River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

new Lealand mas now sent nearly
1000 men to the front in South Africa.
A train was stopped in Coffee coun-
ty, Tenn, to allow bear to get off
| the track.
Parliament building. Wellington, N.
/ T.. is the largest wooden structure in
/ the world.
No receptacle made has sufficient
strength to resist bursting power of
| frozen water.
Bank of England notes are number
ed backward, that is, from l to 1000,
hence the figures 0o,0o01.
1t is estimated that the number of
| Germans and their descendants in the
United States is 100000.
London has 1864 policemen, or 10
to the square mile. Sixty per cent.
of them are on night duty.
! Under British rule the cotton crop
of Egypt has doubled, and now
amounts to over 5O0,oOO,0OO pounds q
year.
The Newfoundland sealing season
has been the largest for the past 25
years, $4,000 seals having been cap
tured.
An official return from the British
war office shows that the distinctly
Scottish regiments in the war contain
10000 men.
Residents of Atlanta hope that cir
cuses will come there, now that the
license has been reduced from $1,000 a
day to $500.
According to a report of the labor
commissioner of New Hampshire the
shoe output of that state last year
was S99,9OO,0oo.
President Eliot, of Harvard. has
been asked to deliver an address at
| the opening exercises of the Uniyer-
sity of Michigan next fall.
Miss Gail Laughlin, of New York,
has been appointed by the industrial
commission at Washington to investi-
gate the servant girl question.
In three British regiments-the
Black Watch, the Argyll and Suther-
| land Highlanders-over 40 per cent.
| of the men are total abstainers.
Long before school boards were es-
tablished in England Canadian chill
| dren were instructed free of cost be-
tween the ages of seven and twelve.
This education is compulsory.
Henry Chang, son of Chang Yin
| Tang, Chinese minister to Madrid, is
! to be educated in Philadelphia. Henry
| is thirteen years old and during the
last year he attended school at a pre-
paratory institution in Virginia.
There were 500,0O0,0Oo fowls in the
United States last year, and the num-
Der of eggs laid as estimated at about
| 1904 100000 dozen, or 17,400, 100000
eggs. The value of these fowls and
their product is set down at $420,00O,-
600.
In England there are only about 176
centenarians; in Ireland, SIS, and in
Scotland, 46. Sweden has 10. and Nor
way 8; Belgium, s; Denmark, 2;
Switzerland, none. Spain, with pop
ulation of 100000. has 401 persons
over 100 years of age. OF the 2,250,000
inhabitants of Servia SIS have passed
the century mark. France with pop
ulation of 100000, has 213 cen
tenarians.
The largest nugget yet found in the
Klondike was picked mp on Gold Hill
recently. 1t weighed seventy-seven
ounces and was valued at $4,000.
In the fourteenth century armor
became so heavy that many soldiers
only 30 years old were deformed or
permanently disabled by its weight.
The North German Lloyd is about
TO start a steamship line on the
Yang-tse- Kiang river, in China, to con-
meet Shanghai with the ocean ships.
The stairway leading to the tower
of the Philadelphia city hall contains
sos steps, and is said to be the long
est continuous stairway in the world.
A proposal to erect memorial of
Lord Roberts military achievements
has met with considerable favor in
London. The present plan is to place
a monument in Guildhall.
In the experiments which have been
carried on in South Africa with wire
less telegraphy it was found that the
vibration caused by the firing of heavy
guns had no effect on the system.
There are nine branches in New
York state of the WomaE's Interna-
tional Labor league, whose object is
to persuade worlingmen and women
to buy only goods bearing the union
label.
The government of Greece is now
more liberal with mining concessions,
and as a result mines are being work
ed in the provinces of Attica, Thes-
sally, Milo and Bocotia.
A Briton from London has gone to
South Africa with 100000 pocket hand
kerchiefs. He hoped to be able to sell
them to the British soldiers at a profit
of at least 300 per cent.
Recent explorations show that Bra
I'll could, if pushed, furnish so per
cent more raw rubber than at pres
ent. and that the possibilities of At
riea as a rubber exporting continent
are limitless.
A substitute for the glass stopper
which, although it prevents fumes
from escaping from the bottle, has an
awkward habit of getting fixed is to
be found in a cork stepped in vaseline.
1t answers all the purposes of the
glass stopper, without its disadvan-
tages.
A nugget taken from the Connecti-
cut Zinc Co.'S property, at Joplin, Mo-,
a day or two ago, which ranks as one
of the handsomest specimens ever
mined there, weighs an even ton. 1t
is principally zinc ore, prettily trim
med in calcite, pink spar and cubes of
| galena.