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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
UNCLE SAWS BARGAINS.
Old Guns and Swords for Sale Be1o,
Cost

Old Guns and Swords for Sale Below
Cost.
Uncle Sam has his bargain counter,
just the same as less pretentious estab-
lishments. But Uncle Sam has no rival
in his line of "iob lots" at least not on
this side of the Atlantic. The govern
mental "cheap department is situated
on Governors island. and the official
documents herald it's existence in the
mere announcement Of "Ordnance stores
for sale at the New York arsenal. How
it came to be established is a question,
but the belief prevails that the war de-
partment, finding itself flooded with ap-
plications from Grand Army posts for
old cannon to decorate soldiers monu-
ments and graves, provided the depart
ment to meet the demand.
Applications for field pieces to decorate
soldiers cemeteries were for years made
through some member of Congress.
Gettysburg and other famous resting
places of Americas heroes just about
consumed. all the ordnance on hand, and
as there is no law authorizing the trans
fer of aged cannon to Grand Army posts,
the bargain counter on Governors island
was conceived. Everything warlike, ex-
cept cannon and talk, is to be found
there The government causes to be
printed from time to time list of the
useless ordnance on hand there, and ev-
cry item on the list is coupled with the
price of the article in question.
For several years it has been consid-
cred quite the thing to decorate ones
rooms or den with cid swords. bayonets,
or something to give a military aspect
to the surroundings. Artists, actresses
and newspaper men are notable support
ers of the fad. At the bargain counter
on Governors island are always to be
found choice, if matured, collections of
carbines, rifles, muskets, sabers, swords,
bayonets, scabbards and revolvers. Some
Of these are still serviceable and might
readily be used to fit out a small army.
The price list is inviting, sabers ranging
from % cents to So, breechloaders at
rs cents and swords at all prices to suit
the times purchaser. taste and occasion.
This is not an advertisement for the
counter. but just a little reminder that
Uncle Sam is up to the times in the re-
tail trade.--New York Mail and Express.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
MINES UNDER THE OCEAN.
StaIwart Gnomes Who Dig the Ores Six
Fathoms Below the Surface.

Stalwart Gnomes Who Dig the Ores Six
Fathoms Below the Surface.
There is a striking example of mans
boldness in searching for wealth and
his skill in securing it at Betallock, near
Cape Cornwall, England. Betallock is
bold headland composed of huge masses
of hornblende, masked by walls of slate,
against which the Atlantic surges are
constantly dashing. The persevering eff
forts of man have at this point been more
powerful than those of nature.
"Kibbles' descend fathoms beneath the
sea, and ascend again with copper or
tin ores, which are wheeled away to
larger heaps, where women, boys and
girls separate various qualities with the
systematic industry of workers in a fac
tory. Everybody and everything
platforms and paths-aPe smeared with
the prevailing red hue derived from
slight mixture of iron with copper or
tin ores, and then the very muddy
stream flowing from the stamp mill to the
sea has impaired to the beach, the break
ers and the foam the same rubicund
tinge. If ore is coming up plentifully
and of good quality everybody is pleased,
and far down to the gloomy depths OF
the mine, which Cornish legends people
with spirits, the news that new
BUNCH of copper has been struck, or
the Old hole is growing r1chef, RllS the
workers with professional joy.
AS the visitor creeps along the pas
sages into which the light of day has
never entered he hears comparatively lit
tie, until, becoming accustomed to the
darkness, barely Illuminated by the flick
er of lamps, he dimly distinguishes the
stalwart gnome at work. Coming from
the upper world amid the din of heavy
stamps and machinery above and the
surge of the sea below, the rattle of
wagons on tramways, and the crowds OF
men and boys climbing up and down
paths which seem to be too steep for a
goat, the modified silence of the level
strikes one as Unnatural.
In places, however, the guide may ask
the visitor to listen to a. curious sound.
1t is the booming of the waves above
and the grating of the stones on the
sea bottom. Then he is told, to give
him courage that in some Of the recesses
of the first level the ore has been cut
away until roof of not more than six
feet thick has been left. First worked
on the face Of the cliffs only, the mine
descended, level by level, until the ex-
cavations extended for more than six
fathoms inland, while the greatest depth
to which it has been sunk is about 1000
feet.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
About Biltmore.

Biltmore house. the North Carolina
home of George Vanderbilt, stands in
the midst of tract of 10000 acres of
ground. Mr.. Vanderbilts holdings in
the vicinage amount to over 100000
acres. Frederick Law Olmstead has
done some fine landscape gardening
building rustic bridges over mountain
streams with striking effect The house
has been five and a half years in build
ing, and 100000 bricks were used in
the construction. all made out of clay on
the estate. A great deal of Indiana stone
was used in addition, one piece weighing
over three TONS The extreme length of
Biltnlore house is 375 feet and width
1872 feet. 1t contains 100 rooms and
has three elevators. During Christmas
week, when the house-warming party oc-
cupied it. eighty servants were required
to keep it in order. It contains twenty
two bathrooms, besides a swimming pool
60 feet by 80, with needle baths, sprays.
vaDor rooms, and all the equipment of
a Turkish or Russian bath. It is one of
the few private residences in the United
States with a steam laundry. It is
heated by steam, $4,000 feet Of super
fetal indirect heating surface being re-
ouired, while over twelve miles of steam
pipes are used to connect the radiators
with the 300-horsepoWer boiler in the
basement-New York Press.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
SWORN 1900 TIMES.
Kissed the Bible Three Whole Days to
Settle Her Husbands Estate.

Kissed the Bible Three Whole Days to
Settle Her Husbands Estate.
A woman in Germany the other day
had to be sworn 1900 times in suit in
which her deceased husbands estate was
involved. The husband had been lum-
Der dealer, and during his long business
career a certain cabinetmaker had kept
a running account with him. Their bust
ness relations were so complicated at the
time of the merchants death that there
was q difference of opinion between the
executors and the cabinetmaker as to
the amount the latter owed the estate.
The matter was brought into the
courts, and at the trial the reading of
the defendants affidavit consumed
twelve hours. Then the widow was
cited before the magistrates, and during
her testimony, SO a foreign paper says,
was obliged to make oath 1900 times,
once for each of the 1900 litigious points
involved in the suit. This took three
whole sittings of the tribunal, but she
won the sllit-New York World.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
Gen. Logan's Dollar.

When the old postotice building is
torn down perhaps some workman will
find the silver dollar which Gen. John A.
Logan, in 1881, buried in the concrete
floor. Gen. Logan was looking over the
government building one day while it
was yet far from being finished. The
workmen were grouting' the basement
floor near the southeast yentilator shaft.
The Office of the superintendent of con-
struction was in little frame building
at the corner of Jackson and Dearborn
streets. Gen. Logan strolled into the
unfinished building from the superin-
tendents office and paused to watch the
men pounding in the broken stone and
cement. They all knew him, and one
of them suggested that the general shoy-
ell in some of the concrete. so that he
could say that he helped build the struc-
ture.
Gen. Logan laughed. and with shovel
scooped out a little hole. Taking a silver
dollar from his pocket he laid it in the
hole and covered it with the concrete.
''Now." said he, II have laid a corner
stone" Then he walked on.
The men finished that part of the floor,
and when the concrete had ''set" Gen.
Logan's dollar was firmly imbedded in
material as solid as unbroken stone
Chicago Record.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
CHICAGO SUBSCRIBERS.
An Insecure Foundation Thr eatens Many
of Them with Ruins.

An Insecure Foundation Threatens Many
of Them with Ruins.
The gerat bed of jelly-like mud on
which Chicago stands is said by Gen.
William Sooy Smith to be overloaded.
by the high buildings recently erected in
that city The material underlying the
surface is clay, varying in consistency
and different depths, these variations
often occurring within the area covered
by single building. The sustaining
power of the clay during a short period
of time, as determined by many expert
ments with actual loads, is $500 to 1000
pounds per square foot 1t is a common
practice among Chicago architects to
load the soil at the rate of 1000 pounds
per square foot, and consequently the
structures settle gradually. Experience
with heavy buildings shows that the ini-
tial settlement continues even where the
pressure does not exceed the limits stat
ed. Experience also shows that while
initial settlement under a given load
may be uniform throughout the area COW
cred by building, the subsequent set
Element may vary so much as to tilt the
building and destroy it's strength. Lev
els taken carefully at short intervals
during six years on the Board of Trade
building, the pride of Chicago business
men, show that the average settlement
was at the rate of three-sixteenths of an
inch a month. The maximum total set
tement during this time was 16 inches,
and the minimum was 875 inches. The
difference of ~ inches has caused seri-
Gus cracks, and the Generalization of
the building, which made extensive re-
pairs necessary. The same difficulty,
Gen Smith says, is apparent in many of
the tall. heavy buildings in the city,
and he believes that some of them, if
4I<s,, E., ,cJ<4s
will be total wrecks, like the govern
ment building. in a few Years
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
CHINESE TIME COUNTERS.
Crude Methols CT Marking the Fig hit OF
Hours.

Crude Methods CT Marking the Flight of
Hours.
The Chinese sundial embodied the usu-
al principle, but was crude, indeed. A
rod OF needle set upright reflected a sha0-
ow On a fiat surface as the sun moved.
hours of the day. The Chinese also used
a waterlock called the clepsydra. 1t was
a dish of copper or other material, with
an extremely small aperture, from which
the water trickled, drop by drop. The
clepsydra Of Canton is thus described
by traveller: 1T is 4 vase of copper;
it is situated in a pavilion built on
double arch that crosses a street leading
from the south gate of the city to the
palace Of the treasurer Of the province.
Like that which existed, and perhaps
exists still, IN the Pekin observatory, it
is composed of four copper vases, whence
water runs from one to another by little
tubes fixed at the base. The vase that
rests on the floor has on its wooden COW
er a kind of handle, crossed by a rule
mounted Oh float and covered with
characters representing the hours. When
the water has run out, that is, in the
morning or evening, it is poured again
into the uppermost vase. There is lit
tie brick staircase by which the attend
ant ascends. In the temples there are
attendants whose business it is to hang
up plac&rd, with Wnlte GROUND, Oh
which is indicated the hour. They strike
the hours of the day on drum, and at
night they beat gong.
The attendants who thus look after
the flight Of time occupy the intervals
between in making sticks of incense, on
which are marked the hours. These are
sticks so arranged as to burn a certain
length of time for every hour, and these
are used by peasants and others. The
stick is lighted when the gong sounds,
and in this way the private individual
hours as they pass"
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
The Cow EMBODIED.

A curious story comes from Douglas,
New. One evening recently Herman
SDringmeyer heard strange noise in his
barn, and on going out found a COW
suffering from bloat, caused by gas on
the stomach. It had eaten some alfalfa
hay which had been put up before being
perfectly cured. and was in great dis
tress. He set down the lantern he was
carrying and rushed into the house to
get q knife and stick the COW, as is the
usuaL custom in such cases. On his re-
tur heard tremendous explosion
a, reaching the barn found it il
: He procured another light,
tonished to find the cow dead.
-omach ruptured in several
he entrails and liver scat
barn. 1t was clear case
!. The COW had evidently
upset the lantern, and
ar stomach coming in
fame of the candle,
trously to the COW.
'Oat of the animal
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27

The Pennsylvania Oil and Gas com
pany of Casper are now supplying four
railroads with lubricating oil.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
BEST IN THE WORLD.
Why Does She Swell :?

James Mckay, residing in K,ingfsher
was knocked down and stunned by Il
fash of lightning last summer. She was
at first thought to be dead, but after a
few hours recovered sufficiently to get
up though her right side was paralyzed.
In a few hours she swelled out very
large all along the right side from the
ear to the tail, but in the course of a few
days the swelling went down and she
was apparently all right. But when an
other electrical storm appeared, the
swelling returned. and it has done SO at
every appearance of lightning since, al
ways going away in a few days time
Galveston News.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27

eight of hearts. It was taken out by
the professor rs that 1.-THE eight Of
hearts p asked the professor. That's
all right" answered the timid-looking
man. But he was a very conscientious
man, and later he insisted on telling the
audience that the professor had written
on the paper, Please say That's all
riphf -
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27

cred By those words so constantly spoken
by women.
Lydia E. Pinkhana discovered the
source of nearly all the suffering endured
by the sex.
Women's Complaints" these two
words are full of more misery to women
than any two words that can be found in
the language of the world.
Sudden fainting, depression of spirits,
reluctance to g. anywhere or to do any
thing, backache, bearing down." and
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
CASE WORTHY OF SYMPATHY.
The Child Thought the House was Minus
Kitchen,

a Kitchen,
A little girl went with her mother to
see lady who was an assidious collector
of china, and in whose parlor were cabs
inets filled with her trophies, beside odd
plates and dishes, bearing indisputable
marks Of age, which hung in conspicuous
places on the walls.
The child sat quietly during the long
call, and while her mother and the china
collector talked of matters of mutual
interest she looked about her with big,
wondrous eyes.
Mamma she said, thoughtfully, as
she was getting ready for bed that night,
'dont you feel sorry for poor Mrs. Has
kell, without any kitcheD?,
"Without any kitchen, child? What
do you mean?" asked her mother.
'.Why, didn't you see?' asked the 1T
tie girl, in tone of great surprise, "she
has to keep all her dishes in the parlor.'
Philadelphia Record.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
IL was All Right.

A prestidigitator, in the course of an
exhibition in New York recently, ha
one of the audience select one card fro
a pack and then he handed a sheet
paper to another spectator, a timid
ing blonde man. The professor.
did not see the card, announced
after it had been returned to the
the description of it would bS
written ON the paper. The care
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
HOW MANY WOMEN DO YOU KNOW
Who Can Say They Are Thoroughly
WeIl9 How They Can BE Strong. ;.
rsrrorA1 TO OUR LADY READERS.


is no doubt
but that yo3
\ do feel lar
\ from well
! most Of the
] time.
There is q
cause,
And
There is a
remedy for all
~. - 4o-
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27

There seems every prospect that the
movement for the placing of a memorial
of Sir Walter Scott in Westminster Dab
hey will soon be brought to termina-
ton
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-05
DAY DEVOTED TO EDUCATION.
1ow.'s semi-ce.tennial Brings Out Thos,
Who Teach the Young Idea.

Iowa's semkCentennisl Brings Out rhoss
Who Teach the Young Idea.
Burlington. Ia, Oct. 5.-Saturday was
Educational day of the semi-centennial
n a large number of prominent edu-
Gators from Iowa and other states was
present. In the morning an interest,"
ing programme of addresses, music and
recitation was given at the Coliseum.
At 1 O'Clock h parade of the indus
trial. parochial and city schools. with
band and floats. and the University
cadets took place. Afterwards exer-
cises at the Coliseum were held, CON-
sisting OF music. addresses by promi-
nent educators on subjects relative to
school work, h chief address being by
state Superintendent Of Public I~nstruc-
hon Sabin, of Iowa, on Growth Of
Iowa Public Schools" in which a great
many interesting statistics were given
or the school system from the territor-
ial period. A brilliant illumination Of
the city. a river carnival and a display
Of fireworks ended the day.
Yesterday was devoted to religious ser.
vices In eonneet30u with the semi-centen-
NAL. Rsv. d.. WI H. Ii mas, of Chicago,
delivered . seml-csntennial sermon to
5000 people at tie Coliseum.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-05
AeeREvIAreo %TELeGRAMs.

A negro named Lewis Hamilton, who
set fire to . cotton house in Bossier parish,
La, wa taken away from officersfby .
mob and hanged to q tree.
A general strike b imminent in the
Hillsboro. Ills, oal region. Over 2.0oO
men are out and they are determined to
make the management yield. =
William Morris, the British designer,
poet. and author, who Of late years has
proclaimed himself n socialist, died Satur.
day. He was born in 1894.
Charles r. Flint is having q yacht built
at Nyack, n. ", with a promised speed Of
~thirty-eight miles an hour.
The worsted mills of Ackroyd & Scull,
and Sheimer 4 Boyer. covering nearly
half . block. at Point and Pearl streets,
Camden, n. j., burned. The two mills
gave employment to about $40 persona.
The loss is about 100000.
Suit has been brought in the common
pleas court at Pittsburg for $4,000 BY
Fred Hetsterkamp against August Zae-
bisch for the death Of Heisterkamp's T.
year-old son from hydrophobia. Zaebisch's
dog bit Hcisterkamp's boy.
Bud Chaffin and his five children, Of
DevalRs Bluff, Ark, are believed to have
been murdered, and suspicion points to
Mrs. Chafin and John King, her para
mour, a. the murderers. Chaffin and the
children are missing. King and Mn.
Chaffin are also missing.
The London board Of trade reports Of
railroad accidents during 1895 show that
elghty-three passengers were killed and
2.10O wounded ON British railways, but
only five Of the deaths were due to smash-
ups; Se9, 7s0.Y09 Passengers were carried
exclusive Of holders Of season tickets.
George 3. Kaine, Jr., Of Necedah, 10 in
jail at Mansion. Wis, charged with the
murder Of his father George 8. Kaine.
The Peruvian government has ordered
b project Of Cuzco TO Close immedisHsly
b English college there which was
opened by American missionaries.
The fact that the dreaded bubonic dis
ease has obtained a strong footing In Bonn
hay is established beyond q , stiou, and
the outbreak is attributed to rats. which
are known 10 have been infected with
bacillas from Hong Kong.
J. NJ Barrie, tho w~ell-known Scotch
novelist, has arrived at New York en- route
to Cahada, where he viii be the guest Of
Lady Aberdeen.
Ii Hang Chang has arrived q Tien
Tsin, China
The Connecticut Populist state conven.
ton Saturday appointed . commiseso 10
arrange for = fuskon with the democratic.
john Il. Tanner. Republican candidate
for governor Of HIN Ia and ]. r. b. Van
Cleave, city clerk, had their poekeeu
picked whias attending a needing ~ Chi,
cagosand Tannsr lost tl5O and Van Cleavs
&l26. '-
1t IL expected that the president and his
family will leave GRAY Gables soms time
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-05
BRAZN AND DEFIANT


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What 81 The forces sfrsyed against
william .. Brysa and the people in
ms most remsrsseas osmpsisn7 what
'"n"enees must Be encountered sna
essessed ne victory be ~en on Nov, ~
u y NOE possie,e % sas~ef tbsss
eu~ssssns The lines sss drawn and
fhss srs ers~n Sharply. There Be no
mode ground % - eresass~d sr-ss
enc a.e.n, x..l.e .s.s,., An.,so.n
~orkm.a ..s n,aa,.,. n, a. aaa.
eensrss~d pou.r Of moaes. trusts ana
synd,es,~s x.r,u. ,s. ua.rx.aaz.s
patriotism Of n u,,,.a state. lfwgn.
lam 4 arx.n a. ..~r,ss a, Am a. Am
spite of m. ae.s~r.,. .9.t,. az the
s~oilo~,us ei...~. ana ,,a,xsau.,..
l. The presidents and ssockhoiaers 81
every robbsns trust On the United
States There 3. not Q trust but that
MAJ
The slid membership cs that
etided eotcrie known o. New yoft's
Four Hundred. Every simperins spob
and English apine dude 10 f.r MeKin-
ley and the gold standard. Every title
hunting Ansio-msnE- with more
money than brains. is .pposea Go win.
Ian Bryan or ans other man born west
Of New YORK e,,v
Every moo.s s-os.r cola ,.raS.r
and syndscsse promo,.r I'm New y.,n
and the other nancy ..n,.r. a. ao,,s o.,
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s'en'sss e"e tnsever. Ia asking That
the goid standard be made permanent.
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which ends q necessary TO employ men
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-05

Dallas. Oct s-Judge woDdr. Pops-
list ssector -as-tsrxe. ard Merriam wa
hams. elsrtos. IN the Tecfn district
osnds Dus4tr announcen~us sAst sA~y
wv ~ sHppuss bsysa ~ psessowse
n Woeooo oDomng = tnsnnnn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-05

oAArss0s1 ~ Me9intey eiuee from
twelve oiRorsat seaees we're rsVgsssns-
- Another Interesting feature Of the
oay's characterization was b arrival &C
. committee rcpresentne the mechan-
ecs ana sS1versmiths employed BY the
Mauoer Manufacturing company. cf
New York aad Chicago. whtrh present.
81 na1uv Mckinley . magnificent goid
towns euO IN IN elaborate royal purple
plush coDe. the presentation being
made BY George pcxssuer. Tn. cup was
Inscribed In silver We Believe when
6edccmablc In Cold
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-05

De- 0oAna. Oce A-Ths ..xsa,oa.r'
Dssnooreae easrsosal ssckss - -
eled 10 : once of H. errssasy u ssassL
IL We oscked ~ . pef1ssoo coosaiuing
kssp ~ tsshss Oh sks HaiIos - ~,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-05

W~ashingson. Dor. k-Ssnssor Nuschsll,
a Wisconsin. V here aud sonsss ,has -
though ~ hs ,souod 0soey' Desnorr.s
- VIII vose foe bryan-"hsuoua I an Q
DsDocrss . Ne majority q III parsy
~ Nebraska maaL