River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-07-21
CURRENT TOPICS.


81, 600, 600.
THE civil war has thus far cost s12,-
900, 600, 600.
ENeLAND's ordnance survey map cost
$40, 300 000
THE army of Germany boasts eight
women colonies.
YELLOW fever killed II, 500 Spanish
soldiers in Cuba.
IL Scotland, at one time, capital pun
ishment was by drowning.
SPAIN will soon have the greatest
submarine navy in the world.
THERE are ESQ glaciers in the Alps
said to be over five miles in length.
The oil of the rattlesnake is said to
be good for rheumatism and neural
| gia.
The demand for cavalry horses has
revived the equine industry in Wyom-
/ ing.
OUR coast signal service system ex-
tends all the way from Bar Harbor TO
4 Galveston,
MARRIED couples in Norway are priv
LEGGED to travel on railways at fare
( and a half
PROFANITY is forbidden by both the
army and navy regulations Of the
4 United States.
A BoXFUI. of earth from the garden
4 of Gethsemane was sprinkled over Mr..
! Gladstone's coffin.
MORE cases of consumption appear
among needle makers and file makers
/ than among any other class of labor
/ ers.
AMONG the Anglo-Saxons in the sew
/ enth century men wore gloves, while
women covered their hands with their
sleeves.
The American foot soldier is cover
ing himself with glory and the laurels
of war are no longer worn alone by
the navy.
TIE earl of Seton, whose estates
] have just been resettled by the Eng
4 lish courts, is hopeless lunatic at the
age of so.
and their families there goes out from
every Ameaicau home unmeasured
sympathy.
4 IN Montenegro, when man is re-
1 jected as too old for war, he breaks
4 his sword at the feet of his prince
and goes home to die.
/ SHAFTER is evidently a soldier able
! to see the short cuts among the most
/ tangled complications and with the
/ energy to force his army through.
1 WE have now destroyed Montejo's
/ squadron and Cervera's squadron, but
/ we are not out of the woods yet
| Spain stiIl has the terrible Temerario.
! PIANO leather, a species of buckskiu
J ! = oil Il,
by a family of tanners IN Thuringia.
The process of tanning is well guard
| ed secret.
| NATURAIIsTs have ascertained that
scorpions and certain kinds of spiders
are able to make peculiar noises to
warn an enemy that an attack is at
/ tended by danger.
! THE breaking of the sword in halves
1 and throwing the weapon at the feet
/ Of an enemy is the expression Of in
\ subordinate the spirit TINT admits
1 defeat, but remains unconquered
SEARCHIIGHrs are such good targets
for the enemy's guns that the Ger
mans are arranging to throw the light
/ FIRST on a mirror and thence on the
enemy, thereby concealing its real
source.
IN 1898 Mary Gillard, of Independ-
ence, Kan, lost her voice. \ few days
ago She was picking Strawberries. A
bug erawled across her hand She
screamed. Ever since her voice has
been as good as new.
WHETHER the Spanish ships are I'M
armored cruisers or battle ships with
nine inches Of steel protection on their
hulls, the result is the same utter de-
struction when they come within range
Of the guns of the Americans.
CARBoNIC oxide being found normal
ly in the blood OF living beings exist
1 ing in Paris, NJ Nicloux has demon
strated to the French academy of
sciences that the gas forms within
the organism itself without external
causes,
CoNGo Negroes are remarkable for
their thick skins. A case is mentioned
of black slashed with razor in
scuffle The hospital surgeon broke
two needles in trying to put in the
stitches and at last was driven to use
u Lradawl.
II is stated that the first cost of
building fleet of Atlantic liners is
trifie compared to the money spent in
running them. In less than three
i years it will exceed the cost of con.
/ struction, such is the constant eXpend'
/ iture in wages, repairs etc.
JAPAN has a breed Of mice which are
n ruzzle to naturalists At different
periods of the day they whirl around
/ and around for hours at time. If
person should lift a mouse when it is
whirling the animal will resume its
whirling the moment it is set down.
/ CONTRARY to a widespread belief
| that hard woods give more heat in
! burning than soft varieties, IL has
/ been shown that the greatest power Is
/ possessed by tie wood of the linden
tree. which is very soft, Fir stand;
next to linden and almost equal 70 it.
THE new island which Las aiisen
/ near the northwest of Bornco, oppo'
/ site Labuan, is about 200 yards long
and $50 yards wide and of clayey earth
/ and rock Its formation is supposed
1 to be connected with the earthquake
/ felt at Hudat British North Borneo,
I in last September.
TIE tongues Of the cat family are
1 covered with rccurving spines In the
/ common domestic cat these are small,
but sufficiently well developed 10 give
the tongue feeling of roughness.
/ But in the lion and tiger the spines
are strong enough to enable the an
/ imal TO tear away the skin Of mans
4 hand merely by licking 1t.
A sAcK-FIIIING machine has been i'm
vented which not only fills the sack
with flour or grain, but weighs it and
registers the number filled. 1t will
/ not attempt to put more in than the
sack will hold; and tended by single
man the machine win dispose Of 90
sacks an hour.
! The wife-murderer probably gets bou-
/ qucts because he Is such lady-ktller.-Cbl-
| cago Daily News.
/ People are beginning to admit that many
/ men are locking for work who do not want
\ it-Atchison Globe.
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