River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-19
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The claimant" is wary politician
he is away most of his time
The latest Kansas City industry is
the discovery of Mastodon teeth.
THEY are cultivating the tea.plant
near Oneida with success
A LIFE OF Washington has been pub
lished by a Japanese at Yeddo.
" HOTTER than h--h-heretofore,
lis the way the Mclean County Pro-
gress puts It,
A CIRCUS elephant stole paper of
chewing tobacco at Des Moines, and
swallowed it.
THE Princess Metternich is theowner
of lace valued at 100000. art
THE bottom of well must be &
shocking place, for even Truth is said
to Tie there.
For knocking ont the last tooth his
mother-in-law had, California man
had to pay 800.
ENGLAND is now represented Mt Fan
zibar by five war vessels engaged in
the suppression of the slave trade.
MRs. GIDEON WELLEs broke her wrist
by falling down pair of steps at New
port, r. / i, on Tuesday afternoon
A LOUISIANA paper states that the
inscription for sale or 6 for rent
is posted on more that 5000 houses
and stores in New Orleans.
BISHOP RANDALL, of Wyoming Terri
tory, while on a recent Episcopal tour
through his diocese, narrowly escaped
being scalped by the Sioux.
A CONNECTICUT paper-not the Dan 3
bury News-says the lobster is still a
popular, Notwithstanding its retroact-
i've claws.
A MAN with a wart on his nose has
recovered $500 In Baltimore court
against the brute who reminded him of
that proLa6erance by calling him
"Warty."
THERE is no reason why those who
are not fond of bacon should tolerate
it, for according to the proverb, only
that which "cant be cured must be
endured"
. IT's never too late to mend, is an
old saying, which we do not care to
dispute as far as regulations and old
clothes are concerned; but how about
broken necksg
CHICAGO. thinks +" it lucky for st.
Louis that her directory was finished
before the cholera set in. Her ceme-
terry is growing in proportion as her z
population is decreasingl"
THE new volume of Mr.. Longfellow's
poems. #" Aftermath" will contain an
other series of "Tales of Wayside j
Inn," and will be ready early in Sep
T,.s,<Iosa 1yLnaaop9tYl
EATING an Indian turnip two years
ago has produced u moustache and
side whiskers ON three year-old boy
in Salem, Ind. The youths of the
town are now living on little else than
these vegetables.
Mr.. MoRcURE ID. CONWAY is engaged !.
on work called "The Sacred Anthol- =
ogy," book of clinical Scriptures,
which will contain a collection of class.
fled passages from the sacred books
of all races. {.
WILL you have some strawber-
ries asked lady of guest. " Yes,
madam, yes l eat strawberries with
enthusiasm" Do tell 2 Well, we
haven't anything but cream and sugar
for 'em this evening" said the matter
of-fact hostess. 81
RESTORED Chicago has now 212
chuTchesin operation, S3 benevolent
and other public societies, 40 Masonic
and 10 other secret societies, not in
cluding iudutrial unions, 81 newspa-
pers, 81 railroad companies, and LOO
public streets.
A WESTERN paper says that "along
the sidewalk the watermelon and the
undertaken go hand in hand typhoid s
fever sails in an invisible shallop on
the lake of the green scum and chol-
era morbus famlliarly swings on the
front gate. tp4f
THOSE who complain of General But
ler's unfairness, aud say that he :
never takes back anything" are mis-
taken. In Justice TO him, il is proper
To say that he does so sometimes very
willingly. A conspicuous instance of #,
this IS seen IN the alacrity with which.
he took back pay.
A NEGRO stole the carpet from y
Tennessee church, and cut it up into
horse blankets, and the congregation
all weht over Broad River TO see him
immersed. From some unacrountable
accident, he was held under the water
just one minute too long.
Tue Galveston Crexas) News says
We learn from Capt. Glen, the State
Geologist, that the discovery has been
reported to his Office of u cave near the
first station from Devils river, the inc
terror OF which contains very remarka-
ble painting and sculpture, apparently
of Aztec origin" fG
A SHORT time since the Indians at
Washoe Lake drove theyoung ducks
as vet unable to through the tules
bordering the lake till they got them
into a point where they surrounded
aud captured three or four hundred,
and with the spoils loaded themselves
and ponies.