River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-01-27
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The habit Of feigning death when
attacked has been found 10 character.
lie several varieties Of snakes.
A PENNSYLVANIA has left 81 600 to
each of his sons upon the proyiso that
they remain always democrats
A RAILWAY mail clerk in Illinois has
travelled sos, 7s4 miles and handled 81,
9l6, l44 pieces of mail in 81 years.
Thus far in the session 5000 bills
have been presented during this con-
gress and referred to committees,
OF the 10000 Washington govern
ment clerks, nearly one-third are WON
en-, who receive from 5000 TO $500
yearly.
Our of 81 storms which reached the
French shores in 1896, all but three
were foretold by the central meteoro.
logical office,
ENGINE drivers in Germany receive
from the government a gold medal and
500 for every ten years of service
without accident.
SOME sheep were frightened at dogs
at Grenoble France, and 242 blindly
followed their leader" over preci-
piee $50 feet high.
THE wash bowl is derived from the
ancient Saxon phrase, "Wass hael"-
or, ITO your health. The wassail bowl
is practically extinct
THERE is glut of grain at Calves
ton and not enough vessels to move it.
All the elevators are filled and there
are !, 400 cars unloaded.
A MONUMENT has just been erected
over the grave of Thomas A. Kempis
in the church of st. Michel, at Zwolle,
APO years after his death.
THERE is a curious superstition in
Venice that if stranger dies in no.
tel the number of his room will be
lucky at the next lottery.
The czarina and the car of Russia
will receive their friends at the Paris
exhibition Of 1900 in a magnificent pa
vilion which will cost $3.50, 0O0.
Mrs. CRoLY (Jennie June), who has
been appointed an inspector of the
public schools of Greater New York,
will remain in office five years.
THE postmaster general has approved
an order that postmasters shall make
no appointments of clerks without
authority from the department
Col. JOHN LAMBERT, of Joliet, H.,
has given $1,000 to the public library
of that city and 81. 500 each to the Sill
yer Cross and St. Joseph hospitals.
IT HAS been calculated that if pound
of thread made from spiders web were
required, it would occupy nearly 2S,-
900 spiders full year to furnish it.
The widow of Lieut.. Frederick
Schwatlla the noted Alaskan explorer,
is preparing to lead an expedition in
search of gold on the Copper river
A GIFT of $1,000 by Miss Elizabeth
Plankington, of Milwaukee, has in
creased the building fund of the new
Milwaukee Downcr college to $50, 900.
The project of making new state
out of Greater New York and Long Is
land has been revived and a bin for
that purpose has been introduced in
the assembly.
ACCORDING to Rev. Mr.. Myron Reed
some of the best last words ever utter.
ed were by Sitting Bull, who said:
''God Almighty made me an Indian.
God Almighty never made me an agency
Indian"
man, has begun the erection near
Doveland. Ia, of castle in the old
baronial style. In the parks which
surround it are number of lakes lie
will occupy the castle alone, as he has
no family.
DURING the open hunting season in
Maine, IA men have been shot in the
woods by hunters. 1t is claimed that
the men who do this kind OF shooting
know that they are aiming at other
men, but are so excited that they can
not help firing.
SoUsA said recently that his song
1.-The Goat, in "The Bride Elect, was
suggested when he was at a phono-
graph place and goat walked in the
door, eagerly shifting at the smell Of
the wax of the cylinders, and it oc-
Cured to him that he could write about
goat that ate "a photograph.
THE board of education of Philadel-
phia has taken into its own hands the
matter of naming new public school
buildings For some time past they
have been named by a committee, and
generally after some ward celebrity or
local politician who never did deserve
the honor and whose fame was OF short
duration.
THE sultan Of Turkey is always seen
attired in pale-brown garments. The
emperor of Austria affects gray. The
Young German emperor has what may
be called loud taste in clothes and is
never so happy as when wearing the
&c ny.
tunes.
CANApAs new postage stamps arc
about to Issue. They bear the vignettc
of the queen as the appears to-day, not
as at coronation. The color of the ones,
threes and fives will be changed, in
accordance with the postal union reg
lations, to green, red and blue, re-
spectively
IT is not generally known that at the
time of his death Du Maurier had COM
pleted two papers giving "reminiscences
of the two celebrated caricaturists
with whom he was closely associated,
John Leech and Charles Kcenc, as well
as an account of his own career as
illustrator.
JAyANEsE are now making their own
tin cans for holding petroleum, of
which the island is prolific, and the
packing cases are made in town OF
Borneo. The American and European
oil is for many uses, being supplanted.
One local company paid 62 per cent.
dividends in year.
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