Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-03
NOTES OF THE DAY.

savings Ddnk WHICH mas f0uuCSQ the
rate of interest on all real estate
mortgages from Az to per cent. de-
clares that the Superabundance of
money is likely to continue and that
its earning power is bound to grow
less. He also states that the best
income to be realized from all other
securities outside of real estate which
the banking laws permit savings in
situations in New York state to invest
in is out a fraction over per cent.
He includes in that category govern
ment, state and municipal bonds.
This fnancier is firmly convinced
that cheap money has come to stay.
An Englishman named 0ateman,
who has been collecting statistics of
the drink bill Of various countries,
reports the reassuring fact that the
Americans are growing more temper
ate than any of the European nations.
The United States, Mr.. Bateman
proves, consume less than half as
much beer as England, and in COM
menting on the figures the London
Times says that our country seems
for time, at all events, steadily
treading the paths of temperance"
The value of antiseptic methods of
surgery has been demonstrated by
Professor Kober Of the Georgetown
university, who points out that dur
ing the Crimean war more than one
half (63.5 per cent? of the amputa-
tions that were performed resulted in
death. In the American civil war
the mortality from amputation was
still 48.1 per cent, but in 1890 the
statistics of amputation showed that
the mortality had been reduced to
60 per cent.
A new civil code will go into effect
in the German empire in 1900. Its
provisions are to stand as the per-
manent law of the empire. One of
these provisions is that any man who,
through addiction to drink, is I'M
able to provide for himself or his
family, and who imperils the safety
of others, shall be excluded from the
ordinary rights and privileges of
citizenship.
A new lion of st. Mark, with his
paw on the open gospel and the doge
kneeling in prayer by his side, is be-
ing put in the middle gallery on the
west side of the doge's palace in
Venice, the place formerly held by
Doge Gritti's lion, set up in 1888.
This was torn down when the re-
public fell 100 years ago and it's place
has been empty till now.
In the Diesel gas engine, which is
now attracting much attention in
Germany, the mixture of air and gas
which maves the piston is not sud-
denly exploded when it takes fire, but
burns slowly enough to impart a
more gradual impulse to the engine.
A 1,000-horse-power motor of this
type is promised for the Paris ex-
position of 1900.
An immense meteor, followed by a
shower of meteoric stones, fell near
the big sand butte about twenty
miles southeast of Duboise, Idaho,
last week. The conclusion was so
great that it caused a perceptible
vibration of the earth which was
distinctly felt within a radius of
twenty m1I0S, duu Was dC uISC sup
posed to be an earthquake.
Grand opera in Paris, according to
official accounts, has been given at
an expenditure over receipts of 4,5OO,-
900 francs in five yea rs, an average
loss, that is, of $4,000 year. The
subvention of 100000 francs year
reduces the annual deficit to $4,000,
but there is a further yearly deficit
of $4,000 on the opera concerts.
Tt is the proper thing in Paris at
present for the gentlemen of a
theater party to order during the
afternoon some prominent confec
toner to send to the box in the even
ing packages of frozen fruits, as they
are called, to please the ladies. The
small and dainty boxes contain gilt
tongs to protect ones gloves.
A German professor has discovered
that FNreiherr Bernhard Won PARA
vicini of Schloss Rundeck, near Mer
an, in Tyrol, married for the fourth
time at the age of 80 years, lived to
be 104, and had seven children, of
whom the last was posthumous. His
S1OCSC uduSuCO1 was on VI c6C
at her fathers death.
'"The Deacon's One-Hoss Shay has
been outdone by the colonel's zone
boss" sleigh. A sleigh made by
Colonel David Moseley in 1776 has
been in the family service ever since.
1t is now owned by Edward Moseley
of Westfeld, Mass, great-grandson.
It is a low-backed affair and "han-
sum critter" even now.
The women of Seattle, Wash,
have instituted a Society of Klondike
Widows. The lists are exclusive, be-
ing restricted to those whose claims
to "Klondike widowhood" are indis-
putable. Only the wives and sweet
hearts of men off to the gold fields
are eligible and no others need ap-
ply.
Two glasses of a temperance drink
served to a London doctor by a tee