River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-31
cURRErT TOPICS.

BRITIsH India now has 40 colleges
17,oo students.
An area of the worlds coal fields is
471,so0 square miles.
THERE are 40, 600 locomotives in use
on Anne lean railroads.
OPAL mining is one of the latest Aus
tralian mineral industries.
EVERY blast furnace in Pittsburgh is
producing to its full capacity
New YORK is said to have :, 500 bar
Der shops and %, BOO BARRIERS.
THE fruit business of Omaha, Neb.,
is valued at 1900, 600 annually.
OKLAHOMA is harvesting a wheat
crop estimated at 40, 600, 600 bushels.
BERLIN newspaper predicts great
panic in the German money market.
The number of languages and dia-
lees SPOKEN in the world amounts to
S,o64.
RAILWAY wheels made of leather
have been experimental with 10
France.
Is Russia you must marry before so
or not at all, and you may marry only
five times.
A NEW automobile is being built for
the prince of Wales, who will operate
il himself.
TWENTY-FIVE women have been
hanged in England during Queen Vic
toria's reign.
Ar the present rate of increase the
United States will have in 1900 about
l25, 600 physicians.
Nor one drop of intoxicating liquor
is allowed to be sold at any of the mill
itary camps of Canada.
QUEEN WLHELuSA of Holland has
a passion for gay colors and wears
dresses of gorgeous hues.
In the first half of 1898 Japan sent
$40. 500 600 gold to England. Thus far
in 1899 it has sent only S4,S5o.
GERMANY publishes about 10000
books year, France II, 600, Italy 1000.
England 6, 600, United States S., 600.
JAPAN has a new lighthouse, made
of bamboo. which is said to resist the
waves better than any kind of wood.
WARREN C. COLEMAN, of Concord, N.
C., is the richest colored man in the
south. His income is invested in cottoo
mills.
THE constant labor of four persons
for an entire year is required to pro-
duce a cashmere shawl of the best
quality.
In St. Paul recently boy fell from
wall sixty feet to a railroad track
below, and escaped without serious
injury.
A HUGE wine barrel at Nancy accom-
modated at dinner $50 worllmen, who
had been building it for the Paris ex-
hibition.
LEO XIII. has just received present
of an automobile, sent to him by a
devout French manufacturer of these
vehicles.
THE only two great European CAPT
tails that have never been occupied by
foreign foe are London and St.
Petersburg.
JAMES CLARK, of Quincy, H., who
celebrated his Tooth birthday recently,
is now the only bona fde oldest mason
in America.
T. w. DAVIS, ex-mayor of Peoria, Ill,
although 70 years, is an inveterate
rider of the bicycle, which he began to
| ride when 81.
| JOHN c. kLAUDER, who died recently
In Philadelphia, was the original tim
can mush man and made 81, 600, 900 IN
the business.
BUFFALos new Union Railroad sta
ton, to cost $4,000, 600, is to have
waiting room so by 235 feet, said to be
the largest n the world.
DURING the last half year 1915 vessels
aggregating 2S4, s77 tons, were launch
ed on the CLYDE, beating all records.
England still rules the seas.
AN association of London women
conducts the genial business of caring
for window boxes and growing flowers
for balconies and small gardens.
J. Z. BRYANT, the Bardwell, KY.
millionaire, owns the largest straw
berry patch in the world. 1t covers
l,70O acres and has made his fortune.