Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-04-21
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

dipped In alcohol
JAPAN has no fewer than 700 earth
quake observing stations scattered over
the empire.
10 De perfectly proportioned a man
should weigh Is pounds for every foot of
his height. -
IHE king clam of Penobscot BAY was
taken at lslesboro recently. It weighed
Is ounces.
WHILE endeavoring to swallow q
mouse an owl choked to death at Nocka-
nixon few days ago.
On an average there are LOG bows born
to every 100 girls, but more boys die in
infancy than girls.
MASSACHUSETTS has more cities with a.
population of "a, 900 or over than any
other state in the Union.
NINE young men are about to walk
from Americas, Ca, to Chicago, ILL.,, q
distance OF l 900 miles by road, on a
wager.
IHE boiling water fad at meals is dy-
Ing. out. Thousands of people are glad,
and now some doctors who recommend
ed it say it's all nonsense.
THE people of Paris have consumed
within the year ,29l horses, 299 DON
keys and 40 mules, the meat weighing,
according to returns, 4,615 tons.
A LARGE cave was recently discovered
in Montana, which contained the
bones of hundreds of animals that
had fallen into it and we're unable to
escape.
IT is an accepted fact that America is
more lavish in the matter of hospitality
and entertaining than any other coun-
try. In the matter of flowers alone at
entertainments the Americans spend
small fortunes.
JOSEPH FRoTH1NGHAM, Of Exeter, n.
H., is 80 years old, and relates that he
was at church at Salem, Mass, on the
Sunday when the United States ship,
Old Ironsides, was chased into Marble
head Bay by three British trigates.
ONLY two congregations Of the Arme-
MAN Church are in this country-one at
Worcester, Mass, and the other at
Hoboken. That at Worcester grew out
Of what was perhaps the earliest i'm
migration of the Armenians to Ame-
RIGA.
In distance the moon is 100000 miles
away from our earth, around which she
gravitates like satellite. Her diameter
is about 2, 1853 miles, she has a solid sur
face of IA 100000 miles and solid con.
THOUSANDS of books in the Magyar
York. The books extend over the
whole range of literature, from the
simplest fairy stories to the classics.
PRAYER books, hymn books and Bibles
in the various languages spoken IN
Hungary have a large sale.
THE yearly fair in the Carpathians is
still vigorous, and on the feast day all
the manageable maidens of the
regions round about assemble on the
sum of the Gaina, 5000 feet above
the level of the sea, in order that they
NAV be Wooed and won by bachelors
who can afford to keep a wife.
SOME doctors say that flowing boards,
in addition to tempting ,tornadoes to
blow through them, undoubtedly at
tract aud retain the grippe microbes.
From inquiries it seems that beWhisk-
cred gentleman have suffered more
from the disease than those who walk
about with clean-shaven faces.
LEWISTON, Me-, has twenty-eight ply
siciens and thirty -one drug stores, while
BANGOR. with about the same popula-
tion. has fourteen drug stores and thlr-
tv-four physicians A few Of the Ban
cor drug stores do as much, or more,
business in liquors as IN medlclnes, out
nearly all of Lewiston's establishments
are poorly disguised barrooms.
THE bicycle has been introduced into
Central Africa. Two Enellshmen ar
rived at Tabora few weeks ago with
two of the latest improved olcycies.
Thev had travelled large part, OF the
nn1 from the coast, more than 800
, NILE on the machines, and they say they
nIorked finely along the well-trodden
native paths. =,
SEVERAL additions have recently oe en-
made to the appropriations made Dy
he 4h&e stotes and territories to the Worlds
Fair. which now aggregate So,1oo,Ooo.
A BROOKLYN inventor proposes to tap
the earth's interior tor heat, and 'hus
save fuel. "a
Dp livingstone once said he had
walked for weeks though a region IL
. frica where lake ought to De- accoIu-
ING to the maps, and he never Sd" 'no
lake. ,ao
Arabia. Rain has fallen there only
twice in twenty-nine years. Ire1 ,e.oo
to the last rain, which occurred IN 100,
there was period OF dry "ea'noi
which lasted twenty-siN years.
MONKEY in the Philadelphla zoo
tried to commit suicide by cuttlng l;s
throat with piece of glass after IN ms $
friehtful cash before his mother took
the glass away. oorv
In the South of Europe the rosemary oserihaa
hos long had magic properties, ascrlDeu
t hai + " The Spanish ladies used to wear
:; 70 as as' an antidote against the evil eye,
IL t,o o. Do+,,ruose called it the elm
a nIan tn and dedicated it to the fairies. -.
Mr. GLADsgosn Is thu tee wo oThsr tt the the
\; Of pencil maker at Keswick, ana an
g,l 20 81 inches p in length. In place OF the
is sb mary, rubber cap it has gold cap }:
f Its distinguished owner uses it Tor
walking stick. ,+ While
GOLD is weigLe;d lh ny 1fp by a avoirdupois;
and as the twelve ounces in pound