River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-03-21
Personal.

The Rev. DR.. Pussy, the celebrated
English clergyman, is 70 years old.
PAUL MoRPHY is alluded to, in u
rural paper, as +" the inventor of Nor
phine."
PRINCE ARTHUR of England, goes to
Rome, to participate in the sports of
the Carnival.
Gov. JEWELL, of Connecticut, sings
in the choir of a Congregational
Church, in Hartford
DIR. HOOKER, of London, has been
elected member of the Academy of
Belgium.
Mrs. Tyler, widow of President Ty-
Ter, has established her residence in
Georgetown, Md.
The widow and the daughter Of
Lieut. Derby" John Phoenix are
now residing in Washington.
TRENTANovA, a Roman sculptor, resi-
dent in London, has made a marble
bust of the tenor, Capoul
PRoF. MURRAY, of Rutgers College,
has been commissioned Minister of
Public instruction for Japan.
SIMON TURNER, colored, of Toledo,
lately purchased the Lutheran Church
in Perrysburg, Ohio, and gave 1t to his
negro brethren.
MENTION is made of lady, now in
Washington, whose hair is 81 inches
long. Her name is Miss Mary Ralston,
and she is a native of Iowa.
The married ladies of western city
have formed a Come home-husband
Club 1t is about four feet long, and
has brush at the end of 1t.
THE coolest Mason y in Kansas died
recently at Marysville. He was log
years old, named Henry Hastings, and
had boon Mason since 1900.
1--WE find that he came to his death
from calling Bill Jackson q liar" was
the verdict of a coroner's jury IN Mis-
souri,
WHITTIER, being asked for an auto
graph, at once complied by penning:
" The name Is but shadow which we find
Too often larger than the man behind"
The English navy is about to discard
the open-necked shirts which, from
time Immeniorial, have given British
sailors the bronchitis and pneumonia.
and adopt different style of throttle.
Mr.. CHARLES READE claims 1000
damages from the London Advertiser
for criticastergating anonymunculously
his too-well-written literary produc-
tions.
BOXER, the poet-U. S. Minister to
Constantinople-has been made an
honorary member of the Greek Sylla-
gos, literary society of CONSTANT
nople.
LAUNT THOMPSON will make two
statues of the Rev. Abram Pierson.
first President of Yale-one for Yale
grounds the other for Morgan School,
in Clinton.
The Hon. G. j. W. Agar Ellis is
dead, age 40. He was the youngest
son of the late Lord Dover, and was
British Secretary of Legation at
Athens in 1869.
We read that "Cora PEARLS effects
are TO be sold at auction, in Paris"
The effects of such pestileD nuisance
are not to be got rid of by al auction
sale.
Az article by Mr. Watterson, of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, on the life
and works of Bulwer Lytton, has at.
tracted great deal Of admiration and
sympathy.
The British National Life-Boat As
ISOLATION has passed vote OF thanks
to Mr.. w. G. Bennett, for has ballad,
"How We Saved Them" which has
been set to music by Mr.. j. l.. Hatton.
Mr.. 4. D. BUTLER, superintendent of
the gardens in Regents Park, has been
honored with the silver medal of the
Geological Society of England, in re-
cogniuon of valuable services.
DEAD: b. ID. Emerson, OF Massa-
chusetts, compiler of school-books.
who leaves 500, 600 to Dartmouth Col
lege and Sl50,000 TO his heirs and
Indian Tom, the last Of the Creek
Tribe, in Georgia.
Twenty THOUSAND engravings. after
Turner, will be sold in London. in
March. These, il is said. have been
lying unheeded for 20 years. in house
IN Queen Ann street, which the great
artist used as a studio.
GOVERNOR SEwARp's new book.
" travels Around the World. . IA meet.
ing with almost unparalleled success:
$4,000 copies viii no meet the present
demand. Orders are pouring in from
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