River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-07-18
CURRENT TOPICS.

In 1898 $4,000 Italian eml@ranJS re-
turned TO the port of Genoa.
Fleet street. London, is reputed to
be teh busiest in the world.
Every ancient city of note was To-
Gated on or near the sea or river.
The French are preparing to or
game a commercial invasion of
South America.
The French legion of honor is the
biggest order OF merit. 1t numbers
100000 members
From birth of - years of age, a boy
changes from a bundle of instincts to
bundle of habits.
Sweden possesses an effective navy.
The Swedes are reputed to be the best
sailors in the world
The French census shows that the
population Of France has decreased
by 12,Ss3 in five years.
The most expensive harbor in the
world is that of CheTbourg, finished
by Napoleon at a cost Of S15,0Oo,00O.
San Francisco has named one of its
grammar schools after Miss Jean
Parker, thirty years city teacher.
The worn-out uniforms of the Brit
ish army, when sold, bring back into
the war treasury close upon S150,000
a year.
\ Hobbema landscape has been sold
in London for $11,250 that brought
$l,3S0 in 1881, $1,420 in 1917 and S1,o25
in 1913.
Eight teeth suffice the elephant for
munching purposes. The giant ami
NAL has two below and two above on
each side.
The chameleon, when blndfolded,
loses the power to change its hues,
and the entire body remains of a uni
form hue.
About 5000 horses are annually kiln
ed in Spain in bull fights. At these
contests from 1000 to 1900 bulls are
annually sacrificed.
The largest sponge ever sent to
market was from the Mediterranean.
1t was ten feet in circumference and
three feet in diameter.
There will be representatives. of AZ
different tribes of Indians in the In
dian congress at the Pan-American
exposition, at Buffalo, this summer
Distilling seems to be profitable in
Russia. A Moscow firm, widow Pop
ova," has distributed 100000 rubles
as dividends for the year 1900 on
capital of 100000 rubles.
Judge jerks of the supreme court
of New York, told the law students
of New York university the other
day that the man with burrows in
his brow wins against the man with
creases in his trousers every time"
Take a ton of good camel coal end
distil it in a gas retort. 1t viii give
10000 cubic feet of gas, % gallons of
alnmoniacal liquor, 30 pounds OF ann
monium sulphate. 10 hundred weight
of coke, and Il gallons of coal tar.
In a life of Pastcur recently pub
lshed in Paris attention is called 10
the fact that the man who was dcs-
tined to revolutionize chemistry
ranked fourteenth in the list Of TWEEN
ty-two candidates at his high school
in Dion, ana was marked weak" in
chemistry.
4 book on the ears as an index of
character having been published by
an English author learned reviewer
mentions his own elaborate study of
the ears of more than 10000 people,
including 500 criminals and 1900 in
san. persons, besides those of 300
apes. lie was forced to the conclusion
that the ears gave no clew to per-
sonal traits
II is not generally known that the
remains of all the Cars of Russia
since Peter the Great lie in memoir
ial chapel built on one of the islands
of the Neya. All the cenotaphs are ex-
actly alike, each being block Of
white marble without any decoration
whatever The only distinction by
which one can be told from its neigh
hor is the name of the deceased en-
peror whose remains it contains.
The first of the anti-tuberculoss
dispensaries in Paris was inaugurat-
ed in the Rue Mercadet. in the Mont
martrC district, the other day. The
object of the work is more proven
tive than curative. Poor people are
examined free of charge. If tubercu-
losis is found, the proper initial
treatment and advice are given 10
7hcm, This institution is due prin-
cipally to private initiative.
y plague as horrid in its way as
any Of those from which the ancient
Egyptians suffered has assailed the
south coast of England, Countless
hordes of octopi, the devilfshcs Of
Victor Hugo. have invaded the En-
Elish channel and have swarmed
along the shores of Devon and Corn
wall in tremendous numbers Travel
ing about in murauding armies, they
have well-nigh destroyed the local
lobster and crab fisheries by deSour-
ing these crustaccans wholesale.
OF the entire population of the
world 20 per cent live under the Brit
Ssh rule, 9 per cent under Russian. c
under French, and nearly & uuder
American.
On Ii recent muuirinai objection, INV