River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-14
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And what 80 rare as a day in June"
The poet in summer time cries;
deem the day more decidedly rdw,
As clear the dust from my eyes
By the way-A mile stone.
SeHENcK goes back again in May.
Nor intoxicating-A jug onaught.
New YORK has adopted two newwards.
KATE STANTON goes to Europe in
June.
SOMETHING in MISUNDERSTANDING
TeItChUiLaAgR
LEAD astray-Bullets that don't hit
the mark.
A Moan true tale-The story Of the
ark.
Tom TAYLOR is the new editor of
Punch.
KILPATRIcK closes his lecture tour in
April.
FIRM language-Conversation be-
tween partners.
JARREr & PALMET give up the lease
of Niblo's, April /.
A WHITE elephant is on its way from
/ Oldll W blllb COUNTY,.
WENDELL PHmLIPsis reported to have
cleared by his lectures over 100000.
Two thousand rats were recently
killed in one grain stack in England
WINTER in Stockholm has been one
continued thaw, and epidemics rage.
PURE love cannot be attracted to un-
cleanness and meanness of body or soul.
A NEW Florida enterprise is the rails
ing of sour oranges to make citric
acid.
Fifty rattlesnakes were plowed NJ in
one day on Douglass county (Oregon)
farm.
The doctrine of self denial never
meant the denial of a good self, but a
bad self.
In some parts of the West they COM
plain that the country is .overrun with
tramps.
EVERY week, on the average, $50 mis-
directed letters are sent to the New York
Post Office.
THE California Legislature has passed
bill limiting the hours of labor for con-
ductors and car drivers.
HUMPTY DUMPTY" Fox has bought
the Broadway Theatre, and devotes il
to pantomime.
A BURLINGTON, VT, man has lived
l07 years in spite of his uncouth name,
Shortsleeves.
"SACRED to the memory of three
twins, is the inscription over a gravein
New Hampshire.
The last useless task that a German
professor has found for himself is the
counting of the hairs in buffalo robe.
The British emigration returns show
that the emigration last year was great
er than in any year since 1854.
By decree of the LIST of February
the censure of the theatres has been
formally re-established in France.
IT is expected that there will be a
very large deputation of American tour
lists in Europe during the coming sea-
son.
| ONE hundred and twenty newspapers
and periodicals have been suppressed
in France since MacMahon became
| President
A JURY in San Diego, Cal, the other
day brought in verdict of not guilty,
with request TO the defendant to re-
store the sheep.
IT is said that oysters weighing three
pounds have been found ia Tampa Bay,
Florida, which looks very much like
Tampa-ring with the truth.
GEN. Pillow is pressing a suit against
the State of Tennessee for 100000 as
counsel for the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad.
rHE Hon. Gambler Smith, member
from Virginia, is known chiefly by his
front name. He smiles with pity when
he finds anybody spelling it Hannibal.
DARWIN ID. HALL, a prominent and
rich man in st. Johnsbury, Vt, com
mitted suicide the other day con &C.
count of trouble with his hired girl
The bones of three of Barnum's
dromedaries have been presented TO
Yale College The relics of the others
go 10 the Smithsonian Institute.
A NEW YORK man living on farm in
Alabama was ordered by Ku-klux TO
leave. Instead of doing so he remained
and shot three Of them, and his CRATE
full neighbors elected him county clerk.
THE Emperor of Russia's brother
senta casket of diamonds from Caucassia
as wedding present for his niece, but
when it arrived at st. Petersburg y
was found 10 be empty. tits supposed
that il was opened on the road by means
of false key.
A SPEAKER celebrating Washington's
birthday, who was a little frustrated at
being suddenly called 10 his his feet TO
respond 10 the first toast, began his re-
marks by saying Washington was
great and good man, Mr.. President.
/ am sorry he cannot be with us on this
occasion"
A BRIDEGROOM in New York city took
the entire bridal party consisting of
four bridesmaids, same number Of
grosmsmen, aud two ushers) 10 Wash
ington in special palace car; paid the
hotel bill for two days, and furnished
return tickets the third--a graceful hint
the party readily "took."
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