River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-09-19
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tors in India is ahead of the supply.
The crack scholars of Harvard '01
were Freund, Bauer and Peterson
two Germans and Swede.
The inhabitants Of the Province of
Ontario write more letters than those
of all the rest of Canada.
The number OF Protestant Chris
tians in Ceylon has increased in fit-
teen years from 446,7SO to 1854.
Japan has two imperial universities
--one at Togo, the other at Kioto.
The latter is only three years old.
William Dorsey Jelks. the new gov
ernor of Alabama, is a lawyer by pro-
fession and has made a fortune by
his practice.
1t is claimed that Joseph Gaspard
Chaussgras de Derry, a French engi-
neer, made the first maps of Detroit
III 1749 and 1854
Mosquitoes sometimes live 60 days
in captivity. Nobody has been able to
find out how long they live when they
are not in captivity.
Match making, once the most peril
Gus of handicrafts, has become per-
fectly safe through the discovery of
amorphous phosphorus.
A curious criminal law exists in
Greece. A man who is there sentenced
to death awaits two years before the
execution of the sentence.
Greater New York, although over
,500,0001ess in population than Great
er London, covers an area of sos
square miles, worlds record.
An electrical generating plant al
most as large as the Great Niagara
Tails plant will soon be in operation
at the Falls of Glomen, Norway.
There are ut least three varieties
OF dogs that never bark-the Austria
liam dog, the Egyptian shepherd dog
and the "lios-headed dog" of Thibet
Some of the more expert railroad
men in the country believe that the
limit of sustained speed with the ex-
listing style of locomotives has been
reached
Fred {. Easton, son of the late j.
C. Easton, a retired millionaire, will
give 100000 toward the erection of Il
new Presbyterian college in la
Crosse, Wis.
Last month, on the news of our
corn crop troubles, England imported
from producing countries AZ per cent
more of that cereal than in the same
month of 1900.
The umbrella has taken hrm hold
upon the native of India, or. at any
rate, upon the Bengai No less than
100000 umbrellas are imported into
the country every year
Mont Blanc has for he first time
seen fully equipped company of sol
diers on its summit. Alpine Chasseurs
made the ascent and the usual salute
was fired at ShamoniX
One of the most brilliant entertain
nents ever seen in Constantinople was
that recently given by Mr.. Leishman
the American minister, in honor of
his daughters birthday.
In her sham maneuvers the English
navy has lost two destroyers and 9th
er vessels have been crippled One
may imagine what would happen to
the English navy in real war.
The iarrow wood, which grows in
Australia, is almost the only kind
known to the lumbermen which eff
fectively resist the depredations of in.
sects, Not an insect will touch Il.
Helen Gladstone, daughter of the
great liberal, has become warden of
the Woman's University Settlement in
Southwark, London and win soon
leave Cambridge to live in that drearv
slum.
Naval Cadet Herman Smith Turner,
OF Maryland, recently appointed, has
been admitted into the naval acad-
envy at Annapolis, despite the fact
that, while over six feet tall, he
weighs but ninety-fve pounds.
The Canadian government is install.
ing the Marconi wireless telegraphic
system in the Gulf of st. Lawrence.
and the steamer Tyrian has been de.
spatched to establish the first sta
ton at West Point, Anticosti.
Some of the stories told concerniny
the sudden fortunes acquired down
in the new oil fields of Texas make
like tales of old California and the
new gold diggings in the Klondike
tame and weak in the comparison.
William c. Whitney will not allow
his great park in the Adirondacl;s Ia
he numbered" in the ordinary way
Instead he cuts trees OF over ten inch
Is in diameter, leaving the smaller
ones to grow, and thus always las .
handsome forest
Careful observations have beer
made in order to find out which col
ors for uniforms present the hes
marks for the enemy's shot, and i
has been found that the most fata
color is red, rife green coming next
brown third, while Austrian tluish
grey is the least fatal.
OF the 2,0SO,Oo0,0O0 bushels of bar
ley produced by the civilized coun
tries of the world Russia produces IL,
far the largest amount. Next in or
der comes Austria. which is followe,
hy Germany, the United states. En-