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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
STURGEON is NEARLY EXTINCT.
Rapid Decrease of Catch In the Past
i Ven

Rapid Decrease of Catch In the Past
Few Years.
| 1t may surprise some persons to
learn that q full-grown female stur-
geon is as valuable a creature as the
| fur SEAL Yet this is a fact. 1t may
| also interest and surprise many to be
told that more than $1,OOO,O0O are In
vested In the sturgeon catching indus
| try In the Delaware River alone, and
that more than seven-eighths Of the
caviar sold in this country as Russian
caviar is made few miles below this
city from eggs of the sturgeon caught
in this vicinity. Yet both these things
are true also. The slaughter OF the
fur seals in Behring Sea and their
threatened early extinction by Cana
dian poachers produced at one time
widespread excitement throughout the
country, and for a while caused decid-t
eddy strained relations between the
governments of the United States and
England. The sturgeon is as perilous-
" near extinction as the fur seal. At
the rate this valuable fish is disappear
ing and unless something is promptly
done to prevent it in five years there
will be none to catch.
To show how rapidly the sturgeon
are passing away it is only necessary to
refer to the report of the Pennsylvania
Fish Commission. According to the
document, between the years 1880 and
1889 it was not uncommon for 1000
sturgeon to be seen on the dock at
Bayside as the result of one days
catch. In the latter named year the
fish began to decrease in number rap
idly. The average catch to net that
season was so; in 1891 about 30; in
1892 it was 43; in 1893 it had fallen to
81; in 1894 down to 26; in 1895 the av-
erage to a net rose to 80, but in 1896
1t fell to 27; in 1897 the average was
%; in 1893 it fell to 13, and in 1899 1t
sank to g. In 1898 the total catch OF |
sturgeon in Delaware bay and river |
was over 5000. Last season 1t was
$50. 1t cannot take long at this ratio |
to bring extermination.-Phil |
Ledger
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

RIGHT AND LEFT FACES.
PhysiognOmies Which Are StumbIin
Blocks to Photographers

Physiognomies Which Are Stumbling
Blocks to Photographers.
Zone of the principal obstacles in
the way Of successful portrait photog-
raphy," said an old-time local expert,
lis the asymmetry Of the average hui
man face. The features of ninety-nine
people out of hundred are deniably
asymmetrical-in other words, the
right and left sides are different in
size, shape and general contour. We
don't notice this variation unless our
attention Is attracted to it, but it is
there all the same, and for some rea-
son that am not able to explain it is
generally emphasized by the camera.
What | say applies, Of course, to full
face pictures only, for when the head
is turned slightly the deyiations are
scarcely ever discernible.
Among men asymmetry often lends
great strength to countenance. Bis
marck was striking example Of that
fact, and so was Gladstone. If you are
skeptical take a full-face picture of
either and cover one-half of 1T with a
card. Then reverse the process and
examine the other side. You will be
surprised. In fact, you will discover
four different man, all distinct types"
New Orleans Times Democrat.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
Nervy Fraud ON a BANK.

An impudent fraud was perpetrated
upon an English bank by one Of it's
customers, who opened an account with
some few hundreds of pounds. The
man, after a few weeks, drew two
checks. each within pound or so Of
his balance, and, selecting a busy day.
presented himself at one end of the
counter while an accomplice, when he
saw that his friends checks had been
cashed, Immediately presented his own
to a cashier at the other end. Both
cashiers referred the checks to the
ledger clerk. who, thinking the same
cashier had asked him twice. said
right to both checks. The thieves
were never caught.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

Putrefaction is probably not death,
but the contrarythe life that follows
death, or sort Of resurrection. The
laws Of conservation and of conversion
apply to vital as well as to inorganic
forces. Fermentation or putrefaction
is a vital process, reciprocally gener-
ated by and generating inconceivable
millions Of impalpable organisms,
which charge the atmosphere and are
everywhere at work, transmitting dead
organisms into elementary living ones
and why not passing on the vital ac-
tivity into higher forms?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
RAILWAYS OF CHINA.
They Are Few i'm Number and Mostly
Controlled by Foreigners.

They Are Few i'm Number and Mostly
Controlled by Foreigners.
China has few railways, the policy Of
foreign exclusion SO long in vogue hav-
ing prevented their construction. Most
Of the lines in existence are in the
region which is now the scene of mill
tary operations and of the depredations
Of the Boxers" A railway, eighty
miles long, belonging to an English
company, extends from the port of
Tien-Tsin north to Pekin. AT Fengtal,
FIVE miles south of Pekin on this line,
begins the Belgian "Lu Han" railway,
which extends southwest seventy
eight miles to Paotingfu, where the
Boxers" have been particularly &C
tive Both the English and the Bel
gian lines have been largely destroyed
by the rioters. From Tien-Tsin a rail-
way extends 2S7 miles eastward to
Chenchou, and there are branches ag-
gregating fifty miles. Altogether the
English system has 407 miles and the
Belgian Lightweight. 1t Is the former
that is to be ultimately connected with
Moukden, in the Russian sphere, where
it will connect with the Siberian rail-
way. About sixty miles of the Ameri-
can Hankan-Pekin line has been grad
ed, but work is now stopped.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

SUN DlALS OF ANCIENT TIMES
How the Flight of the Honrs Was In,
dictated to Children of the Desert.

How the Flight of the Honrs Was Tn
Dictated to Children of the Desert.
1t Is probable that the earliest sun
dial was simply the spear of some no.
mad chief stuck upright in the ground.
before his tent. Among those desert
wanderers, keen to observe their sur
roundings, it would not be a difficult
thing to notice the shadow shortened
as the sun rose higher in the sky and
that the shortened shadow alwaysi
pointed in the same direction. The
recognition would have followed very
soon that this monday shadow chang
eel In It's length from day to day. Al
six-foot spear would give shadow all
MONDAY in latitude 40 degrees oil
twelve feet at one time of the year and
of less than two feet at another time.
This instrument, so simple, so easily
carried, so easily set up, may well have
begun the scientific study of astron.
omy, for it lent itself to measurement
and science is measurement, and prob
ably we see it expressed in permanent
form in the obelisks Of Egyptian solar
temples, though these no doubt were
retained merely as solar emblems ages
after their use as actual instruments
Of observations had ceased. An I'D.
right stick, carefully plumbed, stand
ing on some level surface, may, there
fore, well make the first advance up.
on the natural horizon. A knob at the
top of the stick will be found to rem.
der the shadow more easily observed =,
Knowledge.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

That the number of killed and in
1ured on American railways in 1899
was greater than the entire British
casualties in the Boer war should sug-
gest that great deal more can be done
towards safeguarding life and limb in
this branch of transportation than has
been accomplished. The doubling of
tracks and adoption of the block signal
system should be expected Of every
railway company. Legislatures should
hasten these Improvements whenever
possible. The labor unions and others
who are working for the adoption of
the automatic coupler on all rolling
stock should not relax their efforts
Profit being the first consideration with
railroad managers. they must be kept
NO to the mark by constant watchful-
ness on the part OF those interested in
making the railway system safer for
themselves and the travelling public
As for the record of over 10000 per-
sons killed or injured by being run over
at crossings or while standing ON rail-
road tracks, this can be diminished by
abolishing grade crossings and by the
enforcement of laws and regulations
against trespassing on railway tracks.
We have too little regard for the sacred
ness Of human life. We need to copy
European methods in fencing the pub
lie off from railway lines. Until we do
this, the annual killing and manning
win continue.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

The Rajah of Matlan owns the larg-
est reliable diamond in the world. 1t
weighs 367 carats, and is shaped like an
egg, with a queer little denied hollow
marking the smaller end. Some notion
of the value of the stone can be formed
from the fact that when the King of
Borneo wished to add 1t to his treas
ures some years ago he offered In ex-
change for it $4,000 in cash, supple
mented by the gift of two "warships''
fully equipped, number Of cannon and
a large quantity of powder and shot.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
AMERICAN SOLDIER OF FoR71
He Organized the Chinese ARM
Gave 1t High Stand;n.

An American is entitled to the nv,
If credit 1t is-of recognizing 4
Chinese army upon basis approsa
ing it's present efficiency. Fredar'
Townsend Ward was a soldier Of :
tune and a native Of Massachusetts Il
1860, when the Tapping rebels VA
everywhere successful, Ward, WHOM,
26 years old, and had served in MI
French army, found himself in Shan,
hal. He organized a band commas
of men Of various nationalities, and +
fered to capture a city for f,9
price. The first achievement Of NJ,
small army was the capture of NJ
walled town Of Sungkiang, which vi
held by 10000 rebels. AS reward Il,
was made mandarin of the fourE
rank. Ward then cleared the counha
around Shanghai, being paid so mutS
cash after each victory he won. Afb5
a while he disappeared and was ne,
heard of when the natives attacked IL
city in large force, when Ward appes,s
ed at the head of three well-armed AM
well-drilled native regiments, who res
cued Shanghai. Thereafter he BEGAN.
one of the leading men in the defens
of Shanghai. He adopted the Chimes
nationality under the name of Hw,
married the daughter of wealthy mar
DARN and was made mandarin .
the highest grade and admiral gener
In the service of the Emperor. Gener
Ward died as the result Of a woun
received in directing an assault 0
Tsekie. The Chinese paid him tn
highest possible honors after his deaf
by burying him in the Confucian Gem,
terry at Ningpo. Wards successor
command Of the Chinese forces wa
Major Charles G. Gordon--'fC hinese
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

current that some writer has received
vast sums for his work. AS matter
Of fact, there is certain regular per-
centage which is all that ever reaches
even the most successful. When any
one who Is not entirely unknown, and
may even, perhaps, already have some
literary reputation, brings his man
uscript to publisher, the writer usual
ly is given an. advance ranging from
$1,000 to $4,000, the largest in recent
years having been given to an English
author within the past three months.
When the novel is finally published the
writer will receive Is per cent. of the
actual selling price of each copy, In
Guiding the advance money, which on a
book selling at $3.50 would amount to
221a cents for each copy sold. Let us
suppose that the author had received
$4,000 it would be necessary for the
publisher to sell about $4,000 copies be-
fore he got his money back, because 1t
costs him about $1.O5 to- put the book
on the market. Then for the next o.
600 issued he would make about 45
cents on each book, until the authors
total royalties had equaled the advance
copyright, at which point the publisher
would again be obliged to pay the
writer the 2213 cents for each of the
books sold.
1t will be readily seen from the above
figures that even the greatest selling
books do not make their authors and
publishers millionaires at one jump. OF
course, only very few and fortunate
Of the many writer's ever receive any
advance on their copyrights, as no pub
fishers are going to take the risk of
paying out money without feeling very
certain that they will eventually get it
back. Occasionally some well-written
story remains imprinted for long
time, but all publishing houses are Gag
erly keeping watch for novelties and
the possibility Of discovering new au-
thors Is ever in their thoughts; there
fore when one hears young writer's
complaining that they cannot get
hearing it is safe to surmise that their
wares are not of any value.-Philadel-
phia North American.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
Exports OF Scientific Tnstrumen,

The exports of scientific instruments
from the United States to foreign
countries during the past nine months
amounted to nearly $4,000, 600, being an
increase of 81 per cent over the CORE
spending period of the previous year
and larger per cent. increase than for
any other class Of exports. This is a
notable showing of the increasing ap-
probation which our scientific appa-
ratus is receiving abroad.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

A man in Dakota, just recovered from
q vicious snake bite, died upon being
stung by kissing bug. His physician,
an expert on bites, says that the sting
of the kissing bug is more dangerous
than the bite of rattlesnake. Look
out, girls!
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
Coinage Of Gold piecas

The United States never coined gold
pieces of higher denomination than
$50. Some years ago jeweler at San
Francisco struck gold pieces of the
value of $50, but that was IN private
account.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

1t is not so many years since the OBJ
renovitches, the royal family of Ser
via, tended swine. At their present
gait it will not be many years before
they are back at their ancient and con-
genial occupation. Not even the sup
port of Russia can much longer sus-
tain the dead beats who are now suck
ing the lifeblood of the Servian people.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

One of the diversions Of the society
element at Newport is to give Goldfish
ing parties and to eat the catch. 1t is
to be hoped that something else is pro-
vided for luncheon against the not I'M
usual feature Of the fish failing to bite.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

SQUIRRELS nv Thnnsanda

Colorado has sold sixty acres of tim
Der near Devils Head Mountain, where
1t is estimated there are 10000 gray
squirrels, which have lived and multi
piled there for years, protected by pub
lie sentiment. The squirrels will be
eyicted by the woodcutters.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

An unfortunate characteristic OF d
SRI Is that II two girls have been faith
full friends for fifteen years, a young
man they have known but ten days can
make trouble between them.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

A Tennessee man with seven wives Is
in Jail. That's about the only place
where man with seven wives would
feel reasonably safe.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

The experiment in coeducation be-
gun by Brown University in 1890 is
proceeding with entire satisfaction to
the women. In 1900 there are 152 wo-
men students who carried off 36 de-
grees out Of 176. There were several
women among the prize winners. The
Gaspar historical prize was won by a
Providence girl, while a premium for
excellence in mathematics went to an
other. The Greek prize was tied be-
tween a man and a woman. The story
is repeated at all commandments
where women are allowed to compete
on equal terms with men. 1t upsets
some old-fashioned prejudices and no.
lions, but there seems to be no help for
it. Women have forced their way to
the front in education and there seems
to be no prospect of persuading them
to be content with less conspicuous
and honorable place.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
Working Chiltiren.

In Coburg- Gotha there are 5,455 chill
dren under ia years Of age employed at
their homes in making buttons, dolls
and toys for the factories. They work
from four to six hours day.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

Only an ignorant man would ever be-
ueye that the letters ID. A. r., are the
first syllable of the name ''Darters of
the Revolution"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

Somebody writes to an exchange:
please explain the uses of the blue,
red and black pencils as used In news
paper work" Apparently the inquirer
As a graduate of one of the colleges or
Journalism.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

In an article in the Homiletic Review
Joseph Parker draws the line sharply
between the preacher and the essayist
who reads his pulpit address. Accord
ing to the London clergyman the effec-
Hiye preacher is not the one who deliv.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

1t seems to be mans duty to keen
the wolf from his own door, and his
wife's to scare OF the wolf in front of
her church.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

Count Won Zeppelin has invented an
adrship which will fly. AS 1t is 4OO
feet long and will bear the weight OF
only FIVE passengers the railway lines
lire not preparing to quit business just
yet.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

After q man passes fifty, he is Sec
ond-handed as surely as an old wagon
that the owner is willing to sell at less
than half its original value.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

Giving a girl musical education
often means only that she has an addi-
tional place to loaf-a music store
where she tries" new pieces.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
POOR PicklNas OF AUTHORS.
Cash Comes in Most Cases After Pub
Usher Gets 1t i'm Hand.

Usher Gets 1t i'm Hand.
In brief chat with one OF our lead
Ing booksellers the other day it was
very curious to hear him speak in a
purely commercial way of books which
we have all read and enjoyed, discuss
Ing the sales Of this or that volume in
the same way that a wholesale grocer
or commission merchant would discuss
barrels of -four or bags OF potatoes.
Every now and then 4 rumor becomes
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

1t is sign that man Is growing old
when he begins to read the death no
tees. regularly in the papers.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

Vertical writing may be only fad,
as the New York school directors say,
but it is plain mad legible and easily
learned, and the other style of writing
generally isn't.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02
Expatriation.

1t Is said that large number of
wealthy Americans are thinking Of set
ting permanently in Great Britain.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

Discussing the warfare of the future,
Electrical Expert Nikola Tesla declares
his belief that it will become far less
bloody than at the present time. The
future will see war machines, he says,
manned by only few men, causing
but small loss of life, and in the end
machines guided by outside power will
do the fighting. Tesla says he is also
working for the increase Of human
energy. He claims to see in great
armies a woeful waste of that energy
and he claims for this nation an adj
vantage in it's limited standing army
consequent upon which is vast added
energy or velocity" as he describes
mobility.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

The only impression an elocutionist
makes on her hearers after all her train
Ing, Is that she has q remarkable men,
01.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

To anxious inquirer would say that
the kissing bug is not related In any
way to the old and familiar kissing bee.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

We see nothing strange about the
wall paper trust going to the wall.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

Troubles and thunder clouds usually
seem very black in the distance. bnt
grow lighter as they approach.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

A night latch is like q tombstone
when It - put up for late husband.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-02

A domestic broil Is not very satis.
fact0ry thing for dinner.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-07
MThings as They Are.o

Small. Maynard & Co. Boston.
A better title for this little book would
have been Things as They Are Not" or
Things as They Seem to Bolton Hall. :"
Mr. George K. Heron. of the department
Of applied Christianity of the University
of Iowa, in an introduction, says: 1.-THE
spiritual philosophy of the kingdom Of
heaven is profoundly and simply pre-
scented In Things as They Are The
roots of social wrong and the principles Of
social right are viyidly shown by para
bles. The intellectual and moral entan-
clements which result from attachment
to vested interests, the pueri1ity Of much
that is called science, the pitiable little
ness of professional religion, are set forth
with what might be called a merciless
sweetness of spirit" Just what 'merci-
less sweetness" may stand for Is little
obscure.
There are chapters on "a Counsel of
Perfection "a Search for Contentment,
"Our Triplex Nature. y 1.-THE Law in Our
Selves" ''The worlds Pain" 1.-THE Deliv-
erance From Bondage 'The Land Cues
tion,'' Making for Righteousness" The
End OF Desire" There are also fifty
fables.
In the chapter on ''The Land Question"
Mr.. Hall uses this example: There are
two cities. One is disorderly, poor and
ignorant, supporting only gin mills, gam
bling hells, jail and poorhouse. The
other is model city In every way. Now"
he asks, (which of these two cities would
be the most desirable In which to live?
he replies. ''the better
town. Then he adds: For whom, then,
are the good government club, the pastor,
the educator and the public-spirited citi-
zen of that town mainly working? Is 1t
not for those who get the enhanced
prices for the land and who collect the en-
HANGED rents?"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-07

tieth Century Handy Cyclopedia Brian
MICA, compiled by Alfred B. Chambers
The subjects include history and dates
down to the present year; geography and
biography carefully revised, all the lead
ing facts, theories and discoveries in med
icine, chemistry, physics, botany, zoology,
astronomy. meteorology. ETC., etc. Moth
Ing of interest to the present generation
has been neglected. and even law and
business have received their share of the
authors attention. A number Of engrav-
ed portraits, half-tone maps and other IL
Illustrations render this volume, In It's
handsome and durable binding, as at
tractive to the eye as 1t will prove profit
able to the intellect.