Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-09-11
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY

I Der OF aged persons il proportion so the
population.
Some of the screws made for the use
OF watchmakers are so tiny 100000
could be placed in an ordinary thlmble.
There is an average of seven car COY
tisions day on the steam, subway, eIe
waited and surface railways OF New
York
During the summer season the bO4-
ough Of Richmond, New York City, dog
bles its population on every pleasant
Sunday, but only for that one day.
The newspaper was invented by -
Paris physician, who, finding his visits
welcome whenever he brought any DcwS
Or gossip, applied to Cardinal RicheIfeH
for a patent to publish the Paris Ga
zette in 1902.
For the last fourteen years a brood
| IF tomtits has been reared each spring
in the letter box at Uttoxeter work
house. Since the parent birds first look
possession of the box they have hatche&
200 eggs--LondOn Standard.
! Several German firms Gin EibenstOcs
and Zwickau) have purchased large
forest sections in the vicinity of Chiojd-
hi. Roumania, where they propose 10
erect sawmills and ship from there aB-
nually about 10000 cubic meters Of
! lumber to Italy, France and Germany
/ Negotiations among the German man
ufacturers Of wall paper have finally
led 10 the organization of Il trust The
seven leading manufacturers who have
already joined have Il combined aBnUas
production Of about $2,620,OOc. TEa
total output Of wall paper in Germany
/ is estimated at $7,00O,O00 per annum
Miss Jean Gordon, who has won "a
national reputation by her work in be
half Of women and children, done SS
factory inspector in Louisiana, is M"t
to be reelected to her office. 1t is as
serted that she has incurred the enmtHy
fof the manufacturers and the pOiits.
clans and in spite of the protests of the
women of the State she will be turne6
out of office. ,.
The sheath skirt is not new il BHE-
nah, where the women wear a garment
split to the waist, NOW concealing, ROw
revealing" The men wear the same
sarOng, unsplit. In Cochin and TravaM
core, India, the reputable native wOm
| EN- wear nothing above the waist except
noserings and earrings, the Syrian
| Christians wear jacket and oOlDica1
little Cochin tail" something like the
obi of Nippon. on their skirts.---New
York Press
| Pear-shaped balloons are the fasIll0E
in Belgium. The point Is upward, ths
base of the balloon is spherical re II
claimed that balloons OF this shape
| pierce the air vertically with far great
er speed than the ordinary spherical
balloon. Consequently they are stead
Ter. Also the upper pointed end pre-
vents the accumulation Of moisture OK
SNOW on the surface. which frequently
weighs balloon down and destroys 1ts
| power to rise.
Though Russia has much coal sBas
iron her industries are quite unCieves-
oped. Her Industrial backwardness may
| be gagged from the fact that with %
| territory and a population twice ~
| large as those of the United Statez
| Russia produces only One-tenth -of tha
quantity of iron produced n the Uni-
| ted States, and that she raises only
one-twentieth Of the quantity Of coal
Agriculturally and industrially, Russia
is medieval country---New York
| Evening Post
DR.. II. C. Stevens, Of Seattle, reports
recent experiments which show tiEa&
objects seen by indirect vision onda
narily appear larger in the right fGasG
of the field of vision than in the left
With a smaller number Of persons ahSr
| is reversed From these facts ne de-
duces a possible origin of right snA
| Ieft-handedness observation-disclosures, Or
it's reverse, develops at abOut The SEe
! of seven months. DR.. Stevens suggests
| that they may be due to the phenGUsea&
of vision just described. By & reflex
effect the infant reaches after the Oh
iect best seen with the arm rearesf h.
them.
Miss Martha Van Rensselaer,, snEpes-
visor of the reading course for 2armeEE
wives conducted by the Agricultural
College Of Cornell University, believes
that there should be woman Judge fM
Juvenile courts where girls are tried
She bases her opinion on personal OBJ.
servation of various Juvenile coUrtx,
notably those In New York city, She
believes that there are many questions
which girls would answer truthfully IL
there was woman on the bench, bot
which they now invariably lie abOMG
when questioned by . man. This b.
one of the very few Instances in whaciA
Miss Van Rensselaer, believes segrega
ZION of the two sexes would be beneR-
cial
In the total number of mammals.
birds, reptiles and amphibians (4,03A1.
on exhibition, the New York Zoology
CO. park stands to-day eft fho head ~