River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-07
Miscellaneous Items.
BISMARCK and Manteuffel have made

up.
The public debt Of Massachusetts,
according to the last report OF the
State Auditor, was S27, AT, 204.
The chief steward of one OF the Ger
man steamers is a genuine Count He
speaks five languages and is a brilliant
performer on the piano.
JONES complained of bad smell
about the post-office, aud asked Brown
what it could De. Brown did not know,
but suggested that it might be caused
by the de5d letters.
The granite platform quarr1ed for
the Winfield Scott monument weighs
$50 tons, and it is believed to ,be the
largest stone ever successfully quarried
IN this country,
The French legitimists have invent
ed a new name for the government
which is to be Of the count de Cham
bord They call it the government
OF the national reconcillatil Ii. "
THERE is a rumor that the Great
Eastern has been chartered by one of
the Transatlantic companies to make
eight trips Fl ON New York to Liverpool,
commencing ia May next.
The Italian papers say that peddlers
in Catholic districts are selling bits of
straw, alleging them to have been taken
from a dungeon III Rome where the
Pope is confined by the Italian Gov
ernment.
BARNUM has offered the Fisher es-
tate $3.50, 600 for the northeast coraer
of Ninth and Chestnut streets, Phila'
delphia. He purposes erecting on the
premises, which are so feet by It's, a
new theatre and museum.
A DETECTED man on the Wooster
House corner, recently, announced
to a couple of friends that 1.-The panic
was playing the mischief with all
branches of business he never caught
fish yesterday.
THE discovery is SAID to have recently
been made in Rome on the Esquiline
Hill, of some enormous ancient vessels
in pottery ware, the largest ever found,
and of such a size that a man could
easily live III one.
A FIRM in Westborough, Mass, re-
Gently discovered in car load of corn
consigned to them, two men who had
hid themselves therein at Albany.
When discovered they had been forty
eight hours without food OF water.
"WHY, asked a governess of her
little charge, edo We pray God to give
us our daily bread Why don't we
ask for four days, or five days, or
week ~ We want it fresh, replied
the ingenious child.
AN unstamped letter was deposited
in the Post Office at Marshall, ILL.,,
last week, and underneath the address
was the endorsement, "Let her slide,
p. NJ, she's all hunky, inside are one
of them post hole keelds."
"WoULD you believe the witness
under oath r. asked lawyer. No,
sir, was the reply. If you should
ask him the time of day he would lie
about it.
WHAT is the greatest feat in the eat
ing way ever known9 That recorded
of man who commenced by boiling
door, after which he threwup window
and then sat down and swallowed
whole story
A LADY was recommending to gen
tleman medicine for the gout. 81
know many who praise il to the skies, "
she said No doubt, madam" said
he, " for il has sent many to the skies
to praise it. y
A CONSEQUENTIAL young Top asked an
aged country sexton if the ringing of
bell did not put him in mind of his lat
ter end. No, sir, replied the grim
old graye-diggcr ''but the rope puts
me IN mind OF yours
A CONNECTICUT school committee re.
Gently asked a school marin, "What
was the seed from which sprung good
and evil q The school marin answered
mcekly that she wasn't posted I'm the
seed business and the matter was
allowed TO drop
SOME idea Of the California wine and
grape trade may be formed from the
fact that this year there will he pro.
duced there twelve million gallons of
wine, two million pounds of grapes for
table use, aud two hundred aud fifty
thousand pounds of mislns; besides
the brandy of which we have no sta.
tistics. Forty thousand acres are in
vineyards, and the area is constantly
incr, asiug.
TIM other day, at q concert, n gen
tleman having put his hat upon chair
10 keep place, returned 10 claim IL
after a short absence. The hat was
found, sure enough, where it had
been left, only there was stout lady
sitting ON It, Madam said he,
YOU are sitting ON my hat. The
lady hlushed little, turned round,
aud said M the blandest manner. oh,
] beg pardon I'm sure / thought II
was my husbands"