River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-16

Anglomania.
An exchange says that the stories told
| by negroes OF their discomfort in the
south are half lies. But can negro
tell white lie?
James 7. Voorhees,, II son of Senator
| Dan Voorhees,, of Indiana, has been re-
ceived into the Roman Catholic Church
at Terre Haute, Ind
No Boston hotel dining hall can seat
! the 800 guests at the Grant reception
| October 6, and the managers are pIz-
zled to know where to set the table.
Princess Louise, it is finally stated,
does not dislike Canada, and after her
| stay at Marienbad, and her visit to
Scotland, she will return to America.
Miss Helen Gladstone, the daughter
of the premier, is one of the successful
candidates in this years class list of
Cambridge university examinations.
DIR. Edward Eggleston, author of the
| ''Hoosier Schoolmaster," who is now in
Europe, is collecting material for
History of Life in America"
Senator Don Cameron and wife have
arrived at Bristol, r. l. They will be
| the guests for few days of Senator
| Burnside on his farm at Mount Hope
Bay.
Old Joe Winrow, the trainer of Hyer
and Morrissey, says that the best box
ers he ever saw were the easiest men
to whip in twenty-four foot ring.
ok Marvel" donald G. MitchelD
sustains his farm, near New Haven,
Conn, mt consid cradle expense, and re-
lies ON other sources for his income.
Lieutenant Roger, of the United
States navy, is soon to be married to
| Miss Croly, daughter of Jennie June
and ID. G Croly, of the New York
press.
The illness of Cardinal Nina, Papal
secretary of state, has appeared again
in an aggravated form and turned to
typhoid fever 1t is hoped however
the progress of the fever will be arrest
ed.
You can't always Judge by outside
| appearances Who, for instance, would
believe the plump and sleek exterior of
| the shad covered such wilderness of
| bones?
Tramps monopOlize the seats in Cen
trail Park, New York city, and in order
| to do away with theses loafers it is
proposed to charge l cent sitting for
visitors in that resort;
Dick Little, the negro minstrel, has
one of the deepest bass voices in the
world He was fOrmerely a boatman,
and now there is nothing that he likes
better than to strike the deep sounding
| c.
The stuffed skin of Il two-year-old
| Spitz dog, on exhibition at the Imper-
ial Hotel, Windsor, measured six and
one-half inches from nose to tip of tail,
and stands three and One-fourth inches
high.
The Rev. Samuel Wilson of Onarga,
| H., intending to visit a Methodist con-
| ference, got down his revolver and be-
gan to polls it for the occasion. 1t
was accidentally discharged, and he
was killed
| Mr. d. Lowe writes to the London
Times that "since the resignation of
Gordon Pasha the slave trade has re
covered something of its vigor." Mr..
Lowe has been for years in the Egypt
ian service
Next session the reporters in the
House Of Lords will occupy the centre
of the gallery on either side of the
| house, instead of their present gallery
over the bar, and will thus have n bet
ter chance of hearing.
The superintendent has forbidden re-
| ligious services in the poorhouse of La
Sale county, ILL., He says that two
thirds of the inmates are insane, and
the rest have "as much' religion al
ready as is good for them"
Twenty-three English bicyclists have
been visiting Calais They wagered
that they would reach Boulogne twenty
minutes sooner than a steamer starting
mt the same time. The steamer won
by quarter of an hour.
A new beauty has appeared in Lon
Langtry and Mrs. CORVALLIS West, in
the person of Mrs. Deacon, who 'hails
from the United States" and who had
the honor of dancing with the Prince
of Wales.
A member of the Woolwich, En-
gland, police force lately got letter
from Mr.. Gilmore of the Louisiana bar
making an appointment on business.
1t was to announce that client of Mr.
Gilmore had bequeatheu to the officer
100000.
Mile. Sara Bernhardt has written to
the director of the Theatre Franchise
of Paris asking to be allowed to pay, in
four annually instruments of $4,000
francs each, the 100000 francs dam
ages to which she was condemned for
violating her engagements with that
theatre.
The marriage of Rudolph of Austria
and Stephanie of Belgium is set for the
18th of February next. There will be
magnificent entertainments upon the
occasion, and lavish distribution of
aims to the poor.
The husband of Mrs Scott-Siddons is
said to have squandercd most of the
money she earned, and the husband of
Jenny Lind is reported to have gambled
away large portion of her property,
once valued at $780, 900.
At Madrid, a prisoner recently SEN
fenced by court-martial to be shot for
participation in the attack on a train by
brigands. before his execution made rev.
Citations inculpating several families Of
high position. He accused them of not
only protecting brigands, but of sharing
in the proceeds.
Stryian woodcutters in the forests of
Dromming discovered a human skele-
ton in a half-decayed oak tree. A watch,
on which was engraved H. Won
krackowitz 1922 lay by its side. 1t
is supposed that the man climbed the
tree and accidentally dropped into the
hollow trunk, from which there was no
/ escape.
Charlie Boyd made a signal failure
of his plan o. vengeance at Bellville,
Ill. He tried to shoot David Walker,
who had been attentive to Mrs Boyd,
but missed him and let him escape.
Then he attempted to murder the wo-
man. but only wounded her slightly.
Finally he was himself killed by Walk
er. who had returned with gun.
The Rev. 5. F. Smith, who wrote
'fMy Country lis of Thee, - is still liv-
ing in Newton. Mass. He says he wrote
the verses on a waste scrap of paper one
dismal day in February, 1882, while at
Andover Seminary, and chad neither
intention nor ambition to create any