Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-03

mean! Don't you touch MN, Sald
Bill fercely but almost in tears. cor I'll
wiring your neck instead of his;' while
Ralph explained to the inquisitive long
shoremen who gathered around him how
the lost had been found: not without
some aspersions on the character of the
''antque -man'-unjust, perhaps. as these
people are ever noted for their upright
ness and honesty.
There ought to be romantic ending.
but every turkey has his day. and this
was Gobbos. He was too big to keep
in city yard, and too big to take home
in the cars; thus did his greatness, as
did Cardinal Woolsey's, prove his de-
were a snare; for when it was known
he could dance, his talents could not be
hidden under a bushel in obscure country
life He had ever been destined for a
city market. and soon again he graced
a window, this time of city poulterer;
and on the eve of Thanksgiving he was
again raffied-the second time, alas! with
hanging wings and plucked sides and
dropping head. Alice Morse Earle.
SEEDS BORNE BY WATER.
How Columbus First Got the Idea that
There Might be Another Island.
1t is good for plants to keep as much
apart as possible. If the seed fell
straight to the ground, and the young
plants all grew up together around the
parent one, they would starve each other
| out For plants are like people, and
when crowded too closely together fall
to fighting among themselves. Their
struggles are very bitter ones, though
we do not see or hear them. The plants
that are strongest in these silent battles
end by getting the light and air and wa
ter and food they need from the soil, while
the poor. weaklings are left to starye and
die. To prevent too much of this waste
| full croWding and struggling old Dame
Nature has invented many a clever little
scheme.
When trees or smaller plants grow on
river banks, their fruits often fall into
the. water and are carried down stream
by the current. sometimes finding land
ing places on the banks, and so growing
up into new plants. Who has not seen
sycamore balls and buckeyes travelling
along in this easy fashion? These are
the fruits of the trees they grow on
Fruit is the part of the plant that in
closes the seed. with the seed itself. So
the dry pods that hold the black morn
ing glory seeds are as truly fruits as are
apples or strawberries, though we com
monty use the word only for those that
are good to eat.
It often happens that on small islands
in rivers, trees and flowers are found
that do not grow on the neighboring
banks. These nave come down the river
sometimes from the mountains where it
rises III the shape of fruits. and have
found lodging on the island during high
water. Sometimes fruits are thus borne
quite out to sea, and then they may be
caught up by ocean currents and carried
along distances. 1t has been said that
Columbus first formed the notion that
there might be land beyond the western
ocean on seeing sailors return exhausted
to the ship.-November st. Nicholas.
Whisky at Fault.
"The maddest man | ever saw said
Marshall Philips, was Gen. Sheridan
minute or so after he had been IN
shoe, getting a high price for it, on the
ground that it was one of the shoes
worn by Sheridan's horse, Winchester.
on his famous ride in the Shenandoah
valley. The general fairly boiled In
the first place. said Gen. Sheridan, my
twenty -mile ride never took place, Tor
the distance was but fifteen miles. The
writer of those verses was better poet
than topographer. and we might excuse
him for that. Next, l never had any
horse by that exact name, and if I had,
myself or none of those around me
would have thought of securing his Shoes
and holding them for rise.
Il did my best to quiet him. and only
succeeded in doing SO by telling him the
relic whisky story, which used to be
told of the barkeeper of the little place
where John Wilkes Booth got a drink
just before he assassinated President
Lincoln. The place was run as 4 bar
room for several years after the govern
ment took possession of the thcater prop
erty Visitors to the city always took
in the bar-room as one of the sights, and
some of them took in the liquor sold
there. The barkeeper had way. after
telling the story of the assassination, of
pointing to small demijohn and saying:
Booth asked me to hand him this iemi-
john, and he poured out heavy drink
and swallowed it down in one gulp.
There is q little of the same identical
whisky in it yet
Frequently some of those who took IN
the story would 90 further and ask for
taste of the whisky. This wish was
Maine man had a taste of it. For this
he was charged % cents. The taste was.
however. good-sized drink. of the
Maine regulation size, too. After put
ting down his glass he remarked:
s'5And so that was the whisky that
coin, was it? Well. sir. until this time
have always blamed Booth, but that
whisky. sir. would make man kill his
own mother!' Washington Star.
A Warm Road.
Birthstone Bob Ito missionary -"How
kin you git to the Lost Basin settle
ment? Why. take the Devilsfolk stage
to Sulphur canyon. then go down He'll
pit crick to Fire hill; the Devils cave
outfit will put you across Purgatory flats,
and you can git the Past Redemption
stage from Burning springs to Hellfre
buttes. then -"
Rev. MacWeary Shepherd Ito station
agent)-.Wh-when is the next train
east ?'-Judge.
Prof Ell. Newell Martin, who until
recently held the chair of biology in
Johns HOPKINS university. has Just died