Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-08-16
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mice. In one kStore in theELoWnlO OF
Merton the other day 10000 were
caught
The Motor @Iinion Aof Great Britain
and Ireland, stheiarges organization Of
motorists Underworld, hass7 800 mem
bers.
Cape Townsauthoritlesta ret extending
the conyeyanceE of mails shy camels,
which .hasfexperimentally sproved very
successful,
A league, has beens formed in Swift
.crIand to ipreserve picturesque spots
throughout the little republic from
commercial vandalism.
Berlin, the home of the automatic
.1staurant, gives that institution a
creditable support, andA their number
Is constantly increasing.
A New York concern which proposes
to raise spruce trees for the lumber
has recently imported from Germany
1900 young trees.
Many Of the hotels of the country
towns of England are managed by
women, and it is claimed that they do
itifar better than men in the same POI
sitlons.
Berlin supports a professional bird
catcher. who keeps scientific institu-
lions supplied with birds, nests and
eggs. He IS etonly man in the en-
plr,,permitted 10 do 50.
Every week the canal commission
imports no less than 200 tons Of insect
powder ana 200 tons Of sulphur bars
into Panama These are used in ex-
terminating tho mosquitoes
Army reform. In India has caused the
disappearance OF two historic regt-
ments, the Sixty fourth Carnatic light
infantry. which was raised in 1859,
and the Bombay marine battalion,
dating from 1777.
Happy, Though Married Two Days,
was one of many labels attached by
practical Jokers to the luggage Of a
newlytmarriedic couple who left an Eng
llsh railway station the other day on
their way to Canada.
A new law which win gradually re
suit In the entire disappearance Of
sla very from Slam has come into eff
feet, says thelBangkok Times No one
can. now be born slave, and no one
cantbe made O slaye.
While the Chinese are held to be the
most.economicnl people 10 the world it
has apparently never occurred TO them
toAuse the vast areas of their yerdant
hiIl,and mountain regions as pasturage
for'cattle, sheep or horses.
An,art critic prophesies that the next
movement Of European art which he
thinks has exhausted the possibilities
Of realism, may take the form OF
return to the principles enunciated by
the Chinese 1000 years ago.
Archbishop Moeller4of Cincinnati has
organized choir of priests, consisting
f.local clergymen. for the purpose of
rendering the Gregorlan music Of the
mass at all the funerals Of priests
which take place IN his archdiocese.
Iceland. possesses a large number Of
trees, although it is credited with hav-
ingsonlyvone. The climate and soil are
by. no Imeans unfaYo-able TO tree grow
ing. and evidence exists to show that
Iceland was once. lowered with trees,
Radium has ben found in wheaton
-four, said Profess lor J. J. Thompson, at
the Royal institute. london. How 1t
got there, he added. he could not ex-
plain. There was no doubt. however.
that ouch -four would prodCce radio ac-
tive bread.
A strong protest Is being made
against bringing to England the pyg-
niles whom Colonel, Harrison captured
lately in Stanley forest. Africa. 1t is
held that no one has any right to cap
ture, and enslave them for exhibitions
or anyfother purposes.
With reference to the threatened In.
vasIon Of the crinoline the London
Daily riews calls attention 70 the fact
that STAGE the crinoline was last in
fashion the fat has become an institu-
ton. How could women wear crino-
lines and live in q 'fatI
Miss Kite u. McWllliams of Brook
Ign has broken the record for school
teaching. Rcsigning from her work
recently, she has TO her credit fifty
consecutive years of service in the
Brooklyn public schools, forty eight
being I'm one .school.as principal.
Just before General dc Sonnar. an
Italian senator, died recently he had
himself dressed In his generals uni
form and all his medals and decora-
lions. Then he called for a glass OF
champagne and. with his relatives
gathered around his couch. drank to
the kings health and the prosperity
of Italy"
A Spanish contemporary says that
in 1904 nearly $4,000 bulls We're killed
in ,bulifghts OF the country. The bulls
killed about 10000 horses. The best
and, most valuable bulls for the arena
are raised on the vast estates Of the
Duke of Xeragun, in Andalusia, who
has made a fortune ont of this bust
ness.
The eminent German economist and
former coadJutor of Bismarck. Adolph
Wagner, used TO insist, that the older
professors ought TO be pensloned In Or
der TO give the younger ones room 10
expand Nowsthat he Eas reached his
seventeen birthday he seems TO have
lost his interest In that doctrine. He
expects to do q great deal more work
The question of tipping the waiter
has been formally settled by the secrp-
tary OF the navy. a naval officer may
give q ZIP. OF 10 cents q meal to his
n.