River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-04-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
THE King of Italy has never visited
the pope.
THE average length of a whales jaw
bone is seven feet.
PARCHMENT used on the best banjos
Is made from wolfskin.
IN Hamburg the authorities tax a
&Og according to its size.
GINGER is a tropical production of
Mexico where it grows wild.
LAST year more than 90, 900, 600 Christ
WAS trees were put on the market.
CIGARS are given to soldiers of the
italian army as part OF their daily ra-
tions.
THERE are more blind people among
the Spaniards than any other Europ-
can race.
A GERMAN professor reports he has
found living bacteria in wine which
had been bottled - or 80 years.
AN eminent oculist announces that
there is twice as much blindness among
men as there is among women
AN inquisitive New York wife has
had her curiosity properly rewarded
in the discovery that her husband is a
burglar
RUSSIAN families, when moving to
new homes, kindle the fire on the
hearth with Goals brought from the old
residence.
THE gems in the crown of Portugal
are worth 5000, 900. Those in the
royal diadem of England are valued
at 81. 500 600
IL HUNG CHANG has just celebrated
his 10th birthday. He was entertain
ed by a number of high officials at the
An Whei club.
LONDON has a resident population
of nearly 1000 professional orchestral
instrumentalists. OF this total nearly
200 are violinists.
AN aluminium airship, propelled by
bcnzine motor, rose /, 900 feet in re-
cent trial in Germany, and went well
until the wind became too high.
DURING his winter residence in Ber-
lin Emperor WilIaa1 has been playing
tennis two hours daily in his private
court in the Hohenzollern gardens.
JOHANN JANKo, one of the best
known Hungarian caricaturists, died
recently at the age of IS years.
His drawings number more than So.
900.
The last safe retreat of the beaver
in the United States is the canyon OF
the Rio Grande, between Eagle Pass
and FL Paso, distance of about 800
miles.
FRENCH Guiana is said to have the
most violent thunder storms in the
world. The thunder is almost deafen.
ing and the peals come in quick sue
ceSsion.
SuLrHArE of quinine has some very
curious properties, one of them being
its power to impress an image of it,
self on a sheet of sensitive paper in
the dark.
The production of what is known as
silk worm gut for fishing lines is a
curious industry that has followed the
decline of silk culture in the vicinity
of Murcia, Spain.
A GERMAN has invented a neat little
brush for the hat, which has a spring
wire loop attached to its back, by
which it is supported in the crown of
the hat when not in use.
CoREAN paper is superior to that of
either China or Japan, in both of
which countries it is in demand for
umbrella covers, roofing and as sub
stitute for window glass.
JULES VERNE is enjoying robust
health at the age of 70 in his quiet
home at Amiens, where he lives on
herbs and eggs, meager diet, to which
he attributes his vitality
BERGEN, Norway, boasts Of a paper
church large enough to seat 1,000 per-
sons The building is rendered water
proof by a solution of quicklime, cur
died milk and whites of eggs.
A sEvEN-FooT granite monument in
the upper Harz, Germany. has an iron
tablet inscribed: Here, in the year
1S47, the first trials were made with
the cultivation of the potato"
COURT chaplains, when they preach
before the German emperor, must con-
dense the sermons so that they can be
delivered in Is minutes Long SER
mons he says, make him weary
DR. CHARLES SMITH, of Railway, N.
J.. who says he is l2l years old. was
initiated into Newark Lodge, No. 81,
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks,
of Newark, n J., the other evening.
ABOUT 1000, 600 false teeth are manu-
featured annually in the United
States, while one ton OF gold, three
tons of silver, and plant inum TO the
value of $1,000 are used in filling
teeth
THERE are Is churches in London
where the sexes are divided during di-
vine worship. In All Saints, Marga-
ret street. even husband and wife are
not allowed to sit together, the only
London church where this plan is en-
forced
IN Berlin the fremen wear water
jackets, with a double skin. which they
are able 10 fill with water from the
hose. II the space between the two
layers becomes overfiIled the water es-
capes through a valve ut the top of the
helmet
An excellent way to test the purity
of water is TO fill a clean bottle three
parts full with the water and dissolve
in il half teaspooufuI of the purest
sugar Cork the bottle and place il in
a warm position If in 81 hours the
water becomes cloudy it is unfit for
use.
Mrs MARTHA b CONNIE. OF the Col
orado legislature, in the course of an
address made TO a womans audience
in Brooklyn the other night, said:
NV legislative experience has been
pleasant throughout. and l have never
found anything more disagreeable than
women meet in getting up g church