River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-01-03
All Sorts of Paragranhs.

and expensive in England.
AN agent has gone to the North of
Germany in the hope of securing ] 1000,
or more laborers to work IN the Lake
Superior mines.
BESIDES the immense quantity sold
for expectation, over /, 400, 900, 600
cigars are annually smoked on the
island of Cuba alone.
A LAW in Pennsylvania makes the
taking of money at the door of thea
ter on Sunday illegal, wherefore it is
invariable taken at the window.
A CONVICT who hung himself at Dene.
mara, N. Y, the other day, bandaCed
his neck with o towel so that the rope
wouldn't scratch his skin.
You've TWEED has succumbed to the
bad odor of his fathers name. The
Metropolitan Hotel, which he persisted
in running long after it ceased to be a
paying concern, has changed hands.
The new proprietors are Breslin, Pur-
cell d Co.
A MAINE Democrat, after vainly scru-
tiniZlng the election returns in quest
of gains for his party, expresses the
opinion that Democracy is kind of
onsoddered.
WILLIE COLLINS is soon to reinforce
the number of reading novelists ON the
American platform, and "George
Eliot" is also said to be sorely tempted
to come hither.
OLD Equestrian "Well, but you're
not the boy | left my horse with ~
Boy: Ono, sir; / just speckilated,
and bought i'm of t'other boy for six
cents ~
a PRINTER, in fit of mental aberra-
ton, wandered into shoemaker's shop
and set up several sticks full of shoe
pegs and nails, and took proof of his
matter In a boot press before he real
lied his fearful condition.
ELDER of fourteen" Where's baby
Madge?" Madge-" In the other room,
/ think, Emily" Elder of fourteen
Go directly and see what she's doing,
and tell her she mustn't
A WESTERN paper has this delicate
personal item: "Those who know old
Mr.. Wilson, of this place, personally,
will regret to hear that he was as
saulted in brutal manner, last week,
but was not killed"
A FRENCH inventor has applied a
screw propeller to the balloon, and car
ried fourteen passengers and total
weight of three and three quarter tons
The balloon answered the helm, and
two-horse power engine is being con-
structed to establish and employ the
principle.
81 HAVE been thirteen years in the
practice of the criminal law in this
city," says Mr.. John ID Townsend, of
New York, land my experience has
led me to the conclusion that there is
no place where the uncertainty of pun
ishment of crime is greater than in
this city"
THE number of females employed in
the United States postal service does
not exceed 700, of which number 500
are in charge of local offices, and the
remainder clerks.
JAPAN has been placed in Geographic
communication with the rest of the
world by new cable which has been
laid in the Inland Sea across the Straits
OF Simonoseki, and communication is
complete between Nagaski and Tokei,
Yedo.
A PARIsiAN landlady requested a
party on the third floor to cease dance
/ ing, as q man below was dying. The
guests acquiesced. Returning M hour
later, "My dear children, , she ex-
claimed. with the most benevolent
smile, lyon may begin again. He's
dead"
/ The Italian opera season came to u
/ close in New York Saturday, after forty
performances, mt ten of which Miss
kellogg was the star and Lucca at the
other thirty The performances at
which Miss Kellogg was the attraction
gave return of $2l, 500, and Lucca
was worth Sl2S 793, making the gross
receipts $150,4l3 This exceeds by
nearly $50, 900 the sum that Nilsson
brought TO the treasury last year.
THE following "notis" is posted in
I Lincoln county: Gee hear. Eye don't
want enniboddi that has bosses which
1 has of the epplZutick innilewenza, or
any other infurnel name, TO cum thru
this gait under penalty of havin Of
their, the bosses, tales cut of clo0se
behind their, the bosses, years. Keep
shi. Mountaineer.n
THE forest of Fontainbleau is to be
desecrated for the benefit Of the Ger
man indemnity fund. An order has
( been issued To cut down and sell 1872
oaks, 40 to $50 years old; APPS
beeches of 80 TO 300 years, and l,720
hectares of coppice. Protests from
artists have poured upon the Admins
trat.on DIES Foires, but 20 no avail The
noble trees must be food for the ALL
devounug Prussian.
INVENTORS are experimenting with
A.. NH NJ a.