River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-10-07

crimes of violence since 1878.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is visiting
Hon. and Mrs. Richard Crowley, ut
Lockport, n. y.
W. W. Corcoran. the aged banker of
Washington, has, it is stated, given
away more than $3,0O0,0O0
Clara Louise Kellogg won't eat a
peach until she has it rinsed through
three waters and wiped dry.
Albany claims to be Z years older
than Boston, having been founded in
1923 rs the Oldest inhabitants affirm.
Mrs. Clarrissa Hunting, II trapeze per
former, with Sells circus fell from her
trapeze, at Nashville and broke her
back.
The Rev. Dir. ). L. Baldwin, former
ly of Geneva, y. y, and now mission.
airy To China has returned home for
brief vacation.
NJ. Gambetta has just been decor
ated' by King George of Greece in APP
probation of his work in behalf of that
ancient land
The Queen of Sweden, who is very
i'll, has gone to Antwerp to place her-
self in the hands of celebrated ply
stefan.
One hundred and forty-sevcn women
voted ut Binghamton, n Y, last Mon
day, ut the election for school commits
sioners
The widow of Commodore Wander
bilt, still Il comparatly 1ly young wo-
man, has an income of q thousand
dollars n week.
Chow-Phya-Bh amm -Wongesi, the 81
amese ambassador in Paris is to re-
ceive civilized decoration as com
mander of the Legion of Honor.
Herr Gerhard Rohlfs, the explorer, is
going to Abyssinia as diplomat. He
is charged by the Emperor William
with mission to King John.
Among the successful candidates in
this wears class of the Cambridge Uni
versity higher examinations is Miss
Helen Gladstone, daughter of the pre-
mier
The failure of Moore, Jenkins 4 Co.
wholesale grocers, of New York, is an,
nounced with liabilities estimated at
from $3.50, 900 to $4,000
NJ. Henri Say. of Paris, has just had
built and launched at Baltimore, Md,
a magnificent steam yacht, of 1,03S
tons burthen, ut n cost of over $500,
600.
The number of different languages
dialects spoken in the known world is
, ,G23, of which 5S7 belong to Europe,
1896 to Asia, $40 to Africa, and ,264 to
America.
Turkish officers, long unable to get
cent of pay from the Sultan, are offer
ing their services to Greece. Whole
regiments are ready to desert on the
encouragement.
The French minister of public in
struction has appropriated 100000
francs to the establishment of normal
school for young women.
The German authorities are purchas
ing largely in England for cavalry
mounts At the great horse fair Horn
castle over 200 were bought
Japan has trades unions. Owing to
the recent rise in the price of rice, all
the laborers in Gifu successfully COM
bined to force up wages twenty-five
per cent.
Mrs. Miller, wife of Rev DIR. Miller,
OF Shelburne Falls, Mass, supplies his
pulpit during his vacation. She
breaches original sermons.
A New Orleans actress put what she
was arnica on her face in the
dark; but ii was iodine, and she will
not 90 on the stage for while.
The parliament of Jersey, where
some of the French Jesuits have set
tied, is to be moved to expel them from
the island, under an unrepealed statute
of George III.
Another poet comes forward and says:
"And hear the hiss of a scorching
kiss" Beats all what man can hear
ifhc is only mean enough to listen.
An Irish gentleman on the New
York Graphic speaks Of a man being
horseNhipped with an umbrella
what! only five policemen for a
town like this?" exclaimed a traveller.
ooh, " replied the native calmly, "they
have no difficulty in keeping what little
peace we have"
A neat bit ofdefinition in an English
describes the queenly wo-
man Of the modern novelist as a person
with rustling train and without a
conscience.
Empress Elizabeth of Austria whom
a Paris goSsiper styles "the first Amazon
of the world, is about to receive it is
said, the title of honorary colonel of
regiment of Russian Uhlans
A prisoner in the Delaware state
prison was injured by a falling wall,
and has brought suit against the state
for damages. The curiosities of law
are never to be exhausted.
Abiding to Beechers estimate that
one female houseiiy will lay twenty
thousand eggs in a season. the Church
Union thinks 1T pity fly couldn't
be grated on a hen.
How time changes! In the good Old
Testament days it was considered a
miracle for an ass to speak, and now
nothing short Of a miracle will keep
one quiet.
There i y seven-legged calf at a
Pennsylvania county fair, but for fear
of hurting the feelings of its quadruped
brother on the Detroit FRee Press all
the eastern papers have withheld com
ment.
The last religious census in France
shows that there are 81, 1857 sos Roman
Catholics, 467 ,531 Calvinists, S0,117
Lutherans, and 80, 113 of other Protes-
taut denominations. The jews rum
her obout 10000, and 10000 are attach
ed to no church.
Another relic of the Spanish Armada
has been secured at Slams, in Scotland.
tits large gun raised out of the place
where one of the ships belonging to