Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-11
HERE AND THERE.
Y has a rubber street.

HERE AND THERE.
| GERMANY has a rubber street.
PAPER flower pots are in demand.
A MACHINE makes 5000 corkscrews
daily.
BELG1UM's telephones are run by the
government.
SWITZERLAND is now erecting its first
sugar factory.
AN express engine consumes ten gal
Ions of water per mile.
THE tall hat worn by men first ap-
peared in France nearly 500 years ago.
GOLD mines about Nevada City are
the deepest and richest in the world.
THE only kind of fruit which does not
appear to thrive in California is the
apple.
THE Davy safety lamp for miners was
invented by Sir Humphrey Davy in
1915.
NICKEL steel does not corrode IN salt
water, which fact is of great virtue to
ship plates.
A RUSSIAN can plead infancy for long
time, rs he does not come OF age until
26 years old.
A COUPLE were married one day last
week at Winston, n. c., after a court
ship of tWenty-seven years.
| ELECTRICITY in it's various forms of ap-
plication is said to give employment to
100000 persons.
CHURCH bells were made by Paulinus,
an Italian bishop, to drive away de-
mons, about 400 A. d.
ST. LOUIS is organizing what is claimed
to be the first Italian regiment ever
| formed IN this country.
THE small Photographic portrait was
first made by FEWER, in 1857, and was
ct first used on visiting cards.
THE number of certified schoolmas-
ters employed in England last year was
49,, 1879, and mistresses, IS ,624.
Ir is estimated that fully twothirds of
the whole amount of public money held
by the London banks does not bear in
| terest.
AIR GUNS were first made by Guhr in
Germany in 1855, and the invention is
also credited to Shaw, of America, n
| 1915.
| THE great ansesthetic, chloroform,
was discovered by Guthrie, 1881, and
was first employed in surgical operations
| in 1916.
THE private in the German army is
| paid IS per month, out of which there Is
|
penses.
In Sweden they always take cold
lunch, accompanied by rather strong
| spirits, before each meal. 1t is said to
be an appetizer.
SEVEN counties in Western Texas have
| refused to issue marriage certificate to
a boy Is years of age and widow 40
years old with thirteen children.
THERE is sign on the entrance to a
cemetery at North Wales, Montgomery
County, Pa, which reads: ''No admit
lance except on business"
RECENT improvements in photograph
| ic plates have been SO great as to make
it possible to take accurate photographs
of rifle ball travelling at the rate of
5000 feeta second.
ONE million three hundred thousand
pounds worth of pickles and sauces are
exported from England to other coun-
tries yearly.
culation throughout the world, and good
authority asserts that $1,O0O,0OO of it Is
lost annually by wear.
MORE than fourth Of the gold and
more than third of the silver produced
| throughout the world in the year 1891
was mined IN the United States.
THE highest viaduct in the world has
lust been erected in Bolivia over the
river Lea, 9,Ss3 feet above the sea level
and 4,00S feet above the river.
A PNEUMATIC tube connects Paris with
| Berlin. 1t is used for postal purposes,
and makes it possible for letter mailed
in Paris to be delivered in Berlin in
thirty-five minutes.
SAN FRANCIsCo has an earthquake
proof hotel. 1t is constructed or iron
and in the form of two hollow squares,
one within the other, arranged so as to
brace each other.
DENMARK has a system of benevolence
bv which the honest poor of 10 years OF
age are insured against want. 1t is on
the presumtion that they have always
paid taxes.
A SUBSTITUTE for honey has been in
troduced in Germany under the name
of sugar honey, and consists of lnvert-
ed sugar, water, minute amounts OF
mineral substances and tree acid.
AT Placentia Bay, Newfoundland,
alone 200 men and women are en-
ployed in the lobster industry. Five
million is the annual catch, which rep
resents $780, in value.
THE crops on Prince Edward Island
are being devastated by plague Of
notato bugs and turnip flies. In
several districts the damage is so great
that the farmers are sowing turnips
again.
THE Welsh prefix "Aber" signifies
the mouth of q river -Aberdovey.
for instance; and ''Llan," ga church !"
I-Llandudno, the church of st. Tudno /;
Llanbedr, the church of st. Peter, etc.