Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-03-30
y Miscellaneous Items. II

King Edward of England has Il pc
culiar habit of passing his finger back
ward and forward under his chm When
i'll meditation
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has ac-
cented the office Of honorary vice presi.
dent of the State Mothers assembly of
New York.
"A steel chimney 2GO feet high was
recently successfully completed i'll South
Wales. 1t IS the tallest OF its KIND III
the world
oysters are so plentiful III the In
land sea of Japan that they are sold
in the restaurants of that country Tor .
cents per dozen.
Magnetic compasses are to be sup
piled in future to all British and native
cavalry regiments in India at the rate OF
four a squadron.
Pet dogs in sunbonnets and blue
glass spectacles may be seen following
their owners through the streets Of Ber-
lin in hot weather.
Congressman Olmsted of Pennsylva-
MIA expressed this opinion: 1T takes
man about four terms to familiarize
~.mself with his office"
DR. William Henry Drummond, the
poet of the French Canadians, has given
%p his medical practice and gone into
copper mining in the dominion.
The Japanese imperial library at
Toxic has on it's shelves something like
1000 written and printed mathematical
works. extending as far back as 1885
According to La Tribuna di Roma
one of the CATERS worn by Garibaldi
when he was wounded in the battle of
ASpromonte, August %, 1862, has been
presented to the mayor OF Rome.
Chinese students in Japan now num-
her more than 5000, engaged i'll all the
studies available at American high
schools, colleges, universities, profess
sional, technical and trade schools.
The talest building in the world is
being erected in New York by Il life in
surance company. 1t will be $50 feet
high. or five feet higher than the Wash
ington monument and So feet higher than
An amateur society has been formed
for tho diffusion of the cult of the bag
pipe" not only in Scotland, but in Eng
land. A set of pipes costs from SO to
$3.50, according to finish and embellish
ments.
The largest industry in Japan is tex
tile. there being some 1857 factories of
various sizes engaged in this trade, the
majority being centered in and around
Osaka. These are mostly worked by
steam power.
There is Il horse that catches rats
and mice in Manchester, England. If a
rat or mouse runs across his manager,
he will grab at it and, if successful III
getting it. will drop it into the bucket
of water, which is always left with him.
The Japanese jinrikishas were es.
tabliShed in Shanghai as public vehicles
less than two years ago, and their i'll
PRODUCTION III various other parts OF
China is being pushed with characteristic
japanese energy.
According to information supplied by
the Institute of Tropical Research re-
Gently founded in connection with Liver
pool university, Ceylon has, in the last
season, shipped 100000 pounds of rub
Der, all produced from the island plan
tationS.
Queen Aanarolo of Madagascar has
recently realized q long cherished ambi-
ton by paying a visit to Paris. While
there she enjoyed the felicity Of having
her allowance increased from $4,000 to
$4,000.
The coffee crop of Sumatra has be-
come almost equal to that of Java. The
latter island is smaller but much more
populous and it had long start in cot
fee before the plantations in Sumatra
began to cut any figure i'll the world
supply.
Northern California has lost its prin-
cipal antique. The oldest house i'll that
part of the state. built by Mayor I. +.
Reading i'll the remote period OF 18Th,
and known therefore as a historical
structure" has been destroyed by wind
and flood.
The British committee on naval de-
signs has recommended that no more
small protected cruisers be built. The
war fleet of the future is to consist of
hattleships and armored cruisers, the
torpedo tlotillas and submarines forming
separate self-contained forces