River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-05-01


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Egyptian mummies are regularly ground u
into paint. They are used for this purpose be-
cause the asphaltum, with which they are i'm
pregnated, Is of quality superior to that
which can elsewhere be procured. They pro-
duoe peculiar brownish tint, highly priced by
the best artists.
Lord Lytton has given offense to the upper
ten of India by presenting to Miss Crooke, a
pretty circus rider, whose performances he at
tended nightly, a large gold medal. He offend
ed it once before by attacking the fine old
British habit of invigorating the intellect of
Hindoo servants with club.
The peanut crop this year is estimated at
| l ,290, 900 bushels. VIII some one of our read
ers, who is good at mathematics, estimate for
us how long it win take the young men Of this
country to exhaust this crop if they carry a
pint of peanuts in their pockets every time
they go to see their girls?-Yorristo,c Herald.
| Ternysons ode to the dead princess and his
/
all, brought him the sum of 1880. This is
fair for season of distress in England, being
a trife less than twelve dollars line. man
can afford to take a nations grief upon his
shoulders and belch martial fire to boot upon
such terms.
| An old joke in new role: "Chawles." Ian
guidly drawled Josephine, looking up from her
| book, Il see one of the studies at West Point
| IS trigonometry. What is trigonometry, any
howl" 'Trigonometry, replied Charles,
toying with an invalid mustache, lis a--a--is
the science of pulling the trigger, of course"
Il thought 50, said Josephine, resuming her
novel.
| Yorkshire trainer revealed his method OF
meeting conjugai storm. His plan, he said
was to keep silent and nod his acquiescence tc
everything-no matter what-said by bis
spouse. YES" remarked one of his friends
'but then she has it all her own way" Just
so" replied the Tyke, with Subtraction, "and
nothing annoys her so much. There is moth
| ing women hate like a walk-over."
| An old gentleman without tact, on meeting
some ladies whom he had known as girls in his
boyhood, cordially remarked: BLESS me
How time flies! 1t is fifty-two years come next
April since we used TO go to school together in
the old red school house. i was little chap
then, you remember, and you were fine young
women" The old man could never under
stand why his cordial greeting was received SO
coldly.
Chief Moses addressed the President, at a re
cent reception, in the Indian tongue, and the
first word of his speech was Cugtunnequattak
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS acknowledgements. Sec
retary Evarts retired in an agony or grlvr and
modification.
A curious ancient Mexican library has beer
found in the ruins of vast palace at Xayt
near Chiapas, in southern Mexico. The writ
lngs are inscribed on terra.cotta tablets, halt
an inch thick, and are supposed to be sacred
records, but the language in which they are
written is not accurately known.
Gen. Francis Marions one hundred andforty
seventh birthday anniversary was celebrated in
Charleston on Tuesday by banquet, at which
the traditional basket of roasted sweet potatoes
! "a cork popping for every potato) was made
away with.
Peter Dwyer, the New York reformed drunk
ard and evangelist, who ran away from Goth
am the other day. leaving Mrs. Dwyer in tn.
lurch and taking one Mrs. Melville in tow, hal
turned up in Montreal, where he preached OF
Wednesday.
| The High School Gazette, edited in Augusta
Ga, by young ladies of the school, says
lowing to press of poetry, number of adj
vertisements are unavoidably crowded out Of
this issue, but they will positively appear in
our next"