River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-21
General Items.


copper and brass ones now in use.
LARoE quantities of grape slips are
now shipping from Missouri to France.
STRAWBERRY festivals have come to
pass in New Orleans.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has sent from
Italy to the Atlantic Monthly for May
long poem on the death of Agassiz.
FASCINATION" is the name of new
perfume about to be introduced to the
public.
THE growing demand for three-masted
schooners is because no man can serve
two masters.
ABOUT $50, 200 pounds of cotton, the
growth of California last year, have
been marketed in San Francisco.
PHILADELPHIA is about TO ship four
teen locomotives to Odessa, Russia.
The freight is 81, 200 per locomotive.
USING cancelled postage stamp cost
a man $500 and costs at, Utica, N. Y,
the other day.
A LONDON nobleman has been obliged
to run away because he was caught
cheating at cards.
AN old tree was recently felled near
Geneseo, and if the ring theory is true,
1T had stood the blasts of four hundred
and eighty winters.
Thomas GREENWOOD, Nunda black
smith, and Mrs. Radcliff, his sister.
have inherited about 100000 each by
the death Of an English uncle.
A FIRM named Miller & Lux own 40
miles of land on the west side of the
San joaquin River, in Southern Cali
fornia. 1t is said that Miller also owns
half a million acres in addition.
CHURCH is engaged on an important
work, 1.-The Mountains of Petrea," for
which he made the studies in Arabia.
"YoU are little bear, madam, said
our own brute to fashionable belle at
an evening party. "Sir," exclaimed
the dismayed one. "About the shout
ders, mean, smilingly replied he.
81 WOULD advise you to put your
head in dye-tub it's rather red, said
"a joker to rather sandy-haired girl.
. would advise you to put yours into
an oven, it's rather soft, said Nancy.
A YOUNG lady engaged to be married,
but getting sick of her bargain, applied
to friend to help her to unite the knot
before il was too late. "Oh, certain
ly," he replied. Its very easy to I'M
tie it now, while it is only beauknotl'
PEACE is preserved in a household in
Elkader, Iowa, by long witty raw
hide hung up in the bedroom of the
juvenile portion of the family, bearing
upon its handle this legend Boys
please be kind to your mother"
"DocToR," said conceited literary
ass to Homes ON the sire cts of Boston,
" am going to deliver my lecture in
Lowell tonight. " . l am glad of it l
dislike those Lowell people" retorted
the doctor.
WHILE gentlemen's seal skin caps re-
tain their present high price it cannot
be expected that the wearerswill remove
them while in an audience. We cannot
sell by persons bare head that he has
a seal skin cap, you know.
The farmers in Southern Utah who
were SO fortunate as to get their wheat
into the ground before the heavy snow
storm say the snow will prove very
beneficial, and they are assured of an
excellent crop,
As NJ de Pene, the editor of the
Paris Journal, was fencing few days
since in Paris, his foil broke near the
button and went clean through the
fencing masters lung. The mans re-
covery is considered doubtful.
EXPERIENCED sheep men in different
portions of California are of the opinion
that the losses of sheep this winter have
been SO great that all the increase by
way Of lambs will be required to keep
the numbers good.
A NEW remedy has been found for
consumption. They kill eat, and place
the skin, while warm, over the chest of
the consumptive, and il is said to draw
out the disease A fresh skin is used
every night.
TIE Philadelphia Item suggests that
if they would give whisky away, nobody
would care TO drink it, This seems
highly probable, and ought to be tried.
Doubtless 1t is the experience of most
of ms that no man is willing to drink,
even by invitation, unless hepays for it.
A DELAWARE man has been taking
cod-liver oil for four years to cure the
consumption, and has iast found out
that he never had any consumption.
He is the maddest man in America,
and his children haven't said "boo" in
week.
A RAW countryman, gazing at gar
den in the vicinity of Boston, in which
were several marble statutes, exclaimed:
Just see what a waste Here's no less
than six scarecrows in this ten-foot
patch, aud any of them would keep the
crows from tive-acre lot y
TnE new boot in Paris is the Pompe-
ian. IL IL Of black velvet, and very
high, the Logging in front all Venetian
cut work, embroidered with silver cord,
and pink or Pompeian red silk stock
ing is thus seen through the open clover
or diamond-shaped design.
Az old, half-cleancd human skeleton,
which WINS found recently in the garnet
Of Griffin Hall, Williams College, has
been on rampage. II first descended
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