Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-06-13
BREVITIES


PA, what is intuition ?" Merely
the feminine of suspicion, my son.
I-Harper's Bazaar.
A Russian medical journal says Jap
anese physicians are almost invariably
well educated and conscientious.
Mrs. Henpeck-Her husband simply
won't listen to her. Henpeck-HOw
the deuce does the lucky fellow man
age it?-TOwn Topics.
Consumption is four times as fire.
quent in families whose annual income
is less than $500 as it is in families re
ceiving more than $1,000.
He married money. didn't hep
No; he thought he was marrying
money, but he merely married some
thing else that talks. "--Philadelphia
Press.
Sir Thomas Upton has a new royal
decoration, but there isn't any doubt
that he would gladly exchange it for
the battered old cup.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The famous cog railway up Pixies
peak in Colorado may soon be sup
planted by an electric road, plans for
the building of which are now under
consideration.
The Prussian state railway system
contains p. 1O4 miles of track and its
net earning last year was $4,000, 900.
being 10 to u per cent. on the in,
vestment
The increase in cotton spindles in
the United States last year was from
15,5OO,OOO to 100000, owing prin.
cipally to new factories in the cotton
belt in the south.
The history of international arbitra,
tion shows that by decades from 1910
to 1900, there were, respectively, 6, Is
%, 20. 45 and 90 cases. In the last
three years there have been 90 cases.
Among the relics which Nine. Melba
has collected is the bed in which the
dauphin of France last slept before he
was put in prison. Collecting such
objects is a hobby with the famous
singer.
In Algiers the grinding of corn is
done by women. as in the old Bible
times. A portable hand-mill is used
for the purpose. which, during the
wanderings of the tribe is strapped
to camel or donkey.
A stone crock of butter which was
buried in the ground near Lincoln,
Neb., was recovered a few days ago
and, it is said, the butter was found
to be sweet and yellow, but the crock
crumbled to pieces upon being ex,
posed to the air.
Nine de Thebas, the famous palmist,
being in a quandary as TO whether she
would succeed should she go TO Lon
don, consulted many people on the
subject, among them Sarah Bernharlt.
who in reply TO her question very per
tinetly replied: Look into your hand
Nine. Bernhard employed a young
artist to design some stage dresses
for her. She was delighted with the
work. and. en- hearing his price, ex-
claimed: More, more. You have
only asked working pay What 1 wish
to pay for is your talent" She paie
him double the amount he had
asked.
Surgeons of the Kentucky university
hospital are trying by a pretended
operation to cure a woman with a
hallucinatiOn that she has a tumOr in
the stomach. Just enough opiates
were administered to reduce her TO a
state of semi-cOnsciousness. She
could hear and feel vaguely, but
could see nothing. The physicians.
speaking gravely, spent considerable
time in definitely locating the sup.
posed tumOr When all was in readi.
ness one of the doctors produced a
pitcher Of ice water, which he held
above the part supposed to be affect
ed and allowed a drop TO fall at inter
walls of about Is seconds. With each
drop of water the patient WINGED ana
grOaned as if in great agony. Once
or twice she could be heard TO
whisper that the doctors be careful
and not cut too deep. Finally the
doctors swathed the patient in