River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-08-01
Facts and Faneies.

IHE Parlslan Hover girls are agit t.
ing for more pay.
A HOTEL III years old is being de-
molished in Reading, Pa
AFTER the Tigress, what ? Another
vessel to search for her.
ST.. PAUL has opened lunch house
with oatmeal porridge and milk.
PENNSYLVANIA @ronauts take their
wives out riding in balloons.
The twenty-foot amphibous monster
has reached Lake Champlain.
The stocking of Penobscott River
with valuable foodfi Is still going on.
Ice two feet thick was discovered in
one of the Hartford sewers few days
ago.
THERE is a mill at Clinton, Iowa, en-
gagged making "a good article of build
ing paper"
THEY do things differently in China.
There, If young man just hits his
father, of goes his head.
The indignant citizens of Memphis
shoot at the health officers who come
prOwling around their premises
SOME thieves who follow Lent's
Circus had to break into four different
places in Muscatine, Iowa, to get
S4.65.
IT took the Rock Island Argus three
days to publish the whole of Governor
Palmer's Fourth of July grafton
The potato bug has reached Quebec,
and the great question with the habi
tdns is, does the striped little cuss eat
onions
EIGHTEEN physicians of Cincinnati
have declared that gymnastics in the
public schools are hurtful to the health
of children.
The Indians in Eastern Oregon com.
plain of hard times, like white people.
and they say they cannot sell single
pony for anything like its value
The gain in California population by
all routes of travel for the last six
months is "a, 4l6, including 1900 from
Chino and Japan.
A BOY named Coon, at Lansing.
Mich, shot his thumb and forefnger
off, and went and told his mother he
guessed his Fourth of July was over for
this year.
Two trusting young men in Michigan
were lately inveigled into an out-of-the
way place to see big snake, and there
robbed of such valuables as they car
ried about them.
Mr.. EMERSON, says an exchange, was
much pleased with his recent visit TO
Egypt. He had a particularly agree
able interview with the Sphinx, which
is understood to have remarked, with
confidential wink" "You're an
other"
New YORK boasts of a bank president
who denied himself contemplated
trip to Europe this summer so as to
afford his clerks their usual vacation.
He generously remains at his post,
taking the place of each one i'm turn
as he goes fer period of recreation.
The report is revived that Edwin
Booth will soon go to England TO play
an engagement in London and the pro-
vincial cities, appearing in round of
his iavorite characters. II is asserted
that the terms made with him are of
the most liberal sort
john BRoUGHAM's health, lust now.
is reported to be so delicate that his
friends fear he will not be able TO re.
turn 10 the stage next season. The
genial comedian has been bonyiyant
so many years that lie is paving for his
pleasure with a shattered constitution.
BIERsrApT has completed another Of
his large landscapes, representing the
southern SlerIas, and calls il Autumn
in the Sierras.' II IL really a bright
view of the south fork of King, River
with Mt. Brewer in the distance. over
looks the narrow valley Of the river
winding and toaming 5000 feet below
the point of view, while beyond. the
peak rises 5000 feet higher.
The iascinati IN which the ocean iss
for some temporaments amounts D. In.
toxication, aud finds mt Long Bfst.ss
IN this broad eXpause Of wonderful
blue, ITS fullest qualification There
are men and women more men than
women-who watch the play II lplt
upon the waters, the passing II distant
ships, the edge, advance and snllep ~.
ceding Of the waves, from snprj.. a.
sunset, and never seem t. grow weary.
Are they watchers for that rallant shin
that eternally sails away irpiehtod with
precious hopes that never comes back
THE Louisville Commercial grapples
with the cable questions manfully
Then down m Gee ms depths, upon
ITS solid payemeuts. where the coral
lays the foundations fits temples, aud
where the pearl glitters with its pure
lustre, there are mysteries which have
not yet been revealed, problems that
nave not been solved, teeming multi.
tudes of living things whose habits are
not known. Il is no wonder then that
the first cables have been found de-
fectiye.