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

Berlin for home in September.
Out OF 1890 islands in the Indian
Ocean only $40 are inhabited.
The population of Northern China
is most completely vegetarian.
John Alexander Dowie has become
a naturalized American citizen.
An advance of 81 a ton in the price
of steel rails has been agreed upon.
In certain London hotels wine left
on the tables is the walters perqus-
lite.
A dressmakers' trust has now been
organized and incorporated for $780,
200
The average depth of the Atlantic
is $4,000 feet, of the Pacific $1,000
feet.
The population of the German En-
pire includes 100000 who use the Po-
fish language.
Frances new prison at Fresnes,
some eight miles from Paris, is the
largest in the world.
A little girl named Beatrice, who
Nas only 3 years old, Travelled by her
self from Dallas, Tex, to New York.
Mud is the newest skin beautifier,
the latest fad for thu improvement
OF the complexion. lust common,
everyday, unromantic dirty mud.
Judge Jas. Humphrev, who he'd
few days ago athis home in Weymouth
lights, Mass, was the oldest active
Judge on the bench in Massachusetts.
British farmers and dairymen are
to-day milking 4,00o,0 900 COWS and pro-
ducing annually in their dairies G22,
100000 worth of milk, butter and
cheese.
The wooden church, with tower and
spire, built for the members of the
baptist Communion of Santa Rosa,
Cal, was built from the wood of q
single tree.
The imports of precious stones at
the port of New York during May
amounted in value 10 S3,1S9,273,
against s1,322,357, TIA value of the
imports during May, 1900.
The municipality of Berlin receives
100000 marks for benerolent pur-
poses under the win of DR.. George
Nierling, the Berlin composer, who
died in Wiesbaden recently.
There are i'm circulation in this
country 100000 worth of banl,
notes made from old state bank of
New Jersey plates, which were sup
posed TO have been destroyed.
Daniels Wells, Jr, who celebrated
his ninety-third birthday recently
has lived sixty-six years in Milwau-
kee, and is now the only ante-bellum
congressman living in that city.
The American Tract society was
organized seventy-six years ago, and
since that time it has printed and
circulated books, tracts and period
icals in 153 languages and dialects.
1t is said that the king and queen
of England will follow the custom
of Queen Victoria in giving to the
poor people in the hospitals of Lon
don flowers and fruits from the roy
al gardens.
When Cardinal Gibbons sat down in
a weighing chair at an underground
station in London the other day a
British editor found occasion to call
him the least formal of the four En-
glish-speakinE cardinals.
The establishment of an American
hank in Berlin and London is con-
teinplatcd 1t is believed that this
will open the way for American in
dustrial undertakings and exports in
the countries of the old world.
The four states in which there was
no prohibition vote cast at last years
general election were South Carolina,
in which the dispensary system of IL
quor selling by the state exists: W.
oming, Nebraska and Mississippi.
The late eN-Gov. Pingree of Michi-
gan subscribed TO a clipping bureau,
and kept all the printed comment
about himself This was kept in a set
of scrapbooks. which are said to con
tain $4,000 columns of newspaper
print.
In the city of Mexico there are
1911 private artesian wells and elev-
en- public ones This number will soon
be increased, for at the present time
many property owners in the neigh,
borhood OF Guerrero are having wells
bored i'll their yards.
1t has been calculated that some.
thing like 1,25o,ooo,Ooo pints of tea
are imbihcd yearly by Londoners,
and that the teapot necessary to con.
tain that amount. if properly shaped
wonld comfortably take in the whole
OF ST. Paul cathedral.
Sweden las the lowest maria q
rate of any country. The yearly mar.
riage rate is only 1916 per 1000, as
against 200 per 1000 in Hungary. II
England the number of marriages Is
given as 255,272, or Mt the rate of To-
per 1000, Englands marriage rate
having risen steadily for the past sis
years
The Neddahs, or wild hunters o;
Ccylon, mjnglc the pounded fibres OF
soft and decayed wood with the hon
cv ON which they feed when meat j,
not TO Ice obtained.
The engineers OF the New York
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