River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-07-29
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going to stop the traffic in children.
The New York Commercial calls the
Fourth OF July the safety valve of
our natural cUssedness.r
The first thing Chicago man asks
when he enters strange city is.
Where's the tiger 2"
Boston South Enders now hold
euchre parties on the door-steps, in tbe
cool of the evening.
The Memphis policemen are irving
to get . back salary grab" They
have not been paid off Tor five months
An old silver mine, worked by some
unknown race Of the past, has been
found IN SILVER couRty, Tenn.
A JUSTICE of the peace in Georgia
recently sentenced man to perpetual
Punishment.
Forty thousand dollars have been
offered and refused for the English
race horse Doncaster.
ga cAcKuINe old newspaper fowl is
the epithet applied by one Sacramento
editor to another in a recent argument.
The gentle curculio has begun its
ravages among the plum-trees of Penn
sylvania.
A MATCHMAKER has invented a musi-
cal instrument utteTing combined
sounds resembling the voices of
choir.
AN old western gamester wants to
know if the rule of ''no more passes.''
adopted by the railroad companies, APP
plies to railroad euchre.
HE well-known engraver, Joseph
Keller, celebrated Tor his unequaled re-
production of the Sstine Madonna,
died July Z, at Dusseldorf, from the
effects of a paralytic stroke
The maddest man in the country is
tho proprietor of circus, who lust
traded off three camels and cage of
monkeys for magnificent diamond,
which experts say is worth $3.50
RECENTLY. the American students in
Bonn, Germany, celebrated the birth
day OF one of the professors by giving
HIM "surprise party" He was at
first alarmed and called loudly for the
police.
The Emperor of China, in two official
edicts, announces the degradation and
punishment of the Chief Of the Eunuchs
for handling the dishes carelessly,"
and OF the Chief of the stables for
not being punctual, and having his
beasts i'll bad condition
THE Shah of Persia has received
news of the death of his mother, but
having come Europe to see all that is
to be seen and to study methods of
European enjoyment, he has postpon-
ed the mourning of his Court until his
return to his own realms.
A BONNET of the period is described
as a miniature kitchen garden. II is de-
corated with cherries, grapes, black
berries, little carrots, bits of parsley,
long green-beans, sorrel, mariorum and
other vegetables familiar to professors
of the culinary science.
They give degrees to women at
Straight University in New Orleans.
Miss Amanda Melvina Perkins and Miss
Smith have recently been dignified by
the title OF NJ. S." Maids of Science"
Wouldn't Maids of Science" do more
towards getting them good husbands
The Rev. L. Dewitt Talmaga has
accepted call to take charge of the
editorial department of The Christian
at Work, a religious journal of New
York. He will enter upon his duties
as editor about the middle of August,
on his return from his trip to Colorado,
whittier he will proceed next week.
A WEALTHY and infatuated old lady
IN Savannah, Ca, who had paid to a
fortune-teller or fortune-hunter about
$1,000 in various sums, determined to
consult the police. This consultation
proved more profitable than the others
had been, as a portion of her money
was recovered.
The longevity of people in East Had.
dam, Conn, is illustrated by the fact
that the average age of those buried in
its graveyard during the last quarter
century was fifty. one years, while the
number of those more than eighty
years old now living in single district
IS greater than the entire city of New
Haven.
HENRY WYKOFF, known as the Cbey-
alier, is soon to be, if the gossips can
be trusted, managing editor of the New
York Herald. Wykofl, in 1874, set up
the Republic in New York, with the in
tention of breaking down the Herald.
and lost $4,000 by the experiment
Ever since then he has been in the SER
vice of Bennett
The first locomotive engine ever
manufactured in the colony of Austria.
Ina has recently been finished AT Bal.
larat under contract with the Gov.
eminent to supply ten engines for
heavy traffic and fifteen for LIGHT
at compensation of f1,32O. RS
completion was honored with a public
banquet at Victoria, at which the Min.
ister OF Railways was present.
Two citizens Of Kansas Civ Mo
have invented gun which seems n
surpass any English, French. German
or American weauon Of war II is
oreech'loadlng rife, weighs eryen
pounds, has q range of one mile cat.
RES ball the size ol q Minnie buIIa,
and can he fired at the rate II twenty.
I'VE rounds pcr minute n IL N mo.t