Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-01-03
TENTED INFORMATION.

in New York, few days ago, each
guest presented the chield with $50
gold piece wrapped in red paper.
| MICHIGAN farmers are raising their
mortgages this year by the extraor-
binary crops of potatoes and the excel
lent prices they are receiving for them.
THE government of Siam is vested in
duarchy, but practically it is mon
| archv. There is a second or vice king,
| but the first or senior king is the real
ruler.
THERE has been an enormous increase
in the value of land in Berlin. For a
| piece of property in the suburbs, which
| was sold for $3.50 thirty years ago, $780,
| 900 is now demanded.
CHICAGO has annexed and absorbed
until one can 60 out and shoot wild tur-
keys inside her city limits, and she has
sufficient pasture range to feed 10000
| Texas steers all summer.
AN invalid's chair propelled by cleo
| tricity is among the late novelties. The
battery is capable of propelling the chair
! over an ordinary road for nine hours at
| the rate of six miles an hour.
THERE is a SIP hog case in Montgom-
cry County, Ind, which has been IN lit
! igation for years, and in which the costs
already aggregate pOUU. l/dob WSOh ~
was appealed to the supreme court.
A DEMAND seems to have lately arisen
in England for hydromel, drink pre-
pared from honey, and large conslgn-
ment of this Polish speciality has just
been dispatched from Warsaw to Lon
don.
In Nebraska City, Neb., the other
day, Judge Chapman sentenced Lee
Finney to eighteen months imprison-
ment for burglary, and William Fry to
four years for stealing an old suit of
clothes.
A SCHOLARSHIP of $2OOis offered by the
Vassar Students Aid Society for a
student who passes ali the require
ments for admission to the Freshman
class at the examination to be held in
June, 1891.
IT is proposed using the Eiffed Tower
to exhibit the rotation of the earth by
the Foncault method. The pendulum
is bronze wire $50 feet long, with a
steel globe at the end weighing 1913
pounds.
A RAPID penman can write thirty
words in a minute. To do this he must
draw his Quill through the space of a
rod-l65 feet. In forty minutes his pen
travels a furlong, and in five hours
third of mile.
FRENCH Canadians have been attract
ed by the accounts of deserted farms in
Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine,
and report has it that by spring the great
bulk of these lands will have passed in
to their possession.
THE Springfield, Mass, police have
adopted the plan Of giving tramps soup
breakfast and making them saw wood
for four hours after the meal, which is
having the effect of thinning out those
dodgers at the city hall.
ACCORDING to a recentlv-published
census of Vassar College graduates it ap
pears that OF S67 young ladies, whose ca
reer after leaving that institution had
been learned, 315, Or little more than
So per cent, had married.
THE Turtle clan of the Iroquois claim
to have descended from a fat turtle,
which, burdened by the weight of it's
shell in walking, contrived by great ex-
ertions to throw it off, and thereafter
gradually developed into a man.
A HORSE at Flint, Mich, tried to make
short cut and GO across railroad
bridge. About half way across he
slipped cog and his front feet fell be-
tween the ties. passenger train was
obliged to wait about half an hour while
the horse was being taken off.
IF boy Is years of age should be left
ten acres of land in Michigan'and his
guardian should cover it with hickory
trees, the income of the boy when he
came to be 30 years old would be from
SO 900 to S11 600 clean cash off his little
farm.
A GREENvILLE, Mich, woman missed
one of her turkey hens, and supposed it
was dead ur:ii she saw her coming in
from the road with fourteen little ones.
The mercury was swinging around close
to zero, but the old hen reali zed it was
near the holidays, and the Matching
| went on just the same.
ONE of the results of the late Pan
American Congress has been the estab-
lishment in the State Department of a
Bureau of the American Republics"
whose principal object is the dissent
nation of useful information concerning
the commercial conditions and advan-
| tages of the several American repub-
lies.
The French postal administration has
Just introduced convenient plan for
enabling people in remote villages to
send a telegram. although there is no
office in the place. All such villages are
to be connected to the nearest telegraph
office by telephone, SO that the message
can be spoken to the telegraph Office
where it is dispatched.
A COMMON drunk" was run in by the
Shortly after his release he rushed into
the station demanding to know what
was done with the 81 800 in gold he had