Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-05-02
Indies and Of Central America to the

district north of Montreal. A New
York syndicate proposes to spend
S4,OOO,000 or $5,0OO,O0O on the project,
having acquired from the provincial
government the necessary rights. The
largest pulp mill in the world will be
established on the Upper Saguenay.
amount of about $S,000,000 a year.
That is the exporting, not the retail
value. The island of Jamaica alone is
sending to this country over 100000
punches year, which means 81 $780,
900 to the producers and shippers of
the colony. The contributions of the
| tens of millions OF lunches which this
country consumes annually come from
Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Mex
leo, Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica and
| San Domingo
The Rochester Railway company
has decided to equip it's cars with
fixed individual straps for the benefit
of standing pa tsengers. The almost
universal custom is to arrange the
straps on a horizontal pole. 1t is ar
gued that with fixed strap one pas
4 D.
that the straps cannot become punched
and that the regular distribution of
the straps at fixed intervals tends to
distribute the crowd throughout the
car. In Rochester the straps are hung
about eighteen inches apart
A Connecticut journal accepts with
becoming gratitude what was meant
to be complimentary allusion to it.
self by state contemporary, which
spoke of one of it's editorials" as
wonderfully fair" but it somewhat
plaintively adds: I'VE have no desire
or ambition to be anything but fair
and would prefer to have our contem-
porary do it's wondering when it
thinks this journal unfair"
Peter Evans of Auburn, Ind, was
recently arrested on a charge Of
drunkenness for the one hundred and
siXty-ninth time. In all but forty
cases he was sent to Jail ito sober up"
On the other occasions he was given
Jail sentences. He has cost the coun-
ty nearly $500 and altogether has
spent 1,429 days in prison. Evans at
one time was worth about $4,000, but
has lost it all through drink,
An Arkansas planter is making ar
rangements to start kangaroo ranch.
The hides are valuable and the ten
! dons much more so. The latter can
be split extremely fine and are the
best thing known to surgeons for sew
/ ing up wounds, and especially for
holding broken bones together, being
much finer and tougher than catgut.
The great brood of the seventeen
years locust, according to Professor
P. R. Uhler, provost of the Peabody in
stitute, Baltimore, will reappear next
year in most parts of Maryland north
of the Patuxent river. Great swarms
of this species may be expected in
1902 between the latter part of May
and the early part of July.
| The historic plains of Abraham,
near Montreal, have been appraised
by an expert in the pay of the domin-
ion government. He declares the land
to be worth $137000 as real estate
| The Ursuline nuns, who own the land,
offer to sell for 100000 if the govern
ment will give them another piece of
property worth $4,000.
The heaviest man in America, if not
| in the world, is Lee Trickey of Glen
wood, Wis, who tips the beam at $50
pounds. A few years ago he weighed
710, but has fallen away to the former
| figure. Trickery follows the occupa-
ton of teamster for a living, having
125-pound wife to support. He is
| light eater
The discovery of coal in the Klon-
dixie has brought forth an order from
Ottawa that royalty must be paid
on coal, just as on gold. This order
was recently received at Dawson and
caused general protest, as consum-
ers say the price of fuel is already
sufficiently high without the addition
of royalty.
A Montreal reporter described Rud-
yard Kipling as 'red-haired, squint-
eyed little pomposity." An English
commentator says the description is
accurate in every respect, with the fol.
lowing reservations: First, Mr. Kip
| ling is not red-haired; second, he does
not squint; third, he is not pompous.
One of the special bicycles built for
the use of the British troops in south
Africa, which went through the cam
paign with General Ian Hamilton's
column, was recently exhibited in Lon
don, where it's excellent condition, con-
sidering the knocking about it had re-
ceived, excited general comment.
1t is noted that at the celebration
of the Lords supper at one of the
Presbyterian churches in Washing
ton the elements were passed by two
admirals of the navy, a general of
the army, two justices of the supreme
court and a former secretary of state.
Pierre Lorillard is having built on
the Hudson the most luxuriously
equipped houseboat Of its kind. 1t
will not have to dep0ld on lows for
its movements, as it is equipped with
| twin screws and can go where its
| owner pleases.
| There is great dearth of farm labor
ers in England. The farmers are
themselves to blame chiefly, as by re-
ducing the laborers' wages and cutting
off former privileges they have driven