Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-12-26
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

"A carpenter in Bremen makes $500
| a week.
The planet Jupiter now rises more
night.
Switzerland, of all foreign countries.
| is best supplied with professors of. the
| healing art; next comes Italy, and then
England and Wales.
Private earthquakes are fashionable
| at Maine quarries. At Dodlin few
| days ago a big blast threw mass OF
rock weighing 1900 pounds distance of
| fifty feet.
On hearing a person, either foreign
| Or native, sneeze in public, Brahmin
| will instantly cry out, Live! live!' and
| this cry will be repeated as often us fhe
person SneeZes.
| Almost every leading male member
of the Rothschild family is the happy
possessor of fine collection of works OF
art picked up with more or less dis
elimination and taste.
| The big white moose recently shot in
| the Maine woods by a Mr.. Sargent OF
Grafton, has greatly interested natural
lists, as well as sportsmen. 1t is the only
| white moose ever seen in Maine, ana
very few have ever been heard of else
where.
| The coloring of animals seen i'll
Maine this season is something unusual.
| There have been white moose, milk
white fawns, gray wolves and there has
recently been captured pale yellow fox.
| Many nations are superstitious about
sneezing, but none SO much as the natlN es
of India. To sneeze on entering place
| of business on starting on journey, or
undertaking any enterprise or adventure,
means bad luck for someone either ply
sically or financially.
There are three rivers known as
Colorado. The first is in Utah and
Arizona, and is 1900 miles long; the sec
ond is a river of Texas. 900 miles III
length; the third is in the Argentine Re
public. in South America. and is 400
miles long.
The river Platte during the summer
is dry along the greater portion of it's
course. The water runs underground,
only an occasional pool appearing on the
surface. BY digging almost anywhere
in it's course supply of fresh, cool water
may be obtained.
The river Euphrates flowed through
the city Of Babylon and on each side of
| it's banks the walls of the city were car
ried up to height as great as at any
other point, so that even during Il siege
the city was as formidably defended
| on the river as on the land side.
In Germany, 6626 cases of diphtheria
have been treated by serum incubation,
246O of them in hospitals, according
| to a report of the government medical
department. Of these. S6.5 per cent.
recovered, 1919 per cent. died, and the
rest were still under treatment
"A phenomenon in the recent severe
| d10utl in Maine, which caused wells
navei before known to fail, to dry up
| completely, was that reputed bottom
less pond at Fort Fairchild was Is inches
higher at the severest period of the
| lrOuth than it had ever before been
| known to be-
Before the coming of the whites to
America, the Mississippi river was
known by a different name every few
miles in it's course. Each tribe that
dwelt along it's banks gave it a name,
and more than 80 of these local designa-
tons are preserved in the narratives
of the early travellers.
1t has been computed by geographers
| that if the sea were emptied of it's water,
and all the rivers of the earth were to
pour their present floods into the vacant
| space, allowing nothing to evaporate,
10000 years would be required to bring
the water Of the ocean up to its present
level.
II C. Pearce, an old Rock Island en-
| gineer, died in his cab from hemOrrhag &c
| of the lungs while his suburban train was
rushing along between Twenty second
and Thirty-ninth street stations, in Chi
cago. The fireman was aDprised of his
chiefs accident by the trains overrun-
ming a stopping place.
Nothing is more common than for
persons to imagine that they have heart
disease. and they often make themselves
dreadfully uncomfortable in conse-
quence In the overwhelming majority
of cases. more particularly in young,
nervous, fanciful people, the heart is as
sound as bell. but the stomach is out
of order.
"A rajah at one time turned back his
army from the gates of a besieged city
because one Of his foot-runners CHANGED
to sneeze just as he had decided to give
| the command to attack. A Brahmin
priest was consulted, and a special time
appointed by him to renew the siege be-
| fore it was deemed q promising under
| taking.
One of those painstaking persons
called statisticians has been turning his
attention to the position of Russia in re-
gard to it's supply of DOCTORS The coun-
try has produced a number of eminent
| chemists, but medical men are somewhat
scarce. In all Russia there are only To-
TAO qualified practitioners, Of whom SOD
are women.
The Chinese burglar takes an ingre-
dent of his own, burns it, and blows the
smoke through the keyhole of the bed
asleep. The fumes dull the senses OF
the victim Just enough to make him
helpless, while at the same time per-
hitting him to see and hear everything
that goes on in the room. The only an
tidote against this charm is pure water
A Quaint Old Bookstore.
Down in Beaver street is bookstore
so filled with books that there is literally