River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-08-14
Items of Interest.

Inc rOu Is OUCH u5tu IN Il school ui Est |
Chinese never eat oysters in their fresh
state.
The train that beats electricity-T The
train of thought. ~
There are 1856 tribes Of Indians left in
the United States.
Draughts which are never cashed.--
Those of drunkard.
Oats that will grow in winter as thrifty
as in summer-Wild oats.
The tax on amorial bearings in Eng
land realizes 100000 annually.
If you wish to learn how to compose
yourself, learn the art of type-setting.
Love levels all ranks, but you can't
love an onion enough TO level Its rank.
The axe was an ancient weapon used
in the most remote periods in warfare.
There are more than five hundred 90
crate nerves and blood vessels In the
human body.
81 fear that you do not qnite apprehend
me, as the jail-bird said to his baffied
pursuers.
In sitting for picture the person who
winks at the camera gets reply in the
negative.
"Will village COW pay?" asks an ag-
rlcultural exchange. We can't say as to
their paying anything themselves but We
have often seen them dun.
"Seth Splcer" aftirms that if a man
blows his nose in public nowadays he is
likely, within twenty-four hours, to re-
ceive two dozen sure cures for catarrh.
We are all ov us apt to pirate about our
Independence of character, and yet the
notis of a CRATE man effekts most folks,
just as pat on the he'd duz puppy.
The laws of Germany are stern. For
speaking disrespectfully of the Crown
Prince in public place of entertainment,
teacher of languages has been sentenc-
ed to four months imprisonment.
The amount of capital ployed in-cot,z
ton manufacture in the United States in
of eight per cent; IN 1870, $141 200, 900,
yielding return of seven per cent; in
1878, estimated at $208,000,000, yielding
five per cent return.
Michigan University boasts 1,342 stu
dents while Harvard has 1882 Harvard
| leads in the number of instructors, hav-
ing 534 to Michigan slxty-three.
Perhaps the funniest object is the man
who spends his first day il a newspaper
office. He tries to appear as if he had
been in newspaper office all his life,
| but somehow he doesn't seem to feel easy
There seem to be too many bones in his
shad.
| The peanut crop this year is estimated
at 100000 bushels. Win some one of
our readers, who is good at mathematics.
estimate for us how long it would take
| the young men of this country to exhaust
! this crop if they were to carry pint of
peanuts IN their pockets every time they
went to see their girlsl
When the animal world had been Great
| ed, there remained an homogeneous assort-
mcnt of bones, small and great, shaped
and unshaped. To utilize these odds and
ends, they were wrapped in fish skin
and called shad, and shad they remain is
| tins day.
Prof. Benjamin Pierce, of Harvard Col
/ lege. says the whole number of comets
which are capable of being seen from the
! earth, and which are contained in our SUM- S
/ sphere, may be fairly estimated at 5000,
| 100000. Considering the hardness of
the times we should say that the suns
| sphere was pretty we'll fixed as regards TO
| comets.
To what length has not this ''Pinafore"
craze gomez Reciting her Bible verses the
other Sunday, little miss thus rendered
it, $50 to your sister and your cousins
and your aunts, thus sluggard, and be
wise"
The gayest and most useful-dresses
worn at Saratoga and other Watering.
! places are short costumes of Pompadour
| silk. These are made of the soft foul
ards and satin-striped silks with small
| bright-colored flowers strewn over cream,
white or pale mastic gray grounds.
Lace sleeves are seen on all dressy
silks used for dinner and evening. When
| these are white, they are usually of Val
| enciennes, but ii the scarf or sash is
white Spanish lace, the sleeves should
| correspond.
A Rhode Island farmer reporss having
cleared his field of potato bugs by the
use of a mixture of Whitewash and kero-
sene, in the proportion of four quarts
whitewash and one gill kerosene, sprin-
| killed. occasionally on the vines.
Black grenadine dresses are relieved by
| transparent sleeves of black Spanish lace,
and there are beaded sleeves with vest to
match worn with heavy black silk trained
dresses.
Dark olive, gendarme blue, myrtle
green, and very deep wine color are the
best selections for the contrast with Pom
padour silks, and are worn indiscriminate-
" by blondes and brunettes.