River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-19
Brief Bits.
The man who hanged himself died
IF his own free will and cord.
Hanlan has q sister who can pull a

Nathan Sheppard is rnsticating ut
Saratoga Springs
Miss Ada Cavendish, the English
actress has arrived in New York.
The handsomest equipages at Long
Branch are owned by Israelites.
The Newport r. |. steeple-chase
meeting will not take place this year.
cts sweet to be remembered, as
the man said when he got a cork leg.
One ofthe big trees Of the Calaveras
Grove has been named for General Gar
field.
The Duchess of Edinburgh has been
suffering from the infantile disease of
measles.
Ritualistic churches in England are
called stepping stones on the road to
Rome"
Rev. J. T. Duryea, ID. D., will deliver
the Yale lectures on Preaching" next
winter
\ cool-headed Cincinnati boy was ar
rested the other day. His hat was full
of stolen ice cream.
The man who STOOD aghast" in the
cheap novel says he should stand the
beer next time.
The rolling stone gathers no moss,
but it gathers the fellow that rides
bicycle every time.
There is an armless man in London
who plays the violin with his toes. He
is probably bow-legged.
Among the arrivals from England
Saturday were the Rev Moncure d.
Conway and family
General Clarence A Seward, nephew
of the late VIM. III. Seward, has arrived
in New York from Europe.
A Richmond pape is to he suspend
ed for want of support. 1t could not
have better reason.
Miss Letta Guy, an Ohio lady, has
developed great talent as a whistler,
and is about to tlavel on it.
Rival ice dealers love each other to
such an extent that they are willing to
pool their issues for the purpose of ex-
tortiOn.
Blind Tom" who now wears the
name of Prof w f. Raymond" APP
pears as the composer of a March
Timpani."
If a man does not blister his neck
fishing in an open boat under hot sun
he will scarcely remember that he has
had good time.
Mr. Webb Hayes, son of the presi-
dent, will join the law firm of Swayne &
Swayne, sons of Justice Swayne, at
Toledo, Q.
IT has been shown that it takes talent
to get into a hammock without, at the
same time, getting out Oft on the 9th
er side
In Arkansas mud baths are recom-
menGcd as a cure for rheumatism.
Mud, however, is not of much service
to a lame candidate.
Senator Bruce and wife, of Mississippi,
are ut Saratoga mt a stylish house kept
by colored people for the better class of
their own color.
Secretary Sherman will contribute a
paper on ''Resumption" to the proceed
ings of the bankers convention ut Sara
toga, n. Y, this week
Castigeni, the painter who is to take
up the work on the historical pictures
on the dome of the Capital at Washing
ton, has begun his task.
Mr.. Pentecost. the revival preacher
has bought an old farmhouse near Mr..
Moody's house in Mortified, Mass, and
the two are constant companions.
4 Troy man wants medical college
to have his body after he dies He will
be terribly cut about it when the thing
is done, but his act may prevent the
robbing of at least one grave.
Herr Hasselman the Socialist Ger
man Deputy, writes to the Cologne
Gazette, denying that he has taken
flight to America. He says that he is
making Il political tour Of Germany.
Montreal has champion swimmer,
one Williams of the Island of Malta,
who recently breasted the waters of the
st. Lawrence for two hours, swimming
ten miles. He will visit New York
shortly.
A Kentucky chicken that lived five
days and was Matched on the farm of
Col. j. w. REYNOLDS, had four legs. In
walking the legs We're all kept in motion
and it was as lively chick as ever
scratched dirt.
The first stone in the work of com
pleting the shaft Of the Washington ma
tional monument was laid Saturday.
President Hayes and others deposited
coins underneath the stone. 1t will
take about four years to finish the mon
ument
George Pomeroy, of Madison, n. j.,
who has Just left an estate estimated
ut S15,O00,000, gave to Mrs. Luther
Clapp. of Gloyersville, his sister, $4,000.
He must have been a heartless old
curmudgeon.
A well near Brandon, Vt, forty feet
deep, freezes solid in the winter, and
furnishes ice for a family the year
round, while one hundred rods away,
in a graveLpit, is spot which never
freezes, and which sends up cloud of
steam.
The daughter of President Grevy, of
the French republic, may dress i'll the
purple, for the Siamese Embassy
have presented her with piece of
beautiful cloth woven for and therefore
worn only by the royal family of Siam.
A Boston spiritualist has published
'IHeulCllDG AIIlltlldC, containing plC-
dictions of the winds and the weather
for every day, with the hieroglyphic
magic circle" whatever that may be.
This prophet predicts improved trade
and a fruitful year.
A woman in Marshall county, Kan
.as. has had bad luck with husbands
Two of them were hanged by vigilance
committees, a third was sent to the
penitentiary, and a fourth committed
suicide. Nothing has yet happened to
the fifth.
Senator Sharon has obtained posses
sion of the Grand Hotel and of the
Palace Hotel at San Francisco. They
are on opposite sides of the street, and
he proposes, by means of Il connecting
bridge, to unite them under one man
agement.
4 lady made a lucky bet at the Sar-
atoga races last week She wagered IA
new suit of clothes against pair of
diamond earrings with a gentleman.
He lost The lady went to prominent
jewelers., selected pair of $1,000 sol
taires. and sent tho bill to the gentle
man, who paid it like Il nan.
The Count Schouvaloff who recently
won 100000 from Prince Demidoti,
at the rooms ofthe St Petersburg Yacht
Club, and was induced by the Car to
return seven-eighths of his winnings, is