Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-16
IN BRIEF.

bv sitting in a pew and purposely sing
ing out Of tune.
4 5-yEAR-oLD child at Eugene, Ore,
crows faster on one side than the other,
and the doctors are puzzled by the CHI
| cumstance.
BELFAST. Me-, has a unique claim to
notoriety. The Age says that not
single hand-organ man has VISITED the
city this year.
In Tehama County,T Cal, grasshop-
pers have appeared. Three men re-
Gently, caught 500 pounds OF grasshop-
pers in two Lours."
A SHOWER from a hose nozzle placedc
| inside the shirt collar, is proving an Ell
| fectiye treatment for drunkards, IN
stead of the lookup, at Houlton, Me.
AN educated, accomplished young
lady of Potosky, Mich, has split twenty
cords of wood with her own hands, ana
has it piled neatly to season Tor summer
| use.
AT Dunedin, Fla, day or two ago,
James Barnes and Billy Marston sue
ceeded in landing a fish called the
nurse. which was estimated to weigh
over 800 pounds.
! Sw1TzER1AND. the little mountain dem
ocracv, or Federal Republic Of Europe,
will be 600 years old on the LIST OF next
| August. The Swiss propose to cele-
brate the event.
Or the Ct, $50, 1856 gold coin issued last
wear bv the British Mint, FL ,22l 100
were in half sovereigns, the coinage OF
which has since 1885 been practically
suspended.
A VERY large turtle laid IT'S eggs just
at the foot of Hotel Coqulna's front
steps on Ormond Beach, Fla, Monday.
A crowd of thirty or forty people were
standing near at the time.
CHARLES MOVER, of Stouchsburg, Pa,
having found a nest full OF quail s eggs,
placed them under bantam hen and
now has the bantam and ten qualls
roaming over his farm.
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga, claims a prodigy
in a 4-year-old child-Micajah BagWell
who can read any piece of music at
sight. The little fellow often leads the
music in the country singing school.
RUSSIA is beginning to tind@out that
owing to official rascality her detenses
are not 50 impregnable as she supposed.
Some of her famed fortresses are SO
carelessly built that gale could level
them. ~HG
THE latest fad in Seattle, Wash, is
paper hats for ladies. They are made
in various styles, and, being usually
pretty and snowy and costing only
few cents each, are apt to become quite
popular. ., ,, .,o4;
always prepared in the open air. The
ingredients are red pepper pods, pota-
toes, tomatoes and corn in the vegetable
| line, stewed with prairie chickens and
soft shell crabs.
VAN buren, COUNTY, Mich, has relig-
ious sect known as the Saints" They
| held big meeting recently and lO,OOO
people were present. The saints"
claim to have to marvellous degree the
power of healing the sick.
A FARMER near Yuba City, Cal, COM
plains that so tons of hay he had cut
was drenched by heavy rain, while on
large field of grain which needed rain
| but did not get drop.
A RECENT survey has established the
number of glaciers in the Alps at ,155,
of which 249 have length of more than
A miles. The French Alps contain IA
glaciers; those of Italy, rs; Switzerland,
All !; and Austria, 4O2.
NORTH, WATERFORD, Me-, boasts of a
smart woman, Mrs. Benjamin Jackson,
who recently walked three miles to doa
washing, carrying in her arms baby
| only II days old, and wheeling little
girl not quite years old, in carriage.
II is reported that nugget of gold in
one mass weighing 35 pounds has re-
Gently been found in the newly explored
gold district in British Guiana, and has
been sent to England as specimen of
the auriferous deposits in that country.
NEAR Astoria, Ore, are large areas of
dvked tide land. This land is richer
| the more it is stirred 1t is made up of
| the washings of the hills and the deposits
of the ocean for centuries, and when
plowed and exposed to the sunlight 1t
yields enormously.
THERE are no poisonous or venomous
plants or reptiles in any part of Clatsop
| County, Ore, and one can tread the
path or deepest jungle of the vegetable
growth without the slightest fear of be-
ing bitten or poisoned by anything ami
NAL or vegetable.
A YOUNG negro boy living near Pine
Island, La, has killed over 400 rattle
except couple of sharp sticks. He
was bitten some years ago by one of the
reptiles, and has ever since carried ona
| crusade against them.
THE latest fad invented by the novelty
man is the masculine fam" 1t is one
of the open and shut up affairs, and on
either surface is a scene from sporting
life. The proper way to carry the sport
ing fan, is to permit it to hang by
chain fastened to the suspender.
THE Belfast, Me-, Age tells of an old
gentleman in that city who rowed all
over Swan Lake, trolling, one after
noon, without getting a bite as he
thought, only to find, when he came
was on his hook, dead" probably died
of disgust"
UPWARD of sixty species of East In
dian plants, mostly of the fern family,
with a goodly sprinkling of grasses and
creeping vines, are luminous, and it is
said that the sides of the mountains in
the vicinity of Syree are nightly illumi-
mated by the pale, white light which
they emit.