River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-06
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smallpox mas broken out IN Toronto.
Tennyson is working at another
drama.
Philadelphia theatre supes are on
strike.
An international fish exhibition is to
be held at Pensacola, Florida, in 1882.
Thurlow Weed, of New York, sent
$500 to the Michigan sufferers.
The dead president was just 40 years
and 10 months old to a day.
Mary Anderson, the actress, has
bought Newport cottage.
Lawrence Barrett, the actor, was once
a clerk in dry goods store.
The composer of ode Wacht am
Rhein," receives pension of $1,000 a
year.
Women never forgive an act of
treachery, but men do the moment
they forget it.
A noble part of every true life is to
learn how to undo what has been
wrongly lone.
1t is stated that Queen Victoria in
tends to bestow the vacant Garter upon
King Alfonso.
J. A. Cuthbeth, aged 81, and mem
Der of congress in 1919 and 1921, died
at Mobile, Ala, ION the 22d.
Gustav Richter, the distinguished
German artist, is not dead, as was re-
ported. He is, however, far from well.
A memorial window to President
Garfield is to be placed in Williams
College, of which he was graduate.
Whatever changes may be made in
the Cabinet, all agree that Robert 4.
Lincoln will retain his place as Secre-
tary of War.
Patrick on the zebra "Phat kind of
haste is that--the mule with his ribs
on the outside OF his shkin entirely ?"
Indeed, sir, would box your ears"
-pausing, refiectively) but where
could find box large enough? ?"
"Why don't you have some style
about your" said the man who had
looked along mile of barbed fence for
an entrance.
United States Senator Pendleton, of
Ohio, intends to make a speech on
civil-service reform in Boston next
month.
Seth May, ex-Judge of the supreme
court of Maine, died in Auburn, Me,
on Tuesday afternoon, aged 70 years.
Herman Solomon, a brother Of ex-
Governor Solomon, of Wisconsin, and
an old resident of Manitowoc, Wis,
died recently.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
have been yachting for five weeks
During the greater part of the time the
weather was very unfavorable.
Lincoln was shot on the anniversary
of the fall of Fort Sumter, and Garfield
died on the anniversary of the battle of
Chickamauga, in which he took a con-
spicuous part.
Ex-Attorney General and now Judge
Devens is TO be invited to deliver the
Grafton on President Garfield before
the city council of Boston, and it is I'M
derstood will accept.
Learning" says down-easter, "is
well enough; but it hardly pays to give
five-thousand dollar education to a
five-dollar boy"
When darkey tackles religion he
can't get too much Of it. Over in Ian
caster, Pa, an ebony citizen is charged
with stealing a church.
The boots worn by vain beau at
Dentonville, Iowa, have cork lifts two
inches thick under his heels, in order
to increase his stature.
"Are you going to the parade ?"
''No, but Sister SADIE, who is an old
maid, and is not afraid, she is going TO
the parade, if not delayed" This is
played.-HarrisbtTg Telegraph.
In some States the evidence ola man
who habitually goes fishing twice a
year will not be received in the courts.
The reason for this bit of judicial Wis
dom is obvious.-Hdlcteye.
Secretary Blaine is almost worn out
by the anxiety and fatigue of the past
three months, and show the effects
very preceptibly.
Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in her
recent atlantic article, calls the New
York tenement house the "forerunner
of revolution"
Garibaldi, VINO is now constant sui-
ferer from illness, is looking for a warn
place wherein to spend the Winter,
Capri being too bleak.
The Earl of Airlie of Scotland.
member of the House of Lords, died
suddenly of congestive chill at the
Windsor Hotel, Denver, Col, Sunday
night.
Insects are becoming fashionable for
jewelry, but then it IS not pleasant to
find this kind Of fashionable jewelry
ornamenting the mattress of the sum-
mer hotel.
First Player-I dreamt last night /
was playing Hamlet Second Player
[ am thankful to say that | did not
dream l was one of your audience.
Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, viii
marry the heiress, Mile. Jessupoff, in
compliance with her wish of the EN-