River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-10-14
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flttSourg, Kan, is causing the death
of much stock
TENNESSEE has offered reward for
the arrest and conviction of any vio-
lator OF the cattle quarantine law.
The managing director of Mayor
Harrison's newly organized Chicago
street cleaning department is a wom-
an.
Mrs DoRoTHY LAMoN, of Washing
ton, has cane that was carried by
President Lincoln up TO the time of his
death
IL the famous Garden of Olives, at
Jerusalem, there are eight flourishing
olive trees that are known TO be over
1000 years old
POSTMASTER LOFTIS, the colored post
master of IIogansville, Ga, has resign
ed, and VIII accept department posi-
ton at Washington
THE Dawes and Creek commissions
have concluded treaty whereby the
Creek Indians agree TO an allotment
and change in their form OF govern
ment
Mr.. FINCH, who Is named as United
States minister TO Uruguay and Para
quay, is editor and proprietor of the
La Crosse wis Republican and
Leader
The latest reports from Cuba from
the most reliable sources are not favor
able to the insurgents. and their con-
dition has not improved during the
summer.
II Venice many ladies have been seen
shopping in bonnets made of glass.
The craze has reached Paris and it is
said that glass bonnets will soon be
sold in London.
THE highest death rate in the world
10 per 1.OO0-belongs to the clty of
Mexico, which, although 1000 feet
above the sea, has no drainage system
worthy of the name.
A MAN is now locked up in the Lud-
low street Jail in New York on a three
months sentence because he can not
pay debt of s. The man has a wife
and six young children
AN experiment was recently made to
see how fast a bee could fly. Its hive
was attached to the roof of a train
which attained speed of so miles an
hoh- before the bee was left behind
is the so-called Gokstad ship, a Viking
vessel, which was discovered in a
sepulchral mound on the shores of
Christiania ford. 1t is 1000 years old.
By wiping perspiration from his face
with the back OF his hand while count
ing coin Z. j. Eighmey, of Waterloo,
Ia, poisoned his eyes badly, apparent
" with dust from the foreign accre-
tions on the metal.
THE Knights of Pythias have raised
900 for a monument to John f.
Rathbone the founder of the order 1t
will be placed in New Forest cemetery
in Utica, the owners of the cemetery
donating 10000 feet.
MARRIED people live longer than the
unmarried, the temperate and indus
trious longer than the gluttonous and
idle, and civilized nations longer than
the uncivilized Tall persons en-
Joy a greater longevity than short
ones
A NEAT way of swIndling the post
Office has been discovered in belgium.
A strip of thin transparent paper is
pasted over the postage stamp. When
the letter reaches its destination the
paper is removed and the stamp is
spotless.
Crows are besting or worsting the
farmers about South UniontOwn, Mich.
They descend upon the corn fields in
swarms and go so far, it is soberly
averred, as to post pickets on the
fence to give warning of the approach
of gunners.
From Battle Creek, Mich. a thras,'-
ing machine company few days ago
shipped a separator to Nebraska by a
route scheduled to occupy eight days
and a man and his son, taking supplies
of food and water for the journey, had
themselves shut up inside for the trip.
COUNT LEo ToLsToI is n vigorous
hater of England lie says the Eng
lish and the Zulus should be herded to-
gether as the two most brutal nations
of the earth His chief regret he de-
clares is that he can not spare time
to write book about the English peo-
pie.
THE eyes of the bees are made to see
great distances When absent from
their hive they go up in the air till
they see their home and then fly to-
ward it in a straight line and with
great speed. The shortest line be-
tween two places is sometimes called
"bee line"
CANON BASIL WuBERFoRCE can claim
to be one of the most ardent temper
ance reformers in the British isles.
When moving for the first time into
his canonry he had all the wine in the
cellar poured out into the street, and
he converted the cellar into a dining
room by opening out two windows on
to Deans yard
WILLIE, the five-year-old son of
Charles Paro, of Cheshire county, New
Hampshire, died as the result of swal-
lowing a bee. The insect stung him
internally, it is supposed The boy
was able TO inform his parents that he
had swallowed it, but nothing that
could be done TO relieve him was eff
fcctive. lie died in great agony.
A PREHISTORIC Mexican doll was IN
earthed by French anthropologist,
DR. Chipault. The inside is hollow and
contains a rattle, which proves that
prehistoric children were not unlike
the little ones of to-day
TIE famous collection of birds made
by the naturalist, Alfred Brehm. and
his father, who was a clergyman, has
been bought for London museum by
Baron Eothschild. 1t includes over TO-
600 specimens Of European birds and
differs from other collections in having
each variety represented by several
individuals of both sexes and different
ages.
They who have. most Of heart know mos,