Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-07-04
BREVITIES

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Doesn't your husband care enough
for you to quit smOking?" asked the
caller who doesn't mind starting
trouble. Il think he dOes,' answered
young Mrs. Torkins; and l care
enough for him not to ask him to-
Washington Star.
Judge Beekman Winthrop, who has
recently been appointed to the COVER
norship of Porto Rico to succeed Gov
Hunt, is a member of one of the
oldest families in New York. He is a
graduate of Harvard and a personal
friend of President Roosevelt.
Submarines are built OF sufficient
strength to permit them to sink to a
depth of 100 feet if necessary, but or
course they seldom go as far beneath
the surface.-Spokesma The
Russian submarines are an exception,
particularly when the "Japs" are
around.
Steps are being taken to develop
valuable deposits of fuller's earth,
near Beulah, Pueblo county, and near
Akron, Washington county, in Col,
Orado. The few deposits of this sub
stance already located in that state
are said to be among he purest found
anywhere in the world
Cannibalism is still practiced IN
New Guinea and Solomon islands in
the Pacific; in the Muir river country,
West Africa; in several parts of South
IN &c
believed to be practiced in northern
Luzon, p. l., and in the voodoo wor.
ship of Hayti.
A basalt steel found by Rev. Scheil,
Roman Catholic priest, in the
archaeological museum at Constants.
nople has on it an Assyrian inscrip
ton of King Nobonod, of the sixth
century before Christ, telling of the
destruction of Nineveh. No other
record Of the kind has ever been
found.
The bodies of all the czars of Rus
STA who have died since Peter the
Great lie in a memorial chapel in one
of the islands of the Neva. All the
cenotaphs, consisting of a block OF
plain white marble, are exactly alike,
excepting that each bears the name of
the emperor whose body is beneath i,
One of the largest and most ex
pensive mineral collections in ex
istence, owned by John F. Campion
of Leadville, Col, will form part oil
the Colorado's mineral exhibit at the
st. Louis fair. The collection is
valued at $250,0O0, the bullion value
alone being $4,000. 1t has never BE-
fore been placed on exhibition.
If a pound of coal is subjected to a
dry distillatiOn and the products and
residual treated chemically by the
processes for obtaining the well,
known coal tar colors, it will yiel0
enough magenta to color 500 yards of
flannel, vermillion for 1850 yaris,
aurine for 12O yards and alizarin
sufficient 70 $50 yards OF red cloth.
Please remember: There is a little
matter to which the Weekly begS to
call the attention of Some of its Sub
$criber$. We really hate to Speak of
it, but Some have Seemingly allowed
it TO slip their minds: To us this is
necessary in our business. We won't
Speak further on the $lS0ject Per
hapS you have already guessed the
drift of our emark$.-Minnesota |
Alumni Weekly.
A prominent member of the liberal
party when at school was taken by his I
father TO see Carlyle, and was hidden
to treasure in the depths of his soul
the words of wisdom which would fall I
from the great man. At first Carlyle /
was taciturn, and the boy, by way OF
opening the conversation, suitably
said: Il have seen two philosophers /
today. for as we came along papa
pointed out Herbert Spencer in a
bus With majestic emphasis Car /
lyle replied, And have we seen Her. /
bert Spencer, laddie? Then we've
seen the most unending ass in I
Christendom. Manchester Guardian.