Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-12-27
NOTES OF THE DAY.

The San Francisco Bulletin publish
ers pictures of t'Women Who Will
Help Seth Low Become Mayor of Bos-
| ton"
A number of farmers in Alabama
have pledged themselves to SOW from
| five to twenty bushels of wheat this
fall.
| A diver in the Clyde recently worked
for forty minutes at a depth of 1876 feet,
which feat is record in Great Britain.
! twenty-five of the counties of
Georgia were named for men who had
been governors of the state, all of
anterebellion times.
The Old Settlers club of Oshkosh,
Wis, purposes to- erect a monument 10
| Chief Oshkosh, from whom it's beauti-
full city received it's name.
Ex-Secretary Hoke Smith has been
chosen president of the board of edu-
cation of Atlanta, Ga, by the unani-
nous vote of it's members.
! In agreeable contrast to the familiar
/ mo thoroughfare" sign is an inscrip-
ton at Sabine, Me-, which reads:
Private Way; Welcome
A teachers institute in West Vir-
''the habit of male teachers parting
their hair in the middle"
Success has attended an effort at
banana growing in Fitzgerald, Ga,
where a plant reached the height of IL
feet and put forth satisfactory fruit.
The long tails of the shah of Persia's
horses are dyed crimson for six inches
at their tips-a jealously guarded priv
llege of the ruler and his sons.
At a recent entertainment in a sub
urb of Boston the cards of admission
bore this legend: Ladies' are re-
quested to remove their hats as far as
possible
A suggestion from Tennessee that
the body of General Sam Houston be
removed thither for reinterment has
aroused indignant and vehement pro-
tests in Texas.
A Paris jury has distinguished itself
by acquitting two criminals who had
| confessed their crime in court and
whose lawyers had only pleaded for
light sentence.
A hundred and twenty new trotters
were added to the 2:15 list during this
last season. The present generation
can remember when not one trotter
had made that record.
The semiannual dividends and inter
est money paid in Boston the
month of November aggregated $3,771,
TAB, as against So, 453, 548 in May last
and So, 467, 842 in November, 1896.
Acorns are SO thick on Ross island,
in Portland, Ore, that owners of land
otherwise of little value are buying
hogs with the intention of fattenfng
them ON the acorns and marketing
them.
The calf, the white COW of Siam, the
hawk, the ape, the ibis, the cat, the
asp. the crocodile, dogs, beetles, frogs,
mice and rats have all been held in
reverence in different sections of the
globe.
The emperor and empress of Japan
and their officials and mobiles are great
! ly interested in and have subscribed
literally toward the W0men's univer-
sity at Toxic, which is to- cost SITE, 900.
A Dutch chemist in Java claims to
have discovered a process by which
starch may be converted into sugar at
half the present cost of sugar. The two
substances are composed of the same
chemical elements.
Bicycle pedals are being fitted with
magnetized plates to- attract plates on
the shoes of the rider and hold his feet
in place. thus doing away with the toe
clips, which are the cause of many ac-
cidents to racing men.
The burial of a colored veterans
body in the special G. A. R. plot at
Hiawatha, Kan, SO incensed the wild
ow of white commander of the post
that she had her husbands body dis
inferred and reburied in private plot.
An international meteorological OBJ
servatory is to be erected on the top of
Mount Kosciusko, at the southwestern
extremity OF Australia. The origina-
| tor is Clement Wagner who took the
first meteorological observations on
Ben Nevis, and the founder is R. Barr
Smith of Torrens Park, South Austria
liza
/ A physician writes to the London
Lancet that one reason why boys are
more liable to typhoid fever than girls
! is that boys are more apt to play
games in dirty streets and thus get dis
ease germs on their hands and into
their stomachs.
In Maricopa county, Arizona terri
tory, there is a geological freak. It is
| fve-horned sheep. While he was in
Phoenix he created somewhat of SEN
sation and was the pet, if not the lion,
of the hour. Then he went down to
! ella Bend and covered himself with
glory and blood by whipping the big
gest dog in Maricopa county.
1t is said that two-thirds of all the
! deer in the Missouri river bottoms in
the region about Washburn, N. D.,