River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-12-16
IN A NUTSHELL.

n uSVSi uilieu isnt against the gam
blers has been inaugurated at Wash
ington.
The Mississippi is frozen over at
Muscatine, Iowa, the earliest for 80
years.
The estimated expenses of carrying
on the government for the year amount
to $685., 202,722
Snow storms prevailed in many north
ern cities on Thanksgiving day, extend
ing rs far west as Chicago. and as far
east rs New York.
An American was shot by a Mexican
in Bracket, Texas, recently, and
riot followed in which three Mexican
houses were destroyed.
Comptroller Knox, in his annual re-
port, recommends legislation to protest
the national banks from oppressive
taxation by the states
The South Carolina legislation met
and organized November 23d The
Inauguration of the new governor and
lieutenant governor took place on the
30th.
Twenty-one intruders in the Indian
Territory have been arrested in the
oklahoma country, Troops have
been sent from Fort Leavenworth To
establish camp in the district
The editor wrote "An evening with
Saturn, and it came out in the paper
IAN evening with Satan" Ii was
mighty rough, but the foreman said it
was the work of the devil" And it
looked that way.
What decoration is that you arc
wearing said an Austrian sergeant to
a new recruit. The man blushed deep
ly and responded, 1t is medal our
cow Won at the cattle-show."
1t is claimed that a man never loses
anything by politeness, but this has
proved mistake. As an old Philadel-
phian lifted his hat to young lady the
wind carried away his wig.
The bonanza kings of the Comstock
mine, of Nevada. are assessed as fol-
lows: James G. Fair, 81, 200 600: jos.
G. Flood, $50, $50, 900; j. c. Flood 4 Co.,
ST., 500,000; j. c. Flood & Co., trustees
for John w Mackey, $21 800, 800
An American lawyer is now attor-
ney-general of the Sandwich Islands
! If in two years he doesn't own the en-
tire country and hold the kings note
for n large sum he is no credit to the
| American bar PhilddeiphiG Chronicle.
| Professor Graham Bell the inventor
of the telephone, is receiving much at
tention in London. He is to be enter
tanned by the Royal Society, and Pres
ident Spottiswood gives a dinner in his
honor
There is nothing in the world equal
to fashionable enterprise" says the
New York Mail "A well-ksoNn and
very ambitious lady Of Murray Hill
has sent to China for certain rare
kind oil tea which she proposes to serve
ata kettledrum next January"
Mr., and Mrs. W. II. Vanderbilt (the
London World says) are going ON
tour TO the Orient, accompanied by
Lord and Lady Vaudeville. There
they will DO met bv Mr. and Mrs. Mac
key, who de not intend to keep house
in Paris this winter
The death of United States Indian
Commissioner Benjamin X. Roberts, at
Sandy Creek. Maryland is announced.
Mr.. Roberts was the representative of
u.
and fifty represented it too, in the right
sense Of the word
The president, Gen. sherman, Secre-
tary Bamsey, Postmaster General May
nard, Third Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Hazen, and Mr. r. p. Hayes left
Washington last evening for Easjon,
Pa, to be present mt the rededication
of Pardee Hall.
Professor Watson, the astronomrr.
had a remarkable memory. When au
Undergraduate he used TO memorize
long passages Of the Greek ard Latin
authors, which he sometimes, in after
years, repeated to his friends with com
pletc accuracy.
Mr.. f. r. ThaXter, n young sculptor
from Maine, now in Italy, has about
completed the model of a group of
marvellous beauty. 1t is entitled Loves
Young Dream and is highly spoh en-
of by Mr.. James jackson Jarvis, a well
known English art critic
The divorced wife of the Rev New
man Hall has married Frank Richard
son. the groom who figured so conspicu-
ousiy in the divorce proceedings which
ended in her husbands obtaining de-
cree against her. Mr. Hall was mar
ricG some time ago.
Mayor Cooper recently transmitted
to the park commissioners of New
York tin box containing mulberry
cuttings ftom a tree over the grave of
Shakespeare at Stratford-on-AvCn. The
cuttings were gift to the mayor from
Charles Rcade, the novelist.
The Count de Chambord is about to
visit The duke of Norfolk ut Arundel
Castle, where immense preparations
are to be made for his reception. One
ofthe motives of this visit to England
is said to be to confer with the Catholic
authorities as to the settlement of the
religious communities d ven from
France.
Mr.. A. w. Campbell, of the Wheeling
Mtchfgracer, and chairman Of the West
Virginia delegation to the Chicago con
vention, was presented with an elegant
oil painting of that body, in recogni-
ton Of his services therein. and partic-
ularlv in recognition of his vindicatiou
of tie right of private judgment as
against "the machine" The testimo-
NAL was deserved
Miss Mabel May, young English
lady of rare character and accomplish
ments, will be the companion and as
sistant of Mrs. General Garfield in the
white house She is a woman of UNI
usual mental and moral stamina. Last
year she was teacher in Mrs. West
falls seminary, in Dayton, and won
the respect and esteem of all who were
fortunate enough to form her acquain-
lance.
The Baroness Burdett-C outts, in con
tributing $500 10 the Truro Cathedral
fund, mentions that Truro was the first
cathedral whose foundation stone was
laid with fill masonic honors, and
adds: Let us hope that this may be
type that the churches Of Christendom
may become more united and convey
more perfectly their masters precepts
in even what the ignorant
know Of the principles Of the Graf"
The English think that Mr.. Joseph
Cook has one fault which he would do
wen to correct--he reads so rapidly
that it il difficult for an audience 10
follow him. The Echo says: Mr..
Cook does not allow his hearers the
tenth part of second TO weigh the
exact meaning of some unaccui Dmed
word. As the English people are not
all theologians or metaphysicians, Mr..