Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-12-19

and, after smashing the baksshoR.
windows, ate up all the bread in sight
There are $4,000 babies born in the,
city Oh New York every year. They
number ESQ a day, or one each six
minutes. Take them out together tor
an airing, and the row of baby car
riages would extend up the Hudson 70.
Albany, $50 miles.-Current Liter
allure.
Crete has lost through political dis.
turbances of recent years olive trees,
to the value of $10,O0O,0OO. 1t will
take forty years to restore the or
chards to full bearing condition, 5 ID
in the meantime 100000 Mohamn r
dams and 100000 Christians will have
to StarVe.
John Burrage, counsel OF the Bos--
ton gas companies, must be included
in the list of lucky lawyers. He mas
received fee of $250,000 for his ser-
vices and commissions on the recent.
sale of The Brookline and Boston COM
panies to Henry M. Whitney. This iFs
reported from Boston as the largest.
fee ever received by a lawyer In that.
town
Representative Gillett. OF Massa-
chusetts, has epitomized his views AS
to the methods of getting Office under
the civil service rules in the following
lines:
1t lies through two swing doors swung.
to.
The attendance is always full.
Some by the door marked push go,
through,
The rest by the door marked pull. -
Twenty-years-old prank Tursd re-
Gently applied to the principal of pub
lie, school No. -, of Wilmington, D5l,
for permission to enter the primary
department. The teacher doubted.
whether to admit so old scholar, but
the board of education has decided
that as he is more than six years Of
age he must be admitted. Turski
started to school and recites "A. b..
C's' with the little folks.
On good authority the peanut crop
of the United States is said to be di-
minishing. This should not be al
lowed to happen. The normal crop is
100000 bushels, and Americans are
so fond of the nut that they spend
upon it $1O,OOO,OOO a year. Chemists
say the peanut contains so per cent. CT
fat and over 80 per cent. of nourishing
compounds, and it is commended by
physicians as an article of food,-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
A story is told of a certain commit
tee meeting in which the proceedings
commenced with noise and gradually
became uproarious. At last one OF
the disputants, losing all control over
his emotions, exclaimed to his oppOn-
ent: "Sir, you are, | think, the Dig
gest ass I have ever had the fortune
to set eyes upon!'' Order! order!"
said the chairman, gravely, you seem
to forget that | am in the room,
High prices are paid for butterflies
and some private collections, such as
that of the Hon. w Rothschild, at
Tring Hertz, is said to be worth thou
sands OF pounds. Some New Guinea
butterflies have fetched ESQ apiece.
One Of the Rothschilds is said to havs.
paid 5000 for a papillio, now quite
common. The demand for rare speci-~
mems has led to dishonesty. The tn
sects ere dyed, or else wings from
other species are fastened to the bod
les of other species.
A project is on root in St Louis to-
remove to j. crest Park, that city, from
Camden county, Mo-, what is described
as a magnificent stalagmite of solid
white onyx, six to ten feet n diameter
and between twenty to thirty feet in
summit 1T is said to contain about
1000 feet of pure white onyx "more
beautiful in design than could De
made by a skillful sculptor" a hum
dred thousand years are given as the
probable time passed in its formation
New York Times.
The astonishing statement is made
in London that the health OF employees
on the Underground Railway is better
than on any line in England. The at
mosphere is said to- have positively
cured cases of quinsy and bronchitis,
and to have benefited people with.
lung troubles.