River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-06
General Items.


take the field with English opera this
winter.
The Windsor Castle, $3.50 tons reg
lister, recently passed through the Suez
Canal in nineteen hours.
A PUMPKIN followed out was used as
ballot box ut recent Kansas cleo
ton.
The San Francisco Bulletin calls
Chinese servants a browning domes-
tic disappointment.
"TEMPUs FUGTr" in England this
year. Her clock export amounts to
about 5000, 600 more than last season.
THE lions and tigers in the New York
Central Park collection have had the
horse disease, though the zebras aud
Shetland ponies escaped.
A WOMAN in Rutherfordton, N. c.,
has been fined by the Mayor of that
city, for the dreadful offence of calling
the marshal "Old pewter buttons"
WHAT is the difference between
crushed hat and the intoxicated son of
wealthy parents. One is cylinder
and the other is an heir tight,
AT recent wedding in Muskogon,
Mich, the bride was adorned with dia-
monds to the amount of $4,000 The
groom sported two solitaires on his
shirt front valued at IS, 900 each.
The Alaska Seal Company has paid
into the United States Treasury $50, 2S1
as their tax on the catch of 1872 They
are limited to 100000 seals, and the
catch this year was within 1000 of tie
maximum.
In digging well in Pike county, on
Saturday last, some parties exhumed
large pair of elk horns at the depth of
80 feet from the surface, which were
apparently in a good state of preser- a
ton.
AS TWO women in Philadelphia were
returning from the spectacle of General
Meade's obsequies, they were attacked
by rufian; whereupon one of them
knscked him down with an umbrella.
TEE Lake Superior Powder Company,
located at Marquette, Michigan, have
made nearly Is, 1000 kegs of powder dur
ing the last five months. They are
about to close their mill for the winter.
Iron ore in considerable quantities
has been discovered in Tuscola county,
Michigan. This county is situated on
the Lower Peninsula, the northern
boundary of the county lying on Sagi-
nav Bay.
The Chicago Times puts the solemn
conundrum "How can we escape
fire 2" The Gospel offers you every
encouragement, butperhaps your best
hold " is to get out of Chicago. -NeW
York Commercial AdUertiser.
THE old Livinston House in Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, is being demolished,
preparatory to the erection of the
buildings of the Hudson River Iron
Company of that city. The house is
one of the Oldest in the state, having
been erected in the eighteenth century.
''THE Star of South Africa" the frs
and only fine stone of any size which
has been sent home from the South
African mines, has been set as the CEN
trail stone in coronet for the Countess
of, Dudley. Its present weight is fortv-
six and half carats, and it is of the
purest water and brilliancy.
An Irishman passing through a vii
lage near Chester, Pa, saw crowd APP
preaching, which made him inquire
what was the matter He was answer
ed: "a man is going to be buried"
"Oh," replied he, I'm stop to see
that, for we carry them in the old coun-
try"
A YOUTHFUL novice IN smoking turned
deadly pale and threw his cigar away.
"Oh, DEAR" he said, there's
som'in' in that cigar that's maxim me
sick"
81 know what it is" said his COM
panioD, pulling away.
"What Z"
"Tobacker."
BALTIMORE is in trouble about her
scanty supply of water, and the author
tiles now have under consideration a
plan by which permanent water sup
ply can be secured at cost of SO, 500,-
900, and two plans for TEMPORARY sup
plies until the completion of the per-
manent work, at the respective costs of
500, 600 and $3S0,00O
THE East Greenwich OR. - Semi
nary, once prosperous institution un-
der the patronage OF the Providence
Conference of .he Methodist Episcopal
Church, is said to be in deep water.
Not only has the typhoid fever scatter
ed its inmates but, according TO New
port paper, it lies under so heavy load
of debt that its reopening is very doubt
full
A MULhATo girl in attemptingto cross
the track of the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad, recently, was struck by
the cow-catcher and thrown back upon
the pilot. She was found TO be un-
hurt and remained there quietly en-