River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE Bell Telephone has $4,000. 900
invested.
You BET is the name of n township in
California
NEW ORLEANS has an area of about
105 square miles.
AMERICANS own four-ffths of the
sugar plantations in Hawaii
THE state capital building at Olym-
pia, Wash, is to cost 81, 900, O00
A BALD eagle carried off bottle of
hair restorer from Perryville. Pa.
THE highest of the Green mountains
in Vermont is Mt. Mansfield, 4,2S0 feet.
Is New England there is on an aver
age, one physician to every 45O inhabi-
tants.
WILLIAM STEISITz, the chess cham
pion is under medical treatment for i'm
somnia.
a STATUE of the late Senator Vance
is to be placed in Capitol square, Raj
eigh, y. c.
The total crop of wheat raised IN this
country last year amounted to 500, 1872
900 bushels.
PENNSYLVANIA manufactures leather
cigars, but they ere for the use of prac-
teal jokers
The latest occupation suggested for
the fair sex in England is that of girl
auctioneers."
The position of paymaster to the
household of Queen Victoria is worth
s., 900 a year.
IL the earthquakes which recently
shook Athens, the parthenon sustained
some injuries
THERE are two hundred divorced peo-
pie living in Memphis, four-fifths of
whom arc women.
The salaries of the Brooklyn teach
ers ar: 81. OBS. 600; of the New York
teachers. IS, 200, 600.
The largest rOse bush in Germany is
now in bloom in Stuttgart IT fills a
space of $50 square feet
FIVE thousand dozen crabs were
killed by the heavy claps of thunder
in Baltimore the other night.
Mrs. JONI MATTHEWS. of Anderson,
Ind, has been driven insane by the
march of the commonwealcrs
Sun sroTs were first observed in 1911,
and we're then noted by several astron-
omers at about the same time.
a NORWEGIAN woman living near
Gankton, :. ID, is so years old, and said
to be the mother of q children.
WHAT is said to be the only frost
less telt in the United States, lies
between Los Angeles and the Pacific
ocean In breadth it is abcIt three
miles
Ex-SECRETARY TRACY, according to
r. e
his administration IN the navy depart
ment $50, 900 a year in excess of his
salary.
THERE are scores of fruit stands in
New York which are never closed day
or night from one years end TO anoth-
er'S These are run by Italians, and as
e. rule the different members of the
owners family relieve each other at
stated periods.
THE greatest desert is the Sahara.
1t is s, 600 miles from east to west, !, 900
miles from north to south and has
about 5000. 600 square miles or about
the area OF the United States
THERE were nineteen lieutenant gen.
erals n the Confederate army, and all
of them are dead save four-Vade
Hampton, Joseph Wheeler, James
Lonstreet and John Il. Gordon.
MEDICAL men are much interested in
the case of Melinda Morforo, aged six
teen, living at Sharon, Pa, from whose
body within the past four years 200
needles and pieces of steel have been
extracted Where they come from is
mystery they are trying to solve.
AT Jacksonville. Fla, a man broke
into an under taker's establishment and
drank a quart of embalming fluid.
thinking !. was liquor. lie il dead
TIVE tryvn of Frederick. Nd, is max
ing another effort to raise money for
monument to Frsncis Scott Key. the
author of The Star Spangled Ban
per." who is buried in that city.
The tunnels of the world are esti-
mated 10 number s-bout ,i42. with
total length of 5i4 miles. There are
about 1900 railroad tunnels. II saba
queens tunnels. - canal tunnels, and
80 conduit tunnels. with aggregate
lengths OF about SO miles, . miles, 20
miles and s. miles res peetively.