River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-03


John Swine is candidate for constable in
Cincinnati, the city of pork.
Boston shipped 1921 900 worth of brown cot
tons to Madagascar last week.
The jail birds in Kearney, Neb., are tied up
in pairs, to prevent their escape.
little girl at Marquette Mich, drank three
drachms of chloroform-and lives.
Where is !he organ grinder who can play one
thousand tunes in one thousand hours.
A Marshalltown, Ia, girl scattered bur
glar" with the click OF an empty pistol.
Two feminine attorneys have recently been
admitted to the United States courts at Toledo.
We regret to learn that in $4,000 years this
earth will again encounter another glacial
period.
Ingerson is still fighting Moses. Bob can
keep this mp with perfect safety. All of Moses
relations are dead.
Until last week Montreal did not have an or
dinance for the punishment of persons giving
immoral shows in the city.
The late duke of Newcastle is said to have
insured his life in different offices to the
ishing amount of g, 100000.
"a lawyers, doctors, merchants, mechanics
and professional demagogues.
A Kentucky dancing master has been placed
in the lunatic asylum in Lexington, made in
sane, it is asserted, by hair-dye
Californian who uses bad grammar and
lights his cigar with ten dollar bills soon has
the reputation of being millionaire.
The Prohibitionists of Michigan have deter
mined rot to make any nominations for the
State offices to be filed at the April election.
a man was Boosting that he had an elevator
in his house. $50 he has" chimed in his wife,
''aud he keeps it in the cupboard in bottle"
Next month the comet viii be visible through
powerful glasses. 1t viii probably keep good
many husbands out late at night looking for it.
A printed copy of the proposed new consti-
tuition for California is being sent to every
voter in the State, by direction of the conven-
tion.
BIr John Burnham, of Boston, has made a
gift Of money to Harvard college for the cree
tion of dining hall for the theological semi
nary.
Munkacsy. the Hungarian artist, who has
recently sold one picture for S25, 00O was
formerly q carpenter, and has painted only a
few years.
The philosopher of the New Haven Register
soliloquizes: In the race for matrimony it
isn't always the girl that covers the most laps
that wins"
i Western editor thus kindly alludes to a
contemporary: He Is young yet, but he can
sit at his desk and brush cobwebs from the cell
ing with his ear.
Lillian Evans, of birmingham, Mass, whose
husband deserted her and their child a few
months ago. after only year of married life
died the other day of grief.
A lawyer who tried to break a mules will
found on. that there is such thing as being
too we'll healed. A card now on his door reads,
''Will be back in three weeks"
The Detroit Tree Press has noticed that only
one man in six knows how to light a cigar
properly. All smokers will admit this but
every smoker will claim to be that one.
The legislature of Florida imposed upon
grand juries the responsibility of determining,
within certain limits, the rate of taxation to be
assessed for county purposes in their counties,
A windfall of $4,000 has just come from
England to Samuel Mousley, one of Yelling
toms soldiers at Waterloo, who has been living
humbly at Oxford, N. H., for the past thirty
years.
Remarks an exchange: Full many rose
is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweet
ness on tine desert air, full many pound of
butter that seems, is but the hiding place of
yellow hair"
1t is in The wind at Newport that the Mar
qus of Lorne and Princess Louise will hire
cottage there for the coming season. Sir Ed
ward Thornton will lease the cottage for the
Canadian twain.
About the happiest man seen in New York
for many day was a st. Louisian, to whom
the Thought suddenly occurred that he should
not 1--we t. endure Chicagos celebration of the
centennial of IT'S big fire.
4 school boy in Racine, Wis, is delirious
and apparently fatally ill from the effects of
puGishm, at by his teacher, who whipped him
with ruler, and accidentally" struck him
three times on the head.
The physicians of North Adams, Mass, at
tributed the sudden death of Miss Leonard, who
dropped dead on that town few days since, to
the driving up of her blood from her habit of
eating large quantities of cloves every day.
Thurl,w Weed goes every Sunday afternoon
to one of the rooms of the Y. NJ. G. a, in New
York, to take part in the Service of song"
He used to follow Sankey from church to
church when that singer was on this side of the
ocean.
\ lady in Racine, Wis, awakened by bur-
glar few nights ago sprang from her bed and
seized aign by the hair. She cried for assist
ance and the ruffian threw down the plumber
he had seized, struck her cowardly blow in
the face. knocking her down, and fed.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says that
women took to suffrage like ducks to water in
some parts of New Hampshire at the recent
schools elections, and in several cases they were
not slow in com pretending and adopting the
tactics which men sometimes resort to to secure
their ends.
1t is said there is large rock on the west
ern base Of Rich's mountain, in West Bath,
Me-, completely covered with strange charsc-
tiers and meroglyphics, supposed to be made by
the Indians. Rude figures of men and animals
can be traced, accompanied by irregular char
actess not so legible.
Water transportation is remarkably cheaper
than the rail. Instances of this are the i'm
mense togs taken out of Pittsburgh by single
steamer; one recently took Z, 900 tons. 1t went
to Louisville, 900 miles, and the cost was per-
haps s25g0. For this distance on rail the or
binary coal rates would be @35 600