Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The British press generally approve
of the gold plank in the Republican plat
form in America. while they condemn
protection.
One of Liverpool's leading citizens. a
millionaire manufacturer, labOrs under
the hallucnation that he is q steam
boile" Just about to burst.
A coroners jury in Maine reported
that deceased came to his death by eX-
cessive drinking, producing apoplexy in
the minds of the jury"
On the eastern coast of Ireland it
rains on an average POS days in the
year, in England about $50 days. at
Kazan about 80 days, and in Siberia
only 90.
"A settler at Hay, New South Wales,
reports that he and his sons destroyed
10000 rabbits in four days, and that Oh
one occasion he poisoned 10000 in a
night
-Violins are very susceptible to change
of the weather. The strings of a violin
always become more taut, and thus give
Il sharper tone, when a storm is coming
on.
The new catalogue of the Wisconsin
university shows q total registration of
1898 students during the present college
year, an increase of rs over the attend
ance last year.
Wales is the most criminal part of
the British isles, but this is not due so
much to the corruption of the Welshmen
as to the immigration of English, Irish
and foreign criminals.
-EXcavators in the neighborhood Of
Gizeh discovered an almost perfect yacht
or pleasure vessel which had been as
cribed by experts to be the eleventh or
twelfth dynasty, or about 1000 B. c.
The cords of window blinds are coed
barometers. When they become tight
the reason is found in the fact that the
air is moist; the cords have absorbed
some of the moisture, and so are drawn
taut.
Fire suddenly started the other day
i'll a showcase in front of 462 Broadway,
New York, belonging to manufacturers
of celiuloid goods owing to the celluloid
articles in the case taking fire from the
heat of the sun.
"A vegetable meat of Japan, called
"torfu," is said to consist mainly of pro-
tein of the soya bean, and to be as nutri-
uouS and dlgestlble as meat. 1t is sold in
tablets, as white as snow, and tastes like
fresh malt.
Madrid schools are so bad that Ger
man residents of the city have united
to establish a school where their children
may obtain as good an education as in
more civilized parts of Europe for a
reasonable outlay of money.
"A hunting party organized by the
Grand Duke Serge Michailovitch in the
Kuban district of the Caucasus brings to
light the fact that the wooded and Sc
cluded parts of that region are still in
habited by panthers and other wild
beasts.
A remarkable story comes from Au-
gusta, Me. on account of a cyclone of
three weeks ago. A pig was imprisoned
in the ruins of a barn which had been
blown down in that gale and was not
released until Thursday, when it was
found alive, but very thin and emaciated
For 1895 the receipts of the Suez
canal traffic were 7S,426, 600 francs, an
increase Of 100000 francs over the
last year. Part Of this was due to the
French expedition to Madagascar and
the Italian troubles in Abyssinia. The
number of vessels was 3434.
-Jenner's silver lancet case and
lancets, the former engraved with the
initials and the later with the name of
the discoverer of vaccination, have been
presented to the Royal College of Sur
geOns by a doctor who obtained them
from the grandson of Jenner's assistant.
The men liable to military service in
Switzerland number 100000, according to
the recent statistics published by the
government at Berne Of them 233, 900
are incorporated in the active service,
and 276,000 kept on the rolls, to be
called upon only III case of al eXtraor-
binary emergency.
While Frenchmen grumble that they
still have to pay taxes in order to make
up the war indemnity eXacted by Prus-
STA twenty-five years ago, the town of
Konigsberg, in Prussia, has only this
year paid the last installment of the loan
contracted to the war contribution i'm
posed on it by Napoleon [.