Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Pearl bOrers in Ceylon can earn
about 20 cents a day.
The deepest spouting well is at Sper-
enberg. in Prussia-4194 feet.
Shirts of chain armor whicl cost
about $500 are now worn by more than
one distinguished person on the CONT
nent.
The composition of the first part of
Goethe's ''Faust" was done at odd in
5ervals during nearly twenty years; the
preparation of the second part continued
over twenty-siX.
George Washington, when surveying
for Lord Fairfax, is said to have carved
his name on rock of the Natural bridge
of Virginia, where many people profess
to be able to see it.
Shepherds say that the wool of the
sheep furnishes an excellent indication
of weather changes. When it is crisp
there will be no rain. When it is limp
and feels very soft to the touch a storm
is imminent.
Out on the Columbia mountain the
crows are acting in Il peculiar manner.
They are building their nests as usual,
but, instead of leaving them open on
top, they are all inclosed, except a small
entrance on the side.
The champion football game between
England and Scotland was played
short time ago at Glasgow. Sixty thou
sand persons attended and paid an adj
mission fee of a shilling each. The pre-
vious largest attendance was $4,000.
Exactly overhead strange as it may
seem, on the highest spring of the arch
of Virginia's natural bridge, is figure
of a gigantic spread eagle proudly
perched in the very position in which
it is seen on the American coat-of-arms.
The flags to be hoisted at one time in
signaling at sea never exceed four. 1t
is an interesting arithmetical fact that,
with eighteen VariouS-cOlored flags, and
never more than four at a time, no fewer
than 1852 signals can be given.
In all countries in Europe man is
not permitted to become naturalized I'M
less he can show that he is both re-
spectacle and moral; that he has resided
in the land of his adoption certain num-
Der of years; and that he is ready to
renounce the country of his birth-his ma.
tive land.
-Moplaho is the name of a tribe of
MOhammedans which forms a fourth
part of the population of the Malabar
coast of South India. They are sup
posed TO be descendants of Moors and
Arabians who established themselves on
the coast and intermarried with native
women. Some years ago there were
about 100000 of them.
To change ones nationality in Rus
STA is not at the command of every
purse The first condition is that you
should be a landowner for five years at
the shortest, and that during the whole
of that period you should have resided
upon your property in that country. The
next condition is that you should take
the oath of allegiance to the Gar.
Nearly everywhere service in a for
eign army confers the rights Of natural
ization upon the alien soldier. An Irish
man fighting for France might, if he
liked claim the status of a Frenchman.
In France a boy born on French soil of
parents, one of whom may be English,
but born in France, is regarded as
French, and is liable to CONSUMPTION.
An Englishman who wishes to turn
himself into Frenchman must reside
on the other side of the channel for ten
years without interruption. But an cas-
Ter way, after a years residence in
France, is to marry Frenchwoman or
TO render some signal service to the
state, either in the army or in the crea
ton of some industrial or agricultural
enterprise.