Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-11
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


The reclamation service of the Unit
ed States has already committed itself
to irrigation projects which will in
volve total cost of $90,00000O.
The recently discovered eighth sat
elite of Jupiter has been successfully
photographed at Greenwich observa-
tory.
Canada, Denmark, France, Ger
many, England, Russia, Sweden and
the United States were, in 1908. repre-
scented among the twelve expeditions
which were struggling toward the
pole. Eight leaders were veterans
Peary and Cook of the United States.
Bernter of Canada, Erickson and Ras-
mussen of Denmark, Charcot of
France, Shackleton of England, and
Geer of Sweden.
Mrs A. A. Anderson, of Greenwich.
Conn, has given $4,000 toward par
lsh building to be devoted to the So
clat and educational purposes of the
deaf and dumb. The house Is to be
three stories in height and to contain
rooms for entertainment, handicraft
and physical training The entire cost
of the building and its equipment as
now planned will be $4,000, and Mrs
Anderson has promised to double her
gift If the balance is raised during the
present year
In the course of report on tn, dis
Infection of school rooms w. II. Marsh,
an English science teacher, asserts
that tests made of samples of school
room dust showed the number of mi
oro-organisms therein to be from So.
100000 to S0,000,O00 an ounce On
some days as much as one and one
quarter pounds of dust was swept
from a room 400 square feet In area,
which, on the basis of the figures
quoted, would yield from 1000 900, 900
to 1,600,000,000 heterogeneous.
One of the most famous bells in the
world is the first great bell of Mos
cow, which now stands in the middle
of square in that city and is used
as a chapel This bell was cast in
1873, but was in the earth for over
hundred years, being raised in 1886
by the Emperor Nicholas 1t is nearly
twenty feet high, has a circumference
of sixty feet, is two feet thick and
weighs almost 200 tons. The second
Moscow bell, which Is the largest bell
In the world that is actually in use,
weighs 12S tons.
A rabbit hears a man and a dog
coming and goes bounding away for
safety. The dog strikes the scent,
smells around briefly, and then is off
in the direction the rabbit has taken.
The wonder Is not that the dog should
strike the scent, but this: Each OF
the several spots the rabbit touched
was touched by him within fraction
of a second Of one another; yet so
accurate is the sense of smell of the
dog that he can tell which was touch
ed last, and so get the direction Of
the rabbits course.-New York Press.
Mrs. Fannie Friedman, who died the
other day in New York, was said to
have just passed her 18th birthday.
She was born in Hungary, married be-
fore she was Il and had thirteen chill
dren. AT the time of her death she
had five children, fifty-nine grandchil-
dren and eighteen great-grandchildren
UP to the day of her death she was
active, both In body and mind and
took pride In the fact that she had
never had a doctor In her life. Her
rule for good health was: Don't wor-
foI
! a day and eat five meals
The number of autocars threatens
to increase We owe this anticipated
catastrophe to M de Lipkowski, the
famous Inventor of the brakes en-
ployed ON most of our railroads. A
steel wheel, flexible and elegant, bear
ing his name is destined to replace in
no small measure the pneumatic of
the automobiles. AS a consequence
no more accidents by cracking and
above all no more expensive OUTLAWS
for the castings. A meeting organ
lied by FAutO permits these wheels to
run with a speed equivalent to fifty
kilometers an hour. The auto may
thus become an exact and not too cost.
ly means of locomotion.-Le Cri de
Paris.
The inscriptions OH church bells are
often quaint and interesting and fire.
quently relate to historical events.
They are more often than not in Lat,
in, sometimes bad, but nearly always
terse and vigorous. The II o'clock
bell taken down in the French revolu-
ton bore the inscription, Ego sum
vox vita, co-orato-venite." The
Holy Ghost bell at Strasburs bears the
motto, 80 Rex Gloria Christie, vent
cum pace" and is only rung when two
fires are seen in the town at the same
time The following is quaint and
fairly common inscriptions: "Funera
plango, Fulgura FRANCO, Sabbato pam
go. Excite lentos, Dissipo ventos. Pace
eruentos II .ondon Globe.
Philadelphia is up In arms, as new
err before, over the action of it's trac-
ton monopoly in abolishing it's six