River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-09-07
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AUTOMOBILE watering carts arc used
In Paris.
THE men of Chicago spend IS, 500, 900
year for shaves.
ENGLAND consumes eS, 900, 900 worth
of fish every year.
THE best marksmen are usually those
with gray or blue eyes
New YORK is said to have 1900 bar
Der shops and 25. 900 BARRIERS.
ABOUT 1900, 900 persons are employed
in the coal mines of the world.
The proportion of sickness in human
life is nine days out of the year.
PRINCE CAcHULA, a Russian, is a
waiter in Budapesth restaurant.
BRAZIL will exhibit 500 varieties of
serpents at the Paris display in 1900.
THE princess of Monaco was the
daughter of the famous banker Heine.
ACCORDING to our insanity returns 10
cases in l, 900 are caused by love affairs.
THE recent storm in Chile are said to
have caused a property loss OF 81, $780,
00O
MINNEAPoIIs carpenters struck for
the eight-hour day and thirty cents an
hour.
THERE are As admirals in the French
navy and $50 generals in the French
army.
IN the Havana custom house are en-
ployed o14 Cubans, 81 Spaniards and 80
Americans.
IT is estimated that about 40, 900 acres
of land in the United States are plant
ed with vines.
MIN YOKE WHoU, the new minister
to Washington from Corea, speaks
English fuently.
BIRTHS and deaths occur all the
world over more frequently at night
than in the day time.
EVERY German soldier carries four
ounce religious book with the rest of
his personal equipment
SECRETARY GAGE has ordered that the
national quarantine regulations oe en-
forced at San Francisco
THOMAS Balm, new speaker of the
Canadian house of commons, is the
first farmer to gain that post.
THERE is a district in Liverpool in
habited by CO. 600 people where intoxi-
eating liquor can not be bought.
SPECIAL courses of lectures on rail.
reading as science are being delivered
in Berlin and Breslau this summer.
a LARGE dog and horse had fierce
battle at Hackensack, n. j., a few days
ago in which the latter came off vic.
torious.
A GALVESTON paper says the corn
crop in Texas is the largest in the
states history. The cotton yield will
be cut short by drouth.
WILLIAM HENRY IJAMs, who has just
resigned as treasurer of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad Co., was in the service
of that corporation for 46 years.
ID. o. MILLS, the New York philan-
thropist, has designed a new cheap
lodging house, which he will have
erected during the coming autumn.
Mr.. SUeHsLAND, German scientist,
has discovered that the aroma of to-
bacco is due to microbes, and it is said
he will patent, if he can, process FOR
making cheap cigars smell like expen-
sive ones.
PRINCE CHuKow, the Russian minis
ter for railways, worked as an or
binary mechanic in the locomotive
works at Liverpool, after which he
became railway guard an d afterward
station master at an English town.
ENGLISH engineers are making COM
mendable progress in burning garbage
as fuel in electric light stations. At
Canterbury, England, Is tons are
burned in twelve hours under a forced
draft This process is in use at several
| places.
THE breaking off of the engagement
between Prince Max of Baden and the
Grand Duchess Helene of Russia was a
great grief to the Princess Wilhelm of
Baden, who always desired that her
son should marry into the imperial
house of Russia.
A GERMAN firm undertook to salve
the Paris on the mo cure. no pay"
principle. If floated the salvors were
to have half the value of the vessel
The operations of the firm on the
manacles cost $50, 0O0 and half the
value of the Paris is estimated at $780,
| o00
THE discovery of serum to combat
the bubonic plague is reported. Prof.
Bandi, of the University Of Messina,
claims 10 have found it. Government
officials are interested and with their
permission he will proceed to Oporto
and make experimental applications of
the serum.