River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-03-01
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hONbONbho Pog w a hcd0 Al eoAC'
yearly.
PERUVIAN mummies are on exhibit
ton in New York.
ONE Alas Kan volcano puffs at inter-
walls like locomotive.
The annual cocoanut crop of the
world is worth $50, 900. 900.
The photograph is now used in
schools for teaching purposes.
THE Boston public library has $780,
600 volumes, that of Chicago $50, 900.
GIANT human tracks are said to exist
in the solid rock near Nashville, Mo
COYOTE hunting has been introduced
in southern California and is meeting
with much popularity.
Two CENTURIES ago liquors, without
exception, were invented and manufac-
tured in the monasteries.
A INCOMING SESSION in the house of
commons begins at 2 o'clock in the af-
ternoon and lasts until Z.
The Dirigo. recently launched at
Bath, Me-, is the first steel sailing ship
ever built in New England.
THE civil~enginsers of the navy, an
arm of the service that may soon be
abolished, number only ten.
In some parts of Australia earth
worms grow to a length of six feet and
are three inches in diameter.
1T is said that on several Russian
railways iron telegraph poles are to be
substituted for those of wood.
PORTSMOUTH, n. H., is said to look
more like an English town than any
other city in the United States.
THEoPuILUs BLAND, of Pitt county,
n. C., has seven sons. each of whom
weighs over two hundred pounds.
AN ingenious Kansas hog stealer
chloroformed the pigs he stole, ard
not one OF them ''squealed' on him.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Mississippi legislature authorizing the
city of Meridian to issue bonds to pur-
chase and construct water works and
for other purposes
NJ. PoUssET, the founder of several
noted drinking places in Paris, who
died recently, bequeathed about $780,
900 to the twelve oldest customers of
his first establishment, whose patron
age caused his success
MRs. MARY AHRENs, president of the
LOOK AOuuLy doSOCAhbAOis va
Chicago, rented two rooms out of her
own pocket and circulated requests for
supplies to fli them. As result 25,.
900 men have been LED.
JAMES HERON. who died the other
day in San Francisco. was one of the
party from Commodore Sloat's squadron
that raised the American flag at Mon
terey on July Z, 1916.
So great is the echo in one of the
ing together of the palms of the hands
is said to make noise equal to that OF
a underground cannon.
QUAINT old customs still survive IN
many parts Of London. In Ely place.
Holbcrn, a Waterman cries the hour
nightly with the same formula in use
for centuries past, past one o'clock
and a cold, wet morning"
The public lands of Wyoming are
estimated at 63, 900, 900 acres OF this
only G, 200, 900 acres are said to be irri-
gable or agricultural land. The re-
mainder is all grazing lands
MEN do not give up their seats to
women in the public conveyances in
London and Paris They might be SO
polite if called upon, but laws of both
cities forbid passengers to stand.
THE simplest way to tell iron from
steel is to pour on the metal drop of
nitric acid. and allow it to act for one
minute. On rinsing with water a gray
ish-white stain will be seen If the metal
is iron; black one il it is steel
1T has heretofore been almost impos-
sible to make large castings of alumni
mum, but the difficulty has now been so
far overcome that pure aluminium bath
tubs are now made in a single piece.
JOHN BARNES. colored, cook in the
Augusta (Ga-) Jail, owes the city over
six years time, in police court SEN
fences for intoxication. He has been
cook in the prison for five years, and is
allowed to go out every SATURDAY.
night. invaria bly, getting intoxicated
and being resentenced before his for
mer one is served. Thus it is that his
sine has accumulated. Forty-eight
hours is the longest time he has been
out of jail in the last few years