Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-16
llEMlZED FACTS

;o nhEfE are SAID to be over sc. 900 Amor
ican visitors now in Mexico.
AN Atchson street car has been na;n+-
GU plack tor funeral purposes.
"a "a fRENClIWoMAN proposes to walk on
elllts from Paris to Moscow.
! TEATftERY snowfiakes as large as silver
dollars fell In New York the other dav
, Two acres OF land adjecent to the Lon
u0n Houses of Parliament have heon
ling. '0A'0oo'ooo stef-
GOD 1T = Is estimated that there are $4,000.
IVY ieet OF saw logs moored to the banks
OF the river between Cattlesburp. XIV
and lronton. g ''
IN It's half century of business not a
single passenger Of the millions who
nave crossed the Atlantic in the o.
narders has been lost.
ABOUT the only farm work that cannot
now be successfully done bv MACHINERY
Is husklng corn. 1t is still done about
the same old way.
"A DOUGLASS COUNTY, Kan, farmer was
compelled to use four horses the other
| doy to haul twenty bushels of corn to
LaWrenc but he got 81 bushel for it.
WHEN the carpet has been soiled bv
INK instantly apply blotting- paper, then
mllk, then blotting- paper, and SO on
| until the spot is out, as it will be. Don't
! rub.
AN Atchison woman recently refused
the present of a handsome set of books
| because they did not match the color of
her tront-room furniture.
THE day after the last Of the whaling
| tleet had departed from San Francisco
large school OF whales appeared in the
bay and "cavorted" audaciouslv.
A NEEDLE, after devious experience
OF tnlrty-six years in the body of
Springfield, Mo, woman, came out
through her side the other day. The
needle had lost it's temper and was as
pllable as piece of wire.
A vERlTABLE curiosity has been cap
tured in Africa. 1t is an elephant,
larger than the late lamented Jumbo.
pea-green in color, trunkless, and has
tusks that branch out something like
the horns of deer. 1t is in possession
of native king, who will not part with
| it.
A SN1NA, Kan, family is eating
fresh, ripe tomatoes from vine which
was taken into the house last fall and
carefully nurtured during the winter.
At the prevailing price of coal in Kansas
the tomatoes are supposed to represent
| value OF about $l apiece.
THE largest and heaviest building
stone ever Quarried in England was
taken from the Plankingtop quarry,
near Norwich, in February, 1889. 1t
was one piece, without crack or flaw,
and weighed over 50 tons; it was Is feet
long, & feet high and 5 feet wide.
FLoUNDERs replenish the ocean at
very rapid rate. In a season one tloun-
| a Of
scattering them broadcast through the
water. The sole produces 100000 eggs,
place not less than 100000, while a
! large turbot has been credited with the
deposition of II 100000 or 100000 of
eggs.
LARGELY because of the electric light,
the average time of transit through the
Suez Canal goes on diminishing steadily
from wear to year. Last year it was a
hours 6 minutes, whereas in 1889 it was
rs hours SO mnutes in 1888, 81 hours 10
minutes; in 1887, 80 hours So minutes,
and in 1886 not less than IS hours.
A DOG belonging to resident of Cor
dell, Ga, got his head Wedged III
| hollow tree one day while chasing
rabbit, and, failing to release himself,
remained IN that position for, eleven
DAVIS without food or drink, when the
|
was alive, but it is not known what be-
came of the rabbit.
A PHYSICIAN who died in Philadelphia
on Wednesday, aged y, was very
eccentric citizen, so much so that he
regularly paid his board at high-prlced
hotel but very rarely lived there. AL
though himself doctor, he would never
allow a doctor to be called in when he
was ill, and would not take medicine OF
his own.
ANAN in Vermont who neglected his
wife finds himself confronted by petl-
ton signed by over 100 of the, best
| known women in the town and ad-
dressed to the Court, asking for his DIS
missal from the Office of county CLERK.
This kind of suffrage made hum SICK,
and the judges have postponed aclloh
until he gets we'll.
A NOVELTY in the washing machine
line has inst been invented. 1T is con-
nected with a child's swing, and after
the soiled garments, with the proper
Quantity of soap shavings have been put
in the tub. child is placed in the swing,
which is set in motion, and moves auto
matically, and turns the washing ma
chine. . ,o,r+b Of
from 3 to feet, and an average weight
Of from IL to 80 pounds, but these limits
of size and weight are frequently eA-
90 The heaviest Tay salmon re-
corded corded weighed 70 pounds, and the big
pest fish taken with rod ana llre was
: aI t;9@-pounder, which fell to former
Earl of Home.
THE smell of paint may be taken away
bv closing up the room and setting IN
10 renter of it a pan of lighted char
COAL Goa on which has been thrown aT?S i some me
1nnl for day and a night, when the
smell of the paint will be gone. some ne
persons prefer pail OF water ~ IN Mn aIsn
a handful of hay is soaking; lu's 70 ,',oo
ettectuaI in removing the odor OF TOBACCO
smoke from room. ,
A GEORGIA veterinary surseu t; n"s o Pc,
! e>nnnnd quite q skillful Operatlon on