Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-07-26
CURIOUS CoNDENs ATIONs.


A SENSATION has been produced in
Heidelberg by the rumor that the gov
eminent may close the university.
THE Berlin police have refused pc
nit to Buffalo Bill's Wild West show on
the ground that it is demoraliZing to
youth.
IT was extraordinarily cold in North
ern Germany during the first part of
June. In number of districts early
vegetation was killed by frosts.
To shrink WOODEN Goods: First-Aft-
er pulling treat the goods on perforat-
ed table with superheated steam. Sec
ond-Pass through bath Of alum of
l.O7 spirit grains for hall an hour, wiring
and dry; wash soap, wash Oft and dry.
EXPERIMENTS made in Sweden by NJ.
Sandberg on the strength Of iron rails
during winter have shown that steel
rails containing over per cent OF car
bon are apt to break in cold weather.
In fact, the result Of his investigations
points to the use Of rails having less
carbon than this-say 3 per cent-in
countries as cold in winter as Norway
and Sweden.
THE Pail Mall Gazette says that Prof.
Gluck recently performed a remark
able and successful operation He re-
moved from one of his male patients
diseased knee joint, and inserted an
artificial substitute made from ivory.
The patient has now left his bed. He
walks with perfect ease, and says his
ivory knee Joint is convenient and COM
Portable in every way.
A YOUNG lady Of Altoona observed by
the roadside a wild rose, upon one Of
the branches Of which was growing
small bunch of burs, healthy and per-
feet in every particular, as was also the
rose branch to which they were singu-
larly attached A freak of nature which
is unexplainable.
CHARLIE PHINIzY. of Athens, is an I'M
erring marksman, and achieved feat
the other day that required an extra
ordinary degree of skill. He placed
tiny piece Of paper on the head of a
negro and shot it off with parlor rifle.
The negro evidently was endowed with
iron nerves or was a firm believer in
Observation-Disclosures.
COL SIR EDWARD BRADFORD, the new
disappointed chief commissioner Of the
London police force, is one Of the most
celebrated sportsmen of the English
army. His fame as hunter of big game
extends throughout the length and
breadth of India, and it was during one
of his jungle expeditions that his left arm
was bitten clean off by an Infatuated til
gress.
A SOUTHERN coIored Farmers Ali
ance indOrses the nomination OF Capt.
b. r. Tillman for governor of South
Carolina in the following dubious reso-
lutions: "In union there is strength.
We are all children of Eve and Adam,
why not act so in principle? There is
one God, one heaven, one hell, and we
must STAY together in one of the places.
Why not vote together for Tillman?"
THR Youngest great grandmother lives
near Pomona, Cal. Her name is Fran
cesca Cordoba, and her age is but 90
wears. She was married when but 10
years old, and her eldest daughter mar
ricd when she was little over II years
old Mrs Cordoba was but 33 years old
when she was a grandmother. Her eld-
est granddaughter was married IN
April, 1889, at the age of Is years, and
now a greats granddaughter IS born.
AN athletic Cuban negro, about 30
years of age, escaped the other night in
Headquarters. Reaching between the
bars of his door he pried eff the face of
huge paddock with a case knife and
the wire handle of bucket, pushed
, back the bolt and opened the door. He
got through corridor window to the
top of a shed, dropped to the ground,
climbed a fence or two, and was of TOR
parts unknown.
HEzIAu TIBBETrs brings report to
Pendleton, Ore, from Mountain Valley,
which has been somewhat excited of
late overothe discovery of gold Lodges,
that new vein of coal So inches in
thickness at the surface, has been found
about three miles this side of Fletcher's
mine and will be located and developed
by the discoveries. Butter creek evil
IDENTITY finds its source in a section rich
in mineral wealth.
A CITIZEN of Belfast, Me-, was awak-
ened about o'clock the other morning
by strange noise and, going to the Win
dow, saw about thirty robins fighting a
crow, which was trying to get at rob
ms nest, in nearby tree, containing
some Young birds The robins finally
drove off the crow. The man went
down to the tree and found one young
robin on the ground dead, while two
others were safe in the nest. The crow
was on piratcal expedition, and but
for the valiant fight OF the ROBINS would
have undoubtedly killed all the young.
A HOTEL. in Rome, anxious to secure
English patronage, has set 1orth It's adj
vantages in the following advertise
ment, which is placarded about Paris
The Hotel de , the very most ia
vorite resort by English and American
travellers, as during the winter presents
all kinds of comforts for what concerns
the general heating, during the sum-
meris lust fit to afford the freshest and
most the wholesome temperature on
account of its special position, breadth
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