River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-08-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

New Workers consume one ton OF
frog legs a day.
Venice has a cafe which has been
open day and night for $50 years.
Germany exported over $4,000,000
worth of soaps and perfumes in 1896.
The Ganges is 1870 miles long, and
drains an area of 100000 square miles.
Germany owns $4,000 acres in Cen
trial America, with 2O,OoO,00O coffee
trees.
On an average 100000 of the
worlds population are constantly
afoat.
Munichs Red Cross Hospital has for
a visiting surgeon the crown prince of
Bavaria.
st. Petersburg has the highest
death rate of any European capital, 81
per 1000.
Residents in England have e1lo,ooo,-
600 invested in mortgages in foreign
countries
Brazil produces 100000 tons of cof-
fee out of thu worlds yearly crop Of
C00,ooO tons.
The interes, or the national debt
for the last year cost each person for
ty-four cents.
The Danube flows through coun-
tries in which so languages and dia-
lects are spoken.
a society for the protection of hus-
bands from drunken wives has been
formed in London
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
viii spend his vacation salmon fish
ing in New Brunswick.
English beekeel ers average fifty
pounds of honey from their hives,
American twenty pounds.
The British Official Gazette has
announced the reappoiBtment of Al
fred Austin as poet laureate.
Only one country brews more beer
per inhabtant than England That is
Belgium, with 31h gallons head.
The shark holds the record for
long-distance swimming. A shark has
been known to cover 500 miles in
three days.
Two tons of beets are equal in feel
ing value 10 four tons of hay, but is
cultivation has proved too expensive
10 be profitable.
America last year exported $780,
100000 worth of iron and steel, an
amount greater in value than her en-
tire exports of all kinds in 1890.
Oliver Hopkinson. son of the author
Of Hail, Columbia!" is eighty-nine
years old He is the oldest living
graduate of the University of Penn
sylvania.
Grief Officer Hans Russer, of the
baltimore & Hamburg liner Batavia,
has been appointed captain Of the
German expedition which is about
to sail in search of the south pole.
In Kansas militarism bows TO a@ri-
culture. The annual target practice
of one of the state regiments WAS in
definitely postponed because the mcm-
bers were so busy in the beet sugar
fields.
To finish the Panama canal tun-
mel four miles long, 100 feet wide and
100 feet high will be necessary. 1t will
cost $4,000 a yard, a worlds record in
expenditure, being four times greater
than the Mount Cents tunnel.
The late Baron Faber, the pencil
manufacturer once said of the arti-
Gle that had made him rich 1T has
done more execution since it came in
to use than the sword. while who can
enamerate the libels it has written ,"
Prof Lester f. Ward Of the reo-
logical survey and Frank La Flesehe
Of the Indian office have been appoint
cd 10 represent their respective bu-
reaus MS members of the congress for
Anericanists to meet in New York
City in 1902.
number of Yale graduates have
completed the subscription list for
The placing Of a memomrial window
for Elihu Yale in the church at NYrex.
ham, Wales, near which Yale lies hun.
led, and work on the window viii be
begun at once.
The duke of Roxburgh, who is he
ing spoken of as a possible husband
for Miss Aston, is just twenty-five
years of age and recently returned
from South Africa, where he servcC
with distinction as lieutenant in In,
royal horse guards.
an institute OF animal psychology
has been created in Paris under tn,
patronage of scientists for the pur
pose of studying the psyehical faeul
ties of the brute creation. 1t is
kind of school Of experiment in men
tai powers of different animals.
\ burglar attempted to enter
creamery at Benton, Wis, the othc
day through trap door in the root
He had bottle OF nitroolyccrinc il
his hip pocket, and the trap door, fall
ing, struck him on the hip. lie wa
literally torn to pieces by The re- q
OF the explosion which followed.
Street cars without tracks, cable
trolley or horses, and most of an
without franchises, soon Will be run
ming regularly ON the streets of Chi
cago,
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