River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-05-05
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152 newspapers.
IN India there is fly which attacks
and devours large spiders.
THE weight of the average sized man
is lao pounds, of the woman 125.
THE pope has pearl, bequeathed to
him by Plus IN, valued at 100000.
THE wren often makes dozen nests,
leaving all but one unfinished and I'M
used.
IT is estimated that 100 passenger
trains arrive at and leave Chicago
daily.
THE Swedish mountain Gelivara is
estimated TO contain about 500, coo, 600
tons of iron.
No person il Norway may spend
more than three pence at one visit to n
public house.
A BECENT shipment of malt from Mil
waukee amounted to $4,000 pounds
and filed 100 cars.
THERE are 5000 persons in Great
Britain who pay av on an income of
more than $1,000 a car
JULES VERNE, VINO at 20 enjoys ro-
bust health AID lively spirits, lives
chiefly ON eggs and herbs,
/ The best watchmakers' oil comes
from the Jaw Of the shark About half
a pint is found in each shark
IT is estimated that at least 600. goo
pounds of rubber is annually used in
the manufacture OF bicycle tires
THE grand canyon of the Yellowstone
river, with its magnificent and gorge
: g ,F,~f
feet deep.
For some time Cuban families have
been sending money, silverware, paint
ings and heirlooms to American cities
for safety.
THE word hairbreadth, now used for
infnitesimal space, once named a regu-
lar measure 1t was the width of 16
hairs lait. side by side.
THE richest princess in the world is
the Crown Princess Louise Josephine
of Sweden and Norway, married to
the crown prince of Denmark.
/ On the inside cover of newly de-
signed watch thin pocket is provided
having an open center and Il slot in
one side for the insertion of a photo
graph.
scARroLoGY is the art of reading
character from the shoe soles Accord
ing to Swiss physician, symmetrical-
ly worn heel and sole indicate an ener-
getic, faithful, well-balanced charac-
ter.
WHEN suddenly frightened lizards
will often drop their tail and scurry
away. The discarded member, bounc-
ing up and down, attracts the attention
of the enemy and enables an escape to
be effected.
THERE are no orphan children in
Australia. Every child who is not sup
ported by parents becomes a ward of
the government, and is paid a pension
and placed in a private family, where
board and clothes are provided.
/ a TABLESPOONFUL of liquid air pour
ed on a fluid ounce of whisky will
freeze it at once into fiat scales. AS
an agent of destruction, liquid air is
| enormously powerful; but no useful
| object has been found for it as yet.
ELECTRICITY serves a new purpose in
a recent invention in which one or
more resistance coils are placed in a
hot-water bag, with wires running to
an ordinary incandescent light socket
to receive a current to keep the water
hot
SIR HENRY OAKLEY, the manager of
the Great Northern railway, who has
| been elected chairman of one of Lon
don's coming electric railways, en-
/ tered the service of the former road
half century ago as clerk at 81 a
week
THE largest proportion % single
persons is found in Ireland and Scot
land and the smallest in the United
states. In Ireland G. per cent, in Scot
land 65 per cent, but in the United
States only 50 per cent. are in that
condition.
Mr.. RoUs claims to have invented
a powder which, used in the place of
concrete, will have the effect of maxi
ing buildings nreproof. II can also be
used in the cxtinguishing of fires, and
can even be swallowed without fear of
consequences.
YALE's invested funds foot up, all
told, So 921, 500, against So, 273, O92 in
1887 The amount invested in real es-
tate is sos, 945; in bonds and mort
cages, S1,712, 2S4; in railroad bonds, ST.
234, s7l; in other bonds, $3.50 OOo and in
stocks s223, 873.
ELECTmCITY is used to operate n
newly-invented typewriter in which
the keyboard may be separated from
/ the machine and used to operate sew
eral machines, the keys closing circuits
| connected to magnets which operate
! the type levers.
The difference between day and
/ night pressure is utilized TO ignite u
new gas burner which has a spring
diaphragm to open the valve rs the
| pressure increases, an auxiliary burner
of small capacity serving as an igniter
! for the main burner
No ONE can tell where the diamond
/ goes to in combustion. Burn it, and
\ it leaves no ash; the flame is exterior,
like that of a cork, and when it has
blazed itself out there remains not
even so much as would dust the an
/ tennae Of a butterfly.
AFTER getting some hounds and
| catching five wildcats and IL coyotes,
a Lower Powder (Ore.) man was able
to leave his sheep in his fields in
safety.
! A son of the confederate Gen. J. y.
! Hood, who was one of the most reckless
| fighters in the American war, has been
commissioned by the governor of Lou
isiana to raise a regiment for use in
/ case of emergency.