River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-05-05
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MISS ADELAIDE NELSON has invested
In san Francisco real estate.
OVER 10000 pounds of vanilla beans
are annually imported from Vera Cruz.
A HAUNTED distillery is frightening
the inhabitants of Waynesboro. Pa.
A CINCINNATI paper says cit is
needless to comment" and then COM
ments to the extent of column.
KINGSLEY is in Canady, moving by
way of Detroit and st. Louis to the
Golden Gate.
HOMEMADE sausages have suddenly
got into great demand. "Love me,
love my dog"
NBLo's GARDEN is to become the
German Theatre of New York, and the
old barn in the Bowery will be left to
its fate.
THE English papers say that Wilkie
Collins will return to this,country as soon
as he can make arrangements to do SO.
THE Geneva cross, which became so
familiar an emblem during the Franco
Prussian war, is again in the field, this
time in Spain.
TENNYsoNs English publishers are
about to issue cheap edition of his
works in ten monthly volumes, to be
styled the Cabinet edition.
III is probable that the principle of
steam navigation of the canals will be
applied in various improved forms
during the coming season.
A METHODIST minister, an Episcopal
lian minister, two Congregationalists
Presbyterian and Baptist, sat in one
pew at Baptist church in Boston.
IT is now reported that Harry Genet
has been traced to Ottawa, in Canada,
and three detectives are after him.
Mr.. DIsRAELI is by no means in ro-
bust health. He limps noticeably in
walking, and leans heavily ON the arm
of his private secretary.
The late widow of Col. Frederick w.
Lincoln, of Canton, Mass, is reported
to have beqeathed 5000, 900 to the Mas
sachusetts General Hospital
The young Prince Louis Napoleon
has already been made the subject of
an abusive pamphlet, which has been
duly seized at Brussels.
THE Syracuse Courier asks: "Where
was Mr.. Duell when the important
votes on the currency were taken ON
Thursday and Friday? We do not see
his name among his fellow initiation
| lists.
A NEW engine and boiler are being
| put in the iron revenue cutter Gallatin,
at Buffalo, to cost $4,000. A steel
yacht is also being constructed, which,
it is expected, will equal the speed of
any English yacht. Her cost will be
5000
| JUDGE PARKER, of the Indiana SUI
preme court, has decided that colored
children are entitled to the privileges
of the public schools, Notwithstanding
the denial of that right by the state
constitution.
The last word-Cabby-(to stately
party, who has given his legal fare):
Making yer fortune, sir, no doubt %
Swell" Eth ?" Cabby-" You're layin'
bound p Swell" What do you mean,
sir?" Cabby-" Why, you don't spend
much, seemingly y
TExARKANA, Texas, is about seventy
five days old, built in dense forest.
1t now numbers over two thousand in
habitants, and there are two hundred
buildings going up. 1t contains gen.
eral ticket office, two railroads, two ex-
press companies, two telegraph lines
and forty saloons. 1t is called the
Enchanted Village of the Lone Star
state.
THE Toronto, Ontario, Globe is in
formed that the board of directors of
the Great Western Railway Company of
Canada, have resigned. The board re-
Gently announced half-yearly dividend
of three and three-quarters per cent,
which they afterwards reduced to two
and half per cent, and the irritation
among the stockholders resulting from
the change led to the resignation.
To Spaniard a good cigarette is one
of the necessaries of life, and so i'm
portant does it seem to the government
that the army should have a good sup
ply Of smoking materials, that an
official announcement has been made to
the effect that nearly $4,000 pounds of
cigarettes have been gratuitously grant
ed to the military. In order to pay for
this and the other expenses of the war,
kilograms were to be taxed five CEN
times after the first of April-All Fools
Day.
The early run of spring salmon up
several English, Irish, and Scotch
rivers has this year been very remark
able. In many instances, indeed, the
numbers of fresh run salmon which
have been captured by the nets during
the first few weeks of the season have
been unprecedented, while the multi
tudes which have been seen pushing mp
stream have been described by various
eye witnesses as somewhat astonishing,
representing vast masses of silvery
beauties actually iostling each other"
in their attempts TO overcome some i'm
pediment in their upward progress.
/ A YOUNG artist, Wilhelm Frederick
sen, who committed suicide recently in
California, left strange letter behind
him. IL closes as follows "If any
minister would humor my friends TO
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