River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-07-19
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KANGARoos have been known to
jump "a feet.
IRELAND's linen industry employs
100, 900 persons.
LADIES smoking cars on Russian rail-
ways are well patronized.
The coal fields of the United States
cover 1914 900 square miles.
1HE original home of the bison was
in the Great Salt Lake valley.
THERE are 10000 more women than
men in the District of Columbia.
NORTH CAROLINA has but 3, roe foreign
ers out of population of 1,617, $50.
A PLUMBER in st. Petersburg is paid
s1e a month with board; a baker $500.
THE output of pine lumber in Georgia
is estimated at 400,0O0,0O0 feet per an
mum.
THE great aqueduct which supplied
Carthage with water was seventy miles
long.
THE historic battlefield at BraddoclS.
Pa, is to be marked with a shaft of
steel.
THE largest theater in the world is
the Paris Opera house. 1t covers three
acres.
ONE mile of the hairspring wire used
in watches weighs less than half
pound.
THE average tourist trip around the
world comprises about $4,000 miles of
travel.
ORGANIZED charity was unknown in
the Roman empire till after the Christ
ian era.
GERMANY has more miles of railway
in operation than any other state in
Europe.
THE preparation of the human hair
for the market gives employment TO
1000 Parisians.
Tue island where Robinson Crusoe
was monarch of all he surveyed is now
inhabited by about sixty people, who
attend the herds of cattle that Craze
there.
Two hundred thousand fruit trees,
most of them the Italian prunes, have
been planted in Thurston county.
Washington, during the last twelve
months.
WAGES for farm hands in south ern
Mic higan average SIS per month and
board. or S22 without board. In the
northern counties SIT with board and
s27 without board. This is something
over s. less per month than was paid
year ago.
CoxGREssMAs CURTIS. of Kansas.
spent several of his earlier years as
a hockey. He claims to have ridden
some of the fastest horses ever known
in the west.
THE Chinese Six Companies is the
most powerful organization in the
world. and holds not only the fortunes
but even the lives of thousands of Chi
namen in its grasp.
A CHINESE en yineer, educated in
New Haven, Conn. is about compiet-
ing a telegraph line 1900 miles long
across the Cobb desert. from Pekin to
Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan. 1t has
been three years under construction.
a WILD goose captured by James II.
Sturgeon. in Nevada. recently. had at
tached &c its leg thin piece of brass,
with this inscription: Fremont party,
September. is49. Il. T. j.
The combined assets of the Roths-
child family in Europe are not less. it
is said. than se.0oo.O0O 600. The vir-
tual head of the family is Nathaniel,
Lord Rothschild. of London.
BABY carriage, designed especially
FIR the use of those living in fats.
Looks just like any other baby carriage
v hen it is in use, but it can be folded
together so that one person can hand
lily carry it up and down stairs.
Two Mississippi "a Is recently walked
d distance of fifty miles through the
country TO decide which should win a
lover of whom both were enamored.
CROMWELL. lived in constant fear of
assassination. For several years he
never slept t-yo consecutive nights in
the same I'm. ami always wore a
suit of chain armor under his clothes.
THE lines on no two human hands
are exactly alike. This fact is utilized
in China in an interesting way. When
a traveller desires passport the palm
of his hand is covered with fine oil
paint. and an impression is taken on
thir. damp paper. This paper, Off
cially signed, is his passport