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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

| ished and inlaid with stones in myriad
colorings. At the sides rise lofty round
ed columns with elegantly carved Cor
inthian capitals and the arches are
picked out TN marble rosettes, palm
leaves and foliated designs of the most
exquisite finish The skylight is seven
ty-two feet above the floor.
There could be nothing richer or
more magnificent than the stairways
with their festoons of fruits and flow
ers and the turnposts surmounted by
two great bronze figures bearing stand
ards for electric lights. The staircases
are also ornamented with twenty-six
marble figures by Martiny, representing
the arts and sciences and carved in
bold relief. A master Of language has
described this stair hall as poem in
polished stone, and it is by all odds the
finest marble interior in America.
The Congressional Library had it's in
ception in 1900, when Congress appro-
priated $1,000 for it. From that small
beginning, the Library has grown until
it now contains more than a million
books. Every copyrighted work is rep
resented, the law requiring the deposit
Of two copies of each publication copy
righted. A number Of special, priceless
collections are here, including Thomas
Jefferson's library, the Smithsonian IL
brary and ancient, priceless engravings
almost without limit Any person may
use the library, but only members of
Congress, the President, Supreme Court,
and government officials may draw
books out of it.
The book stacks are Of iron and rise
in tiers nine stories to the roof. Each
stack has a capacity of 100000 vol
umes. There are about forty-four run
ming miles of shelving, and the capac-
ity of the Library when all available
space is taken up is estimated at f.
100000 volumes. When books are want
ed at the Capitol, they are taken
through a tunnel by means of an end
less chain mechanism. The exterior Of
the Library is somewhat plain, in con-
trast to the interior.
The visitor to Washington who does
not give the Library all the time posi-
BILE misses much. It is the only public
building in the city which is open to
visitors after nightfall, and it's deco
rations appear more charming if posi-
BILE under electric light than in day
light The hours are a. m. to 10 o.
m. and so numerous are the visitors
that the attendants are usually busy
from opening to closing time.-Wil-
Transport (Pa.) Grit.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

The test is now in constant use with
all advanced dairymen. They use 1t
freely as a guide for dividing the pro-
ceeds of the factory, for testing the BY
products with a view to reducing losses
to the minimum, for aiding in the de-
lection of authorizations, and for testing
the individual cows in The herd. 1t
furnishes a ready means for determin-
ing the per cent Of fat in milk and its
products and by-products. Before Its
introduction the farmer had to churn
the cream from the milk Of each COW
to determine her true value for dairy
purposes, and the manufacturer OF
dairy products CROPPED largely in the
dark as regarded the milk and cream
he handled, and guessed at the losses
in by-products. The physicist supplied
the lactometer for determining the spe
cific gravity Of milk, and this acted as
a companion to the test to enable the
dairyman to readily determine the
solids of milk, and to detect the nature
and extent Of authorizations. The acid
imeter, Or "alkali test" Is most valu
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

able in processes Of cheese-maklng ana
In the ripening of cream for putter-
making. Then there is the culture OF
starter" to aid in controlling the
flavor of milk in cheese-maklng, the
use of the pasteurizer, the "fermenla-
ton test" and other aids in expert
dairying. The pasteurizer controls the
heating Of the milk or cream TO sum
GENTLY high temperature to kill practl-
cally all the germ life present in It.
Afterwards the cream is seeded with
desirable forms Of germ life, to take
control of it, and through their growth
and development produce the required
flavor in the cream and its product.
All these improvements have led TO
real and substantial advancement In
dairying during recent years, and the
industry Is constantly reaching high
ly scientific basis. We are learning
more and more the reason why" of
things, and consequently learning how
to do our work better and more intel
ligently, and how to advance it. =
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

The writer hauled milk to a cream
cry when lad. 1t had to be delivered
twice a day; it had all to be drawn
into deep or shotgun" cans, and set
in tanks of cold water to raise the
cream, and after twelve to twenty four
hours was taken out and skinned by
hand. Think Of the labor involved
Now, the practical physicist supplies
the centrifugal cream separator. There
Is the power separator at the factory,
and the hand separator on the farm.
We can make a cream of any desired
richness to produce the best and rich
est butter. The combined churn and
worker Is one Of the greatest labor-sav-
ing devices that has been introduced
into dairying It enables the butter
maker to control the temperature Of his
butter during the moulting of 1t, first
by greatly Fastening the process, and
secondly, by preventing exposure of the
butter to the unfavorable temperature,
conditions that 50 commonly exist in
many make-rooms, and to which it was
exposed on the old-style open worker.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

the surface. Butcher boy and baker
boy and shop boy are full of it. They
carry their goods along in happy ignor-
ance of the sport they give to those
who can note the humorous in life. And
the costermonger and itinerant dealer,
to be met with almost everywhere, are
special products of London who can
not fail to attract.
One does not quite meet the counter
parts Of these people in Paris. Those
who take their place are not so dis
tinctive and partake more of the char
acteristics Of the average Partisan.
They send out, therefore, to the OBJ
server only what the average Partisan
sends out, and do not stand apart as
types Of what the city can do in the
way of carrying on the, humors Of the
time. Some day, perhaps, there will
arise a greater humorist in London
who will penetrate what London pro-
duces in this respect, and when this
shall happen London will appear a
happier and more genial place than is
commonly upposed.-Cornhill Maya
Zine
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06
aW w IN THE Dong II

So many celebrities were concerned
in the planning, erection and adornment
of the Congressional Library, that a
list of them would embrace about all
the great ones in the world of art and
architecture. With due regard to
very few structures which cost more,
the Library is ranked as the most beau
tiful public building in America, and
one of the most magnificent in the
world. From first to last, it had the
most assiduous care Of it's projectors,
and constant watchfulness made graft
that practice Of diverting the public
money to private ends so noticeable in
some other undertakings of similar
haracter-impossible so that the
money appropriated went to exactly the
uses intended. There are other build
ings of more general Importance in
Washington. The Capitol, Of course,
ranks first, and the Treasury and
State, War and Navy buildings follow
closely; but however it is exceeded in
such affairs as pertain to the business
Of the government, even the Capitol
cannot approach the Library in interior
beauty.
The Congressional Library represents
an outlay of 100000. 1t covers an
area of three and one-half acres, or
about the same as the ground area Of
the Capitol. 1t is 470x340 feet in di-
mansions and has four large inner
courts averaging 15Ox1O0 feet. The Ii
brary is situated squarely in front Of
the Capitol, and is separated from it
by beautiful lawns and driveways. 1t
covers the site of seventy residences
which we're bought In the late sos at
a cost of about 100000. The founda-
tons were begun in $780, and the build
ing was completed in 1897. The struc-
ture is Of the Italian Renaissance or
der of architecture, has three stories
and dome. The latter Is finished in
black copper, with panels covered with
a thick coating of gold leaf. The burn
ing torch Of Science, with which the
dome is capped, reaches a height of
1875 feet above ground. The only jar
ring note in the whole structure is
caused by the low elevation of the
torch. as compared with the towering
307 feet of the statue of Armed Free
dom on the dome of the Capitol just
across the way. One is likely to call
the Library 'squatty" when comparing
the two buildings, but this feeling is
lost Immediately on entrance to the
wonders of the main stair hall.
The lofty ceiling is arched and groin
ed so gracefully and artistically and the
general effect is so harmonious. that
the visitor almost invariably loses sight
of the magnifcence of the ornamental
ton In admiration Of the apartment as
a whole that is at first.
Seated on one Of the numerous set
tees, but a short time ensues ere color
and decorative schemes begin to formu-
late, and then the full magnifcence Of
the majestic hall bursts upon one with
dazzling effect. 1t is possible that in
the wonderful structures of India-the
Tai Mahal, for example-there are
rooms more beautiful How they could
be so, however, the imagination cannot
conceive.
The columns, and stairways, and bal
ustrades, and arches, are all made of
the purest Of white marble, highly pol
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

with drivers of public vehicles who use
their horses as friends from whom to
draw inspiration for their sallies Of
humor, and one wonders what will be-
come Of all this when the horseless
vehicle is the universal mode of vehic-
ular traction. Surely the man who
turns a handle is not the same as the
man who holds the reins and can not
get out Of electricity and petroleum
what has been got out Of the pulsations
of horses.
It comes to us from the railway por-
tiers and servants who keep at bay the
troublesome multitude by deftly turn
ing into broad farce events which
begin seriously. 1t comes, too, from
hotel and restaurant waters. who see
enough of the grim humors of life to
become an almost endless source of in
spiration. But it is also apparent on
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06
FREIGHT RULES IN GERMANY.

Requirements to BE Met by Ameri-
can to Katser's Land.
American shippers of goods destined
for transportation over the railroads Of
Germany will save expenditure Of mon
ey, annoyance and possible loss Of fu-
ture business by exercising great care
in the preparation of the shipping docu-
ments covering the goods, stating with
eXactitude the net and gross weights
In kilos, and if the contents are infiam-
mable or otherwise dangerous in char
acter their exact nature should be STEM
cilled on the case or package, as well
as stated in the freight bill, says the
New York Tribune.
Heavy fines are imposed for infringe
ment of the regulations governing
freight upon the German roads, as en-
bodied in the freight tariff of April 1,
1905. The shippers is responsible for
the correctness and completeness of the
statements found in freight bills and
lncurs all the consequences arising from
inexact or insufficient declaration.
If, at the shippers request, the
llclSuL U1llS are ullcu OuL NY EdILUdu
employees, the responsibility of the ship
per is in no wise lessened. If, in car
load shipments, the weight quoted In
the freight bill shows no greater devia-
ton than per cent from that ascer-
tanned from the railway scales, the for
mer is considered correct In cases Of
an incorrect declaration of the contents
Of shipment, or of too low declara-
ton Of the weight of carload, or Of
the overlooking Of car beyond its pre-
scribed capacity, by the shipper or his
agent, in addition to being obliged to
pay the possible freight difference and
compensation for the damage produced,
fines may be imposed and made payable
to the companies concerned in the
transportation of the goods, the
amounts of which vary from $2.85
kilo (2.2O pounds) to various minor
penalties.
If fines are not paid by the shipper or
his agent within a specified period, the
goods may be sold at public sale, and
the proceeds derived applied to the pay
ment Of the fine. Should they not equal
this amount, the shipper will still be
held accountable for the difference.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

1t
that will
tains between
of
10000 souls the thriving principal
Pitburg
had
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Three wildly
them Of impending peril half dozen houses
then the flood
borough Of 600 houses
The millions;
When the flood terrible chaos
its Charity
ginning OF risen city from the DID, Monday
began first building
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

The chemist, the inventor and the
practical dairyman have worked hand
in hand during the past twenty years
to improve and expand the dairy indus
try. The person who remembers the
old-time creamery, and then compares
it with the up-to-date creamery Of to-
day, realizes how broad and solid is the
foundation upon which this industry
rests its present handsome proportions.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

The graduate school of Harvard is to
have the use Of the Francis Parkman fell
lOwship, the income of which is to be
applied to the aid of meritorius students
pursuing advanced studies, whether at
the university or elsewhere. The fellow
ship is supported by fund of $4,000
bequeathed by Miss Eliza W. s. Park
man. in memory of her brother, Francis
Parkman. The university has received
from Charles Folen Mckim of New
York Il gift of $4,000 as the permanent
foundation for the Julia Amory Appleton
fellowship in architecture, already eStab-
Jished by his annual gifts.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

A silk United States flag, highly val
ued by Rear Admiral Nicoll Ludlow, U.
S. n, and kept in his country home at
Oakdale, l.. L., was found by the care
taker Of the property to have been made
into nest for Il family of gray squirrels
that has taken possession of one of the
rooms of the historic Ludlow mansion.
The flag was badly tattered and prac-
tically destroyed. 1t was valued at near
ly $3.50 and was one of the admiral
chief treasures.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

The Western University of Pennsyl-
vania of Pittsburg has conferred the hon
orary degree of doctor of science on Will
liam T. Hornaday in recognition of his
work in developing the New York Zoo
logical park. On account of a recent
surgical operation DR.. Hornaday was
unable to receive the degree in person
on Monday and he was represented at
the college exercises by DR.. w. J. Hol
land OF the Carnegie museum.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

At the final examination for honors
at the school of English literature a
West Virginian Rhodesian scholar, G. +.
Tucker-Brooks of st. Johns college, Ok
ford, obtained first class. He was the
only competitor to obtain this high dis
tinction. J. A. Brown, a New Hamp-
shire Rhodesian scholar of New College,
Oxford, won a certificate of merit for
research in physics and obtained a de-
gree.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06
LoNDoN's HUMoR AND FUN.
Cockneys Bubble Over with the
Light Things of Speech.

Light Things of Speech.
Mention has been made of the gay
and careless nature of the Partisan.
Has any one except true-born Lon
doner ever observed the humor and fun
which lie in great masses among the
people Of London? W. W. Jacobs in
modern days has depicted some of this
in special particulars Dickens, above
all writer's, most faithfully portrayed
many phases of it. Thackeray has
dealt with it in a manner not likely to
be repeated.
But all three authors do not col
lectively make up the mass Of London
humor. 1t is everywhere 1t peeps out
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

The average age of the nine justices of
the supreme court of the United States
is a fraction over 661a years, two being
10, one 20, one 50, one 60, one 50, one
63, one 81 and the junior 81. Justice
Brown retires at 10. If Taft succeeds
him at 10, the average age will be some
what reduced, but it will be made up in
aVoirdupOiS.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

The Duke of Wellington. who was
specially invited guest to the royal mar
riage at Madrid, is, says The Onlook-
er." by inheritance Il grandee of Spain
and a guest who bears a name which
must ever be sacred to the Bourhons of
the Peninsula. At Apsley house is housed
Il superb collection Of Spanish pictures
given by the Spanish Bourbons on driv-
ing out the French. 1t is not generally
known that the insignia of the Golden
Fleece conferred upon Wellington was
that actually worn by Columbus. and as
a special mark of Spain's gratitude this
insignia was made hereditary, so that
the present duke is the proud possessor
of the star worn by the discoverer Of
America.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06
An Impression.

do you like Chaucer?" asked the
bookish young man.
II have only glanced through his
works." answered Mrs. Cumrox. HE
was one of the original spelling reform
ers wasn't he ?"-Washington Star.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

Senator Ingalls, tried sarcasm in pub
lie life. and it failed. He had an ex-
ceptional gift for making enemies, and
they ultimately retired him to private
life. Once an intimate friend wrote ask
ing his influence in favor of a friend de-
string public appointment. To this
letter the senator returned a very sar-
castle answer, and received the follow
ing reply: My Dear Senator: think it
would be we'll for you TO reserve your
sarcasm for the rapidly increasing num-
Der Of your enemies, instead of offering
it to the decreasing number of your
friends. of whom l am one 1t is said
Mr.. Ingalls, never forgot the rebuke, but
il was too late.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

During recent race of New York
yachts the old cup-defender Vigilant
made display of speed that excited
warm admiration. She is a centerboard
craft that is in no sense a racing ma
chine, and the fact that she is still
racing while the more recent cup
defenders are high and dry on the docks
because of their uselessness for cruising
is a significant commentary on the folly
of building racing machines.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06
Dainty Little Aztec Women.

The feminine direct descendants OF
the famous Aztecs are tiny creatures,
eAquisitely formed and refined in fea-
ture They carry the head with the
upbearing grace of the full-blooded In
dian; their skins are not red, but
Gear, smooth copper color that shines
like gold In the sun; their hair IS
coarse, and black as ebony, and they
are decorated with bright feathers ana
gay ornaments. These women MAKE
the most wonderful pottery that comes
10 us from Mexico, for they have KEN
the old Aztec forms and decorations
in their art, and they also weave won
derful baskets and do exquisite eri'
troidery.-New York News.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

Photographers say there is no man in
public life more difficult to photograph
satisfactorily than Elihu Root, the secre
tary of state. There is in his eye a fas-
cinating light, a penetrating CLEAN which
few of his pictures bring out.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

Kate Douglass Wiggin, the authoress,
has Just concluded visit to the wee
Regal Lodge, Dublin, as the guest of
their excellencies, the Earl and Countess
Of Aberdeen.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

The Toledo icemen who have received
prison sentences for conspiring to make
undue profits from consumers will have
an opportunity to cool down to a tenn
perate view of business strategy.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06
EAGLE RIVER, WIS.

James A. Garland of New York, has
purchased a big farmhouse on Prudence
island. in Narragansett bay, where he
will establish a hospital for crippled
children.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

DR.. Joseph B. Bryant who has been
elected president of the American Med
zeal association, is an eminent surgeon,
and was recently president of the New
York State Medical society.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

A quack doctor in Paris who used
rigar ashes as a "cure-alr' with great
success, combined pleasure with bust
ness, and thus avoided the labor of
kneading dough for bread pills.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

Gov. Guilds class of Harvard, 1881
is to present President Eliot with a
100000 fund to spend for the college
as he sees fit. Prominent members of
the class are Senator Penrose of Penn
sylvania; Prof Rolfe of the University
Of Pennsylvania and Henry Norman,
NJ p
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

If the parents Of girl want her 10
marry certain young man all tney
have to do is pretend that they have no
earthly use for him.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-07-06

These people with a great deal of
assurance are quite often right, much
as we dislike them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-16
MEETING POSTPONED,
of West Haven to Me
 

Republicans of West Haven to Meet
 Next Tuesday.
 Owing to the miserable travelling last evening the meeting of West Haven re- publicans will be postponed until next Tuesday.
 The meeting will be held at the Sea- view hotel, and a hot old time is ex- pected.
 The republican caucus will be on Mo- yember 2, the borough election falling on the first Tuesday in December. It is stated that the independent republicans who are opposed to Warden Peck's ad- ministration wifi make a determined ef- fort to elect their candidates.
 It is claimed that for the past few years the republican candidates have been knifed at the polls by the machine, and that the whole matter is always fixed up between republicans and democrats at the Somerset club, Warden Peck's headquarters. West Haven elections have become rather cut and dried affairs, and those who are taking a stand for good government would like to see a change.