Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-07-19
SMALL FRY,

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perusal of men getting shaved has been
formed in New York.
A BULL snake was killed in Bennett
| Valley, Sonoma County, CAL, last Tues
day, that measured so feet inches long
and weighed 20 pounds.
| AT Chisamba, Africa, the young peo-
pie have asked the missionary to raise a
| flag Saturday evenings, that they may
know that the next day is Sunday, and
come to the meetings.
| A DISPATCH from Ohio tells of one of
the shortest courtships on record. The
| groom was a guest at Canton hotel.
He became infatuated with the cook
the day of his arrival, proposed, and,
being accepted, married her at once.
THE San Francisco Call says one doc
tor at Sisson has attended two patients
within three weeks, who lost one finger
each by letting the car door slam to.
The ends of the fingers were taken off
as neatly as if done with hay-cutter.
AFTER two Brooklyn pugilists had
fought five rounds the other night, and
were both GLADLY used up" the mother
of one of them $50 it is stately appeared
on the scene knocked down few of
the spectators with a club and scattered
the others"
THERE is on exhibition at the Melon
exchange in Atlanta a melon that will
weigh ten or twelve pounds. 1t is of
the rattlesnake variety, and the queer
thing about it is that it grew in a black
jack root that completely encircles it,
and has compressed it around the
middle, both ends protruding beyond
the ring. 1t came from Pelham, and is
curious freak.
AN interesting event took place on
the Clyde the other day in the launch
ing of japanese steel plated war
vessel. She is 800 feet in length by ~
feet in breadth and AZ feet in depth.
Her tonnage is 2,450; she has twin
screws and three masts with military
tops. She carries q guns and torpe
does, and is manned by crew of 800.
Viscountess Kewase, a Japanese lady,
christened the ship the Chiyoda.
A INDUSTRIOUS chunk of ore was taken
from the Mountain Consolidated Mine
at Butte City, Mont, a few days ago. 1t
was too large to put on two-horse
| wagon and a four-horse team was used.
| The ore is estimated to weigh nearly
| four tons, and is nearly solid copper
and silver. 1t has been bound with
hoops of iron and bound up, pre-
paratory to shipment probably to Eur
| ope.
| Two girls of the same age and nearly
the same name were placed in French
institution for the care of friendless
children ten years ago. Some time ago
one of them was taken out by her sup
posed mother, given handsome
now comes forward with offers of proof
that she is the real daughter, and she
claims the dowry, if not the husband,
of her substitute.
w. H. CRABB, State Agriculture Com
missioner of California, has asked the
| Worlds Fair directors for the privilege
of having fountain of pure native wine
at the fair Mr. Crabb wants to erect a
perpendicular cone so feet high and
keep it flowing throughout the period of
the fair. He proposes to change the va
rieties every week. Mr.. Crabb pro-
duces 100000 gallons every year from
his vineyard at Oakville, Napa Valley.
THE cigarette habit is fourishing ire
mendously in Austria. The number Of
cigars smoked in that country during
the past year was ,OS5, 600 600, showing
a reduction of Y, 0O0,0 900 on the previous
year. On the other hand the consump-
ton of cigarettes rose to S95, 900, 900, or
an increase of ia 100000. The quantity
of tobacco sold by the government,
which monopolizes the market, has
neither increased nor diminished,
though the consumption of stuff is stead
| ily declining Cigarette smokers in
Austria take the ready-made article.
CAPT. ROBERT STAPLINs, a lobster fish
erman, of Stonington, Conn.,, caught in
one of his pots, Just outside of Fishers
Island, Saturday, lobster with yellow
and red spots of the brightest hue all
over it's body. The lobster was viewed
by men who have been engaged in the
capture of Holsters their entire life, but
none had ever before seen anything
similar. It weighed about one and
a half pounds, and the spots were reg
ular in size and shape. Not only was
the body decorated, but the claws and
legs were as speckled as turkeys egg.
GREECE had her last execution in 1881,
| when seventeen condemned prisoners
were worked off" by one MESSENGER,
who would have made the eighteenth
had it been possible to get an outsider
to act He was under sentence OF
death, and was pardoned in considera-
ton of his services. There are now six
teen men awaiting execution, and an
other pardOned assassin is to 60 from
place to place until they have all been
ttserved.h Such is the natural alb
horrence and detestation of an execu-
| toner that he will have to be kept I'M
| der surveillance constantly for his own
safety.
In stone quarry near Kertsch, in
| South Russia, catacomb has been dis
covered in the form of a vast hall dlvld-
ed into several compartments by thirteen
columns, adorned artistically with orna-
mental figures On one Of them is
written, in Greek roundhand: 'The