River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-03-29
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Worn out billiard balls are usually
cut up into dice.
PNEUMATIC tires have been put on
many baby carriages
MADAGASCAR has a flov or that omits
the odor of putrid flesh
Wool is manufactured into nearly
80. 900 different kinds of goods
OLIVE trees bud in May, flower in
June and yield every two years
GERMANY has 81 universities, with
1920 professors and %, 200 students.
LoNDoS's Young Women's Christian
association has a membership of IA, 600.
THE first medical school in the United
States was founded in Philadelphia in
1864.
TEXAS has ten state farms on
which convicts are worked under con-
tract
HANS Won BULow's body will he
brought from Egypt to Gotha for ere
nation.
Mr. Il. F. GREGG, of Liberty, \. C.,
has an anvil 574 years old. 1t weighs
800 pounds
MORE zinc is reported to be produced
in Germany than in any other country
in the world.
The first factory for the manufacture
of white glass for houses was estab-
lished in 1880
THERE are 141 schools of theology in
this country, with CSC professors and
C, 9S9 students
I'll f Chinese claim to have possessed :
the art of enameling metals from at
least 1000 4. C.
THE coopers craft was first employed
among the wine growers of Italy about
the tenth century.
DURING the tenth century the Sara
Gems had seventeen universities, Cor
dovo being the chief
The Victoria lily, of Guiana, has a
circular leaf from six TO twelve feet in
diameter. 1t is turned up at the edge
like tray and can support, according
to its size, from 100 TO 800 pounds
SENATOR W. f. Villas has presented
to Grace Episcopal church of Madison,
Wis, a new guild hall, to cost between
IS, 900 and $4,000, as a memorial to his
daughter, Caroline, who died about
year ago.
A MAN with head that is two feet
one and five-eighths inches in circum-
ference was fitted with hat in Balti-
more the other day. His size is eight
and five-eighths, which is twelve sizes
above the average.
EFFoRTs are being male in Balti-
more to have the city home of Charles
Carroll, of Carrollton, on East Lom-
bard street, preserved as a depository
relics of ancient times
THE resurrection plant, native of
South Africa, becomes dry and appar-
emily lifeless during drouth, but opens
its leaves and assumes all the appear
ance of life when rain falls.
A PREHISTORIC well has been discov-
cred in Clark county, near st. Francis
vile, Mo 1t was covered with fiat
rock three feet below the present sur
face of the earth, was sixty feet deep
and walled with smooth rock.
Mrs. REBEocA TUTHERLY of Manches-
ter, \. H., who is % years old, is one of
five generations of her family now liv-
ing. She is said to have Isl grand
children.
VI. CARSor completes his term as
president of the French republic on
December g. His salary for the last
seven years has been $3.50, 600 year,
besides allowances.
A MAN under the hands of a maniac
barber in London became so frightened
that he lost his reason, jumped from
the chair and ran shriekIng from the
shop. Had he remained sane he would
probably have been murdered
Miss BESSIE HYATT, aged 5. of New
Rochelle. NY, has two grand-mothers
two grand-fathers, two great-grar :
mothers and one great-great-g rand
mother.
A MAN with two artificial arms, one
artificial leg and one glass eye lives in
Mayville, Mo lie is pretty comfort
able, considering how little there is left
of him.
= IERE is a wild flower, resembling
an orchis, which grows in several parts
of Turkey. 1t is an exact floral image
of a humming bird. The breast is
green. the wings are a deep rose color,
the throat yellow, the head and beak
almost black