River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-08-12
Personal.

Personal.
They say they call him the shay in
London.
Tue Saturday Review advises Joa-
quin Miller to "abstain from writing
further, at any rate, for some time to
come"
The Shah gave Marshal Mcmahon an
album adorned with diamonds. 1t
contains the portraits of the potentate
and his suite
j. f. SoRIPPs, late manager of the
Tribune, is about to start o two-cent
evening paper in Detroit.
DIR. HERMANN KLEIN concludes that
the earth has been 1000, 10000 years
forming since first it had crust.
Mr.. TEUBER, of Lagrange, Texas,
has committed suicide at the grave of
his wife, one year from the time of her
death.
IT is said that the late Professor
Coldtucker, of England, has left his
manuscript Sanskrit dictionary to the
Indian Office, with the condition that it
is not to be published till 1920.
The cottage of William Penn, the
great Quaker, which is now in dilap-
idated condition, and situated in the
midst of the great warehouses of Phil
adelphia. is used for teer saloon.
AMONG those entering the freshman
class of the University of Vermont this
year, is Miss Lottie f., daughter of l..
l.. Durant, of Montpelier.
Tom HUGHES takes the deepest inter
est in American affairs, and promises
to be contributor to the new interna-
tional magazine to be issued in New
York In December.
HAAS GIRoD, leader of the Saxon
band, won his appointment against
forty-two others in 1871. At the age
of fourteen he was appointed to the
position of cornet-a-piston in the I'm
perial Chapel at st. Petersburg. Sub
sequently he returned to Germany,
where his talents were recognized and
rewarded.
A YOUNG lady who Is doing some
climbing in the Catskills has created a
sensation with her alpenstock, which is
branded with the names of several of
the Alps, two passes in the Pyrenees,
nearly all the Scotch mountains,
Mount Washington, in New Hampshire,
peak of the Blue Ridge, and several
localities in the Rocky Mountains.
The stick is nearly covered, and she
has earned all the names by actual
climbing
A COLORADO correspondent writes
"Our butcher is graduate of Yale;
one of the gentlemen working in the
printing Office is a graduate of Cam
bridge and n winner of the Bishops
medal for proficiency in the classics;
ranchman near here is the son of
General in the British army, and near
relative OF George Stephenson, of rail-
road fame. Four other ranchmen are
the four sons of former Governor of
Bengal, who is still very wealthy. Two
are the sons of an eminent London
banker. A graduate of one Of the uni
verslties manages dairy, and attends
to most of the milking personally"
CAPTAIN RANDALL JONES, who settled
in Texas in 1912, died in Houston on
the LIST inst, aged eighty-six years. He
served zealously and with ability in the
ltAatu war W independence. III 1919
he had occasion TO visit Lafitte, who
then had large town built where
now stands the city of Galveston.
Captain Jones spent several days with
Lafitte, and was most Hospitality enter
tanned. The Captain was the Oldest
survivor of the Texan army of 1886.
ACCORDING to the Charleston News,
"a singular and mysterious fatality
seems to hang over the seat OF the
Orangeburg Senator. 1t is remark.
able fact that not single
Senator from that county, elected since
reconstruction, has lived TO serve out
his term. The Rev. Il. +. Randolph,
the first Senator, was killed, during the
year succeeding his election. To him
succeeded Mr.. Joseph ii. Green, a
Northern white man, who died of con-
sumption before his time expired. AT
the last general election James Il.
Jameson, ayoung and vigorous colored
man, was elected TO the seat, and few
days ago the intelligence was received
that he too had died. Will this fatality
deter other politicians from aspiring to
the Office z" Not bit of it.