River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-02-20
General Items.

CHEss lor TOUR is German innova-
ton.
JAPAN has adopted the postal card
system.
New YORK claims one drinking
saloon to every $50 of tspopulation.
New YORK paid million and quar-
ter last year for street payements.
UMBRELLAS displaying advertise.
ments are gratuitously distributed in
Paris.
THERE are no free schools in Jack.
sonport, Arkansas.
CoTToN manufacture is steadily in
creasing in the South.
BBRGH protests against dyeing poo
dies by New York aristocrats.
THE month just passed was the
warmest January for half century.
The Germans are using iron shields
in some OF their land Notifications.
ONO is the only State that is round
at both ends and high in the middle.
PARTIES going over the ocean should
be warmly clothed. The steamers are
always coaled.
10. SMITH, JR., proposes to rebuild a
Mormon capital at Nauvoo on a scale
of unexampled magnifcence.
Nor "Innocents Abroad Harry
Genet in Europe. Also Woodward and
Sweeney.
WYOMING proposes to wipe out the
blot Oh its fair name and make gam
bling illegal.
THE Duke of Edinburgh gets, with
his Russian wife, 1915, 600, and $50, 600
year besides.
A PENNSYLVANIA farmer offers pre-
MUM chrome with every load of
manure bought of him.
THISTLE tea and poultice of thistle
leaves are said to be good for neuralgia.
WOMEN are now eligible to any Office
Of school control or management in
Pennsylvania.
IT was scarcely fair for Californian
who heard an Indian girl in opera to
say she was transformed from a squaw
to squawler
Nor praising where praise is not due
is one of the most important of the
smaller duties of life.
Is THERE any objection to teacher
warming the naughty scholars if
he keeps school himselfl
A RICHMOND paper complains of the
large number of Virginians who are
leaving their native State.
DIR. +. II. CLARKE's remarkable book
on Sex III Education has already
reached its eighth edition.
SEvENTY-FIvE per cent. of the sick
ness of New York, and probably ninety
per cent. OF its crime, comes from the
tenement-house population.
A TEN-YEAR-oL French girl burned
her fathers house because he had
whipped her for not knowing her cate
chlsm.
A STRANGE use has been made of fish
scales in the manufacture of water
proof material designed for dental
plates.
To PRINT a thousand impressions of
bank bills of the highest denomina-
tions costs 81, AL in New York, but it
can be done for S63 by the Govern
ment Engraving Bureau.
HENRY WARD BEECHER thinks that to
build a theology solely by the logical
faculty is as irrational as to try to
make flower with carpenters tools.
IT is estimated that during the i'm
pending famine in India the Govern
lnent will be called upon to supply
half pound of grain per day, for
eight months, to rs, 600, 900 people.
The Memphis Avalanche congratu-
lates itself on its non.liablllty to a
libel suit from Susan b., because it
never criticises the personages of an
cient history.
Mr. HENRY NJ. MoRms has presented
Morris, one of the signer} of the
Declaration of Independence, to the
city of Philadelphia. The original
painting was by TrumbuIl, and is now
in Hartford.
REAL sheep are introduced in the
pantomime of Little Red Riding
Hood at Covent Garden Theatre. On
the occasion of the recent visit there of
the Prince aud Princess OF Wales the
sheep we're introduced into the royal
box for the deiectation of the royal
children.
Az opera was so badly executed re.
Gently in the City of Mexico that the
exasperated audience, who were good
judges of music, put a stop to IL by
hurting chairs, benches, cushions, and
every movable appurtenance of the
house, upon the stage.
A CERTAIN farmer, having company
at dinner, was ambitious to make il
appear that he was a somebody. Adj
dressing his boy, he said 81 Have
You driven those sheep in r. Eyes,
sir; saw him Jump over the bars ~
He had but one.
CnoRus OF ladies Cto comedy curate
who is ascending the ladder to hang
decorations 40, Mr. Sweetlow, do
take care Don't go up So danger.
Gus Do come down! o." Rector
(sarcastically) -" Really, Sweetlow,
don't you think yor'd better let a mar.
ried man do that l"-Ptncb.
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