Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-12-05
GLEANlNGS AND GOSSIP.


adopted for the settlement of football
championships, it would decrease the
national deathrate.
Horace Brooks Marshall one Of the
new sheriffs of London, is said to be
the youngest man who has ever at
tanned to such a position. He is 81.
In the west the rural delivery mail
box is fast coming to rival the rail-
road switch target as a mark for
every foolish owner of a fierarm to
shoot at.
A Henry county (Mo.) justice of
the peace offers to marry any couple
for 81 and gives the contracting
parties an opportunity Of working
out the costs.
A prisoner. escaped from sleeping
sheriff on a Wisconsin Central train
the other day, and the conductor
awakened the officer to tell him what
had happened.
A Milwaukee woman recently
opened a saloon as rival to her hus-
bands. and got much of his trade
AS if that were not enough, now she
is suing him for divorce.
Senator Hoar makes a practice of
deyoting three hours every day to
reading, and no matter where he may
be he has never neglected this for the
past 20 years.
A country correspondent in the
Pratt (Kan) Republican sends this
song of gratitude: The recent rains
have improved the butter immensely,
for which, thanks' to God"
What sort of an eagle is that, any
way, which flaps it's wings over the re-
publican column on the Australian
ballot, asks an exchange. Did you
ever see bird build anything like it?
A dispatch from The Hague says
the Dutch wooden shoe makers have
just purchased immense quantities of
Russian timber, and that the demand
for wooden shoes is on the increase.
The time of year is approaching
when every mayor and governor in
the country will witness their hands
and seal to oratorical Thanksgiving
day Observation-Disclosures City Star.
The Geographer Balbi enumerated
$50 distinct languages and 500 dia-
lects. Another modern writer on
this subject reckons up 3,640 lang
uages and dialects existing and which
have existed.
Fifteen handcuffed convicts on their
way from st. Joseph to the Missouri
penitentiary gave this yell each time
the train stopped: "Two-years, FIVE
years. we-will-stay; didn't like st.
Joe anyway"
The prize of $4,000 for the best
suggestion as to means for preventing
collisions at sea was not awarded this
year, the commission at Havre having
decided that none came up to the ex-
pectations.
The New Hampshire historical So
ciety has the original patent on a
process for the use of steam in pro-
polling boats. 1t was issued to Sam
uel Morley. March %. 1896, and was
signed by George Washington.
A Kansas man who was born lucky
sent, says the Topeka (Kan.) CAPITAL,
his kerosene can down to the store
the other day to be refilled, and when
it was sent back there was a potato
sticking on the spout
Tweny years ago hardly 20 per
cent. of our men-of-wars men were
native born, and not so per cent.
even naturalized citizens. Today fully
80 per cent. are American citizens
and nearly 20 per cent. are American
born.
The growth of persimmon trees in
old fields in the south has been looked
upon as curse, but now a valuable
use has been found for the wood
which is dense in fiber, heavy and
capable of polish. Thu is for shut
tie blocks in the looms of cotton
mills. A few days ago a solid train
containing Is carloads of persimmon
and dogwood shuttle blocks. was shin
ped from Chattanooga direct to Eng
land by way of Norfolk.
Inc iSdppedrance on the English
stage of George Coppin, at the age of
SO. recalls that of Charles Macklin
at Covent Garden in 1889, in his Tooth
year. He represented his fayorite
character of Shylock. and even at thar
great age he was physically CAPABLE
OF performing the part with great
yigor. but in the second act his men,
DRY failed him and he came forward
with an apology TO the audience. He
died at the age of 107.
When some 20 years ago an At
tempt was made to blow up the Win.
ter palace in st. Petersburg il was
discovered that the lower regions os
that imperial residence were IN.
haoited by a curious and motley ty,h.
OF vagabonds for whom nobody couId
account. They we're hangers-or
cousins and brothers-in-law and friands
OF the cooks and other servants
whose right to domicile in the ON
peror's palace had never been onas
toned but was extremely shadow