Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-12-03
CHRONICLES.
items of Interest from Sources Far
and Near.

"A a
exposition thinks its failure to realize
expectations was due to two things.
1t was not sufficiently localized and it's
magnificent distances made people
weary. The other trouble was disap-
pointment with what had been an
nounced as some of the biggest fea-
lures, like the telescope that was to
Bring the image of the moon within a
few miles The visitor says the show
resolved itself into Sunday after
noon parade.
A firm in Lyons, France, takes adj
vantage of the shortening of cotton
by caustic potash to produce in silk
webs certain peculiar and very rich
embossed effects. The silken webs
have cotton threads at fixed distances,
which, when the chemical solution is
applied, shrink, while the silk, keeping
its original length, is gathered in tiny
folds. In this way the most diVersi-
fed patterns are produced.
Devotees of golf are fond of refer
ring to it as "the ancient and royal
game" It is probably more royal
and certainly far more ancient than
most of them have any idea of. At all
events pictured tablet was recently
unearthed at Carchemish, the old CAPT
tai of the Hittites, whereon are de-
picted men and women engaged in a
pastime, which, if not exactly golf as
played at present, is something ex-
traOrdinaryily like it.
A new federation is in prospect. 1t
is rumored that following upon the
formation of the Austrian common
wealth the long-talked-of federation of
the British West Indies is to become
an accomplished fact. The imperial
government is credited with the inten-
ton of welding the whole of the Lee
and Windward islands into one confed-
eration, with Barbados as the seat
of government.
TWO Of the old cannon which the
English took from the French in las
and threw into the harbor of Louis
bourg have been brought to Toronto.
They are among a number recently
assaed ont of Louisbourg habor and
have been purchased by the govern
ment- The cannon have been lying at
the bottom of the sea for $50 years.
Each canon is about nine feet long and
weighs over 5000 pounds.
New Zealand seems to be prosperous.
The revenue for the year shows a
record surplus equal to more than So
500 00e over expenditure. The public
debt of the colony stands at &47,-
G00, 900 ($22S,715,0 OO) and the finan-
cial statement proposes that parlia-
ment should authorize another 91,-
600, 900 (S4,866, 000) loan to be expend-
ed chiefly in the extension of railways
The loan will no doubt be authorized
News comes from Danish West
Indies that a species of grasshopper,
hitherto unknown in the island, has
made its appearance in st. Croix and
the planters complain of the damage
done to the canes. 1t is feared it is
similar to that which made its appear
ances some time ago in Cuba and was
supposed to have been brought over in
hay imported from the United States.
Microbe light is the latest Paris
invention. A French chemist, Raphael
Dubois, has found a way of nourish-
ing phosphorescent animalcules in
glass vessels, which soon emit a light
about as bright as the moon He ex-
poets to increase it's intensity and be-
Heves that its being entirely free from
heat will give it a scientific value.
The number of disconnected Turks
must be enormous. Forty-eight thous-
and have been exiled during the last
eleven years. To these must be added
those who have fed and those who are
related to the exiles. During the last
five years more than s4,S8S, 900 has
been spent by the sultan in trying to
persuade the fugitives to return.
The photographers of this country
and Europe would be in sore straits
were is not for the invention of
aluminium, for the Bavarian stone,
which was used exclusively until a few
yeArs ago for lithographing purposes,
has lately shown that deterioration in
quality which is the surest indication
Of an exhaustion of the supply.
Train robberies have become so fire.
ousnt in the west that one railroad,
she Oregon Railroad and Navigation
company. regards an investment in
bISs0dhounds advisable. & litter OF the
puppies has been distributed among
the agents along the line, with instrue-
lions to rear them for the sole purpose
of man-catching.