River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-11-29
Personal.

voice enough to make two thunder
storms " by talking so very loud.
A coLoRED woman named Peggy
Decker, aged 107 years, died in New
burg, N. Y, Monday.
TIMOTHY TITcoMB HOLLAND has a new
book in press entitled "Happy Days at
Hampton.
ONLY one voter born of American pa
rents in San Francisco deposited q
ballot IN the last Presidential election.
Mr.. Stewards book describing his
journey round the world will be pub
lished by subscription only.
Rev. G.. S. HALE, formerly of Ash
field, Mass, has been appointed Pro-
lessor of English Literature in Antioch
College, Ohio.
FANNY FERN, in her school-days, tore
the leaves out of her Euclid" to curl
her hair with.
Professor PERRING facetiously re-
marked, when asked to write ''Pig-
compile quickstep." "I'll be cooked If
1 do"
Miss SALLIE SHANNON, Grand Duke
Alexis's favorite belle during his Amer
lean tour, was married few days since
in st. Louis.
THE marriage of Signora Tamberlik
with DIR. Galezowski, the oculist who
saved her sight, has taken place.
Mr.. ID. r. LOCKE, of Toledo (Petro-
leum V. Nasby), has started forty.
eight-page magazine, called Locke's
Dollar Monthly, of which he is editor,
and Messrs. Jones & Locke the publish
ers.
ERLANGER, manager of the Denver
Savings Bank, skipped out one night
last week, and deep grief has settled
like pail on the community.
CHAs. FENNo HOFFMAN, the once IA
nous song writer, is dying in the pri-
vate lunatic asylum where he has long
been confined.
STRAUSS, the Austrian composer, has
signed contract with a book firm at
Prague for the publication of his
"reminiscences of America"
THREE stars of the operatic stage,
the tenor Lott, Mrs. Clara Brinkerhoff,
and Madame Adelia Cell, are teaching
music in New York.
FRANK MOORE, just returned from
Paris, will lecture this winter on the
"Comic Side of Diplomacy in Eu-
rope"
IT may not be known that "Mario y
is merely the stage name of the famous
singer who bears it. His real name
is Giuseppe, Marquis of Gambia.
The salary of General Mcclellan as
Engineer-in. Chief of the department of
docks in New York has been reduced
from $4,000 to $4,000 year, at his
own request.
Four splendid drawing room cars, to
run between New York and Springfield,
have been named after four Governors
of Connecticut: Buckingham, Hawley,
English and Jewell. They cost $40, 900
each.
The remains of Gen. G. o. Loomis,
of the famous Coldwater Battery, which
are now buried in the National Gene
terry at Washington, are TO be brought
home and inferred at Coldwater, Mich,
on next Memorial Day.
MARSHAL LEBGUF, Napoleon's Min
lister of War, who said in July, 1870,
that the French army was prepared for
Germany to the "last button of the
last gaiter," is, according to LIE Fran
Gals, in state of mind bordering on
insanity.
The oldest organist in America is
Mr.. P. Taylor, of Brooklyn. This
venerable musician was born in Eng
land, in ITS. He played an organ in
church when only IA years. He came
to this country in his youth, and 60
years ago was appointed organist at
st. Paul's Chapel, New York.
A YOUNG gentleman writes from AL
bia to his wife in Troy as follows:
"Dear Wife--Dollie has got i'll
mean the hippozoo. / am slowly
hauling the buggy in. Home to-mor-
row. CHARLIE"
HENRY WARD BEECHER says: eff
Darwin is right in thinking that men
assembled from monads by gradual evo-
luton, then it is very certain that some
men came up by the way of the mus
quito, the feas and the biting fly, and
that their ancestral traits still linger in
the blood"
Mrs. HARRIET BEEcHER Stowe is ed
iting library of famous fiction, which
is to embrace in a single volume "The
Pilgrims Progress" "Robinsop Cru
soe," "Gulliver's Travels, -" Vathek,"
and five other masterpieces of English
imaginative literature.
The Marquis OF Westminster is the
proprietor Of probably the most expen-
sive ceiling in the world. 1t cost the
enormous sum of 600, 900, and consists
of the best Spanish mahogany two feet
in thickness, foot deep of which is
deliberately carved around with the let
tiers w. G.. The cornice to the ceiling