Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-20
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

-Chicago's new inlet tunnel, which
was completed recently, has capacity
of 12.000,000 gallons a day.
The first street railroad was laid IN
New York in 1882, between the city hall
and Fourteenth street.
The wooded island in Jackson park,
Chicago, is now the largest and finest
rose garden in the world.
-Englishmen who have resided i'll
Guernsey for year and day are COM
PEELED to serve in the local militia.
Bread which is to be kept long
should be kneaded longer than that
which is meant only for tomorrow's use.
Under high license in Michigan the
number of saloons has decreased by 487,
while the revenue is about $4,000
larger.
bidding the running of freight trains
through it on Sunday under heavy penal
ties.
Gardening was never more popular
than at the present time. There is fash
ion in flowers just as there is fashion in
dress.
In Paris the smartest women are
wearing waistcoats, laDelS and cuffs of
old brocade. Wherever old brocade can
be utilized it is.
The night Waterman at Albany, Mo-,
rings the big bell when he thinks the
clouds indicate the near approach OF
heavy storm.
"A cabman in one of the London po-
lice courts described golf as "what they
knock the balls about with an iron thing
up in Scotland"
1t is not generally known that, with
certain exceptions, the population of the
British Isles are liable to CONSUMPTION for
the militia.
The big stone pillar quarried in Wis
consin for the Worlds fair is to be set
up in Chicago as soldiers monument.
1t is 100 feet in length.
The banana is the most prolific of all
the fruits of the earth, being A times
more productive than potatoes and III
times more than wheat.
Eight steamers which left New York
for Europe on Saturday last carried near
ly 1000 passengers, the great majority OF
whom were pleasure-hunters
Satisfies compiled by the clearing
houses of the United States to May 30
show that since January the total value
of cycles exported amounts to S5l5,0O0
The best fluid you can use III order
to get rid of Sunburn is buttermllk laid
upon the face and let dry there before
YOU retire at night, then wash off III
the morning.
Salmon should be chosen with small
head and very thick shoulders; quanti--
in cleaning the fish, even after it has
undergone the necessary processes OF
preparation at the hand of the fish
mOnger.
lin a new bed rest for invalids, which
has been patented by the inventor, Miss
Bryson, Edinburgh, the invalid is sup
ported in a sitting posture by hammock
connected by an india rubber ring with
a guy rope fixed to the foot OF the bed.
Great changes have been made and
more are in contemplation at the Royal
Observatory at Greenwich. The Lassell
dome has been moved from the south
ground to the new buildings. The COM
pletion of the physical observatory will
be taken in hand this year.
Probably the oldest restaurant in
London is Crosby hall, in Bishopgate
street. in the city. This was built more
than 500 years ago, was once the palace
of Richard Ill, and afterward the resi-
dence Of Sir Thomas More. 1t was in
this building that Shakespeare laid the
scene of Richards plots for the murder
of the young princes
1t is stated that since trees have
been extensively planted in Southern
California the rainfall of the region has
become much more uniform and favora-
BILE to agriculture But there are other
parts of the state in which the sawmills
are wiping out the forests and plant
ing the desert in the midst of natures
bounties.
1t is not generally known that the
remains of all the Cars of Russia since
Peter the Great lie in a memorial chap
ell built on one of the islands of the
Neva All the cenotaphs are exactly
alike, being a block of white marble
without any decoration whatever. The
only distinction by which each one is
marked is the name Of the deceased EN-
peror.
kinds of pensions in the United King
dom for the year ending March, 1892
was f7. 5SS, S62. Then pensions for the
civil list amounted to f2, ,6S7: for
the army, G3, 714,673; for the navy, FL,
1882, and for the survivors of former
distinguished naval and military men,
500. 100 The whole number of recipi-
ents of all classes is 162,040.