Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-15
THE SPINNING WHEEL


WOULD HAVE GOT ENOUGH.
The bard who wished to see himself
As others saw, It's pam
Had never been nominee
An Office for to gain.
Did you ever hear how the poem
There Was n Little Girl came out? 1t
is commonly supposed that this popular
lyric stops with the first stanza. but the
London Spectator, whose dog stores
should establish its veraclty, has I'M
eafthed two more verses or the thrliilng
narrative of the girl with the forehead
and the curl Occupied with meals is
particularly good:
one day she went upstairs, when her pa
rents unawares
In the kitchen down below were occupied
with meals.
And she stood upon her head in her little
And she then began hooraying with her
heels.
Her mother heard the music and she
thought 1t was the boys
A-playing at a combat in the attic
But when she climbed the stair and found
Jemima there
She took and she did whip her most en-
phatic.
The photographer busted himself ar
ranging everything for the sitting. his
was to be his masterpiece, he said, and
he wished to have every detail perfect.
There he said at last: that will do
nicely, [ think" He took one last look
to see that all was right. Nov. All
ready" he said. in sharp, incisive tones.
Look pleasant, please Then he be-
gan the actual work of photographing the
fractured ankle by the Rocntgen process.
Chicago Post
Lulu-"We girls are getting up Sc
deed! What's the object?' Lulu-'I
don't know vet, but I'll tell you all about
it after I'm initiated" Household
Words.
All tobaccos are doctored. says Lon
don Answers Sometimes it is done in
an illegitimate way. for the purpose of
deception. Ordinarily. however, it is
honest and even necessary. one OBJ
ject of it is to make the tobacco keep
better Without such treatment 1T
would become so much dry leaves, the
aromatic properties passing off. Nltre is
added to smoking tobacco in order to
make it burn well. The leaves intended
for chewing are stepped in licorice or
other gum, in order that the plug shall
have the requisite consistency and
sweetness. Mucilaginous substances i'll
small quantities arc added to cigarette
tobacco, so that the particles may hold
together and not fall out of the paper
wrapper. Some pipe tobaccos are heav-
lily charged with perfumes by treating
them with essential oils of rose, YER
bona, chronicle. bcrgamot, cassia, musk
and catechu. The basis of an essence
for tiavorng tobacco is nearly always
some spirituous liquor-usually rum. The
rum preserves the tobacco and adds to
the flavor of the plug. Sometimes wine
is used. Glyccrine is Il common ingredi-
ent. Molasses enter into the compost
ton of most chewing tobacco.
a." said the large fat person, with the
large fat diamonds, Il am Il self-madc
man.
The angular gentleman with the soured
air looked at him curiously.
Must have been your first job, eh:'
he said.
1t is we'll known that. when Stephen
son predicted that his locomotive would
draw a train of trucks at the rate of
twenty miles an hour there were men
of science in England who declared that
no passengers could travel at such Il rate
of speed and '.kccp their heads"
A similar prediction, made by the
Royal College of Physicians of Bavaria
in 1885. is now on record in the archives
of the Nuremberg and Furth railway in
that country. When it was proposed to
build this line, the physicians of the
country met and formally protested
against it.
"Locomoton by the aid of any kind
or steam machines whatevcr.' the Ba-
varan physicians declared. ''should be
prohibited in the interest of the public
health. The rapid movements cannot
fail to produce iii the passengers the
mental ailments called delirium furiosum.
Gwen admitting the protest went on,
that travellers will consent to run the
risk, the state can do no less than pro-
tect the bystanders. The sight alone
of Il locomotive passing at full speed suf-
fees to produce this frightful malady of
bic that Il barrier at least six feet high
should be erected on both sides of the
track"
Bridget, this is altogether too much l.;
you have new follower in the kitchen
every week" "Well, ma'am, you see,
the food in this house is so bad that no
one will come here for longer than a
week "-Tid-Bits
What Discouraged Him.-The am
bilious mother was disappointed, and
she showed it. He's worth not less
than Million" she said to her daugh-
ter, land you let him get away from
you.' II couldn't help it, mamma, y
pleaded the daughter. Il gave him all
the encouragement l could" "Encour-
agement" exclaimed the mother, with
a scornful laugh. Encouragement! You
forget that you let him see you in bloom
ers and bicycle face. Cupid couldn't
have stood that in Psyche. Chicago
Post.
What He Thought. -Even a hurricane
has it's humors. n man who has the
misfortune to so provoke his wife's in
dignation that her wrath leads her to
go to his shop every now and then and
demolish his stock in trade suffered Sc
verely from the storm. When he got to
his place of business and viewed the
wreckage he threw up his hands and ex-
claimed: Great heavens! My wife has
been here again. But it isn't quite as
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