River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-09-28
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LIE ske1elOn alone OF an average
whale weighs 25 tons.
There are 1,500 persons upon the Ger
man emperor's list of employees.
THE greatest customers the Peoria
distillers have are the japanese.
AN exhibition of Canada's mineral
resources is to be held at Toronto.
THE rearing of silk worms gives en-
ployment to COO 900 people in Italy.
THE finest shops in Chinese city are
those devoted to the sale of collins.
A PERMANENT exhibition of Spanish
products is being established at Hayti.
IL the year ended June 80, 4.746 i'm
migrants were received at San Fran
cisco.
THE Dominion of Canada imposes a
tax Of $50 on every Chinaman that en-
tiers that country.
ONE hundred thousand Americans
have visited Europe this summer,
breaking all records.
OF every 100 school children in Lon
don, 65 leave school between their
tenth and eleventh years.
TIE president has authorized the or
ganization of company of Indians
for service in the Philippines.
Ben CLENCH, the highest mountain
in Scotland, will have an electric road
to its summit and sanitarium.
AFRICA has nearly 20 different Lam
Suages, and this fact presents great
difficulties to missionary efforts.
BELLA NJ. HUGHEs, of Atchison, Kan,
recently celebrated the fiftieth ami
versary of her second marriage.
VANCOUVER city council has voted
$500 to the trades and labor council to-
ward the Labor day celebr- ton.
PARIS has burial vault fitted with
electrical appliances for the detection
of recovery n cataleptic subjects.
EVERY boy in Germany. from the
crown prince to the meanest subject, is
obliged to learn some useful trade.
OWING to the large increase in BUSH
ness the Great 5. berian railway is to
be rebuilt before the line is completed.
REPORTS of the cotton crop of Texas,
Indian Territory and Oklahoma show
a decrease in the yield of 81 per cent.
SPAIN has more sunshine than any
country in Europe. The yearly aver
age is 5000 hours. In America it is
2,1O0.
THE Kansas bureau of immigration
has shipped east samples of corn II
feet high; also tomato stalks feet
high, with fruit at the top.
JOHANNESBURG is ia miles from Port
Elizabeth, LOLA from Cape Town, 666
from East London, 1873 from Durham
and 500 from Delagoa bay.
The health authorities of Bavaria
examined last year So 4S7 samples Of
food and drinks, and made complaints
in 16.9 per cent. of all cases.
FARMERS in Androseoggin county,
Maine, complain bitterly of the injury
done to their crop by the protected
and apidly-increasjng deer.
AT recent meeting of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Prof. Dius aivo-
Gated the use of English as universal
language for men of science.
A sHEILFIsH known as the pianna in
the Mediterranean has the curious
power of spinning viscid silk, which
is made in Italy, into regular fabric.
WOMEN do the mining in Colon bia.
No man with any self-respect can be
induced 10 engage in that occupation,
because in Spanish times it was the
work of slaves.
In the centsr of the plaza in Lima is
a pretty bronze fountain that was
erected in 1878, a gift from some noble
Spaniard, and is probably the oldest
fountain in America.
BERLIN booksellers are strictly for
hidden TO sell school children books
stitched with wire, as several cases of
blood poisoning have been traced to
scratches from rusty wire.
ONE of the queerest villages known
is in New Guinea, and is called Tupu-
selei. The houses are all supported on
piles and stand out in the ocean con-
siderable distance from shore.
Ii would be difficult to imagine more
extraordinary digestive powers than
those of the hycna. One of these
beasts has been known to swallow six
large bones without cru hing them.
THERE is much French ard Belgian
capital invested in the principal rail-
way lines of Spain, while England
owns many of the shorter lines and is
also at the head of the mining inter-
ests.
THE Ortiz mine grant of 81 600 acres
located 80 miles south of Santa Fe, \.
NJ, and covering the richest gold bear
ing district of New Mexico has been
sold TO Thomas A. Edison and a New
York and London syndicate for So, OOo,-
600
Cor. w. L. ALBRIGHT, of Ohio, or
ganizing a company with S. 00o 900
capital, to build the Missing Link
railway from Chattanooga to Walhal-
la, ) c., distance of I5o miles. is in
Georgia to secure a charter in that
state.
A coMBlS ALTON of glove manufacture
ers has been effected, with a capital
stock of $50 coo 00o of which SIS. 600, 600
is preferred stock, representing the
cash value of the properties merged,
and Sl2, 600 600 common stock, which is
to be distri buted as bonus.
THE giraffe was thought &c be near
extinction, but Maj. Maxse, a British
explorer, has found great herds Of
them along the Sobat river, tribu-
tary of the White Nile.
The use of coat-of-arms as badges
for different families did not come into
practice till the 12th century. The
Germans are said TO have originated
it, while the French developed the
science.
In Switzerland a milkmaid gets bet
ter wages if gifted with a good voice,
because it has been discovered that a
COW will yield one-ffth more milk il
soothed during milking by melody.
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