Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-01-12
The worlds smoke bill is $5,OOO,OOO

The worlds smoke bill is $5,OOO,OOO
a week.
A rope often gets tight because that
is the way it is taut.-Philadelph
Evening Bulletin.
Booth Harrington is a cigaret fiend,
and an anti-cargaret bill is to be pro
posed in the Indiana house.
The human jaw is very loosely sock
eted in the skull, so that is is often dis
located by the mere act of yawning.
So many smokers have taken to
rolling their own cigarettes that the
amount of the manufactured article is
decreasing.
Hostess-Yes, he's a poet, Mr.. Gruf-
fee. Mr.. Gruffee-Ah! What brand of
health food does he advertise ?-Chica-
go Daily News.
AT Plintz, near Dresden, is the
largest camellia in Europe. 1t is $50
years old about so feet high, and has
10000 blossoms each season.
The silk production in Japan is
unusually large this year. It is ex-
pected that much of the finished pro
duct Will find asmarket in the United
States.
Papa tthe night before Christmas)-
What are you crying for, Jimmie ?
Jimmie-Harry Fuller's legs are fatter
than mine.-Harper's Bazaar.
ALT Heidelberg" the popular Ger
man play, has been done into English
by Aubrey Boucicault, and it Will be
seen at the Princess theater in New
York soon.
The No-tonville News notes that
many of the men were out to the car
nival for pleasure, while others were
accompanied by their wives Kansas
City Journal
Dr. Edward B. Clements, who was
chosen to the legislature in Macon
county, Mo-, at the recent election. is
the first republican to be elected in
that county since 1868.
-Four immense steamers are to be
built by the Hartman railroad inter
ests to ply between Portland, Ore, and
oriental ports. They are to cost be-
tween 100000 and 100000 each.
Railroad men say that 10000 home
seekers with their families, have set
tied this year in Idaho, Washington
and Oregon. The Canadian Pacific has
carried ever 100000 people to Mantle.
ba.
my dear SIR said the bunco man,
YOU face strikes me as being ia
miliar." ''So?' replied the intelligent
farmer, coldly, WAL, my fists differ
ent. 1t generally strikes people for
being familiar. Philadelphia Press.
The German Lloyd steamer Main
sailed from Bremen with 1858 passen-
gers, the largest number that ever left
that port in one ship. Of this num-
Der 1444 were landed at New York
last Monday and 11O8 at Baltimore
Thursday.
Miss Nola Stanton Blatch, a grand
daughter of the late Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, will take up the work Of her
grandmother She was the first and
only woman to enter the civil en-
gineering department Of Cornell uni
versity
Samuel T. Packard, Whittier's liter
airy executor and biographer, will sell
great many Of his manuscripts and
books for the benefit of fund for the
restoration and Gaze of the poets
birthplace at Haverhill and his home
in Amesbury.
1t is possible that Florida phosphate
will meet a serious competitor in the
recently discovered deposits on Ocean
island northeast of the Solomon
islands, which seem to be superior in
quality to either Florida or Christmas
island phosphate.
Thunder and guns!" exclaimed the
old gentleman, as he was given the bill
for his only daughters last gown,
but you cost a pile of money" We'll
papa she replied demurely, ''if you
wouldn't sit in the back parlor with
the door open when I am entertaining
Mr.. Binkley in the front parlor you'd
stand a better chance of getting rid
of the expense. "-Chicago Evening
Post.