as tobacco,
to an inveterate user, becomes stimu-
liant that his system continually Graves.
Baco-Curo is scientific cure for the to-
bacco habit, in all its forms, carefully
compounded after the formula of an
eminent Berlin physician who has used
it in his private practice since 1872, with
out failure, purely vegetable and guar
anteed perfectly harmless. You can use
all the tobacco you want, while taking
Baco-Curo, it will notify you when to
stop. We give written guarantee to
permanently cure any case with three
boxes. or refund the money with 10 per
cent interest. Baco-Curo is not substi-
tute, but scientific cure, that cures with
out the aid of will power and with no
inconvenience. It leaves the system as
pure and free from nicotine as the day
you took your first chew or smoke. Sold
by all druggists, with our ironcad guar
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upon receipt of price. SEND SIX
TWO-CENT STAMPS FOR SAMPLE
BOX, BOOKLET AND PROOFS FREE.
Eureka Chemical & Manufacturing Com
pany, Manufacturing Chemist, La Crosse,
Wisconsin.