Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-12-27
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Miss LAURA BURNS, of MartinsVilie,
Ind. has a head of natural hair seven
feet long.
MANGANESE mines in Blount County,
Tenn, are to be opened to Chattanooga
parties
ONLY Christians are permitted to
serve on juries in Russia, without special
permission.
THE ptarmigan is noted among birds
for having a triple moult with three dis
tinctiVe dresses.
we have sent our pastor his resigna-
ton" remarked prominent officer OF
Il church recently.
A 650-pound pig which an Illinois
man had been fattening for Thanksgiv-
ing choked to death the day before.
MOST of the buttons used on cloaks
and coats are made from potatoes which
have been treated to bath of sulphurlc
acid.
THE gatling gun is the invention Of Il
Hartford Yankee and is in use by all
the armies and navies of the world to-
day.
PowEslmlK County, Ia, has paid for
the killing of l25, 900 gophers since the
first of March. The boys gopher the re-
ward.
A NOVEL dinner card is a chunk of pa
per pulp, with little flower painted
on it in water color, and the name ap
pended.
A LONDON bootmaker has had an
order for several pairs of boots and slip
pers to be encrusted with precious
stones.
DURING the wear 1890, nine copper
mines have paid $4,000, 900 in dividends
against S., &c., 900 paid by eight compa-
MES in 1889,
ABOUT $4,000 cigar-makers, who are
on strike in Hamburg, Germany, have
cabled to the unions in New York for
financial aid.
A French Samson now in New York
is said to have lifted over 5000 pounds
unaided as an exhibition of his muscu-
lar power.
MAN is the universal animal. 1t is es-
timated that there are ,250, 900, 900 of him
on the globe. The sheep rank next with
500, 000. 900.
SOME time ago Mr. j. d. Rockefeller
testified in court that he couldn't swear
to his exact fortune by at least ten or
twelve millions.
THE highest church spire in the world
has just been completed. 1t is that OF
the cathedral at Ohm, Wurtembnrg, and
is $50 feet high.
Few eggs are strictly symmetrical,
side bullying out, though very slightly,
more than the other.
THE magpie, as though self-conscious
that its own thieving habits may be imi-
tated by its neighbors, surrounds It's nest
with q hedge of thorns.
THE sOciable grosbeak, ofSouth Africa,
Joins nest to nest until the tree is said
to break down under the accumulated
weight of the common editice.
A cAuLIFLowER measuring fifteen inch
ches across the top and weighing III
pounds is the latest important farm
product in Multnomah County, Oregon.
SIX boys of one Augusta Me family
drew their pension last week, they all
having served through the late civil
war, being now gray-headed old men.
IT is asserted, scientifically, that the
kingtisher lines the end of its hole, or
nest, with the undigested spiny fish
bones she elects in pellets from her own
stomach.
CUTTINGS of the Mexican vanilla plant
will become rooted in about month,
but do not bear fruit until the third
year. They continue to bear for about
30 wears.
THE prospectus is issued of an Elk.
haustVe history of the State of Missis-
sippi covering the $50 years of her ex-
istenCe, from 1910 to 1890. 1t Will fill
two Quarto volumes.
IT is usually said that there are but
seven nine-lettered monosyllable words
in the English language, viz: Scratch
ed, stretched, crunched scranched,
screeched, squelched, and staunched.
MARSHALL PASS, on the Denver and
Rio Grande Railroad, 1851 feet above
the level of the sea, is the highest point
crossed by any railroad inside the limits
ofthe United States.
Two prominent citizens Of Ishpeming,
Micl,., have agreed to forfeit $50 if
found taking a drink before July next
The notice of the agreement has been
posted up in all the saloons.
A WET silk handkerchief tied, without
folding, over the face is a complete Sc
curity against suffocation from smoke.
itpermits free breathing and at the same
time excludes the smoke from the lungs.
II hotels the life of napkin is put
down at three months, provided it is of
extra good material. 4 sheet lasts six
months, and a tablecloth depends for
ITS existence upon the care taken of it.
The first practical revolver was the in
Yention of Colt, an American, and only