Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

What Is really needed is breed of
automobiles that won't scare at the
cars or run off when they meet horse.
Mr.. Rockefeller says that the chief
thing is to work, but not everybody
can work the entire oil trade of the
country.
| There is law in Munich, Germany,
forbidding passionate kisses and en-
braces on the stage An actor was
lately fined for violating it, although
he simply obeyed the authors direc-
| tons.
The sultan has been twenty five
years on the throne of Turkey, and
| no doubt he looks back with regret to
many opportunities he has over looked
for owing money.
The Washington young woman who
married in order to secure a trip to
the Paris Exposition had a delightful
time abroad and is now ready for di-
vorce, application for which has been
duly filed in the proper court.
The society reporters of Europe are
not doing their duty. 1t has been sey-
eral weeks since they announced that
| Hollands pretty little queen was en-
gagged.
| The Park Board Of Cincinnati, in
1872, paid $500 for consignment OF
| English sparrows. They would give
double the sum now to get rid of them.
| How the late r. L. Stevenson, peace
| to his ashes, would have delighted in
| that story of the Chicago bank presi-
dent who received the head of his de-
| tective in a parcel by express. What
| an addition to the New Arabian
| Nights it would have made!
Every time miSer dies and leaves q
| fortune to be stolen or quarreled over,
| it becomes obvious that the miser neg
| lected a royal good time and that
strangers had it on his account. With
| half million in the bank there is real
| ly no excuse for neglecting ones meals.
| Insurance for bathers is the newest
| enterprise in the insurance line in Eng
land. The company which devised the
scheme is placing penny-in-the-slot
| machines along the beach at all popu-
| lar watering places. Upon dropping
| in copper the bather receives a. life
insurance policy good for twenty-four
| hours.
There are now thirteen cable lines
| across the Atlantic in successful oper
| alton. vet the charge for sending mes
| sages remains what it has been fol
| twenty years or more-tWenty-tve
| cents word for commercial messages
| and ten cents a word for press dis
patches.
Chicago spends more money fol
! park and boulevard construction ano
| maintenance than any other city III
the country. In the matter Of expendi-
| ture for fire protection fourteen of the
leading cities of the United States sur
| pass her. and five cities spend more
| money for street cleaning than does
| the western metropolis.
| Chinese historians estimate the
| population of their country, in the
| wear I'll A. D., at only 5O,OOO,OOO. Ii
| 1880 the accepted figure was 65,OOO,-
600; in 1892 it was 100000. The
| present population is probably between
37O,OOOOOO and 4OO,00O,OOO.
| The latest official report on lunacy
in Ireland shows that mental dis
orders are still increasing there. The
| aggregate number of patients in the
| hospitals for mental diseases is the
| highest on record. whereas the estl
| mated population is the lowest in re
cent years. The average number o.
| the insane per IOU,UoO VI Tie PoPn"
| ton has increased from $50 in 1881
| to 400 in 1899. Of the deaths in hos
pitfalls for the insane, consumption il
returned as the cause in 28.4 per cent
1t took long time, but France has
finally been just to herself. The Gov
| eminent has restored Colonel Pic
quart to his rank in the army. OF al
| the army officers this man showed
himself the most courageous. He fol
lowed the lead of his conscience
through all despite humiliation
At last the Republic proved itsel
strong enough to follow Colonel Pic
quarts example.
Florida, according to local papers, i
becoming one of the great Tobacco
growing States, and the product ha
been pronounced in some respect