River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-12-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

NEARLY quarter of all cases OF in
sanity are hereditary.
The Citizens union of New York has
voted TO make itself permanent.
The auditorium in Pawtucket, Z. l.,
has been converted into roller skating
rink
The New England Burglar Insur-
anee Co. has decided TO go out of bust
ness.
The pressure of the atmosphere on .
man of ordinary size amounts to about
Il tons.
IN some of the rural districts of Hol-
land smoking is commonly INDUCED in
in churches.
Gen. Miles. in his report to the sec
rotary of war, urges an increase of the
regular army.
The wearing Of orange blossoms as a
bridal decoration originated in the days
of the crusaders.
The women Of Morocco never cele-
brate their birthdays, and few of them
know their ages.
FROM 80 pounds of gas tar in ton
of coal over 1000 distinct shades of
aniline dyes are made.
ACcoKBISG TO the best authorities
there has never been a race of men
who were ignorant of fire.
THE Detroit chamber of commerce
building will be sold at anction under
foreclosure of a mortgage.
WV. B. HOWELL, assistant secretary
of the treasury, was messenger boy in
the department IS years ago.
MOVEMENT is on foot to establish a
large school for the education of Chi
nese children in San Francisco.
IN France degrees and diplomas are
granted Icy the government. and not by
the universities as in this country.
THE Atlantic ana Tacitic Aerial Nav
igation Co. has under construction an
air ship in which it is proposed 70 20
TO the klondillc.
Ont of every 100 young men called
out for military service in Italy in 1895,
81 were excused flr physical unfitness
or other reasons.
$50 years old, and there are recorded
instances of grange trees bearing
when 500 years old.
1T is reported that an earthquake
shock has thrown up n new island in
the Pacific ocean, opposite Labaun, off
the coast of Borneo.
THE quantity of water discharged
every day iuto the sea by all the rivers
of the world has been estimated to be
about sc cubic miles.
The confederate veterans reunion
a. zusf hoe lei
ia, TO prepare for the reunion to be
held there next year.
IN Greece is il considered an ever
lasting disgrace to remain an old
maid. Girls are betrothed very often
when still tiny babies.
TIE heirs OF Jonathan Carver have
laid claim to 1000. 600 acres in the
northwest, including the sites of st.
Paul and Minneapolis.
JAPANESE officers who fought in the
late war against China have petitioned
their government 10 erect a monument
TO the memory of the horses that fell
in battle.
IT is said that 1000 deer have been
killed in the Maine woods this season.
which probably means that ten times
that many hunters have paid for the
privilege of shooting a rifle.
IL the western part of Pennsylvania
recently % wild geese were brought to
the ground by smoke from forest fires
and were captured by boys. Many
hunters with guns have had no such
success
Mrs. WILLIAM THAw, JR.. has built
in Pittsburgh, Pa, and presented TO
the Civic club, a bath house where the
poor of the city can obtain baths by
the payment of five cents each. 1t was
opened Thanksgiving day.
The General Electric Co. S shops at
Schenectady will. on the completion of
the transmission line, receive all its
driving power from waterfalls IS miles
distant. The current will be trans
united at 1900 volts alternately.
Nj. CAsIMIR- PERrER, the prcde ,essor
Of Felix Faure. who resigned from the
presidency OF France. is credited with
4 desire<to re-enter public lite. He is
preparing to contest again his old seat
which became vacant on his election 10
the presidency.
A WEaT AFRICAN king has Just had
an umbrella made for him 81 feet in
diameter. When in use this umbrella.
which opens and closes in the usual
way, is fixed in the ground and there
is room underneath it for the king and
80 guests to take dinner
The late Gen. Albert Ordway rose
successfully from the rank of lieuten-
ant TO that of lieutenant colonel, and
he was given command of regiment.
After the occupation of Richmond he
was promoted to the rank of colonel,
and brevetted brigsdier general. He
was then but 20 years of age.