River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-11-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

France has ten regiments of sol
diers in Africa.
King Edwards life has been insured
for large sum.
st. Louis is the conceded apple ship
ping center of the country.
1t is reported that Emperor William
has taken up the palmistry fad.
last year England possessed 1882
vessels, of which 9,2o8 were steam
ships
british inventors applied for $4,000
patents, and $4,000 were granted this
year.
Sales of public lands in the fiscal
year of 1901 aggregated 1862, 100
acres.
Suffering children are cured in the
German public schools by special
course of dieting,
Russian engineers propose a tunnel
under the Caucasus mountains at a
cost of $75,0o0,ooo.
Elaborate ceremonies have attended
the dedication of monument TO Pas
teur, at orbais, his birthplace.
President Roosevelt has been invi-
ted to attend the Charleston EXPOSE
ton February -, Abraham Lincoln's
birthday.
A flower cut in the morning win
last twice as long as a flower cut
later in the day, when the sun has
been upon it.
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie is to
be equipped with an automatic cleo
trio block signal system from 1oungs-
town to Glassport.
The largest bird of prey in the Old
World is the lammergeier, or beard
ed vulture, which has a wing eXpanse
of nine to ten feet.
The British revenue last year was
6 130,000,oo0, and the national eXpen-
diture was G183 600, OOo-which left
balance on the wrong side,
A blue diamond weighing over %
liarats, said to be the largest of its
kind in the world, and once possessed
by the Duke of Brunswick, has been
imported to this country by a New
i DTk JeWeleT.
Baron Ludivor Moncheur, the new
Belgian minister, is expected in Wash
ington soon. His marriage to Miss
Clayton, daughter of the United States
ambassador to Mexico, Will take place
in December in the City of Mexico
Eloped on Sunday, pursued on Mon
day, married on Tuesday, forgiven on
Wednesday, separated on Thursday,
back home on Friday and divorced on
Saturday is the short story of Marie
Tomkins Henry, II, daughter of
prominent Richmond (Va.) family.
4 twelve-year-old boy named South
wick kidnapped siX-year-old child in
Great Falls, Mont, and demanded a
ransom of 81, 500 for its return. He
was captured by the police, however,
and the stolen child was recovered.
The biggest free pass ever issued
was the one which the builders of the
Central Pacific gave to johnson Sides,
chief of the Piute Indians of Nevada,
for himself and people for life, to
ride back ard forth on all except pas
senger cars as much as they pleased
Baron Takasali, chief of the poets
bureau in the imperial palace at To-
kyo, says that the emperor of Japan's
love of poetry increases with years.
Scarcely an evening passes that His
| Majesty does not compose from 81
to 80 of the 81 syllabled couplets call
ed "Wa-ka"
There are few localities in the world
with an equal range of temperature
as Dawson. Alaska. 1t is very cold
during eight months of the year and
warm during the other four. During
each season the temperature ranges
from so degrees below zero to 100 de-
grees above.
William Callen Bryant wrote verses
when but nine years old. When Will
liam Cullen Bryant was only IA years
old he published poem called THE
Embargo" and another "The Spanish
Revolution" which were so good that
few people believed mere boy could
have written them.
Joseph Fielding Smith, president of
the twelve apostles, becomes the next
president of the Mormon church. He
Is in his 63rd year, and in 1866 was or
dained as an apostle by President
Brigham Young, and set apart as one
of the twelve apostles on Oct. 8, 1867.
The new president has three wives.
Prof. Holden, one of the greatest,
if not the greatest, living authority,
explains that it would require a flag
as large as Ireland, on a pole 500 miles
long, to be visible on one planet from
the others, and that only when both
are at the most favorable point of APP
position.
Roger Wolcott, son of the late ex-
governor of Massachusetts, was sworn
i'll as an election ward officer from
ward eleven, Boston, and has thus
made his debut in practical politics.
Roger Wolcott is the oldest of three
sons, and is q student in the law
school at Harvard.
RHEUMATISM AND THE EYES.