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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-23

The Admiralty began the construction OF new
seconG-cass cruiser the Gladiator. few days ago.
Sire was lad down at Portsmouth. and is expected
TO be launched before the close OF 1895. She WILL
have displacement OF $50 tons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-23

Two lots of new Swiss Handkerchlcs, emoro'ieI =.
by machine and therefore an elect Tor ", ana 20
that would cost four times as mueh" done " ''A'..'
Mems Pure Linen HandkerohieS, hcn'''ehed' '''
each; usually 2jo.
Wonen's fine linen Handkerchief, henSttched' lbs
and 49, CullcI from % and 31c lois
Womens pure linen Handkerohic's, initials 'S'
Sneci,l LOT Womcn's extra fine embroidered Hand
kerchicfs at so End OF 81 lot ..
Sample Handkerchcfs, pure linen, einnfo'ue.e" TO-
ana 81. zach Some OF them are worth up 10 -
uon,S elk Handkerchicfs. hemsttohed. with open
work initials, arc So because some initials Nc
missing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-23
Palms and Flowers inc gof
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

LOVELY LACES
lust IN for this Spring. Things never before seen in
this county In the nch cream color beau'iu!
patterns.
Point de Gene Insertions rs yd
New Oriental Laces, TO-, 49, Is I'd.
New French Val Edglnss Is for II yds.
grea, array Of new Collars. Specials at 81 and
sl.50.
Point !. Venice All-Ov.r Net, 10 patterns, sL7S
AMI up.
Point dc Spit Net. 81 in, ~
Fine Onental Tides. all sizes s, To-, Is and UP.
Irish hand crochet Tides, 10 and 20 Frnsed all
around and % ms square
Renaissance lace Tides from Is; Up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-23
THE SAVING TO BE MADE.

7, &c estimated that the yearly saving enec 1e'
~, the bill as enacted into law VIII eNo.eu $500
Dy 'ne "''' at oroount OF fees and emouments re-
ine go, 80, I,r,,od States Dstrict-Atorneys for the
,.or ended on June 30. 1885, Ss2S'' the total
amount Of their orlgna. salaries a. me rayJ SS o
Sv the bending bin. would be $500 s 9ens nd
smoi,menis Of United states MarsAais for the yer
ended on June 3d. 1896 was N'i,l,z an ,, c' o, ,ha
n,,r, ~ heir annual salaries, according 70 tne
pgearaff Bill would be s2s2 ooa saving OF 49,
The saving these t|o tens aiohe. ccnngmnaTed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-23

Women's stainless black cotton Hose, hsn SPn.en ,'
H~a,s ana Jouble solcs unbleaohed and solid black
feet also solid black Isle thread Hose, PLAIN and
ribbed. rs So, ,.,,,.
soles and high spced heels, solid black ana un,
bleachcd feet and soles, also exi'a VIDE 4-'nieau
Isle thread Hose, 35c par, lor 81 regularly 'oe.
English cashmere Stockings. double Solcs ana n's'
ts1iiced heels medium weight extra quality, Soe
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10

mother helps Fred at his lessons, reads
Jlm's record on the ball field, knows al
most as much as he does about bikes,
and yachts, and grabbing, and fishing,
and is altogether so companionable that
she has no rival anywhere. With the
girls It is the same story. Our dignified
grandmothers did not think it becoming
IN them to nnbend SO far as to listen to
the chatter of Phyllis over her gowns,
her beaux, and her dreams; but the new
mother is wiser if bit less staid. She
listens to anything her daughters can be
Wooed 20 tell her. and there is a CANA
raderie among the women of our up-to-
date families that earlier generations
never dreamed about.
1t may be that the new mother is a
trlfie too new now and then, and perhaps
she is little more hurried than is best
for her; but altogether she is an improve
ment on the earlier type. Sweeter, gen
tier, more loving she could not well be
than the ideal mother of long ago, but
more sensible in physical affairs. more
companlonable, more intellectual and
more sympathetic she certainly is, and
as one phase of the evolution of the race
she is beyond a doubt complete success.
Philadelphia Times.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10
Dark Gowns for Evening.

Reports from Paris tell us that the re-
action against white and pale-tinted even
ing gowns has at last come. Unkind
folk are limiting that the mode was killed
by the stout and elderly matrons who
fondly imagined snowy draperies becom-
ing to their charms! Be this as it may,
we are assured that red is to be the
only wear of the ultra-smart for dinners
and dances. 1t is to be enhanced by
such additions as black velvet peoples
and Oriental embroideries. Doubtless
it's CHEEKY warmth of hue will be most
acceptable to the eye when the cold even
ings set in; but what will the pale wom-
en- do-the unbecoming pale, we mean,
not the happy creatures who possess the
ivory-tinted skin with which rich colors
so perfectly harmonic?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10
Second Heaviest Bell.

The second bell in weight in the world,
that in Mingoon, in India, has lately
been raised from the ground and ar
ranged so as to ring again, after lapse
of nearly century. This bell weighs
between so and 100 tons. 1t is sur
passed by the giant at Moscow in weight,
but the latter has lost large piece out
of it, and, as it is used as chapel, can
not now be rung. There is. however,
another bell at Moscow, which is used,
and is said to weigh 12S tons. The
Iingoon bell is IL feet high and about
10 feet in diameter at the rim. The
immense wooden beams on which it for
merly hung have long since been brok-
en- down at the shackle. 1t has recently
been rehung on steel girder at a height
of % feet from the ground. 1t is pro-
posed to encase the supporting columns
and Orders with carved teak in Il Bur-
mesc design, and then erect cupola
over the whole structure. The bell at
Pekin, which is the third largest in the
world that can still be used, weighs only
IS tons.-Westminster Gazette.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10
THE BIGGEST cow.
California Animal Weighs Over a Ton
and Her Calf Promises to be as Large.

Farmer William Bruce of Tulare, Cal,
owns a cow which has the distinction of
being the largest by long odds of any
animal of her sex in that part of the
world. She could give pounds by the
score to a Clydesdale stallion and then
win the laurels from him as a heavy
weight, and she is but 6 years old at
that.
When placed upon the scales to be
weighed a few days ago she tipped the
beam at precisely $3.50 pounds. This
is not SO bad for an animal that lays no
claim to aristocratic pedigree.
Remarkable as she is for weight, her
height is even more astonishing. The
measurements taken show that she
stands exactly 16 hands high, or, to come
down to ordinary tape measure, 5 feet
and inches.
Of her own claim to fame she is very
modest but of her calf, which is now
9 months old, she is very proud, as, in
deed, she might well be, for it is nearly
as large as an ordinary COW. While it is
just half as high as her mother, it
weighs but one-fifth as much. How
ever, it promises well, and if some of the
museum managers who are now negotiat-
ing with Mr.. Bruce can make satisfac.
tory bargain, both mother and offspring
will grow old together under the curious
ewes of the nublic.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10
A RyClrau2ic Exhibition.

An exhibition of hydrants, gate valves,
and other hydraulic appliances was
opened i'm New York City on the 18th
inst, in the corporation yard, foot OF
East Twenty-fourth street, under the
auspices of the department of public
works. The object of the exhibition is
to bring all the newest inventions in KY
draulic machinery for distribution and
handling the city water into competition,
that the committee appointed by Conn
missioner Coils may judge which, if
any, of them are better than those LOW
in use by the department.
A platform in the center of the COR
Doration yard, had around it, each at
tached to a city water pipe and ready
for, use, score of hydrants of all shapes
and sizes-some post hydrants and some
that if laid would be flush with the side
walk. Gauges and scientific Instruments
for measuring the flow of water We're at
tached to T1eters governing the supply to
each hydrant and each in turn poured
forth it's stream Of water to show how
rapidly and effectively it could serve fire
hose and street-sprinkling wagons.
The pipe-tapping machlneS-there were
two of them Oh eXhibition-connected by
Il sleeve with a patent safety-valye gate
with a 6-inch pipe, through which wa
ter was kept rushing with pressure OF
b pounds to the square inch. and
drill, worked by hand by two men. cut
out In TW6lVo anu One-IdlI Utilities tu
oblong piece of the iron as Clearly as
scoop cuts cheese, leaving the water
confined by the gate and the sleeve as
connection to fit another pipe into.
To make such connection with the
appliances now in use by New York city,
Water Purveyor North said, would ne
cessitate shutting off the water supply
from a whole section of the city for ten
or twelve hcglrS.
Another invention was machine for
caulking with lead the joints of pipes
The present snethod of caulking joints is
to make an embrasure around the joint
deep enough for a man to work in, and
to let the man do it by hand. The new
machine encircles the pipe just below the
Joint with thin iron bands that control
box of lead that visits every portion
of the joint. A small hammer follows
the box. driving solidly into the joint
the lead dropped by the box. The
steam which works the hammer fur
nishes the heat to keep the lead liquid.
There is machine which cuts rings
from the edges of great pipes of iron
as a woman ships paper rings with a
pair of scissors, and appliances Of all
shapes and sizes for handling pipes and
controlling the distribution of water.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10
A CHILD'S COSTLY TOY.
"A Little Chicago Girl Has a Playhouse
Which Cost Over $4,000.

Which Cost over $4,000.
A little girl out in Chicago who has.
very rich and independent father is the
owner of the most beautiful and complete
doll house, probably, that ever was pullt'
It stands on the lawn of her own home,
and built of brick with a tiny tower and
cupola, it looks exactly like small copy
of any fashionable residence. flight
of stone steps leads up to the front door,
which is Of solid oak, beautifully pol
lished, and provided with an electro PEI
to announce callers. On the door, which
is four feet high, big enough to admit a
good-sized child, is polished silver plate
with the name of the little owner written
upon it, Once inside, the delights OF the
place would rejoice any little girls heart.
The hallway is finished in hardWoods,
and is lighted by small gas lamp, hang
ing from the ceiling; umbrella and hat
racks stand there, and pretty portleres
separate it from the parlor. In this
handsome room the furniture is all OF
white enameled wood, covered with
white brocaded silk. It has beautlful
mantel covered with handsome orna-
ments, real gas chandelier, besides
lovely little lamps on tables. The dining
room has sideboards and china closets,
the Kitchen is exactly like any kitchen,
only tiny, and the bedrooms are fitted up
in the most complete manner. AS the
ceilings are six feet ten inches hlgh, the i4
rooms are plenty big enough for the lit
tie owner and her friends to. play about
in. Lovely dolls from Paris make up
the family, including handsomely dressed
dolls as ladies in the parlor, cook doh
in the kitchen, baby and nurse, dolls in
the bedrooms, and waitress dolls i'll the
dining room.
The house and fittings and family cost
over $4,000, and do you know that there
is no more real fun to be had out OF 1t
than from the lovely doll house, many
girls make out of soap boxes New
Work Tiynac
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
Tn the Inn Parlor-After the Wedding.


The fowery white wedding Is over,
And over the rush of the train:
60 turn your sweet eyes to your lover
And kiss him again!
There's no one to bore or to bother.
There's no one to call and to stay:
The Whole pretty world, and each other.
Are ours from today.
This quaint little parlor, how pleasant
Its flavor of long-ago life!
But the crown of it's life is the present.
My darling, my wife!
The pleasant wood fires glowing steady.
The table is set, and for two;
The little white table all ready
For me and for you.
DO you think that ever shall bore you?
All, let me sit still and adore you
While you pour out the tea!
I'll help you, no boasts will utter
But you see how domestic 1 am
| can cut you your thin bread and butter
And hand you the jam.
After tea will stroll down the meadow
BY moonlight, as true lovers should:
And kiss in the corner Of shadow
You see by the wood.
One kiss-how my teacup is carried
To the place that's laid opposite Won.
Ny wife pours the tea out we're marriedl
Oh. can it be true?
Pail Mall Gazette
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10
SAVED BY A WHALEBoNE THREAD.

Daring Operation to Open Little Elorina
Burnetts Throat.
Little FlOrina Burnett, who was
brought to st. Luke's hospital from Nor
ristown, N. j., living skeleton. two
weeks ago. swallowed Il mouthful of food
yesterday for the first time in a year.
Only faint spark of life remained when
a most daring and ingenious operation
was performed, and this will lead to the
child's recovery.
For ten months Florina, who is not
quite four years old, had been kept bare
~ alive by scant nourishment which had
been administered through an opening
which had been made in her stomach by
the surgeons knife. But soon she will
be able to enjoy hearty meal
The success of the operation is of
great Importance, as it is thought it can
full efforts have been made to commit
suicide by drinking carbolic acid, after
these would-be suicides get little of the
acid into their stomachs. If the slight
est quantity touches the thoat, however,
there is danger of structure forming
organ.
When the child Florina Burnett was
brought to the hospital her throat was
completely closed. The structure in this
case, however, had been caused by con-
centrated I've.
While the mother had been busy in
the kitchen one day the little one had
caught up can of concentrated I've and
drunk part of it. a physician was sum-
moned at once and the child was saved
from immediate death. Soon the throat
began to close, and it was not long be-
fore the little one could not swallow.
Then she was placed on the operating
table and an opening was cut in the
stomach, through which food could be
introduced At the end of ten months
it was seen the child could not live
many days longer unless the throat
could be opened. Florina was then
brought to st. Lukes hospital in this
city.
Some of the most noted surgeons III
the city held conference. and then an
operation was decided upon. large
number of visiting surgeons from all
over the state were present when 1T was
performed The little girl was chloro-
formed, and then one end of a fine thread
of whalebone was forced down through
the throat to the stomach and cut the
artificial opening. Both ends of the
whalebone thread We're then grasped by
the OPERATOR and it was sawed back ana
forth A silk thread was passed through
the throat and stomach in the same
way. Then thin, soft rubber tube
was used Tubes of larger diameter
were employed until the throat was en-
tirely opened.
Little Florina yesterday swallowed halt
a glass of milk, and the surgeons say It
will be only a short time before she WllA
be able to enjoy good meal. The open
ing in the stomach will be closed as soon
as she gains strength to undergo another
operation-New York Journal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10
Tactful Miss Terry.

On the stage Ellen Terry shines con-
spicuously for tact and good nature. She
likes to please everybody. For instance,
not so very long ago, she offered to in
troduce an American critic to Irving.
When the moment arrived she had for
gotten the critics name. But do you
of her many bright ideas came to her.
Pushing a sheet of paper towards him
she exclaimed: Fancy this! I've
made wager with Sir Henry! He will
have it you spell your name in one way
I have it that you spell it another
way"
Bravo cried the ready lady, I've won
bo oror
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10

of the box and held over a lighted cam
die. Then work the melted resin around
the stick for an inch or two at the end
where the button is fastened, SO that it
will appear as shown, also, in figure 3.
Now obtain several strong horse hairs
and form Il loop at one end of them by
tying a knot three-quarters of an inch
from the end. This loop is to slip over
the resined end of the stick, and will be
prevented from working off by the but
ton. The other ends of the horse hair
are to be passed through small hole
made in the center OF the parchment
head, and through a small button or
piece of cardboard, the ends being tied
in large knot to prevent their pulling
through again the finished locust will
then appear as in the illustration.
To make it sing grasp the stick in one
hand and swing the cylinder about it.
This will cause it to give out sound
similar to that produced by large
locust in full flight, and the faster it is
revolved, the louder it will sing.
The sound is produced by the friction
of the horse hair against the resin on the
stick, transmitted to the tightly
stretched parchment and augmented by
it's vibration. The pressure is chiefly
due to the centrifugal force of the tin
box a sit is briskly swung through the
air.
A large locust can be made from a
can five or six inches high, swung from
the end of a stick two feet long; but in
this case the stick must be held in both
hands Such a locust, however, should
only be used out of doors, as the noise
would be deafening in the house.
J. Harry Adams.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10
Guest Chambers.

'At not one house in ten where stop
do they give me enough bedclothes. ,"
said man who visits a great deal. and
who, on account of his many entertain
ing qualities, is in constant demand for
house parties in the country. sit seems
odd he continued, "that the bed. which
is after all the most important considera-
ton, is the last thing that is generally
thought of in the way of comfort. The
room itself is always pretty: if If is
winter fire may be burning cheerily.
there will be writing table fully
equipped, dressing table attractiyely
furnished. a fine array of towels and
every convenience for the bath. Only
the bed is ill-supplied, rarely, as l say.
having enough covers.
This important consideration seems
almost invariably left to servants. the
mistress of the house seldom troubling
herself further than to see that the
'shams' and spreads are pretty. One
house l visited in late autumn, when the
nights were chilly, had sheet and
spread alone on the bed, and [ nearly
died that night, for the weather turned
cold. [ piled my clothes and even my
boots upon the bed, and in the wee sma'
hours got up and added couple of rugs
which were upon the floor to the collec-
ton. AS | was to leave the next morn
ing L did not think it worth while to
mention the oversight to my hostess.
But when | received another invitation
to the same house for the Christmas
holidays it is needless to say that [ re-
GREETED with great promptitude
Another experience at Newport was
amusing, and as it war In summer [ did
not mind it. After putting out my can
die and getting into bed | felt some hard
substances under the sheet On striking
match and examining the cause j
found that there were several oil paint
ings on stretchers belonging to the arts
tic daughter of the house. These had
evidently been put on the bed in a spare
room and covered with sheet on Some
occasion and when the room was pre-
pared for guest the sheet was not re-
moved. | took out the sketches, made
up the bed and slept in comfort, and as
this was also an oversight that reflected
somewhat on the housekeeping, | again
said nothing about my experience"
And what bishop was it who found
himself in a guest room, stretched upon
a rack, and got up to withdraw, from
between upper and under mattress, his
hostess occasional silver, stored there
while waiting restoration to it's usual
abiding place in bank safe or vault, and,
of course, forgotten when the room was
to be occupied-one could hardly say
made ready for occupancy.-New York
Press.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10
III.

same diameter as the box. and half an
inch outside of this draw another. Then
with sharp pair of scissors cut out
small pieces Of the parchment all around
the edge between the lines as shown In
figure 1.
Soak the parchment in warm water
for few minutes, then stretch and glue
it fast to one end of the tin cylinder
binding the glued ends down with linen
thread wound tightly around the box
over the ends. as shown in figure 2.
Two threads help the glue in keeping
the parchment firmly fastened to the tin,
and relieve the glued ends from excessive
strain. When the parchment is dry it
will be tightly stretched like the head of
drum. The outer part of the can may
then be covered with some colored paper
securely fastened on with glue. This will
hide the tin and improve the appearance
of this part of the locust.
Next white out a round stick six
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10
r.a 11n-tn-Date Mother.

One and all we have had our aas
about Tho new woman, and she mas pr;
on herself to be a complex charac.eiii ,,t
We arc to believe all that we near, ou
as vet there has been little lain on
the new mothers that are IN ny, esiu o,n see
every side. The veriest idler eau of 81
that somehow or other; the Sp e;+b;n
motherhood has vastly changea wins sr.ns-
the last twenty years, but the mel. 90
formation has come about SO QUIZ I,aen
systematically. that no one ha ai,o dear
scandaiized at all. Years ago tHe ,;ttie
old-fashioned mothers rockea; into ,n1 seasick-
ones to sleep Tor, at least, lh iud;snensa-
ness) in cradle that was as lnu the
bic az socks to the baby. NoMaun 70 mt
men and women of the future ief+ to
info Quiet soft. warm beds anu natter
fall into slnmber naturally as m
of course. counted it a
disgrace not to nourisn, aw weak and
themselves. no matter now tbe new
delicate they might be; Du. = greater
mother believes that she Shows ;s,;nc # pre-
love for her little one by gT,ni; Insisting
nared and tested foods than ~ f,is-
unon making it share her tempo'
When babyhood was over IN rnf r. rther
t;me n ch;,dren and parents grew Rows
away from one another rs +ha;r mothers
never had any interest IN .n .as made to
mental life. and mere love Nowadays
answer many demands
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10
Are Our women scrawnye

It will be long, long time before our
women at great centers, however PAM
pered, can begin to approach Europeans
in bodily opulence. But they have
transgressed their natural boundaries in
sufficient numbers to demonstrate that
scrawniness has ceased to be their
striking popularity. Many of them are
broad enough and heavy enough to sug-
gest transatlantic antecedents and rear
ing; but they lack the material gross
ness and the purple shadings so fire.
quently blended with dowager duchesses
and representatives of the ancient arts
tocracy.-Harper's Bazaar.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-10
How They Did a Mile.

1t is SAID that a hurricane holds the
best time record for one mile, covering
the distance in half minute. Then 4
balloon has done the mile in 40 seconds.
The third place is held by a railway en-
CINE in 5357 seconds. Then we have in
their order the following. performances:
A 2-year-old horse in ! minute 500 sec
onds; a torpedo boat in 1 minute 37.69
seconds: cyclist on the track in 1 min
ute APO seconds; an American pacing
horse. in 2 minutes 1.5 seconds; an Amer
lean trotting horse, in 2 minutes 3.75 sec
onds; Fen country skater. with flying
start, in minutes; professional runner,
rover, in 5 minutes; walker, in 6 min
utes % seconds: punter, in IL minutes
% seconds; fresh water swimmer, In
26 minutes seconds; while the same
man took nearly minutes longe rto swim
mile in the sea l28 minutes Is seconds.l