River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-08-29
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Louis and Minneapolis, 60 sawmills
are in operation, and 179 steam crafts
of various kinds navigate this stretch
of the river
Dr. Reuben Peterson, of Chicago,
has been appointed to the Bates pro-
fessorship of the diseases of women
in Michigan university, to succeed
DR.. J. n. Martin.
A thousand graves in the church
cemetery, Luton, England, have been
dug by a one-armed man named Al
len, who became grave digger in 1871
after a mill accident.
In the ten years that have elapsed
since it was opened the Cripple Creek
district of Colorado has produced
$104,O00,O0o in gold, and its estimated
yield in 1901 is $25,O0o,OOO.
According to statistics of the Uni
ted States Weather Bureau, As per
cent of deaths by lightning occur in
the open, "a per cent, in houses, II
per cent. under trees and per cent.
in barns.
The total valuation upon which
state taxes will be assessed this year
against taxable property in Nebraska
viii be approximately $l74,432,00 or
So, 6S5, 900 greater than the assessed
valuation of last year.
The latest invention for life saving
at sea is a life belt that carries
light to guide the struggling swim
mer to it, and whose lamp is lighted
by contact with the sea water. This
device is reported from Ger9uany.
Bears eyebrows, being stiff, and ex-
actly the right shade, are used in a
newly invented fly that is killing
quantities of salmon this year. These
eyebrows come from the Himalayan
brown bear, and cost about $3.50 per
set.
In addition to the 1000 bequeathed
to the Albany hospital by Nathaniel
c. Brockway, who died recently in
New Haven, the win provides for be-
quests of like amounts to four other
charitable institutions in the former
city.
The Massachusetts Frog company
has been Incorporated in Maine. with
a capital of $4,000 The objects of the
corporation as stated in it's appIica-
ton for a charter are ito buy. sell,
breed and import frogs and like ami
mails"
NJ. c. Treat, of Washington, Pa. has
offered to give $1,000 TO Buie's Creek
(N. c. academy, if other friends OF
the institution win realise $4,000, to
the end that a $4,000 building may
be erected to replace one burned Ie-
Gently.
In Greece, in the third century B.
c., the wearing of silk was forbidden
to women, the husbands of those who
violated this law being heavily fined,
on the theory that husband ought
to be able to control his wife's taste
for finery.
j. Pierpont Morgan, for all his ire
mendous Importance in financial and
other affairs, owns pet name, which,
however, none but his wife dare use.
Mrs. Morgan not infrequently calls
him "Ponty," the name being a relic
of sparkling days.
No force in nature except lightning
entirely disintegrates the body that
it kills A stroke lierally tears man
TO pieces as n bomb would. Yet so
intense is the force that the skin Of
the body may be left without the
slightest abrasion.
The railroad mileage of the United
States was increased 4,051 miles dur
ing the year ending June 80, 1901.
That is the largest increase in any
one year since 1898. The total single
track mileage in the country on June
so was l93,345 miles
The cooking stove as it is known in
the United States, does very little
service in France. A few are in use in
the country, but in most farm houses
the cooking is done in a large fire
place In the cities furnace is built
in the small kitchen.
Although the diameter of the
earth has been roughly known for
many years, it has only lately been
accurately ascertained, after thirty
years labor and cost of $500, 900
1t is 1926 miles at the equator. and
7,Sa9 from pole to pole.
1t has been calculated that some
thing like 1,25o,o00,0oO pints of tea
nre imbibcd yearly by Londoners, and
that the teapot necessary to contain
this amount, If properly shaped
would comfortably take in the whole
OF St. Paul's Cathedral.
Ex-senator Mitchell, Of Wisconsin
who has returned home after tive
years spent abroad with his family
SAYS that since the Spanish war it j.
evident to travellers that the Englisl
regard MS with much more friendship
and that the French do not like us a
all though they are afraid OF us"
machine that will do the work o
30 expert mathcmaticiaus is bein,
constructed by the government in 1t
scientific instrument shop on Capito
Hill. in Washington 1t is to be an i'm
provement on an instrument in MS
in the Bureau of the Coast Survey
which has charge of calculating til