River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-05-29

memory deer"
WARS the difference between the
side OF right-angled triangle and an
old maids teapot? One is a hypoth-
enuse, the other is tea-pot-in-use.
A LARGE eagle was caught at Port
land, Conn, the other day, in the very
act Of swooping down upon q, young
child, but was scared away, and aftet-
ward shot.
Now that the word "hymeneal is SO
commonly used in reference to we'd
dings it is suggested that births should
be headed "crymeneal" and deaths
"diemeneal
TENNYsoN is said to have become
greatly indignant lately at the ignQr-
ance of an American who knew moth
ing about the works of JOAQUIN Miller,
whom tile boet laureate termed "tne
greatest poet of his country.
The heirs of President Lincoln pay
taxes upon quarter section Of land in
Crawford county, Iowa, iii accordance
with land warrant issued to him for
services rendered as captain iii the
Black Hawk waf,
ALFALFA must be tile pasture grass
of the great half barren plains of the
northwest. Experiments in Utah have
shown that it can be sown on the most
barren soil, and will be productive
without much attention, yielding two
crops year of rich, nutritious aliment
for cattle.
PUT on your right glove first, stupid.
Then You have your left hand ungloted
to button your right withal. Ii YOU
put on your left glove first you have to
button your right glove under double
disadvantage.
A BuFF&Lo editor, comment ing Oh
the price of gas in London, gives vent
to his feelings as follows: "What F!
only IS cents per 1000 cubic feet of
gas (the illuminating power of which
is legally fixed under penalty ut the
| light of sixteen sperm candles) and
coal higher than with us. We pay 50
per 1000 cubic feet of gas, which
sometimes requires sixteen sperm can
dies to see it burn.
ONE of the X. =. boys tells a good
story ON an engineer running on that
road. When the train stopped at st.
Mary's Mission, the engineer saw q
young squaw, with her pappoose strap
ped to her back, standing ON the plat
form. "Have you got little Indian
there?" said the driver of the iron
horse. mo-" said she, "half Injun,
half injuneer."
On Cry, Penn, will probably soon
be added to the list of mushroom cities
which grew up with the oil production
and as swiftly dwindled away, for we
read that not only are the inhabitants
leaving, but they even take their houses
along with them, so that it is very easy
to calculate the decrease of population.
In the "reminiscences of Holland
House," is the following anecdote of
Voltaire "While learning the Eng
lish language (Which he did not love-,
finding that the word plague, with six
letters, was monosyllabic, and aguC,
with only the, last four letters of
plague, dissyllabic, he expressed the
wish that the plague might take one
half of the English language, and the
ague the other"
A DANBUBY girl whowas accompanied
home quite late Sunday evening, was
taken to task by her parents for the
length of the session at the gate, and
went up to her room in what is popu-
larly denOmiuated huff" The next
morning her mother going to call her
was Mortified To find her in bed with
her bonnet on She was 50 mad on re-
Il. e.. -, tn1y
believe this is the only instance of the
kind on record.
OVER | 900 tons of Bessemer steel
rails were rolled at the Rensselaer, Iron
Works i'm one week. The mill has nine
furnaces, in each of which were heated
81 "blooms' per turn, or an aggregate
of 333 pieces. Eleven of these turns
were made during the week, thus
making total of 1868 rails equal to
l,0l2l tons) in ALL The Saturday pre-
vious to the beginning of the trial, 162
rails were rolled, all of which were per-
feet. The unprecedented feat, there
fore, was accomplished of rolling 1925
rails without spelling a single one.
A PARAGRAPH has been floating about
the literary columns of.the press 70 the
effect that Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe, ON account of i'll health, will
not give to the public anything from
her pen for several years 10 come"
This is true 10 the following extent :
that Mrs. Stowe is IN excellent health,
at her Florida home in Mandarin, and
that early in May she commences in
the Christian Union new seriel story,
called "We and Our Neighbors, : upon
which she has been engaged during
the past year, and which has been
largely inspired by consideration Of
the social follies and profound domes-
tic miserics resulting in the temper
ance agitation" of the public mind at
the present day,
Mn. joins WARREN, of Nashua, New
Hampshire. has the colors of the Sec
ond squadron Of the second New
Hampshire regiment, which served in
the war of the Revolution. They were
carried by color-bearer Robert Reed.
father of the late Robert Reed, of
Nashua The colors are blue silk, with
woven fancy border and n green
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