River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1901-10-03
CURRENT TOPICS.

ne sonora CanOVaS Gel Castillo mas
just died in Madrid.
About 100000 bushels of beans are
annually consumed in Boston.
Australia has spent nearly $55.o0O,
600 in promoting immigration.
Eleven presidents of republics were
assassinated during the last century
Duluth -four mills are preparing to
make 10000 barrels of flour every "a
hours.
From 1909 to 1912 many attempts
were made to fasten metal points to
quill pens.
The 10000 Indians in Ontario, Cam
ada, own $9,s40,0o0 worth of proper
ty, or S615 head.
The Japanese earthquake of 1908
was the most destructive on record.
1t killed 100000 people.
Some naturaEsts say that no in
sect except the silk worm feed upon
the leaves of the mulberry.
This years crop of oysters will
eclipse in number and favor the har-
vest of several years past.
The~4,o 900 or more Boer prisoners at
| st. Helena have started the publica-
ton of weekly newspaper.
A thousand railway cars are need
ed to handle the peach crop in one
country in southern Missouri
Last year there were 192, 7O5 miles
of telegraphic lines and 033, 153 miles
of wire in the United States.
Within a few weeks the Germans
OF Mexico City collected $4,000 for a
German schoolhouse to be built there.
According to statistics prepared for
the home secretary 100 children are
burned to death yearly in the United
Kingdom.
An Englishman 30 years old may
expect 90 years months more of life;
a woman of that age "a years 1
month more.
After the confscation of monastery
property in Spain by the state, much
Of the proceeds were devoted to the
making of roads.
John w. Bowler, general superin-
tendent and director of physical train
ing in the public gymnasium of Bos-
ton, has accepted five-year contract
as director of physical training at
Dartmouth college.
The Oldest known weapon was the
club. The clubs of the lake dwellers
of Switzerland, studded with stones
in default of nails, and thus making
formidable weapons, have been recov-
cred from their habitations.
In New Jersey there are two match
factories with a capacity together of
100000 matches day. The largest
factory in the country, at Barber
ton, o., can turn out 10000, 900 match
es a day, probably one-seventh of the
entire consumption.
A strange sight was witnessed at
Bologna recently. A bellringer at q
church was struck by a great bell and
thrown violently through the window
OF the tower on to the roof. some
90 feet below. He escaped with moth
ing more than a shock.
The total product of wool is 1,00o,-
100000 dlos annually. Australia is
credited with 3o4,Oo0,Oo0 Eilos. Ar
gcntina 172 100000, the United States
132, 900, 900, Russia 1000, 900, England
$1,000, 900, France 46,0e0,00o, etc. Dur
ing the past ten years the product
A recent invention by an Italian is
receiving notice from those who go
TO sea. 1t is net made of hemp and
intended to break the force of waves.
One recently tried with success at
Havre was 800 feet long by 80 feet
wide with meshes IL inches apart.
The nets will break the waves at sea
and will also be n bulwarl< for n.y.
drau1ic works against heavy surf
1t took sixteen years to build the
first Brooklyn bridge but immensely
larger suspension bridges can now be
constructed in from four TO five
years.
Twenty additional fruit-carrying
steamships were chartered recently
to re-enforce the feet now trading
between the West Indies and Phila-
delphia.
Sven Hedlin. the explorer, reached
Charlthlik, in the heart of China, last
April, without hearing of the trou-
bles in the eastern part of the en-
pire. He found the Chinese polite
and obliging.
The United States has the highest
proportion of children at school; IL
per cent of her population are at
school. II per cent of Germany's and
II per cent of England's.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles has added 10
his collection of arms, which is one
of the finest in the country, [. sword
worn by Simon Bolivar during one
of his South American campaigns.
OF 1914 gasworks in the United
Kingdom, 1888 are in England, 253 in
Scotland and los in Ireland