River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-07-10
General Items.

/ ~ AhiAhblldniS.
The naughty boys in Hartford amuse
themselves by throwing stones at the
Putnam statue.
The Cincinnati Gazette is curious to
KNOW what the brewers of that city do
with the tobacco stems they purchase.
The Cuban planters are arriving at
the conclusion that growing pine apples
and bananas for the American market
pays better than tobacco and coffee.
BLUFoRD WILSON, Solicitor Banfeld'
successor, is United States Distric
Attorney for the Southern District
Illinois.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON sent in his
resignation as one of the board of over
seers of Harvard College last Wednes-
day, but was induced to withdraw it.
THE Right Rev. DR. II. Kestell Corn
ish, recently consecrated first Bishop
Of Madagascar, with clergy and other
helpers, ten in number, has sailed from
England for his distant diocese.
SIR Moses. MoNTEFIoRE of London, the
generous protector of the Jews in Pales-
tine, is over nintey wears of age, vet
he is now engaged extending aid to the
people of Jerusalem, in their present
distress arising from famine.
NEW ORLEANS journalists are mourn
ing the death of Jack, the reporters
dog, who used to gravely carry copy
for the Picayune reporters, and save
them the trouble of going to the office
too frequently.
ONE evening at Paris cafe group
OF idlers Were discussing politics and
people who change their opinions.
well, says one, Give never cried
long live anybody ," "Quite so, re-
marked another, "but then you're a
doctor
SEEKERsof summer resorts are not in
hurry to obey Shakespeare" Stand
not upon the order OF going, but go at
once on the contrary, they incline to
stand and wait, to be no more losers
than they have been already by prema-
ture emigration
KING VICTOR EMMANUEL, acconipa-
MED by the princes, reviewed the troops
ana the National Guard at Rome
recently. An enormous crowd was
present, and the people heartily
cheered the king and the troops.
Signor Minghetti, in uniform, and
wearing the Order of the Annunziata,
rod by the side of the King.
A BARBER on the Rhine has recently
celebrated his sixtieth year of service
with the razor. He had, during that
time, shaved 200, OH persons, and earn
ed 1900 thalers, from which it may
easily be computed that the average
price of a shave in Germany for the
past sixty years has been less than one
cent. How many gallons of blood, how
many ears sliced, how many questions,
Have some bay rum?" the statistical
barber fails to state.
A Mr.. THOMAS PEARoE ran for the
office of Justice at Eola, Oregon, two
years ago, and being tied with his OPP
ponent, gained the office by throw of
the dice, the law directing that in case
of tie at such elections thecontestants
shall draw lots for the position. Mr..
Pearce has Just been through another
contest, resulting as before in tie, and
it is expected that the gambling pro-
cess viii be repeated.
The Hungarians are said to be the
only people in Europe whose national
uN mn NpiiNtihlidAGo lIic DOSSlDillb1 Vi
the utter destruction OF their nation.
After saying that it is impossible that
SO much patriotism should fail of sue
cess, that SO many heroic hearts should
have died for their fatherland in vain,
that the better days must come after
which 50 many devout souls yearn, the
poet (Rorosmarty) adds:
Or there shall come if there must come, glori-
Gus death when over its grave stands
nation in blood.
And the tomb INTO which a nation sinks the
| peoples surround; and in the eyes of mil
lions is seen the tear of sorrow.
MENTION is made of sly old gentle
man of 50, who was recently sued in a
London Court for breach of promise.
He was saved from an adverse verdict
by an economical method of spelling in
his letters. When he wanted to say,
May God bless you-and KISSES" he
only wrote, m. q. Il. Y. and X. I'm.
ID. " in his letters signified IN Dear"
as, the reader will remember, it did in
DR.. Swifts letters to Stella and "L.
i. > was the old gentleman's way of
saying Little Pet. +"
Wild buflaloes are not nice creatures
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Five specimens of the beasts belonging
to Robinson's Menagerie, stampeded
the other day in indianapolis, over
throwing one old lady and one young
lady with one young child in her arms.
The baby they badly bruised. The
women they seriously injured The
menagery man roped in his buffoloes,
paid S25 for the damaged baby, and
moves on with his miscellanies,
The thousands of Alumni who are
gathering about these days to the ia
miliar college halls, recall these lines
of Holmes in Harvard poem:
We're all alike Yesuyius filings the scora from
hls fountain,
But down they come ia yollying rain back to
the burning mountain:
We leave, like those volcanic stones, our pre-
cious Alma Mater
But wll keep dropping IA to roe tho dean old
crater.
In connection with the ceremonies of