Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-06-25
CHRONICLES.

An interesting exhibit prepared for
the Paris exposition is complete set
Of bed-hangings manufactured in Mad
agascar from silk procured from the
halabe, an enormous spider found in
certain districts of the island. This
exhibit seems to indicate that there is
a future for silk manufactured from
SPIDERS web. The matter has received
the attention of Mr.. Nogue, head of the
Antananamivo Technical school, VINO
has already achieved wonderful results.
Each spider yields from 300 to 4O0
yard of silk, which can be taken from
the animal every ten days, it being set
free in the interval The silk OF these
spiders is stated to be finer than that
of the silkwOrm and of an extraOrdln-
airy golden color. 1t is extremely te-
slightest difficulty.
There will be no commemoration at
Oxford university, England, this month
on account of the war, but there will be
an American day." on which series
of honorary degrees will be conferred
DIT d SDOCld1 IuOCIA1AEo I'll CAO NOA FON%SAOAAs
The list will include the presentation
of degree of doctor of civil law to
Charles Eliot Norton Of Harvard, doc
tor of divinity to Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix
and doctor of science to Prof. Mark
Baldwin of Princeton. The last degree
is remarkable, since psychology has
never before had scientific recogni7
ton of this kind in an English univer-
sity.
The little town of Macy, Ind, is in
state of excitement because a man
named Andrew Oliver has secured a IL
cense to open a saloon there. For thir-
ty years the place has been without a
saloon, though hundreds of attempts
have been made to start such places.
Recently oliver advertised in the usual
way, but put his notice in a paper pub
lished sixty miles away in the most re-
mote part of the county. 1t escaped
the observation of Macy people and the
county commissioners, finding no OPP
position, granted his application.
1t came out in the New York courts
the other day, where the will of the
late Robert Bonner is being contested,
on the allegation that he was mentally
incompetent to make will on the day
the document appears to have been
drawn up, that on the same day as that
on which the will is dated Mr.. Bonner
drove one of his favorite trotters at
less than a three-minute gait. The
point was made that no man could do
that whose mental faculties were I'M
balanced and it was not seriously dis
puted.
British statisticians are reckoning up
what Great Britain owes to the scourge
of influenza. There have been two
serious epidemics of influenza there IN
the past ten years, one in the winter OF
1892, when the amount OF property
paying death duties advanced $l5O,-
100000 above the average, and again in
the past winter, when the increase was
about $140,000000 over the previous
year. The fact that influenza was al
most the sole cause of the increase is
shown in elaborate statistical tables.
Very few people are aware that IN the
last twenty years the number of fish in
the great lakes has been decreasing
rapidly. 1t is fact that as compared
with ten years ago it requires practical
ly double the number of men, boats and
nets to catch the same number of fish.
The government has for twenty years
maintained large number of stations
along the lakes where fish have been
propagated in enormous numbers, but