Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-07-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

put on IL Wnon the structure was DulIC
in 1881.
THE light seen through the new eye
piece Of the Lick telescope will be 1000
times as bright as that seen by the I'M
aided eye.
THUNDER BAY River, Mich, is one log
jam for distance of thirty miles. Many
millions of feet are packed in an almost
inseparable mass.
A 4O-YEAR-OLD wagon is seen daily on
the streets of Denison, Tex 1t is made
of brOls dare, known in the North as
Usage orange.
THE census enumerator in East An
dover, n. H., made the acquaintance Of
man and his wife who were rejoicing
over the birth of their tWenty-tifth
child.
TWENTY acres of cotton in full bloom,
with pink and yellow blooms hanging
on the same stalk, is beautiful sight,
and one that can be seen at St. Francis,
Fla.
ACCoRDFNG to the American Geologist,
the largest gold mine in the world is in
Alaska. 1t is lighted throughout by
electricity, and is worked day and
night.
WALTER BEsANT has been accused by
him and having extracted from him,
when in that condition, the entire story,
word for word, of the novelette, entitled
''The Doubts of Dives"
A PRACTICAL joke was played on Gov
ernor Hill, at Normandie-b y-the-Sea on
Fourth of July night. A photographic
doll had been placed in his bed which
kept saying, 81 want my mamma" I'M
til it's works ran down.
A NEW and popular development of
electrical science is the electrical hair
curler. 1t is said to be equal to the most
exacting demands of the feminine colt
fure, and the beard or mustache can be
curled in any style in two minutes.
TIE reason given why birds do not
fall from their perch is because they
cannot open the foot when the leg is
bent. Look at a hen walking, and see
it close the toes as it lifts its foot and
open them as it touches the ground.
Mr.. McGRATH, Of Woodford, Ky,
possesses a remarkable feline. His cat
was born with only three legs, and as
soon as the kitten became large enough
to leave it's mother he constructed
wooden leg and successfully adjusted it.
A KANSAS doctor recently reported to
his medical society case of poisoning
which he attributed to the patients
habit of putting the end Of his lead pen
Gil in his mouth. Ofcourse, the patient
didn't know that there is no lead in a
lead pencil.
The New York Central Railroad Com
pany is REMEMBERING all of it's locomo
tives, Of which it has over 800. Those
from to 249 will be switching engines,
from $50 to 700 freight engines, and all
above the latter number will be pas
senger engines.
STANDING near the yard at Jonathan
Farmers in Oglethorpe County, Ca, is
a red oak tree which measures 81 feet
in circumference, two feet from the
ground. 1t is hollow, and the recess
within is sufficiently large to accommo-
date half dozen people.
AN immense double watermelon at
tracted attention in Uniontown gro
Gerry. Double Watermelons are exceed
inglv rare, and all who saw this, includ-
ing a Southern darby who has seen
many melon patch, declared 1t the
first they had ever seen.
The number of murders and murder
Gus assaults recorded in Michigan, Ohio,
New York, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin
and Iowa since January are two for ev-
cry one in the big state of Texas, land for
every cyclone in the South this summer
the North and West have had three.
AN Indianapolis woman who has been
eight times divorced, is 81 years old,
and comes of family noted for it's di
vorces. Her mother has had six di
vorces and is living with her seventh
husband. An uncle and two aunts have
been married five times. They are still
young.
THERE is a very curious stone about
called the fAlexandrite, in honor of
Alexander, of Russia, who was very
fond of them. In the daytime they
resemble an emerald, except that they
are somewhat darker, but at night they
are deep purplish red.
Down in Florida negro tried to steal
a ride on cowcatcher. The engineer
did not see him until the train ran into
a cow on the track, when the COW flew
one side and the negro the other, ex-
claiming, ooh Lordy" forty times be-
fore he hit the ground. He was left to
keep the bovine company.
ONE of the queer condolences of the
census is reported from Eastern Maine,
where the gain in population in two
cities for the past ten years is exactly
the same. Brewers population was $40
in 1880, and is now 1905. Calais had
6,175 persons in 1880, and now has 7, 100,
the gain in each case being 925.
THE French Post-office Department is
examining a new and original system
for distributing newspapers through
the mails Every publication is to pro-
vide the central post-office with the list
of it's subscribers, and every number is
to be sent to the subscribers without
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