River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-09
Imp0rtant Items.

go on the stage shortly.
Miss Grundy says that some Sara
toga ladies wear stockings worth Sl25
per dozen.
The Prince of Wales life is insured
for $500, 1000. His annual premium on
this sum is $1,000.
4 physician at Tiffin, Ohio, accident
lv gave himself fatal overdose of
opium.
London society women propose to
organize a raid against the professional
beauties. Sensible for once.
1t is said that the ordinary life Of II
bee is only ninety days. The end Of n
bee, however, is very lively.
When YOU take no interest and lose
your principal it is not good to he a
loan.
Thomas sherman, the priest-son Of
General Sherman, is visiting his father
at Washington.
Mrs. Bull, the widow of the dead vio-
linist, is to retarn at once to her pa
rents ut Eau Claire, Wis.
The worst thing man dressed in
light-colored clothes can do is to get
into fight with coal-heaver.
Lady DufTerin does not find the eli
mate of Russia as healthy as that of
Canada She has just been i'll of fever.
The daughter of Senator Blaine
caught at MoOsehead Lake the other
day the largest trout that has been
taken this season.
Miss c. NJ Olney, once well-known
fashionable New York milliner, has
committed suicide in hotel at Pau,
France
Mrs. Sartoris, daughter of General
Grant. is coming over in the fall to see
the ''old folks, and will spend the win
ter i'll New York.
Alexander II Stephens is reported to
be in better health than for years past.
lie can now sit on hotel piazza ut the
seaside without paper weights on his
coat-tails.
There has been an tnprecedentedly
large gathering of yachts mt Cowes this
season. The Formosa Prince Of
Wales) won the Queens Cap.
The Queen Of Italy has made II gift
to a Catholic church in Boston of a
bronze statue of Augustus Caesar, an an
tique of exquisite workmanship.
An exchange says, Good wives are
wanted in the Northwest" Surely this
is not strange. Is there any place
where they are not wanted?
In addition to the first prize Of the
Paris conservatory having been award
ed to Miss Griswold, of Cincinnati. for
singing, another American, Miss Hank
ness, has been singled out for her violin
playing.
Two thousand one hundred super
fetal feet, belonging to the ecclesiastical
commission, in Park Lane, fash
ionable district of London, sold lately
at the rate of 81, 250,000 an acre.
1t was terribly confusing to the small
Chicago boy, during the Knights
Templars conclave, to see sixty brass
bands going in different directions and
have to decide instantly which one to
follow.
The centre pole of Il circus was seized
in Kingston, n. Y, the other day, on
an attachment for the salary of Il bare
back rider.
Judge Spofford, of louisiana who
died the other day, was 4
brother Of Ainsworth r. Spoflord,
Librarian Of Congress.
Queen Sophia of Sweden is suffering
more than ever from heart disease, and
is going to Amsterdam to be treated by
II distinguished physician.
The English insist upon honest judi
cial administration in Cyprus. The
Cadi of Papho hasjust been condemned
to five years imprisonment for bribery.
Come, hub, tune up your fiddle and
give us God save your grandmother,
says an irreverent youngster of the
Prince of Wales family to his brother.
The Empress Augusta of Germany
has mania for wearing rich black
silk. She maintains that it is the only
suitable dress for ladies past middle
age.
Ex-Governor Paul Q. Hubert died at
New Orleans, Saturday evening. lie
was classmate of Gen. Hancock, at
West Point, in 1910, and governor of
Louisiana in 1852.
J. II. Noyes, famed as the founder
and head of the Oneida community,
has been in Canada since last March,
and it is not probable that he will re-
turn at present, if ever. He is practi-
cally a fugitive.
The wife of Governor George b. Nc
Clellan, of New Jersey, had with her at
Saratoga n small Skye terrier, whose
full name is declared to be Samuel
Jones Tilden Mcclellan.
At Castellamarc, near Naples, there
is in course of construction the heaviest
ironclad war vessel ever put on the
stocks. 1t will have iron plates of ire
mendOus strength, and carry the
heaviest guns made.
Two French noblcmen, the COmtc
DIES Isnard and the Marquis de Grille
were recently sentenced to ten days
imprisonment at Avignon for threaten
| ing a government official in the execu-
ton of his duty during the expulsion
of the Jesuits.
A singular accident occurred at Le-
hoir, n. c., last Friday. Mrs. Sarah
Marble was taking leave of her friends
when her eister-in-law, a very portly
/ lady, embracing her with such force
! that She broke one of her ribs.
Tanner says he has received some
very flattering and princely offers and
/ inducements from managers all over
the country, hut shall not accept any
of them. | shall lecture on my OWL
responsibility, select my own routes
and put out my own advance agents
He won't get very much by the opera
ton
Chicago now exacts $3.50 for every
circus performance given in that city
so Il day for each side show, and g;
for the concert in the tent after the
regular entertainment. Thus Il circu:
open afternoon and evening, with say
five side shows, must pay 500 daily in
to the city treasury.
Judge James Lawrenson, the Wasl
ington notary public who administered
the oath of office to Postmaster Gener
al Maynard on Wednesday, is one 0
the oldest attaches Of the post Office
department. He served under twenty
three postmaster generals, not count
ing Maynard. He has administered tn,
oath of office to sixteen postmastei
generals.
Miss Julia Wilson, the young lad,
who played the part of the Little Wal
in Joshua Whitcomb, has been kind
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