River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-04
General Items.

late Louis Napoleon, has sent one
hundred crowns to church in Rome.
to pay for masses to be said for his
deceased relative.
WINE producers say the grapes grown
in their own vineyards this year, in the
neighborhood of Cleveland, will cost
them about twenty cents per pound.
They expect to purchase grapes from
other regions for about half that sum.
DIR. GREER, rich man who died at
Rainsford Island, Mass, left the short
est will on record, viz: BE it under
stood, / leave $500 to Thomas Re
stieauX; Edward b. w. Restieaux,
$780, residue to my nephews and
nieces, children of John" This docu.
ment was duly attested and probated.
THE Lancet gives an account of
minute active worm, 1-75 inch long
and 1-3, 500 inch in diameter, that has
been discovered in the blood of certain
patients that had lived in India. So
numerous were the parasites in the
cases in question that six specimens
were seen in a single drop of blood
obtained from the lobe of the ear.
DURING the civil war in the United
States pork rose from S13 to $40 per
barrel, beef from SO to $40, flour from
SIS to so, cotton from 13 to lis cents
per pound, and cotton shirtings from
10 to 60 cents per yard.
THE mortuary chapel which is about
to be built by the Empress Eugene
for the reception of the remains of
her husband will be in the medieval
style fourteenth century period, and
viii be twenty-four feet long by twelve
feet wide. The tomb WHICH is the gift
of the Queen, Will be of polished Peter
head granite, and will be simply in
scnbed, Napoleon ILL.,, II. |. 7"
THE last dog story: a New Hamp-
shire canine being repeatedly baffied
in the attempt to catch woodchucK in
long drain, as it made its exit at the
other end as the dog followed through,
brought neighboring dog and
stationed him at the other end of the
drain. He then drove the woodchuck
through, and he was caught.
THE Reading (Pa.) Times gives the
following illustration of the emotional
business in that city: A young color
ed lady recently, while a young color
ed gentleman was paying his address
es to her, overcome her by affection for
him, threw her arms around his neck,
and enthusiastically exclaimed, "With
all thy faults, love thee, Still !"
A YOUNG girl of Perugia, Italy, foun
out a new way of committing suicide.
Her life had become burden to her,
because her parents broke off the match
which they thought had not been made
in Heaven, so she broke off the heads
of several lucifer matches, and boiled
them in cup of coffee, which she
drank, and died in two Lours after.
WHAT it costs to "run" the Ply
mouth Church, Brooklyn, is shown in
the following figures Mr.. Beecher is
paid annually $4,000; Mr.. Halliday,
assistant, $1,000; Mr.. Weld, first sex
ton, So, 800; Mr.. Raynor, second sex
ton, 81, 200. The music costs $4,000;
insurance, $500 current expenses, ST.
900; Plymouth Library, 500. Total,
$43, 900.
BEAU BRUMMEL had friend, cler-
gyman, who sometimes dined with
him. Brummel used to say that you
could always tell whether there was
going to be a champagne by the way
the clergyman asked the blessing. If
the glasses indicated only claret or
sherry, he would say "For what we
are about to receive" &C., but If they
betokened champagne, he would shut
his eyes and commence with ''Bounti-
full Jehova."
HERE is a good joke, an excellent
joke, a most enjoyable joke. Three
Albany men cut one of the hind legs
from a Newfoundland dog that had
been killed, dressed. it in neat style,
and sent it to a friend. He had it
cooked, and ate it, thinking it was
mutton. Now, if some one would give
those three fellows nice little mess
of arsenic, they would be appropriate
ly appreciated.
THE following is from Punch: Herr
Professor" ISIS it not a shdrainch
ting, ladies, dat de Latin race cannot
acquire de Enklish Recommendation?
j hat choost dis momend hardet from
an Italian ehendleman ca Grade yrent of
HilhC, diil d lCllJ BlC4lCI MANI WHO has
lifted in Lonton almoste as long as /
INTERCHANGEABLE eeerrs-ant foot you
pellet i'll He shbeegs Enkllsh Wit a
kvite shdTong voreign INDIGNATION.
How to you agound yor 20 e2sshdra.
orrtinary zeergoomshdanz as tat"
IT is about twenty years since emf
grants first began to cross the Atlantic
in steamers, and for some years later
the majority were still carried in sail
ing vessels. But this is now entirely
changed, and during the year 1871
ninety-six per cent. of the total mum
Der of emigrants to North America
proceeded in steamers. The number
Of steerage passengers SO carried last
year from Great Britain to North
America was 100000 They were con.