River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-06-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

Georgia is very proud of a 1,1ss
pound hog.
The sulphur mines of Sicily yield
over 100000 tons year.
Cnvaccinated persons are not per.
mitted to vote in Norway.
In Chile two-thirds of the nubI;c
school teachers are women.
Louisiana per cent. bonds are sell.
ing at S109.ss and interest.
Womens colleges in England are
said to be filed to overfowing.
Woodstock. Ca, is to have cot
ton seed oil mill and a rope factory.
w. ). Nitham, Atlanta, Ca, is PRES
ident of thirty banking institutions.
Free lunches in saloons have been
forbidden by the Des Moines council.
The only European country which
has lower death rate than England
is Norway.
The Swiss cabinet consists of seven
members, each of whom draws S., 400
per annum
Paul Heyse, the German novelist,
has made his debut as a painter at
the age of 20.
One Georgia fruit grower has or.
dered 5000 barrels in which to ship
his pear crop.
The air is so clear in Zululnnd that
objects seven miles away can be dis
tinctly seen by starlight.
If all the money in the world were
divided equally among the people
each person would get about $50.
Every animal kept by man. except.
ing the eat, is taxed in Austria, and
now there is proposal to tax pussy.
At Whakarewarewa. New Zealand,
there are geysers, hot springs, boiling
pools, mud volcanoes and hot water
falls
Warsaw is the center of the watch
trade for Russia, and Switzerland
sells over a million roubles' worth
annually.
Thirty five years ago the farmers
of buckwheat. The acreage in 1898
was 67S,322.
Switzerland has three institutions
for the cure of drunkards which re-
cord permanent cures in one-half the
cases treated.
Sumter, S, c.. has a factory for
making golf sticks of persimmon tim
Der. II is claimed they are the best
that can be made.
A reduction of postage in Egypt
from one piaster TO quarter of a
plaster resulted in doubling the num-
Der of letters posted.
Charlotte is a corruption of the old
English word charlyt, which means
e dish of custard, and charlotte russo
is Russian charlotte.
The greatest height ever reached
in a balloon was 26,16O feet. Two of
the three aeronauts who made this
ascent were suffocated.
The finding of pearls of value in
the regular oyster of commerce is
rare occurrence, though the reports
of such finds are frequent.
Maitre Labori, who so ably defend
ed Dreyfus, is coming to this country
next year TO lecture on the famous
case. He speaks English fuently.
Dawson Y. Clarke. WHO died at Lit
tleton. n. H., the other day, was
known throughout New England as
the oldest of the White mountain
stage drivers. He was 70 years of ago
and had driven since he was H.
Levi Brisson, of Danvile, Ct, is the
father of forty-two children. He is
French Canadian, - years old, and
weighs 10 pounds. His present wife
is his third. His first wife bore him
six children and his second twenty
five.
Besides the "welcome home to
Gen. Otis in Rochester next month
the returning soldier will he the
guest of Lafayette post, &. A. Il. of
New York at a banquet to which
many persons of national reputation
have been invited.
The oldest love letter in the world
is a proposal of marriage for the
hand of an Egyptian princess, made
$500 years ago. II is in the form of
an inscribed brick, and is therefore
not only the oldest but the most sub
stantial love letter ever written.
The giraffe. has such powers OF
mimicry that. although Us size might
be supposed to make ii a conspicuous
object TO its enemies, the most prac-
ticed eye has been deceived by the
animals resemblance TO one of the
dead and blasted tree trunks which
abound in its haunts.
Carp were reported as being so
plentiful near Easton, Md, the other
morning that they were caught with
a pitchfork and two shovels by three
men, who could easily have filed
their two-horse wagon with the fish,
IL is said. The carp were on their way
70 the Tired Avon river, where the
water is cooler and deeper. The mi
gratory rush lasted six hours.
The strawberry crop in the Chat
tanoopa district is estimated at 1885,
900 crates. The crop sold for about
S2so.OOO, of which about $4,000 was
profit.
The commander-in-chief of the
army of Morocco is a Scotchman. He
is the son Of the Maclean OF Loeb
Eule, and his father owns u great
part of the Isle of Mule.
The number of vessels passing
through the Sault Ste. Marie canal
PRIOR to May ! was Az, carrying 49,
4s2 tons of freight In 1899 no freight
passed through the canal before
May l.
According to the Street Railway
Review the Tokyo Tram Co., OF To-
lSvo, Japan. has declared a dividend
OF over per cent. on its business for
the last year.
Paris womans paper La Fronde,
which boasts that all its work was
done by women has run foul of the
~. which does rot permit women
tc set type ct night.
The foolish viii never take simple reme-
dies.-Chicago Democrat.
A lost opportunity never finds its way
back.-Ram's Horn.
A Blessing Topeka has deaf mute lar
her.
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