River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-03-14
General Items.

$50, 900 to $50, 900 year.
UTAH has succeeded in makinga very
fair quality OF raisins.
CANARY birds made of wax adorn the
parlors of the wealthy in Gotham.
The Rev. DIR. Pusey, the celebrated
English clergyman, is 70 years old.
The manufacture of silk was brought
from India into Europe, SOL, A. ID.
In 1872 Tennessee built only Is miles
OF railroad
GRERNUP county, Kentucky, has
eight iron furnaces in full blast.
Mr.. ROBERT BROWNING is said to
have withdrawn from society to finish
a new poem.
VICE COMMODORE OsGooD, of the
New York Yacht Club, is building
new yacht.
THE Grand Duke Alexis was the first
foreigner to see the wife of the Mikado
of Japan.
CINCINNATI has had revival-the
reopening of her Sunday concert sa-
looms.
A YOUNG lady whipped out an incip-
lent fire with her stockings, because
she had heard that firemeu use hose.
The robins are singing cheerily in
Tennessee, and the blue. bird wigeles
his tail in ecstacy from the fence posts.
The city of Hioga, Japan, has 2,OOO,-
600 inhabitants, and only ranks num-
Der two at that.
A LONDON society has given 59S, 74O
dinners to the poor, and the expenses
had only been $3.50 year.
A NEW feature of photography is a
back ground that can be taken separ-
ately, and used with any negative.
TIE Romans used movable types to
mark their pottery and indorse their
books.
THERE was one divorce granted to
every fourteen and half marriages III
Rhode Island III 1871.
CoNNEcTCUT's name was Michigan,
spelled originally Quon-eh-to-cut, sig
nltying "a long river"
BUDD DoBLE has offered $50, 900 for
Governor Latham's pair of black mares
in San Francisco.
KENTUCKY distillers consume 6.3O6
bushels of grain daily, and turn out
%, 1884 gallons of spirits.
SNAKES get away with 10000 people
in India every year, and this does not
include the species that are found in
boots.
ELEVEN new Hungarian banks, it is
reported, are to be formed under gov
eminent concession, with q capital of
$685. 100000.
"GAIL HAMILTON " has been i'll for
nearly a month with lung fever, az the
house of Mrs. Blaine, her cousin, in
Washington; but she has not, as has
been widely printed, been suffering
With smallpox or yarioloid.
\ CANOE has been built at New Lon
dom Conn, sixteen feet long, mailed
with galvanized iron, and capable of
holding four men. 1t is to be used by
hunting party next summer on Lake
Champlan.
ALL theDemocratic members of the
Arkansas Senate have united with the
I'epuDhcans in a memorial to Con-
gress asking Me same bounty to the
colored soldier in the war as to the
white soldiers.
AMONG the articles from America to
be exhibited at theYienna Exhibition
IS log OF black walnut, the largest
ever grown, six feet in diameter and
eighteen feet long, which was cut in
Missouri, and weighs seven tons.
LEADING horticulturists of London
assembled at a banquet in tNat cltv
the other day, to celebrate the pubG.
cation OF the one hundreoth number
of the Gardeners Magazine. Messrs
Martin Upper, Hahn Friswen, Shirley
Hubbard and others delivered speeches.
The Paris Kentuckian tells of a mon
ster mink skin, measuring four feet
from the tip of the nose to the end of
the tail. The skin itself measures two
feet two inches in length. The animal
was trapped on Slate Creek, in Mont
gomery county.
lN japan those who are leaders
among the progressionists are ashamed
OF the idolatry Of their country. not
from any personal convictions of the
error of idolatry, but simply because
they think other nations look down
upon them for clinging to meaningless
forms and superstitions.
The first copper coinage of the
United States was made in the year
ll31 aud Connecticut can claim the
distinction. The coppers were made
at CRANKY. by John Higley, a black
smith. At that time CRANKY was al.
most a wilderness, and money was TO
be had with great difficulty.
BY a curious and melancholy eoipci-
dence two deaths occurred al nearly the
same time and place and on the same
train, on the Central Pacific. n few
days ago. One passenger died of
quick consumption and the other og
to the heart.