River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-02
CURRENT TOPICS.

Only 900 pigeons In million die of
clio age.
It is said that the German emperor
does not like electric cars.
The king of Greece delights in TAX
ing recreation in the fields.
Grand Duke Boris drank wine from
Chicago chorus girls slipper.
Fowls are supposed to have been
first domesticated in China 400 B. G.
Genuine frankincense is produced
only in Arabia and part Of East
Africa.
In France $S,474.o0o is spent every
year in the improvement Of horse
breeding.
Five hundred and thirty-two tons of
cigarettes were exported from Egypt
in the year 1901.
Butchers, bakers and coachmen in
Havana, Cuba, won their demands for
nine hours at 81 per day.
The Empress Eugene has been
spending short holiday in Paris, the
scene of her early triumphs.
Ireland's vice-chancellor, the Rt.
Hon. Hedges Eyre Chatterton, aged
SO years, has just got married.
Russia has good reason to consider
Persia as her future heritage, declares
the st. Petersburg NoVoe Vremya.
A voluntary increase of 10 per cent.
has been made in the wages of long
shoremen generally at Tacoma, Wash.
Sydney geological gardens have
been closed to the public since the
plague broke out among the animals
there.
The assessed value Of real estate in
the state of New York, according to
the board Of equalization, is $780,
sos, 500.
The revised constitution of the Swed-
ish Baptist church in Iowa forbids all
it's members from belonging to secret
societies.
The Hebrew theaters of Chicago
have reached an agreement by which
plays are to be passed along from one
to another.
Rev. Theodore l. Cuyler advises
ministers to study John Bunyan's i'm
mortal Pilgrims Progress" next to
their Bibles.
Permission has been given by the
Emperor Menelik for an Italian COM
pany to mine in gold mining tract
in Abyssinia.
During the recent cyclone at Ka-
rachi trains were stopped by the force
of the wind, which blew at the rate of
100 miles an hour.
Henry Walters, the well-known ert
collector, has just purchased one CT
Stuart's portraits Of Washington, Tor
which he paid $4,000.
Former Gov. Alexander Ramsey, Of
st. Paul, the only living war governor,
recently celebrated the eighty-seventh
anniversary of his birth.
Whip cracking by drivers of vehicles
has become such a nuisance in some
German towns that special bylaws
have had to be passed against it.
There is a school OF housekeeping
in Berlin, founded several years ago
by Frau Hadwig Heyl, and supported
in part by the late Empress Frederick.
The Magyars are steadily increasing
in numbers over the Germans and the
dozen or more other nationanties
prominently represented in Hungary.
Sixteen thousand sheep shearers in
West South Wales are on strike, and
the government refuses to exercise it's
power toward compulsory arbitration.
Since 1899 the great Nile dam at
Assouan has given steady employment
to from $4,000 to 10000 italian and
Egyptian laborers.
There is a wide divergence OF opin-
ion as to the outcome of the United
States rice crop for 1902. Estimates
of yield range from 100000 to 4,000,-
00U.
Sixkiller the aged ex-chief of the
Cherokees, has just died at his home
in the Spavinaw hills, Indian terri
tory His death witnesses the pass
ing away of one Of the most pictur-
esuue figures of the southwest