River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-26

the past five years.
The latest statistics show that the
United States has over 100000 miles
or railroad, and less than 10000 miles
of good wagon road.
Women have been elected to official
positions in the vestry of the French
Protestant Episcopal church at St
Sauveur in Philadelphia.
Nineteen new missionaries of the
for China from New York, undaunted
by the present dangers.
There is $50,000,0OO worth of United
States government property, as APP
praised locally, within the boundaries
of the Greater New York.
School teachers in Iowa have to be
content with small salaries. Their
incomes are lower than those of in
structors in any part of the middle
west, except Ohio.
The oldest house in England stands
near st. Adams abbey. 1t is oc-
tagonal in shape, and the walls of its
lower story are of great thickness.
1t is 1,1OO years old and is still fit for
habitation.
The armament of the Taku forts
consisted of very heavy Krupp guns,
and the approaches to the forts from
the Gulf of Pechile were extremely
difficult.
Mexico in the past nine years has
doubled its revenues, doubled its ex-
ports, doubled the number of its fac
tories, and multiplied by three its
banking capital.
Until 1927 the Chinese wore their
hair long and coiled on the top of the
head, where ii was fastened with an
ornamental pin. The Manchu edict
making the pigtail sign of loyalty
changed this style.
The Paris exposition of 1878 is COM
memorated by the Trocadero and that
of 1889 by the Eiffel tower, both of
which form part of the present exhi-
bition.
The royal palaces of Bangkok form
a city in themselves. They consist of
several hundred individual palaces,
surrounded by magnificent gardens
and pagodas.
One of the biggest women in the
world lives in Greece, at little viii
lage near Corinth. Her name is Vas
siliki Calliadii; she is % years old,
and her height is six feet seven and
one-haIf inches.
A pneumatic rockingham has just
been patented. The air-cushions at
tached to the rockers are very sim
liar to ordinary cycle tires.
So useful are toads in gardens that
they are sold in France by the dozen
for stocking gardens, to free them
from many injurious insects.
Kruger pennies are being purchased
as souvenirs throughout Cape Colony,
1t being assured that no more of them
will be coined after the war.
The military reservation at West
Point occupies a rock promitory
which extends into the Hudson river
and contains about 1886 acres.
Nearly half of the lightning strokes
reported occur out in the open, "a per
cent. in houses. II per cent. under
trees and per cent. in barns.
The supreme court of Michigan re-
Gently held that a conductor is not
bound 10 give women and children
assistance IN alighting from cars.
The Tennessee convict coal mine is
a paying institution. 1t is estimated
that the enterprise will show profit
of over S10o, 900 for the past six
months.
The wire clothesline was the cause
of at least a dozen deaths last year.
That number of women was struck by
lightning AMI killed while removing
clothing from the line.
The Chinese have no use for bath
rooms o. bathing paraphernalia.
Their toilet is quickly made, and is
not begun until nearly all the gar
ments to be worn have been put on.
At recent fur sale a Partisan pur-
chased in the open market a black Si-
berian fox skin As inches by s inches,
paying for il the sum of $4,000 When
dressed it will cost its wearer $500.
With a population of 100000, Lon
don harbors every day 100000 stran-
gers. Some may remain week, some
a month, but all the year around
there is an average of 10000 visitors
who are within the metropolitan
boundaries.
A railway is TO be built between
Cape Nome and Fort Clarence, Alaska,
and rails and narrow guage locomo-
tives and freight cars have already
arrived at Seattle.