River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-08-12
Personal and ImDerSOnaI.

Free OF charge-an empty gun.
The army worm is an Ohio man.
The lemon has tight squeeze this
weather.
Snow fell ON Mount Washington yes
terday.
Sothern is getting worse and his case
is not critical
The Scandinavian population of Min
nesota is S,056.
Dundee ships about fifty cans of but
termilk daily to Chicago.
Mr. Proctor is lecturing in Australia
to large audiences.
The fugitive President Prado, of Peru,
is at Newport, r. |.
Mr. Beechsr delivers eighteen lee
lures during his vacation.
A. H. Stephens is reported to be now
N better health than for years past.
The organized volunteer force of Eng
land now numbers 100000 men.
Parliament, it is thought, will not be
prorogued until the end of August.
Sailors always have hard time of it.
They are always in a mess.
Advice of the sail-boat to the anna
teur yachtsman-Luffm me little, huff me
long.
The Hon. William F. Reynolds, of
Lafayette, Ind, is reported to be dy
ing.
The pants of dog are thickened in
hot weather, while those of a man grow
thinner.
Tanners fast is not original The old
gentleman, Noah, lived forty days on
water.
Great preparations are being made in
Germany for the autumn maneuvers of
the army.
An old thermometer is never very
popular. Nobody wants to see Their
mOmeter over 20.
A Saratoga gambler confesses that he
has not made a cent ''since honest old
John Morrissey died"
General BOurbaki has entered the
Greek service and is to be chief-of-stafl'
of the army.
London truth hears that General
Grant contemplates another trip to Eu-
rope.
DIR. Lyon Playfair sails from Liver
pool for the United States on the 18th
of August.
The Marquis of Ripon has issued an
order abolishing official work on Sun
days in India
Tramps in many places are milking
the farmers cows to gain their susten-
ance'
Mr.. Sturgeon has bought for himself
a nice house surrounded by extensive
grounds.
President Diaz has appointed Ro-
man Catholic priest as judge of the
supreme court of Mexico.
Chancellor O'Hagan, of Ireland, is the
first Catholic who has held that position
since the days of Queen Elizabeth.
Cetewayo is said to have shown
special pleasure in greeting his old an
tagonist,' Sir Evelyn Wood.
Senator Baine's youngest daughter,
Miss Hattie, has pet pony, which she
has named Don Cameron.
There are about 1900 distinct chart
table foundations III London i'll connec-
ton with the city parishes.
A high board fence, locust tree and
twenty-three beer tables make a grove
anywhere within thirty miles of Il city.
Sir Charles Ellice will, it is said in
London, next month, succeed Sir John
Mitchell as commander of the forces in
Ireland.
Anna Dickinson is working ON a play
for Fanny Davenport
An exchange speaks of corn that grew
four inches in one day. This may be
true, but the corn was probably on n st.
Louis girls toe.
Any man of public spirit is supposed
to be perfectly willing to lie about the
population of any town he has lived
three weeks III.
We are panied to learn from the Ro-
chester Express that church choir in
that city has been singing ''ShOot the
Glad Tidings."
1t has been discovered that burning
the bung-ho of kerosene barrel with
a red-hot poker will cause the barrel to
disappear.
Saints and sinners often get mixed.
Colonel Robert G. IngefsOll and Bishop
Mcmahon, of Connecticut, are stopping
in the same hotel in Newport.
The Golden Club has no headquar-
tiers of its own. Its chief business is to
disseminate free-trade doctrines and
dine once year.
\ Berlin dispatch says: Prince Bis
marck will go to Gastien after his visit
to Kissingen, and is not expected in Ber-
lin again before Christmas"
Gen Stewart l.. Woodford and wife
are testing the pleasure of "The Adven-
urcs ola Phaton" They are travelling
through Massachusetts in carriage.
When governor and Mrs. Stanford,
of California, went to see THE
Danites," i'll London, one night, Mrs.
Stanford is said to have worn 100000
worth of diamonds.
After Dr. Tanner gets through, it will
be in order for some member OF the
other and more conversational sex to
hire hall and advertise her intention
to go Il month without speaking.
"Dr. Tanners experiment" says the
Taunton Gazette, SIS not new. 1t has
been tried hundreds of times by the
guilible editor who wishes to publish a
| four-page paper III one-page town.
A memorial window to Sir Walter
Raleigh is about to be erected in Canon
Farrar's church-St. Margaret's West
minister. Americans, London Truth as
serts, haze contributed largely to the
| fund.
The Sprague mansion and estate ut
at Canonichet, r. l., is said to have
had S64O,000 expended or thrown away
upon it. 1t is not a very attractive
place, and would net sell for one-tenth
of that sum- The ex-senator is under
stood to be living there in retirement
Up in Canada the worshipful Canucks
are cast down by the loss of Princess
Louise Victoria has several other un-
employed children with no trades, and
it is possible that one of her boys could
be induced to give permanent tone to
Canadian society for about $4,000 a
year and his beer
Negro Merchants.