River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-04-22
CURRENT TOPICS.
LONDON has about 54s. 300 houses
BELFAST, Me-, has IL pound cat

BELFAST. Me-. has a IL pound cat
An Iowa OK trotted a mile in 3s7.
AMERICANS in Hawaii number 3,os5
CONCORD, KY. has female paper
hangers.
TwESTY-oSE Berliners, over "a. were
married in 1896.
CRIMINAL prosecutions in England
cost on an average Slo5 each.
FOOTBALL was crime In England
during the reign of Henry VIII
HERoSs carry advertisements through
the streets OF Birmingham, Eng
FLORIDA is agitating the subject Of
reformatory for youthful criminals
TKwKsBURY (Msss) insane ratieuts
cost the state less than s. IL per week.
FoH chewing gum and W whispering in
church four young men ere fined SIS
each.
TWENTY-FIVE per cent of Minneap-
oils school children have defective eye
sight.
AT Barnstable. Mass. convict gives
the jailer's wife bicycle lessons in the
street
EseLANp ia building SO vessels for
her navy. France SO. Germany 10 and
Italy Is.
THIEVES at Buckinghamshire. Eng.
stole a bronze and stone fountain IL
feet high.
The most popular pictures n Lon
don shop windows now are those of
Cecil Rhodes and DIR. hansen
TEE Banana King OF Chicago.
John G. Garibaldi. is building a home
L.
OK the island OF Gamma tsituated
northwest of the island of RUM there
10 hill so magnetic as to affect thu
oompasses of vessels passing near.
AT Berlin there is much gossip of
possible breakup of the present drei-
bund and the formation of an alliance
between Germany, Austria AMI Russia.
CONNECTICUT has states prison con-
Wet who can recite the whole of
Shakespeare's plays. Here's pointer
on education as promoter of morality.
The housewifely pride of the aver
age woman centers as n rule in the
contents of her linen closet and no
possession gives her greater JOY than .
fine and varied assortment of napery.
In the neigh borhood of Bismarck, n.
D.. farming operations are likely to bs
retarded this spring. the winter, in.
GLIDING the first part of March, having
been the moAt severe for Is years.
THE railway metals between London
and Edinburg, distance of 400 miles.
are 21o yards longer in summer than
they are in the winter, owing to the
expansion caused by the extra heat.
Two bites into an apple picked up
in a store cost a resident of Portland.
Ne three front teeth. He concluded
that that must be tho kind of apple
from from which hard cider is made.
Mr.. EscoMs. the new premier of Ma
tai. is London Jew, who started ss a
ready-made clothing dealer. Failing
in this, he turned bis attention to the
law, in which he ma L. q great success.
TIE city Of Birmingham recently
lost q citizen who WIS horn on the
held of Waterloo, wher his father ws5
among the killed. His AZ other acc ON
panied the Seventy-ninth Cameron
highlanders, and when her son was
born the corpse of the father lay in
the same tent.
Mrs LoRLNA X. HINKLEy, of Pea
Cove, Me, at the age OF % is able to
read and write without glasses. She
Is an American all the way through.
Her grandfather tough in the revolu-
ton, her father and her husband in
the war of 1912, and four sons, four
sons-in-law and six nephews in the re-
bellion.
IS the Crockery township of Ottawa
county, Michigan. farmer last year
grew a few bushels OF coffee beans.
and this winter he has used them in
place of coffee of the usual kind with
such satisfaction that be intends 20
plant g large section OF his land to the
same crop the coming season.
For really original method of deal
ing with drunk and incapa bles" we
must turn to Turkey. There the pun
ishaaent for the first offense is basti-
nado; the second and third offenses are
followed by chsstisement; but after the
third offeuse the offendec becomeS
privileged" and is entitled to be caro-
fully taken home by policeman.
THERE is a woman in Buxton. Me.
who is metaphorically kicking herself.
Since Grover Cleveland went out of
Office abe has discovered that her late
husband was own cousin to Mr.. Cleve.
lands mother
In Portland, Mich, lives n young
nam who 10 doom ed to total blindness
within the next six months or a year,
owing to an incurable disease which,
however, is approaching gradually.
With commendable philosophy he has
invested all his savings in a loom. and
is learning to weave carpet as a means
OF support, so as to be ready when tho
fateful hour arrives
SARAsATE, tho violinist. has red
stradivarius. for which he says he has
lust refused an offer of $50, 900, made
by an American collector, after reject
ing bids by the same man OF 81, 900.
5000 and s5,00l.
KING MENELIK, OF Abyssinis, will
soon have a reputation as n patron OF
art. A few weeks ago he was report
ed to have ordered from Russian
painter p battle picture representing
the defeat of the ltalians. Now he
has commissioned the artist, Schleis-
ing. OF Meiningen, to paint great
panorama, to be put up in building
70 be erected for the purpose.
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