River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-07-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

New York has 4oo-foot-high Office
building.
ENGLASp's stock of coal viii last two
centuries.
SHREVEPORT, Ala, is to have $780,
COO cotton mill.
FRANCE has 500 900 places in which
wines arc sold.
ANOTHER spinning mill for Anderson,
s. c., is now assured.
LONDON is TO have a school of instruc--
ton for wireless biography.
GEN. WooD says the death rate in
Santiago is now less than IN Phila-
dclphia.
THE Swedish mile is the longest mile
in the world. 1t is exactly II, roo yards
in length.
SOLDIERS in the Italian army are al
lowed two hours in the middle of the
day for nap
in Jetmore, Kan, every house is oc-
cupied by its owner. The population
of the place is $50.
WHEN Capt Coghlan was in COM
mand of the Raleigh, he was the small
est man on that ship.
IN several European countries, in
Guiding France and Belgium, elections
are always held on Sundays.
PROF HADLEY. the new president of
Yale, recently declared himself as the
most nervous man on earth"
SIDNEY COOPER now &c years old.
has had four pictures on exhibition at
the London academy this year.
II rrAfapu man &c frxrir,n n cotfa-
bine $50 of the largest clothing estab-
lishments in the United States
SOME industrious individual has as
certained that most of the great men
of the world have had blue eyes.
A COUNTERFEIT presentment of Rud-
yard kipling can now be seen at Nine.
Tussaud's wax works in London.
The city of PelIin has only one.
street lamp and that is in the street.
where foreign ambassadors reside.
IN Cuba women are now able to dine
alone in restaurants-a thing that was
never possible under the old regime.
A KIND of paper is made from sea-
weed which is so transparent that it
may be used instead of glass for win
dows.
The income tax in India is levied on
all incomes of S165 and upward, and
then only one man in 20 comes within
its scope.
The production of soap in Great Bri-
tain is about A. 600 tons per week, of
which between 5000 and 4, 900 are made
in London.
The Mexican government intends to
make experiments to see if the quality
of canned goods can be determined by
tho use of X-rays.
JUDGE JONAS BROOKS, of Mcpherson,
Kan, adjourned his court at noon the
other day and then walked seven miles
TO attend circus.
A NEW word applied to Americans is
'quinophagists," indicating that they
consume more quinine than any other
people in the world.
The mainsail of the new boat to rep
resent the United States in the coming
cup contest will contain over 1000
square feet of canvas.
IN memory of the Poet Cowper a new
museum, library and town hall is to be
erected at olney, in Buckinghamshire,
at cost of about $4,000.
Mrs. GEORGE GoULD's children have
a head nurse, two assistants, two gov
ernesses, two grooms and two footboys
TO minister to their wants.
SCIENTISTS say that the whole human
body is full of microbes, and that a
person is healthy as long as the mi
crobes are in good condition.
A CLOCK is being constructed foI'
Liverpool street station in London.
The interior of its case could allow
five persons to dine comfortably.
JOHN MILTON, of Gardiner, Me-, has
COW that can be MIXED three times
day. She recently gave in three milk
ings in one day 5411 quarts of milk.
Tue japanese are taking to Gig
arettes very kindly. More than $685.
600 worth were sent to Japan from
the United States alone last year.
1t may not be generally known that
the original idea of the Chinaman's
pigtail was that it formed a convenient
handle by which one day he would be
lifted up TO paradise.
The children of the blacklist Afri-
cans are born whitish. In a month
they become pale yellow; in a year,
brown; at four, dirty black, and at six
or seven glossy black.
NEXT TO the seamen of the United
States, British seamen get higher
wages and better fare and more COM
Portable conditions of employment
than do seamen of any other country.
PARTISAN BARRIERS are legally com
pei cd to wash their hands af,er at
tending customer and before waiting
on another. They must use also, only
nic<el-plated combs.
THE Paris correspondent OF the Daily
Telegraph says hat the war office, in
paving DR. yfus his arrears Of salary,
will deduct l, 593 francs for lodging
! expense at one franc day. his lodg-
ing being cell on Devils island.
or 1000 cases of hydrophobia in
Paris in a year only six were fatal
Before the Pastcur treatment was
adopted tho number of deaths would
have been, in the same number OF
eases, 49,
ALMOST every nation, with the excep-
ton OF Great Britain and tho United
States is overtaxed 20 meet the expen-
ses Of maintaining its army and navy.
France runs behind TO the amount of
500, 900. 600. Austria has an annual de-
| felt of $50, 900. 600 Russia of $4,000, 900
and Italy of $50, 600, 900.