River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-09-23
CURRENT TOPICS.


in Idaho
MILWAUKEE is TO have a municipal
garbage plant
CONGRESSMAN De GRAFFENRTED was
once a brakeman.
A sALooN-KEEPER can not be a mem
Der of the city council of Toronto.
THE rate of wages of the New York
German Farmers union is As cents an
hour.
Gov. BowEs, of Oklahoma, was tele-
graph operator at LeavenwOrth when
the war broke out.
An official report shows that there
are issued yearly in the theaters of
Paris 2,S90,00 dead-head tick Is.
IT is said that nearly twenty city
councils in the United States now use
the union label on their official print
ing.
THERE are IL 900 more women than
men in the state of Massachusetts. and
this excess is all in persons over four
teen.
If a New York corporation violates
the law requiring weekly payment it
must forfeit TO each employee the sum
of SIS.
IT is stated that women control $780,
100000 of stock IN The national banks
in this country, and Sl45 900 600 in the
state banks
COPPER coins are not in use at johann
nesburg at all, the lowest piece of
money being the threepenny bit
called 'ticley."
SARAH BEINHARDT has always had
morbid dread of fire, and this has led
her to direct that all her stage dresses
be made of tireproof material.
THE violence of the wind on the
Grampian hills is so great that on sew
eral occasions it has brought to a stand
still trains travelling from Perth to the
north.
FoUB small skunks. las gentle as
kittens, have taken up their abode
under drug store in the town of Wis
ner, Mo. and no one has seen fit to dis
possess them.
BIBLES and prayer books are ueces-
sites according to an English county
court decision, and must be paid for by
the husband when the wife obtains
them on credit
A DOCTOR says that in society one
may always tell the girls whose
parents have arisen from the humber
classes to wealth by the superior quail
ity of their hair
WILLIAM EMORY DUMMY. late United
States minister at The Hague, who
recently returned to this country, will
shortly resume the practice of law at
Detroit.
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taken every week from the London
penny-in-the-slot gas meters. 1t is
proposed to supply electricity on the
same plan.
ALL of tie alphabet as far as the word
''foister" of the Oxford Murray Eng
lish dictionary is now completed, and
much work has been done on the let
lers G, III and X.
The lower classes of the japanese
employ hardly any other material than
paper for their clothing. Where wages
are exceedingly low cloth is an imposi-
BILE extravaganza.
GOETHE once presented a set of his
works to Harvard university-a fact
brought to light some years ago in the
process of recataloguing the German lit
erature of the library.
REMAINS of what seems to be a Ro-
man basilica. with columns three feet
in diameter, have been found in tear
/ ing down shop in the center of the
/ city of Chester. England.
1 THE most unique fence in Maine is
that of a Harpswel fisherman. His
I front yard is composed of the swords
g. EeI 81 81, ffrr
ured in exciting episodes.
I The most enthusiastic wheelwoman
/ in Pittsfeld, Mass, is a grandmother.
/ Every fair day the old lady can be seen
wheeling through the streets with a
/ CHEEKY word for all she meets.
4 THE finest complexions in the world
/ are said to be in the Bermudas. This
I is accounted for by the fact that the
+ inh abitants live chiefly on onions, of
which they export over 100000
\ pounds annually.
( Won HUMBOLDT. the great scientist,
when on a visit to Dutch Hazber, near
Bristol bay, predicted that the mother
vein of gold would show itselfin Alaska
/ in a parallel line. Recent discoveries
indicate that this prophecy has been
fulfilled.
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON, colonel of
the lancers regiment Of the Imperial
Russian Guard at st. Petersburg. asked
the ear for leave of absence in order
that he might not have TO witness Pres
ident Faure's visit to the Russian cap
ital The request was granted
THE Importance of free library as
Of
in the present day is illustrated by the
arrangements made to open churches,
banks and free library as the three
prime necessities of Dawson City,
KlOndike.
ENGLISH parties have multiplied since
Mr.. Gladstone took up home rule His
former followers are nov divided into
liberal unionists, Roseberyites. Har
courtites, Laboucherians, Dillonites,
Parnellites and Healyites. Some one
in the Times calls him the Grand Old
Party Splitter.
THE famous Roquefort cheese is
threatened by the rapid success of two
rival brands Gorgonzola and Sassenar,
the latter of which. an Auvergnat
cheese, greatly resembles Roquefort,
ana Is odlu 70 POSStSo tACt pAiOIdA
tiles due to it's slow ripening. And in
consequence the RoquefOrt cheese is
rapidly declining.
SOME Bsntry bay fishermen report
peculiar freak of lightning while they
had their net in the sea recently. A
bolt struck one end of the pole and passed
along some distance on the cork line.
When they took up the net all the fish
at that end of it had turned rcd
A New YORK woman has obtained
patent on an attachment for skirts by
which they may be lifted on crossing
muddy places on the street, a series of
cords being attached to the skirt at the
back and sides, with the opposite ends
running through an opening in the
back of the waistband and around 10
the front to draw the skirts by pulling
up the cords.
ALUMINIUM neckties are on sale in
London. They are fastened to the collar
button by band round the neck, and
are particularly recommended for sum
mer wear. since they can he easily
cleaned when soiled, while they are not
perceptibly heavier than cotton, cam
brio or silk.
ABOUT ten years ago Thompson Fran
els, of Shelbyville. Ill, lost his all $780,
OOO) in grain. lie went to work on a