River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-03
CURRENT TOPICS.

SENATOR FRYE, of Maine, is a great
fisherman.
MANY Atlantic liners burn as mech
as 800 tons of coal per day.
OF all the staple crops of the world
the potato takes the first place.
A HANDsAw bearing date of 1920 was
dug up recently at North East, Pa.
TIE total cost 10 Russia of the inn
perial family is $50, 600, 900 per year.
IN Germany a clock has been made
that is warranted to go for 5000 years.
IT is believedsthat in China there is
90 times as much coal as in all Eu-
rope.
The favorite small arm in Brazil is a
double-barreled pistol made in Bel
GUM.
Music boxes for bicycles are now
manufactured by a firm in Hamburg,
Germany
DANIEL WELLS. of Milwaukee, aged
SIS, is the Oldest living ex-congressman
in the west.
PAUL KRUEeER's favorite dish is salt
herring. He eats at least one of these
fish every day.
GEN. FITzHUGH LEE is said to be con-
templating the writing of life of his
uncle, r. f. Lee.
MAI. Gen. OTIS wife regularly re-
ceives cablegram from her husband
on the 18th of every month.
IN the farming districts of Russia it
costs IS cents to hire horse for one
day, and "a cents to hire a man.
HENRY IL. BENEDICT the millionaire
typewriter manufacturer, was once a
teacher of Latin in the Fairfield semi
nary.
IT is said that at the death of Hetty
Green 81, 600, 900 of her fortune will be
divided among 100 distant connec-
tions.
BALTIMORE has the largest Negro
population of any city in Christendom.
The census is expected to show at least
125, 600.
SENATOR Ross, of Vermont, was once
an expert on snowshoes and the swift
est racer on them within several miles
of his home.
CONGRESSMAN KETCHAM, of New York,
has unique claim to fame. He has
served in IS congresses and has never
made speech.
A BALD eagle whose wing extension
was seven feet, was killed recently
near Milford, Del, while trying to
carry off a lamb
SUCCESSFUL. firm of tea merchants
in London is composed entirely of
women. The blenders, tasters and
packers are also women.
THERE are three varieties of the dog
that never bark-the Australian dog,
the Egyptian shepherd dog and the
'Iion-headed dog of Thibet-
In 1850 Germany imported eggs to
the value of SO, 500, 600. In 1898 the
amount was nearly trebled. Russia
provides 90 per cent. of them.
TODAY so, 600 persons and $50, 600, 900
are employed in the business of max
ing and distributing newspaper clip
pings among those whom they concern.
THE ordinary folding fan was in
vented in the seventh century by a
Japanese artist, who derived the idea
from watching bat closing its wings.
THE prince Of Wales has warned his
brother free masons not to make
themselves cheap by wearing their
masonic regalia on ordinary occasions.
THE oldest creature living in the
world belongs to Walter Rothschild.
1t is giant tortoise, weighing quar-
ter of ton, and it has known life of
$50 years.
A LAW was recently passed in Nor
way prohibiting the sale of tobacco to
anybody under 16 years of age without
signed order from an adult relative
or employer.
LAW was recently passed in Swift
zerland prohibiting the manufacture
ing, importation or sale of matches
containing the ordinary form of yell
low phosphorus
IT is averred by famous Chinese
doctor that nervousness is kept out of
the Celestial empire by the use of soft
soled shoes. The hard soles worn by
the Anglo-Saxon race arc said to be the
cause of their extreme nervous temper
ament.
RAILWAY whistles inflict torture on
so many people that Austria has intro
duced a system of dumb signaling to
start and stop the trains Belgium is
trying compressed air whistles instead
of steam, and Germany experiments
with horns.
WILLIAM OxLEY THOMPSON. the new
president of Ohio state university,
spent ten years in getting his diploma
from Muskingum college, be ng so
poor that to get one years study he
had sometimes to work three years to
save the money required.