River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-03-07
CURRENT TOPICS.

There are eight submarine cables
of over 1000 miles in length.
Kansas City claims to have estab-
lished fifty new factories in 1900.
Only three weeks are required TO
develop a perfect mosquito from the
egg.
The French Legion of Honor is the
biggest order of merit. 1t numbers
$4,000 members.
The New Orleans authorities intend
TO expend S160OO,OOO in the general
improvement of the city.
The letter X occurs only once in
1000 letters in the English language,
In French it occurs five times as
often.
The average woman spends II times
more money on her hats than on her
boots, and the reverse is the case of
man.
Vermont has twelve living ex-gov-
ernors, ranging from Frederick Hol-
brook, l660-61, to Edward C. Smith,
1o0S-1000.
The marriage rate of Queensland,
Australia, has been steadily declining
from 14.5 per 1000 in 1868 to Go per
1000 in 1898.
Gen. Joe Wheeler has announced
that he will be y candidate for a seat
in congress frolu his old district, the
eighth Alabama.
jewelers., robemakers and court
costumers of London look for an
abundant harvest from the corona
ton of Edward VII.
1t is now many years since Gov.
Wells, of Utah, was a newspaper re-
porter in San Francisco on salary
of a few dollars a week.
Ladysmith received daily during the
siege a dose of three tons of Boer ex-
piosives, 10000 shells being thrown
into the town before relief came.
The latest census bulletin gives the
population of Virginia as 1851 1874
The population of Wisconsin is o.
O69,092, increasing 22.7 per cent.
In one case $266,0Oo has been saved
owing to the establishment of wire
less telegraphy between the East
Goodwin Lightship and the South
Foreland.
Electricity as n motor for regular
railway trains has been found Is per
cent. cheaper than steam in the ex-
periments recently made at Berlin on
the Wansee-Bahn.
A stained glass window is to be
placed in Burton church, Williams.
burg, Vt, in memory of Chief Justice
Marshall, who attended that church
while a student at William and Mary
college.
4 wonderful cavern, rivaling in
beauty and natural phenomena, if not
Ia size, the famous Mammoth Case of
Kentucky, has just been disco cred
across the Juniata river from Maple
ton, Penn.
Official figures of iron shipments
from Alabama and Tennessee during
January, 1901, show an increase in ev-
cry department of the trade over the
corresponding month last year, ex-
cept in exports.
Chief Justice Story, in his descrip-
ton of Chief Justice Marshall, said
that the latter's hair was black. his
eyes small and twinkling, his fore
head rather low, but his features
generally harmonious.
Two of the most venerable relics of
the French navy-the dispatch boats
lnconstant and Papia-have been
bought by the republic of Ecuador.
and are now being patched up to be
sent to their destination.
Charles Oliver, the railway commits
sioner of New South Wales, has re.
turned home after having spent
month in England and four months in
this country getting new ideas in re-
gard to the working of railways
Fifty-seyen thousand eight hun
dred dollars worth of old Hawaiian
stamps went up in smoke the other
day. They were the remnants of the
republic of Hawaii, aud destroyed by
order OF the postmaster general.
In Tripoli barley constitutes the
bulk of the food of the people. The
area under this crop constitutes
about three-fourths of the Guilt
voted land, and the annual crop is
from 100000 to 100000 bushels.
Ex-Lieut. Gov Henry c. Bates. Of
st. Johnsbury, has been appointed
district judge in the Philippines, with
a salary OF from $1,000 to $500. ac-
cording to the district, which will be
assigned upon his arrival in Manila.
Gen. IaSserre, who has arrived in
France from China where he com
manded the French artillery. SAYS
the fighting gave the French gunuers
the first real opportunity Of testing
the effect OF melnite shells. 1t was
very deadly Nothing in the world
equals it, and all the allied troops
we're amazed at the terrible nature
of the explosive
Until the German emperor was
made a field marshal. no one but
King Edward VII. himself was both
field marshal of the English army
and an admiral of the English fleet.
The number of British field marshals
is now nine.