When I insert \usepackage{flushend}
into the preamble and make the setting for two-column output, so that the columns on the last page have the same length ("flush end"), _some_ footnotes appear in embarrassingly inappropriate places, meaning, in the middle of a column, surrounded above and below by normal text. Is this a TeX problem? Is there a known cure? Should I go to a LaTeX group and ask this? Jerry