Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-12-29
HISTORICAL AND OTHERWISE

| height.
IRON pavements were first laid in Lon
| don in 1917.
GINGER ESSENCE contains twice as much
| alcohol as whisky.
HEATH Is South African plant which
| came to Europe in 1774.
The Paris sewers are the largest and
| most complete in the world.
TIE word "encore" was first used in
English theaters in ITO and gave great
ofense.
NINETY-FoUR elementary substances
are used in cotton dyelng with several
thousands of combinations.
The Egyptians ascribed the invention
of weaving to Isis; the Greek to Minerva,
and the Peruvians to Nance Capac.
THE Duke of Edin burgh will vacate his
post as naval commander-in-chief at
Davenport in August next, and will
then permanently reside at Coburg.
UDE saws: "What Bacon was to phil
osophy, Dante to poetry, Angelo to
painting, Columbus to geography, Sal
leo to astronomy, Gonthier was to
cooking"
PROF. J. WoRTLEY AXE estimates that
upward of $4,000, horses annually die
or are killed in London, and of these
about half succumb to accidents or in
trinity.
MOUNT ARAFAT, the resting place of the
scriptural ark, is, in reality, two noun
tains Sc parated by a valley. The higher
peak is II ,210 feet, and the lesser $4,000
feet above sea level.
THE ordinary folding fan is said to
have been invented in Japan, in the
Seventh Century, by native artist, who
derived the idea from the way in which
the bat closes it's wings.
The surfaces OF nearly all the CONT
nents and islands have at one time
formed portions of the oceans floor.
They have risen from the water partly
because of the retreat of the waters.
AN old landmark recently disap-
peared at Neosho, Mo-. by the tearing
down of the old Masonic building in
which the ordinance of session was
passed intended to take Missouri out of
the Union.
A DAUGHTER of a resident of Coos
Bay, Ore, is said to have been born on
the day Cleveland was elected in 1884,
and she is reported to have died on
November 8, the day Cleveland was
elected this year.
The estimated wealth of the United
States-that is, the value of all lands,
buildings. railways, etc.,-ls put up at
$4,000, 100000. The amount of money
of all kinds Is estimated by the secre-
tary of the treasury to be So, los, $50, O92.
THE smallest coin ever struck in this
country was a half-cent, which was is
sued between 1892 and 1857. China is
the only country that bas a coin so
small as our mill; the Chinese "cash" is
worth about one-tenth Of cent.
DURING the reign of cholera in Tabriz,
Persia, DR.. Mary Bradford, an Ameri
can Presbyterian missionary, was the
only physician in the city. She treated
nearly all the Christians who were sick,
even the men, for in the extremity the
rule had to be broken.
AT Monor, IN Hungary, there is, it is
stated, a shepherd who is LOG years old.
He still attends to his focks. His wife
she is his thirds 81, and both hus-
band and wife are hale and hearty. All
that the old man complains of is that he
gets SO little snuff and such weak stuff
for 10 kreuzers.
Has the Earth Cometary Tail?
1t is we'll known that the tails of
comets stream away from the sun and
are of very low density. Various hy-
potheses have been propounded to ex-
plain this movement away from the
sun, but the most promising is that of
Russian physicist, who ascribes it to the
repulslon of the solar radiation acting
on a mass of extreme tenuity, while, on
the other hand, the attraction of gravi-
tation operates between the solar mass
and the solid nucleus of the comet. The
same physicist accounts for the mysteri
GUS terrestrial phenomenon Of the
zodiacal light in the same way. He be-
lieves that the earth has also tail of
cosmic dust, not luminous Of itself, but
by rejecting the s1nlight.-Public Opin-
i0n.
How to Detect Impurities In Water.
The presence of organic impurity in
water can be detected by dissolving
some loaf sugar in it, and then, after
putting in tight stopper, allowing it to
stand in warm, well-lighted room for
few days. fit becomes turb1d, there
are certainly organic Impurities in it; if
1t remains clear it is safe and pure to
drink. To test the presence Of earthly
matters, take litmus paper dipped in
vinegar, and if, on immersion the paper
returns to its true shade, the water does
not contain earthly matter or alkali. If
few drops of syrup be added to the
water containing any earthly matter 1T
will turn green.
Chloride Of Gold Humor.
There's grain of humor in the pict-
ure which appears on the face of the
diploma awarded to the graduates Of