River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-09-05
CURRENT TOPICS.

New Zealand crown lands are now
disposed of for 500 years.
Colorado leads all the states in the
production of both gold and silver.
a vessel going from Montreal TO
Port Arthur has to ascend 600 feet.
The various countries of the world
use 13,4O0 different kinds of postage
stamps.
During the year ending June 30 last
there were 1920 cases of smallpox in
Tennessee.
The Bible used in Queen Victoria's
coronation was sold by auction recent
ly for 40 guineas.
The Irish river, in Siberia, is 200
miles in length and drains 100000
miles Of territory.
Kangeroos can jump eleven feet in
height, against deer's best record of
nine feet six inches.
1t is estimated that the electric or
gan of lively electric fish would give
a discharge of 200 volts.
1t is said that the representative
of Germany at the coronation of Ed
ward VII. will he the crown prince.
A Prince Edward Island fisherman,
Philippe Gallant, has saved the lives
of no less than twenty-seven people.
For the first summer in the mem
DRY of the oldest inhabitant there
has been no gambling at Long Branch
this year.
The most curious cemetery is sit
uated at Luxor, on the Nile. Here re-
pose the mummificd bodies of millions
of sacred cats.
According to the anthropologist,
Alfredo Nicefore. North Italian diff
fers less from German than he does
from a Sicilian.
The largest sponge ever found came
from the Mediterranean. 1t was
about three feet across and ten feet
in circumference.
The searehlight at the Buffalo ex-
position casts light so miles away,
but still lacks good deal OF the white
glare of publicity.
Gen. Palmer, commandments in
India, is physical giant, with iron
gray hair and mustache, eloquent eyes
and CHEEKY smile.
Beaumont, Tex, claims the highest
telegraph poles in the world. They
are Western Union sticks" rising
$50 feet from the ground on either
side of the Neches river.
The use of the Bible in the public
school at Oxford. Chenango county,
\. Y, will be discontinued within the
near future, the district having de-
cided that question by vote of sc
to 16.
I. Jenkins Haines, the author of
sea tales, owns a yacht of his own,
which is, most of the time, his home.
He has been captain for a merchant
man and is consequently an expert
sailor.
Prof. Sylvester Waterhouse, for
forty-four years a member of the
faculty of Washington university in
St. Louis, has had to resign the chair
of Greek there on account of severe
illness.
At least half dozen scientists are
now carefully studying snails. The
reason, according to one of them, is
because these little animals are ex-
traordinarily sympathetic and intel
ligent.
Baron Mount-Stephen, of London,
has announced a gift of 100000 to the
Presbyterian church of Scotland, the
income to go to ministers in his ma
tive district of Aberdeenshire and
Banffshire.
John w. Bowler, general superin-
tended and director of physical train
ing in the public gymnasium of Bos-
ton, has accepted fve-year appoint
ment as director of physical training
at Dartsmouth college.
A portrait of Gov. Joseph Dudley,
royal governor of Massachusetts from
1902 TO 1714-15, and a son of Thomas
Dudley, governor under the first
charter in 1884. 40, As and 80, has
been presented to Massachusetts.
Prof. Waldemar Schmidt, the Dan
ish archaelogist, intends to visit all
the great museums of Europe in or
der to collect material for the publ
cation Of a catalogue of the Egyp-
tian antiquities contained in them.
The Nebraskan state game warden
has forbidden the farmers to fight
the grass-hoppers longer with poison,
saying that the loss of birds and game
is too costly price to pay for the de-
struction OF comparatively few in
sects.
The duke OF Cornwall and York will
he asked to press the button at Que
bee, which will open the Central Do
minion fair on September 16. The
duke viii be in ottawa on the last
day of the fair, and an effort will be
made to have him visit it,
carrying steamers vary in ca
pacity from so TO 60 ON the upper deck
only to upward of GOO. which are dis.
tributed on two decks.
The number of Protestant Chris.
tians in India and Ceylon has in ff-
teen years grown from 446, $50 to 753,.
o41-nearly 20 per cent