River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-09-13
FOREIGN BINDINGS.

A MINING claim on Douglas island; Alaska,
has Just been sold for $500 600.
CHILL and the Argentine Republic are 10
be connected by rail over and under the
Andes.
THE railway casualties IN England last
year include thirty-threo persons killed and
six hundred and forty-seveu persons in
jurcd.
THE more important cities of Colombia
are almost as well supplied with telephones
as the average city of the same population
In this country.
Two STATE railway carriages have been
built in Paris for the Emperor ard Empress
of Cuina The dragons on the panels are
Of gilt bronze and they are very niagniA-
cent all over.
THE telephone disease" las been dis
covered by Prof Wilborsiadt, Of Berlin.
The use Of the instrument produces dis
order IN the yibratory chambers Of the car,
generally in the left ear
TELEPHONE rates are comparatively low
in Sweden At Orebo, for instance, the
subscriber pays an annual rental o. but
four dollars and gets the use Of telephors
system extending one hundred miles into
the country.
THERE are six hundred and twenty-ono
newspapers printed in Berlin Fifty-four
are official papers, seventy political, ono
hundred and sixty-fivc have to do with lit
eraturc, science and art, two hundred and
seventeen are commercial, and thirty reig-
ious.
An immense terrestrial globei on the scale
of one-millonth, will be o feature OF the
Paris exposition of 1889. II viii be about
forty feet in diameter and win give impor-
tant spaces in their actual relative SIZE.
Paris, for example, will cover about sixth
of square inch.
Count MAURICE EsTEEHAZY has been put
under guardianship to check his mad ex-
ttavagance. He owns, free and clear Of
membranes, more than 231O0o acres of
land in Hungary, and can travel III
straight line more than fifty miles without
quitting his estate.
TIE morphine habit in Paris is enslaving
thousands of women in the upper classes.
They provide themselves with a miniature
apparatus, which can be concealed about
the person and actually practice the vice in
public, injecting the drug while visiting or
attending the thcater.
DURING the recent celebration at the Bo-
logna University the students Of Parma
sent their Bologna brethren q Parmesan
cheese, weighing one hundred and eighty
pounds, and covered with Latin inscriptions
worked in macearoni. a tun Of wine vas
also sent to wash 1t down with.
ExsQUEEN ISABELLA, Of Spain, has an in
come Of one million dollars q year, but IS al
WAYS in debt. She maintains no house in
Paris, but always resides at hotel. Her
executive ability is alcarly shown by the
ease with which She constantly spends more
than her enormous income amounts 70.
Ak atmospheric pccnomenon was wit
messed in the English Channel lately. The
atmosphere rarefed to tho extent that OBJ
jects thirty and forty miles distant could be
discerned by the naked eye with reInarka-
BILE dis!inctness. Almost every prominent
object could be picked out along The Trench
coast.
A SOCIETY called the ColE-lbia has started
& carricr;pige6n service between Strasburg
and Vienna, and recently a number OF pig
cons were started at the latter city at five
O'Clock one evening, and the first of them
reached Strasburg at six o'clock the next
morning, having Travelled at the rate OF
over thirty-one miles an hour all night
THE sardine and other tins, of which such
thousands are thrown away, goto support a
branch Of industry in Paris which Is deeply
interesting to the youthful part Of the pop
uIation, for, after being stamped into shape
by machines of simple construction, they
feappear in the form of countless armies OF
tin soldiers; which are sold at prices so low
that the manufacturer could not possibly
afford to buy his material new from the tin
man.
SEVERAL Of the French railway companies
and other public bodies have adopted the
practice Of having their printing done on
green instead of white paper The reason
for this alteration is that they have cOnclud-
ed that the combination OF white paper with
black characters endangers the cyesight OF
their work-people. Black on green has al
ways been recognized as q good combination
for this purpose, and many railway tickets
are SO printed.