River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-28
General Items.

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A MAN cannot see the point of a joke
when he is the butt
An Eastern paper thinks that Stokes
ought to DO cannonized. So he ought.
PRRsMMoN seeds is Georgia substi-
tute for coffee.
Mr.. SoRTAIs has invented an electri-
cal instrument which gives notice OF
the occurrence of a leak in ship, and
by means of dial indicates it's extent.
Two little girls were comparing
progress in catechism study. II have
got TO Original sin," said one. How
far have you gotW Me! Oh, Tn
way beyond redemption" said the
other.
The Lowell Couri. r raises the query
in behalf of the good morals OF Boston,
Woburn and other places whether the
water of Horn Pond is a temperance
drink
They hurry things up in Dubuque;
A young man there met a straA 1ge girl
on street car the other day, pa. "a her
fare, and married her three h, ours
afterward. Bless you, my children !
A MUSCULAR Kansas preacher nameo
Benson, thrashed three fellows who
were disturbing the congregation re-
Gently, and his salary was increased
$50 year.
AMERICAN corn is largely used in the
manufacture ofalcohol in Germany and
Italy, the export to ports connecting
with Germany during the last five,
months having reached 800, 900 bush
els, and within few weeks about 100,
900 bushels have been sent direct to-
Naples and 40, 900 bushels to Leghorn.
A PROFESSOR, in explaining to a class
of young ladies the theory according to
which the body is entirely renewed
every seven years, said THUS, Miss
b., in seven years you will in reality
be no longer Miss b. II really hope
| shan't I" dcmurely responded the girl,
casting down her eyes.
SWITZERLAND supplies large portion
of the asphalt used in the construction
of roads in Europe, and also exports it,
to America. About one hundred thou
sand tons have been extracted from,
the mines within the past thirty years,
and during that period the price has
increased from 81 cents to $3.50 per
ton.
A LONDON paper recently contained
the following advertisement: "To
AmerIcaus and Others.-A nobleman
and his wife, keeping a most comforta-
BILE establishment near town, would re-
ceive two American or English ladies
or gentlemen to introduce into the best
society. High references asked.
Terms according to requirements.
Private sitting room, carriages, &c.
Address Lady -"
A GIGANTIC cotton press has been con-
structed which, it is said, will COM
press cotton bales three times as close
ly as the ordinary presses now in use
Among the advantages expected to be-
realized by the use of this press is the,
important one that it will enable cotton.
laden vessels to carry much larger
cargoes, besides securing increased ia
cility in handling and decreased danger
from destruction by fire or injury by
moisture.
FoR Boston criticism, this is
unique: "On Thursday night East
Lynne was presented, for the benefit
of the lachrymose-loving devotees of
the emotlosensational patrons of the
house, who made a request fol- a mid
dle-of-the week rather than a later rep
resentatiOn, in order that they might
have their crying out of the way, so
that Saturday nights baked beans and
Sunday mornings devotions should net
have their pleasures divided by so
fresh a remembrance of the fervor of
their floods"
A NEW street pavement has been
tried in San Francisco. It is called
" hydro-carbolIzed brick, and is made
of bricks of a soft porous nature,
which are boiled in coal-tar, which rem
dcrs them tough, and nearly as hard as
granite. A road bed is made by level
ing the sand and packing it with water
A layer of prepared brick is then laid
fatwise, each brick being dipped in
boiling tar as it is put down. This is
overland by second course of prepared
brick placed close together, each brick
dipped as before. The interstices are
then filed with boiling tar, and the
whole covered with a thin layer of
screened gravel. The cost is about
thirty-six or thirty-seven cents per
square foot.
"R.BoN HAUssMAN," says the PAYS,
Is well avenged. All his projects,
even those against which the most fire
and flame has been spouted, are being
by degrees again placed on the order
of the day. Take, for example, the
Avenue du Theatre Franchise. That
thoroughfare is, TO begin with, to be
prolonged as far as the Rue de Antln,
and at the same time the ground of the
Rue Louis lie Grand will be leveled.
The l,200,0 900 francs employed in the
operation will be well laid out, as the
shopkeepers in the neighborhood can
testify.
ConsIDERABLE progress is now being
made with the rebuilding of the Ii
brary of the Louvre, for which the sum
of 100000 francs were voted by the
National Assembly. The works are
being carried on under the superin.
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