River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-10-21

All of the yellow laces are considered
stylish; those that are white are dipped
in tea or coffee.
The Tam 0'Shanter hat is a Scotch
bonnet of velvet with plume Of feath-
ers on the left side.
The tea gown of the moment is OF
soft ivory colored silk, trimed with Ian
guedoc lace.
Great nails of gilt or silver are thrust
through the crowns of poke bonnets as
if to hold them on.
Wedding cards are TO besmaller than
ever and made as plain, quiet and gen
teel as possible.
The riding habit of the fall season
has cut-a-way coat basque buttoning
over striped waistcoat.
The betrothal bracelet now takes the
place of the engagement ring, and is
worn ON the left arm.
A. Bronson Alcott and Rev. w. H.
Claiming, of London, will soon start on
western trip.
DIR. Hans Won Bulow is reported to
be recovering from his long continued
attack of paralysis.
A dispatch from Berlin says "The
report that DR.. White, American Min
lister, in tends to retire is unfounded."
A new cascade, sixty feet high, has
been found on Mote Mountain, n. H.,
and has been named Hancock cascade.
The presidential party has returned
to Portland. Oregon. The president
visited the Chinese quarter of that city.
Last Sunday Mr. Beecher began the
thirty-fourth year of his ministrations
in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.
DR.. Gordon Holmes advises singers
to wear ffannels. Without being a
doctor we advise everybody to wear
hannels
Baltimore calls her approaching 150th
| anniversary "the sesqu-centennial."
Sesqui is classical and tony like, you
know.
A marble statue of Senator Blaine
has Just been completed in Rome by
Mr.. Simmons, who pronOunces it his
best work
English operatives have come to the
sensible conclusion that it is better to
say employers" rather than "mas-
ters"
Two young girls in Providence, r. l.,
have been sent to the Reform School
for eight years for smoking cigars in
the street.
Mr. Parke Goodwin, during his sum-
mer soiourn at Cummington Mass,
has been writing a memoir of his
father-in-law, William Cullen Bryant.
Mr.. William Macarthur, member of
the House of Commons for Lambeth,
has been elected Lord Mayor of Lon
don. Mr. Macarthur is liberal,
The mausoleum of the late Mark
Hopkins at Sacramento, Cal, is Just
completed 1t is built of huge red
granite blocks from the Sierra Nevad-
as
Wade Hampton has been injured
again while deer-hunting at Daggers
| Springs, Va, but this time he rode a
horse instead of mule, and was only
bruised.
Col. Ben. Brownfield, Of Uniontown,
Pa, the oldest man in Fayette county,
| has died at the age of 10l years 6
months and 10 days. He leaves a
large estate.
The Cincinnati Musical Festival As
ISOLATION offers prize of 81 900 in cash
| for the most mcritorious composition
for chorus and orchestra, to be per
formed at its festival in May, 1882.
Mile. Belle Gabrielle, of the Humpty
Dumpty troupe, recently fell from the
stage to the floor in Syracuse, and was
severely bruised, but viii recover
Says the Boston Transcript, which is
a philosopher: Bear steadily in mind
that betting proves nothing, for those
who bet know no more of the future
than the rest of mankind"
In 1867 a Syracuse man died and left
a diamond to one of his daughters. she
| has had several chances to sell it for
81 900, but took it to New York the
other day to find it was only paste, and
not worth s..
James Coull who steered the British
| boat the Shannon, in the action against
! the American boat Chesapeak, off BOs-
ton harbor in 1918, died the day before
yesterday in London, and was buried
yesterday with military honors.
The New Orleans Picdytaac doesn't
believe in the youthfulness of a we'll
known singer. 1t says: Chicago claims
William Castle the tenor, as Chicago
boy. Chicago is too young Il city to
make the claim good.
Cyrus w. Field, who is about to
make tour around the world, will be
banqueted by a number of prominent
citizens of New York, previous to his
departure.
it is now stated that the marriage of
the Baroness Burdett Coutts and Mr..
Ashme cad Bartlett will be celebrated in
October, the precise date being kept a
secret.
Associate Justice Clifford, of the
United States Supreme Court who re-
turned to Washington yesterday from
Boston was taken suddenly i'll on the
train. He was last night in serious
condition, being at times delirous. He
has two physicians in attendance
The Rev Michael \. Corrigan, ID.
! D.. Bishop of Newark, n J., has been
appointed coadjutor to Cardinal Nc
Closky. with the rank of archbishop
and the right Of succession tOthe arch
bishopTlc.
The widow of the late San Francisco
banker Ralston, has made complaint,
covering 265 pages of legal cap, against
Senator Sharon, her late husbands
partner in business and executor. She
claims that Sharon has defrauded her
in the settlement of the estate and de-
mands accountings and such restltu-
ton as may be deemed just.
Colossal statues of Michael Angelo
and Albert Durer. by Mr.. Ezekiel, the
American sculptor in Rome, have been
received at the COrcoran gallery in
Washington They are companion
statues to ms Phidias and Raphael.
George Magee, ST., known as the
Lone Fisherman" and one of tht
most expert swimmers in Canada, wa'
drowned in the canal at Welland few
DAYS since. He went into the canal al
noon to battle, and was found soon af-
ter standing upright, with his head
above water. but quite dead.
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