River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-31
CURRENT TOPICS.

FIFTY statues of Frcnchmcn ere
awaiting erection.
The California '.Midwinter' fair lasts
till the Fourth of July.
CHINA has 400. 600, 900 inhabitants and
but 40 miles of railroad.
ONO leads the states in having the
largest number of farms.
LAST year ls.2O7 horses were killed
in Vienna for human food.
FOREIGN tourists leave in Switzerland
every year about 30.00O,000.
THERE are more muscles in the tail of
a cat than in human hand.
The assessed valuation of the state
of New York is IS. 500. 100000.
ZEBRAs, which were plentiful fifty
years ago. arc now very scarce.
ONE man at sea level can do the work
of two at the altitude of 1900 feet
PRoPRIEToRs of seashore resorts look
for an early and prosperous season.
THE annual cost of the British army
is $50, 900 900; of the navy, $40, 100000.
THERE are IN the United States
about 45,O4s, coo sheep and 1926. 500
hogs.
A LOCOMOTIVE has been made COM
plete in England in less than ten
hours.
THERE are restaurants in Berlin
where horsefesh is the only meat
served
A GEORGIA bunco stecrcr found that
his intended victim was his long-lost
brother.
THE Anus of the japanese Islands
tattoo mustaches on the women's up
per lips.
AMERICAN railway trains run at
greater speed than those of any other
country.
The largest photograph ever taken
was seven feet long and four feet two
inches wide.
ELEPHANTS have been known to live
one hundred and fifty years. Some
times they do not reach their full
growth until they are fifty.
PARIS. in studying the subject o.
sewage disposal proposes to buy large
tracts Of land in the valley of the Seine
and establish filtration beds.
\ NEW YORK cigar dealer recently
advertised for live Indian To act as
sign. and 900 men of all coiors and all
nationalitics applied for the job.
REV. FATHER MULLER. of Mangolore,
India. is meeting with great success in
the treating of leprosy by means of the
ELECTROMAGNETIC system cure
A STURGEON Mos man, who cut his
foot with an AK years ago. has never
e4andfpsr
in butter firllin to protect his pedal
extremitics.
j. o. HANTHoRN has machine of his
own invention at work in his Astoria
cannery that washes 5000 cans in ten
hours. The best record of the old ma
chine was 1000.
THERE is a wild flower in Turkey
that is the exact floral image Of hum
ming bird The breast is green, the
wings are deep rose color. the throat
yellow, the head and beak almost
black
A BRIDGE over the railroad near East
Orange. " j.. has caused the death of
twenty-three bralzemen by their strik-
ing their heads against the bridge in
passing under it.
4 NUMBER of interpreters intended
for war service are to he appointed TO
serve in the German army. They are
especially required TO be proficient in
Russian and French.
A DARK-EYED man was kept for hi
teen years in an unlighted dungeon in
SaIzburg. Austria. During that time
he never saw a human face. When he
came forth into daylight it was noticed
that his black eyes had become blue
LAND viii yield more when planted
I'm bananas than in any other variety Of
food production The product of an
aero of bananas is l35 times as great as
that of an acre of wheat.
THIETY aliens were naturalized IN
Great Britain during last month. One
of these was citizen of the United
States. sixteen from Russia, seven from
Germany and two from Italy
THE marriage rate in England and
Wales during the last quarter of last
year was lower than IN any previous
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rieFes, which Weg in The ANIMAL pgtl
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