River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-10-28
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erection.
A NUMBER Of Harvard students were
arrested the other day for playing golf
on Sunday.
THE Brotherhood Of Blacksmiths has
decided to join the American Fedora
tion of Labor.
CoRBETT, the prize fighter, is said TO
have bought house for sig, goo in New
! York and TO have paid for it
FRAU WAGNER made profit of $780,
600 from the Bayreuth festival this
year. The next will be in 1899.
1t is due To the generosity of Mrs. j.
NJ. Fisk that the new dormitory is now
being erected for Barnard college.
Mrs. MCKINLEY is said TO be enjoy
ing much better health at present than
at any time since she came to Wash
ington
A PLAY entitled Pharaoh, written
in French by Oscar Wilde i to be pro-
duced in Paris at the Theater de
lOeuvre during the winter.
A DROP of boiling lard, spattered
from frying pan by accident, recently
removed cataract from the eye of
woman at Punxsutawney, Pa.
ARCHBISHOP LorEz, Of the state of
Sonora, Mex, has issued an edict ex-
communicating all Catholics who are
members of the Masonic order
BEE trees are being found in num-
beers in parts of Vermont this fall One
near Nashville held a honeycomb two
feet long and several inches thick.
TACOMA's probate judge is hard put
I a. I.,A.,s 80
claim against an estate for ten dollars
for burial services should be allowed.
/ THE German military authorities
I have decided that in the future all BIZ
cycles for the army shall be construct
ed in the government establishments
I IN the jungles of Sumatra the largest
spiders are found. Some of the larger
/ specimens measure eight inches across
/ the back, and have Il inches of leg
spread.
| A observation-disclosures cat has taken
/ its station on the Dent du Midi, in
Switzerland and goes up 5000 yards
with tourists to share their lunch at
/ the top.
A NEWSPAPER of Sherman county,
I Oregon, says that il does not know a
! farmer in that county who will not be
able to discharge all his Indebtedness
this fall.
IN the University of Paris there are
over 10, 600 medical students At Wen
ma there are about 200 more. In Paris
/ there are 5000 students at the School
| of Fine Arts.
THE flag carried by Cortez, the Span
] Il, 81 4n0
years ago, was until recently preserved
at little church in the capital of the
state of Tlaxcala.
A CHECK for s245, 900, paid to the Lon
don custom house for cargo OF 1900
/ tons of tea. is said in London 10 be the
largest single payment for duties ever
made in the worlds history.
Miss DE RoTHsCHILD. who is one Of
the cleverist lady horticulturists, has q
| collection of roses valued at S55, 00O.
| The rose is the favorite flower with all
the great Rothschilds of Europe.
/ A GERMAN paper calls attention to
/ the extraordinary fact that at Aachen
alone 500 tons of steel wire are used up
annually in the manufacture of needles
/ a, 500, 900, 900 in number, valued at
81, 800, 900.
THE first shipment of American but
/ ter has arrived at Hamburg in excel
lent condition and found ready mar
ket at prices slightly lower than the
I German, averaging to the American but
/ ter "a to 90 cents q pound.
ARRANGEMENTS for the largest glu-
cose factory in the world, to be estab-
/ lished in Chicago, have been completed.
George w. Lamb is its protector. The
new factory will consume 10000 BUSH
els of corn daily and employ 5000 per-
/ sons.
! ACETYLENE gas is used in a recently
4 patented bicycle lamp, the stick of cal
/ cium being placed in a compartment
/ which has small perforations to allow
| the liquid to filter through and gener-
/ ate the gas, which is stored in recep-
/ tacle for burning
! A RUNAWAY horse at Florence, $. c.,
! juIIre1 a siX-foot gate, and, the dan
/ CLING ,heckrein catching on picket,
/ the horses head was pulled in such
a manner that the animal turned a
somersault, landing on its back, but it
/ gained it's feet and ran on.
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northwest of China from Pelxing to
Hankow by order of the emperor. The
work is to be under the supervision Of
/ Lii Hung Chang and Chang-Chih-tung.
the two yieerovs, through whose prov
inces the projected road is to run.
HEAT holidays have been.established
by law in the public schools of Switzer-
land Recognizing the well known
fact that the brain can not work prop
erly when the heat is excessive, the
children are dismissed from their tasks
whenever the thermoreter goes above
certain point
To TAKE dust from the floor and pre-
vent its scattering when sweeping a
new device has a detachable clasp
adapted to embrace the body of the
broom and provided with flaps or
strands of absorbent material like
heavy wool cloth to be dampened be-
fore using the broom.
BADENBADEN, having given up its
gambling tables is offering stringent
Sunday laws as an attraction to Wis
itors. The police stopped two old gen.
tlemen who were buying flowers on
Sunday recently. One was the ober-
burgermeister of Frankfort, the other
Prince Hohenlohe, the chancellor of
the empire.
REVERSIBLE merchandise envelopes
are being placed on the market with
double flaps which can be bent in
either direction and held in place by
metal strips, one side of the flap con-
tanning a customers name. and the
other the merchants name, so it can be
reversed and returned.
ALEXANDER RAMSEY, of st. Paul, was
appointed by Zachary Taylor first gov
ernor of Minnesota, and, though his
active life covers the whole period of
the states history, he is still promi-
nent in all great public movements.
and speaks with as much energy as
when he was governor
SOME one has been locking over an
American book, published in 1872, en-
titled: THE Home; Where 1t Should
Be. and What Shouid Be Put Into It"
and makes the discovery that the
household equipment, costing 81 ,0o0 at
that time, can be bought now for $500.
A STEP toward the millennium has
been taken in Kansas, where the reg
ular," or allopathic, state medical So
ciety, the homeopathic society and the
state Orcra izatiOu Of the eclectic school