River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-24
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

at a o'clock tea every Sunday afternoon.
The building interest in Chicago looks bright.
Small houses for retail trade are in demand.
President Hayes is about to choose new
representative of the United States for the Fiji
Islands.
Goy.-Gen. Lorne and Sir John Mcdonald, the
Canadian premier, positively refuse to be in
terviewed.
A newspaper man in Texas has married S2,-
900, 900, and sorrowing brother adds, please
exchange"
The carriages of Mrs. Hicks-Lord have ar
rived in London, and her rooms have been
gagged there.
In Priest Valley, California, there is man
who is so years old and four feet high, and he
is a wealthy farmer.
Senator Bruce will shortly issue letter to
his colored constituents, advising them not to
emigrate to the West.
Mary L. Booth, editor of Harper's Bazadr, is
described as a matronly-looking woman, with
no nonsense about her.
The country will be sorry to learn that an
unsuccessful attempt was made few days ago
TO assassinate Dennis Kearney.
Monseigneur Dumont, Bishop of Journal, in
France, has been removed from his diocese by
the Pope, on account of insanity.
Mr.. Bokhmeteff, of the Russian legation at
Paris, is expected in Washington soon with his
wife. formerly Miss Beale, Washington
belle.
In France the demi-monde beauties are com
PEELED to give political information to the po-
lice under threat of being escorted out of the
country.
Rose Eytinge, who is one of the best dressed
women of the stage has all her costumes made
in this country, and generally under her own
supervision.
Mr.. Joseph Glazebrook, an Oxford student
of great prominence, aged 20, committed sui
eide by poison last month. He was u teetotaller
aud vegetarian.
At Troy, N. Y, the iron works are all busy.
Twelve hundred and fifty tons of steel rails are
produced by the Bessemer works weekly, an
unexampled product.
''Perley' writes that Cornelius j. Wander
bilt find several of his old accounts in
Washington unpaid, if he has any desire to
make a general square-up.
At Baltimore during the past month the ship
ment of -four to Europe in bags reached 1850
bags of 14I pounds each, and the quantity
will probably be increased hereafter.
Commandment Deberly, said to be the last
survivor of Austerlitz, has just died, near Bor-
deaux, in his 95th year. He entered the army
in 1872, and was pensioned off in 1888.
Cen Burnside has not owned a dog cart or
any other vehicle in Washington for year or
MORE yet some of the lady correspondents per-
sist in describing him as riding in one.
The London Queen says that during the visit
of Lord Lorne and his wife to New York in May
they will reside in twelve rooms at the Windsor
hotel specially decorated for their reception.
Tie little Grand Duke Michael Alexandra
witch, youngest child of the Czarevitch, has at
four months old an allowance of $4,000 for
his table and household of fifteen persons.
Mys Montague once said to Sir William
Pepys, on seeing avery awkward man come into
the roam: There is a man who would give one
of his hands to know what TO do with the other"
The Emperor William pays for the education
of his grandchildren; and the English tutor of
Princes William (the future EMPEROR and
Henry receives $500 year, and he boards him
self
The Southampton magistrates have fined the
wife of the Tichborne claimant for not sending
her children to school. 1t was stated that in
the neighborhood she Is known as "her lady
ship"
The Boston AdyertiSer has heard a story that
at recent Sunday school exhibition a minister
asked the children "What is the best book in
the world" and the prompt reply was, Long
fellows Poems.'
W. w. Corcoran has bought the Patapsco In
stitate, at Elicott City, Nd, and it is under
stood that Miss Randolph, daughter of the late
Thomas jefferson Randolph, of Albemarle will
take charge as principal.
Count Schouvaloff. the Russian ambassador
to the British court, is an inverate gambler
Recently, at the rooms of the Marlboro club in
London, he played away in a few hours q sum
equal to his entire salary.
Minnie Hauk does not expect to return from
Europe before 1881. She is engaged until that
time to Col. Mapleson, and must go wherever
he directs, and she feels sure that he will not
direct her to return to this country
Col. Lucky, who was one of Gen. Grants
private secretaries, and who has been more re-
Gently secretary of the territory of Utah, has
resigned, and will be a clerk in the light house
office at Baltimore, under Gen. Babcock.
Rev o. B. rockingham, of New York city,
takes leave of his society in May next aud
will proceed on the extended foreign tour
which it has been announced he would make
for purposes of recuperation and study.
Mrs. Amanda Bishop, mother of Wesley w.
Bishop, died at her home in Norwich Conn.,,
on Wednesday. Her death is said to have been
caused by the confession of her son to COM
plieity in the notorious Cobb poisoning case.
The Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette expresses the
belief that the tide of immigration to that
State could be greatly increased by properly
organized efforts on the part of the people to
invite and aid it. 1t should add and protect it
after il gets there.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says that he has
al .ays been tolerably contented man and
hasn't grumbled much through life; but he is
disconnected. He would like to be boy again
and enter the floating college," known as the
Woodruff exposition
A correspondent describes Mrs. Jefferson
Davis as charming sensible Christian woman,
who understands the social and political ques-
tions of the time far better than the average of
the male sex. She has no hopes or aspirations
in connection with "the lost cause"
l.. G.. Dennis, the Florida Republican poll
tician, otherwise known as 1.-The Little Giant
of Alachua,' has been found guilty of perjury
at Gainesville, Fla, having, as is alleged
sworn falsely that he was citizen of the State
aud county and as such entitled to vote.
Labouehcre says that at his German univer-
sity he used to drink seventeen quarts of beer
at one sitting without i'll effects, the beer be-
ing pare. AGerman brewery must be built on
the slope of hill so that the beer may be
racked from one 10 another of FIVE stories unit
it gets to the ice.
Senator Matt II. Carpenter says that he is
thinking of going to Colorado for month or
two this summer for rest and health, but he
promises TO deliver the annual address at the
Rock county fair in GAINESVILLE. Wis. on the
Fourth of July, if he is within 500 miles of
the place at the time.
They have discovered tree in South Ameri-
ca that gives milk. A Yankee would make
pumps out OF the wood I'D get patent.
Mr.. John Keats, the poets nephew. and the
cnly one of his relatives who beSrs his name,
il civi engineer in Missouri. lie is an elder
" bachelor, and the name of Keats will proba-