Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-08-02
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who were all clubfooted and, knock
kneed.
THE Maori women, of New Zealand,
are killing themselves trying to wear
corsets, since they have seen them on
the missionary women.
| On an uptown street in Philadelphia
there are six houses adjoining each 9TH
er IN which the wives are all sisters.
The last was married month ago, and
last week secured the house adjoining
those of her sisters.
| A CAMERON, Mo-, woman employed a
nelghbor woman to do the family whip
! ping for her, and after the Job had been
| done in a thoroughly artistic manner,
! she brought suit against her substitute
! for cruelty to animals.
| THE clock recently removed from the
| Exchange tower in Savannah, Ga, had
marked off time there for eighty seven
years. 1t was removed because it had
become too unreliable. A modern
tlmepiece is to take it's place.
| JOHN MCGLYNN, a shoemaker Of
Kingston, suffering from an abscess on
| the neck, died suddenly on Sunday
evening. AT noon he said to his wife:
| don't want to die hungry
| "A MAIHEMATlCIAN ANNOUNCES 10 du oA-
pectant world that two persons playing
dominoes ten hours a day and making
| four moves a minute, could continue
ll8,00O,000 years without exhausting
all the combinations of the game.
| Mrs. AMBROSE HALEY, of Houlton,
Me-, has in her possession treasured
| heirloom, a slipper that was worn by
| her fathers grandmother, on the occa
| sion of her marriage, in England,
which must have occurred fully 175
| years ago. 1t is made of brocaded sat
| in.
| A DOCK hand at Fall River, Mass, has
just met with a singular mishap. He
laid down on the wharf and fell asleep.
The hot sun beat into his face totally
destroying the sight of both eyes. In
cropping about the place when he awoke
| he fell into ship and was badly cut
and bruised.
A REMARKABLE invention has been
made in Austria, whereby the serious
effects of railway collisions are prevent
and if they are broken by an obstacle
an electric movement is applied to the
brakes, bring the train to an immediate
standstill
MAJ. THOMAS w. HARDWOOD, who was
101 years old last March, has arrived at
Bath, Me-, from Brooklyn n. Y, where
he passed the winter. He was one of
Baths first shipbuilders. He drove his
own team down town, walked up a
flight of stairs without any assistance
and transacted some business.
A FARMER near st; Louis has nest of
owls in his barn, and they keep it free
from rats and mice. The birds lay up
provisions at night for the next day.
The farmer marked the bodies of the
mice he found by cutting off one foot
with pair of scissors. At nightfall the
mice would be gone, and the next morn
ing there would be fresh supply.
JAMES CUsICK, who discovered John G..
Heenan in California, in 1S49 or 1850,
and brought him East to fight with John
Morrissey, died at St. Luke's Hospital
in New York, on Wednesday. By a Gu
rious coincidence his cousin, Nicholas
London, who also led sporting life,
died the same day at Bellevue Hospital
SOME of the cattle out on the farms on
the Scottville Pike, in Tennessee, are
going blind from some unknown cause
Many believe it is the intense heat
Henry Dunn has had several head to
90 totally blind, and nearly all are
young feeding cattle. The eyes first
turn pale and in the course of a day or
so lose their sight completely.
On the T. A. Davis ranch up the
Skookumchuck River, Wash, is cedar
which is classed among the dwarfs in
this country, but in some places might
attract attention. The interior has been
burned, so that circular space has
been formed, having diameter OF II
feet 6 inches. The outside circumfer-
ence is AZ feet inches.
ACCORDING to the Tribune the first
steamer ever chartered to carry pro-
duce from New York to Australia was
engaged Thursday. She is the Prodane,
and was chartered by Arkell 4 Doug
lass. She will be loaded in the latter
part of this month. Hitherto produce
has been shipped from that port to Aus
tralia in sailing vessels.
A INDUSTRIOUS chunck of ore was taken
from the Mountain Consolidated mine
at Butte City, Mont, few days ago.
1t was too large to put on two-horse
wagon and four-horse team was used.
The ore is estimated to weigh nearly
four tons, and is nearly solid copper and
silver. It has been bound with hoops
of iron and boxed up, preparatory to
shipment-probably to London.
A FEW weeks before the census-takers
began the regular census the citizens of
Elm Grove, w. Va, thought to enumer-
ate their population preparatory to in
cooperating the town. The following is
the remarkable result: Number of
males over p years of age, 14S; num-
Der of males under 81 years of age, 14S;
number of females over Is years of age,
/ 14S: number of females under Is years
of age, l48; grand total, 592.
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