River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-04-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

SrENoeRAPHr employs 1es, 900 Ameri-
can women.
New YORK brewers engineers want
the eight-hour day.
QUEEN VICToRIA's Kitchen" wages
are about $50. 900 year.
WEIssEsFELs. in Germany. dresses
500, 900 sqairrel skins annually
FIT. LEAvENwoRrB convicts will
build a new prison for themselves
A MEXICAN commission is to consider
ways and means of protecting forests.
ONE ounce of soap per head annually
is the average used by the people of
India.
Springfield. Mass. is building car
roads.
A ZURICH (Switzerland) letter an
nounces strike of 5000 railway
hands
1T is now definitely know to scien-
lists tina the gum-chewing habit pro-
duces wrinkles.
In Copenhagen a merchant was fined
10 crowns for using the American flag
as an advertisement.
COMMERCIAL travellers from foreign
countries pay a tax OF S2o so per month
in Norway and Sweden.
THE chaperone of an Iowa skating
party ran away and married the wild
est young man in the crowd.
A LACoN Qll.) company proposes TO
raise 100, 600 cats for their fur. Cats
are great for returns, it is said.
LEEDS (Eng.) compositors have Sc
cured a 5215 hour week and only ST..
apprentices will be allowed in each Of.
fee.
Mrs. MARY A. LIvERMoRE remembers
when Boston common was a COW pas
ture, and she says il didn't look as bad
then as il does now.
A PHILADELPHIA preacher has reach
ed the conclusion that prosperity will
not return to the country until there is
an end to prize fights
A SMALL potentate in Afghanistan
recently offered British collector
s42, 600 for a complete set of postage
stamps OF Afghanistan.
SCHOOL teachers Of North Carolina
mnst read aloud to their pupils the
constitution of the United States and
that of the state twice year
LOUIS DARWIN and wife, OF St Paul.
MINI. respectively aged 1O7 and lOI
years, recently celebrated the eightieth
anniversary of their marriage.
IN the Middle Ages cats were al
ways kept in nunneries, and from this
the traditional association of cats and
old maids is said to have arisen.
EAGLES do not have different mates
every season, as do birds generally;
they pair for life. and sometimes &C.
cupy the same nest for many years.
A MAN will die for want OF air in FIVE
minutes, for want OF sleep in ten days.
for want of water in a week and for
want OF food at varying periods. de-
pendent on circumstances.
A QUEER Japanese idea is that OF the
officers who served ia the war with
China, in petitioning the government
to erect a monument TO the memory of
the horses that fell in the war.
An English provincial paper recent
ly printed a sketch Of Chauncey
DEpew. of New York, and laid espe.
cial emphasis on the fact that his Cal
lie wit was in keeping with his Gallic
name.
II is said that the servants in the
Rio Graude do Sui, Brazil. refuse &c
| cook dinner later than o'clock, and
insist on going home before dark, sc
/ that not a house has a servant in i,
after the hour of s.
The old Washington hall, in Dur
ham, which is supposed By some to
have been the seat of George Wash
ington's ancestors, has been bought by
an American for only 81. 600. II is pic
turesque and full of rheumatism
lola, busy a. he Is supposed to be,
works only three hours a day. and the
Hrst hour hardly counts Il is usually
between 10 and / in the day that h.
writes BE Is grown stout:s he looks
tired and hi, voice il weak and pitched
high.