Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-04-06
FRUIT OF THE SCISSORS.

FRUIT OF THE SCISSORS.
A PENNSYLVANIA woman keeps spiders
as pets.
The notation system OF writing music
was invented in 1910.
'SCoTcH WHISKY" made in Germany
is being largely imported into India.
A oNE-ARMED man at Manchester, n.
H., is said to be an expert pool player.
| WASHINGTON has been christened the
Evergreen State by many residents of
! that state.
Mrs. MARCELLA O'RoURKE died at
Toronto few days ago at the great age
of los years.
| A GEORGIA man ls the owner of about
| 1900 yankee" brass buttons which he
secured during the war.
| HAwAnANs will not change their ma
tional colors by annexation. Their old
flag was red. white and blue.
| EIGHTY-oNE and seventy-nine years
were the respective ages of a recently
married bride and groom at Arthur,
| Ind.
A FRENcHMAN must be 40 years old to
be senator and 25 to be a deputy.
They ale chosen By direct vote of the
people.
THE large Indian mound at Martins
Ferry, O., has been bought py a street
contractor, who will use it for filling
purposes.
| ACCORDING to an Alabama paper a
man is passing through the mining re-
gions of that state ''selling a patent for
| the making of silver dollars"
| A SOCIETY at Eastman, Ca, is called
''The Society of Amalgamated Prevari-
GATORS" The word "Ananias" is en-
graved on the badge of honor.
| Mrs. HUTCHINSON, of Legate, Tenn,
was recently stricken almost blind, and
now her husband has been afflicted in
the same manner as result Of measles.
A NUMBER of vagabonds are said to
make living in New York by following
express wagons around the city, on the
alert to steal packages while the ex-
pressman is in the house doing bust
ness.
THE government of Manitoba is said
| to be arranging for the immigration this
summer of 1000 IceIanders. The in-
tention is to bring from Iceland the en-
tire population, if possible, of some co.
900 souls.
AN observant sporting man of New
York notes that of the two doctors Aus
tin Flint, the younger is now offering
the heavier odds. The sign of one reads
CDR. Austin Flint. 10 to l." that of the
other "Dr. Flint, Jr., IL to l."
A GEOLOGICAL expedition to the north
western part of Nebraska and Southern
Dakota will be undertaken by Prof.
Scott of Princeton College and num-
Der of students of that college, immedi-
ately after the close of the present col
lege session.
CHICAGO milkmen keep in their
wagons q decoy can containing unadul-
terated milk. When the inspector de-
mands a sample for test he is supplied
from the decoy can, while customers
must be content with the skinned and
Watered article.
IT is reported that a Dutch Protest
ant, who was recently converted to the
Roman Catholic faith while on visit to
Lourdes, has presented sum of 3,O00,-
the completion of the parish church of
that famous place of pilgrimage.
SPINNING wheels are not altogether
things of the past. Go down into Corn
wall or Wales, or up to the Scotch High
lands, and you will find plenty of cot
tages where the spinning wheel is as
much piece of useful household furni-
| ture as are the scrubbing brush and the
kitchen broom.
SOME Of the walking leaves" those
| which are natives of India, China and
Japan in particular, are large, grotesque-
looking creatures, their resemblance
being strikingly like bundle of yellow
twigs joined together with faded, mac
Grated leaves. The limbs of this species
| of insect are long, slender and twiglike,
the color being suited to that particular
species of vegetation upon which the
deceptive mlmicker subssts.
SOME ingenious contrivances are used
| by thieves. The latest looks like an
| ordinary walking stick, but is so ar
| handle, the ferrule will spread apart
and form sort of spring clip, that will
take hold of anything that is within
| reach. The thing is called 1.-THE Con-
tinental lifting stick" and is used to
| take things from behind counters when
| the shopman's back is turned.
RECENTLY some glacial scratches were
| found on the top of the Palisades, above
| Fort Lee, showing the course of the ice
that covered the continent down to this
| point. The general motion of the
glacier was southwark, but these cut
| tings point to the southeast. Many
| boulders of trap, obviously from the
| Palisades, are found on the western end
| of Long Island.
| WILLIAM SAMSON, a resident in the
! Argentine, having ordered consign-
ment of 100 larks from England, re-
| ceived the survivors OF the voyage few
| weeks ago and set them at liberty. The
| birds, twenty in number, were released
in field in which the barley had re-
Gently been cut A few chirps showed
! their delight at being once more free,