River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-08-26

China II .0O0, 900 lives.
THE natives of Alaska seldom change
their clothes unless they are worn out.
They are considered the filthiest race
of beings on the earth.
Ii is noted that the women of the
royal families OF Europe are, on an av-
erage, much stronger mentally and
physically than the men.
MILAN thinks it has the smallest
horse in existence. 1t is a Shetland
pony, six hands, or "a inches, high,
raised by the Marchese Carcano.
THERE are 256 railway stations with
in a sixmile radius of st. Paul's cathe-
dral, London, while within a twelve
miles radius there are nearly 400
THE British can now send closed
letter to any part of the British isle
for one penny, provided it does not
weigh more than one-quarter ounce.
THERE are about 1000 persons in
France who are set down as anarchists
and are under the constant watch of
the police of the various European
countries.
THE earl of Rahfurly, the newly APP
pointed governor of New Zealand. is on
the way to his post with 90 tons of bag
gage, including four carriages and $50
cases of wine.
Mr.. PRESTON, the director of the
mint, estimates the gold production of
the world for 1896 at S2O5. 600. 900 and
believes the production for 1897 will
reach s240, 000, 0O9.
EX-CoNGREssMAN HENRY ST. GEORGE
TUCKER, of Virginia, has accepted the
chair of equity and commercial, consti-
tutional and international law in Wash
ington and Lee university.
To INCREASE the brilliancy of incan-
descent electric lights double film of
carbon is placed inside the globe, the
wire running into the glass base at it's
middle portion to support it.
FRANK b. STOCKTON, the well-l1nown
novelist, during his recent visit to
Clarke county, Va, purchased from
the Rosemont stock farm a pair of fine
young mares for driving purposes.
KNIGHTHooD was recently conferred
upon R. Guinness. the acting manager
of Guinness & Co., of Dublin. His
brewery firm has already received
two peerages and the ribbon of St Pat
rick
THE British post office authorities are
experimenting with motor ears with
the view of their use as parcel vans
and for the transport of the mails
from the sub-stations to the railroad
depots
POCKET camp stools are being made,
with the legs joined and bolted to-
gether, the upper ends of the legs hav-
l.
which the corners of the canvas seat
are attached.
A CONFINED whip socket and rein
holder is formed of a single piece of
wire bent to form round socket for
the whip and a fiat clamp for the reins
and another by which it is attached to
the dashboard.
GORDON HUNsAKER, one of the wealth
lest pioneer ranchers of the Salt river
valley, is being held a prisoner by the
Mexican authorities at Ell Plomo, in the
state of Sonora, as a witness against In
dams in a shooting case.
VENTILATED handle bars for bicycles
have openings on the front side of the
bar with pair of perforated slotted
handles, the air entering the bar as the
Nnttllbdh AiNANS dAcAiE anu NOAA4hS Ohh
of the Sits in the handles.
FROGS and toads have remarkably
acute hearing The slightest noise in
the vicinity of a pond will at once at
tract the attention of the frogs and
put them on their guard.
ONE of the latest appliances for use
in bakeshop oven consists of a ma
chine which takes the whole wheat
and grinds it, mixes water with it and
kneads it into dough ready for the
oven.
PNEUMATIC typewriters are being
placed on the market the KEYS being |
series of soft rubber bulbs opening /
into pipes with valves at the opposite /
ends to force the type levers to STRIFE |
the paper.
A NATURALIST says that he has seen /
in New York On the hats of women the |
feathers of 179 different kinds of wild |
birds, including 40 species, of which SO /
are protected by law under a fine of SIS. /
WHEN the worlds population exceeds |
1894 ,000, 900 the world will be unable /
TO find nOurishment for her people. and /
they will be forced either to cannibal- /
ism or starvation. This figure will be
reached in about $50 years.
KING HUMBERT, af Italy. is like his 4
late father, Victor Emanuel noted /
hunter. He delights TO organize large
hunting parties in the mountains of
Piedmont, and not infrequently stays
away for days when on the chase
NERvIERs. the frontier station on the
Belgian German frontier. where trav-
elers are subjected to the ANNOYANCE
of the custom-h house inspection. hap
pens to be the birthplace of Vieux-
temps, the violinist. The town is 90
ing to set up bronze statue to its one
distinguished son.
A FRENCH colonel is teaching his Off
GERS and men to crawl on their stom-
achs, and has invented leather glove
to help the process The regiment can
now travel 100 yards in this manner
without fatigue.
TON MORGAN. of Eureka, Kan, is Of
the opinion that hoarse shout at a
steer fattening for market has as bad
an effect on the animal as an impatient
word may have on very i'll person,
which recalls remark of Rarsy, the
horse trained, who said that he had
known an angry word to accelerate the
pulse of a high-spirited horse many
beats to the second.
Nothing makes man so mad as for you to
keep cool when he is abusing you