Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-04-24

Each year it becomes increasingly
difficult to secure lobster eggs along
the New England coast. At the same
time the number of Holsters taken
each year does not greatly decrease.
Valerie Bergere is to be starred
next season in 1.-The Master Mind"
play by William Lytell.
McKeesport, Pa, has spent all that
Mr. Carnegie donated on the build
irg, and hasn't a cent left for the
books.
A benevolent Scotchman has be-
queathed over 100000 for home for
aged bachelors in the neighborhood
OF Edinburg.
He-I love storms. She-Did you
ever see a cyclone? He-Yes She
How did you like it? He-I was
carried away with it.-Exchange.
Of all the bicycle factories in Ger
many, only six paid dividends last
year Fifteen large factories are
said to be on the point of going out
OF business.
Mrs. Hayward Lyman of Savannah,
Ga, has in her possession the missile
that killed Count Pulaski at the
siege of Savannah. Contrary to the
general understanding, it is not
bullet. but an iron grapeshot, more
than an inch in diameter.
Two queen valentines were sent
from Savannah to Brooklyn this year.
They We're too silver dollars, and
were without any covering except a
two-cent postage stamp on one side
end small slip of paper containing
the address on the other.
The agricultural department of
Queensland has offered reward of
5000 for the discovery of a means
OF Graduating the 'prickly pear"
pest. which is a cactus imported
from America. The remedy must
not cost more than a certain sum per
acre
Fencing is a fayorite pastime with
French women, and it is not only
practiced by them in the privacy of
fashionable schools. but in their own
rooms. Several of them give public
exhibitions, and go on tours round the
country. displaying their skill in
public contests with men.
House cleaning at the Vatican is
something of a task The Vatican
has not been thoroughly cleaned for
a century, and so the authorities
thought to do good job. They &C.
eordingly kept 5000 people and 700
oTerseers busy at it for six months.
This force used 1000 loaves of bread
a day to clean wallpaper.
Mrs. Waldo of Boston (who is en-
tertaining young Mr. Wabash of
Chicago)-I have treat for you to-
day, Mr.. Wabash, in the way of some
broiled bivalves. My husband is very
fond of them. Young Mr. Wabash
Crying one)-They are certainly
delicious, Mrs. Waldo. They taste
something like oysters.-Texas Sift-
ings.
John" she whispered. there's a
burgler in the parlor. He Just
bumped against the piano and struck
several keys" You don't say. I'll
go right down. said he. "Oh. John.
don't do anything rash!' Rash?
Why. I'm going to help him. You
don't suppose he can remove that
piano from the house without as
sistancs. do PHILADELPHIA
Press.
German scientists are said to be
searching for the skull of Mozart.
which has been stolen The story is
that the great composer died poor.
and his friends did not even mark
his grave Only the sexton knew
the grave and into his hands the
skull fell in a few years. His son
gave it TO Iacobus HyrtI. brother of
the famous anatomist, and from this
brother it in turn was passed along
Then it was given .the city of SaIz-
burg. Mozart's birthplace. In 1904
the skull disappeared; it was found
but has not disappeared again.
A piece of land on the corner of
William street and Exchange nIace
il the heart of the New york
financial district. has changed hands
al the third highest price per sopara
foot ever recorded in the real as+.t.
history of the city-s400O0 per eacn
square foot. A part of the land NJ.
cupied by the banking house of ! p
Morgan & Co. of Wall street. ar its
intersection with Broad street. was
scid to its present owners for sz4Q
per square foot, and another piaca
directly opposite cost $3.50 Thasa
three are the highest prices yet paia