River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-10-27
IN A NUTSHELL.

The attempt of Wise to Riddleberger
was q hasco.
Mr.. d. r. Locke ("Nasby") has re-
turned from Europe.
There are many intelligent English
men travelling in this country at present
Mrs. Col. Rockwell remains with Mrs.
Garfield, her sister, at Mentor, 0.
General S. D. Hill, Dakota's first sur
veyor general, is dead at Yankton.
Now the rampant ostreophgist goeth
nightly for the luscious ostracean.
1t begins to look as if Professor King
and his big balloon had gone up for
keeps.
Mr. John B. Cough has rewritten his
well-known lecture on Peculiar Peo-
pie"
The Times accuses Mayor Carter Har-
rison of writing poetry. This is the
worst thing he has yet been charged
with.
Now put up the stove, but watch
your language when caressing the OBJ
streperous pipe.
Mrs. Allison, wife of the Iowa Sena-
tor, has greatly improved in health,
and is with her husband in WashiAg-
ton.
Hon. Samuel S. ox(Sunset), who is
enjoying a trip abroad will return to
this country about the LIST of Deem
Der.
Mr. Richard Watson Glider will sue
coed the late DR.. Holland in the edi-
torial chariot the Century Magazine, the
successor of Scribner's Monthly.
One reason why President Arthur Sc
lected St. Johns church, in Washing
ton, is that his wifes family-the Hern-
dons-were members of the parish for
many years
Ben Perley Poore, of Boston, the vte-
eran Washington correspondent, is to
write a life of General Burnside. Sen
ator Anthony will furnish the intro
duction.
The late ex-senator George Gilman
Fogg, of Concord, n. H., left 81 800 for
charitable and religious purposes be-
sides the $1,000 he bequeathed to Dart
mouth college.
Judge A. w. Tourgee, the author of
"a Fools Errand," is president of a
clown improvement Association" at
MayvilIe, n. Y, which aims to beauti-
fly and improve the town.
Mr.. George |. Seney, of New York,
who has given away so much money
for educational and philanthropic pur-
poses the last two or three years, is the
son of Methodist preacher.
All the Napoleonic factions have
agreed to make Prince Napoleon Vic
tor, son of Prince Jerome Napoleon,
the heir of that dynasty. The Empress
Eugene has made will in his favor.
He is a well-trained youth of 10.
No less than eight members of the
last house of representatives are now
United States senators: Messrs. Frye
and Hale of Maine, Aldrich of Rhode
Island, Hawley of Connecticut, lap
ham and Miller of New York, Mitchell
of Pennsylvania and Conger of Michi
gan. And all are republicans.
Secretary Blaine is said to have told
friend recently that he made up his
mind on the 23d of last July that Pres
ident Garfield would die, and he then
determined to offer his resignation inn
mediately upon the Inauguration of
President Arthur. Mr.. Blaine said he
never changed his mind after that date
as to the fate Of Garfield.
Miss Bird, the author of several
charming hooks of travel which have
been read as widely in this country as
in England, has married, aud is now
Mrs. Bishop. The King of Siam has
just bestowed upon her the order of
"Kapolani," III recognition of her lite
rary work.
United States Senator Platt, of Con-
necticut, who is paired with Mr.. Fair,
of Nevada, during the present session
of the senate, says that he considers
himself fully restored to health by the
Adirondack air, but that he shall stay
in that region as long as the weather
will permit.
Mr.. Henry Stafford Northcote, sec
ond surviving son of the Rt. Hon. Sir
Stafford Northcote, is visiting this coun-
try with his wife, and the two are at
present the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. G..
w. Childs, of Philadelphia. Young
Mrs. Northcote was before her mar
rage Miss Alice Stephen-Brooks, of
Montreal.
Young Mr. Jackson, the American
who has become reader to the King of
Wurtemberg and his Majesty's chosen
friend. has been showered with titles
and decorations. He has highly orna-
mented funkeys assigned to his SER
vice and lives in great luxury. He is
cultivated and pleasant young fellow,
tall and slender, with an agreeable but
not handsome face.
Captain MeCrea, OF the United
States navy belonging to the flagship
Tennessee, and chief of Admiral Wy
mans staff, went on board the Dis
patch, at Yorktown, yesterday, and as
he advanced to speak to Admiral Wy
man he fell to the floor and died in a
few minutes. He had been sufferer
from heart disease. He was married
to lineal descendant of the Count de
Grasse.
The Marquis Of Lorne, Governor
General Of the Dominion of Canada, re
turned to Ottawa, the capital, yester-
day, from his extended tour ia the
northwest. He viii leave for England
on the 22d instant, to be absent two
months 1t is now considered certain
that the Princess Louise will not re-
turn to Canada, of which country she
is not very fond-in fact, abhors, ow-
ing to her nearly fatal sleighing aeci-