River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-21
General liens.

MAINE exports salt to California, as
the pioneers are unable to earn it 9th
erwise
FANNY FORESTER" noted COW
that has taken premiums in many
states, died last week III Ike ltucky.
That ghost is still frightening the
people ON the line of the New York
Central Railroad near Schenectady.
A DAVENPORT street-car driver asserts
that "Arkansaw was just alive with
dead mules during the war"
WISCONSIN, dairymen are so fashiona-
BILE that they sell cheese only by the
| ton.
The finest cask of Johannesburg
wine in Prince MetterLich's cellar was
recently sold to Russian nobleman at
the rate of $3.50 per bottle
The poor people on the eastern coast
of Nova Scotia are suffering greatly
from the effect of the storm of August
"a.
HARTFORD knows that she has
grown, because whereas her streets for
merly cost her - 900 annually, she now
expends S20000O upon them.
The Troy Wing, one of the Oldest
Republican papers in the state, has
added Morning TO its name and
treated itself to new type.
A BALTIMORE paper says that unless
| public confidence is soul restored, the
oyster bus mess there will suffer badly.
The oysters are getting their spunk up.
THE fact that tie old Greeks used to
laugh over the same good jokes that
we do, leads DIR. Hopkins to remark
that 8 IRISH bulls were once calves in
Greece"
GEORGE KENNEDY, Schenectady farm
er, planted four barrels of peachblow
potatoes on one and aquarter acres, and
has dug one hundred and forty barrels
therefrom.
THERE is a story that an accepted
lover, in certain county in Kentucky,
lately traded of his interest and good
will in his lady love to his rival for
few Berkshire hogs.
The St Louis Democrat thinks
that Jack Frost has put i'll an appear
ance as an advocate of the great Mis-
sissippi River route for grain transport
| tation.
THE other LAY, as a Portland black
smith was pairing a horses hoof, pre-
paratory to shooting him, he found
cent imbedded in the hoof and covered
by the frog.
ONE of the attractions of the West
| chester County Fair was copper cot
fee kettle, which was brought from
Holland two hundred years ago and
has been IN use ever since.
A YOUNG girl in Troy, who became
exasperated with her family, took her
revenge by stealing a shawl, that she
might bring them into disgrace She
was seut to Jail for ten days.
A HmLsBoRo', ILL.,, philosopher,
named JEFF. Yokum, after listening TO
various exploits of early days narrated
by party of gentlemen, broke in with
well, fellers, | tell you it seems to
me that as men get older fun gets
skeerser !"
KEY WEST, with its mild Winter eli
mate aud salubrious sea air, is to have
a tirst-class hotel, to cost 800, 900, and
to accommodate 500 guests. IL will be
opened about February l, 1874, with
Major W. w. Leland, of the Grand
Hotel, Saratoga, as lessee and proprie-
tor
In order to prevent the possibility of
such case as that of the Tichborne
claimant ever again recurring, il is
said that early next session a bill will
be introduced into the British Parlia-
ment to the effect that if any presumed
heir to property should leave the coun-
try, and through any eccentricity or
other cause puTposely abstain from
making his existence known, he shall
be looked upon, after the lapse of
certain number of years, as dead IN the
eyes of the law, the property to go to
! the next of kin.
A TENNESSEE preacher announced to
his congregation last Sunday that a
prayer meeting would be held in the
church in behalf of the Memphis suf-
! ferers, and exhorted his congregation
| to pnt on sack-cloth and ashes for the
solemn occasion. One sister according
| ly procured q lot of old coffee sacks,
worked them into a wellfitting dress,
sprnkled said unique dress profusely
/ WIZ hNuNes ftlh NliNii AlAN way VI
ers arrived, put it on, and started for
the house of God She was stopped 10y
her mistress, who had considerable diff
ticulty in explaining to her the real
meaning of the minister.
TnE oldest organ in the United
States is in the chapel of ST. Johns
Church nj Portsmouth, ~ H. IL was
imported IN August, 1913, and pre-
scented by Thomas Brattle TO the
Queens Chapel in Boston, which, after
the death Of Queen Anne, was called
Kings Chapel In 1856 the organ was
sold To St. Paul's Church, Boston,
where 1t remained until 1886, eighty
years, when il was again sold to st.
Johns Church in Portsmouth for $3.50.
A new case WAS added, and IT has re-
manned in the chapel ever since, and is
still in good order.
PRoF. SnLIMAS has recently called
attention to the probable occurrence of
small diamonds IN the sands Lett In the