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

Betting on the results of elections
in New South Wales is prohibited by
law under penalty of a fine Of not less
| than $25 nor more than $3.50.
Southern Minnesota has had the
warmest April, with one exception, it
has known for thirty-five years. AS a
result vegetation is about three weeks
in advance of the usual season.
A dog belonging to the Royal Eng
| lish Engineers found his way up to
Modder river from Cape Town, a dis
lance of 623 miles, and appeared most
unexpectedly among the men of his
company.
The total amount of money coined
by all Queen Victorias predecessors
on the throne was $1O15, 100000.
, During the present reign the mint has
turned out $2,25O,O0O,OOO, including
| $3.50, 000 900 in India.
The Russian government has decreed
that no Jews may live in Russia within
forty kilometers of the Prussian or
Austrian border, on the ground that
they and the Russian officials are en-
gagged in smuggling.
The highest court of appeals in Great
Britain has sustained the decision that
a circulating library can be held
pecuniarily responsible for libelous
statements contained in any of the
volumes which it circulates.
For the first time in the history Of
the national census there will be an
enumeration this year of animals en-
ployed in cities and towns. Heretofore
the live stock census has been confined
exclusively to farm animals
A New York women has chosen as
her profession that of professional
packer for women who are about to
move and who are willing ana able to
pay for the advantage and comfort Of
having nothing to bother about.
The two leading agricultural Sc
| cieties of Great Britain-the Royal
Agricultural and the Highland Agri-
| oultural-have amalgamated. They
will establish a national examination
| booA " dl10 Will duG p1lLGS duu I'll
plomas to farmers after examination.
Boston's registrar of births and
marriages recently refused to grant a
marriage license to an ill-assorted
couple who had applied to him. The
prospective bride was "A years old and
had $4,000 in her own name, while the
would-be groom, 80 years Of age, was
practically penniless.
M Gerome, the French sculptor, has
| been commissioned by the Sabretache,
a French military and historical club,
to design a monument to be placed on
the field of Waterloo at the spot where
the last squares of the French army
/ fell under Napoleon. 1t will be the
first French monument on the field.
An Iowa young man not long ago
proposed marriage to young women
| but hearing that her hair was false he
declined to fulfill the engagement. She
brought suit against him for breach OF
promise, but she was non-suited on the
on the ground that she had won the
young mans affection under false
pretenses.
There were 2,431 train accidents in
the United States in 1899, against 2,22S
in 1898 The killing numbered $50 and
the injured 2,061 This exceeds the
total killed and wounded in the
Philippines during the eighteen months
ended Dec. 81, 1899, the excess in killed
being "A per cent and in wounded II
per cent.
One of the latest fads in New York is
the substitution of old-fashioned
knockers for door bells. The older and
more battered the higher the price it
commands, and enterprising dealers
are already manufacturing antiquities
of this kind out of iron and brass. A
battered brass knocker can be made in
few hours, but it takes longer to turn
out rusty iron specimens.
The seven days beginning with Aug.
6 have been selected for the celebration
of ''Old Home week" in Maine and dur
ing that time the people of the pine
tree state will welcome with great
cordiality and many festivities all the
absent sons who may find it convenient