Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-11-17
TEMlZED FACTS.


=: ONE OF the most interesting exhibi-
tons in connection with the recent
Orlentalist Congress in London is col
lection Of tools used by workmen in
building the pyramids of Egypt
IT is pointed out by scientist that
the worlds most precious gems are
composed Of the commonest substances,
Inc diamond. Tor instance, being pure
carpon-that is to say, charcoal devoid
OF impurities.
LIE Norman English ladies dressed
tnelr nalr IN two long plaits, and, when
nature was not liberal, heightened the
plalts with braids of wool, tow or horse
hair.
IN 1910 Europe produced four times
as much grain as this country; in 1887,
normal year, the United States pro-
duced nearly half as much gram as the
whole of Europe.
A RECENTLY married Kansas couple
spent their honeymoon in the depths of
an old coal mine.
The dorking fowl is the only living
ORD that, IN the adult condition, pos
sesses a five-toed loot.
lHE hrst American flag was unfurled
at the camp OF the Colonial troops, in
Cambridge, Mass, on January l, 1776.
In the reign of Henry VIII. it was
enacted that no person should keep
above 1000 sheep nor hold more than
two farms.
A SOCIETY was organized in New York,
1863, tor the encouragement of Amer1-
can Woolens. The society's rules for
babe eating Of mutton or lamb or the
slaughter OF sheep.
The cultivation of the pineapple in
the Bahamas is very profitable under
taking. AT pence each an acre of
pineapples returns 5000 to 1928.
III is cabled as an indication of wide
spread European interests in the Column
bian Exposition that $500 students of
the Regent Street (London) polytechnic
have engaged passage for the early
weeks OF neXtsummer.
The new variety Of sugar cane re-
ported from the Upper Niger is of gi
gantlc size, and very rich in sugar.
Moreover, it differs from the ordinary
sugar cane in possessing seeds, from
which the plant can be raised.
PARIS GREEN sprinkled with salt and
scattered by the hand of some heart
horses near Colon, Mich, within two
weeks.
SHERMAN, Tex, has 100000 jail from
which ten prisoners recently escaped
by saving through iron bars with 35
cent file.
Coal mines employ 100000 men.
IN Japan every child is taught to work
with both hands.
Ten days per annum is the average
amount of sickness in human life.
A MAN in Steubenville, found q
penny dated 1893 in an old sewer.
The British isles comprise no fewer
than / 900 separate islands and lslets.
IT is stated that 100000 of the
Queens subjects in India never know
what it is to eat enough.
A PIECE Of frogs skin not larger in
diameter than the rubber tip on lead
pencil has more pores IN 1t than there
are meshes in the mosquito netting on
screen door.
Dir. RILES calculates that there must
be at least between 5000, 900 and 10000
600 insects in the world.
A CUTLERY factory in Meriden, Conn.,,
recently completed q wonderful tOy-a
perfect pocket knife, with thirty blades,
pincers, shears, avis, etc, which is said
to weigh but one-eighth Of an ounce.
CABLE railroads are now features OF
most of the leading American cities.
The first cable railroad in New York
City was built ON Tenth Avenue by
Lewis Lyon, an Engiishman, recently
deceased.
A PORTLAND, Me-, woman, who has
mania for cancelled postage stamps, has
over million of them.
The woman employees of the Chicago
telephone companies are to be alfred
in black uniforms.
THREE Times as many herrings are con-
sumed as any other kind of fish.
SOMEBODY claims that an electric plant
has been discovered In India, which will
influence a magnetic needle 20 feet
distant.
The highest price yet paid for violin
was 81 400 given for the instrument
known as the Belts Stradivarius. 1t
gained this distinguishing title through
g remarkable incident.
A 9-YEAR-oLD son of John Benton,
while attempting to place a nail on the
track in front of an engine, was struck
and instantly killed at Muskegon, Mich.
Hlgfl-prlced Drugs.