River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-28
All Sorts of Paragraphs.
\ WINTERS TAIL.


lngton-only on visit, however.
PHHADELPHA makes over million
dollars worth OF wallpaper annually.
Two heads are better than one-es-
pecially in barrel.
THE song of the seamstress. -"Sew
let the wide world, etc.
A HISTORY of the Ashantee war is To
be written by Winwood Reade.
WHITTIER is in position TO appre
ciate "the Importance OF one vote"
RECENTLY seal was seen and shot at
near the lighthouse, at the mouth of the
Cohansey.
Mr.. PRocroR is studying astronomy
on the Atlantic Oceal lie sailed from
New York yesterday.
THE work on the st. Gothard tunnel
is progressing, but they have got hard
work enough lett.
TWELVE street-cars, now building at
Troy, New York, will soon be rafting
through the streets of Bombay.
The Irish liquor dealers of Port Jer-
Wis, Orange County, have resolved to
abandon the business, if the Americans
and Germans engaged in the same
trade will do likewise.
THE water in the Asylum Hill reser
voir, at Hartford, having been drawn
off on Wednesday, all the earth and
stone work on the Southwest side fell
in, and it will cost $25, 900 to repair it.
A MANS own religion, though contra
ry TO is better than the faith OF another,
let itbe ever so well followed. 1t is
good to die in ones own faith, for an
others faith beareth fear.
IT is proposed to establish a steam
ship line between Mobile and Havana.
In order to encourage the project a
Cairo, ILL.,, firm offers to send seven
thousand barrels of four weekly for
shipment.
A RELIC of the Inflated steamship
Atlantic in the shape of passengers
ticket printed i German and English,
has been taken from the stomach of
preserved salmon at st. John New
Brunswick.
His manuscript All yes
He's come to ask it /?
Well, look about-but stop guess
You'll find it in the basket.
Richmond Enquirer.
A ROCHESTER man has invented kerr
osene lamp which gives as bright a
light as gas, and uses noglass chimney.
Compressed air is forced around the
flame through the metre and pipes here
tofore used for gas.
A FRENCH paper tells the following as
true: "A man arrived the other even
ing at the Luxembourg Garden just as
the gates were being shut. He said,
1 have hurried back; left my wife in
here on bench. The gate-keeper re-
piled, 81 am very sorry-the garden
will rot be open until tomorrow and
he locked the gate.
LONDON is literally built ON founda-
ton of pipes. In some places it would
/ be difficult to find room to lay another
pipe. One gas company supplies two
districts with nearly 400 miles of pipes.
Then there are the underground tele-
graph pipes, and $500 miles of drain
pipes, the lead and iron pneumatic
tubes, the sewers, the water pipes, and
the underground railway.
A LITTLE girl, playing in field near
Westminster, Mass, was attacked by
savage bull. Her brother, aged Is,
climbed over the fence, and bravely
fought the bull with stick. run,
sissy run quick I" shouted the boy,
and she saved herself by obeying. The
boy, however, was gored so terribly
hat very likely he will die of the hurt.
The gold mines at Gaysville VT,
will be extensively worked this sum-
mer, and some attention will be paid to
the magnetic iron sand, which is Cb-
tanned in large quantities and has prov
ed, on account of its remarkable purity,
to be of considerable value.
A PHILADELPHIA young lady, who is
now on her travels, cut piece from the
chair of Edward the Confessor in West
minister Abbey, at an expense of $500,
and Mt church in Dresden, overturned
and image of the Virgin in attempting
| to appropriate some flowers from the
shrine, and her father had another littlo
bill of $500 to pay. Deargirl
AT fire in Poughkeepsie the other
morning, the foreman of one of the hose
companies rolled his carriage to the fire
alone, made preparations to stretch
hose, which, fortunately, however, was
not needed, and then, without any as
sistance, took the apparatus back to
the house again, called theroll, and en-
tered fine against every one of the alb
sent members.
A MEMBER of the Ohio Legislature
recently visited the State penitentiary,
and while there had his hair cut by the
prison barber. While undergoing the
tonsorial process party of lady and
| gentlemen visitors looked in, and the
legislator was made happy by catching
such remarks as, Ugly look about tho
eyes, "Yicious mouth, Looks cara
bic of any wickcdness, Wonder what
he did, " Ne
! A CoRREsPoNDENT says that within
the past two months a minister of the
gospel imported common farm mare,
and tried to have the animal entered
free Of duty, on the ground that chad
imported her for tie improvement of
the stock. TO make it more plausible
hc placed high valuation on her, and
was shocked when the case was decided
against him. Who is he?