Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-11-22
ON THE FLY.


ers.
THERE are 1882 school districts, 62, :
372 teachers, and 100000 school chill
dren in Japan.
4 TORONTO papers figures out that the
drunkards of that city lost $l0l 1852 In
wages last year.
more people kill them selves by eat
ing than by using intoxicants, IL the
statement Of q celebrated physician.
THE Croton Aqueduct is now practical
Nv completed and ia use. The supply ID
3lS, 100000 gallons of water per day.
THE first and only modern windmill
in London il to be seen Mt work on the
top of warehouse in City Road, Lon
don.
Thirty SIX years ago the first settler
built his house in Omaha, and the In
dams reluctantly fell back n few miles
to the West.
In some foreign cities there are men
hired to attract crowd to their en-
ployers' windows by staring and gazing
into them.
Ir is calculated that nine-tenths of
the reading time Of most men and that
of large proportion of women IL gwen
to newspapers.
Two OF the albums sent to the inter-
national exhibition of postage stamps,
ut Vienna, we're insured for G2 500 and
5000 respectively.
The loveliest summer resort on earth
il probably the plateau of Newera ELLA,
the Kings Summit" ~ the natives call
it, in the highlands Of Southern CeylOn.
THE population of Vienna, by the an
nexation of several suburban villages,
now amounts to ,3O0 900, ranking as
lurope's fourth city in point of inhab-
itants.
A SINGLE hair can support weight of
two ounce - and liz 80 elastic that it may
be stretched TO ne-third of it's entire
length, and then regain it's former size
and condition.
Ir il said that in New York there are
professional blackeye concealers, where
those employed are fully occupied in
painting black eyes with mixture OF
white and red paints.
ACROSS the water and possibly here,
there are mon who undertake to make
pretended wormholes in various objects
of furniture to give them due appear
ance of antiquity.
Iron collars for heavy work-horses
are now coming into use. They may
weigh less than seven pounds, and The
advantage of their use IL said TO be Inn
munitv from sore necks.
A NEW rose has been introduced at
Lyons, which is described IN velvety
red, with - delicious perfume. 1t is
named in honor of the department
commandment, Baron Berge.
ACCORDING to Capt. Wissman, of the
African exploring party, the paradise OF
birds seems to have been found on the
shores of lagoon communicating with
the eastern extremity OF the Albert
Nyanxa.
HEDGRHoGs are occasionally Cannibal-
istic, the larger ones, when hard up for
dinner, chasing the smaller at Il Won
derful rate, and devouring them without
sauce or mercy when caught and con-
Querod.
A RUSSIAN has invented tireproof
paste, which has recently been put to y
crucial test by the Moscow Imperial So
ciety Of Agriculture. 1t proved Il great
success; straw when covered with it will
not ignite.
In Paris there are professional trunk
packers who can be hired to pack a
trunk artistically, folding expensive
gowns and other garments in tissue pa
por and slowing away delicate brlc-a-
brac in the safest way.
THE greatest distance ever recorded
ut which the sound of cannon has been
heard was on the 4th of December, 1882,
when the cannon of Antwerp were
heard in the Erzogebirge Mountains, at
distance of $40 miles.
THE greatest height upward in the at
mosphere at which the sound of cannon
has been heard was 10000 feet, when
Mr.. Glaisher ut that height over Bir-
mingham, heard the firing of the guns
being proved there.
SOUTHWEST of Suez party of French
SURVEYORS have discovered the bed of an
ancient canal, running for miles in the
direction of the Red Sea, which it
seems to have connected with the basin
of the Mediterranean.
AS palms are fashionable decoration,
a hint may be taken from the practice
of one florist who rubs with sweet oil
the leaves of palms, and even of the
rubber plant, until they are of the rich
est and darkest green.
IT was IN Italy, after Flanders, that
the manufacture of tapestry attained
the highest position during the six
teenth century. Ferrara appears to
have been the most ancient and most
important mandatory in Italy.
A CITIZEN of Americas, Ca, owns q
dog that elves on English sparrows,
which he catches by slyly creeping up
on them" In many cities of the Ohio
Valley the progeny of that Quadruped
would be worth his weight in gold med
ais.
A CURIOUS art imposition has been dis
covered in Paris. An ingenious person
,4>l., hrnnvn and mo rbla hustS from Tho