River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-01-28
E. ANDREWS, Notary Public,
CURRENT TOPICS.

overcrowded.
THERE are sst railroad depots and
stations in London
FAMINE and plague threaten to deci-
mate the inhabitants of India.
Nor a single infectious disease is
known in Greenland.
You get bath in Japan for n cent
and laundry work is Is cents a dozen.
EIGHTEEN million emigrants have
landed in the United States since 1920
CONFIRMED gam bling is now regarded
as sufficient grounds for divorce in
France.
A ST. LOUIS Judge fined a man s25
the other day for expectorat.ng in a
street car.
THE date of the confederate reunion
at Nashville has been changed 10 June
90, % and "a.
A MILE a minute has been made by
an iceboat on Lake MiEnehaha, near
Cheyenne, Wyo.
MARYvILLE. Mo, has 65 fascinating
widows, with bank accounts ranging
from $1,000 upward.
CHICAGO has 1000 saloons Their re-
ceipts are sci, 900, 900, and o5 per cent
of it comes from wageworkers.
THE Methodists will have building
and literary and historical exhibit at
the Tennessee Centennial exposition.
In New York and surrounding cit
les and towns fully two-thirds of the
men in the woodworkers' trades are
idle.
If a burn is sprinkled freely with
powdered charcoal the burning sensa-
ton will be relieved almost immedi-
ately.
IT costs Great Britain sis, 900 a year
to maintain the queens pack of deer
hounds. The people are petitioning
her to give them up.
A THRIFTY farmer who lives $50 miles
from the nearest railroad. brought a
wagon load of eggs, chickens and cab
bage into Eddy, n. NJ.
III is reported that the Casino at
Monte Carlo recently refused admis-
sion to Ellen Terry on the ground that
she was too i'll dressed.
The salvation army of Lawrence,
Kas hanged the devil in effigy the
other day, after rejecting as irrelevant
the proposition to burn him.
SPoSGEs, states and slate pencils are
no longer allowed in the public schools
Of Cambridge. Mass. Paper. pens and
pencils have been substituted
THERE was a mixture of feeling in
the household of Pete Berry of the
Colorado, Grand Canyon, when the cat
had litter of half-breed polecats
THE city of Stockholm has IA. 900 tel
ephones, or one for every twenty citi-
zens, a higher average than can be
found anywhere else in the world.
AT Mountain Spring, Ariz.. an aoan-
Toned shaft and tunnel have been
found of which the earliest settler has
40 knowledge. 1t has paying gold,
100
The house where DIR. Faust is sup
posed to have been born. at Roda. near
Weimer, Germany. has been pulled
Down and sold as old building material
Tor So.
SOUTH CAROLINA boasts that it
raised 76i. 700 bales of cotton last year.
beating all the other states in the
number of bales to the square mile uE-
Ter cultivation.
MINNEAPOLIS Sunday-school associa-
ton will take religious census of the
.ity, sending its enumerators from
house to house to ascertain the reli-
yious preferences of the inmates.
ONE British writer spent 81 900 in ad-
sertising his book and never sold a
copy. Another spent So in calling at
tention to little one-dollar book and
sold $4,000 copies within one year.
A PROPOSED wolf chase at Emaus,
Pa, came to naught by the wolf TAX
ing possession of a fence corner and
thus protected in the rear fighting
off all the HOUNDS attacking from the
front.
The minister of education of Korea
is devout Christian AID lay preach
err ia the Methodist Episcopal church
He graduated at Vanderbilt univer.
sity, Nashville, Tenu. His wife is also
a Christian.
One citizen of Atkinson, Kan, found
himself the other day party to three
lawsuits in as many different courts
at the same time, one of the cases be-
ing divorce action brought by his
second wife.
An old man, IS years of age. and his
wife, five years younger, in an Eng
lish institution for the aged, recently
requested the authorities TO let them
have tandem bicycle, as they felt the !
need of exercise.
MACHINE telegraphy has been so per-
fected that now S, 1000 words per minute
have been transmitted with one instru-
ment. This astonishing rate requires
that the armature register 1900 i'm
pulses per second. the tape moving %
feet per second.
THE Minneapolis typographical union
enjoyed benefit at the hands of the
Journal on New Years. the advertis-
ing columns being turned over TO them
to fill and realize what they could for
the union. The business men of the
city responded cordially, and gave the
boys enough advertising to net the
union $500 or $500.
He climbs highest who helps another up.
-Chtrsko S.asdard.