River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-12-27
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Kansas farmers will get seed wheat
from Turkey.
A steel ship carries one-eftb more
cargo than an iron one.
Nail plant at Belfont pa .os.;n
$4,000, sold as junk for ss.s75
Leipzig. in Germany. sells 10 ooo
tons weight of books in one wear
The kiale, or household +o~ -
fayorite pet among Chinese women
English people drink yearly. on an
average, eight ounces Of cocoa a head
Insurance companies win now take
risks for limited amounts on Football
players.
Powdered charcoal, If laid thictIv
on burn, almost instantly allays
the pain.
Henry Labouchere, NJ. P, editor of
Truth, completed the Goth year of his
life recently.
Buffaloes are found at the height
of $4,000 feet on the African mount
ain of Kilima Marc
Over s1,ooo,oOO worth of diamonds
are stolen every year from the South
African diamond mines.
More than half of the 81 s2t 600 cold
Imported into this country during
March came from Canada.
The Indian name of the Charles
river at Boston was Mis-sha-um.
which meant great highway.
Thirteen million cubic wards of
earth were removed in making the
canal across the isthmus of Corinth.
Three hundred Negroes from va
rious parts of the south win leave
Birmingham, Ala, in January for Lii
IBERIA.
New Scotland Yard is the largest
police station in the world. II Is
capable of accommodating 1900 police
officers.
Comrie, in Perthshire, Scotland.
has had more earthquakes in the last
century than any other place north
of the equator.
Boston capitalists are said to have
purchased several thousand acres of
mineral and timber land in Claiborne
county, Tennessee,
According to Mint Director Rob-
erts' estimate, the output of gold for
1901 will exceed 100000 a day,
1865, 100000 for the wear.
The greatest steel structure in the
world, so far as railroad work is con.
cerned, is just about completed in
Pennsylvania. 1t is the wonderful
bridge of the Erie railroad across the
Kinzua valley in Mexican county.
The bishop of Chester Or. Jayne)
has issued letter on licensing re-
form, urging the adoption of the
method of placing the public house
in public hands, that it may be man
aged as a public trust with a single
eye to the public welfare.
The Siberian railway will cross al
together thirty miles of bridges, and
of these the line to Irkutsk required
a large number, including such i'm,
portant ones as those over the Irtysh
at Omsk, 700 yards; over the Yenis
sci at Mimi Udinsk, $50 yards.
The common hen lays about 500 OF
600 eggs in 10 years. In the frs
year the number is only from 10 t.
20; in the second, third and fourth
years from 100 to 1875 each, and there
after it rapidly diminishes. In tn,
tenth year the ordinary hen lays bu
10 to IL eggs.
A Boston China house received
two interesting orders recently. On,
was from Cecil Rhodes, to be sen
to his residence in Cape Town, Soutl
Africa, and the other was from
Mrs. Rudyard Kipling, to be sent t.
her home, The Elms, Nottingham
Sussex, England.
Florida continues to make stead,
progress in population. 1t now ma
52s,54 inhabitants, gain of As pc
cent. over 1890, while in the two pre-
ceding decades its percentage Q
growth was 452 per cent. from ISIS
to 1890, and AS per cent. from lo'
to 1sso-a remarkably uniform IN
crease.
Max Billigheim and Max Eichens
heimer, two students from Heidel
berg, the noted German university
arrived in New York recently AM
have now started on a walking tou
across the continent. They wea
khaki costumes and will help pa.
their expenses by delivering occasion
al lectures.