Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03
HERE AND THERE.

Mr.. Gladstone's library contains no
; fewer than $4,000 volumes, of which
$4,000 are still at Hawarden castle.
The making of lucifer matches is a
state monolopy in France, Spain,
Portugal, Italy, Greece, Rumania and
SerYia.
A Kansas City woman has pre-
sented her husband with button on
which is inscribed: Don't forget
the groceries"
A firm Of apple-growers IN Kansas
report that they have set up 300
rabbit traps in their four orchards to
fight the rabbit pest.
/ The car of Russia is a master of
teralache, or Russian whist, which is
like the ordinary whist, except that
there are no trumps.
Mr.. Altgeld charges that the gov
eminent has delayed campaign
against Havana in order that the war
might be prolonged until next winter.
The rainy season begins in Cuba
May and lasts till November. There
is but one recorded snowfall in the
island, that of Christmas, 1856.
! Should the prince of Wales ascend
the throne in all human prOba-
bility he Wilt will depend upon
himself as to the name by which he
will be recognized. His leading
names are Albert Edward; SO he may
either be Albert I. or Edward VII.
They say George Vanderbilt whose
| engagement is announced, promised
his mother that he would always re-
main single. He is another case of
Benedick WHO, when he swore that he
would die bachelor, never thought
he would live to get married.
The Order of Cisterein Monks,
which has just celebrated it's 800th
anniversary, was founded by the Ben
edictine, Robert of Molesme, in Bur-
gundy, in 1898, and at one time had
more than 1000 monasteries. Ber-
nard, of Clarivaux, was one of it's
members.
1t is estimated that Michigan still
has 10,0OO,OOO,0O0 standing feet of
pine; Wisconsin twice as much; Min
nesota, 35,OOO,OOO,OOO feet. Cutting
6,000,000,000 feet annually, this supply
would last only about ten years more.
The average amount cut is 40,OO0,OOO.
A baseball umpire has lost his suit
on an accident policy. He was hit in
the eye and he sued for 1925. The
court directed a verdict for the COM
pany on the ground that umpiring is
a dangerous business, and that the
defendant was negligent in going into
the game.
The fiber of the ramble plant, orig
inally an East Indian perennial of
the nettle family, but now cultivated
in the West Indies and in the south
ern part of the United States, and
used for almost every purpose hereto
fore served by cotton, is considered
to be the coming textile fiber.
A surgeon on the Oregon writes to
his friends about the newspaper re-
ports of naval operations in rather
contemptuous style. ''The dispatch
boats occasionally bring us news
papers, and such lies one can hardly
! imagine the human mind capable of
producing. Of course, it is all very
funny"
Many years ago the Manx language
was heard frequently in churches,
courts of law and other public places,
! but now it is entirely extinct in the
larger villages, being heard only
when one goes into out-Of-the-way
places in the interior. Unlike Ire
land, the Isle of Man cannot boast of
distinctively Manx instrument. The
Manx music has been essentially
vocal.
The highest velocity ever credited
to a cannon ball is about 1926 feet
per second, being equal to mile in
80 seconds. The velocity of the
earth at the equator, due to it's rota-
ton on it's axis, is 1000 miles per
hour, or a mile in SO seconds. There
fore, if a cannon ball were fired due
west and could maintain it's initial
velocity, it would beat the sun in his
apparent journey around the earth.
A rural epitaph on "a Soldier Who
Fought Through the War;" reads:
He followed Lee and Jackson,
AS brave as brave could be.
Left one leg in Virginia,
One arm in Tennessee.
He was a private in the ranks
No history tells his story;
Stacked arms at last on Jordan
banks
And went to heaven for glory.
Few students of Napoleonic his
tory" says The London Chronicle,
f'are aware that DR.. Antomarchi, who
attended upon Napoleon I. during his
last illness at st. Helena, is buried in
the cemetery at Santiago de Cuba
He had brother living in that isl
and, and after the emperor's death
proceeded thither and lived at San
tiago, exercising his skill as an ocu-
list gratuitously among the poor
After his death in 1926 public mon
ument was erected to his memory in