River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-07-20
CURRENT TOPICS.

THE strength of two horses equals
that of Is men.
A CHICAGO woman makes her living
by washing cats
THE United Kingdom has 10000
women school teachers.
THE car of Russia is the best GUS
toner of the clipping bureaus.
MARIE CoRRELII is Mary Anderson
Nayarro's most intimate friend.
The average amount of illness in
human life is nine days out of the year.
II has been estimated that steamers
are 20 per cent safer than sailing YES
sells
None than 5000 persons are buried
annually in the paupers' cemetery of
Berlin.
In Norway the average length OF life
is greater than in any other country
on the globe.
Is the British navy there are $50 yes
sells that have been in service at least
quarter of a century.
The toll on an ordinary ship passing
through the Suez canal averages about
81, 600. The distance is % miles.
AUSTRALIA is the only country in the
world where no native pipes and no
native smokers have been found.
THE greatest depth TO which ship
has been anchored is 1900 fathoms,
considerably more than two miles.
~ Berlin the pawnshop is royal
and phianthropic institution. Any
profit that is made is spent on charity.
A KENTUCKY woman has secured
judgment of 500 against man who
kissed her when she didn't want him 10.
A DRINKING fountain is to be erected
in Brooklyn by the w. c. L. U. of that
city as memorial TO the late Frances
E. Willard.
A NEW YORK criminal, 65 years of
age, was brought into court on litter
TO receive his 1S-months' sentence for
manslaughter.
THE vine attains great age, contin-
uing fruitful for at least 400 years. 1t
is supposed to be equal to the oak as
regards longevity.
SENATOR ALLISON, of Iowa, in maxi
ing a speech generally talks from
notes, which rarely cover one small
sheet of note paper
The Turkish government refuses to
consider any offer from rich leaders of
the Hebrew Zionist government to sell
part of the Holy Land.
TWELVE years ago one sailor out of
every LOG, on an average, lost his life
by accident Now the proportion has
been reduced one in Csc.
j. j. HILL president of the Great
dc fc cf,
man, swarthy, with brown eyes and
face full'of rugged lines.
PAPER is now being made in Holland
from potato stems and leaves. The
farmers are paid five francs fifty-six
confines ton for the vines.
A CHICAGO promoter is working up
new railway from Knoxville to Mem
phis and claims to have sold Sl2, 0o0,-
600 worth of construction bonds.
AUSTRIA is the country most lenient
to murderers. In ten years over 500
persons were found guilty of murder.
of whom only 2S were put to death.
THE heart of the vegetarian beats on
an average of IS to the minute; that of
the meat eater 70. This represents a
difference of 20, 900 beats in "A hours.
SMOKING goes on in the Philippines
everywhere but in church. Even your
cab driver will offer you cigar il you
are not smoking and he thinks you
have none.
WATER is the hardest of all sub
stances to heat, with the single excep-
ton of hydrogen gas. The easiest two
are mercury and lead, which stand in
this respect on nearly the same footing.
THE United States sent abroad dur
ing the ten months ending April SO,
1897, exactly 21s locomotives. In the
same months of 1898 it exported S66,
for the same period of the current ifs
cal year the record has risen to Ala.
If maid in Germany falls sick her
mistress is not allowed TO discharge
her. but must pay her AZ cents day
for her hospital expenses until she IS
perfectly we'll The wages of girls
vary from ST. 40 to $3.50 month, with
board.