River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-10-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

A SINGULAR freak of nature in Mer.
Ger county. Kentucky, is cherry tree
in full bloom
FIVE persons have been burned to
death n forest fires along the Canada
Atlantic railroad.
Two wealthy Hebrews of Bagdad
now own all that remains of the an
cient town of Babylon.
THE course pursued by the French
in Egypt and west Africa is causing
England much concern.
FARMERS near Centralia. H.. claim
the screw worms are causing deaths
among their cattle, sh eep ami hogs.
ENDLESS leather belts. acting as NOV
ing staircases, convey the patrons Of
large Partisan store from enc floor to
another
RICuMoSD (Val woman has been
put under $500 bond IN police court for
being a common sold. under an old
time law.
NEARLY every man. woman and child
in Egypt is smoker of cigarettes aud
pipe is hardly ever seen in the mouth
of a native
WALKER FRANKLIN. of Hopkins eoun-
ty, Kentucky. owns a coat which his
grest-grandfather wore at his mar
riage in 1904
THE United Typothetaa of America at
Nashville adorted a resolution favor
ing arbitration for the settlement of
labor troubles.
IT is a mistake 20 suppose that stone
houses are the most durable. \ we'll
constructed brick house will Cutlast
one built of granite.
The government has issued invita-
tons To foreign countries to partici-
pate in the fishery congress To be held
at Tampa, Fla, in January, 1895.
Miss ELLA K. NORRIS has entered the
law class of the South Carolina college
at Columbia. She Is the first woman
in the state to inauguratc the innova-
ton.
FIFrY-oNE metals are now known to
exist, 30 of which have been discover
cd within the present century. Four
hundred years ago only seven were
known.
A GERMAN authority states that from
the mouth 20 the source of the Rhine
TBS castles, formerly the homes of war
like chiefs, are TO be found overlooking
its waters
PRESIDENT HARFER. of the Univer-
sity of Chicago. says that any member
of the football team caught IN the act
of forgetting that he is a gentleman
will be expelled.
IT is claimed by an electrical expert
that every locomotive il Scotland could
be run by electricity, generated by the
water power now going to waste in
Scotland streams.
"HoNoRs of war" is the privilege al
lowed to the enemy on capitulation of
being permitted to retain their arms.
This is the highest honor a victor can
pay a vanquished foe.
PRINCE BISMARCK, ii appears, is now
an enthusiastic admirer of the bicycle.
He approves Of women riding and re-
grets that he is too old and iif TO take
part in the sport himself.
The bicycle. as well as the Bible,
now forms a part of the missiouary's
outfit II is said that four-iifths of the
departing missionaries take the wheel
with them when they go abroad.
THERE are between 5000 and $4,000
students in the different colleges of
the University of Paris, several times
as many as are found in any other edu-
cational institution in the world.
PATENT 81, 100 in the German Patent
Record is: "Fraulein Elfrida LatilSie-
witt apparatus for keeping the checks
full. This apparatus is worn in the
mouth and is fastend to the jaw"
MISS SHIpzU NARUsE is a Japanese
woman studying medicine in a New
York hospital She has been trained
in Japanese hospitals, but came To this
country TO study American methods
Mrs. SARAH TERRY, aged 1O5 years,
I but bright and active, entertained her
friends at birthday party at her home
in Philadelphia the other day, and was
as merry as the youngest of her guests
REPORTS from the Memphis cotton
district show a damage of 1871 per
cent to the crop by drought The sect
ion affected includes north Mississippi.
north Louisiana, Arkansas and west
Tennessee.
DURING the past few years nearly
| 15O. 900 Hebrews have entered Jerusa-
4 lem, and the arrival Of another host is
/ said to be imminent. Already the
/ railways are opening the country De-
/ tween the coast and Jerusalem and
/ Damascus. and Hebrew migration on
a large scale may cause Syria 20 become
once more of vast Importance in the
cast.
Miss LIZZIE O. THOMAS, a prominent
Young Florida woman, has gone to
Hiroshima. Japan, to take charge of
school there. under the direction Of
The Methodist Episcopal church. Miss
Thomas will probably stay five years