Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-28
BRIEF ITEMS.

one day near Leesburg, Fla. "
GEORGIA processes to have a girl f.,
whose mouth there runs continual
stream of water as from small sn,,
u. S. HOBART died in San Franc,
the other day worth 100000. In ~
he was a carman in mine, EARNING :,
day. '
IT would take forty years for all fl
water in the Great Lakes to pour NV
Niagara at the rate of 900, 900 cubic s'
q second.
The registrar-general's returns SIM
that for every 100 deaths in EnoIi,
country districts there are 12O death
in the towns.
A COLLAR button was recently fonr
concealed in COW; and this has causa
wonder as to how the COW craWled nm
der the bureau.
THE gavel used at the convention
the Peoples party was made of timha
from the first homestead entry in III
United States.
THE German and Austrian Alpine s.
c1ety has erected 4l9 taverns in Il,
mountains where students can board Al
reduced rates.
JEWELLERS report that gold dollars a,
extremely scarce, and many other pes
sons note a similarity in the silver an
the paper varieties.
The auction Of the Borghese art tress
ures at Rome on April IA realized oDb
100000 francs, mere fraction of Nt
real value of the articles sold.
IT is reported from Paris that M. B
Blaedel has invented an apparatus b.
which a,lriver of a vehicle can releas
a carriage from runaway horses.
BELLE HAMLIN and Globe smashedh
pole record of 2:13 on July 4 at VIII
mington, Del. The mark now stands
PIP. The track was kite-shaped.
AN interesting literary relic has us
been unearthed by the London Johnsos
Club, viz, an original copy of the sail
catalogue OF DR.. Johnson's library.
IT is said that 20 years ago there wep
not 20 canoeists in the country, wbit
now there are 10000 of them who wrp
their names sin water" every year.
A DEXTER woman became so infatuated
with the Christian Scientist theory thai
she laid away her false teeth, thinkin.
her natural ones would grow again.
The mortality among cattle at sea, re-
sulting from cruelty, want of water, etc
was formerly stated at Is per cent
while at the present time it is l pei
cent.
MISS CATHERINE V. CURRY, of Svracus'
can typewrite 1872 words a minute,
speed that is believed to top off the re,
cord. She has been operating fy.
years.
Our of total of 1904 paupers i
in the United States in tE.
year covered by the eleventh censu.
81. Is per cent were white and S.S5 Pc
cent were colored.
IN China they tie a red cord around
baby's wrists, so that it may grow y.
quiet and obedient. Should child tuT.
out bad they say, ellis parents tors5
to bind his wrists
ACCORDING to published guide to til
railroads of the United States, thet
are, or lately were, seventeen dltfere1
gauges in the country, varying from
feet to feet inches in width.
THE largest town clock in the world
in the tower of the Glasgow UniverslT
at Glasgow, Scotland. The cloC
weighs about ton and d half and has
pendulum weighing 300 pounds.
THERE are in Great Britain and LII
land no fewer than 2,7S9,O00 acres
woodland. Notwithstanding this fai
timber to the value of ZIG, 900, 600 Is a
nually imported into the country.
Few families can show a record lii
mat of the Gross family, of RichmonI
Ind. There are six brothers and fl
sisters of the family and there has n
0een a death among them for 80 yea
If the earth should cease to revoIH
altogether, the oceans Of the equal
would forsake their beds and hasth
,oward the poles. Probably the entd
globe north of Boston would be SUD
merged.
LAST year there we're over 2,5OOAn
pieces of mail sent by special delivery
and the average time consumed in VI
delivery of each parcel after it reacbe
The post-office of the addressee was oIy I
20 minutes. q
A SPANISH lady has succeeded n
crossing the Andes in a carriage, do
lance of 300 miles The journey VS.
in eleven days, thoUs,
nearly mile of the road had to be NV
for her use. d
New YORK has company establsIir
for the manufacture of small bonSb
about the size of Frankfurter sausaaaa
with which farmer can bring dOdi
showers of rain whenever he sM
clouds over his land. al
NEAR Nisch, Servia. bullcf 3
wholly constructed of human skulls,
bones was recently discovered. IT,
the form of a square, about Is feet D1 4. II
and is composed Of Sc piles OF de'E -
heads and crossbones, there benz i0
skulls and as many pairs of crossoo q
in each pile. When or by whom II ~ II
erected is still mystery. Ln "
There Are No Reptiles There sfh
There is not lizard or snake nor nk
the southern extremity of Hudson tn
The summers there are 80 shorl "a
these reptiles have no time to sAot
themselves even if the GROUND pW
depth of two or three feet beosnAIl