River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-08-22
General Items.

LEVITI is the soul OF wit Is
Graphicality
THERE are 400 school districts in
Rhode Island.
In is said that mocking birds and
canaries sickened and died in Tennes-
see towns where cholera prevailed.
Con. GoURLEY, member of the
British Parli lment, is about to be mar
ried in London to an American lady.
The fashionable ladies of London
have introduced a very stylish wrap or
jacket, called Shah. cit is all the
rage, we hear.
AMERICAN newspapers and magazines
published in German have beeu forbid
den by the German government to be
sold in that country.
A NEW Conservative daily paper is to
be started in Glasgow in September,
with paid-in fund of 9130, 600 to float
it.
PARIS is to have grand cathedralon
the heights of Montmartre, to be
known as the Church of the Sacred
Heart.
SIR JOHN LUBBOCK has bought the
celebrated prehistoric mound at SIlbury
Hill, England, the largest of the great
British tumuIi.
LAUGHING photographs are becoming
the rage, and various devices are re-
sorted to by photographers to get up
grin on the face of the sitter.
RUFUS PORTER, the original editor of
the Scientific American, has invented a
flying machine, and will be just the
man to send in search of Professor
Wise's balloon.
THE photographs Of some American
beauties, exhibited at the Vienna Ex-
position by Mr.. Kurtz, have attracted
a great deal of attention and elected
great praise and admiration.
TRAVEL along tie Rhine is very brisk
this summer. The little "ginger-
bread steamers are loaded down with
tourists, to the general delight of cap
tains, pilots, engineers and stewards.
The recent unusual heat in England
has produced crop of mosquitoes,
hitherto strangers in that climate, but
apparently brought into existoneo by q
spell of hot weather.
A STUDENT at a veterinary college
being asked, "If broken-winded
horse were brought to you to cure,
what would you advise promptly
replied, "Sell him as soon as possible9"
Won MoITKE has left Berlin for the
Won Moltke homestead at Creisau, ST.
lesia. He is reported very feeble in
health aud anxious for quiet and re-
tired life. So is Bismarck.
The Shah's visit to England has
given the burlesque writer's ample ma
terial for Christmas pantomimes in
London. In Paris they have already
"shown him up at the cheap thea
tres.
ROME has new and very large hotel
ON the Via Nazionale called the 4" Ho-
tel Philadelphia. 1t has not been
opened, and proprietor is wanted who
can see ms way clear to pay 100000
annual rent.
A CLEVER English mechanic has in
vented drag by which he can stop, IN
la short time, vehicle going at full
speed and better still, he stores up
the impetus and renders it available
for starting the vehicle again as soon
as the drag is removed.
A GENUINE autograph of John Bunyan
has been discovered in the fiy-leaf of
an old book called dwelling with
God the Interest and Duty of Be-
/ LEVERS" a once well known and popular
work of Puritan theology published IN
! 1870.
SOME idea of the value of land near
London may be had from the fact that
/ the government has recently paid e20,-
600 an acre for Norwood Scrubs, in
order to keep it as drill practicing
ground for the troops aud the volun-
teers.
A WOMAN II years old, at Ripley,
Miss, walked five and a half miles to
market, lately, carrying on her back
seven turkey gobblers, twenty-five
chickens, twenty-four dozen eggs, and
six pounds of BUTTER and she does
that sort OF things regularly. How the
express companies must love her
Az angler on Trout Lake. Ontario.
lately had his hat blown away, and
while rowing hard 10 recover II was
surprised to see 1t spinning across the
water mt tremendous rate. On over
taking 1t he found that large trout
had taken an artificial fly affixed TO the
hat, but the line broke before the
trout could be secured.
The Uniyers ioyfully announce that
Mr.. Darwin was rejected bv twenty.six
against six votes as corresponding
member of the French Academy OF
Science. Mr.. Striensce was named
corresponding member in the place of
Mr.. Agassiz, who has became a foreign
associate; NJ. Dana, in the room Of M.
Pietc, deceased; and DR.. Carpenter, in
the place Of Nj. Pouchet, deceased.
A MEDAL has been struck 10 COM
momorate the entry Of the Italians
into Rome. II is to be distributed TO
all who have rendered meritorious ser.
vices in obtaining the Independence,
liberty and unity Of Italy. The King
is to receive the medal IN gold, Gen.
Garlbaldi in silver, and deputies,
senators and others in copper. Not
more than a thousand Of them are 10 be
struck.