River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-01-08
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or sunshine a year.
Capt. Hobson is lecturing before
ChautauqUa societies.
Hamburg's shipping trade with Aus
tralia doubled in 1901.
A bee going home honey-laden trav-
els mile in five minutes
1t is 101 years since the first census
was taken in England.
1t is said that Secretary Root was
never known to smile
Thirty thousand Filipinos have been
vaccinated by the Americans.
Practically all of the nitrate supply
of the world comes from Chile.
Less than one per cent. of the land of
Norway is use for grain fields.
The biggest university in the world
is in Paris, with $500 students.
Kansas has 600 more miles of rail.
road than the state Of New York
Secretary Moody is a plain man,
with no aristocratic frills whatever.
A chimney lis feet high will, with
out danger sway ten inches in wind.
Labor in Freetown. West Africa,
costs only about So a head per month.
American brewers have already in
vested 100000 in and about Ea-
Vana.
Six thousand is the record number
OF roses produced by one tree st a
time.
The Hindus are said to regard us
as no better than cannibals, because
We eat meat.
Quarantine was first established
against infectious diseases in the
tenth century.
Sir Edward Chichester, in command
of the British ships at Manila bay, has
been made an admiral.
The annual crop of blue grass seed
in the United States is estimated to be
from 100000 to 300, 900 bushels.
A former pugilist, e. H. McMichael,
has been elected to the senate of
Georgia. He is an eloquent speaker.
DR.. Sarah Ellison, of New York, has,
it is believed, the finest collection Of
books on conjuring and magic in Amer
lea.
Tin, inodorous preparations of petro-
leum, tar and tar Oil are to be used
FOR laying the dust in the environs OF
Paris.
Lord Cheylesmore, who died recent
ly in London, presented his splendid
collection of mezzotints to the British
museum.
The biggest wine cooler is at Wind
sor and belongs to the king. 1t was
made for George w., and two men
could sit in it.
Lord Acton. who died recently in
London, had the finest private library
in England, consisting Of over sixty
thousand copies.
Efforts are being made to establish
q university at Jerusalem for the
Jewish students expelled from Euro
pean universities.
Bishop Henry W. Warren, Of the
Methodist church, will leave Denver
in October for tour Of India and
the Philippines. He will be absent
g year.
Eighteen cents a quart has been
fixed by the military authorities as
the price of milk in johannesburg.
Consumers have been warned against
paying more.
=, The word "meander" comes from
the river of the same name, whose
course was so devious that it furnish
ed nearly every modern language
with a new word.
Tt is believed that the custom of
shaving the beard was introduced at
Rome in the year 800 B. G. Accord
ing to Pliny, Scipio Africanus was
the first Roman who shaved daily.
The yuekin, or moon guitar, Of
China, has four strings, tuned In pairs
at intervals of the fifth. The drum
is usually decorated with Chinese fig
ures in various grotesque positions.
As late as 1850 human skeleton
nineteen feet long was discovered at
Rouen. France The skull, which was
perfect, with the exception of the
under jaw, held over bushel of
wheat.
The bands of elks that wintered in
Jackson Hole county, Wyoming, four
wears ago were estimated to number
10000. They now number less than
10000, according to the estimate OF
the ranchers.