Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-24
HERE AND THERE

HERE AND THERE.
1 The Indian chiefs on the Umatilla
reservation have been reduced to the
ranks. " ''o
HE Lombards were the first money
changers IN Paris, and one of the his
torlc streets In London was named for
them. 80
DELAWARE still preserves it's whining
post. Recently a batch of chicken
thieves received doses of the cat at New
Castle.
HE size of tower" says Chinese
proVerb, lis measured by it's shade ".
and great men by the number of their
enemies
A LOCOMOTIVE has just been built at
tue CreWe works of the London &
northwestern Railway which is capable
OF drawing train at the rate of 100
miles miles an hour.
Esop's fables were not written by
their author. They were related and
handed down until the Fourteenth
Century, when they were collected and
published by a monk.
In Europe red hair is, associated with
decelttulness. A German proverb
statue are naturally proud; the red
The form, one of the most famous of
modern coins, originated in France. It
was called ''fiorin," however, not from
the name of the city, but from the fact
that IL had on it's feur de lis.
THERE are more coral reefs in the
Central Pacific Ocean than elsewne
though they abound in the Indian
Ocean, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Mad
agascar and Mauritas and near the
shores of Florida. s.
| "A SOUTH AMERICAN proverb says: ga
cocoanut tree is BRIDES dowry," and
really the many uses to which its palm
and it's products are put are wonderful.
They provide family with food, shell
ter, fuel, house, utensils and, if need
| be, clothes.
The Anarchists of France boast CT
about 10000, and the Socialists number
about 100000.
| THE wealth of Baron Hirsch is Just
about equal to that of Jay Gould.
THE priests of P'tah at Memphis were
great glass makers. They not only had
factories for common glass but they
initiated precious stones.
| A CRIBo snake is one of the interest
ing pets at the Central Park, New
York, menagerie. 1t has taste for de-
vouring other snakes, and it is feared
by them all, even the poisonous.
THE European leech has driven the
native American out of the market
| The foreign are said to be the better
| blood suckers.
THE famous blarney stone is about
five miles west of the city of Cork.
THE hen so common in these days
originated N the Bankiva Jungle. where
wild chickens are still to be found.
IT would take 145, 900 cars of 400 bush
els each to haul the wheat grown in
Kansas last year.
IN Canada four sons of one family
married four daughters IL another on
the same day.
THE first diamond in South Africa was
found by two children who were play
ing near a stream in 1867
THE waters of the Indian Ocean now
flow over the site Of old Calicut, the
place from which calico takes its name.
THE first coins madeon this continent
were made in Mexico in 1885. They
we're called the "real" and are now
worth SIS each.
In Missouri the majority Of the
churchgoers are females. Out of con-
gregation of $50 there the other day
only were males.
| ATCHISON, kaS., has SklrI dancer
who is teacher in the public schools.
So far she has not been molested by the
School Board.
GIPs1Es first appeared in Western Eu-
rope in 1447, when several hundred en-
tered Germany and rapidly spread over
the country.
THE Dutch homesteads of Long ISL
and have yielded many curlosltles IN
the shape of furniture which has been
preserved as heirlooms.
In England an American diploma OF
medicine does not entitle its possessor
to call himself M. d. If he does he
may be prosecuted.
ONE of the trees in the Sequoia Park
in California is 345 feet in diameter and
$40 feet high. Another tree is 81 feet
around and $50 feet high.
THE salt lake in the Sandwich Islands
| becomes nearly dry in summer. Crusts
of salt nearly six inches thick are then
deposited all around the edges.
| A CHINESE cook in California decor
ated wedding cake with these words;
aye generation of vipers, who hath
warned YOU to flee from the wrath TO
| come ?"
New YORK real estate agents have
GREAT difficulty in renting buildings sald
! to be haunted. 1t is estimated that
there at least thirty of these houses now
vacant.
AN old French proverb says Salute
no red haired man nor bearded woman
nearer than 80 feet off with three
stones in thy fist to defend thee In thy
need"