River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-05-26


sequence of Angelinas failure to tceip,
rotate his love, says that his is an a8-
gravated case of Ahgelind pectoriSi,
4 RURAL statistician. reports that
more people are talked to death By
peddlers of tightening rods than are
killed by tightening. Quite likely.
A cARMAN is an individual who wants
you to have your furniture all ready to
load at A. NJ, and comes around in
the AFTERNOON to see ii you have done it;
A WESTERN orator warming with
his subject, exclaimed i" There, is, not
d man, woman or child IN this house,
VINO has arrived at the age of fifty years,
but has felt this truth laundering
through their minds for centuries.
ONCE while at a negro meeting
Thus heard the pastor preach
To his colored congregation
And all white folks within reach
Am dar amy here, what's present,
Disbeletin Whist I say
Eberyting / hab been sayin'
Am as clear as light oh day.
Angels ddr is-whits and cuid,d,
Here he gave the book . yhaek,i
For oh ddIB ness dtr's an angel
An dat angel he am black"
THE little boys of Rochester, New
York, whose street ball playing and kite
flying has been stopped by order of the
police, display considerable ingenuity
in getting around the command. They
allow little girls to fly the kites and
play ball while they sit by and enjoy
themselves.
MARYLAND is of the opinion that it
ought to have more credit for the tea it
burnt and the nOn-importation associa.
ton it organized before the revolutions
airy war, and SO Baltimore historian Is
proudly at work on sketch which will
reproduce the events of a century or
more ago.
MARK TWAIN is charged with an end
less series of heresies, the latest accu-
sation being that he was rebel soldier
and served two weeks with JEFF Thomp-
son IN the army in Missouri. That he
never made much of military record
is explained in letter which he is said
to have just written to Thompson. He
says, eve never won any victories to
speak Of We never could get the en-
envy to stay still when we wanted to
fight, and we were generally ON the
move when the enemy wanted to fight.
MANY of The Western men who went
to the gold mines of French Guina are
returning. The fields are 100 miles in
land and it takes $50 miles of paddle
boat travel and five or six days journey
through tangled underground to reach
them then the gold, which is found in
rotten quartz, is in from two to six feet
of black mud, whence rises an efiiuvia
which no white man can endure, and
the water is SO poisonous that the ma
tiyes drink nothing but curasoa.
AT the present time the postal rates
between France and this country are so
high that it is cheaper for letters be-
tween the countries TO be first sent to
England and then Tetransmitted TO their
either France or the United
States, than for letters to be carried di-
rect by the French mails. And there
is IN agency in London which makes
money by undertaking this business of
retransmitting letters between the two
countries.
THERE IS certain grim sense of
humor pervading the average Hiberni-
an residents of Providence, Il. L., that
crops out occasionally when one least
expects il. For instance One of the
census officers called at house in that
city, recently, in which n young man
lay extended on n settee, helplessly
drunk. He told hewoman of the house
that he had called 20 take the census of
the family; TO which she replied, with
an expressive glance at the settee
"Suro it's but little senses yen find
here, anyway
THE valuable living of Nottingham, in
the county of Lancaster, IN the gift of
the Crown has been conferred on DIR.
Hayman. The letter from Mr. Disrael,
communicating the offer stated that
Mr.. Disraeli ia making il, wishes 10
give no opinion on the distressing con-
troversy which has recently resulted in
the removal Of DR.. Hayman from the
head mastership OF the Rugby school.
All that he desires TO express is his
sympathy with distinguished scholar
who has had 10 contend with circum.
stances Of trying difficulty. which have
exhausted his worldly means, and who
now, with the anxions responsibility of
q large family, has been deprived Of a
high office and al honored home. Lon
don NciCs.