River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-29
Personal and Impers0nal
Beecher is at Saratoga.


900 years ago, but his spirit still lives.
Macon, Ga, has twenty-seven church.
es, or one for every 40 inhabitants.
The French Fourth Of July is just ten
days behind ours
Kissing by telephone is about as salts
factory rs scratching your head with a
sunbeam.
The presidents cabinet are roaming
about like schoolboys on vacation.
The first edition of Rochefort's new
paper i'll Paris ran up to 10000 copies.
The oldest person yet reported by the
census enumerator is n colored woman
III Georgia, aged 102.
Peter Cooper has recovered from his
prostration by the heat and is out of
doors again.
A wife should be like roast lamb, ten
der and nicely dressed. No sauce re-
quired.
In the Salt Lake City flats appears
this sign: "Ring the top bell for the
Oldest wife"
Miss Lizzie Dollar was recently mar
ried to southern gentleman. He says
he never wants to change her.
Young love may be very sweet, but
bald-headed love is the real love to tie
to. 1t never dyes.
Both Generals Garfield and Hancock
are to be invited to the opening of the
Cincinnati Exhibition in September.
CDR Tanner took square meal here
before beginning his fast" is the an
nouncement at a New York restaurant
Senators Blaine ana Cameron are de-
scribed rs having delightful horseback
rides together at the White Sulphur
Springs.
Senator Bruce writes to Messrs Ben
jamin II. Brewster and Emery A.
Storrs that he has no doubt of Cadet
Whittaker's innocence.
The Glen Falls Messenger says that
if DR. Tanner can go without eating for
forty days, he will pIobably start Il
country newspaper.
Scientists claim that smoking Injuries
the eyesight. But this is not ture The
boy with stump i'll his mouth can see
his father ten squares away.
A man who was condemned to be
hung in Kentucky, got off, and was
married instead. They got the moose
ON him, any how.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is the recent
ly elected president of the Woman
Suffrage Association She is their Bess
man, so to speak.
Senator Conkling and General Chester
A. Arthur have gone to Alexandria
Bay, where they will spend few days
in fishing.
Senator Hills smelling works at Den
yer are said to have disposed of nearly
100000 tons of gold and silver ores
last year.
Reason is the glory of human nature,
and one of the chief eminenccs where
by we are raised above the beasts in the
lower world--I Vets
OF 100 patents issued from the gov
eminent office III Washington, ninety
eight never pay back the amount of the
fee to the owners
William NJ. Evarts seems to be com
posed Of will and steel; he never is i'll;
he never shows signs of fatigue; and
the amount of labor daily performed
by him is prodigious.
Let wickedness escape as it may at
the bar, it never fails of doing Justice
upon itself; for every guilty person is
his own hangman.
If Il man empties his purse into his
head, no man can take it away from
him. An investigation in knowledge
always pays the best interest. -Frunk-
In
A New London Comm Baptist has
given $25, 900 for Il new TRANSLATION of
the Bible in which the doctrine of inn
mersion shall receive what he thinks
due prominence.
Och" said love-sick Hibernian,
what a recreation it is to be dying of
love 1t sets the heart aching SO deli
cately there's no taking wink of Shape
for the pleasure of the pain.
To be always intending to live new
life but never to find time to set about
it-this is as if a man should put off
eating and drinking and sleeping from
one day and night to another, till he is
starved. 1iHotson
-Self-ease is pain; thy only rest
Is labor for a worthy end
toll that gains with what it yields
And scatters to its own increase
And hears willie sowing outward fields
The harvest song of inward peace.
- Whittier.
Rev. Dr. Duryea of Boston, is men
toned for the Williams college presi-
dency, to be vacated in another year
by DR.. Chadbourne. 1t is also init
mated that Chancellor Crosby Of New
York, could be had for the asking. No
immediate action vii be taken
Sunday school scholar to the teach
cr-''Did you say the hairs of my head
were all numbered Teacher-"Yes,
my dear" Sunday school scholar
Well then pulling out a hair and
presenting it), what's the number Of
that one?'
A country girl coming from the field,
told by her poetic cousin that she look
ed as fresh as daisy kissed by dew,
she said: well, it wasn't any fellow
by that name, but it was Steve Jones
that kissed me. / told him that every
one in town would find it out"
A young lady received the following
note, accompanied by a boquet of
flowers: Dear-I send YOU bi the
boy a bucket of fours. This is like my
love for IL. The mite shade menes
kepe dark. The dog fenil menes | am
your slave Rosis red and posts pail,
my love for you shall never fale."
If anybody is disposed to be harsh on
Tanner, he should remember the fol-
lowing Scriptural precept from Romans,
xiv 3: Let not him that eateth de-
spise him that eateth not; and let not
him which eateth not judge him that
eateth."
II didn't know man could be so
much made up of water" said hot
man on the corner yesterday, wringing
the sweat from his brow. '.Oh, yes"
remarked hotel-keeper, who can't
long, my experience is that man is a
regular sponge
A gentleman and his wife, with two
little girls, evidently twins and about
three years of age, are seated ut one of
the tables in the dining room waiting
for their breakfast. One of the little
girls, who had been intensely observing
what was passing, suddenly turned to
her sister and said: "Why don't papa
say drace?" The reply was, They
amt dot any bod in Rochester -Ro-
chester Union.
Captain Eads has received letter
from the Portuguese government asking
that he send terms Tor plans for the re-
moval Of distractions from the mouth