River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-12-30
IN A NUTSHELL.

lepOTteu III brooklyn last week.
Jay Gould's money is now estimated
ut ninety millions Of dollars.
Sir Edward Thornton has served -
years as British minister at Washing
ton.
Yut, Wah 4 Co. have failed in bust
ness. They were slipper manufacture
ers in San Francisco.
At a recent heather festival in India
the offering to the idol was valued at
100000.
A fire in Springfield, Mass, early ON
the morning of Dec. 9, destroyed $780,,
600 worth Of property.
This years wine crop in California is
estimated at Is, 500, 900 gallons or about
double that Of last season.
The new style bonnet may be
photographed by slamming a ripe to-
mato against a board fence.
Mr.. Thomas Hughs is already lectur-
ing in London on his recent visit to
America.
At the Dead Letter Office in Wash
ington is a registered letter containing
$160, but with no address at all upon it.
Ex-Nice-President Colfax has no in
clination to return to public life. He
has so written and is evidently in
earnest.
Cardinal Jacobini, new Papal Secrc-
tary of State, recommends cannes
and Cancellation to the NunCios
abroad
Sara Bernhardt does not consider
Preacher Talmage bon comrdde, not
outstanding she admits the similarity
of their professions.
Edmund Yates says that Englishmen
do not really dislike foreigners, but
that they dislike the manners and hab-
its of foreigners,
General Daniel McCauley, of Indian
apolis, has been appointed governor of
the Milwaukee Soldiers Home, vice
Major Fleming, resigned.
The Duchess of Westminister, sister
in-law of the Duke Of Argyll, died re-
Gently at her residence at Bourne
mouth, Eng. She was a rcigning
beauty in her day.
At the recent silver wedding of Mr..
and Mrs. Willard, in Washington, Il
cake baked for the original bridal,
! twenty-five years ago, was served in an
excellent state of preservation.
The Baron Charles de Rothschild, of
Frankfort, is reported to have just pur-
chased for his collection one of the
most superb and expensive silver gilt
cups in the world
DR.. Charles d. House, vetinary
surgeon of New York, has Just got a
verdict of $1,000 against sporting
paper which called him quack. He
could afford to he called quack often
at that rate.
The venerable Robert G. Winthrop,
of Boston, has been invited to deliver
the Grafton and James Baron Hope the
poem, on the occasion of the York
own Wa. centennial celebration next
| year.
Capt. Peter Dunn of Gloucester,
Mass, has arrived at home in safety
after a 1,300-miles trip from Gaspe,
made in an open boat and taking two
| months.
DR.. J. A. II. Murray, Scotchman.
! is preparing the materials for a new
English dictionary, which is to be five
times as large as Webster's and will
not be completed for ten years.
\ witness under cross-examination,
who had been tortured by lawyer for
several hours, at last asked for Il glass
of water. '"There," said the judge, II
think you'd better let the witnesses go
now as you have pumped him dry"
Mr.. Moody's meetings in San Fran
cisco are having decidedly serious
effect The daily papers give them
much attention and converts now are
numerous.
The venerable widow of ex-President
James X. Polk has been quite i'll ut her
home at Nashville, Tenn, for several
weeks and her recovery is deemed
| doubtful.
The will of Mrs. Maggie Embry, of
Elkton KY, prObated recently. gives
S2000 in Louisville and Nashville
railroad stock to the Vanderbilt Univer
sity of Nashville.
Lady Eleanor Nicolls, widow of the
late Gen. Sir George Nicolls, Of the
| British army, was recently scalded to
death by the upsetting of a kettle of
| boiling water in her bath.
Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria is
50 gallant and devoted to his betrothed
Stephanie of Belgium that ne sends her
a magnificent bouquet every day, no
matter where he may be.
The marriage of Victoria Woodruff
to London Banker has been postpon-
ed because of reports assailing her
character, and she will commcnse libel
suits against her slandeIers.
During the past year the city OF
! Memphis has has expended 100000 in
sanitary reforms. Since January 1880,
over five miles of stone pavements and
twenty-five miles of sewers have been
| laid.
Forest birds are rapidly increasing in
| Colorado because of state bounty for
| killing hawks 1t is estimated that
over 10000 hawks are annually des-
troyed in that state.
Mrs Glasson, German woman OF
Marquette Green Lake county, Wis,
while in fit of temporary insanity
killed her babe by cutting its head
nearly off, and then cut her own throat,
! dying almost Immediately.
Cambridge England has this term
nearly 5000 members Of the university
in residence.
Mrs Valentine, a white woman, Of
| Columbus, Ohio, not only married a
negro, but deserted white husband to
do it, and has been arrested for bigamy.
Novelties in advertising are not yet
exhausted. Two pretty girls walked
down Broadway, New York, the other
day, displaying the cards Of soap
manufacturer on their backs.
"What does encore mean - asks an
exhange. 1t is only one phase of a
universal desire among the sons Of men
to get something for nothing, and get
it right Off
The Splurge family, male and female,
are recovering from the hard times
and resuming their old spready ways.
Just wait a bit-the pricker Of bubbles
will come around again by and by, and
then a collapse. Twas ever thus"
John w. Mackey, the California mill
! lionaire, has announced his intention
Of giving $4,000 to endow scholar
ship in Bowdom College, in Maine, and
Philadelphia gentleman, who does
not desire his name published, will do
the same.
Mrs. Hayes will present to the Pres
ident-elect and Mrs. Garfield an elegant