Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-06-11

| Hampshire, where the Old Home
week. idea originated, will celebrate
from Aug. IL to Aug. IS.
| Small families are hardly the rule
among the English upper ten. The
average is six or seven. The queen is
| the mother of nine and the princess OF
Wales of six children, Lord
Abergavenny is the father of ten, the
duke of Argyll of twelve, the dowager
countess of Dudley is the mother OF
seven children, the earl of Ellesmere
boasts of eleven, the earl of Inchiquin
| fourteen and the earl of leicester OF
eighteen.
Among the employees in the treasury
department at Washington are three or
four blind women typewriters, and so
| satisfactory has their work been that
| it is proposed to engage more next
year. Their work is as good as the
| best of the operators with full sight
| it is said, and has forced their supe-
riors to expect as much from them in
| dictation and copying as if they were
| in complete possession of their
faculties.
Russia's Academy of Science has a
prize Of 100000 rubles to bestow. In
1888 General Arakczeijew bequeathed
to it $4,000 rubles, which were to &C
cumulate till 1925, when three-fourths
of the sum should be given to the best
history in Russian of Alexander rs
reign. The other quarter was to be
| spent in printing the work, in having
it translated into French and German
| and for prize to the second best work
The accommodations will amount to
nearly 100000 rubles.
Boston's park commissioners are
| urgent on the need of more play
grounds for the children. The city has
six tracts Of ground provided for this
purpose, with total area of about
forty acres, but the need of more land
for similar use becomes every year
more evident, and it is the opinion of
the commission that it would be wise
municipal economy to expend 81, 100000
within the next four years in securing
additional Fairgrounds of from one to
six acres each.
Brunswick, Me-, a town of about 1000
Inhabitants, is probably the first
municipality of this country to under
take forest planting on a large scale.
|. The town owns a tract of about 1000
acres Of what once was pine land. At
a recent meeting of the council 500
was appropriated to improve this land
by planting in it white pine. Seed will
be purchased and a nursery established
to raise young trees. At the proper
age these will be transplanted in rows
and set in the positions they will final
ly occupy.
At recent scientific conference at
Munich Professor Chun exhibited the
results of the German deep-sea ex-
petition. Some of the fish found at a
depth of about 10000 feet resembled, he
said, the fossil species in the rocks OF
the Mesozic era, when the earth 5
atmosphere was dense with carbon.
These fish, in many cases, have special
means of collecting light. Some
possessed enormous eyes, occupying
nearly the whole side of the head, and
some were supplied with telescope
organs. Others carried their light on
their heads in a manner similar to
that of the glowworm.
New York's suicide bill, which Gov
ernor Roosevelt has signed, amends
the penal code so as to make it a mis-
demeanor to publish or cause to be
published or connive at the publicatio
OF any letter, telegram or private paper
or any portion thereof found on or
among the effects of any person dan
| gerously wounded or who has COM
mitted suicide Or died suddenly or who
has been found dead. The only time
such publication shall be justifiable is
when the coroner declares in writing
that it is necessary to and in the dis
covery of a crime or in the identif-
cation of the wounded or deceased
person.
| The robins which make their homes
in the white house grounds in the
spring and summer had a great feast
the day after Easter Monday egg roll
ing. The children who celebrated
Easter Monday on the grounds left
hundreds of pieces of eggs as well as D
great any whole ones. The birds. found
out the true situation late Monday
afternoon, but they didn't have time tc
| do much before dark and apparently
passed the word around among the
robin family about the picnic to be hao
on Tuesday morning. There must
have been $50 robins in the grounds
eating hard-boiled eggs before the
gardeners could get the grounds
cleared.