River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-11-01
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CALIFORNIA apple trees are blooming
the second time this year.
MITCHELL, the new Oregon Senator is
ouly thirty-six years old.
AN iron girder bridge, 1900 feet Ions
has been built over the Nile at CAIRO.
WIssANBouRc "is the title of the first
of four war novels by Edmond About.
TAKING the political census on railroad
trains is getting TO be somethingof bore.
/ 81 SUPPOSE that's sheer nonsense saws
Scroggs to us. "What ?" said we. .Cut-
ting jokes from your neighbors' papers.0
The twelve great nations Of the world
own two hundred and eighty.ive iron.
ciads.
CLEVELAND, with population of little
more than 100000, has ninety.five
churches. .a
The coming winter will be severe one
"a fact indicated by the unusual thick
nets Of the bed-bug's cocoon.
THERE is a heavy beech mast in Ken.
tucky, and the corn usually fed to hogs
will be made into whiskey.
THERE are now ninety cadet midship.
men at the Naval Academy from the June
and September examinations, including
one Japanese and one colored boy.
IT is said that solution of gum can be
kept from becoming mou'dy by adding a
few drops Of sulphuric acid. A little alum
also has a decided effect.
OLIVE LOGAN has new translation o
George Sands poetic romance, silver
ino," which she entities "a Magnificent
Vagabund."
Two hundred men are employed in the
work of restoring the great hall of War;
wick Castle, England, recently destroyed
by fire.
A MIXTURE of equal parts of cryolite and
Of chloride Of barium, it is stated, forms
fiux superior to borax for SOLDIERS g iron or
brazing copper, or brass or bronze.
A PAIR of old breaches with $500 in the
pockets, went throug Oh destructive ma
chine in an Iowa paper-mill the other day,
before the operatives discovered the
funds.
The squirrels are abandoning Arkansas
and swimming the Mississippi into Tennes-
see in droves. They become so exhausted
on the voyage that they are readily cap
tured on landing.
The largest rihed gun ever tired is now
mounted at Nut Island, in Boston harbor,
where its inventor, Mr.. Norman Wizard,
is preparing to amuse himself witha few
experiments on gigantic scale, before
Christmas.
Mr.. JAMES BISHOP, of Fair Haven, Ct.
caught eighty-fve striped bass, the largest
one weighing twenty-four and onc-half
pounds, at one haul of his seine, in the
harbor on Monday evening
A FATHER living in Titusville, who ha
two OF three very courtable girls, placed a
notice ON the front door the other Light,
which read, "Shut down for thirty days
No stove in the parlor, and but one lamp
Mr.. j. B. BARNETT, Hebrew scholar,
contends that the Prophet Jeremiah, with
the remnent of the tribe of Judah, migrat-
ed to Ireland, and was no otf er than the
celebrated Irish reformer and law-giver
Ollam F0la.
"WHERE was the fire ?" said a lady to
her male companion, who had rushed out
of the Citusville Opera House the other
night, the moment the curtain fell on the
first act of Victims" "Is was false
ALARM" said he chewing coffee and cloves,
vigorously.
A YOUNG man lately attempted 10 shoot
some tender verses into his sweethearts
window, but her papa intercepted the cor
respondence, catching one OF the letters in
his ear, and the yCung man has not been
sen in the neighborhood since.
A NEW line Of steamships, the Do
mnion," is to run from Portland (Nle.) to
Liverpool this Winter. They include the
Memphis and Mississippi, and other first
class steamers. This will make two lines
ON Portland.
AN Arabian stallion was recently i'm
ported direct from Egypt, by Daniel Jeni.
fer, of Maryland. He is Is hands high,
with full, lustrous, intelligent eye, u coat
like white satin, name long, thin, and silky,
hoofs small and well-shaped, and legs as
clean and nervous as those of a stag in
word, he fills the ideal of a steed Of the
desert.
A LAME girl, who had not, for fourteen
years, once left the third STORY back room
in which she lived, was ameng those who
participated in the late children's excur-
sions in Philadelphia. When carried to
the Park she asked what the grass and
trees were, and had TO be told the names
of the most common objects. She lay on
the grass all day, drinking in the air and
sunshine,and was seen to weep softly every
little while from pure Joy.
The death of the Pope's elder broth
er, Giuseppe Mastai, has reminded