River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-03-31


boards, ate his sandwiches and kept
well
IT is reported that the Palmers. one
of the largest naval and shipping firms
in the United Kingdom. are arranging
To transfer their plant Of works at New
castle-on-Tyne 10 a certain port in the
United States where they will conduct
their business in future. Mr. Rookie
Teller, Of the Stand I'd Oil Company.
will, il is said, join the enterprise. con
trolling $40. 900. 900 and using his infiu-
ence to secure government contracts
for warships-
The female interest in woman suf-
frage seems 10 be on the down-hill
grade in boston. The total number of
women On the poll lists this year as
qualified to vote is only l.5sg as com
pared with I34. OS9 men. Last year
number of wotaen registered was 5. s92,
owing TO the influence of a sectarian
serimmage. Now. however, that things
have qUieted down nearly 1000 have
decided they don't want To exercise the
privilege of suffrage.
THE bacilian world will be more or
less excited by the information that DIR.
Rabener, of Roumania, has announced
his ability 10 knock the everlasting
wiggle out of them-that Is. the infiu-
enza style Of bacillus-by the use of
creoline. The we'll known facility with
which the bacillus adjusts himself TO
his environment and extracts susie
nance from the most unyromising in
gradients. will have tendency to make
people little slow at first to buy creo-
line by the barrel with a view to its
general consumption.
IL Russia a child ten years of age can
not go away from home to school with
out passport Servants and peasants
cannot 60 away from where they live
without passport 4 gentleman re-
siding at IT. Petersburg or Moscow
cannot receive the visit of friend who
remains many hours without notifying
tine police of his arrival. as the case
may he. The pOrterS of all houses are
compelled To make returns Of the ar
rival and departure of strangers. And
for every one of the above passports a
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Is the course of a lecture at New
Haven. Conn, Rev. Thomas : Dana,
an educated Indian. made this singular
statement: 1.-The Indians never cook
anything in the house. They always
cook outside, giving as their only rea-
son that il they cook inside the steam
will collect in their clothing and draw
the lightning. Whether this is truth
or not do not know. but do know
this: No Indian wigwam has been
struck by lightning since the dawn of
history. and no Indian has been killed
with lightning for more than 100
years"
The management of Yale college at
New Haven. Conn. has decided that
next fall all the post graduate courses,
with the degree of doctor of philoso-
phy," will be open without distinction
of sex. 1t Is not the design to estab-
lish an annex or other rival of the col
leges already existing for women, but
TO receive the graduates Of those col
legeS and give them as good opportu-
mites for the most advanced research
and education as can De found in Eu-
rope. Yale is the first OF the great uni
vCrsities of this country to make this
change.
THE last family has moved from South
Glastonbury. Vt, at the terminus of the
Bennington and Glastonbury railroad,
and now the hotel depot and dwellings
are left 10 the mercy of the winds and
porcupines Business in the manufac-
ture Of lumber and charcoal commenced
there twenty-one years ago. and was
carried ON quite extensively. The rail-
road was built in 1871. and has conveyed
many tourists for pleasure during
the heated term. Men of all nation
alities nearly during the twenty
one years have been employed
there. but the French were in the
majority.
MEXICAN Iaborers while digging in
the extension of the Santa Cruz canal
came upon one of the strangeSt Of the old
Aztec cities They struck the first ruin
about twenty feet below the surface.
Everything about the old building had
been wonderfully preserved. owing to
the allsaH n the sand. The first build
ing consisted Of triangular structure
about three hundred feet in length and
two hundred feet in width. The roof,
which had doubtless been thatch, had
caved in, but the wooden pieces by
which it was held together were as
sound as when put in thousands OF
years ago
A YOUNG woman from sweden has
been looking for her sister. Of whose
whereabouts she knew nothing except
that she was in the United States. Fl
nally She drifted 10 Portland. Me. and
in .nquiring for this sister mentioned 4
name that sounded little like Swift.
80 she was taken to the store of Mr..
Swift, who. however. proved TO be en-
tirely ignorant of the girls where
abOuts- But while she was telling her
story a man happened to be in the store
who said that he had Swedish servant
girl who might possibly be able to helT
the inquirer. The servant girl proved
to be the Ion g-looled-for sister.
BY the death of Max Strakosch,
which occurred at Fordham. y. Y, the
musical world has lost one of the most
aAeAts entel pEAsliH anu AuueSs u - AiiA
presariOS. He was one of the most san
guine. genial and delightful Of men
and his fund Of good nature never was
exhausted. not even during the last fOul
years OF his life, during which he suf
fered from paralysis His nephew,
Carl Strakosch, it will be remembered,
married Clara Louise kellogg. He
himself. after remaining bachelor
many years. married Miss Nelson, a
New York lady. by whom he had foul
children-two boys and two girls