River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-02-15
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AdAlA0illAt has dOubACl olANC ANoo.
THE catacombs of Rome contain the
remains of about 5000, 600 people.
The Boston Phillips Brooks statue
fund now amounts to about $50, 900.
A NEW alkaloid has been extracted
from the coffee bean and named coffea-
rine.
DANISH lighthouses are supplied with
oil to pump on the waves in case of a
storm.
BELLS toll for the making or break
ing of engagements in some German
towns.
SATISFACTORY gas pipes are now
made of MANILA paper coated with
asphalt
WAYNE MACVEAGH. ambassador to
Italy. carried with him new bust of
George Washington for the legation at
Rome.
THE United States is first in the val
ne of horses, Great Britain coming
next France third and Germany
fourth.
Ex-JUDaE LAMBERT TREE, formerly
L. 5. minister to Belgium, is about
starting for tour of the African coast
to Asia.
A WRITER, who claims to speak with
authority, says that Texas felt the
hard times less than any other state in
the union.
THE people of the United States con-
su.ne nearly one-half of the seven mill
lion ounces of quinipe produced in the
world every year.
a PROPOSITION for great shipway
through France, between the English
channel and the Mediterranean, meets
with much approval abroad.
If piece of Negroes skin be grated
on white man, the transplanted piece
will gradually assume the color and
texture of the surrounding cuticle.
A SQUARE copper coin, struck by the
Swedish government in the sixteenth
century, is nearly one-half inch thick
and we CHS pound and quarter.
GEN. MALTzEFF, a great Russian
landed proprietor, who died recently,
owned twenty-nine mines, in which
about So, 600 workmen are employed.
A TY-FIvE-YEAR-oLD beggar of
Pesth, Hungary. attempted suicide be-
cause he was no longer able to support
his parents, who are 125 and 100 years
old.
A SCHOOL building at Southampton,
Pa, was blown down by a recent gale.
The building was filled by scholars,
but all of them escaped without serious
injury.
JULES CT ARETIE paid visit to Mile.
Rosa Bonheur recently, and he says
that in spite of her seventy years she
is bright anu alert and quite youthful
in manner.
A NEW YORKER weighing over 500
pounds fell off a dock into the East
river the other day. 1t required the
united efforts of six men and tackle to
rescue him.
IN The most crowded precinct of Bos-
| ton, the recent tenement house census
found the average number of persons
! in house to be 17.sl, and the average
NJ mber of persons in a room 1.6S
Historic old Castle Garden has been
converted into magnificently appoint
ed aquarium The work on the build
ing has teen completed, and but little
remains to be done in the interior.
CART r.. d. BELL, of Alaska, says
that The Indians of that territory are
being cleaned out by disease and bad
Whisky at such rate that in ten years
an ALASKAN Indian will be almost a
! curiosity.
WITH its tributaries, many of them
large and important rivers, tine waters
of the Amazon form an inland naviga'
ton of not less than fifty thousand
miles, line double the circumference
of the globe.
RABBI WISE, of Cincinnati who is
trying to find out how many jews
there are in the world, has come to the
conclusion that there are over Ia, 000,'
900 of them.
THERE are more than 5000 articles o.
various descriptions that were lost by
visitors during the Worlds fair season,
stored away in a room of the old SER
vice building at jackson park await
ing claima ITS
! ONE of the shortest wills on record,
u document containing but forty-two
words. was filed for probate in San
Francisco recently. The maker of the
will, Mime. Lerda. devised large es-
tate to her husband
| ACCORDING to the annual report OF
| the Michigan state board of health,
consumption. diphtheria, Group and
/ pneumonia are the most fatal diseases
in that state.
] THERE were 1.6s2 desertions from the
United States army during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1923, an increase
of 500 over the number reported the
| previous year
THREE European nations have sched-
uled Worlds fair Belgium next
May, France in 1900 and Russia in 1905
/ The latter is TO commemorate the 2O0th
anniversary of the founding of st.
Petersburg by Peter the Great.
OUT If the 6S1 pairs of eyes at the
! Michigan normal school, but 167 were
found - be perfect in every respect
! WHEN Farmer William L. Schutts. Of
Scranton, Pa. started for town with a
lot of fish in his wagon a black bear
walked along behind. put his forepaws
! on the tailboard and began 10 eat the
fish Schutts killed him with a fish
, spear.
RED-HAIRED people ought to bt
! thankful. as experts say that il means
shat there is a superabundance of iron
in the blood and that the matter tina
enters red hair impair $ vigor, elastic
ity. great vitality aud thoroughly
| healthful life
THE most wonderful vegetable in the
world is the truffle; il has neither
roots. stems, leaves, flowers nor seeds.
THERE are four unique mountains il
| Lower California. two of alum, one o
alum and sulphur mixed, and one o
pure sulphur. II is estimated that il
the four peaks named there are 100, 600,
600 tons of pure alum and 200, 600 ton
of pure sulphur.
CAPT PIERRE THOMPSON, of South
| port. Me. made his voyage when h
was ten years old. commanded his yes
sci at the age of eighteen. and still
| goes down 20 the sea at the age o
seventy -fou : was never wrecked anC
never lost man