River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-10-16
Fresh Foreign News.

Louis, of Bavaria, talks of building
more Wagner opera houses.
PATTI hrs warbled from the stage of
the new Opera House in Paris.
In you say Exposition to an official
III vienna, expect to be knocked down.
JOAQUIN MILLER was very much an
noyed IN Milan to be pointed out bv a
Boston man as ''that long haired, dirty
looking fellow"
BERLIN ladies wear Paris fashions
Just as they used to before the war, not
wlthstanding their prOtestations that
they never would.
THE Sultan is expected to start on a
tour around the world at once, as DIR.
Mary Walker has arrived in CONSTANT
nople, painting still
Mr.. RAJoN has nearly completed his
etching from Mr.. Watt S portrait of John
Stuart Mill, and it is said that it prom
ises to be perfect success.
w, i. FIRTH, II. A., has Just finished
apictme entitled est. Valentines Day."
1t is to be engraved, and will be pub
lished by Mr.. Graves, the well-known
printseller of Pail Mall.
FIGARO calls him Mr.. Stillson, and
says he has n grand head. A Manches-
ter paper got it Tileton. Variety is the
spice of life, and what's in name is
their argument.
HorEL-KEEPERs at Nice are brushing
up preparatory to the commencement Of
another season. Last year business
was said to have been unprecedentedly
dull there.
THERE is no longer any "fashion or
"society" in Madrid. All the aristo-
Gratis and old families have left the
country never to return, and there is no
more social gossip in the city.
SOMEBODY recently ran away with
somebody else's wife in Baden Baden,
and for time there was great excite
ment. When it turned ont that the
erring wife was an American, everybody
laughed and went about their business
again.
ALFRED EDWARD has had boil on his
neck, and it has given him great deal
of pain, if we are to believe the Court
Circular. The audacity of the boil is
unprecedented Poor Alfred Edward
poor boil
THERE is said to be portrait of
Thomas Jefferson in the Museum at
Munich. labeled "George Washing
ton, the American patriot. "Where
ignorance is bliss, tbs folly to be WISE
as in this instance;
The willy old Gar has his eyes on his
English son-in-law. He has twice taken
him to task for improprieties, and
threatens to take the girl away from him
if he don't behave himself has a crown
and bald head should.
STRAUSS has budget of new compo-
sitions on hand, which will be "discours-
ed by his band in Vienna next month,
ON the occasion of the semi-centennial
birthday of some exalted Austrian Offic-
ial, whose name and title we don't recOl-
lect.
INTESIPERANCE is largely on the in
creare III Glasgow, and the authorities
arc very much troubled about II Sat
UTday night thousands of factory hands
linen and women-become outrageous
ly drunk and remain in that condition
over Sunday.
NILSSON has had some new photo
graphs taken i'll London. They are
very namby- PANTY looking. She is rep
resented to be standing before a piece
of statuary, and has on dress of very
peculiar style. Statuary took an excel
cent picture.
The would-be imitator of Mr.. Bergh
sl,... n
cabby horses, Is roundly abused by the
refined man on the box, let's him off,
and then writes a three yard letter to
the Times complaining of tina ill-treat-
ment he has been subjected to.
HIGHwAYMEN have made their appear
ance along the Thames embankment
after night fall, and the police force in
that locality has been increased The
roadway is brilliantly lighted and the
highwaymen that come there must, in
deed, be very bold or very hungry.
RnDIEL is said to be sitting up night
after night to decide upon name for
new perfume he has concocted. He has
used all the royal family, and all the
lyric artists of the day, and now is Mt
terly at loss who to honor. We suggest
the name of joaquin Miller. Perfume
suggests the poet
AN American appeared in the parquet
of London theatre with his coat and
trousers very much torn and disarrang
ed. Some people thought he had been
sitting on the ragged edge of despair"
but in reality lie had fought with the
doOr-keeper about leaving his overcoat
IN the lobby, as is customary.
Mr.. SHAW, of Persia, has been very
sick, and his subjects were much con
cerned lest he should get we'll He had
no confidence in native physicians, and
was attended during his illness by
three English medical men. At last nc
counts he was aOle to sit up on his ell
bow and drink cup of tea
In response to an onslaught in the
London Times upon the "hideous eff
figy y of Queen Anne in front of st.
Panl's, Canon Liddon writes that the
Chapter were under the impression that
the statue WINS protected by an net of
Parliament, but that if not, they would
gladly assent To its removal