Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-11-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

4 16-YEAR-oLD canary bird in Filing
ton. Conn, sings as sweetly as ever.
ONE tree in the Sierra Neyadas meas
ures 1299 feet in circumference
New towns are springing up in Mary
land and growing like Jonas gourd.
OVER 5000 men in the United States
struck during the month Of September.
TIE China Sea and Bay of Fundy are
the two toughest seas in the world.
New ENGLAND, as we'll as Ireland will
suffer from the potato famine tins WIN
ter.
A GEORGIA farmer has bought only So
cents worth Of meat during twenty-five
wears of housekeeping.
FRANCE will initiate Russia and Ger
many in the use Of carrier pigeons tor
military purposes.
A RArrLEsNAKE bit fine horse owned
at Mariana, Fla, and III thirty min
utes the poor beast died.
A BILL to forbid and punish the max
ing of caricatureS has been introduced
i'll the Vermont Legislature.
THERE is Il talk about one or two
British gun vessels being adapted Tor
the use Of captive balloons at sea.
A FLOCK of blackbirds three miles
long and half mile wide passed over
Arlington, Ga, q day or two ago.
Tue raising of sisal hemp in the Bahia
mas promises, it is said, to be one Of the
chief industries of these islands.
A PREsQUE ISLE, Ga, young man dug
on wager tifty-three barrels OF pOta-
toes in ten hours, one day this season.
HOSEA BRoWN, Of Linn County, Ore.
aged l02 Years, and a veteran of 1872,
has Just been awarded Il pension of $40
q month.
AN association Of Philadelphia house
wives will abolish kitchens Ill their
homes and start Il cooperative central
cooking house.
BABIES are now very scarce in France.
One may pass q hundred houses with
out finding cradle in it. Such a cOun-
try is doomed.
RELIC sellers at Gettysburg are said to
import wagon loads of junk from South
ern battlefelds and sell them for Get
tysburg battle relics.
AN Indian paper, the Pipe of Peace,
says that an effort will be made to vote
the Sioux by wholesale at the North Da
kota capital election.
The winning candidate for clerk in
Kentucky county died Just before the
poles closed on election day. His COM
petitor now claims the office.
Two dockyards are about to be con-
structed in st. Petersburg for the build
ne of men-of- war, in addition to the
five already existing III the capital.
A DOG in Trenton, n. j., minus an
owner, lodges in car barn. He boards
street cars regularly to and from his
meals which he picks up at the market
A PAclFIc coast man brought to AS
toria the other day $50 pounds Of bees
wax. 1t is reported to have come from
a ship which was wrecked 100 years
ago.
The frontier method of giving a fire
alarm still prevails at Crawford, Neb
Everybody on the street fires his re-
volver and gives blood-curdllng cow
boy Whoop.
TIE names of all the White Star
steamers end with Gle" those of the
Cunarders with ''iay'' those of the Ger
man mostly with 'Iand, and those of
Dutch always with dam
SopuoMoREs of Wooster University,
Ohio, are charged with having spiked
some cannon, the property of the Fed
eral government. The affair grew out
of row with the juniors.
\ YOUNG locomotive engineer on the
Southern Pacific Railroad is the son of a
millionaire of Terre Haute, Ind. The
son voluntarily chose his present life on
account of quarrel with his father.
The family is trying to induce him to re-
turn.
IN San Antonio, Tex, a few days ago,
there was great cattle lassOing con-
test OF oWboys," in which, it is claimed,
the worlds record was beaten, VIII
Capps tying down wild steer in 49,
seconds Some of the contestants were
seriously injured.
A QUEER wedding occurred at kir-
win, Kan, the other day. A couple
who went through the form of marriage
twelve years ago discovered upon in
vestigating the records that no license
had been issued to them, and Il wedding
in due form was the result.
A MAN died in st. Paul the other day,
leaving a fortune of 100000. The
will directed its division among his wife
and children, except one Wayward son,
who is $4,000 in debt. The bene-
ticiaries destroyed the will, allowing the
Young man to receive his share of the
property.
4 wELL-KNowN resident OF Bangor.
Me, while hunting the other day, met
with mishap common enough to the
inexperienced gunner. Rushing for
ward to secure the antlers of mighty
moose" into which he had put two
bullets, he found that the stricken
creature was a neighbours steer.
THE Treadwell Mill. Alaska, is the
largest quartz mill in the world, says
the Mining and Scientific Press. 1t
consists Of 240 stamps, ninety-siX con-
centrators and twelve ore crushers.
All of this machinery, covering several