River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-01-16
General items.

A KANSAS preacher has had his
salary increased $50 a year for thrash.
ing three men who disturbed his con-
gregation.
ALDERMANIc work at Fort Scott,
Kansas, is enormous, and doesn't pay.
MIS- Guernsey fired at some burglars
one night, and the next day one of che
aldermen had his arm amputated.
INDIANAPOLIS claims the third plaza
In the list of the packing cities Of the
world, ard says IL has the largest pork.
packing house in existence. 394. 600
hogs being slaughtered there last
year.
PROVIDENCE, in beautiful accord with
its name, has such thoroughtares aa
Faith street, Hope street, Benevolent
street, Happy street, &c. The other
day man was found fainting from
starvation in Benevolent street, and
was carried through Happy street to a
hospital.
Our lighthouse system is more
extensive than any in the world, the
lights and beacons extending more than
1000 miles along coast and shore.
We have 521 lighthouses, 35 powerful
signals operated by engines driven by
steam or hot air, 1854 day, or unlighted
beacons, and 1888 buoys.
The British exploring ship Chal.
lenger recently touched at the Island OF
Triston d'Acuna, in the South Allan.
tic, and found two Germans living
there, Who were heartily tired of play.
ing Robinson Crusoe and gladly avail.
ed themselves of the opportunity of
leaving.
ALL the cork used in London comes
from that portion OF Spain held by the
Carlists. Since the war the cork
manufacturers of the United Kingdom
have been utterly ruined in their bust.
ness, and the Londoners have to keep
their mouths over their bottles to pre-.
vent the contents from escaping.
TEA is now extensively raised in Hin.
dostan, the export TO England in 1872
exceeding sixteen millions of pounds.
The Indian teas are of rare flavor, and
are used by English shopkeepers to
mix with the Chinese. The culture in
India is now carried on by joint stock
companies, which are nov paying from
~ W ~ per Ctub ulVlu6uQb.
M. BoIToNB was led to admit theo.
retically that the natural measure of
the hardness OF any metallic element
was the specific gravity divided by the
atomic weight. The hardness of a
large number of metals, determined
experimentally, agrees very closely
with the calculated value.
Snow BIRDS are esteemed a great
delicacy in Nevada, where the Indians
shoot them with bows and arrows.
These birds, though small, are exceed
ingly plump, and seven or eight of
them skewered on a cambria needle,
and broiled on q thimbleful of Goals,
make delicious morsel.
The proprietor of the London f. g.
graph is about to raise the price of Ad-
vertisements TO 2s. cd. per line. The
number of them has become so large
as to interfere with the news, and he
expects by increasing the price to
make more room in his columns. The
daily circulation of the Telegraph is
now about 10000.
SOME practical joker recently went
into the Office of the Paris True Ken
tuckian, during the absence of its edi.
tor, and had inserted poem to the
latter's first born. The editor did not
observe it until the paper was printed,
when he went through the entire
edition and clipped out the offending
rhyme.
THE Montreal firemen are to have
new kind of respirator, consisting of a
metal case filed with glycerine and
powdered charcoal. These will not
only preserve the men from suffoca-
ton, but also effectually prevent them
from yelling, which all fremen seem
to think is particularly eflicacious in
extinguishing fires.
ONE Of the Prussian military institu-
tions which have been of late specially
commended in their comrades by the
reforming class of French officers, is
that of the regimental court of honor,
fhe use of which is found with the
Germans to have greatly modified the
former barbarous system of dueliug of
every slight affront.
A HIPPocAMPUs, or sea horse, in the
Manchester aquarium, recently gave
birth to family numbering about two
hundred. They were Matched in q
pouch which is in the tail of the male
parent, the ova being placed there by
the female as in a nest. 1t is sup
posed that tho young occasionally re-
turn to the pouch for protection.
The hop vine, as a material for max.
ing paper, is receiving increased atten-
tion, and is likely to repay trouble and
cost of experiments. Under chemical
treatment it is found TO yield long,
strong and fine fibre. The process Of
preparation is said TO be of novel
character. Efforts to utilize bamboo
are being made with more or less sue.
cess.
The state OF Michigan proposes to
make beginning in prison reform.
Striped garments are to be abolished,
convicts will be educated, and when
fiually discharged each man willreceive
q suit of clothes, SO in cash, and such
money as he may have earned by over.
work. Prison reform may be needed in
some directions, but an exchange thinks