River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-05-21
RAKINGS AND SCRAPINGS.

a few months old, has, or claims to have,
the largest circulation Of any daily II
Philadelphia, except only the Ledger.
The Golden Age having said that no.
nance was better than rum, the Literary
World retorts that bad romance is more
harmful than flrst-rate rum, inasmuch as
1t reached and demoralized class--young
girls which is secure against the attacks
of John Barleycorn.
DR.. j. ID. Gross, a learned gentleman
OF Philadelphia, in an elaborate argument
before the American Medical Associa.
tion, during its recent meeting at Louis
vile, deprecates the prevalent prejudice
against blood-letting, and enumerates
twenty or thirty diseases which can be
best treated by the lancet.
With singular liberality the Geograph.
ical Society of Paris have, during several
years, awarded their medals for Arctic
discovery to English and Americans.
This year they honor with the Roquette
prize Ia gold medal), the late Capt. Hall
of the Polaris. The official report ON
which these awards were based was pre-.
pared by Matte Brun, son of the distin.
guished geographer
Van Syckles Corners, N. j., has its
scandal, scoundrel known as the Rev.
John W. Porter, having seduced a little
| girl only twelve or thirteen years old.
The father of the girl compromised for
bill of sale of horse and buggy, and the
seducer, who is married man, left for
Philadelphia or parts unknown.
Postmaster General Jewell, in his
late speech to the chamber of Commerce
at New York, said that city pays for
newspapers alone $4,000 year to the
post office department. against Chicagos
$4,000, Boston's $4,000 and Philadel.
phia's $4,000; and that the letters and
newspapers going out from New York by
mail average thirty eight tons day.
Ex-Secretary McCulloch is writing
from London to the New York Tribune
In favor of the American system of reduc.
ing the public debt. In his last he dis
serts upon the condition of France and
concludes that the great standing armies
OF Europe are the cause of enormous and
growing public debts which cannot be re-
duced until a general disarmament is
agreed upon.
The oldest and most successful temper
ance society on the Pacific coast, the
Dashaways, is based on the principle of
gradual reform. Its members at first
take the pledge for only six months.
That period expired, they may have
spree if they think one absolutely neces.
sary, and then join again in good stand
ing.
1t is told Of New York country edi.
tor that as he was standing on a railway
depot platform, conversing with a friend,
he felt something jerking at the loop of
his congress CATERS. He turned quickly
and discovered the baggage man trying to
get cleck-strap through his after loop,
which he had mistaken for the handle of
a Saratoga trunk.
John V. Farwell, the well-known dry
goods dealer of Chicago, has gone over to
England to assist his early friend, Mr..
Moody, in the English revival movement,
and telegraphs to friends in Philadelphia
that the week day average attendance at
all the Moody -Sankey meetings numbers
$1,000 persons, that $4,000 people are
present during the Sundays exercises,
and that thus 100000 souls experience
the religious influence weekly.
The most perfectly shaped man or wo.
man is unsymmetrical, that is to say Their is
a marked uulikeness between the two
sides of the face (which is most seen, and,
therefore, permits of more accurate study
will be found always to exhibit consider
able differences. Probably no two sides
of any human face are precisely alike. 1t
is the same with every limb. No pair of
limbs is shaped alike. One hand is al
most always larger than the other; so
with the leg and arm.
In Washington on the 18th man
named William Watson, government
clerk, an Irishman by birth. who lost
leg in the late war; was sent to the asylum
he being insane on religious subjects, and
having carried through the streets ban
ner on which was painted a large snake,
with the inscription, Luther and Henry
Will" which he said represented the
stronghold Of Professionalism while at
the other end was inscribed, "Beecher and
Bismarck" which was intended as por-
traying the tail of Professionalism.
The use of steam as a motive power
upon canals will be tested in a more
thorough manner on the Erie canal dur
ing the present season. Twelve boats of
the Baxter pattern will be introduced at
the opening Of navigation, and six more
will be added to the steam fleet on the
first OF July. Each of these boats will
carry two hundred and twenty-five tons
Of produce and merchandise, and it is in
tended TO run them from New York to
Buffalo and return in fifteen days, includ-
ing the time used in loading and unload
ing at each end.
Here's chance for wresters. Major
j. II. Mclaughlin Of Detroit will wrestle
any man living for from $1,000 to So.
600, and the championship Of the world.
The Major will take or give expenses, to
wrestle in this country or England. He
prefers to wrestle with John Graham
or Richard Snabe of England. The Mai.
Mclaughlin now in London, England, Civ
ing exhibitions in Indian club swinging
and American style Of wrestling. ami who
claims the title Of champion wrestler of