River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-01-09
General Items.

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DoBE is illustrating Shakespeare.
THERE are very few Americans in
Paris.
ITALIANS may now read how Stanley
found Livingstone.
The three finest contralti of the day
are American women.
VIRGINIA drinks $12, 100000 worth of
liquor every year.
AN orange tree 400 years old is one
of the sights in Paris.
TIE voice of the evergreen pedlar is
pushed for another year.
HALF a pound of tobacco is an excel
lent marriage fee in Kalamazoo.
THREE japanese nobiemen have
started bank in London.
CALIFORNIA pays $1,000, 600 a year to
Scotland for wheat bags.
ORANGES are retailing in Florida at
one and half cents.
TOLEDO has a policeman six feet
seven inches high
THE Boston Globe has had five ed
itors in-chief in the past two years.
Mr.. RICHARD PRocroR, the eminen
English astronomer, is a convert to the
Catholic faith.
WHILE the iron interests of Pittsburg
are depressed, a Chattanooga iron com.
pany, employing about 200 men, is run
ming double time.
KETTLE drums are becoming fashion
able. They are informal receptions,
when tea aud cake are the only re.
freshments.
THE funeral of an Indian princess,
recently, was attended by 10000 per
sons. The body was burned.
The monument which Disraeli has
erected to the memory of his wife
bears the simple epitaph, 80 dulcis
coniux."
A MAINE Justice vindictated the dig
nifty OF the law by sending a newspaper
editor to prison for calling him q
"muddle headed mannikin.
IT has been suggested that two-cent
postal cards be issued, on which the
receiver of message might send
reply without cost to himself.
BURROWS of oxydized steel have found
their way TO livery coats, which in
some cases are lavlshly studded with
them.
A VETERAN observer thinks that
good many men are valiant in advance,
who would not be in the advance where
valor was necessary.
THE Ismalia, of the Anchor line of
steamers, is the seventh in the solemn
roll OF mysterious 1isappearances on
the North Atlantic.
A coLoRED physician in Macon, Ga,
who had but one remedy for all all
ments--kerOsene oil--has been impris.
oned for practicing without a license.
WHAT'S in name The ship Shak-
speare sailed from New York recently
with Mr.. Fechter as captain, together
with the Undaunted Winter.
THE stained-glass window which
Americans arc erecting in the parish
church ut Stratford on Avon has for
its subject The Judgment of Solo
mon.n
AMONG curious wills in England,
devoted wife wills that her darling hus.
band shall marry ere long a nice,
pretty girl, who is a good housewife,
being careful she has a good temper.
The city of Geneva has had another
windfall, and now reioices in another
annual revenue of $10,0 for furnish
ing free lectures and instruction to the
poorer classes.
Two carloads Of sheep from Shrop-
shire, England, have arrived in Solano
county, Cal. They left Shropshire
forty. seven days ago, and made the
journey without perceptib!e injury to
their health.
SHPBUILDING is becoming an impor-
tant interest of the Pacific coast.
Twenty-Five sea-going vessels, with
total capacity of 5000 tons, have been
built at Coos Bay, Oregon.
The Patrons OF Husbandry, accord
ing to their latest reports, have 1886
oranges, with 602, 665 members. There
were 974 of these oranges organized
during November,
TnE Missouri Harrisonian advertises
42O cow-bclls for sale, and explains that
it took them of n hardware man in pay
ment for Job work. Live and let live
rs It's motto.
DOES one woman in fifty, asks an
exchange, I" fill the lower half of her.
hugs with air2" The question, IT
strikes us, is an impudent one. Who's
doing this filling anyhow
"WHo darcs to spit tobacco Juice on
this car iloorln asked burly passen-
/ ger Oh a Mobile train. Il dare" qui.
city replied slender youth; "and l
did it, You're the chap I'm looking
for, y said the rufian; "give me
chaw.'
A rrrEaRAM from Moscow states
that Nine. Patti has just taken her
benefit IN Faust. aud obtained 1923
roubles l3t 7jc) Of receipts, She was
called forward sixty times, and after
/ the third act received from the sub
scnbers a splendid brooch, composed
of diamonds and large pearls.
HoN. Ronald LESLIE MELVILLE, who
I has Joined the house of Jay Cooke, is
the son OF the Earl of Leven and Mel
Vile, who succeeded, late in life, 20
scotch peerage, on the death Of his
hrother. whose son died in tho Crimeau