Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-06-28
CHRONICLES.

| An interesting exhibit prepared for
the Paris exposition is a 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
future for silk manufactured from
| spiders web The matter has received
! the attention of Mr. Nogue, head of the
Antananamivo Technical school, wh1
has already achieved wonderful results
| Each spider yields from 800 to 400
yard of silk, which can be taken from
the animal every ten days, 1t being set
free in the interval. The silk of these
spiders is stated to be finer than that
of the silkworm and of an extraordin-
airy golden color. 1t is extremely te-
nacious and can be woven without the
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 a series
of honorary degrees will be conferred
az q oPNAldi llNtlilE vi bil1 IOuf OIdllpii,
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 recogni-
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sity.
The little town Of Macy, Ind, is in a
state Of excitement because man
named Andrew Oliver has secured a IL
cense to open a saloon there. For thir-
ty years the place has been without
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. II escaped
the observation Of Macy people and the
county commissioners, finding no OPP
position. granted his application.
It 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 a 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 un-
balanced and IL was not seriously dis
puted
British statisticians are reckoning no
what Great Britain owes to the scourge
OF influenza. There have been two
serious epidemics OF influenza there 10.
the past ten years, one in the winter Of
1892. when the amount Of property
paying death duties advanced $3.50.
100000 above the average. and again In
the past winter. when the increase was
about $4,000. 900 over the previous
year. The fact that influenza was al
moSl the sole cause Of the increase liz
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. II is a 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