River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-19
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been sold for SO, 600.
THERE are nearly 900 stitches in a
/ pair of hand-sewed boots.
THREE ont of every 1876 English
speaking people have red hair.
Chief Justice of England. Lord Rus
sell. attended the Dreyfus trial.
The finest shops in Cainese city are
those devoted to the sale of collins.
The Anti-Imperialistl league will hold
mass meeting in Chicago October II
RUSSIA consumes on an average no
less than 1000, 600 tons Of liquid fuel a
year
NEARLY one-third of the surface of
Newfoundland is covered with fresh
water.
CONTRARY to popular belief, excite
ment causes much less insanity than
monotony.
Within the last 20 years 5000 houses
in Dublin have been closed for sani-
tary reasons.
SINCE shaving his mustache Senator
Deboe closely resembles President Nc
Kinley in appearance.
THE instruction of each student costs
the French universities oil francs per
annum on an average.
A DUoUEsNE Tia man has a dog
which was sent him by express all the
way from Manila, Z. l.
THOMAS Balm, new speaker of the
Canadian house Of commons, is farm
er, the first to gain that post.
THERE are 1000 vessels which cross
the Atlantic ocean regularly every
month, some of them twice month.
HUeH J. MCGOWAN, the Indianapolis
millionaire, has been a farmer, street
car driver, cabman and police sergeant.
THE United States imports very lit
tie salt, nearly all consumed, or about
1889, 29l barrels, being produced at
home.
The floods have subsidized throughout
Germany, but the damage done is enor-
nous, mounting into millions of
marks.
THE value of all the precious stones
found in the United States in 1898
was Sl60, 920, as compared with sl56,6 75
in 1897.
A MONUMENT to the seven Mosby men
executed at Alexandria, Va, during
the war was unveiled the other day at
that place.
at Springfield, KY, on a charge of l1u-
kluXing. They were dismissed for lack
of evidence.
A RAILROAD, it is said, will soon be
built from Santa Clara 10 Santiago
Cuba, distance of 400 miles, with sew
eral branches.
IN the country districts of Peru most
of the houses and walls are made of
adobe and the bricks are manufactured
on the ground.
THE playing cards used by the kaiser
are made to order for his private use.
The kaiser plays pinocle and occasion
ally INDUCES in poker.
A BIG department store in New York
has offered Dreyfus million francs
for his story of his famous case, to be
published in book form.
MAHOGANY comes to the United
States from Mexico TO the value of
s25 600 per month, an increase about
10 per cent over last years figures.
AT rs years of age Judge jackson, of
the United States district court for
West Virginia, is still active on the
bench. He was appointed by Lincoln.
FERNAND LABOR, the consul for
Dreyfus, is the editor of an exhaustive
encyclopedia of French law, the 12th
volume of which was issued last year.
ALL telephone lines in France are
owned by the government. There are
! 112 towns outside of Paris supplied
with telephones, with an aggregate
population of 6 600, 900 and with only
/ is, 600 subscribers.
| DIR. BREDINs has discovered a hither-
to unknown picture by Rembrandt in
/ a Baptist church at Amsterdam. j is
| the portrait of handsome youth of
/ 90. dressed in black, with a white col
lar and large hat. Its probable date
in 1852.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, is the location
! of the Missouri state penitentiary,
which is the largest penitentiary in
| the United States, with the largest
numb Der of prisoners confined within
it's walls. In addition, jefferson City
| boasts the possession of the largest
mandatory of saddle trees in the
world.
/ In the seclusion of an Oriental
| harem a woman invented the weaving
| of cashmere shawls, and besides this
| evidence of brilliance gave such wise
| advice to her husband that he changed
| her name from Nourmahal eight of
the harem) to Nourjehan (ight of the
world. The same woman invented
altar of roses
THIRTY years ago the sardines and
young herring in Canadian waters were
sold mostly as fertilizers. In 1897
nearly a million boxes of sardines in
oil were put on the market. The price
paid to fishermen varies cxtraordina-
rily, according to catch, season and
wear, b. ing sometimes as low as Sc per
horshead. and sometimes as high as
S1o0.
TIE American war ship of $50 years
ago was not exactly the fighting ma
chine of to-day as exempiided in the
Olympia or the Brooklyn. A model of
the first American battle ship has re-
Gently been placed in the collection Of
historic curios at Independence hall,
Philadelphia. This model, which is
some seven feet long, was carved by
Joshua Humphreys in 177z
AMONG the points dwelt on at the re-
cent tuberculosis congress in Berlin
were the facts that more than 40 per
cent of the printers of Berlin who had
died were phthisical
A UNIQUE ring made of an emerald,
with the center hollow ed out for a
finger to go through, was the token of
betrothal given recently by the manar-
aiah of Cooch Behar, India, to the
maharanee.
Not Wasted.
Johnny, did you take your cough medicine
regularly in school, as | told YOU"
Nom; Tommy Budds liked it, an he
gimme an apple for it''-Stray Stories.