Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-09-08

The latest statistics show that the
socialistic press of Germany numbers
14O publications, of which 81 are da1-
lies, says disptach from Berlin.
A recent issue of the Sing Sing prls-
oners' weekly paper had the following
comment: "Mr Meredith, the novel
list, is no longer able to take long
walks in the country, writes cores
pondent. Mr.. Meredith has our SYM
pathy We have been thus afflicted
for several years"
A Californian millionaire has in
vented an electrical device which will
be appreciated by the lazy. 1t is to
control the spigots of the bathroom by
a touch button in the bedroom. by
this means one can reach from bed
and turn the water into the tub, and
when the latter is filled the flow Is au-
tomatically shut off.
A report comes from johannesburg
to the effect that the British govern
ment has decided to select number
of prominent boer farmers and send
them to Canada, Australia and New
Zealand, in order to study modern sci
entific methods of agriculture. The
first party will probably start this
week for Canada, returning by way OF
Australia. The second party will be
made up of former prisoners of war,
and will start from Ceylon.
A Kansas man has what MS neigh
bors think is the longest row of corn
on record, it being little over 25
miles. He began in 50-acre field and
went round and round in a circle with
a lister until he had planted the whole
in single row which begins at one
middle. When he cultivates it, Of
course, he has to plow the same way.
AS appearances go the field will make
as much of crop as it would if plant
ed in the ordinary way.
A manufacturing jeweler recently
remarked, Pearson's Weekly says,
that some of his employees had begun
to wear their hair unusually long. He
watched them more closely and dis
covered that they frequently creased
their hands and rubbed them over
with gold filings and diamond chips,
and then carefully passed their hands
through their hair. 1t was their Gus
tom at night to cleanse their hair with
fine combs and collect and sell the
gold particles and diamond dust sto-
len in the manner described.
An English investigator says that
RI q
when the individual is about 40. The
scale of wages in the button trade, for
example, is a good Indication of this
tendency of the hand to grow old so
early in life. At his very best, in his
prime, a skillful hlttonmaker can
make 240 ivory buttons a day on his
lathe. For this he receives As shillings
a week. At As it is only the exception
al man who can make 20 shillings a
week. When the workman is 65 he
can seldom make more than 20 shill-
ings, even though he still enjoy SOUND
health.
The outbreak which threatens Ru-
mania has been caused by the minister
of public instruction forbidding girls
in the higher and secondary schools to
wear corsets, and, in case of refusal,
directing the forcible removal of the
offending article. The future mothers
of Rumania, remembering that the
ancient Romans, from whom they
claim indirect descent, wore kind of
stays, and that the corset, with a short
interval, has been worn ever since,
are naturally up in arms against the
arbitrary decree. 1t is a case Of war
to the whalebone, and it is pretty safe
to prophesy that the school girls will
win.-London Daily Graphic.
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