Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-04
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


Several years ago the late Sir Fran
els Lockwood got a prisoner off by
proving an alibi. Afterward the judge
met the eminent lawyer and said
We'll, Lockwood, that was a very good
alibi." yes, my lord" was the an
swer; 81 had three offered me, and I
think selected the best"
The River Indus in width during
the year may vary by miles. Traffic
for long distances cannot be guaran-
~teed because the ever-shifting channel
throws up mud flats and sand banks
here and overwhelms good land there
in a manner which defeats the wis
dom of the ancient boatmen.
John Bright used to tell how a bar
Der who was cutting his hair once
said to him: You ave large cad,
sir; 1t is good thing to ave large
cad, for large cad means large
brain, and large brain is the most
useful thing man can ave, as it
nourisheS the roots of the air"
Baltimore is congratulating herself
on the figures shown by the new city
directory, just issued A decided
growth commercially and a gain of
nearly twelve thousand in population
IN the last year are indicated. The
population is placed at 691,12S, which
is gain of 11,941, according to the
directory editors estimate
r. A. Hudson, of Weddington. was
here Saturday and sold to Messrs.
Stack & Hudson, sixty bales of cot
ton for his neighbors, the Misses
Ross. These ladies make In the neigh
borhood OF one hundred bales each
year on their lands in that section,
and Mr. Hudson carried them a check
for clear $3,OO0.-Monroe (La)'
Journal.
Cole Younger, former bandit out on
parole granted by the Governor Of
Minnesota, has taken to the lecture
platform in Oklahoma. "A young man
never made a more serious mistake
than to suppose that the world owes
him living. 1t Doesn't says Young
err. THE understanding with the
Governor of Minnesota was that |
might do as l pleased as long as I
didn't do it in Minnesota the bandit
declares.
Greenland is governed by the Green
land commission at Copenhagen, Den
mark. 1t was first settled by a band
Of Norsemen under Erik the Red who
gave it its name, in 895. A bishopric
was founded there in the twelfth CEN
fury by the King Of Norway, and
about 1860 it was constituted a state
of Norway. There then followed a
blank Of 200 years in Greenlands his
tory, due to climatic disasters, but be-
ginning with the Danish settlement
Of 1921, the country has belong to,
Denmark.
On the west slope of the Cascade
mountains giant red fir was recently
blown across the tracks Of the North
ern Pacific railroad. Traffic was
blocked by the monster log, which
measured eight feet in diameter
There was no saw within miles that
was big enough to cut the timber and
as the railroad company could not
wait the five days required to saw a
section from the huge log, dynamite
was placed in deeply bored holes and
the aged tree blown to splinters. 1t
was easier to repair ten rods Of road
bed than to saw through eight feet Of
solid red flr.-New York Sun
The total number of American regu-
lars who served in Mexico and its bor-
ders during the Mexican war was 21,-
500; of volunteers, 22,027. In the as
sauIts upon Mexico City General
Scott had on August 20, 1847, an avail
able force of 1878, nearly one-half
of whom were recruits. After several
onslaughts the city was finally taken
on September IA, after which General
Scott was reinforced to an aggregate
of 10000 men. The treaty of peace
was signed on February g. 1848 The
total American losses in the valley of
Mexico were 2,703, including 1888 Off
GERS. The Mexicans had 1000 killed
and wounded and $3.50 Mexicans were
taken prisoners of war.
Antietam is regarded as the bloodf-
est battle of the civil war. The losses
were nearly equally divided The to-
tai in killed and wounded in the en-.
tire Maryland campaign, September
1920, 1852, being 22,891 for the two
armies. The proportion Of forces actu-
ally engaged in the fight is estimated
by F. w Pa1frey in his volume, AN
tietam and Fredericksburg, as three
Union to two Confederates This is
based upon the exclusion from Nc
Clellan's strength OF the Fifth and
Sixth Corps and the cavalry division,
numbering together 1850 which
were hardly used at all, losing but 2
per cent The other corps of the
Potomac lost about 20 per cent, and
the Confederates over % per cent.
The University OF Oxford was found
ed by King Alfred in So; the first
college of the University Of Cambridge
was founded by Hugo, bishop OF Ely,