Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-09
THINGS LITTLE AND BIG.

Italians are extremely fond of toma-
toes.
The skin of rabbits is used for felt
hats
One of the best selling vegetables is
the onion.
1t is unhealthy to stop up freplaces
in summer.
Lowell, Mass, is called the City of
Spindles.
Edward is a Saxon name, and means
happy keeper.
-America's export amounted to $685.
111.2SO last year.
Chicago is the greatest railroad CEN
ter in the world
A girls curling iron started $780,
600 fire in Eel Paso.
James Buchanan was called 'The
Bachelor President"
The island of Cuba is called THE
Queen of the Antilles
The established church of Scotland is
the Presbyterian.
Diamonds are cheaper now than they
have been for years.
GRAY and blue are the colors worn by
Norwegian peasants.
The British isles have an average OF
siXty-siX gales a year.
The longest telephone line is that
from Boston to Milwaukee.
A Scenery Preservation society has
been started in Melbourne.
-Freckles may be removed by sat
urated solution of citric acid.
-Belham represents the fuller and
more euphonious Bellehomme.
The Prince of Wales visited the Unit
ed States in the autumn of 1859.
In Alabama all school and church
property is exempt from taxation.
Feather beds are not healthy to sleep
on either in summer or winter.
The average height of clouds above
the earth is between one and two miles.
Almost one-twentieth of the pOpula-
ton of the United States is widowed.
A nugget of gold weighing 100 ounces
was recently found in an Australian
mine.
The United States has a greater rail
road mileage than any other country in
the world.
Water pipes of wood stand a high
pressure do not rust, and cost much less
than iron.
The name Of the petrol is derived
from Peter, because they appear to walk
on the water
-vondel, the great Dutch dramatist,
was poor all his HE, ana was uudlly
buried by charity.
his envy of those more fortunately stu
ated than himself.
George ". was greatly veNed tor
years by carbuncles on his face, caused by
secret drinking.
Nine. Sevigne wanted to be very
beautiful, and often lamented her lack OF
personal charms.
-Paderewski wears his hair long be-
cause he believes it makes his naturally
weak eyes better.
Edward I. of England was annoyed
by his great height His subjects dubbed
him Long Shanks.
Mrs. Hannah Chard of Gassboro,. N.
J.. who is said to be 1O5 years old, has
$50 grandchildren
Criminals have discovered way of
removing facial marks and place detec-
tives completely at sea.
Infinite God, to Thee We Raise"
was a translation by Charles Wesley of
a part of the TIE Deum.
The humming bird, which is so quiet
in the East, is very noisy little rascai
in the Rocky mountains.
The Persian sheep accumulates fat IN
its tail during summer, on Which 1t lives
during its winter Information.
The fortune of the new French presl-
dent is variously estimated at from TO-
100000 to 1O0,OOO,0OO francs.
The Manchester ship, canal is 3oHa
miles long and cost ST., 100000. Its mini
mum depth is twenty-siX feet.
There are clubs of girls in Sydney,
n. S. W., the object of which is to attend
the theaters without male escort.
Milk disagrees with many persons be-
cause there is not enough acld III the
stomach to cause it to curdle.
The theory that the remains of ami
mails form the raw material from which
netroleum is formed by nature is still
held by some prominent scientists.
Emperor William has a new carriage
lighted inside and out by electricity. The
horses also bear small lamps on their har-
ness.
The Persians first gave cavalry the
Importance it held in all Oriental armies
mill the introduction of European tao
ties.
A Washington jeweler says the regu-
larity of the running of Il watch depends
mon the magnetism of the man who car
rieS it.
Spartan officers taught their soldiers
to march in step and to execute several
evoutions by facing to the rear and
wheeling.
The largest police Office in the world
is the new one at Scotland Yard, Lon
don, in which 5000 officers can be ac-
cOumOudleu
In beginning to teach deaf nutes the
art of speech they are first placed before
\ mirror and taught to form with their
Inns the vowel sounds.
Bicycle riders in Southland, Austria
LA, are required to dismount twenty-five
wards from an approaching horse and
draw their wheels past.
in ancient warfare the phalanx failed
when opposed to the legion because 1t mad
no feasibility and could not operate on
broken ground.
There is 100000 unclaimed money
IN tho treasury at Washington to the
credit of the Afro-Ameriean soldiers who
served in the Civil War.
in Chattanooga a man 16 years old
Kissed the hand of young lady by way of
compliment. and she has sued him for
breach of promise.
Smoke is continually issuing from the
sides of burning mountain in New South
Wales. The mountain is supposed to