Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-11-29
O. B. MOON, Editor and Proprietor.
FRESH FRAGMENTS

paper at Burlington Junction, MO,
called the Nest Egg.
A WIFE beater was recently hung in
eftigy at Mound Valley, kas., by the
"best ladies of the town.
REPORTS come from Northern Michl-
gan that deer hunters are ttockng In
there by the hundreds.
4 LITTLE salt sprinkled over the sur
face of mustard plaster will enable the
patient to keep it on for hours without
much suffering.
SPEAKING about carr ying Goals to New
castle, the Topeka sugar mill has orders
tor all the sugar it can make to be
shipped to New Orleans.
TIE highest individual score at cricket
was made by A. X. Stoddart, in the
match Hampstead against Stoics, played
in 1886. The total score was 40.
AN English writer estimates that on
an average every British workman
spends u dollar Il week for beer and
twenty-five cents Il week for tobacco.
AN Usage City, kas., man has started
new kind of lunch counter. He serves
only one dish-ground pop corn and
cream, which he sells at l0cents a bowl.
TIE people of Northern Europe con-
sumo more alcohol, per capita, than
their neighbors in the South, for the
reason that, relatively, they are not SO
well-fod.
TIE Leaning Tower of Pisa is l83 feet
high, and is, if the cornice be included,
IL feet inches out of the perpendlcu-
lar The walls at the base are Is feet
thick.
As an instrument Of tillage, the spade
costs four times rs much as the ptow.
The horse or the OK, as Il motive power,
is equally at a disadvantage compared
with steam.
IT is said that for more than fifty
wears 600, which was originally m
tended to be applied to the education of
slaves in Georgia, has been lying in the
Bank of Scotland.
TAKE in your hand crystal of quartz,
stick of deal, daisy, an acorn, and
you will not find in them a single ele-
ment of matter that is not also found III
your physical frame.
Brazil is larger than the United
States, but in the whole twenty states
which make up the republic there are
not as many people as we have IN New
York and Pennsylvania.
In 1920 Italy was land of beggars.
The people were So poor that i'll Il city
of 10000 inhabitants traveller was una
q
one of / 900, 3 cake Of soap.
THE Italia and Lepanto, of the Italian
navy, are two of the largest war ships
ever built They are 400 feet long, n
feet broad, and possess mean draught
of water exceeding 30 feet.
A PHYSICIAN has compiled some very
elaborate statistics to demonstrate that
men of thought live, on an average,
three years and a half longer than men
i'll the ordinary vacations of life.
SHERIFF ALISON is authority for the
statement that in the city of Glasgow
alone 10000 people get drunk every Sat
urday night, and crime has increased
six times faster than population.
THOSE who study signs are troubled
between the goose's breast bone, which
prophesies a long, cold winter, and the
building of the hornets nests, which
prophesy mild winter weather.
IN 1881 Belfast had POSI- inhab-
itants; Dublin, 249, 1862; Cork, so, 124. In
1871 Belfast stood at ia, Alp, Dublin at
SAG 1876. The decrease of the one and
the increase of the other are remarka-
BILE
A HOTEL has been built in Hamburg
entirely of compressed wood as hard as
iron, and rendered absolutely proof
against both fire and the attacks of in
seCts by subsection to certain che mlcal
processes
SOME thoughtful subscriber has sent
the editor of the Nermontville, Mich
Echo, a scarlet radish that has attained
the unique and marvellous growth of
nineteen inches in length and nineteen
inches III circumference.
A RECENT survey has established the
number of glaciers in the Alps at l, 100,
of which 249 have a length of more than
four and three-quarters miles. The
French Alps contain IA glaciers, those
of Italy rs, Switzerland All, and Austria
462.
THE distance travelled by Stanley in
the interior of Africa is estimated by
him at 800 miles, of which all but 1000
were on foot. The expedition occupied
three years, and rescued 800 persons, at
cost of less than $50 900.
IN ancient Greece law of Pittacus
enacted that she who commits crime
when drunk shall receive double pun
ishment;" one for the crime itself and
the other for the inebriety which
prompted him to commit it.
IN England one person out of every
3,2oO,0OO people carried is killed. In
France one out of every 100000 pas
sengers is killed. In Belgium one out
of every 100000 is killed. In Prussia
only one out of p, 500, 900 is killed.
A BDDEFoRD, Me-, man offered to
pay his barber 20 cents if the barber
would shave him in less than minute,
provided the barber would do it for
nothing if the operation consumed
more than that time. The Job was
done in 81 seconds.
THE receivable traditions of China go
back to 5000 wears before Christ. and