Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-11-29

so amazed that he forgot to shoot AT
ed away. The hunter, going to the spot,
found a large blacksnake completely
trodden into the ground.
THE first water-mill ever built was
erected on the River Mber, at Rome, A.
ID. 80. Windmills were in original use
in the twelfth century. Tidemills were
operated in Venice about l7OS. Saw
mills are said to have been III use at
Augsburg, Germany, about 1882.
SLAVES were sold publicly in Liver
pool in the latter half of the last cen
fury. Sir James Picton, in his "1le-
MORALS of Liverpool, quotes two adver-
tisements of the sale of slaves in Liver
pool, which appeared in Williamson s
Liverpool Advertiser in the years 1868
and 1866.
A MONTREAL clothIer recently stuck
up monster sign 100 feet long and 60
feet from top TO bottom, 1t was nine
days wonder to the passing crowd, but
the proprietor of the building had the
sign removed. The clothing man is
now suing for 900 damages.
AN illuminated cat is among the curl
osities Of the patent office at Washing
ton, ID. G. 1t is made Of pasteboard or
tin painted over with PHOSPHORUS, and
is intended to frighten away rats and
mice and such small deer, )" in the dark
ness Of cellars and garrets.
TIE wood and iron model of the
architect Brentano's design for the Ia
cade of Milan Cathedral is nearly COM
pleted. The model will cost 10000
francs. and will be One-twentleth of the
size Of the contemplated facade, so that
critics will be given every opportunity
of making suggestions.
POPULAR Science Monthly alludes to
the belief of some that as man in the
savage state has, for the most part, been
largely, if not wholly, carnivorous, he
will, with the progress OF civilization,
become entirely vegetarian or use only
the products of animals, as eggs and
milk, with vegetable food.
AN ingenious numismatic has devised
an ingenious method of exhibiting
coins, which is now used in English mu-
seums. The pulling of a lever rotates a
frame-cOntaining cards in which the
coins are inserted-in such a manner
that the diverse and reverse, with full
description of each coin, are shown at
the will of the observer.
Ir is proposed to introduce a bill in
the English Parliament, when it again
assemblies, providing for the pay of the
members of the House of Commons.
AS is known by all familiar with English
Parliamentary affairs, members of
neither the House of Lords nor the
Commons have ever received a salary.
Seats in the House of Lords bare. hered-
itary, descending with the title to the
peerage, while those in the Commons
are elective, neither membership being
salared.
4 wooD-CARvING; machine which pos
sesses many radical improvements has
been brought out. The machine is de-
signed specially for use in furniture
factories, and in car, organ and piano
factories, and other establishments
where wood carving is done. 1t will
carve four duplicate pieces any length
at one operation if not over seven and
one-h half inches wide, or it will make
two duplicate pieces any length if not
over fifteen inches wide, and if great
er width is desired one piece can be
carved of any length, and from fifteen
to thirty inches wide. The bits can be
handled conveniently and in any direc-
ton within an angle of 80 degrees.