River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-05-15
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bonnets are the old ones sat down upon
for an hour or so.
SEVEN hundred styles of mourning
cards are advertised by a London
stationer.
NEVADA is the smallest of the states
III population, but she has very able
state prison, with 125 corvicts in it.
A WORTHY mother says that her
daughters beaux are like Juliet's only
love" known too late sometimes as
late as 1880 p. m.
ALL that Colorado wants to make it
comfortable place IS good water, good
climate, good soil, and few more office
hunters.
NASHVILLE reports the advent of a
" rful s5raaehoppop, Which 10 CUP
posed to have been blown from the
sunny South by the recent gales.
A ST.. LEWIS man has invented
cracker SO exquisite that persons "sigh
as the flavor dies away upon their
breath"
THE American Sardine Company, on
Jersey Beach, bids fair to excel its
foreign rivals. Last year the company
disposed If half million cans.
BEECHER's advise is "Don't drink
at all but if you must drink, let it be
of the right kind, at the right time, and
| under the right circumstances.
The woman's crusade has already
succeeded in producing $4,000 newspa-
per puns, of which the threat of the sa-
loon keepers to malt-treat their visitors
is perhaps the best-that is the worst.
The Patrons of Husbandry i'll the
southern states number at present
$500 oranges, and are rapidly increas-
ing This is about one-third of all the
subordinate oranges in the United
States.
A BROADWAY restaurant shows mp
turtle weighing nearly 900 pounds. 1t
is supposed to be the first tortoise that
some time since run race with hare.
But his racing days are over now, we
soup-pose, for he will soon lose his
steaks.
YOUNG Greene emigrated from Maine
to New York few months ago, and
wrote to his anxious parents that he
was doing tiIe--in fact, moving i'll the
first circles. Itsubsequently transpired
that the clarion voice of the young man
was crying peanuts" in the first circle
of Bowery Theatre.
The Massachusetts, Anglers Associa
ton having been convinced, from the
result of their Investigations, that smelt
during the spawning season are not
healthy food, since they then are
full of parasites, have procured the
passage of law TO prevent the taking
of them at that time.
OK the last trip of the steamer Siberia
to Boston, among the steerage passen-
gers was y family of Italians aged as
follows Father, a ; mother, 43, with
fifteen children, aged as follows %,
%, 20, 10, II, 10, Is, II, II, IL, 10, 8,
s, Z, 6. Twelve were boys and three
girls
FAILURES in the United States during
the past four years, as recorded by the
mercantile agency of Dunn, Barlow &
Co., of New York:
Year. Failures. Liabilities
1870. ...............,....3 SOL ) SS,2i2,000
i57l 2915 So 252 600
1872 4069 121 O56 600
1 1873. ........... ........5, IFS 22S 10000
The Rome Commercial states that the
gold district of Georgia is about to be
more eltectually developed than hereto
fore. An Ohio company has possession
of 30 miles OF the Chestatee river, and
Boston man of ten miles. This
stream traverses the gold region, and
its bed contains rich deposits of the
/ precious metal.
/ DURING the session of the Board of
/ Trust of the Vanderbilt University, at
Nashville. the Secretary of the Board,
the Rev. II. u. Young, read commu-
nication from Mr.. Vanderbilt, donating
/ 800, 600 to be used FIR building. fund
4 in order that the university buildings
may he completed in accordance with
the plans heretofore approved by him.
/ liz 1913. the French mails carried l22,-
900, 900 letters in 1919, l5S, 900, 900; IN
1858, 1S5, zoe, 900; in 1857, 252, 900, 900
4 in 1862, 2S3, 900, 900 in 1864, BOG, 000,-
GOO in 1870, 2SI 900, 600 in 1871, $685.
i 900, 900 in 1872, 3l9,000,000, Since
1913, the number of letters are trebled,
which is owing mainly to the effects of
the postal reform effected that year.
Furry of Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds
died recently of rabies. Writing of
this, Mr.. Hunting, of the Royal College
of Veterinary Surgeons, says that the
increase of the disease and its fatal con-
sequences are due entirely to contagion,
and he thinks the spread of the disease
Is as preyentable as cattle plague, by
proper regulations.
TnE Nautical Gazette thinks that the
reports which have recently appeared
that the storms ON the Atlantic have of
late years increased in frequency and
violence are nonsense. II says the
modern steamers are constructed On
such wrctched models that they are
unit for rough weather The old pro-
portion of beam and depth to length
are now diaregardcd, and the modern
steamers, like velocipedes, must be
kept going 1T a high rate of speed or go
down.
A TRAVELLER writes that nothing re-
mains of the American colony which
went 10 the Holy Land several years
ago to reform the Turks and rebuild
the Temple, but the site of their settle
mont Tho f rt,,ap ,.1,u,v Frnp, VIZ