River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-12-23

srs need an extra bullock to carry their
funds.
THE sultan has forbidden the use of
the bicycle in Turkey on the ground
that it lis immoral and dangerous to
the state"
In China a company of so actors can
be engaged for &c 4 play as many
pieces as may be desired for two days
at stretch.
MORE than G,OOO species of plants are
cultivated, and most of these have been
broken up into varied forms by the
hand of man.
To SHOW the carelcssness of mothers
in Great Britain over 5000 children are
burned to death in the year from their
clothing catching fire.
NEARLY 200, 600 pounds of colors are
used by the United States government
annually for printing paper money,
revenue and postage stamps.
AS iron expands with the heat, the
Eiffel tower is said 10 be five inches
taller when the temperature is high
than it is in the cool of the day.
In some parts of Australia when a
man marries each of the brides rela-
tives strikes him with stout stick, by
way Of welcome into the family.
A EEsoLUTION protesting against the
habit Of male teachers parting their hair
in the middle" has been adopted by a
/ teachers's institute in West Virginia.
ACCORDING to celebrated French
dentist, river, sea, rain and snow wa
ter all contain more or less alcohol
Only pure spring water is free from it.
/ The present population of Palestine
/ is estimated at 600, 600 the Arab ele.
ment being probably the prevailing
one, and the Arabic language generally
/ in use.
/ THE Belgian government offers q
prize of $40, 900 to any one who will dis
cover chemical that will take the
place of white phosphorus in match.
making.
/ 4 FRENCH experiment has succeeded
in grating tomatoes on potatoes
/ The hybrid plant is said to produce
/ tubers underground and tomatoes on
/ the stalk
Ex-PBEsIDENT CLEVELAND and Lyman
J. Gage, secretary of the treasury, will
make addresses at the opening of the
Warsaw, Ind, next June.
II is an undoubted fact, says an emf
nent fire insurance authority, that the
| electric current, when properly In
| stalled, affords the safest means known
at present for illumination.
TIRE soil of Siberia, at the close OF
summer, is found still frozen So inche,
/ beneath the surface, and the dead who
have laid in their coffins for over
century have been taken up unchanged
/ in the least
THE cotton seed industry Of the
south amounts to 1900, 900 tons annu
ally, valued at SI13, 900, 600 In 1857
there were only four mills in operation
| in 1897 there are over 500, with more
than $50, 600 600 invested
/ THE cod fisheries of Newfoundland
have been followed for nearly 40t
/ years. They greatly exceed those OF
any other country in the world. The
average export of cod is about /, $50, O0C
hundred weight per annum.
A WOMAN physician died in Washing
ton the other day who was always ad.
dressed as RS. DIR. Susan f. Edison.
though she was spinster. She based
her claim TO the title of Mrs. on the
fact that she was welded TO her pro
fession.
IT rs something Of a surprise to learn
that from Rome. the home of the arts,
the value of the cheese exported from
that city is only 81, 600 less than the
value of the paintings cheese being
the second article on the list of exports
from Rome.
STATISTICS of life insurance show
that in the last IS years the average
woman's life has increased from about
AZ years to nearly 40, or more than
per cent. In the same period the aver
age mans life has increased from near
~ ~ years TO about -, or per cent.
A DEERISG Me- man, ThJs. Brophy.
lost diamond out of ring recently,
and was worrying a bout the loss, when
one night he Dire med he saw the jewel
in the folds of a rug in his house. The
next morning he went to the rug, and,
sure enough, there was the diamond.
THE speakers new gavCl was made
of the wood of an apple tree that shad-
ed the house in which Adm. Farragul
was born, at Lows Ferry, six miles be-
COP are running in such large num-
bers and so near the land on the Long
Island side of the sound, near East
Marion and Orient, that many of them
are thrown out by the surf, and resi-
dents pick them up on the shore.
THoUGH Rome is called the Eternal
city" the name by right belongs to
the city of Damascus. in Syria, which
Is the oldest CITY in the world. As
long as man has written records the
city of Damascus has been known.
THE governments receipts for No
vember were IS, 092, 4sS less than its ex-
penditures The treasury deficit for
the five months OF the current fiscal
year is SIC, 1O1, 494.
REV. DIR EDWARD EVERETT HALE
said in a lecture in Boston that he
found that nine out Of ten in a class OF
girls i'm one of the city's public
schools had never heard Of Noah's ark.
THE largest known flower in the
world is the "Raffii- of Sumatra, the
diameter of which is nine feet. Its
size alone would prevent il from being
used as horse show boutonniere, but
it has the additional protection Of an
odor compared with which asafetida is
ambrosia.
WHEN the fist seIni-annual account
of the executors of the estate Of the
late James 6. Fair was presented for
audit recently il showed receipts OF
e45o,ooO and legal expenditures %
$3.50, COO People are wondering how
the lawyers managed 20 let that sur
plus Of 800. 600 get away.
TuE novel sight of a tree blazing
( furiously during a downpour Of rain
was recently witnessed at Charlton
/ Park. London The tree had been set
/ on Gre by a stroke Of lightning and
/ the firemen were summoned TO extin-
/ gush the outbreak. a fire engine had
/ 10 be used before the flames could be
I cxtinguishcd.
THE five and six-shot revolvers are
[ familiar sights to almost any one who
I has anything TO do with revolvers, and
even the seven-shot is no longer rari-
/ ~, but it is reported that prominent
arms manufacturing company is about
/ to place an eight-shot revolver upon
/ the market