River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-26

dOCo SNtI lAlAbS III OIuCl.
Handkerchief bows for the throat
have gingham-like borders.
Zones pointed back and front are
again worn with dressy toilets.
Just now it is the left side Of the
neck that the bouquet is fixed.
Buttons on boots worn with fancy
costumes match those on the suit
Very small bonnets, worn ON the back
of the head are again in vogue.
Maggie Mitchell gives reeitations
parties at her Long Branch residence.
Countess Mojeska, the great actress
is not coming to America this year.
Queen Victoria has tabooed bangs
and fringes of hair on the forehead.
The fashion of wearing flowers,
either natural or artificial, never goes
out
Lace covers to fine carriage sun
shades remain in vogue season after
season.
Cords will play an important part in
the trimming of dresses and wraps
this fall
The Goodell family had its annual
gathering, the 18th, at Lake Maespaug,
| Conn.
The only way to hang a murderer in
Texas is to charge him with stealing
S. mule.
The girls fiirt more during the hot
weather, and so also do the COWS
tails
Evening dresses are worn at the mo-
ment in Paris with high necks and
short sleeves.
1t is again fashionable to wear the
hair in coils, in which strings Of pearls
are twisted
He is not only idle who does moth
ing, but he is idle who might be better
employed.
The youth who thinks the word his
oyster, and opens it forthwith, finds no
pearl therein.
Many very charming bows for the
neck are arranged with painted muslin
mixed with lace.
Thomas Carlyle will be 81 years old
next December. He can no longer
read or write.
1t is complained that loafers and
tramps are taking possession Of New
York Central Park.
The San Franciscoans are anxious to
have Brother Moody to visit them
again. They need him.
Rev. w. II. Milburn, better known
as the blind preacher" is featuring ut
San Francisco.
The reports of Dr., Tanners stomach
and its achieven. tnts are becoming n
disgusting bore.
New reticules to match dresses are
richly trimmed with gathered lace,
cord and tassels.
Asparagus ice-cream, with rlm
sauce, was Il feature of Il recent Sar-
atoga bill of fare.
Sir Walter Raleigh is to have n
memorial wind W in st. Margarst's,
Westminster London.
Professor Swing writes that the old
| intellectual giants of Boston have de-
generated into ''littlc parlor essayists."
Manhattan Beach has diswasilng
machine which does the work Of ten
women, except the breaking Of creek
cry.
A young man of society oUt m *
ing call may wear two watches and
vet not know when it is time to go
home.
In the first place, according to
science, DIR. Tanner couldn't do it. Now
that he has done it it's of no copsc-
quence.
The best summer resort for a sEtz
dog is the watering places. The dog
should be placed about four feet under
water.
The young man who has proposed
and has been neither accepted nor re
lected, knows how exciting it is to 1--we
in doubtful state.
An old maid suggests that when men
break their hearts, it is all the same
as a lobster breaks his claws--anotlor
sprouts Immediately and grows in its
| place.
Some of the new basques are cut
! long and square in front, with pocket
put on each side of this square front:
! the back of such basques are short aud
cut to form two points.
Colored stockings are much worn,
| both plain and with small patterns or
embroidered corners near the ankle
Silk stockings for the evening are some
times embroidered with pearls.
| Ladies who are threatened with bald
ness on top of the head can sometimes
arrest the misfortune by clipping off
The hair on the top of the head and
brushing it smooth, so as not to shd"
the shingling.
The willow from which the eXEm
press plucked some shoots while at St
! Helena is the second one planted since
| the burial Of the Emperor Napoleon.
The tree survives only thirty years ~
that latitude.
Commodore Mutt" the dwarf, kept
| a lager-beer saloon in San Francisco,
which became so bad place-that J
| the saloon did-that the ladies made
| fuss and the saloon was 'pulled" t1e
other day by the police,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Beard, of Rock
Island, H., were divorced in 1872, and
when James married again, the other
day, his first wife sent him 800 rs a
wedding pre- sent Divorces will now
become more frequent than ever.
Lady Cowper, the ancient grande
dame who has just died in England.
was sixth in descent from Frances
Cromwell, daughter Of the great Pro-
tector, and widow Of Lord Rich
Mr.. Cyrus w. Field, Of New York, Is
about to make tour Of the world, ami
is now busy arranging his affairs for q
absence Of nine or ten months. lie
will start on the 18th of October.
The Marquis of Lorne arrived a'
Bathurst, y. b., last week, but the IN
tended reception was not given, owing
to large fire in the town, which des,
troved the Roman Catholic Church ana
other buildings.
There is no telling what church ch0irs
1 will do if left to their own way. The
one which does the singing in the Pres
pyterian church in Penn Yam, y. y
clashes a pair Of symbals a. part al
its performance.
| Kit Carson. son OF the famous scout.
says that he and Henry NJ Stanley, u
African renown, once clipped sheep at
: cents a head in New Mexico and
worked with team near Ogden, Utaii
for SIS month.