Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-10-29
MlSCELLANEO

GREEN LAKE, Colorado, is the highest
lake in the world. The surface is 10,-
250 feet above the sea level.
A FoX-sQUIRREL, killed near Seymour,
Ind, is said to have measured three
feet and nine inches from nose to tip of
tail.
A GENTLEMAN in Tacoma recently gave
q dinner to twenty eight people, he
dining-room being the interior of the
trunk of a tree on his estate.
| In Northern Vermont the tempera-
ture last week rose to 920 in the shade,
and on Monday morning stood at 800 :,
the lowest point reached since last
! March.
TIE list of powerful explosives for
purposes of war now includes roburite,
bellite, forcite, emmensite, lyddite, mel
mite, ecrasite, heliofite, americanite
and tonite.
IN Africa there are 500 missionaries
and 400, 900 converts. An average Of
5000 year become converted and in
five years more than 200 martyrs have
lost their lives there.
A DEALER in al tificiai limbs says that
an arm will last a lifetime if properly
cared for, but that after five or six years
a leg gives way to the weight and strain
! ana HAS 10 De Iou0Wou.
A ST.. LOUIS physician recalls the case
| of young man who had been dumb for
| five years, but who, while out hunting
one dav began, in the excitement of the
chase, to yell at the top of his lungs
| Afterwards he was able to speak with
perfect articulation.
| THERE are said to be more widows II
New York than in any other city of the
world outside of London. Paris comes
next to New York.
LEEDS finds employment for 500
women and girls as rag-sorters. They
earn shillings week and sing merrily
in chorus during their work.
CONS of low denominations circulate
very rapidly; thus it is calculated that
every penny in circulation changes
hands dozen times week:
THE first steamship to fire gun in ac-
ton was the Royal William, side
wheeler, which crossed the Atlantic in
1888. She was built at Quebec.
POLAR bears are reported to be I'M
usually plentiful in Alaska this season.
They are found further south, which is
said to be sign that the winter will be
very cold.
ENrERpR1s1NG people in San Diego,
| Cal. are building up profitable busl-
ness on the sale of wild-howe1 seed,
from which there is an extensive de-
mand from tourists and in the East.
AUSTRIA, the principal matchmaker
of the Old World, produces no less than
$500 tons of them every year tor Elk
portation merely. In England the IN
diy1dual average is about eight per day
STEwARTsvILLE, Mo-, reports pump
kin weighing los pounds. BY a little
Kitchen calculation this will make at
Ieaat 200 pies. and these cut into great
BIG quarters will make 500 people hap
Ply: u+o7 - boro
rece ntly killed in river IN Scotland,
five salmon, which averaged over ~
pounds each. The hsh were an cap,
| TIRED. it is said, with an artificial fly and
unassisted.
THE railways of India at the COM
mencement of the present year aggre-
Gated 1927 miles in operation. with
| : o72 miles under construction. The IN
crease during the previous year was o1o
miles.
To prevent accidents from the Laut-
fem Frankfort cable, which transmits
deadly current of $4,000 volts. all the
noles for 112 miles are adorned with
skulls and cross bones surrounded with
a warning notice.
A FLAT and clean piece OF yellow lear
cold, so bright and perfectly, etched
and scalloped by nature that old miners
could hardly believe that it came IRON m a
mine in that shape, was found IN Col
nmbia Hill. 1t is about the size, shape,
and half the thickness of woman
hand, and is worth $780,
THE gauge of the Roman charlots 2,ooo
Years ago was feet s. inches, same as
standard railroad gauge of to-day.
AN ignorant old woman living at Au-
onsta. i'll. who was supposed to be very
6oor. recently sent for the township
spnneryisor, and slipping bag from IN
dar her dress asked him to count the
Money in it. The amount was l,9Ol,
nnd # represented the Accommodations OF
~ that she had been storing In her
Iustie Having ascertained the value
Of ofI her property the old woman made
will. ~ ~,
tho other dav to lay in camp supplies.
While there he saw can OF yeast pow,
1er with the elephant brand on 1t ana
. aGi 70 his partner: Jim, are they can
ming elephants? Let's take some oack
| with us. ~,
RpocKToS man, it is reported, has
vented a machine to prevent snor-