River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-11-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

GEN. JouBERT, the Boer leader. is IS
years old.
UNITED STATES opal mines have been
exhausted.
FIELD rats are esteemed as table
delicacy in Cuba.
Sicilian farmers receive only 81. 40a
thousand lemons
MAlTRE LABoRI is one of the best all
around athletes in Paris,
The profits of Great Britain's postal
service are 500 COO 600 year
AN energetic temperament and act
i've habits conduce to longevity.
UPWARD of is, 600 horses are annually
consumed by the people of Vienna
REV. J. i, MErFoRD Presbyterian
minister in Scotland is worth 81, $780,
600
Mrs JouN ]. INGALLS, is famed
throughout Kansas for her black berry
jam.
WV. MARGRAvE has been justice of
the peace at Fort Scott Kan, since
1854
THE greatest distance to which
wireless messages have been sent is As
miles.
THERE is cafe in Venice which has
never been closed night or day for $50
years.
II was 500 years ago, in Florence,
that the first grand opera was pro-
duced
LONDON would erect monument to
Dickens but the novelist's will pre-
vents it.
FRANCS MURPHY secured .. 600 sigma
lures to the total abstinence pledge at
Des Moines.
II. w. DENNIsoN, of Vermont, is the
law adviser of the Japanese imperial
government
New YORK father is said to have
offered his son, $4,000, if he would stay
sober for a week.
THE London employees of Sir Thomas
Upton are on strike for higher
wages and shorter hours.
CHAs. LAURIER, brother of the Cam
adam PREMIER is travelling salesman
for cigar firm of Calumet, Mich.
On the eve of his wedding inc moth
er of a New Jersey man kidnapped him
and no one knows where they are.
ADM SAMPSON has been invited to
be present at the launching of the
torpedo boat Shubrick at Richmond.
WINSTON CHURCHILL the author of
''Richard Carvel, has drawn $50, 600 as
royalties for three months sale of his
book
IBsEN has declared his intention of
settl ng in Sweden, near Kullen, in
Schooner, a region which he greatly
admires.
THE Malay language is spoken by
more than 40 600, 600 people. Itls said
to be easy to learn, as it has almost no
grammar.
IN Southern Russia camels are much
used by farmers for field work. They
even stand the climate fairly well fur
Their north.
WHILE dressing for her wedding
Vienna woman learned of the grooms
death. Three days later she married
another man.
THE gift to Adm. Dewey while in
| Boston of the Massachusetts Daughters
! of the Revolution was an immense boz
/ quet of $50 American Beauty roses
standing 50 feet high.
The assignment of RI Adm. Samp-
son TO the Boston navy yard will net
him a total of 81, 795 per annum, count
ing shore duty pay and allowances.
Adm Schley at sea, without perquis-
/ ties, will receive 81, 500.
WHAT are known as tidal waves"
have nothing to do with the tides, but
are supposed to be caused by EARTH
| qual1es. They do not, therefore, APP
pear at regular intervals.
/ THAT wood will stand the passing of
/ centuries as we'll as metal is proved by
the unearthing near the Nile of some
E gyptian boats nearly 5000 years old,
| which are in good condition.
| S. JOSEPH VIsvANETH, of Ceylon,
Hindu of high caste, who has been
stude nt in the University of Calcutta,
has entered Johns Hopkins University
as a special student of Oriental law
guages.
AMONG women journalists there as
| hardly any one so remarkable as Nine.
Adam, who has retired from the edi-
torship of the Nouvelle Revue, in
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