Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-04-25
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

A horse died in Baltimore the other
day at the age of 40 years.
Some excellent limitations of half
dollars have been found in circula-
ton in Rochester.
"A Young Women's Christian as
ISOLATION in Wisconsin has opened q
school for little cash-girls.
The annual meeting for 1898 Of the
western editorial federation will be
held in Omaha during the Trans-MisG-
issippi exposition.
The city council of Murray, KY,
has passed an ordinance making a
fine of SIS the penalty for stoppering
a coal-oil jug with corncOb.
The Nebraska fish commissioners
northern part of the state with
trout The experiment has met with
success.
An inmate of a New Jersey aims
house claimed on April l that he was
126 years old. That was a good April
fool joke, but they believe him.
An Usage county, Kan, man has
$4,000. He was damaged that amount,
he claims, by a horsewhipping be-
slowed upon him.
The democrat candidate for city
marshal of Maryville Mo-, killed him
self Saturday three days before
election, and in the face of demo-
cratic gain, too.
do Tow
of the Indian chief after whom the
town of Waukon, Ia, was named, is
teacher in the Indian school at
Tomah, Wash.
A Burlington Ia, man perpetrated
fine April fool joke. He tied up
the doors Of fire station so that
the firemen could not respond to an
alarm without delay.
Rev. B. M. Adams, who has been in
the Methodist ministry for so years,
preached his semi-centennial sermon
at the Methodist conference in Brook
Ign the other day.
The United States government ex-
hibit at the Trans-Mississippi ex-
position will excel by all odds that
made at any former exposition. The
building alone will cost $4,000.
An event Of great interest to the
German Turner societies of the coun-
try is the Trans-Mississippi funniest,
to be held at Omaha during the COM
ing international exposition in that
city.
D. 0. Wilson, grain buyer CT
Newkirk, Kan, has been sent to the
penitentiary for two years for under
weighing wheat on the way to Texas.
The fraud was perpetrated while re-
billing the grain.
The Pennsylvania railroad has
issued an order that the conductors
must require all trip passes to be
signed by the holders. This rule
has been in existence for years, but
has never been strictly enforced until
now.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
has 10 women in its employ as sta
ton agents and they give excellent
satisfaction If all ticket agents
were women, travel would be pleasan-
ter, unless the dear creatures got
1ustered.
Adolph Sutro, the famous San Fran
cisco millionaire, is dying from a
paralytic stroke and his daughter and
guardian, Dr. Emma Laura Sutro,
has been authorized to sell a part of
the $2,250,0OO estate to clear it OF
debt
Twenty years ago the average
passenger train was run at the rate
Of about % miles an hour; freight
trains at IL miles an hour and even
less. The airbrake and other appli-
ances have increased the speed
greatly. Freight trains now often
run IS miles an hour.
A man of considerable fame, 3
mathematician, was present at
function" where he was introduced
to a man from Chicago, who ex-
pressed the keenest joy in meeting
him, for mathematics, he said, had
been always one of his greatest in
terests. Our great mathematician
had been working for months on a
problem, and at last he had solved it.
Here was an opportunity to share his
triumphs with another enthusiast.
For the better part of an hour he ex-
planned the details of the problem,
and the man from Chicago nodded
his head approvingly and enjoyed
himself. ''Well," said he, when the
explanation was over, "as I say I do
enjoy mathematics. But the thing
that stumps me, sir, is that when
you multiply a number by fraction
Won make il smaller"