River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-09-30
CURRENT TOPICS.
COOK cat farms are operated ne'

government.
A PENNSYLVANIA COW recently gave
birth to five calves, of which two are
living and thriving
In season of about II weeks $50, 600
worth of blGeberries were sold in Mar
quette county, Mich.
ONE Manchester N. " textile mill
that resumed operation few days ago
employs $500 people.
TERRA GOTTA sleepers are used on
japanese railways They cost more,
but are inde structible.
A JERSEY lady unable to attend
church receives the benefit of sermons
and singing ty telephone.
WHITE bids fair to become feature
of both fall and winter gowns; some
touch, at least being held essential to
distinction.
IN England, where the engineers
have been on a strike for some time,
not a single injunction has been is
sued against them.
KNOXVILLE council invites northern
u. C. T. S to participate in that city's
annual street fair and carnival, to be
held October II TO 10.
A HUNGARIAN farmer of Beeville, La,
has invented a machine which, it is
said, will brush away all kinds of in
sects from cotton plants.
ALPHoNsE DAUDEr has decided 20
keep back a realistic novel drawn from
life, which be has just finished until
the original of the hero dies.
The British government is preparing
to send fresh troops to India. 1t is
thought the government is in posses
sion of information of a serious char
acter
ONE young British nobleman is a
groom in johannesburg livery stable,
while dukes brother-in-law is bossing
a gang of blacks in mine outside the
town
YEARS ago Prince Bismarck used to
spell his name without the &c" The
present spelling does away with none
tary significance of the name Bismark
two marks.
GLASS manufacturers of Kokomo,
Ind, have begun to draw on the sand
banks of the lake shore about st. 10
seph, Mich, for white sand at the rate
+
The emperor and empress of Japan
and their chief officials and MOBILES
are greatly interested in and have sub
scribed literally toward the Women's
university at Tokyo, which is to cost
s175, 200.
/ b. +. VAUGHN, a Philadelphia mill
/ lionaire, is just completing one of the
I lad IN Of he ffFg-
/ est game parks in the United States,
4 on north Elk creek, a few miles from
/ White river, Col
i A MAN employed at the sewage farm
+ at Batchworth in Hertfordshire asserts
/ hat quite recently, when working on
+ lis farm. he has often seen an old blind
+ -at carrying a piece of stick in its
/ mouth, with two other younger rats
/ .cading it about with one end of the
/ stick also in their mouths.
A CONNECTICUT farmer has a rival TO
The unicorn in d colt provided with
/ pair of hard, clean horns Immediately
+ readily Il provoked. A deep crease ex-
/ tends through the hoof from the coro-
net 70 the til of the toe, and its move
ments are bovine rather than equine.
QUEEN VICTORIA is to have new
yacht within two years IT viii cost
+ 81, 500, 900, and will be the most Iuxu-
rious craft afioat. Other FL ropean
sovereigns use war vessels for pleasure
+ trips. Queen Victoria's yacht will be
built after designs submitted to her,
and will have guns only for firing
salutes.
AMERICAN turkeys, either from Cana.
da or the states, are preferred by the
British to continental birds, their flesh
being considered whittier, sweeter and
higher favored and are in demand
from the middle of November to April.
~ Christmas large cock turkeys sell
well, but at other times birds ranging
from to u pounds are preferred.
4 GEORGE, the coachman who heroical.
ly aided in saving life at the burning
of the Bazaar de la Charlie, in Paris
has been decorated with the cross OF
the Legion of Honor. and has been
i given a position by the government.
He also received SO 600 from the fam.
lily of his mistress, whom he had
saved by carrying her from the burn
ing building.
The city council of Zurich, Switzer.
land. has ordered that there be posted
in every street car on the municipal
lines the following notice; Women
have the first right TO the seats in the
interior of this car" Heretofore when
a man has offered his seat to woman
il has been regarded by her as an in
sulting familiarity, and it is predicted
by the Swiss and German newspapers
that the attempt 10 enforce this ordi-
nance will encounter obstacles from the
women themselves.
NJ. MAIssoN, a French savant, has dis
covered a substance harder than dia-
mond, for which a patent is to issue.
1t is called carbide of titanium. An
oxide of titanium is used for color
ing artificial teeth, which is the only
practical use for the metal hitherto de-
veloped.
THE British Central African Gazette,
which should be in a posi- ton to know
the facts, asserts that the peculiar
nervous system of Negroes renders
them far less sensitive to pain than are
their white brethren. tits well known
that surgeons in operating upon Ne
groes sometimes deem the use of anss-
thetics unnecessary.
LES MAJEsTE has sent a young engi-
neer of Liegnitz, IN Silesia, to jail for
six months. He expressed his opinion
of Kaiser Wilhelm at the dinner table,
and his loyal mother-in-law at once de-
nounccd him TO the police.
A LEARNED professor at Geneva,
Switzerland. states that France drinks
more alcohol annually than any other
nation in Europe. His calculation is
based on the percentage of alcoholic
liquors consumed. According to this
standard each person in France drinks
Is quarts Of alcohol in many more
quarts of wines, beers, etc, in the
course year.
KING GEORGE, of Greece, is a skillful
performer on the cymballum, an in
strument which is popular among the
Tziganes of Hungary. He is also able
to play tunes on hand bells and wine
glasses of different shapes.
IT is a fact well known in all men
ageries that a mouse will Brighten an
elephant more than will a locomotive
The trainers say that what the ele
phant fears is that the mouse will run
mn his trunk. There is a tradition that