River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-10-14
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Tar panic kills the Shreveport fund
AMHERST has got hundred freshmen.
Travel to the Yosemite is on the
increase.
lcELANDERs resemble Scotchmen in
appearance.
BEET-Roor sugar is to be manufac-
tured in Ireland.
BUDDHISM has half million devotees.
SrAa-HUNTISG is TO he revived in
France.
IRELAND has over quarter of mill
ion of dogs
CALIFORNIA mosquitoes have gone TO
killing horses.
A SON Of Henry A. Wise is making
speeches against his father in Virginia.
ARABELLA GODDARD is to go to Cal
cutta in the cold weather.
KENTUCKY worms are chewing more
than their share of tobacco.
BRIGHAM YOUNG says that any of his
wives can have him any day they wish.
The Earl and Countess of Dunraven
we're at st. Paul on Saturday.
SOMEBODY says that Americans have
national dread of water. He refers
to the perils of navigation only.
In Montana they pick up gold mug.
gets by the pound, and throw away the
little ones.
The dedication of an Indiana church
was postponed on account of 1.-THE ad.
vent of circus,
The cholera has superseded the Ger
man army in France, and the people
are better content.
/ AN Oregonian has discovered some
more perpetual motion, and is going to
try it on boat.
| CORNELL students discovered q nest
of forty black snakes last week. And
yet temperance principles are incul-
Gated into the institution.
The Misses Pigeon, of London, are
pluming themselves upon having
reached the top Of the Jungfrau with
ont the use of ladders.
1 The London Orchestra complains
that this country takes all the shining
lights of the English stage, and gives
/ but few in return.
/ No ACTOR has yet been able to coun-
terfeit that expression of Joy which a
man shows when discovering a ten-cent
stamp in his paper of tobacco.
A coUNrRYMAN who came into Brad
ford, last week, attempted TO set his
watch by a steam guage indicating
sixty pounds of steam.
The use and adaptability of banana
4 fibre in the manufacture of paper is
about to be tested by competent par
ties in Savannah, GA.
| THEY tar the lamp posts and ratings
in Montgomery, Alabama, in order to
get rid of the loafers, believing that
tarry loafer will tarry no more.
The skull of an Indian of an extinct
tribe has been discovered in an ancient
mound in San Francisco, and the
academy of science is busy discussing
its age.
/ DELAWARE papers give sad reports of
4 the condition of ex-senator Salisbury
health His once robust constitution has
yielded at last, and is now very much
shattered.
! CHINA possesses coal fields to the
extent of over 400, 900 square miles,
one province (ShausD having no less
4 than 81, 900 square miles, with veins
4 from II to 80 feet in thickness.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH has disguised
"citizens" of New York, who knew
more about England than he did, by
pronouncing himself decidedly in favor
of law, order and security.
A TERRE HAuTE man announces that
he has "almost" hit upon a plan to
"harness gravitation," which, when
complete, will give him perpetual
motion.
WHEN you see a futtefing signal put
up at a window in the second story of
a portico, you should Immediately
conclude it isn't for You, but that it 10
for the other fetLOW.
STOKES is outrivalled by a prisoner
/ in one of the county lails OF Pennsyl-
vania, who has been waiting for
Governor to sign his death warrant
since 1850
The British merchants shipping act.i
as amended, provides that in case of az
collision at sea the master OF the vessel
inficting the injury shall stay by the
other long enough to render any assis-
lance that may be required.
i THERE is great exultation in New
South Wales, oldest of the British col
onies in Australia, over the discovery
of coal, in great abundance, within that
vast territory.
An Englishman has discovered the
secret of the Yankee nasal twang,
which he says came from the English
counties OF Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and
Middlesex.
A VIEW musical instrument has been
invented the pyrophone. 1t produces
its notes by the action of gas burning
in glass tubes, and its expression IN
described as penetrating, mournful,
poetical and grotesque
AMERICA has obtained only nine
diplomas Of honor out of four hundred
and nineteen conferred at the Vienna
exposition, and out of those nine only
four goes to individuals. The other
five are conferred upon government