River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-09-05
GeneraI News.

is Paris and appears with great splen.
dor at the Bots de Boulogne.
LII is estimated that the recent storm
carried off over 1,000,000 cubic yards
of the Jersey shore.
Mr.. p. Il. BARNUM, few days ago,
sailed in the steamship Scotia for Eu-
rope and the Vienna Exhibition.
NEW line between Liverpool and
New Orleans has been established, and
commences business next October.
VANDERBILT controls 2,150 miles of
railroad, representing 1915, 900, 900 of
securities, with a gross income of $45,-
600, 900.
LAST year the Cunard steamers car.
ried 800 passengers from New York to
Europe, a larger number than by any
other line.
THE pioneer steamer of the Eagle
Line was lately launched on the Clyde
and will soon make her trial trip. She
is called the Goethe.
THE famous lightning calculator"
is so popular IN London that at one of
his recent exhibitions 100000 bottles
of ginger beer were sold.
A WABASH (Ind.) editor returns
thanks for centipede sent him by mail
from Texas, being the first cent of any
kind he has seen for a month.
The man who comes on the stage
exactly at his cue is prompt, but the
man who does not come on at all is
prompter.
The steamers of the American Steam
ship Company Philadelphia and Liv-
erpooD are the only ones in the trans
Atlantic service carrying the United
States flag.
The Comptroller of Florida says that
the state owes $1,57S, 635.63, a large
debt for an impoverished commons
wealth with less than 100000 people.
but the true figures are believed to be
much higher
In the most central business loca-
tions land in London is worth $135 per
square foot, $113 per square foot in
New York, $36.67 per square foot in
Chicago, 800 per square foot in San
Francisco.
A esprit PHOTOGRAPHER got $500
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picture of the old mans dead wife, but
some practical fellows ducked the pho
tographer in the river until he agreed
to restore the money.
PRoF. DANIELS, of Vermont, made a
bet that he could look ferocious bull
out of countenance, and competent
judges estimate that the Professor was
thrown up twenty seven feet. The
Doctor was eventually saved by the
courage and tenacity of his legs.
A MAN about fifty years of age, ac-
companied by wife who looked still
older, applied for tickets to jackson.
When told the price, he demurred, and
after withdrawing for a consultation,
he returned. to the window and asked,
"Well, won't you knock off dollar if
the old woman will ride'on the plat
form ?"-DetrOH Free Press.
The most practical lover has been
discovered. In one of his letters to
his sweetheart he wrote: 81 wish,
my dear, that you would not write
such long letters to me. If you were
to bring an action for breach of prom
Use against me, the lawyers would have
to copy the correspondence between us
and charge four pence for every folio
of seventy-two words. The shorter the
letters, the more we shall save from
the lawyers"
The effective force of the field army
in Java with which the Dutch General
Van Swieten is to undertake the new
CAMPAIGN against the Sultan of Atchin
amounts TO 1900 men. The army is
composed of $4,000 infantry, twenty
one batteries of artillery, three com.
panies of engineers, and cavalry
regiment. All the officers are Europe
ans, save a very few of the sub-lieuten.
cuts but about one half of the men
are natives.
EDWARD EVERETT used to tell with
great spirit the anecdote of wealthy
Hindoo who called on him when he was
American Minister at London, to thank
the Americans for the benefits they had
conferred upon India 81 thought he
might refer 10 our mission schools, but
he astonished me. by saying he meant
the cargOes of ice sent from America,
and was anxious to know from what
part of America it came. II gave me
great pleasure to inform him that l
lived within short distance of Me
spot from which it was brought"
In a Western State, there was occa-
sion, in suit before Justice &c re-
quire security from two persons in be-
half of the plaintiff for the costs of
prosecuting the action, and it was
agreed by the plaintiffs two counsel
that they should both sign themselves.
The senior did so, and turning to his
junior, whose reputation through the
country was that Of a Jolly, clever, i'm.
pecunious fellow, who never paid any
thing, remarked: Snow, D., it's your
turn ID. looked at the paper, and
then in a quizzical way shook his head
and remarked: "No, on the whole
guess | won't dilute the security"
WITHIN a few months several baker
les have been established in the cap.
itol of japan, and bread is now sold
regularly in the streets TO those who
wish TO cultivate foreign tastes. II is
sold pifhar IN iovoo ~ "a uI,,n. 81