Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-03-06
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

toned as probable successor of Pope
/ leo.
A monument to John II. Reagan, the
last survivor of the confederate cab
met. is to be erected By the Daughters
of the Confederacy of Palestine, Tex
The city has granted site at the
junction of two principal streets.
Marinette, Wis. has an Andrew Car
negie on a small scale in Isaac Steph
enson. who has given that city $50 900
for library building on condition that
the city appropriate not less lneh
So 900 annually for its maintenance.
The Montreal Star says that base
ball game is merely contest between
two mines and an umpire. That is not
merely british view of the AmeriCa an
national game but pretty nearly a
correct estimate of the game as 1t is
often played.
A Kansas liquor seller who wa
driven out of business by last winter
crusade has started again at I.awton,
the Oklahoma boom town, and trc
motto for his new saloon is: "All ma
tons welcome but Carrie"
Mr., Cudahy of Chicago is sand to
have profited to the amount of $70l
600 by the recent rise of pork and
lard. Pork has advanced to SIS a
barrel. gain of 81 within sort tIr.,
Hogs have been worth as much as IN ay
are now only twice in 10 years.
The American MI at school has APP
parently not been a success in Hawai-!
A yea- ----o night school was estab
| lished at Honolulu, at which Hawaii
ans might have free instruction il
English, but the mattress would no
avail themselves OF the opportunit,
and the school has been given up
How the British revere their poe
laureate! Says the Montreal Star
THE death of King Alfred in A. d. 90
was a national misfortune but If hC
had lived until 1901 Alfred Austir
would probably have written a room
about him and that would have Docr
national calamity"
You may tell him. she said
! haughtily, that | do not care to meet
| people who deal In dressed peef.
Naturally this proud eastern aristocrat
| thought she had MIN properly put
| down, but she was in error. you may
! tell her by way of reply. that what.
ever ! put on the market is at least
| dressed" Then he looked long and
| fxedly at her deeollete daughter
| Chicago Post
The gold medal of the Italian science
society was presented the other day to
Singnor Marconi. The presentation
was made by the Marquis Luigi S)ari
navy, who subsequently gave dinner
in honor of the event and expressed
the admiration of Italy for her dis
tinguished son.
This story is told of the young king
of Spain. At a recent function, In
which oni- young people Joined a
pretty girl of 16 who had danced sew.
eral times with little Alfonso pre-
scented her cheek to him for salute.
Instantly he Strengthened up ana ex-
tended his hand to her. II don't kiss
girls" he said. they kiss my nand in
stead. am your king"
The sham fight that the French
showed the ear was not real war. Had
they been giving him war at 1t is
entertainment, says the Montreal Star,
he would only have seen some men In
pale molasses colored clothes crawling
among the rocks, scattered at such
wide intervals that he could form very
little idea what they were about. The
spectacular has largely been eliminat.
ed from real war.
Among the late presidents papers,
now in the hands of Secretary Cortel
you, are some 5000 requests for Mr.
McKinley's autograph. IL has been
his custom to devote spare moments
to the qualification OF these demands
in so far as he could. but during the
few months absence or through 9
period when the president ~ouia be
busily occupied with affairs of state
these letters asking for autographs
would pile up. The 5000 referred tc
accumulated during the summer vaca
ton season.
The plan for the traversins of the
great Sahara with automobiles, which
are not subject to the pangs of thirst
has collapsed in the ridicule or the
jester, who pictures the auto" strand
ed In the sands, hundreds of miles
from an oasis, with the apparatus
hopelessly out of gear, and the chat
feur frantically begging by wireless
telegraph that camel might be sent
to pull the broken down trap TO d
machine shop. And there's a lot OF
common sense back Of that joke
New York Tribune.