River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-09-05

Mrs. Senator Dorsey. who is said to be the most
beautiful lady in Washington society.
A South Holyole, Mass. woman picked
forty-two quarts of blackberries from her cul-
tivatcd patch in two days last week.
A decree has been issued by the car ordering
that the recently purchased cruisers shall not
be included in the list of the Russian navy.
Fanny Davenport has analysed London, and
says IL is nine parts fog and one part conceit.
She brought some of the latter away with her.
A New York Chiuaman is named Hang Flu.
But this will not satisfy the profane kearney.
Hang Flu, indeed" II would hang EN- all!
The federal government has sixty million
acres of laud open to presumption in Califor-
MIA, including twenty million acres of tillahle
soil.
German and Austrian law forbids the sale of
dead fish. The fish are brought from the sea
and rivers in tanks. and are killed after being
sold.
A silk manufacturing firm in Lyons, France,
presents on its silks variety Of photographed
impressions, comprising pictures by the old
masters.
Tho scratch of a pin, which grew into an
ntlamed ulcer and threw her into spasms
caused the death of DIR. John Stones wife at
linton, Ga.
The further north you travel in Pennsylvania
the poorer the whisky bec"mes. So says the
''rwinkler" of the New York Star, and he
ought to know.
More suicides are committed in proportion
to the population, in San Francisco, than in
any other civilized city. We hope Kearney
will hurry home.
The Russian provinces have q, $40. 900 horses
the United States 9,5000e0. Turkey I,000,0J0
Austria S,5000u0, Germany S,S52,0o0 and
France 30UO,0 600.
Lord Beaconsheld is renewing his youth and
becoming quite gay again. He is regular at
tendant to the theaters and evening enter
tainments in London.
An English critic says that Frenchman in
one respect is like Scatchman-he likes a ser
mon, only the sermon must be delivered by a
comedian on the stage.
We have seen a pack of cards that have
been cut several hundred times, and yet they
are whole now.-Boston Post. That Joke viii
pass though it's deuced low.
company has been formed in Algeria for
the introduction of Chinese laborers, on ao-
count of the scarcity of hands for timber
cutting and mining operations.
Victor Hugos Miserables" will be a feature
of the season at the Boston Theatre. The only
stars engaged there are Frank Chanfrau, John
Mccullough and Mary Anderson.
At Boergsde, near Milan. dog was found
gnawing a bone which proved to be a woman 5
arm. Other fragments Of the body were found,
and a horrible murder is suspected.
A lady in the northern part of Herkimer
county, Ohio. frightened at the appear
ance of snake IN her path that her hair, pre-
rionsly glossy back, turned white.
1t requires great moral strength aud tenacity
of purpose to enable man te sleep till in
the morning. when an industrious fly has de
cided that he had better get up at 4:S0.
The marriage of the Duke of Cannaught with
the Princess Louise Margareta of Prussia has
been postponed, for some reason or other, till
I = A. IL
scr.
Miss Annie Ward Tiffany, who played at the
Chestnut, Philadelphia, during the summer
season, has been robbed in New York of a $500
solitaire diamond hing. Ii taken from her
room.
In the Commune de l. Herault, France, a
priest has eloped with yoang girl who was on
the point Of being married to another man.
She took with her in cash S., 900 of dowry
given by her father,
The salmon catch in British Columbia this
season exceeds that of any other They are
sold along the banks of the Fraser river at one
cent each. Indians catch them and Chinamen
clean and can them.
graduate Of Que Of our leading American
colleges is acting as cook at one Of the summer
resort hotels, and the hash is served mp in
seven languages-just six more than the average
guest can wrestie with.
A New York dressmaker employs three men
cutters goes to Paris for styles every seasun.
owns house for which she paid 900, and
keeps her carriage and horses. She has made
her way entirely herself
A sensation has been caused at East Boston
by the elopement Of beautiful and wealthy
youug widow with pennlless but dashing and
handsome milkman, the woman leaving her I6-
months-old baby to take care of itself.
Mrs. Macaay, wife Of the bonanza king, has
a sapphire which was once the property Of a
4 g. z n non T..
inch IN diameter Her pearl necklace cost
500, 600, and her coral set cost $4,000
The New Orleans school directors resolved
that al female teachers who marry during vaca-
ton shall lose their places; their theory Is that
married women have a supporter and shOuld
give way to their sisters who have none.
1ightnj az struck the Russia leather pocket
book Of Mrs. CheneIy of Salem, Mass. which
she was carrying in her hand, and $50 in green
backs was harmed 10 a crisp silver coin black
ened ca one side, and a railroad ticket scorched.
Miss Fanny Washington Finch, the great
grand-nece of Washington, and supposed o he
his nearest living relative, is keeping a board
e house at Washington, and has recently hnd
hor furniture attached by landlord for rent.
The Nation thinks that a part Of the drill OF
every girls school ought to be the reception bv
3 wife in an old gown, to a dinner of corned
beef and cabbage, of an unlooked-for guest,
thouehtless]y brought home by reckless hus-
band.
During recent thunde r-storn which passed
over Essex county. Masss shusetts. five persons
named Goodwin. residing in different parts of
the comfy, were knocl ed down by the electric
fnid OF had their property struck by light
ming.
While grubbing mp a st mp, Hunt Go. TEX
farmer struck an old irtn pot holding S426 in
silver and fifteen $50 old pieces. On top OF
the money a silver goblet marked Mylack,
the name ii family which disappeared during
the war
The ammonia OF the commercial fertilizers
manufactured in the suburbs of Augusta, Ga,
has completely driven ont the chlIls and fever
and other malaria that used to infest the local
ity. 1t ought to be tried as a remedy for yell
low fever.
The success of Victor Hpgo's Historic d IN
Crime has been enormous. The sale of the
peorles edition al two francs has reached 49,
600 and q new and still cheaper edition is to
appear with Illustrations, published at two Sous
the number.
It is reported that the New York Times is
about to lntroduce the electric light in its COM
posing room. The cost Of gas used there is
about $500 a month at present. The rost Of
the electric light it is understood. VIII be onl
SI00a month
Natling thrills the female clerk in a country
pestoffiae with greater satisfaction than 80 get
hold Of postal card containing 900 words
that Is, If they are written in iegibes hand, |
and the person to whom the card is addressed Is
not waiting for t.
Dr. J. S Myer of Virginia City, New. has
re1iscovered lost Egyptian Rrt. He tempers !
copper tools to more lasting cutting edge than /
steel tools Viii hold, similar to that of the /
,oppar implements with which The stone for
The Pyramids was cut.
Five italian ragpickers had narrow escape
from death at Bridgeport. They went to sleep /
IN a track in the railcoad yard, Hnd wonld have I
been crushed by switch engine II came 4
iashlne along had il not jumped the rails just
before II reached them.
Mr. ". j. Vance, appointment clerk Of the /
treasury department and a former Washington 4
has been solicited to accept the +
candidacy for the Republican Congressional
nomination in the Second, Martiusburg,
West Virginia, district.
According 60 the Swedish papers Prince Louis 4
Napoleon had a very marrow escape with his life (
during his visit to Sweden. Examining at an 4
agricultural exhibition, he approached close to 4
III engine, which. unexpectedly, was set In mo-
ion and caught his clothes.
A man at ono Of the watering places commit