Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-02
STARBEAMa.

Emerson: rhe reward of thing
we'll done is to have done il.
1t is when charity begins at home it
covers a multitude of sins.
The Manchester, England, grave
diggers are asking for more wages.
The man who doesn't wish to getleft
must look out for his rights.
Your true gossip is the woman who
oeheves the story she invents.
some men never act foolish because
some men never act naturally,
Ohess players are not the only ones
VINO move every three months.
sessions tax collector reports $685.
Az OF old and unbelievable accounts.
Ihe latest trust reported is that OF
the American steal workers of Cuba
The fire alarm boxes in New York
are being coated with luminous paint
In order that they may be easuy loeat-
ed at night. rhe paint is made Of
white zinc, In some parts of New
York, where there is little light. the
alarm boxes can be distinguished at a
distance of ten blocks.
The Lake Charles, La, Press saws.
"Balmy gulf breezes ladened the air
with the sweet odor of flow-rets
choicest scents, and the silv'ry moon
shed its effulgent light among the bud
ding boughs of springs virgin foliage
and cast fantastic shadows upon
natures carpet of green" That
editor, says The Denver Post man,
must spike his drinks with the altar OF
roses and eat angel food for his noon
day lunch.
Mexico is considering the advis-
ability of adopting standard system
of reckoning time. At present Mexico
has an official time, computed at the
capital and telegraphed to various
parts of the republic. That time dif-
fers from Greenwich six and one-half
hours. 1t is the time adopted by the
railroads and telegraph lines, but in
many parts of Mexico, especially in
places not in Geographic communica-
ton with the rest of the world, local
time prevails.
The English death duties are proving
a great hardship on the new Duke of
Argyle. He has just issued in Gaelic a
manifesto to his tenants who are in
arrears for rent begging them to pay
up, and calling their attention to the
fact that he himself had large sum
of money to pay the government on the
occasion of succeeding to his father
title, and adding that for many years
to come he will have no benefit from
the rents of the estate.
Capt Francis Martin of Detroit, the
oldest American naval officer alive,
has just celebrated his one hundredth
birthday. He was second lieutenant
six years before Admiral Dewey was
born. He entered the government
service in 1881 and has been in it evec
since, getting his first commission
from Andrew Jackson. A month
before attending his majority he
witnessed the funeral of Napoleon
Bonaparte, the vessel on which he was
serving having put into st. Helena for
water.
John Glenn of Urbana, O., died the
other day after having made a record
for eccentric VOWS. Because his father
bought what he thought was a better
suit for his brother than for him, he
vowed that he would not wear a coat
for twenty years. Another time he
took offense at some trifling thing and
vowed he would not leave his house
for twenty years, and for twenty years
he was voluntary prisoner. Except
for few eccentricities like these he
was said to have been quite sane.
In a communication made to the
Societe photographic by NJ. Verrier,
the question of the origin of the Beers
has been considered. 1t appears that
in 1862 Van Biebeck was sent by the
Dutch East India company to found a
supply station at The Cape, which then
changed its name from the Cape Of
Tempests to that of Cape OF Good
Hope. In 1850 there were at the Cape
500 whites of Dutch origin. When, in
1885, Louis XIV revoked the edict OF
Nantes, 300 French families demanded
the hospitality of the East India com
Pahy bhCy Wpit Wcil itttlNtu ny lnS
colonists and supplied with land and
stock. They became incorporated into
the colony and the Dutch language
was employed exclusively. The
present Beers are descendants OF this
colony. spreading over the territory Of
the Cape, Natal, Orange Free State and
Transvaal.