River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-12

will spend the summer in travel.
In Kansas it is proposed to start
a magazine which shall be contrib
uted to only by residents of Kansas.
The aging of timber, which former
ly required long storage, is now com
pleted by electricity in a few hours.
Twelve dollars and thirty cents is
the annual allowance of 1851 pen
sioners of the state of South Carolina.
Twelve women out of sixteen were
successful candidates at an examine
ton for sanitary instructors in Lon
don.
The last descendant of John Bunyan
has Just died in Lincoln, England.
She was Mrs. T. NJ. Keyworth, and
was 80 years old.
Lord Roberts has been in the Brit
ish army for forty-nine years, having
started in the service when he was
twenty years old.
The franchises of nearly 1000 cor
porations in Texas have been revoked
recently because of their failure to
! pay the state taxes.
The British government expects a
drought in India about twice in every
nine years-and great famine like
! the present about twice century.
| In Indiana there are 1902 miles of
telephone and telegraph wires, valued
for taxation at $4,695,65o, and $500
miles of railway, assessed at $153,659,-
34S.
Stephen Crane used to do nearly all
! his writing very late at night, fire.
uuentIy working until or 8 o'clock
and then sleeping for six or eight
| hours.
AS there is very little cold weather
| in Mexico, no necessity exists for lay
ing in winter stores of honey, and the
bees is, therefore, as lazy as grass
! hopper.
There were 1,O57,938 acres seeded to
sugar beets in Germany last year.
| The yield is about eleven and quar-
| ter tons per acre of beets, containing
I IT per cent. of sugar.
Ii Hung Chang maintains at his own
expense a force of 1900 soldiers as
bodyguard. They are no part of the
! Chinese army and are the best paid
| soldiers in the empire.
! American lard sells in Singapore
at "a cents a pound in ten-pound cans.
1 American canned fruits, vegetables
and meats, as well as American bug
giles, are also sold there.
! Cups and saucers are never used for
| tea anywhere in Russia. The teacup
is an unknown article. The drinking
vessel for tea is the "stakan," glass
tumbler in a silver holder. No Rus
sian ever drinks milk in his tea.
Brazil has practically monopoly
of the carbonate or black diamond,
which is used in diamond drills and
for other abrasive purposes. 1t is
4 found in Cape Colony and some other
places, butts commercially important
only in Brazil.
! The number of Mohammedans has
1 been estimated at 196,500,000. OF
these 100000 are under the rule of
the Turkish government, 23,oo0,ooO are
ruled by other Musselman sovereigns,
| 36,5O0,000 are subject to African
princes, 100000 live in China, and
| 99,O0O,000 are under other rulers. OF
these last about 5s,0o0,o00 belong to
India and Beloochistan.
Mrs Kruger says in an interview
that she has fifty-three relatives in
the field in the Boer war-four sons,
six sons-in-law and forty-three grand
sons.
The king of Siam is very anxious
\ to visit the United States, and will
probably come to this country within
the next year in one of the vessels
| of his own navy.
The Celestial Empire, a weekly
paper, published in Shanghai, is a
/ perfect mirror of Eastern affairs, and
exercises a tremendous influence on
the other side of the world, although
almost unknown in America.
Thomas Muncey, aged 90 years, died
the other day at his home in Little
Creek, Del. He never saw railroad
train, never used tobacco and never
drank liquor.
In the province of Smolensk, Rus
| STA, there is held every three months
n lottery in husbands and wives, who
are chosen by chance drawing of a
lottery ticket.
Mrs. Arthur Pruden, of Irvington,
N. j., lost two ten dollar bills, and
knows that they were eaten by either
her baby or her pet dog. Doubt on
the question is the only thing that
has spared the life of the dog.
A German savant says dying is a
perfectly easy and painless process.
consciousness, he says, ceases in near
ly every instance before the heart
stops beating.
West Australian exploring party
that recently arrived at Oodnadata
reported that there had not been
drop of rain for two years in the re-
pion traversed.