River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-08-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

SENATOR GoRMAN was once a member
of baseball club.
AARON is from the Hebrew, and sig
nifies lofty mountain.
JAPANESE aim to have all their debts
paid on New Years day.
FEMALE franchise leagues arc being
formed all over Australia.
LONDON has 97l public parks contain
ing 17,s76 acres of ground.
AK automatic sculpturing machine
has been invented in Paris.
THERE is in all Japan an average of
two earthquake shocks daily.
AUSTRALIAN Bushmen are the least
intelligent of the human race.
FooT BALI. was a crime in England
during the reign of Henry VIII.
VACCINATIoN has been made relig
ious ceremony in Geneva and Holland
IT is rumored that Mrs. Blaine is not
likely to return to Washington To live.
FIVE men can easily hold down
lion, but nine are required to hold 4
tiger.
THERE are more muscles in the tail
of rat than there are in a human
hand.
Mr. J. l.. COMMUNICATIONS
is resident of Sarcoxie, Jasper coun-
ty, Mo.
A NEWLY launched battleship, one OF
the most powerful in the French fleet,
is called lie Carnot. 1t cost 1886. 600
Miss CLARA CLEMENS or MARK
Twain's daughter" as she is usually
oil haf -e-s
her.
JOSEPH BLACK. JR., a young lawy n
of Richmond, Mo. is described as
"having head on him as long as q
canoe"
THF largest logan or swaying
stone is at Peninis, Sicily. II weighs
about 3l3 tons and is so nicely bal
anced that man can easily put it in
motion.
SAND liberation of water similar 10
the English plan has been tried in
Lawrence, Mass. where typhoid fever
has been very prevalent, with the re-
suit of great improvement in the public
health
AUSTRALIA produced gold TO the
value of $4,000. 900 in excess of any
other country in 1898. The worlds
total gold yield last year was SOC, 22s,.
6O0-an increase of about $500, 00C
over 1892
THE largest farm in this country is
situated in Louisiana. il being one
hundred miles one way b. twenty-five
the other. The fencing alone for i;
cost $4,000.
THERE is an oak tree on the highway
from Warwick to bennington, Eng
land, which is said to mark the exael
center of England. 1t is between 800
and 400 years old.
A SCHOOL district in Grant county
Kan. contains only one family. The
father. mother and eldest son have
elected themselves trustees, and ap
pointed the eldest daughter, at SIS p
month. to teach the younger children
THE late President Carnot of France,
according % French papers, was never
baptized. He belonged, it is said to
the heophilanthropists. founded by
La RevilIere Lepaux. Among the
original members of the sect was
Lazare Garnet, grandfather of the pres
ident
ZEKE CLOTTs. of Mobile. Ala, is the
owner OF an OK with natural knot in
the middle of his tail. Several veter-
mary surgeons have tried TO unite it,
but their efforts cause the anilral TO
emit a strange. hoarSe cry. The tail is
so shortened by tho knot that it is
practically valueleSs to switch off flies
CRIMINALS in BucuOs Ayres. who are
sentenced 10 long terms of penal scr,i-
tude. are frequently released ON parole
for certain hours each day. so that their
private business will not suffer
A DEALER in aquarium supplies in
Harlem. New York city. has a fish
boarding-house. where members of the
fnny tribe are properly cared for until
their owners return from their summer
vacations.
TnE largest walnut tree ever known
in this country was fellcd in Leavep-
worth county. kas., and taken to the
Worlds fair. II was - feet high and
two carloads of lumber were taken
from Us limbs alone.