River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-07-29
CURRENT TOPICS.

12il,
ZESA KING, of Falkland. Mich, k.ck-
ed at a hog and missed it and brc ke
his leg against post.
DISCARDED bicycles are now dismem,
bered, ornamented and suspended az
drawing-roon ornaments
MORE than one-third of the 2s, 600
applications for English patents this
year are for bicycle improvements
GRAY horses are usually the longest.
lived Creams are decidedly delicate.
and are seriously affected by very warm
weather.
PROBABLY the greatest biSliophile
among peers at the present time 10
Lord Crawford, the well known Scot
fish mob eman.
THERE Is only one monarch m all
Europe who believes in the Darwiniau
theory of evolution, and that is King
Oscar of Sweden.
OUT of the enormous mum Der Of wom-
en in Constantinople-the population
IS nearly a million-not more than 81
600 can read or write
TRAIN RoBBER Gus HYATT was in
dicted, tried and convicted within two
hours at GAINESVILLE, Tenn, and was
sentenced to Is years in Ike peniten-
tiary.
KAISER WILHELM is making room
rapidly for his young men. On June
II he summarily retired Is generals,
which makes 80 general officers retired
in the past three months
PEAS have brought such low prices
lately that farmers on Petapsco Neck,
near Baltimore, have plowed under
acres OF them rather than pick them
and haul them 20 market.
SIX of Europe's queens smoke: The
dowager empress OF Russia, the queen
of Portugal, the queen of Roumania.
the regent of Spain, the empress of
Austria and the queen of Italy.
NJ. BALLOT, 1O4 years - age, aud,
as he believes, the last survivor of the
French soldiers who fought at Water
loo, was the guest of honor at the Wa
terloo banquet at Che.isey, in the de-
partment OF the Yonne
BARCELONA is TO have system OF
electric tramways 40 miles in length.
connecting it with the surrounding
districts. II will be buiIt by British
company on the overhead system, and
will cost about IS, 600 90.
ITALY is puzzled over the prohi Bit On
by the cen sorship of the performance
OF Donize it's LA Favor -" CT Turin
and OF Rossini'. La Ceners1tola" az
Naples during the recent visits to
those ci..es of the prince and princess
OF Naples.
INVESTIGATIONS show thatit requiIes
fro N three 70 four years to complete
the decaying of corpse when buried
at depth of four feet and ! half a
year and a half at one foot, and only
a year when the body Is simply cover
ed over with earth.
A STEEL bridge. cantilever, 40 feet
in span, to connect the Rue Stephen
son in Paris with the Rue de Ia
Chapelle, will be put in place over the
tracks of the Nord railway in a single
night, without using supports or inter-
fering with the trains.
CYRUS COBB of Boston. has just fin-
ished the second plaster bust of Phil
lip Brooks. When he exhibited his
first bust of the bishop he had report
made TO him of all the criticisms passed
on it, and in his second work he was
guided by theSe CRITICISMS
AN automatic rocking chair fan" is
the latest novelty. A small pair of
bellows is attached to the under part
of the chair. These force the air into
small tubes running upward with noz-
zles at their ends, which can be direct
ed toward any part of the face.
ENGLAND has sent an expedition to
explore the River Jub, the boundary
between the Italian and English
spheres of influence in Somaliland. 1t
is under command OF Mai Mcdonald,
who made the survey for the railroad
from Nom hasa to Lake Victoria.
QUEEN VICTORIA is to be put on cam
vas in company with the three gener-
atoms of heirs that are now on deck
the prince of Wales, the duke of York
and the little Prince Edward. The
artist who is honored with the royal
command is William CUTLER Orchard
son. r. A.
DANIEL O'CoNNEIL, youngest and last
surviving son of the liberator, has just
died at Bedford, England, aged 81
years. He was a renegade to the cause
of Ireland, accepting the office of in
come tax commissioner from Palmers.
ton 40 years ago and subscribing regu.
larly to the unionist fund to fight homo
rule.
IT has often puzzled the uninitiated
why musicians tune their instruments
in public, and not before they enter
the orchestra. Ii they manipulated
them before entering the theater or
concert room they might find the tenn
perature different in the place OF per-
Torrance, and the instruments would
not be in tune.
The busiest consul in the world is
the British consul a New York Tho
British shipping at New York aggre-
gates about 4, O0O O)O tons annually,
and from 2j, OOJ to 80, 600 seamen. are
paid off and shipped each year. involV-
ing the handling of about $685. for
seamen's wages
To deaden the noise made by the
striking of the keys on the roller or
platen of typewriter a new roller is
made of tube or rubber filed with a
fiber core, which softens the blow OF
the KEY and at the same time gives
strong surface on me roller to make a
plain impression
\ man likes TO rake up lot Of rubbish and
make a bonfire as we'll as a woman likes 10
clean Washington Democrat.
What an immense amount Of laziness