River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-11-04
CURRENT TOPICS.

MASSACHUSETTS has more distilleries
than Kentucky.
NV YORK has 4 Hebrew American
Preesmen's and Feeders union
QUEEN NIcToRIA's chief cook is dead.
He had cooked for her for 50 years
TwENTY-THREE Mormon missionaries,
including two women, have invaded
Tennessee
Miss SUSAN b. ANTHONY is about to
start on an extensive lecture tour
through the west
II is said that the potato crop is near
er a failure at present than at airy
other time since 1S92.
THE supreme court of Tennessee has
decided that a tax lien has priority
over a mortgage lien.
AS A result OF a trial shipment. con-
tracts have been entered into for the
sale of Alabama coal in Mexico.
THE weight of a mans brain has
nothing 10 do with his mental power.
IL is a question OF climate not of in
tellect. The colder the climate. the
greater the size of the brain.
The London World reports that Rud-
yard kipling. who has been cycling in
Dorsetshirc with Thomas Hardy, IS ne
gotiating for the purchase of house
aud grounds at RodwclI, near Dorches-
ter
II a new, self-balancing attachment
for bicycles a small rubbcr-tired wheel
is mounted on a spring frame 10 sup
port the weight of the wheel when at
rest and assist a new rider IN learn
ing.
THOUSANDS OF Egyptians live in old
tombs, eating, sleeping, wooing, low
ing, laughing. dancing, singing, doing
all their deeds of daily life aud house
hold work among the mummics and
ssrcophagi.
HENRIK lBSEN is going TO Berlin next
spring, on invitation. for the celebra-
ton of his list birthday. II is expect
ed that this occasion will bc made the
opportunity for an important Ibcnsite
demonstration.
FURNACE fires car bc started auto
matically in the morning 10y means of
clock mechanism, which can be set
TO open the hampers at any desired
hour. thus having the house warm
when il is time to get up.
MARX TwAIN's trip on the glacier has
been beaten by five Swiss tourists. who
recently went down the Gwachthorn,
in the Dammastocll district, on an ava
lanche. They got to the foot of the
mountain alive but considerably bruis-
ed
THE Greenwich observatory has been
put into Geographic communication
with that of the McGill college. Mon
treal. and the signals can he flashed
between the two places, a distance of
$500 miles, in three-quarters of u see
ond.
THE greatest of luxurics in central
Africa is salt. The long-continued
use of vegetable food in that country
creates SO painful longing for salt
that natives deprived of il for a long
period often show symptoms of in
sanity
WHEN Mr. Labouchere, the English
journalist, was in St Petersburg at
one time, he saw the Dutch minister
dive his hand deep into p box of
cigars placed for the use Of visitors,
and fill his pockets full of them before
going.
A NEW combined spring pedal and
toe clip consists of a steelplate rivetcd
to the pedal shaft with teeth at the
rear edge TO grip clcat in the shoe
sole and the front portion elongated
and curved over at the end TO form
toe clip.
CIRCUI Ar saws are being used in
butcher shops, a frame being attached
to the block and extending over it -
hold the saw in position on a spring
arm, 50 it can be depressed as il is rap
idly revolved by means of a crank and
chain gear
IN Belgium cock growing COMPETE
tions are very popular among the
working classes. The cocks are ranged
in cases, and markers note the number
of crows. In u competition recently
held at Poulsour cock gave voice l34
times in an hour
DAVID LANE. aged 81 years, and his
wife Catherine Lane. aged o. years. of
Westchester, Pa. have signed mutual
agreement OF separation. Benjamin
f. Hunt. aged 81. and Julia 4. Sher-
man, aged o., were recently married at
Watertown, y. V
THE natural habit of human beings
appears to be the use of the teeth on
the left side of the mouth for maSti
eating the food During lepgthened
period of observation only one person
out of Is was found who used both
sides of his mouth for chewing and
masticating his food.
TAsHKEND IS being ravaged by mala
ria, which is more deadly there than
cholera Ithas ragged there for four years
and leaves the survivors unfit for work.
The disease Is spreading throughout
Russian Turkestan and Merry
IT is related of the late Mr.. Pullman
that although he was = man Of sound
religious principles, he was fond OF an
occasional game of poker. When one
Saturday night the game ran over the
midnight hour. he sent $500 10 his
church in the name Of J. Pott, and was
greatly amused when the pastor read
out that name before the congregation
as that Of the generous benefactOr.