River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-12-27
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TIGHT SQUEEZE is the name of little
town iii Virginia.
The trade that never turns to the
left-a wheelwright's.
The Toronto Mail unfeelingly con.
graduates the leaders of the London
(Canada) Advertiser upon receiving an
improved paper" the latter having
pied ITS editorial page and gone to
press without it.
HE ocean is making such inroads
upon the eastern shore of Cumberland
Island, Fla, that in few years the
grave of Light Horse Harry Lee, the
father of Il. Il. Lee, together with the
old Dungeness mansion, will disappear.
The product of three iron furnaces in
Boyd County, KY, yielded more profit
to the owners last year than all the to-
bacco raised in Daviess County, where
that staple is largely raised, to all the
producers Of that weed combined.
A PORTRAIT of the Gar Alexander of
Russia, painted by his order as pres
ent for Hon. A. q. Curtin, late United
States Minister to st. Petersburg, is
on exhibition at Philadelphia. The
painter was G.. Bothmann, the most
fam Gus artist of the Russian capital.
RHODE ISLAND has a new sensation in
the form of a woman who has been for
several weeks afflicted with the
"gapes," having an irresistible dis
position to yawn. The disease battles
the skill of the attending physicians,
who have never met or heard of such a
case before.
The Chicago fire is still burning.
The ruins of the oil factory on Polk
street, which were reported to be smok-
ing some two months ago, were on Fri
day seen in the same condition. There
is place in the centre of the pile from
whence quite volume of smoke is
sues.
The Muskegon Chronicle states that
a little daughter of Michael Deering of
the lower town, was accidentally
hanged November %, She was play
ing on the balcony Mt the rear of the
house, when in some way clothes line
became entangled around her neck,
and she was strangled in less than
three minutes.
SAN Francisco bellies always carry a
800 gold piece-simply that and moth
ing more-when they ride on street
cars, to avoid paying fares. On third
act of this kind, the conductor stopped
the car and went into store with one
OF the economical creatures double
eagle and made change for her five-cent
ride, much to her modification.
In New Orleans there are six estab-
lishments, with an aggregate capital of
81, 300, 900, engaged in the manufacture
of oil and oil cake from cotton seed,
the product being 100. 900 tons per an
mum. The oil is extensively used in
the manufacture of soap, ana the oil
cake IS shipped to the plantations to
feed cattle.
New YoRK's new fve-acre market
house at the foot of Thirty fourth
street, has been opened to the public
for week. The marketmen pay about
So week for ten square feet of floor
ing each. In connection with the mar
ket are to run two small boats connect
ing with Washington Market and South
Ferry. The building is owned by a
private corporation and cost 81, 800, 900.
THE importations for the past week
at New York foot up 5000, 439.
Among the entries were the following:
Ale, S2,4SS; brandy, $36, 1873; beer,
1896; cordials, 1888; champagne, $16,-
476 gin, S3, 76S; mineral waters, ST.
24l: rum, $4,26S; whisky, "a, POS;
wines, "a, 435; furs, SAT, 551 soda ash.
S43, $40; jewelry, $50, 770 watches,
S72,077; hides, $725,6 and salt
petre, S25, 1873.
THE tariff duty on bottles is three
cents bottle. The Acting Secretary
of the Treasury has decided that, mas
much as glass bottles are unquestion-
ably glassware, they are entitled to
the ten per cent. reduction made on
glass and glassware in section two of
the act approved June 6, 1872, whether
imported, containing wine, or other
wise.
Or the 956 cotton manufactures in
the United States, 191 were in Massa-
chusetts, 139 in Rhode Island, 1873 in
Pennsylvania, III in Connecticut, and
81 in New York; aggregate 667, or
more than two-thirds of the whole.
New Jersey has ~, New Hampshire 80,
Maine %, Maryland %, North CARROLL
ma 33, Georgia, "a, and Tennessee %.
A VERY interesting discovery has been
made in the library of the National
Museum of Naples, namely, " A Treat
Use on Miniature Glluminated) Paint
ing" which treats of the art generally,
of the preparation of colors, the laying
II is believed that tins treatise, which
dates from the fourth century, has new
er been printed, and is not TO be found
in any new catalogue.
On the night OF November 9th some
thirty persons at the Detroit, Lansing
and Lake Michigan Railroad station of