Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-02-25
PICKED UP FACTS.

PICKED UP FACTS.
FRANCES last torpedo boat made 2333
knots in bad sea.
OVER 80, 600 meals are served in the
House of Commons every season.
ANNIE ROONEY is dead. She was a
Nevada race horse of considerable local
fame.
A BOISE, Idaho. man has discovered.
it is said, thatgood paper can be manu-
featured from sage brush.
A BILL before the Illinois Senate pro-
vides for only women jurors in
coroner's inQuests on women.
A LARGE and brilliant meteor recent
ly fell in a gap of the Mcdowell Noun
tains, about thirty-miles northwest of
Phoenix, Ariz.
SINCE January five applications have
been made by Cinnamon in different
parts of California for licenses to marry
white women.
AS soon as native Alaskan gets S.
gold piece, or a $40 bill, he Immediately
trades it for silver, having no faith in
gold or paper money.
A CARSON, New, hen recently laid an
egg, which, according to the Appeal,
measured 81 inches in circumference,
the long way, and 81 inches the other.
AT baptism in the river, near Plain
field, Conn.,, last Sunday, the floating
ice was SO thick and plentiful that two
men were constantly engaged in keep
ing it away from those being immersed.
In Birmingham, England, there re-
Gently died a detective named
over 5000 criminals, and at a race near
INV no
pockets in thirty-fve minutes.
spring in St. Tammany parish, Louisi-
ana, which pours forth clear cold water
ali day long, but at sunset goes sudden
ly dry, discharging no water until the
sun rises again.
THE last few relics of the Maine min
ing craze are disappearing, and soon
nothing will remain but the many holes
in the ground which disfgure the
countryside and serve as pitfalls for I'M
wary cattle and sheep.
IT was said at recent gathering in Chi
cago by an interested woman that there
are 10000 children in the city under Il
years of age who are not in the schools
at all, and 10000 more who only attend
halt day for want of room.
ACCORDING to survey made on Janu-
ary IA last by Major of Engineers D. G:
Heap, U. S. A., the extreme point OF
Sandy Hook has made out westerly
about $50 feet beyond the point shown
on the latest coast survey chart
printed March z, 1891.
In the last sixty years horses have
increased 1O4 per cent, cattle, l277,
sheep, 139, and pigs IS. This is much
greater Except as regards pigs than
the increase of population in Europe,
United States and British colonies,
which has been just 70 per cent.
PARSLEY is poisonous to many kinds OF
A REQUEST of 5000, 900 has been made
nv DR.. Ienaz Hoppe, of the University
81 Basel. Switzerland, for the investiga-
ton of the nature of the soul.
THE Egyptian fellah is apparently the
worst taxed man in the world. Even
on the palm tree, which gives him food
and shelter, he pays 80 cents year.
Cu11npEN are not numerous in France.
Ont of 100000 families in the re-
nlic one-ftth have no children at all ,
and another fifth have only one child
each. . ~
nhvsician. as it may possibly be thatthe
larger numbers found IN raw sugar
wonld make it injurious to the health OF
tho consumer. and moreover, there IS
skin disease produced by handling I'M
II we'll could be dug to the depth OF
| fortv-six miles, the density of the air at
The bottom would be as great as that or
quicksilver. By the same law cuDlc
inch of air taken 4, 900 miles above the
earth's surface would expand suff!clent-
lv to fill a sphere 2,oOo,ooo,ooV mlles III
| diameter. ~ o
| ,oIl evergreen tree that resembles IN
oanaarance the laurel or the bay. 1t is
native of the Malacca or Spice Islands,
L,,t hos heen carried to all the warmer
oarts Of the world, and it is now cult
pated in the tropical regions OF Amerl-
o"i Ir ia said that two poor Partisan Wom-
| Mo earn a livelihood by making ar
.;f,o;oI towers. have hit on a process tor
dneing natural flowers in brilliant hues.
p,,hlic attention was called to the mat
~ ~ NV florists who received in lot OF
aowers some Sweet Williams OF prlgnt
green color. o,;o IF an
Anglo-Saxon custom, In 5nose 1a har
DAYS the brides father deilvehsedd h her
sno t,7 :; ~ on , the forehead, to denote bis
a M,th over her. The custom ST., a,;s was
nrohably founded on possible mlsin-
terpretation of Ruth ~, =.
4 MAN weighs less when the baro re ne.
ter is high, Notwithstanding the 1 aa, 1hi y
the atmos $ pIhae t bee1 Barometer is low.
| AZ +he pressure of air on an ORDINARY.
As .n ,,,a p Is about Is tons, the rise OF
s sL n arcury from 30 TO 81 inches adds
the ,, ne ane ton to the load he has to car
ry. .al;ds who consume great
, M,i of quinine will be PANIED to