The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-05-19
NOTES AND NEWS,

NOTES AND NEWS,
The American navy has practically
all been built since 1888
Great Britain makes $2O,OO0,0O0 a year
profit out of it's postoffices.
The blankets issued to the soldiers
of our army cost the government $40
EACH
It is expected that the Siberian rail-
way will be completed to Irkutsk in
February, 1900.
Little Eva was encored at Atchison,
Kan, the other night in the death scene
and was compelled to die a second time
The value Of the gold silver, lead and
copper mined in Colorado in 1898 was
$42, 646 344, the gold being one-half that
amount and the silver about one-fourth
A recruiting agent proposes to start
April 1 on a bicycle tour of New Eng
land to recruit for the regular army,
and expects to ride $4,000 miles before
he gets through.
Speaking of ex-senator John Sher-
man, Senator Lodge recently said:
Everybody respects him, but I have
never known anybody to be too familiar
with him, to slap him on the shoulder,
for instance"
WITH THE HUMOR!ST.
The quarrel had come at last.
you're a f1irt!' he cried.
"a f1irt she repeated scornfully why,
I don't believe you know what fiirt
isl
"a f1irt," he said bitterly, sis girl
who can make a man think he is in
heaven when in reality he is next door
to the other place, with the door slight
ly ar."-Chicago Post.
Downtown Employer-You are late
this morning, Mr.. Addemup.
Bookkeeper-Yes sir; on account Of
the strike. The street-car men walked
out, and I had to walk in.-Chicago
Tribune.
Waiter-Would you like Spanish
cream with it?
Goodman Gonrong-Spanish cream?
That's whipped cream, isn't it?-Chi-
cago Tribune.
"Look at that man laughing; Tomkins
must have got new story"
mo; he's got a new victim. "-Chicago
Record
HIGH LIGHTS.
Forswear intimacies and you will
never have any quarrels.
New books are often valuable because
they drive us to read old ones.
Men consider men excusable for be-
ing men; but they want women to be
angels.
When a man asks for something not
on the table it is a sign he isn't hen
pecked.
An angel is woman who coaxes her
husband to go off duck shooting while
she cleans house.
Few men have sense enough to know
when a cushion is to be looked at and
when it is to be lolled on.
An ideal husband is one who gives his
wife a cafe luncheon as soon as straw
berry shortcakes bloom in the windows.
Chicago Record.
In Frozen Siberia.
traveller in Siberia tells Of remark
able occurrence among the frozen re-
gions of that country. In the intensely
cold nights the silence was sometimes
broken by loud bursting of one of the
ice bubbles on a river, phenomenon l
had neither heard nor read of before.
The streams coming down from the
hills were frozen on the surface some
six to nine inches thick. The water be-
meath flowed faster than it could escape,
and the pressure, on the principle of an
hydraulic press, became irresistible.
First the elasticity of the ice was seen
by the rising of circular mounds some
! six or eight feet high. The bursting
point came ct last with a report like
/ an explosion. The water escaped. but
| soon froze again. Scores Of these ice
! hillocks are 20 be seen in a few versts
| of the river.
The Tardy Matchmaker.
matchmaker, not a hundred miles
| from Galashiels was well known to be
very slow and to keep jobs a very long
! time.
Once he had a watch to repair, and
the party having got on the 'fuddle'
i went and listed" and forgot all about
| his watch
He served his twenty years. and
having returned to his native town, he
thought he would call on the watch
maker and get his watch
Meeting him at the door, the soldier
inquired if his watch was ready.
Mon said the Matchmaker, 81 am
| just going to start on it,.
The Untimely Guest.
Love tapped at fair Myrtilla's door;
The damsel wept in sorrow sore.
How could she hearken with content
When all her set was keeping Lent?
Chicago Record.