Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-11-04
eLEANINes AND GOSSIP

New Zealand pursues the policy Of
buying large estates from proprietors
and cutting them up into holdings for
men of small means
President and Mrs. Roosevelt will
attend different churches in Washing
ton, it is said, he the Dutch Reformed
church and she st. Johns Episcopal
church
A. S. Leckie, 20 years a Chicago
newspaper man, has resigned his po-
sition and will take the editorial man
agement of the Rockford Register-Ga-
zette, one of the leading country pa
pers of Illinois.
England holds the record for the
longest railway (regular) run without
stop. This is Paddington to Exeter
-194 miles. France comes next, with
Paris to Calais-1851h miles. Ameri-
cas- longest is New York to Troy-148
miles.
Benjamin Russell Handy, author OF
the famous ballad, Darling Nellie
Gray is buried at Westerville, O., IL
miles from Columbus. Thousands are
familiar with the ballad, but few knew
much of it's author or where he was
buried.
John T. Stewart is probably the
richest man in Kansas, his wealth be-
ing estimated at nearly $2,00O,0O0. He
owns 100. quarter sections in Summer
county, where he lives, and his rent
ais are said to be $4,000 this year
Twenty years ago he was an office boy
in Wichita.
A st. Louis man died of appendicitis
and an autopsy showed that all of his
organs which normally should have
been on his right side We're on his
left side, and vice versa. 1t as the
unusual location of the appendix that
misled the physician and made the
case fatal
A Missouri state university student
was enticed into the woods, stripped
and dashed with whips, his hair
cropped and his clothes hidden, after
which he was deserted by his tor
mentors. 1t was all right, however,
| for he was being initiated into
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| A Michigan woman made balloon
ascension in an Illinois town the other
day in spite of her own knowledge
that high wind made it dangerous.
The crowd cried 'Fake!' She got
mad and would go anyway. The next
day the collapsed balloon was found.
but the woman is still missing.
| The Kansas supreme court says
that all places where intoxicating
liquors are sold or kept for sale are
declared by statute to be common nui-
sances. This fact, however, does not
justify their abatement by any person
or persons without process Of law.
Evidently this is blow to Carrie Ma
ton.
The French military authorities are
to protect their carrier pigeons
against hawks. The apparatus con-
sists of very tiny whistle and screw
attached to the pigeon, whose flight
| causes the screw to revolve and blow
the whistle. The noise scares away
the enemy
The plan to stock the woods of
Maine with elk from Wyoming or
some of the western states has caused
no little amount Of interest among
Maine guides and hunters, and among
sportsmen generally 1t is probable
that the plan will eliminate in bill
which will be brought before the next
session of the legislature.
''Why, pa, this is roast beef" ex-
claimed little Willie at dinner on the
evening when Mr.. Chumpleigh was
present as the guest of honor. "Of
course" said the father. What of
that?" why, you told ma this morn
ing that you were going to bring a
mutton head home for dinner this
evening. Philadelphia Press.