River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-02-24
CURRENT TOPICS.


TIE sum Of $50 guineas has been
paid for a single orchid.
THE Massachusetts militia is to dis
pense with the bavonet.
ONLY a third of the inhabitants of
Berlin are German by birth.
THE cost of the q ban war from Feb
ruarv 1888. to the erd of 1897. is official
" estimated at $3.50 0oo 600.
A SIMPLE and very efficient disinfect-
ant 10 pour down d sink is small
quantity of charcoal mixed with clear
water.
A COMPANY has been organized at
Chicago 10 build an elevated railway
costing $1,000, 600 to operate on the
South Side.
The largest wine tank in the world
has been constructed at osti, Sonoma
county, Cal. 1t holds 100000 gallons Of
grape juice.
THE reason assigned for the sale of
the art treasures of the late Charles A.
Dana is that no member of his family
is in position to give them proper
care.
The violence of the wind on the
Ia
eral occasions it has BROUGHT to \.
standstil trains travelling from Perth
to the north.
a sANDBAG win hold heat better than
anything else. A wooden stocking
filled with fine sand and heated in an
oven VIII retain warmth twice as long
as a water bag ora brick
THE Arexes river in Trans-Caucasia,
has shifted TO its ancient bed, and now
flows directly into the Caspian sea, in
stead Of into the Kura. AT point 60
miles from the latter's mouth.
TIE Japanese government steel
works. which will be completed ncyt
vear win give omplovuent To . 500
men, use 2Io. 600 tons Of coal and bro.
duce co 600 tons of steel annually.
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now in the British museum. 1t is the
throne of Queen Ilatsu, who reigned
in the Nile valley some 600 years be.
fore Christ.
IT is announced that no less than "A
new operas were produced in Italy
durinp 1897 Sirnor Albinati has tab
Mated these works and il anDears that
an INT half a dozen car s, were moro or
loss successful
A nrr hos bosr in+ro3roa5 in tho
Now Jersey LEGISLATURES to tax bach.
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His e1dar brotbers wore all horn he.
fore William II. : accession.
Trisan inevnlicabIn fact that mon
hurled IL an Avalanche of snow hear
distinctly every word uttered bv those
who are senlzinr for tnam. while their
most strenuous sbouts fail topcnetrato
even n few feet Of the snow.
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