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

Many interesting papers make Tegu-
lar appearance on board great liners,
some being triumphs of artistic produc
ton. Many of these journals are print
ed and cleverly illustrated others, less
ambitious, are reproduced by copying
machines, but all are interesting epit-
ONES of the life spent on board and
record the daily cricket scores sweep
stakes and personal gossip, while ig-
noring such trivialties as European
complications.
The erection by the state of Maryland
of monument on the battlefield of An
tietam to commemorate the valor of the
union and confederate soldiers alike
has a precedent in the monument
which the people of Canada some years
ago erected in the public garden at
Quebec to the memory of Wolfe and
Montcalm, enemies in the strife on the
Plains of Abraham which destroyed the
power of France in the new world.
A CHASTITY relic of the late Spanish
American war is on exhibition behind
the bar of saloon on Front street,
Philadelphia. 1t is mass of silver
Spanish dollars, numbering some 500,
which have been melted in fantastic
shape. The silver was found on the
body of half-roasted sailor on the
Spanish warship Maria Theresa just at
ter the battle of Santiago, when Ger
veras fleet was annihilated.
st. Joseph county, Indiana, which for
many years was far behind the demand
- ha,
now on hand over $4,000 with no de-
mand. This means loss to the school
fund, and it is suggested that a law
ought to be framed, permitting school
funds to be loaned at less than per
cent, rather than have the money bear
ing no interest
During the nine months ending with
March, Mexico purchased about $780,
900 worth Of boots and shoes in the
United States. In the City of Mexico
and in many other large cities of the
republic American boots and shoes are
preferred to any other makes,
but, in spite of this fact, imports from
France and Germany continue to be
considerable
The Chinese consul at New York,
Chow Tx Chi, does not agree with the
majority of his countrymen in the
United States in their condemnation Of
the dress of American women, but he
says, prefers that dress to the costumes
of his native country. He thinks that
Chinese women wear too short skirts.
for he likes the long skirts those that
the women have to hold up
Borden college, Indiana, which Pro-
lessor w. w. Borden opened seven
years ago, and has since maintained,
will be closed at the end of the present
scholastic year and will be changed in
to a museum for Professor Borden's
collection of geological, archaeological
and historical specimens, one of the fin
est and most famous collections in the
world
English death duties were nearly
SIS, 100000 larger in the governments
fiscal year ending March 81 than in the
previous year. Almost the whole OF
this tremendous increase was made in
the last quarter of the year and it has
been attributed to the fatal effect of in
fluenza among elderly people.
that nearly every enumerator in New
York wants an Italian interpreter with
him. Seven new Italian interpreters
were sworn in today. 1t was known
that there was large Italian popula-
ton in this city, but not till now was it
realized how widespread it was.
Ontario's government has completed
arrangements for the formation of a
forest reserve of almost 5000 square
miles in extent. embracing the district
in which Lakes Tamagami and Lady
Evelyn are situated. The bulk of the
reserve is virgin forest with the finest
white pine in Canada upon it.
But for the severity of Siberia's eli
mate great deal more gold would be
mined there. AS it is, about one-tenth
of the world supply comes from there.
The immense coal deposits have hardly
been touched One mine, with six beds,
contains as much coal as all the de-
posts in England.
The city of Stockton, Cal, will re-
ceive on the Fourth of July the famous
old guns used by Commodore Stockton
in the conquest Of California. The
guns are now on Mare Island, and Sec
rotary Long last week signed an order
for their transfer to the city named af-
ter the commodore
Department stores in St. Paul and )
Minneapolis provide bicycle stands,
with boy in attendance who checks
wheels free, whether the rider intends
to visit that particular store or nor.
Indeed a bicycle may be so housed all
day.
At the New York aquarium the water
is maintained at different tempera-
lures West Indian seals require heat
ed water, even in summer OF twelve
secured for the aquarium on the coast
of Yucatan only one survives.
Baron Won Cohn, the court banker of
Emperor William I, died recently in
Berlin, leaving no will. His fortune
amounts to 46,000,000 marks, or SILL
500 000 and goes tO his only dauohfor