River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-10-03
General Items


Henry Ward Beecher's farm last month,
but Providence and Peekskill gentle
man brought her back TO him.
AT the indianapolis FIX ,osition thew
nave q gorilla for ladies' 10 hang their II #.
shawis on also few gorilas for taiIsap.sa,au
ors to hang their clothes ON.
The Mayor OF Sioux City has sent
troublesome eat twelve miles NV ex
press IL a dark night, tied up in sack,
but OF course 1t came back.
SIR JOHN CoLERIDaE is said to have
declined the mastership OF the rolls
because he did not know which side
his bread was buttered. Hornet
INTERVAL REVENUE receipts since the
beginning of the present year exceed
those for the same. period last year by
about 81 ,000000
THERE are 1000 slaves at Quiloa.
East Africa, offered at from half dol.
lar to three dollars each, without find
ing purchaser
NJ RANo's TRIAL has again been de-
ierred, fresh evidence having been dis.
covered which it will take some time to
sift.
MISS NELLIE THURsToN still thirsts
to cleave the 'vewless causeways OF
the air. pand assembled the other day at
Antwerp, in her pet balloon.
HERBERT SPENcER's "Study of Soci-
ology will be completed in the DC
tober number of the Contemporary
Review
THE London Cosmopolitan INDUCES
in the hope of seeing Judah p Benia-
min, Lord Chief Justice of England. 1t
would be odd if Hebrew Benjamin
should find his cup of gold i'll yictorias
wooisack
AUNT PATSY o. MILLER of Bourbon
County, Kentucky, has silver ring
set with diamonds, which has been
handed down from family to family for
800 years.
The charming cold Cabinet T"
sketches in Scribner's are written by
MIR. Watson Glider, the assistant edi
tor of that charming monthly. There
are few journals in the country that
have more brilliant future before
them.
Mrs. AMEs has added to Phoebe
Cary's unfinished collection of poems
several ballads for little folks of both
the writers, and this is the book which
is in press by Hurd & Houghton Miss
Phoebe had begun the series of ballads
a short time before her death.
The " Revue Cathoique" of Brus-
sells has discovered another miracle in
tho case OF Louise Lateau, of Bots
Il Halne, Belgium, who has taken no
nourishment whatever for the last
twenty months, and who is, neverthe-
less, in excellent health
THE coal mining interests of Kansas
are RAPIDLY becoming important. Dur
ing the mining season OF " and 70
100000 tons of coal have been taken
from the Carbondale mines From 800
to 500 persons are employed, aud the
pay roll is IS, 600 to Sc, 900 month.
Mr.. MARY MAPEs DODGE, for the
last four years editor of the children's
department IN Hearth and Home, is to
have charge OF the new illustrated
magazine for children which is to be
published tins fall by Scribner & Co.
Mrs. Dodge is now in Europe making
arrangements for contributors, etc.
PLANET No 1877, which was discov-
cred early this summer has been
named LIberatrix, in honor of nj.
THEIRS. 1t has been also decided that
planets Nos. 126 aud 12S shall be
known to the scientific world as Vel
Ida and Johanna, the latter name
being III honor of Joan of Arc
As pilgIimages have been forbidden
in Italy, the Pope has found a conven-
rent substitute IN Il spiritual trip to
Jerusalem and other foreign shrines.
The pilgrimage is divided into three
decades. During the first ten days OF
this month the faithful have, in spirit,
visited the sanctuaries of the Fast
during the current ten days they will
visit the principal European sanctua-
ries and the last ten days will be
spent IN visiting the Italian sanctu-
aries.
The g VedemOsti," OF st. Petersburg,
gives an account of the pending labors
of the agents of the Russian Geograph-
zeal Society IN Mongolia Five trav-
elers, among whom are Messrs. Przhev-
alsky, Paderiu aud Fritsche have been
busily engaged exploring IN that most
distant region during the present year.
The last-named has now left kalgan to
take astronomical and hypsometrical
observations, while M. Paderin is
about to start southwards from UlIas-
utai To collect information ON the
roads which lead from Northern Mon
golIa To the Ticnshan and the province
of kansuh. The society also learn by
telegram Just received that Mr..
Przhevalsky, who has already been
three years IN Mongolia, has completed
an exploration OF the upper waters of
the Nang-tszc-kiang and of the north
ern part OF Tlnbet.
! BoY hero has been developed i'm
/ Macy Brezua, an obsure Hungarian
village, lately visited by the plague.
Among the victims was a poor peasant
woman who left behind u son aged iif-
1 teen, but no property. In consequence
of tins latter circumstance the parish
priest and the rest of the villagers were
/ IN no haste To- make arrangements for