River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-05-09

person is valued at 100000.
PARIS has a genuine Chinese restau-
rant where cats and dogs are cooked
Tor those who are fond of them.
WHITE and red leather stair rods are
the latest, and are to be seen now at all
aristocratic dwellings in London.
AsHER's book store and library. in
Berlin, is the only establishment in
that city where English and American
papers are sold.
REoENTLY one Of the bears in the
hamburg geological Gardens escaped
and visitors were excluded five hours
until the beast was captured
The London Graphic has been sued
for making noise by a lodging.house
keeper who occupies a house adjoining
the press room.
MARSHALL o. RoBERIs, J. NJ Bixby
and August Belmont have spent re-
Gently large amount Of money among
the American artists in Rome.
NJ. THEIRS has a pet dog, known as
Tampa, which roams about Paris all
day with an elaborate collar about its
neck, bearing the name Of the owner.
The debt Of the City Of Berlin has
been increa7ed IN the course of the last
year to S,S63, 304 thalers, an increase Of
$50, 75S during the year,
In London on the 9Th of April VIM.
Alex. Roberts, a stock broker, was
brought before the Lord Mayor, charg.
ed with forging a draft of Gil, 800.
A LADY now in Edinburgh wears a
mole-skin mantle, m lnufactured from
the coats of nearly six hundred moles
captured on her own property.
The play bills Of some of the Partisan
theatres have printed on them a mapof
the principal streets in the vicinity, for
the convenience of strangers.
Ok train from Paris to Versailles,
recently, the placard " For ladies' in
dlcating a reserved compartment for
the fair sex, was accidentally changed
to " Unclaimed Baggage"
FRANCE has imposed tax ON chest
nuts. As Paris consumes no fewer than
half a million bushels annually, it is
reckoned that this tax will Weld up
wards OF 500, 600 to the treasury.
TIE Ritualists in England, with a
view of thanking the liberal party, have
formed a society for the buying of
advowsons in prominent centres as they
fall vacant, in order to present them to
clergymen Of unquestionably orthodox
opinions.
OLLIvIRR DE KERNEL lately died of
remorse for the murder OF his brother,
while in the prison at Toulon, France,
to which he was sentenced for life.
CALEB CUSHING thinks Sir Alexander
Cockburn injured the English case at
Geneva by his bad manners, as much
as Charles Francis Adams helped the
American case by his uniform courtesy
and dignifed bearing.
LEADING members of the British
Pertinent have contributed to monu-
ment which is soon to be erected over
the remains Of Stonewall jackson.
This monument has been finished and
is soon to be sent over to this country.
LONDON letters declare that james
Anthony Froude will make another
visit to this country this year, as his
/ first visit has gwen him an increased
desire to become acquainted with all
parts of the Republic.
RTMMIL, the famous French per-
fumer, will have a special pavilion at
the exposition, where he Will allow the
public to see how he manufactures his
jockey club, white rose, new mown
hay, etc.
Nor long ago 1000 feet of land in
Coleman street, London. were sold for
$50, 600, or $50 foot, and more re-
Gently n piece of land in the same
neighborhood was sold at the rate of
1852 foot, or SIS, 800, 600 an acre.
THE Russian Government has order
ed the Jewish state schools and the
rabbits schools throughout the empire
tc be closed, and the schools and
/ semlnaries under control of the Gov
eminent to be substituted for them.
THE commission intrusted with the
purchase OF a site for the erection of
new German House of Parliament has
decided in favor of Kuoll's establish
ment in the Thiergarten which it will
buy at total cost of 2,541, 600 thalers.
A FRIAR was lately arrested in Rome
for passing counterfeit money. Several
lithographIc stones that he had with
him were identified as those used in
the manufacture of counterieit twenty
five franc notes since 1869 His asser.
ton that he had found the stones was
not believed implicitly when immoral
pictures and other evidences of lewd
tastes were discovered in his rooms.
THE botanists of Europe are en-
deavorng to acclimatize a plant grow
ing in New Granada, which is valuable
for the manufacture of ink. The Juice,
called Chanbi," is reddish, but
change after few hours into deep
black, and is then ready for use. The
"Chanbi has less destructive in
huenee on the steel pens than common
ink, aud it is not affected by sea wa
ter.
THE editor Of the Roman Catholic
paper Germania has been sentenced to
four months Imprisonment for repub-
fishing an article from the London
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