River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-02-27
Personal.

JEFF DAVIS says he could kill Foote
at the hrst hire I; but will he do it
MARSHAL BAzAINE is treated with
severity, and no one is allowed to visit
HE Prince and Princess of Wales
are to remain in st. PETERSBURG
throughout February.
" is affirmed that Whitelaw Reid
VIII soon lead Miss Ida Greeley to the
hyEeneal altar.
A HISTORY of Scottish philosophy, by
the Rev. DIR. McCosh, is announced for
publication in the autumn.
NELLIE GRANT acknowledges her en-.
gagement, and Will be married early in
the spring.
A YOUNG German Prince longs to
play Benedict to Beatrice, the young.
est daughter of Queen Victoria.
LONDON papers state that Patti has
signed papers to sing in the United
States during the winter of 1876.
MARK TWAIN is credited with having
pocketed S22, 600 out of his "InnoceAts
Abroad, which has sold 1870, 900 copies.
AcoUsIN of President James Madison,
elghty-fours years old, is now in the
Nashville (Tenn.) poorhouse.
Mo1IEBE, Beranger, Gautier and
Taine are among the great writer's in
1 France who sought in vain for admis.
sion into the French Academy.
CARLYLE is described as looking
quite as well as he did ten years ago,
and being as wonderful in conversation
as ever.
ONE of PATHS recent presents in
Russia was canary bird of solid gold,
with pearl bill and diamond eyes. 1t
was life size.
SIR SAMUEL BAKER says that fire can
not advance through grass, even when
1t is blowing a gale, faster than six
miles an hour.
/ Miss BETTY BECK, daughter of Con-
1 gresham Beck, of kentucky, is one of
the most admired bellies this season in
Washington.
GEN. THos. A. RossER is out with an
argument for towing canalboats with
locomotives, a narrow gauge track to
be built on the towpath.
MARK TwAIN's last trip to England
was almost solely to take out an English
copyright for the Gilded Age. He is
an extraordinary joker.
l MAY safely say, and / am proud to
be able TO say, that l am the most
strongly and the best hated man in
Europe. bismarck TO PruSSion Diet
SPOTTED TAIL hiss fallen before the
march of civilization and occupied
box in the theatre at Cheyenne, Wy
oming, recently.
CUSHING will be given discretion to
recognize any government he wants
to, when he gets to Madrid. He thinks
seriously of trying on Don Carlos for
while.
HAEGMAN FooTE has been engaged in
three affairs of honor, and has never
been hurt yet. Perhaps it will be well
enough to state, also, that he has never
hurt anybody else.
A Mr.. john LINDSAY, of Griffin, Ga,
takes Confederate currency at par a
proceeding only to be accounted for On
the hypothesis that he contemplates
committing suicide and advancing the
plea OF insanity.
French traveller, who explored Thibet
and China, died recently at Paris at
the age of II, leaving considerable
wealth, and curiosities of priceless
value.
AN old grave-stone, unearthed re-
Gently on the Ohio river bank, and
bearing the inscription, Fanny W.,
$780," is exciting the curiosity of the
quid nuncs of Carrollton, Kentucky.
els Miss BLINKING at homeG" asked
Mr.. Sanders of the Irish girl who
answered the ring at the door. eyes,
/ b'lave she is, Sir" lis she en-
gagedi" "An' is it engaged you say 2
Faith, an j can't tell We, Sir but she
kissed Mr.. Vincent last evening as if
she had not seen the like NV him, an
it's engaged I b'lave they are, Sir"
A CLIENT called on Mr.. Webster to
employ him to argue cause of import
ance. Mr.. Webster asked who was en-
gagged on the other side, and the client
answered, A sleepy-lookihg lawyer,
named Wood" Well" Mr.. Webster
replied, {" If George Wood is employed
against You and IS asleep, be very care
ful not to wake him up.
SENATOR SUMNER has in his possess
sion gold watch which was presented
by Washington to Lafayette, after the
battle OF Yorktown. Upon 1t is this
inscription sc. Washington to Gill
bert Motier de Lafayette, in common.
Grafton of the capitulation of Lord
Corvallis at Yorktown, October IL,
ISL"
NELLIE WEEMAN has killed herself in
Springfield, Mass, at the age of seven
teen, because she believed that she
could not become Christian. She
had attended revival meetings in the
Methodist Church, and the dread of
eternal punishment there aroused had
affected her mind. She was a bright
intellectual girl, but very sensitive and
impossible.
SocIEY on a transatlantic winter
voyage must be wretchedly dull. The
Baltic, from New York, took out hfty-
four cabin passengers, Monday, only
three of whom we're women; the Bre.