River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-10-07
CURRENT TOPICS.

BosToS has Chinese laundrymen's
union
The bubonic plague is again spread
/ ing in India.
CLEvELANp's city clerk wants to tax
clairvoyants
BELFAST Qrelandl engineers won the
I eight-hour day.
I The gold finds in Whateom county,
Wash, are reported as very rich
The Union Veteran legion adopted
a resolution calling for moro pension
legislation.
NEARLY one thousand barrels of SUI
/ gar cane have been raised on Tennes-
7 sees state farm.
ENGLISH employers are importing en-
gineers from Germany 10 take the
/ places of strikers
THE Natchez Miss board of health
has interdicted the sale or receipt of
/ New Orleans newspapers
/ THE anti-cigarette law OF Tennessee
is to be tested in the federal courts by
/ the American Tobacco Co.
I THE United States consul at Odessa
reports that the failure of grain crops
in Russia covers an extensive area
4 THE Musicians union claims that
non-union men were employed in one
of the bands on Labor day at Milwau-
4 kee.
/ GREAT BRITAIN has notified The state
/ department that 1t Will not participate
I in the seal conference at Washington
I if Russia and Japan take part in it.
/ A SAFETY envelope has a gummed lock-
| ing tongue attached TO the sealing flap
folds down across the bottom of the
lette4, rendering opening without ma
tilation impossible.
AT Port Royal, Jamaica, for six
months in the year thunderstorns are
almost of daily occurrence, and guests
to picnics and garden parties usually
invited to assemble after the thunder
storm.
Lo Bing Nam, a Chinese athlete, says
that his extraordinary strength is due
to his diet, which consists chiefly Of
boiled rice and boiled ducks heads
The brains of the duck, he asserts, are
very strengthening.
A REMARKABLE eel has been diseov-
cred in the Fiji islands. 1t has pecu-
liar formation in its throat, which
causes it to whistle when in an excited
state The eel is 10 feet long and sew
era inches in girth.
THE longest distance that a shot has
been fired is few yards more than fif-
teen miles, which was the range of
Krupp's one hundred and-thirty ton
steel gun The shot required for this
gun weighs 1900 pounds.
pany of Louisville (Ky.) men to con-
struct a tramway between Dyea and
Lake Lindemann, over the Chilkoot
Pass. Mr.. Bush has just returned from
an inspection of the route.
SOME women in Russia are preparing
unique gift for DR.. Napsen. 1t viii
be a carpet, with a map % the north
pole regions embroidered in silks.
The places visited by him in his voy-
age will be worked in silver and gold
thread.
ACCORDING to the premier of New
Zealand, homing pigeon recently
few from Victoria TO New Zealand in
three days The distance is about
900 miles. and the bird must have
flown without rest at a speed of about
10 miles an hour.
A NEW invention is fan for an at
tachment to sewing machines. The
blades are shaped like those of electri-
cal fans, and it can be quickly and
easily attached to or removed from a
movable member of the machine, by
whose motion it is actuated.
CONSPICUOUS among the adornments
of the bridal feasts in Brittany is an
artistic and elaborate bU ter structure,
as fanciful and elegant as the most
beautiful bridal cake, and into this
structure the guests stick split sticks
bearing coins of gold or silver.
A NEW kind of ice skates will be in
vogue next winter. The skate will be
made with slots in the runners to sup
port the shafts of several pairs of roll
ers. which are mounted loosely on the
shafts and have sharpencd edges to cut
the ice as the skates glides along.
REV. DR. PARKHURsT says, in recent
letter to a friend in New York Il can
not stand by the Sunday sa Don pure
and simple. but do believe il allowing
the sale of beer and light wines on sun
day, provided they are the ac,ompani-
ment of an honest meal, honestly paid
for"
THE duke of Argyll lately offered
himself as a living proof of the advant-
ages of desultory reading. He had
never been to school or college, but he
had always read everything lie could lay
his hands on. To this he attributed his
success in public speaking, for ne oft
en- found he had read what others had
not"
IN digging at Herculaneum there has
been brought to light pillar covered
With bills, one on top of another. The
paste used to stick them was made oi
gum arabic When separated and eX
amined they were found sto be pro
grammes and announcements of public
meetings, and even election prOclama
tiOns.
THERE is genuine wild man out in
Appleton. Wis. and he has a trait that
is not common to others of his species
Stranger still is the fact that 'BoscO"
the name of the wild fellow-actually
eats reptiles of all kinds while they are
alive. He is the most disgusting hui
man in the country.
PROF. +. f. GURLEY, of Danville, Ill,
for several years state geologist, has
made one of the finest private collec-
tions of fossils in the world. His house
is not big enough to accommodate his
specimens and he is now Offering them
for sale. They must be kept together,
however He will not part with them
on any other terms.
BATHROOMS in public schools are a
novelty that Boston viii introduce in
its new buildings. The latest struc-
tnre of an educational nature in that
city is to cost $3.50, 900, and will be fitted
with toilet, dressing and bathrooms
for both sexes, with II shower baths
and footballs as well
THE police have been ordered u
guard the public schools at Alton, Ill
day and night to keep out the coloreC
people, who are demanding admission
to the white schools. The negroes viii
appeal to the Federal courts.
THOMAS w. BURTON, a Wisconsin
farmer. who was federal scout in th'
civil war once lay within 20 feet o
Gen. Robert f. Lee, and tried for five
minutes to make up his mind to shoo
the great soldier. The deed seemed
too much like murder, however, ant
the generals life was spared. Burton
now treasures a letter in which Let