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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03
Dramatic Driblets.
John Broug.am, the actor, is 10
MCCULLOUGH has gone into summer

John Broug. am, the actor, is 20.
Mccullough has gone into summer
quarters.
Lolita has been on the stage
twenty years.
-Modjeska returns 10 America the
coming season.
john Z. Owens, the comedian is in
San Francisco.
They are doing the Black Crook
out in Leadville.
The Carlotta Patti Concert troupe
here disbanded in Australia.
"A new play is called "Quaiiz," and
its author expects to strike It rich.
Now that Maud Granger is married
she owns to being 81.
Kate Claxtou closes her season at
Rochester, N. Y, May 29.h.
--Jo Jefferson has closed his season,
and is rusticating on the st. Lawrence
river.
The profits of Emma Abbott's sea
son aggregate $4,000, divided among
three partners.
Lawrence Barrett is in Minnesota.
He will be here June 9Th. This has
been his most successful season.
Mime. Gerster gave birth TO a
daughter, two weeks ago, at Bologna,
Italy.
Harry Weber, of Nip and Tuck
fame, used to be peanut boy on the
Chicago and Northwestern railway.
Next season, Grau's French opera
company will play in only two cities in
America New York and New Orleans.
Booths repertoire is larger thaa
that of any other recognized tragedian
now speaking the English language,
numbering twenty plays.
Fanny Davenport bids fair to have
a surfeit Of plays to offer she public
next season. Barley Campbell, Miss
Anna Dickinson and others are writing
plays for her.
Sam Collier, VINO heads the Union
Square company, was formerly prize
fighter, and boasts that he never was
whipped. He is better actor, how
eyer, than fighter.
-Rice's Surprise party here closed
that brilliant success season of forty
weeks. The average receipts during
the season has been about 81 900 week
ly, or in round numbers, 100000.
Annie Louise Cary will be a menu
Der of the Boston Ideal company next
season. This is one of the strongest
musical organizations in the URited
States. Tom Karl also joins this com
pany.
Mrs. SCOTS Siddons says: al have
travelled through the United States fer
eleven years, and know all phases Of
society. The women here are very
much better informed than English
women. American women possess a
certain grace and ease, that the French
call chick, that you will not find even in
the highest English society. A servant
girl here will dress herself in a grace
full, neatly way that an English duchess
knows nothing about"
Miss Nelson was born at Slragossa,
Spain, of Spanish and English parents.
She says she knew every word Of
Romeo and Juliet at the age of nine,
she commenced to play a few years
later, and went step by step, slowly, bat
urely. 1t was hard work. For twelve
ears she went around in England,
playing to empty benches, playing as
she says for few shillings night. She
now gets 81 900 where she before got a
dollar. She is said to be worth a
quarter of million.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03
A Balloons Dinner.

One day a good preacher, Bishop Co
lenso, was walking along the Donga riv-
ef, in South Africa, when he saw a num-
Der of balloons summing themselves in q
little hollow of the ground. The ba-
boons lay upon their backs and thei,
eyes were half closed, just like lazy
Uncle Georges eyes are when he is TAX
ing a snoCzs on the lounge. Two or
three of the young balloons were at
some distance from the old onea, playing
and romping, for baboon children dear
ly love to romp. By and by one of the
young ones, turning up stone, lat up
on particularly fine and fat scorpion,
which, with scared glance round at bis
elders, he seized and popped into his
mouth, having first pinched off the
sting. He at once proceeded to turn
the stone over again with great pains.
as though in further unsuccessful search
for scorpions. He mad not escaped no
tice, however, for down the gully in a
sluggish roll came great baboon, who
seized the young one by the scruf o.
his neck, shaking him vigorously until
the plump morsel dropped from his
pouch. Having gobbled this up the ell
der baboon at once regained his lounge
aud all went on as before in the sleepy
hollow.-Phaadtlptia Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

present zodiac to show the course of
the suns path in the heavens; divided
time into weeks, months, and years;
that they divided the week, as we no..
hay9 1t, into seven days, six being lays
OF labor and the seventh a day or rest,
to which they gave a name from which
we have derived our word sabbath"
and.whitch day, as a day OF rect from
all labor of every kind, they observed
as vigorously as the Jew or the Puritan.
The motion OF the heavenly bodies and
thetphenomena of the weather were
notsd down, and connection, as |
have before stated, detected, as NJ. de
PeTSille claims to have discovered, be-
tween the weather and the changes of
the moon. They invented the sun dial
to mark the movements of the heaven
~ bodies, the water-clock TO measure
time, and they speak in this work OF
! the spots on the sun, fact they could
only have known by the aid of tele-
SCOPES, which Il is supposed they pos
/ sesseu, from observations that they
have noted down of the rising OF Venus
and the fact that Layard found clys-
tai lens in the ruins of Nineveh. These
''bIicks" contain an account of the
delnee, substantially the same as the
naITative in the bible, except that the
names are different. They disclose
that houses and land were then sold,
leased, and mortgaged, that money was
loaned at interest, and that the market
gardeners, to use an American phrase,
"worked on shares" that the farmer,
when glowing with his oxen, beguiled
his labor with short and homely songs,
two OF which have been found; and, to
connect this very remote civilization
with the usages of to-day. may, in
conclusion, refer 10 one of the "bricks"
of this library. in the form of notice,
which is to the effect that visitors are
requested to give TO the librarian the
number of the book they wish TO con-
suit, and that il will be brought TO them.
-C29st:Justioe Daiy IN Popuor Science
Monthly for June
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03
CABLEGRAMS.

THE strike of the Lancashire operatives
is ended.
DAVID THOMAS ANsTED, the eminent
scientific writer, is dead.
CHARLES AUGUST KREBs, the German
composer, is dead.
THE Theater Des Celestine, recently
built in London, has been burned.
A BERLIN dispatch says Prince Bis
marck has declined to preside over the
new European conference and has NOM
mated Prince Hohenlohe.
TIE government of France has resolv.
ed to Danish foreign Socialists who are
most active in promoting agitation.
THE strike at Roubaix, France, after
lasting five weeks. has ended, the mas
tiers promised an increase of wages.
BARON HENRY WILLIAM AUGUST
GARGEN, the German politician and
political writer, died to-day, at
Darmstadt.
THE Porte asked the Khedive to allow
the wives of Ishmail Pasha, ex-Khedive,
to return to Egypt. The Khedive, on the
advice of the British and French Coun-
sells, refused.
A private telegram from Rangoon re-
ports rebellion among the natives OF
Burmah. Fighting IS in progress be.
tween Minlah and the British frontier.
LORD BEAcoNsFIELD writes the Times
entirely denying that he ever uttered a
single word attributed to him in the re-
ports of his speech at the conservative
meeting at Bridgewater House.
A COPENHAGEN dispatch states some
one thousand workingmen created riot
in Christiana, Norway The soldiery
charged the crowd and wounded several.
Nine soldiers were injured.
THE Mansion House committee re-
port in hand $23,S90. 1t will not last
three weeks. Earl Cowper gave $500 to
the committee.
The Rev. Isaac Nelson, extreme
Home Ruler, has been elected to parlia-
ment for the county of Mayo, Ireland,
without opposition.
THE South Sea Trading company has
decided on going into liquidation. Ne
gotiations are still pending for the form.
| alton of new company with the gov
ernment guarantee.
A DISPATCH from Madrid says one
hundred and thirty.one monarchist SEN
ators and deputies have Joined the Goa
li.ion against the government. Tie new
party taxes the name of liberal party.
A CONVENTION has been arranged be-
| tween the United States and Canada, by
which the exchange of postal money
orders has been simplifed and the cost
reduced.
A correspondent at st. Petersburg
writes that General Melikotf recently
| submitted TO the Car a proposal for the
! establishment of two-house assem- bly,
The Gar deprecated the suggestion, and
said that he left further reforms in the
hands of the CzarowitZ after his death,
The minister of foreign affairs for
| Spain has announced that no draft of a
treaty of commerce with the United
States was in existence, nor were any
negotiations pending with the United
States. He expressed the opinion that il
would be very difficult to conclude a
commercial treaty with the United
| States.
| A VIENNA correspondent says: "A
most painful sensation has been caused
here by the sudden insanity of one oil
Austria's highest dignitaries, Prince
| William, of MontenuovO, son of the
Archduchess Maria Louise, formerly
wife of Napoleon /, by her second and
morgantic marriage with Count de Neip
perg. Pecuniary trouble caused his
misfortune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

FIGHTING the Afghans is not very
agreeable work, as the following Incl
dent shows: Lieut.. Thmiow and Lieut..
Reid were riding down to Jsgdalak,
three miles off, one afternoon. when,
about mile from the Kotal, they were
fired into by party OF Ghilzais. Thurlow
was hit by two bullets, one through the
neck and one through the lungs, and
fell back dead. Reid's pony started of,
but he pulled up and went back, getting
there Just as one of the Ghilzals ar
rived at the body. This man fired al
Reid so close that six inches of his
sleeve were cut away and his coat and
Jersey burnt. Nothing but his pony
shying al the barrel of the gun saved
him. He turned round and blew the
mans brains out with his revolver. AL
this time thirty or forty men were run
ming down firing at hims and, seeing
that Thurlow was quite dead, he gal
loped off to Jagdalak and got some
men, who brought the body IN. They
had nearIy.cut his head off; otherwise
he was not much mutilated.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

The new railway TO the crater OF Ne
suvius is 500 metres long, and termin-
ates 200 metres short of the mouth OF
the crater. The inclines are tremen-
dous: Four in 10 Tor the first 135 me-
tres; IS in 100 for the next $50 metres;
then Sc, %, ana finally As in the 100for
the remainder. The carriages are drawn
BY steel rope of 40 strands, which is
coated with tar as a protection against
rust. The ascent on the railway is made
in seven minutes, but it can easily be
made in five. The motion is quite
smooth, but the sensation on looking
out is far from pleasant, and Il feeling
akin to sea sickness IS said to arise.
Great pillars of smoke frequently bust
up from the ground, close to the spot
where the railway ends, and great
chssms open, swallowing up anything
which may be on the spot, SO that the
expedition may sometimes not be
wholly free from danger. 1t was in.
tended to open the line for the public at
the beginning Of May.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

Using SLAM, a Cninaman, and Per-
simmons, an Indian, played poker at
Nevada. Cal. Persimmons had three
kings dealt TO him. ugh. him bad.
9Th me one, two cards." remarked the
Indian, complacently. Using Slam
shulfled out the two, and one Of them
proved to be the last king in the deck.
Persimmons led his opponent on wari-
ly, and pretty soon they had $50 apiece
on the board. "Me call um," murmur-
ed the red man, as he got to the bot
tom of his wallet. 1t was the old story
ofmisplaced confidence. The China
man held four aces. "You heap cheat
um," yelled the Digger, making a
lunge with knife, cutting off the Chi
naman's queue. That Infatuated Using
Slam, and he killed the Indian with a
pistol.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

THE sele ction of Mr.. Maynard as
D ostmaster general recalls the curl
Gus hold upon this Office of Tennessee
and the adjacent states of Kentucky
and Ohio. Tennessee has had three in
cumbents of the office; Judge Key un-
der Hayes, Aaron Y. Brown under Bu-
chanan, and Cave Johnson under Polk.
Kentucky has had VIM. T. Barry and
Amos Kendall under Jackson, Kendall
also under Van Buren, and Charles A.
Wicklife under Harrison, whilei it is un
derstood that Mr.. Tilden promised the
place to Mr.. McHenry, Of the same
state, in 1876. Ohio has had ex-Gover-
nor Denison under Lincoln, John Nc
Lean under John Quincy Adams as
well as under Monroe and L. J. Meigs
under Madison. So that the region be
tween the Alleghanies and the Missis-
sippi has filed the cabinet Office OF
acknowledgement under ten different
administrations and during period OF
about fifty years, since 1872.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

THE widow of President Tyler is now
an inmate Of convent in Georgetown.
She was the second vile Of President
Tyler, and was married TO him in the
White House, after he had been Presi-
dent year or 90. Less than one-hali
his age, she was quite gay, and made
the executive mansion a social resort
while her husband presided there. Sine
has been recently converted to Catholi-
cism, and, though she has not taken
holy orders, intends to make the con
vent her home for the remainder Of
her lie.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03
Snow q Hundred Feet Deep,

A gentleman recently arrived from
California, where he has been looking
about several places where the the snow
now lies to q depth of over 100 feet,
These places are generally at the bead
of large caDons. At the head of Fall
Creek, Navada county, pines and frs
over 100 feet in height are so buried in
snow that only few feet of their tops
are to be seen. Where q dark forest
lies in summer there is now only to be
seen white expanse of snow, with here
and there what appears 10 be clnmps OF
bushes, but which are really the tops oil
the tallest pines.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

LORD BEAcoNsFIEID has made q
speech, partly blaming himself for his
defeat, urging his party to better organi-
cation and Offering to be its leader.
Lord Corovan is afraid of the new min
istry. The queen in her speech hopes
for the speedy execution of the Berlin
treaty, the pacifcation of the Afghans,
anG the proper treatment of the irish
and India trouble.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03
What They Knew 1000 Years Ago.

From one Of these books compiled
after the manner Of our modern ency .
clopoe las, and the compilation OF
which is shown to have been made
more than 600 years B. c., it has been
aecertained, which has long been SUP
posed, that Chaldea was the parent
land of astronomy; for IL Is found,
from this compilation and from other
bricks, that the B4bylonians catalogued
the stars. and distinguished and named
the constellations; that they arranged
the twelve consultations that form our
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

FREDERICK DOUGLASS says that he is
decidedly in favor of the nomination of
Sen. Blanche X. Bruce for vice presi-
dent, and expr ysses the opinion that his
election would do more to honor and
elevate the colored people of the coun-
try, and remove race prejudice than
any civil rights bill that craftsmanship
can devise or congress can enact.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03
SEE serpents Accounted For.

This is the scientific explanation OF
the great sea serpent: Whales are afro,
ciously voracious and frequently eat
each other, but il sometimes happens
that. when prudenuy approaching its
victim from behind, one attempts to
swallow another, his teeth get caught
in the tail and he Is unable to dIsengage
them, as also the victim is unable to es-
cape Another whale comes up, and
seeing the duplex cetacean, attempts in
turn to gulp him down, and 60 il hap
pens that ia time eighteen or twenty
whales are fastened together in tow,
and mariners suppose them one enorm-
OlIs sernent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

was killed on Thursday accidentally by
the discharge of his gun, while hunt
ing near his home His family heard
the report OF the gun. but suspected
nothing. His hfeless body was found in
the evening. II is supposed that the gun
was discharged while he was passing
through q clump of bushes
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03
The Evidence Aceumnlales

H. J. Footner, of Toronto, Ont, certtfes fhat
Warmers Safe Pills have cured him OF oiiiousness
and sleeplessness. q. A Gadpois, OF bFooEFlile'
Canada certifes that the Safe Pills and Safe Bit
tiers have cured him Of malarfal difficulties con
taacted I'm Texas. e y. Campbell OF Phlladelphis,
Liver Cure have nearly cured him OF 8 bad chroD-
ic liver complaint. And like testimonials keep
coming in.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

II The grabbed old bachelor who uttered this
sentiment could but witness the intense thought
deer study and thorough investigation OF women
ii determining the beet medicines 70 keep theii
families well, and would note their sagaeify and
wisdom in selecting Hop BitteEs az the best, and
demonstrating 1t By keeping their families in
perpetual health, ct q mere nominal expense, he
would be forced 10 acknowledge that such ssnii-
meuts are baseless and false.-Pscdgans.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

THE village of Sheldahi, Iowa, lies
in three counties, and its government
is consequently mixed. A change OF
county boundaries is proposed, but each
county wants the VILLAGE.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

ZERA, the wizard, performed many
astonishing tricks at Scranton, Pa, but
his wife and male assistant exceeded
his trickery by running away with ali
his money and apparatus.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

LIEUTENANT FLIPPER the colored West
Point cadet who graduated some years
ago, asserts that being left alone by his
feiiow-students was positive advantage
to him In his studies, since he sought
com panionship in his books.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

A NEW congress of powers at Berlin
is announced, the object being to push
on the complete execution Of the Der
lin treaty. An in rrnational admins
tration Is 70 be imposed ON Turkey.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

THE Spanish minister says that out of
$500 Cuban insurgents only 600 are
still giving trouble.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

THE contract Tor removing dead ami
mails from Chicago, has been let at
So 500.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

WHEAT prospects around Fargo, Da-
kota, are said to be 20 per cent. better
than at this time last year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03
CURRENT EVENTS

MISS. ANNIE LOUISE CARY intends to
amend the coming year in Europe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

A. ST. LOUIS gardener exhumed a
package containing So 900 worth of jew.
elry few days ago.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

TWENTY Boston bicycle riders will
cross the ocean in June for tour OF
England.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

HENBY 4. PADDOCK, Maggie Mitchell's
husband, was forced to take the poor
debtors oath at Holyoke, Mass, few
days ago, he having been arrested for
debt agaiust his wife and himself.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

MIX who die on the gallows ara re-
lnembered longer than those who die
fighting for their country.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-06-03

Mr.. james Russell Lowell, the Amer
lean minister to England. and Mrs.
Lowell via reside for the present with
Mr.. Lowell's nephew in Gresham place,
London
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-16
POLITICAL.

PORTLAND. Jan. l5.-The Oregonidn
publishes interviews with l23 prominent
Republicans of this city. taken at random
from all classes, relative to their prefer
ence for Presidential candidate The re-
suit shows. Blaine 62, Grant IA, Sherman
Is, Washburne 5, Hayes 3, no choice %,
scattering 4.
An interview with seventy FIVE promi-
Dent Democrats as to their choice shows,
Tildep &c, Bayard IS, Field 4, Seymour 4,
Garcelon 2, scattering s, no choice, but
favoring the nominee of the convention, / 9.
KEoKUK, Iowa, Jan. 15.-The Gate
Csty will publish tomorrow morning, in
tervieTs with seventy-fve leading Repub-
licans Of keokuk, representing all depart
meuts of business, as to their views and
preferences on the Presidential question.
The interviews were had as the parties
were met on the street or in their places
OF business. and the following which is the
result may be taken as an index of the
sentiment of the Republicans of lthis com
munity as TO the choice of candidates.
FRS: choice, Blaine 81, Grant %, Sher-
man s, Conkliug /, Garfield !, Edmunds
], Hayes /, Washbdrne /; second choice,
Blaine 27, Grant IA, Washburue G, Sher-
man 6, Hayes 2. JAS. z. Wilson /. Bris-
tow !, Garfield /.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-16
Edison's Electric Light.


NEW YORK, Jan. I5-Tbe Grd,,hi,
mas report from Menlo Park to the e1fec
tnaS carbon horse shoes, the main reliance
OF Edison, IN pertecting his electric ighr
nave 'falled, and that in consequence, he
mas decided TO suspend their further man
ufacture- Mr.. Edison, however, is not
downhearted,
Inc IoSt says: Some DAYS ago many
lamps which have been burning beautifully
suddenly went out. owing 10 the breakage
OF the carbon horse shoes Some lamps
were found to last not more than an hour,
ana 1t was decided 20 suspend further
manufacture, Edison is now at work
trying to find ont the weak point, which
causes trouble. He thinks that the heat
emitted by the light cracks the glass al
the place where the platinum wires enter
the lamp, and that air gets in. No change
can be found In any carbons which have
been burning for some weeks. The edges
are just the same under the microscope as
before the carbons were putiuto the lamps.
AT present there are fifty lamps burning.
one or which has now been in use for forty
days. A new glass blower has been
engaged, and notifications may be made
the lamps allowing for some means OF
carrying of the heat emitted. Edison and
his asslstantsShope to overcome the new
difficulties in time to introduce the light
into practical use in New York city before
next winter. Edison says that he has bard
work in convincing people that his lamp is
yet an experiment only.