River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-06-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

Mice have strong dislike TO the
odor Of peppermint.
Four sets of twins were born in
Villa Rica, Ca, in one week.
Several new cigar factories are TO
be established at Tampa, Fla.
Nearly 81 100000 worth of articles
are pawned in London weekly.
Great Britain employees $4,000 for
eign seamen in her merchant service.
The coal production of the world
amounted to 60,O00.000 tons for the
year 1898.
The average walking pace of a
healthy man or woman is said to be
IS steps minute.
Russia in Europe has a forest area
of about 500,000,000 acres. One-thIrd
OF the country is forest,
The railroad time between New
York and Boston has been reduced
TO four hours and twenty-three min
utes.
Twelve dollars and thirty cents is
the annual allowance of 1851 PEN
sioners of the state of South Caro-
lima.
London now has two electric sub
ways--the City and Waterloo railway
and the City and South London rail-
way.
Cigarettes are smoked almost ex-
clusively in Germany, Austria, Russia
and Greece, and generally through
Europe.
Lord Kitchener is a freemason of
high degree and holds. the office of
district grand master of Egypt and
the Soudan.
The circulation of the London news
papers has increased from 20 to 100
per cent. since the beginning of the
war in South Africa.
The nearest approach of a comet
to the earth observed was in 1870,
when one approached to within 1,400,-
900 miles of our planet.
Memphis wants to have the Forrest
monument ready for dedication dur
ing the confederate reunion which is
to be held in that city next year.
The municipal authorities of London
are engaged in the establishment of
sterilized milk plants in different
parts of the English metropolis.
In coming such modern words as
telegram" photograph" etc, the
japanese have recourse to the Chinese
language, as we do to the Greek.
A floating variety theater, to be
towed from one watering place TO
another along the coast, is an English
idea for the coming summer season.
The word hussar is from the Mag
var word houtzar, meaning the
twentieth. Hussars, as cavalry sol
diers, were first confined to Hungary.
Senator Hoar frequently amuses
himself by piano playing. He plays
well. it is said, but few save his init
mate friends have ever heard him.
An enormous quantity of old iron
in the shape of old anchors and
chains is annually rescued from the
sea. During one period of II months
as much as $50 tons weight was
dredged up on the east coast of Eng
land alone.
of the United States of Colombia,
South America, are designated by the
manner in which they wear flowers
in their hair. the senoras wearing
them on the right side and the senior
itas on the left
A horse viii eat in year nine tunes
his own weight, cow nine times, an
OK six times, and a sheep six times.
Sheets, blankets, pillows, and cover
let's or counterpanes were frequent
subjects of bequest in the middle ages.
Two new steamboats, are to be
placed in the Chattahoochee river
trade. The boats will be built at JET.
fersonviIle.
Sundays and fixed holidays except.
ed, 1t is estimated that 100000 worth
Of fish is daily dragged out of the sea
by British fishermen.
A stray chimpanzee from Central
Africa sometimes goes as far north as
Morocco. where it is looked on as "a
hairy man with four hands
Portland, Ore. exported 100000
bushels of wheat during the last eight
months. More than half of this was
raised in the state of Washington.
Gen. Thomas II. Hubbard, of New
York, has given $15O,000 to Bowdoin
college, at Brunswick, Me-, for the
construction of a new library build
ing.
The casket containing the remains
of Lincoln, through fear of vandal
thieves, has been removed no less than
ten times since it was first placed in
the vault at Oak Ridge cemetery May
a, 1865.
Senator Depew said recently that
the largest fees he ever received were
from clients to whom he presented no
bills, but who, assessing their own
valuation, paid far more than he ever
charged.
Mrs. Despard, a sister of Gen.
French, Lord Roberts well-known
cavalry leader, is a strong adhereut
in sympathy of the Boer cause, and
has written several magazine articles
supporting her position.
In New York city there is a move
ment to establish city ice plant.
This is upon the theory that If the
city furnishes it at cost in liquid
form there is no sound reason why it
should not be furnished in blocks.