River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-12
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STAIN has more sunshine than any
country in Europe.
AT Santa Ana Cal, there is celery
garden of 500 acres
The Smithsonian institution has q
woman expert on Holsters and crabs
Gen. Miles is an amateur photo
grapher of considerable ability.
A MAINE hunter claims to have once
had his pipe lighted by fash of light,
ming.
ARcoLA, H., with population OF
less than 5000, leads the world in the
broomcorn industry.
The khedive of Egypt draws salary
ten times as great as that of the presi-
dent of the United States.
/ GEORGE BERRY, the English band
master, has retired after 6S years
service with military bands.
HIRAM CRoNK of New York is the on.
ly surviving pens oned soldier of the
war Of 1872. lie is 80 years old.
THE screw of an Atlantic liner re-
wolves something like $50. 600 times
between Liverpool and New York.
lN France advertising posters must
bear revenue stamps, varying in value
according to the size of the poster.
Tie richest acre of land in the world
is that near Lionsar, in Thibet. on
which grows the sacred tree of Thbet.
Two OF the sons of James J. Hill are
vice presidents of railroads. Both have
been carefully trained in the business
by their father.
Doctors say that non-smokers in
crease Ia height, weight, chest meas
urement and lung capacity much more
rapidly than smokers.
THE cheapest animal to raise is the
sheep, and with growing appetite for
tender lamb and mutton in this coun-
| try, it is one of the most profitable.
DRIED orange peel. allowed to smol-
der on piece OF red-hot iron or an old
shovel, will kill any bad odor in exist
ence and leave a fragrant one behind
instead.
IN a Boston school the pupils were
asked to define arithmetic One boy
gave the following: Arithmetic is the
science of umbers and the art of CON-
plication."
AT Munich there is hospital which
is entirely supported by the sale of old
steel pens and nibs collected from all
parts of Germany. They are made into
watchsprings. knives and razors.
CECIL RHODES order of 500, 900, 600
feet of southern yellow pine from deal
ers in the Mississippi valley is said to
be the largest single order in the his
tory OF the trade in this country.
CECIL RHODES regards marriage as a
hindrance to the full employment of a
mans business capabilities. When
one of his secretaries got married
Rhodes dismissed him, but gave him a
check for SIS, 600 as set-off.
REV. JOHN NAILLE, of Trappe, Pa, is
the oldest clergyman in active service
in this country. He was born on Feb
ruary IS, 1901. and still breaches in the
| German Reformed church in his town,
where he has been pastor over 60
years.
LAST year 5, 600 900 pounds of alum
inium, valued at $l,7I6, 600, were pro-
duced in the United States. The value
per pound was therefore SO cents. In
1883 10000 pounds of that metal were
produced, valued at nearly S.. 50 a
pound.
BEFORE the revolution in France ii
was customary, when a gentleman was
invited out to dinner, for him to send
his servant with a knife, fork and
spoon; or, if he had no servants. he
carried them with him in his vest
pocket
WITH the threatened exhaustion OF
ivory in Africa, supply is opening up
in Siberia. Tons of fine ivory are
found of the mammoth elephas primi-
genius. Hundreds of frozen carcasses
are found crowded and jammed in GER
tain spots.
AUTHENTIC history and biography in
China embrace period from the year
1919 of our era back to the remote per-
iod 2,697 years before Christ. The
historians of China embrace a success
sion of uninterrupted series of more
than g 400 wears.