River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-12-30
CLIPPINGS.

General Mcclellan has taken up his
permanent residence in Baltimore, mainly
on account of his wife's health.
"Tell me, Mary, how to Woo Thee" is
the title Oft recent ditty. Give her o
pair of diamond earrings and tortoise
shell comb for her back hair.
All the axes and buck.saws found in
the ruins of Pompeii are Of light make, as
II constructed for woman's use. Those
old ancents knew their little business.
Mr.. O'Conor, says the New York Iri.
Dune, gave his friends the greatest en-
enlargement when they learned that
parts of the Presidents message had beel
read to him that he was still improving.
In the twenty.fifth Regiment of the
United states Infantry there is a first
sargent who is Crcassian. lie was
born in the town of Chamara, and is 20
years OF age. lie keeps the compsny's
books ana psuers.
A girl in Berks county Pennsylvania,
only twelve years old. rises daily at four
A. NJ, milks thirteen cows, and preparse
a breakfast for the family. Her h r
isn't ''baN"ed. and she doSen't wear a
one-legg, dress.
General Carl Schurz, says the New
Tribune, continues to spend Saturday
nights and Sundays with his family in
that city, and to occupy himself during
the remainder of the week delivering his
lecture and taking in 5000 per night.
IL has been commonly stated that ger.
mlnation would not take place in seeds
below the freezing point of water. NJ
Uloth, however, states seeds of Triticum.
add indeed, other seeds also, were founc
to terminate when placed in groove
formed in blocks Of ice.
A dalkey who was stopped to wash his
hands in creek didn't no.ice the pc
culiar actions of goat just behind hin,
so when he scrambled oct Of the water
S1d was asked how it happened, he ans
wered II dunno zactly, but 'peard as If
de shore kinder h'isted and irowed me. .
e Sheltyville (Ky.) Republican says
that the worst case of selfishness thai il
has been permitted to present to the pub
tic ema lated from a youth who I'M
planned because his mothe" pat bigger
mustard plas er Oh his younger brother
man she did ON him, after they had
been eating melons and hard apples.
The marble statne Of General T.. e.
Baker, who was k.,ed at Balls Bluff,
was shipped i-om Leghorn on the 10Th OF
November, for the United States. This
was the last work or Or. Stone who
recensly died in IIaly. Congress appro.
priated $4,000 for the statute, which IS
TO be placed in the Old Hall o. Represen.
Ia ives.
A Londoner, who was sending away his
Irish butler for no exemplary conduct.
out who like most masters, was willing TO
make the best of him when he was going
| to plague somebody else, made this part
irg speech: 81 have said you are honest,
John, with good conscience; but | have
stretched point in saying you are
sober" ''Sure your Honor, could you
rot stretch another point, then, and say
an frequently sober!"
An exchange says that Edward A..
Stokes, who shot Fisk, has been for the
last two months confined to his bed in
the hospital ofSing Sing with asthma and
chills and fever, contracted in the prison.
His constitution appears much broken.
his hair is almost white, and his form is
bent and attenlated. His term of i'm
prisonment, by stretch OF the law, wi
expire next September. but his counsel
claim tbatit should end by the 9th Janu-
airy.
A man has been living near Greenfield
Massachusetts, like burrowing beast,
He dug a passage few feet into the side
Of hill, and at the end enlarged trans
verse cavity to hight of three feet and
a length Of six feet. lie propped up the
the top with boards, covered the bottom
with straw, and slept there every night
for six months, until the weather became
so cold that he had to quit. lie lived on
Vegetables and fruit stolen in the neigh
borho0d.