River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-03-17
General Items.


ook above them.
Never turn blessing around to see
it has dark side to it.
A SOUTH CAROLINA politician says
'insinuendo."
The ladies' question-what is the
next spring fashion?
BROOKLYN rejoices in well-managed
holly-tree inn.
A WESTERN genius has invented an
HOLMAN HUNT is to illustrate new
" Life of Christ"
ROCHESTER has that fashionable city
property--a "ring.
CALCUTTA boasts of Jewish journal
printed in Arabic and Hebrew.
"BENE," the new drink of Paris, is
much eaten in this country.
Swiss travellers in France can now
dispense with passports.
LION shooting has become pastime
in Berevata valley, Cal.
THE comforting of new hats is the
Cardinal idea in Rome just now.
VIRGINIA is getting excited over the
failure of its Legislature to impose dog
tax.
A QUARTER of million people try TO
get a living as public school teachers in
this country.
The potato rot is now ascribed to a
deficiency of lime and magnesia in the
soil.
A CHICAGO clergyman preached in a
billiard saloon on Sunday. He made
but three points.
PRESIDENT MoCosH denies that he
has refused the Princeton students per-
mission TO visit Saratoga.
IT is proverb in the West that it is
easier to turn prairie into timber than
timber into prairie.
The game law Of Missouri forbids the
destroying of birds nests, but has no
protection for the birds.
A FRENCH novelist has one of his
characters bored through with an auger
in che hands of an American.
In a section of Weizel county, West
Virginia about thirty miles square,
newspaper of any kind never appears.
The story that three-pound oysters
have been found near Tampa, Florida,
looks remarkably like Tampa-ring with
the truth.
A KALAMAZOO female, seven feet
high, hangs her diminutive husband on
a peg in their cabin, and goes off TO
circuses with other chaps.
The number of cdrtes-de-Uisite dis
tributed by the Paris post-office for
New Years day was prodigious. The
figure given is 2,560,000.
The sitting-room of an Indianapolis
couple is adorned with four divorces
handsomely framed, which tells sad
tales of old-time love.
A YANKEE in Louisiana is blowing mp
alligators with nitro-glycerine, and they
are afraid he will exterminate the var
minis altogether.
WE don't imagine that st. Peter will
inquire of any soul at the gate Ibid
you pay 81 800 year for a pew in
Beecher's church ?" and turn the appi-
cant away if he didn't
ELI LOVE, Of Wayne county, Ohio,
climbed tree to shake out a coon.
The dogs heard something drop and
went for it, but it was not the coon. II
was Eli.
A BOY was caught stealing chestnuts
near a cemetery. What's your name?"
Tweed" blubbered the boy. The
frightened farmer dropped the boy and
fled.
A DETROIT woman gives all the bot
ties and all the old, worn out hoop
skirts about the house to the poor, and
wonders how big her bank account is
up above.
"OLD age is coming upon me rapid
ly," as the urchin said, when he was
stealing apples from an old mans gar
den, and saw the owner coming whip in
hand.
They have nice divinity student in
Indiana. He breaches in English,
prays in Armenian, sings in Turkish,
and holds his tongue in eleven other
languages.
CHINESE laborers are reported fail
ure in Georgia. They have been en-
ployed in digging a canal, but have
proved inefficient and will soon be sent
off
IT is thought that Brigham Young
will destroy all his wives but thirteen.
This is n step in the right direction. but
the old fox probably contemplates
marrying female seminary somewhere.
A FREScH paper says that " Lake
Erie. America, has been raised fifty feet
by the heavy rains, and hundreds Of
people have lost their lives" Hundreds
mora will die Of laughter after reading
the French papers story.
WHAT" exclaimed the fashionable
Fitzwiggle 10 the exquisite Miss De La
Sparrowgrass- what would you be,
dearest, if / should press the stamp Of
love upon those sealing wax lips? %"
81, responded the fairy-like creature,
should stationary
GEORGIA thieves are growing terribly
audacious, and several instances are re-
lated Of their prompt action in relation
TO yaluables. A day or two ago a man
rang the bell at a house in Griffin, sen
ed the lady who answered it, coolly ais,
i noaaesaed ber az diamond earrings ana