River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-08-29
Miscellaneous Items.

the eclipse.
AS soon as the British garrison had occupied
Cyprus formally, officers and men adjourned to
a cricket match.
The Chicago Neaus announces wrestling
match between signor Benjamin Butlerii and
Monsieur Stanli Mattieus.
The sweet singer-of Rhode Island bears the
aristocratic name of John de Smith, and he
blesses Valley Falls with his presence.
The German society for catching, breeding
and preserving fish, are preparing an inter
national exhibition at Berlin for 1874.
The bronze medallions stolen from Mozart's
grave, have been found at pawn-shop, and
| are soon to be restored to the monument.
Jesse Pomeroy's latest trick was to make a
saw from some article in his cell and nearly cut
his way out of prison before he was discovered.
commission is about to be formed for the
purpose of removing the remains of Rossini
| from Paris to the Church of Santa Croce in
| Florida.
General Buffers yacht Will proceed soon to
Boston harbor, for the purpose of accommoda-
ting fishing parties of workingmen, says the
New York Star.
Mr.. Il. W. G. Mitchell, private secretary to
Secretary Sehurz, says of the published charges
against him that they mostly tissue of
malicious falsehoods.
| DR.. Annie L. Fisher, who has been studying
medicine in Europe, has been appointed lee
turer on diseases of children, at the Boston
University Medical School.
| Nc mixed marriage can be celebrated by a
Roman Catholic priest in England without an
express stipulation that all the children shall
| be trained up as Catholics.
| The bite of fly caused the death of Alonzo
Tower, of No. Is North Patterson avenue,
Baltimore, the other day. So reads the death
certificate at the health Office.
| Pope Plus TX. died worth sS2, 000, 900, accu-
INFLATED in thirty-two years. Remember the
secret of his SUCCESSIVE never started a daily
paper to fill long felt want
The Russian government lately gave its
sanction to the proposal for founding Il new
university in Siberia. Tomsk is the town
chosen for this new seat of learning.
| Cincinnati Commercial: There is but one
piano on the island of Cyprus. This may ac-
count for the sudden influx from England and
the countries bordering on the Mediterranean"
| An old man in the refreshment trade was
telling some of the boys the other day thpt he
once knew a young lady who missed an offer
Of marriage by refusing to partake of Ice
cream
/ Capt Francis Witt, of the Austrian navy,
will shortly proceed to Borneo in connection
with the scheme for exploring and colonizing
the large tract of country in the north of the
island.
'.Phantasmograph is the latest II is an
| instrument in process of invention by james
Gresham, Of New York, who expects to be able
to photograph ship on the high seas 500 miles
distant.
1t was intended to celebrate the centenary Of
La Scala at Milan by some special performances
but the money will now be employed fo
the more prosaic purpose of renovatlng th'
theatre.
To testify his love for the deity of the tempt,
of Neriad, a Hindoo enthusiast nayed boy
alive upon the threshold and devoured hi
entrails. He has been sentenced to imprison
mont only.
Moses Owens, " the well-known poet" is al
inmate of the almshouse in Bath, Me-, where
he is in filthy, idiotic condition, his intern
perate habits having separated him from
family and friends.
one-armed negro boy at Augusta, Ga, has
saved four persons from drowning, and Mary
Mcnamara, of Clinton, Mass, has just saved
the third child that fell into the Lancaster
Mills ponds this year.
The effect of balloon-oescent was tried
camp-meeting near Cincinnati lately. The
bali, on came sailing down in the middle OF
prayer, like an answer from above, but it eff.
fectually broke up the meeting.
A restaurant patron was talking somewhat
roughly to waiter, when the proprietor, step
ping up, remarked: Don't talk to him that
way. He used to be Governor of Florida, and
such treatment naturally hurts his feelings"
William Gilmore, of Poland Pa, SIS years
old, paid $4,000 cash and decided homestead
worth 81 800 to secure Miss Lendale, his bride
of "A summers. At the close of the honey
moon he offered to deed her back for nothing.
'Who, SIR said Milwaukee reporter to a
Milwaukee statesman, would be the best man
in Wisconsin to send to the United States
Senate? by -, sir, replied the states
man, II would be, but the - fools won't dc
it,
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and clowns $3.50 to Sl75. He adds $25 to the
salary of the latter when clown gets off a new
joke but he has had no occasion to pay the ex-
| ira 1875 during the whole course of his life a
| Snowman.
A most eccentric individual named Lyman
Grinnell, is said to live on the outskirts of
Norwich. He believes that cat flesh is the only
pure meat, and has subsisted on it for four
| years, boys from the city keeping him supplied
at 10 cents a head.
| report is in circulation in London that
Lord Dufferin is likely to be asked to go out to
Asia Minor as commits sioner, or in some other
official capacity. Lord DufferiD, 1t will be re-
membered played memorable part in the oc-
cupation of Syria many years ago.
The boss tarantula of the San joaquin val
| ley is on exhibition at Stockton, Cal. This
curiositys body is two and three-quarter inches
long, with legs to match, each leg being about
as long as the body He is black, with dark
gray hairs and wool covering his body.
Hundreds of strange figures beckon to pad
dlers and rowing parties on the lake near st.
Augustine, Fla, but when the woods, IN the
edge of which the phantoms show themselves
is approached, they disappear. The st. Angus
tine Press is much excited over the mystery.
One of the most difficult problems to a mind
of analytical tendencies is to comprehend the
magnitude of prompting cause strong enough
to induce colored man to commit suicide right
in the middle of the watermelon season. The
first case of the kind ever recorded occurred in
Alabama last week.
The Countess Hona. daughter of the Austrian
diplomat. Count Andrassy, was lately betrothed
to Prince Alfred Montennoyo. The prince is
grand son of of the Arch Duchess Maria Louisa,
who married the first Napoleon, and, subse-
quently. the Austrian Count Neipperg. From
this second marriage the prince is descended.
His father. the Prince William is still living.
A curious story comes from Honesdale, just
up the Delaware. A little girl who was fond
OF flowers had favorite fuehsia which she
cared for assiduously. She recently died.
When taken sick this plant had forty buds just
about bursting into bloom. The flowers never
came for the plant withered, the buds dropped
to the ground and on the day she die it was
lifeless.
The Peanut.
Bows and girls are interested in pea