River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-04-25
General items.

OPINION is a Medium between knowl
edge and ignorance. Plato.
A coG-wHEEL railway company
been started in Switzerland with cap
ital of two millions.
Mr.. BARNUM offers S175, 600 for the
Bridgeport water works, if other citi-
zens will contribute an equal sum.
A THEATRE to cost fifteen million
francs, and to hold twenty thousand
people, and take thirty thousand francs
at each representation, is talked of in
Paris.
Miss ANN WALLACE, who died at
Glasgow lately at the age of LOG, was
a direct descendant of the Wallace with
whom Scots ha' bled
A YOUNG gentleman named Claypool
! Just come of age, presents claim to
ten acles of ground in the center of the
city of Lewenworth, Kan.
THE March winds were strong out in
Kansas. One day last week e gust took
up sixty feet of plank sidewalk in Law
renee, with lady walking upon it, and
carried them both bodily into the mid
die OF the street.
NOTWITHSTANDING its war indemnity
difficulties, France thinks that perhaps
it can manage to accommodate Russia
with loan of 125, GOO, 600 francs.
"YoU exhaust my patience, cried a
doctor who was engaged in quarrel
with his wife. "You exhaust your
patients worse that | do, was the re.
tort.
Mr.. BERGH has placed in all the sta
bles throughout New York city cards
bearing the following inscription: 81
promise to protect dumb animals, and
may the Lord in His mercy protect
me-
THE journals announce the death of
Count Raving at the age of 100 years.
He was formerly in the Rohan- Montba-
zon regiment, and was wounded at
Quiberon in 1895.
A YOUNG girl left Lowell, Mass, two
years ago with $500 in her pocket, and
went to Kansas and turned farmer.
She could sell out her property to-day
for 100000.
THERE is no truth in the rumor that
the Rev. DR. Henry w. Bellows intends
to leave his pulpit tor that of an ortho-
dox denomination. He is very well
satisfied where he is.
GERMAN STEEL is said to be supplant-
ing the English and American article
in the Chinese market, owing to its
easier manipulation, which is due to
its inferior quality.
A MILFORD Conn., genius named
Kellogg has invented a process for
making imitation fur out of refuse hair
beaten into a base of wooden felt. This
product is said to resemble natural fur
SO closely that purchasers are not like
ly to detect the difference until they
come to wear it for few days.
THE latest story of an absent minded
man is that of a drug clerk, who filled
his customers bottle, and receiving
therefor a nice new twenty-five cent
scrip, pasted it ON the bottle and put
the label IN the cash drawer.
A New YORK lady announces that
she will give moonlight German as
soon as the "young May moon " is old
enough. There will be no light in her
parlors except that of the moon stream,
ing through the windows-that is, if
the night be favorable.
AT hotel IN Troy the other day a
washerwoman unconsciouslY gathered
up a baby with the soiled clothes and
carried it off in her basket. The moth
er missed her infant, and after diligent
search the landlord found it at the
laundry, unwashed and unmangled.
A LITTLE girl was killed in New
Hampshire year ago by a kick from
horse which had been frightened by
dog, and her father has Just recovered
81, $50 damages from the owner of the
dog.
A WEDDING party in the Church of
Notre Dame de Lorrete, Paris, were all
victimized by pick pocket, who went
so thoroughly through their ranks that
not enough was spared to pay the mar
riage fees.
A GENTLEMAN in North Carolina built
a fire IN his house on his wedding day,
twenty-five years ago, and has kept it
burning night and day ever since, and
declares his intention never to permit
it die ont while he lives.
WEALTHY Americans with handsome
daughters whom they are about 60 take
to Europe, should know that French
law provides that sons-in law may claim
support from their fathers-in-law.
Paris is full of "barons," very hand
some and decidedly impecunious.
A GERMAN printer named Conrad
Lutz, now living in Burlington Iowa,
has received official information that
he has been drafted into the Wurtem-
burg landwehr. Inasmuch as he left
Germany when two years old he intends
remaining in the landwehr he is.
TIE long contest in Toledo between
the friends of the "Holly Water