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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

The game commissioners of Maine
put the number of deer killed last year
at 10000.
There were 1858 deaths in Boston
during 1886, a4rate Of 221l5 per 1000 IN
habitants.
--A Sabbath days journey among the
ancient Hebrews was 1461 yards, loot
and inches.
Rice constitutes the chief article of
British India.
Traffic through the Sault Ste.
Marie canal far surpasses that through
the Suez canal.
The first fire engine used in this
country was brought from England to
New York i'll 1871.
The statistics show that in the last
twenty-five years Kansas has produced
$776, 100000 worth of corn.
One steamer. the Monaghan, carried
100000 geese and turkeys from Canada
to Liverpool just before Christmas.
The strongest fortress in European
Russia is Cronstadt. 1t is the Russian
naval depot of the Baltic sea.
A farm in Mecklenberg, Germany, is
provided with all the electric power it
can use by dynamo driven by water.
Minneapolis has a Froebel normal
school where ffty-eight young women
are learning to teach in the kindergar-
tens.
During the past year New York ex-
ported 124,121 cattle and $3.50 sheep,
while Boston exported 161, 0OS cattle and
124, 1S5 sheep.
Florida dry goods dealers attract at
tention to their display windows by the
exhibition in them Of live snakes and
tarantulaS.
Michigan alone has 100000 mich
COWS. Enough butter fat goes to waste,
by the ordinary methods of butter max
ing, to every year pay the state tax.
A Port Huron man has received a
consignment of featherless fowls, with
the intention of introducing the breed
into Michigan. The birds do not know
what feathers look like.
-Snowballing in Sault Ste. Marie.
Mich, is tabooed, and the small boy will
have to look little out in the future.
The fine, if caught, is $50, and the alter
native is thirty days in the coop.
The buckwheat crop of Southwestern
Michigan was the largest this season for
many years, and in some localities the
-four is being sold at lower price than
that charged for wheat flour.
The principal fortresses of Austro-
Hungary are Caracow, PhZemsyl, Karls-
burg, Arad. Temesvar, Komorn, Peter
warden, Budapest POla and trieste, the
two last naval harbors as well.
There has just died at the Barnum &.
Bailey winter quarters the only two
horned white rhinoceros in this county,
and, with one exception, the only ami
NAL of his particular kind in captivity
--Muskrats are only protected within
the limits of the waters of Lake Erie,
Detroit river. River St. Clair, Lake. st.
Clair, Lake Huron and Lake Michigan,
and can be caught anywhere else in
Michigan.
A Hutchinson, Kas., young lady
broke her engagement because she heard
that he gave another girl diamond ring
for a Christmas present. She has since
found out that the other girl was only 2
years old.
The latest compilation of the wheat
crop estimates makes the worlds product
last year 100000 bushels less than in
1895, and 167,00O,OOO bushels less than
two years ago, when the greatest crop on
record was produced.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25
BAKED BANANAS AS FOOD.
Said to be Extremely Nutrit:ve for Body
and Brain.

Said to be Extremely Nutrit.ve for Bouy
and Brain.
Crichton Campbell writes as follows
to the New York Press:
"Bestow boon on humanity and help
to popularize the baked banana as an
article Of food for rich and poor, espe-
cially the poor. No poor child need go
to school hungry. One cent will buy
gocd-sized banana, which, when baked III
its skin in an oven for fifteen or twenty
minutes until it is quite soft and bursts
open, alone makes full meal. Now, the
banana sold at street corners are really
Maintains. Humboldt calculated the food
product of the plantaln, compared WIN
the potato, as A to l. and compared Will
wheat at 1873 to l. / say from personal
experience that three bananas weighing
one pound are equal in nourlshment 70
twcnty-six pounds of bread when baked.
Bananas must never be eaten raw; tney
are full of animal germs and are pfouuc-
tive of tapeworm. ,
"Raw bananas are very indlgestlple.
Youngsters fed on raw bananas nearly
always suffer from diseases OF the lltes-
final canal and Commissions. Inyslc1dHs
call such children banana babies.
"Baked bananas are also the ideal 1000
for nervous persons and anaemlcs, also
brain workers. 1 learned their great
power to sustain mental effort III lndla.
If Wall street brokers and others VINO
are under great mental strain would on
two mornings every week include a cou-
pie of baked bananas in their menu and
leave out the chop or steak they Would
last longer | am as hard brain worker
as any person in New York and | have
subsisted for years entirely on baked oa-
nanas. When l see lean, blood-poor per-
sons. I advise them to eat baked ba-
nanas, and they unfailingly build up and
gain flesh. The Latin name of the plan
tain, musa sapientum, signifies of the
wise
This subject, which might not map.
propriately be called the Banana Cure,
because many illnesses can be cured by
eating baked bananas, merits your clos.
est investigation. The introduction OF
the potato was great boon to the peo-
pie, but predict that the spreading OF a
knowledge of the above facts over, this
country will prove of still greater bene-
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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25
at this everyone laughed approvingly.
But our chance was to come.
III Snl

at this everyone laughed approvingly.
But our chance was to come.
JolIying the Sultan.
1--WE were not authorities on Eastern
politics, but when he asked us why we
came to Label we let loose our magma
tons and told him that the fame of his
rule, the magnifcence of his palace, the
beauty of the country extended from one
end of the world to the other. That his
justice was proverbial, that his great
ness was admitted by all and that we
were DESTROYS of seeing so great man
and so beautiful 4 country. When l
stopped for want Of magniloquent
terms, my comrade took it up and went
me several better The Sultan was
very much pleased and invited us to stay
indefinitely. Finally we shook hands
and retired The next day we rambled
through the town, visited the royal jail
and stables and in the afternoon the
Sultan sent us two magnificent Ara blan
stations with the request that we make
such use of them as we liked. The next
day we went around and took innumer-
able photographs of the palace, the
mosque, the people and everything we
thought would be interesting. Late in
the afternoon we were resting i'll our
bungalow, when whom should | see APP
preaching but the Sultan, accompanied
by his suite. He was evidently coming
to see us, but why? Certainly not to
return our call; that was hardly to be
expected. We were not conscious Of
having done anything to offend. Not
knowing just what to do we remained
seated and waited. In a moment soldier
comes up to the stairs and announces his
highness and we advance to the door and
receive him as we would any other gen
tleman, shaking hands and bidding him
enter. 1t gradually leaked out that Curl
osity, pure and simple, had brought him.
He had seen us taking photographs and
not understanding what we were doing
with the mysterious black box, came to
find out We explained the process to
him as best we could and then, to our
establishment, he politely asked if we
would take his photograph. Would we?
well, rather. It was, of all things the
very thing we were longing to do. A
slave is sent for the royal charger. The
Sultan in full regalia mounts and TAX
ing a long spear in hand patiently re-
strains his FESTIVE steed while | pose
his attendants in a picturesque group.
This we repeated several times. Finally
the Sultan dismounted, shook hands and
departed. We voted unanimously that
he was jolly good fellow, even if he
did keep private Jail. The next morn
ing we started upon the return trip fully
satisfied with the Arabian nights we had
spent in Label. Milwaukee Evening
Wisconsin,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25
NATURE CURED COL. MURPHY.
His Remarkable Recovery of the Ability
to Take Food

to Take Food
Col. Michael G.. Murphy, the we'll
known politician, has for six years been
fed entirely by artificial means. His
case was remarkable in itself, but it
has been made more so by his suddenly
regaining the ability to take food in the
ordinary way.
COL Murphy who is 65 years of age,
was stricken, in 1889. with a gradual
leading to the stomach became absolutely
closed in December, 1890. so that the pa
tent could take no food. Drs. Weir,
Lincoln, Janeway. Loomis and others de-
cided that an operation was the only
thing that would save the patients life.
DR.. Weir performed the operation. He
made an incision in the abdomen, and
thence to the stomach, and inserted a
soft rubber tube through which liquid
food could be conveyed to the stomach.
There was no means OF removing the
structure, and the patient was fed regu-
larly through the tube.
While in his room at the courthouse OH
December IA last, Col. Murphy drank a
glass of water, which was handed to
him by Justice Lynn. 1t was Justice
Lynn's birthday, and be jokingly asked
Col. Murphy to drink to his health. After
taking the water Col. Murphy was sur
prised by a peculiar sensation in his
stomach. He said nothing to Justice
Lynn, and soon afterward left the Of
fee for his home at $50 Broome street.
81 was SO surprised" he said to a re-
porter for the New York Times, "that
/ was almost frightened. I stopped at
drug store near my home and expert
mented by drinking some sarsaparilla.
1t staid down. / went home and contin-
ued to drink water, little at time.
| sent for Dr. Weir, and he said he sup
posed the structure was being removed
by natural causes. The next morning
| drank a whole cup of coffee, and later
took some beef broth. l have since been
able to eat soups and drink coffee and
milk regularly. New York Times.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25
s.The Old yellow Almanac"

When Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote the
poem, having for title the same heading
as this article, she touched u chord that
vibrated in thousands of hearts. For
Ayers Almanac, 1.-THE Old Yellow AL
manac," of the poem, is intimately asso-
ciated with the days and deeds of a
large part of the worlds population.
How large a part of the population this
general statement may include can be
gathered from the fact that the yearly
issue of Ayers Almanac is from 1900
600 to -25,O00,OOO copies. It is printed
in twenty-eight editions and in some
eighteen languages, including, besides
German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian,
Bohemian, Welsh, Italian, French, etc.
The old-style almanac is looked upon by
many as a relic of antiquity, especially
the "patent medicine almanac" whose
jokes are the butt often Of the very pa
pers in whose columns they first ap-
peared. But there are almanacs and al
manacs Ever since DR.. Ayers Almanac
has been put out it has employed as high
q class of mathematical and astronom-
zeal talent as is available in the country.
The result is that it stands on a par,
in respect Of the reliability Of its data
and the accuracy of it's calculations,
with the Z. S. Nautical Almanac, and
testimony to this fact is found year after
year in the letters, referred to the al
manac department of the company, from
students and mathematicians in various
parts of the world. In its permanence
and reliability Ayers Almanac stands
as a very fitting type of the Aver Rene
es-indispensable in the family and re
liable every day in the year. The 1897
edition of this useful almanac is now in
course of distribution through the drug
gists of the country.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

Fifteen millions is the price OF real
first-class duke. At least, that is what
the New York World says w. X. Van
derbilt paid for, the honor of allying his
family name with that of the ancient
house of Marlborough This statement,
says the World, is made OH the unques-
tionable authority of an English gentle
man visiting in Washington, who has
been in position to know all the facts.
His account is circumstantial and un-
doubtedly correct
The terms of the settlement were
$4,000, OOO-or, to speak with absolute
accuracy, the income of $10,0OO,0 00-on
Mr.. Vanderbilt's daughter during her
lifetime and 100000 on the duke. II
children are born they will inherit the
mothers portion at her death. If the
marriage shall be without issue this
100000 will revert on the death of
the duchess. But the dukes $5,O00.O00
is to be his in any event. The settle
ment was not made in cash, but in in
vestments for the benefit of the duke
and duchess. These investments are
principally in the stocks and bonds of the
Lake Shore and other Vanderbilt rail
roads
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

cupy their GnOugnLS, ana
their one object is to get well.
They have no confidence in them
selves, and only too often lose faith il
their physicians.
All Irregularities, whites, bearing
down pains, nervousness, headache,
backache, +" blues, y distaste for society,
sounds in ears, palpitation, emacia-
ton, heavy eyes, "all gone" feeling,
dread of impending evil, sleeplessness,
etc, should at once be removed and
vigorous health assured.
Lydia E. Pinl1hams Vegetable Com
pound has for twenty years saved
women from all this. Hear this wo-
man speak,
:" I wish too publish what Lydia E..
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
Sanative Wash have done for me. Ihad
falling of the womb and leucorrhoea,
and they have cured me of both. am
a well woman. / suffered dreadfully
with such dragging pains in the lower
part of the back and extending around
the body, irritation of the bladder,
pain when walking and painful men
situation; weakened terribly. had
been treated by three doctors without
much help, and it only took five
bottles of your Compound and three
packages of Sanative Wash to cure me.
l can recommend them to all women
suffering with complaints like these. -
MRS. VANNATTA, 1927 n. Broad ST.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25
Delmonico Wedding Cake.

One pound of butter. two pounds of
dark brown sugar, three-quarters of a
pound of -four, one cupful of dark mo-
lasses, ten eggs, three pounds of raj
Of citron, one pound of almonds after
they are blanched, one pound of figs,
four tablespoonfuls of ground cloves, one
gill of brandy, one gill of sherry wine.
Stone the raisins, wash and dry thorough
ly the currants, shred the citron, cut up
the figs in small pieces and put all to-
chop and add the almonds; then sprinkle
and rub thoroughly with an extra one
half pound of flour that has been
Drowned. The cake is lightly put to-
gether in the usual way, and the fruit
put in last. Line the pans with thick
buttered paper, and bake slowly in a
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25


''Ten or fifteen years ago." says a
business man quoted by the Philadelphia
Record, "the canned meats put up in
square tins by American houses were
sold in great quantities in Samoa. 1t
was not long before Australia and New
Zealand packers saw that they were
missing a good thing, SO they sent out
agents who circulated n story among the
natives to the effect that cheap Ameri-
can meats were composed in part of
human flesh. They said that in the
dead Cinnamon for shipment to the Ce-
lestial Empire from San Francisco the
meat was canned and labeled beef for
Pacific island consumption. The story
gained credence to such an extent that
the natives Stunned the square tins and
could only be induced to buy the round,
fiat tins put out by Australian and New
Zealand houses. That prejudice exists
today to such an extent that United
States Consul Mulligan has mentioned
it in his report to the state department"
Eastern hog buyers are securing
Washington il search of stock hogs to
eat up the immense corn crop of Nebras-
Ia. says az Oakesdale correspondent of
the Spokesman Review. The railroads
give them rate of 5000 to Chicago, and
hogs and shipped to the desired point in
Nebraska, where they are unloaded, os-
tensibly to be fed. After feeding, the car
is again loaded, but not with the same
hogs. Instead, fat hogs are loaded into
the car and shipped to Chicago. Thus
they get free transportation from Nebras-
ka to Chicago. One man has shipped
county in this way, and is now after
moro
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25
Car and His Bike.

The Gear rides the bicycle, and during
his sojourn at the court of the Danish
King occasionally went to ride unat
tended on his wheel in one Of the roya
forests. On one of these rides the CZal
lost his way, and meeting a wheelman
in the woods, asked, in Danish. to be
directed on the course he wished to fol
low. To his surprise. the man respond
ed in Russian instead of Danish. The
Gar asked: "How does it happen that
you speak RussianT' Because, sire, .
the man answered, 81 am one of the
Russian detectives charged with the
duty of guarding your majesty's per
son" He. with other detectives, had
been wheeling about the roads, keeping
the Car in sight, while the monarch
himself was enjoying the pleasing and
unaccustomed sense Of being unattended
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25
The Comedte Francaise.

The profits of the Coincide Franchise
for the year 1896 were $4,000 francs,
of which $4,000 were put into the re-
serve fund. The shares for the socie-
taires entitled to participate in the profits
are $4,000 francs each. The members
complain that their portions are smaller
than they should have been, on account
of the large number of new members
appointed-a greater number than in any
previous year.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25
The Livery of RiIiousness

Is a pronounced yellow. 1t is visible in the
countenance and eyeballs. It is accom-
panied with uneasiness beneath the right
ribs and shoulder blade. sick headache ne
the removal of each and all Of these dis
comforts, as well as their cause, Hostetter.s
Stomach BitterS is admirably adapted. This
pre-eminent family medicine also remedies
malarial, rheumatic and kidney complaints,
nervousness and debility. 1t promotes APP
petite and Sleep.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

AT Montreux, in Switzerland, the
electric tramway gets its power from
very small stream, and from the old
Roman town of Vevay to the medieval
castle of Chillon one may ride in q troll
ley car propelled by the power of an in
significant little rill.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

The two principal German fortresses
on the Baltic Sea are at Konigsburg and
Danzig. Central Germany has three
frst-class fortresses, Spandou, Madge-
burg and Kustrin; on the French from
tier, Metz and Strasburg, and on the
Belgian frontier. Cologne ard Koblenz.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25
Lane,a Family Medicine

Moves the bowels each day. In or.
der to be healthy this is necessary.
Acts gently on the liver and kidneys.
Cures sick headache. Price % and SOC,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

Thin or gray hair and bald heads, so
displeasing to many people as marks of
age, may be averted for a long time by
using Halls Hair Remover.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

-Partridges are so thick at Tawas
City, Mich, that two have been caught
in the schoolhouse, having flown in the
windows
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

If you have ever used Dobbins Electric during tho
81 years it has been Sold ko,o that it is In best
and purest family soap made. you haven't tried it,
ask your grocer for 1t Don't take imitation =
There are lots Of them.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

During the last year ASSOC shad
were caught in the Connecticut river in
Connecticut.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

Piso's Cure for Consumption has saved
me large doctor bills.--C. L. Baker, 422S
Regent So, Philadelphia, Pa, Dee. s.
1895
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

The receipts of the Denver postoffice
for 1896 showed an increase of $4,000
over 1891
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

There are $4,000 characters in the,
japanese language.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

Connecticut has more acres of wood
land than it had 100 yearsSago.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

WHEN bilious or costtve eat a Cascaret candy ca
thartic cure guaranteed, Toe, Csc.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

In the last 800 years Great Britain
has spent So, 7S5, 100000 in war.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25
Coughing Leads to Consumption.

Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
once. Go to your druggist today and get
a sample bottle free. Sold in % aud 80
cent bottles. Go at once; delays are
dangerous.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25
No-to-Bac for Fifty Cents.

Over 100000 cured. Why not let No-To-Bac
regulate or remove your desire for tobacco?
Saves money, makes health and m. nhood. Cure
guaranteed, soc and 81, ell druggists.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

JUST try 1Oc box of Cascarets candy cathartic fin
est liver and bowel regulator made.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

CAscARETs stimulate 'iver kidneys and bowels. New
er scken, weaken or griLe. 10c.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

| Mrs. WimslOxv'S SOOTHING SYRUP for chill
dren teething, softens the gums, reducesinham-
nation, allays pain cures wind collie. 26ca bottle.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

"A big-hearted lawyer at Pratt. Kas.,
whose name is withheld by the local
paper, bought fine Christmas dinner
for every widow in town.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25
YYOMAN'S POWER.
IT SHAPES THE DESTINlES OF MEN
AND NATIONS.

Where Men Are at a Disadvantage, and
"Only a Woman Can Understand Wo.
mans Ills"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

whose ambi
netic infiu
men to deeds
and heroism.
are all-power
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25
SarsapariiIa
How Our Meat Trade is Injured.
Is the Best-in fact, the One True Blood Purifier.

HOOI1c Di1Ic act harmoniouSly with
AAOOA - AAAO Hoods Sarsaparilla. Csc.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-01-25

Woman's beauty, love and devotion,
rule theworid. Grand women; strong
mentally, morally and physically,