River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-12-11

fned $500 school children, and founo
that only 4.37 per cent. had sound
teeth.
F. E. Fernald, OF Chicago. has Just
made record from Japan to Chicago
covering the distance in Is days and
II hours
An English lord is going into the no
tel business in Warransburg. Mo-, hav.
ing purchased the Pertle Springs there
for 100000.
At recent meeting of the Swiss
Alpine club it was stated that 462
or So per cent, of the Swiss guides
are insured.
Through concessions received from
railroads, Savannah will hereafter con.
troll larger portion Of the cotton
trade in the south.
In Worcestershire, 499 women are
engaged making anchors, while 703
others make needles and 1,044 nails.
Nearly all are married women or wild.
ows.
The cheapest postal service in the
world is that Of Japan, where for two
sen-about seven-tenths of penny
letters are conveyed all over the en-,
pirc.
The largest wooden statue in the
world is to be seen in Toxic, Japan.
1t is 81 feet high and the head will
hold 20 people.
A Chicago society of housewives has
pJo ;1los
ants with diplomas which will show
their skill and ability in certain lines
Of Homework.
The people of the United States
have in their possession one-fourth OF
all the gold there is in the world and
in the world also.
The multiplication of railways has
not diminished the number of postal
stages in Germany. On the contrary
the number of stage drivers rose from
5,176 in 1896 to 5,314 in 1900.
BY order of the Japanese empress
wooden legs have just been distributed
to the seven MANNED survivors Of the
Aomori disaster, when 200 Japanese
soldiers were frozen to death.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, the authoress
lives on the estate at Stocks, Scot
land, where once the poet Waller lived
in the 18th century, and which is re-
ferred to in the "Doomesday Book"
The most expensive book in the
world has lately been given by the
ameer of Afghanistan to the shah. II
it copy of the Koran, bound in solid
gold and set with pearls, rubies and
diamonds. 1t cost 100000.
The Russian naval estimates fol
1903 call for the expenditure of 104,
417,791 rubles (about $52 500 00), as
compared with 98,318,984 rubles in
1902 OF this sum 40 ,449, 682 rubles are
for new construction and repairs.
Glass is being used in the manufac
ture of bathtubs. The glass is about
three inches thick and annealed t.
make the tub durable The effect Il
clean and beautiful The idea is ;
German one and is rapidly gaining ia
vor in this country.
In the middle Of the Colorado
desert, a little to the north Of the Mex
lean border and 264 feet below tn,
! level of the sea, lies field of crystal
| lized salt more than thousand acre.
| in extent, presenting a surface as whit
as snow, and beneath the noonda.
glare of the sun so dazzling that tn
naked eye can not stand it's radiance
w. M. Geddes, disbursing officer O
the United States government
(World's fair) board, has designed a.
exposition emblem and flag in whicl
the outline of the Louisiana purchas
forms the principle feature.
The municipal census Of Moscow
shows that nearly one-fifth of the city
population lives under ground. Man
families live in one room. Two, an
often three, persons sleep in singh
bed in the cave like cellars. Thes
troglodyte inhabitants include 25,UU
workmen, $4,000 clerks, $4,000 childre
and aged persons and $4,000 withou
any means of existence.
The decision OF the directors OF tn
theater at Halle, in Germany, to di:
tinguish by means of red and whit
advertising posters between the play
that are fit for young persons to wi
ness and those that are not is causin
some amusement.
Two Kansas editors are In hot W:
ter about typographical errors. One {
them published an elaborate THEATRES
notice of performance Of "Calomel
(meaning ~Camille"), and the othe
in an account of a wedding, characte
lied the bridegroom as "a gentlema
of stealing qualities" instead {
"sterling qualities"