River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-06-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

COLORADO mas a mining town named
Wall Street
EIGHT United States towns bear the
name of Madrid
MANY Of the elephants of Abvssinia
are without tuSks
MORE than 1000, 600 cats skins are
used every year in the fur trade.
Few natives of India eat more than
twice day, and thousands only once.
Two LEADING Cuban railways are
owned and conducted by British en-
terprise.
THE attendance Mt public schools in
Italy in 1870 was col 632, while now it
is 2,47l, 65s
OF the 10000 citizens of the United
States now in Germany 1900 are
matriclated students.
THE organs of smell in vulture are
so keen that they can scent their food
for distance of 40 miles.
Forty per cent of the export of
American nails is taken by Japan.
Japan is our largest buyer
A SOUTHERN railway has made a
new departure by appointing a young
woman as its chief train dispatcher.
The youngest railway president in
this country is John Magee. of the
Fall Brook road lie is but 90 years
old.
MORE eases of consumption appear
among needle makers and filemakers
than among any other class of la
borerS.
THE willow is one OF the most adapt
able of plants Awillow switch stuck
in the wet ground will almost invaria-
bly, take root
SWEDEN has now 19,o56, 24G acres of
forest lands owned by the state, an in
crease IN the states holdings in IS
years of 1850, 972 acres.
In Is years Russia has sent 624,O
persons to Siberia, fully 100, 600 rela-
tives of prisoners having accompanied
the exiles of their own free will
EVERY language contains such names
as cuckoo, pewit, whippoorwill and
others, in which the sound emitted by
the animal is initiated as the name.
The United Kingdom, with all her
colonies and possessions, takes $685.,
ASS worth OF Ameri can glassware year
ly, or nearly three-fourths of the entire
exports.
III AbdA4dll X ONCi iilAlGllb Jas Aii liOoG0
tax of ten lire on bicycles, and in fu-
ture all machines will have TO carry a
mark showing that the yearly tax has
been paid,
The largest history ever published
is THE War OF the Rebellion, So issued
by Uncle Sam in 800 huge octave vol
umns, of 1000 pages each, with n
gigantic atlas in 80 pages
TIE ground in the vicinity of the
Bank of England is estimated TO be
worth not less than $40, 900 600 per
acre and land in Pail Mall has changed
hands at So, 500, 600 an acre.
The steamer Algon, on its last trip
from San Francisco to Marseilles, car
ried wheat that would have filed so
freight trains with 1900 cars. The
import duty was 700, 600 francs.
GREATER communication, an I'M
usual punishment in the Church of.
England has been pronounced by the
bishop Of Litchteld against a clergy
man convicted of grossly immoral con-
duct
A TANK steamer with a capacity of
72O, 900 gallons will soon be launched
from the Roach shipyard in Chester,
Pa. 1t is for the Standard Oil Co.,
and is said to be the largest in the
world.
IT is reported that the Chinese gov
eminent has made a concession of its
coal fields to a syndicate of English
capitalists; the fields are said To con
tain inexhaustible quantities of an
thracite coal.
PROBABLY the smallest painting in
the world is that by Flemish artist on
the smooth side of grain of common
white corn, and picturing mill and
miller mounting a stair with Il sack of
grain on his back.
THE largest shipment of live Holsters
ever sent from Halifax, n s., went for
ward By the last steamer to Boston.
The shipment amounted to !, 300 crates,
weighing 81 tons, every fish being at
least 1O1G inches long.
RR ADM GHERARDI, retired, in a
speech at New York. says that the re-
suits of this war will show that the
standard of officers and men in the
navy has kept pace with the improve
ments IN armaments and machinery.
WOODEN shoes in France are produce
ed 10 the extent of about 4, 900, 600 pairs
yearly They are made in Alsace and
Barriers by machinery and Lozerc by
hand In the last named province
/, roo persons are engaged in the man
ufacture.
A CALIFORNIAN, by a special process,
has succeeded in solidifying petroleum
into a black, solid mass, which burns
like coal, with less smoke, and throws
ont thrice the heat 1t can be cast in
bricks is clean and gives out little pc
troleum odot.
TIE Svantians, who live in the mac
cessi Die mountain range between the
Black and Caspian seas, are probably
the LATEST people in the world. They
have made no advance toward civilza-
ton in ., 800 years 1t is their invari-
able rule to observe holidays four
times week with saints days as ex-
tras.
ROBERT +. JAMES. son Of Frank James
and nephew # Jesse James, of Mis-
souri,, has enl sted in the End United
States cavalr, and has gone 10 ChiclIa-
manga. lie S just OF age and since
graduating from college has been EN-
ployed in the auditors department of
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