River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1876-05-11
NEWS NEBULA.

stories.
The favorite line of the tramps-
The clothes-line.
Strawberry short-cake is in full
bloom in the South.
Signs of the dimes The jingle in
the contribution boxes.
If they want to prevent Bristow s
nomination they had better stop lying
about him.
Mr.. Dsnald G. Mitchell has been ap.
pointed one of the Jurors at the Cen.
tennial Exhibition.
Mrs. Conard lluelscher, of Battle
Greek, has a bible PSI years old and
another 243 years old.
The truth Is SO bad, nowadays, that
| 1t is not surprising that nearly every
body has taken to lying.
Mr.. A. b. Chapline. formerly a Du.
buque lawyer, is city attorney for Gus.
ter City, in the Black Hills.
Iron can be manufactured in Texas
IN sufficient quantities to build all the
railroads the state needs.
Misfortune never comes singly.
Tyndall was married while ago, and
now they have made a baronet Of him.
A negro, in an endeavor TO escape
from the officers in Savannah. Ga,
jumped into the river and was drown.
ed.
Herman Perwitz was arrested few
days ago at Beaver Dam, Wis, for sell.
ing salt encased in butter, represent.
ing it to be butter.
Two or three London Journals say
that Lieut. Cameron intends to take an
other journey to Africa to prosecute
his geographical researches.
west side young lady says she
can't see what amusement there is in
croquet. 1t is whispered around that
she wears number seven shoes.
4 mistake was made at Crawfords-
vile, Ind, last week, in case of mea.
sizes being taken for smallpox and the
patient being sent to the pest-house.
A London correspondent informs us
that the English mania for pedestrian
ism and spelling-bees is commonly
called now the foot and mouth dis
ease"
A resident of Madison. Conn, has re.
Gently buried his seventh wife. He is
now looked upon with as much curios-
ity as was Bluebeard, of romantic re-
nOwn.
Harley French, ayOung man aged IL.
was drowned in Virdigris river near
Nendesha, Kan, while fording il in
company with a young man named
Frank Young.
Judge Murdoch is shipping from Du-
buque to the Centennial FIVE large box
es of Iowa archaeological specimens.
Most of these are relics of the mound
builders.
A Massachusetts woman wouldn't al
low her husband TO bury his pet horse
in the family cemetery lot. She said
he couldn't ride to heaven, if he got
there at all,
/ one of the duties of the Organist of
a church ON the South side is to strike
several loud chords on the organ, al
the conclusion of the sermon, to wake
up the congregation.
The plum-apple trees, bearing stimuli
taneous crops of plums and apples. are
the latest frauds on the Michigan
grangers. They cost Sl.50 piece and
turn out to be crab-apple trees.
Mr.. Writ Henry, of Virginia. grand.
son of Patrick Henry, has aided in con.
tributing number of ancestral por-
traits. books. and medalliOns TO the
historical department of the Centen-
NAL exhibition.
In Spencer. Wis, there is a secret
society in operation, of which the pub
lie will probably learn much soon, as
the members are to be tried for the
murder Of a candidate while undergo
ing initiation.
A landlady IN a Nashville boarding
house finds 1t necessary to post up the
following notice, which leaves mar
gin for meditation Don't fool with
the girls while they are lighting the
coal-oil lamps.
A swindler in Cleveland raised q
stake by representing himself TO be
the inventor of a noiselessly-eXpl0ding
gunpOwder. the right to make which
he had sold to the emperor of Germa-
ny for large sum.
Judge Foster. of the United States
district court. in ease tried before
him this week at Topeka. Kan, has
decided that it is no violation of the
United States law 10 sell liquor to In
dams when off their reservations.
A Harrisburg man who boosted he a
never seen the horse that could throw
him, was landed in a druggists show
window about five minutes afterward.
amid Il chorus of There's alight in
tho window for Won -