River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-03-17
In A NUTSHELL.

Orleans.
Signor Salvini is TO act in England
this year, appearing first at the Drury
Lane theater.
Gen. Sam Cary has turned evangel-
list and hopes to rival Moody. His
present field of labor is Tennessee.
The citizens of Fremont, O., will ex-
tend public reception to President
Hayes on his return home.
Russia has Count Schouvaloff, but
Chicago to-day has so many shovel-ofls
that they can't be Counted.
1t is proposed to build a new opera
house in New York, to cost 81, 800 600.
Doubts are expressed as to its success.
The Astor family, of New York, own
LOO dwelling houses, and most Of
them of the brown-stone-front class.
Dom Piatt has withdrawn from the
Washington Capital, and proposes to
retire to hermitage in Ohio.
Mile. Bernhardt plays in Grand Rap
ids, Mich, tonight She has been the
victim ofthe recent railroad blockades.
General Keifer, of Ohio, has an.
nounced himself as candidate for
speaker of the next house of represen-
tatives.
General Garfield has received con-
gratulatory dispatch from Cyrus w.
Field, of New York, on the 4th inst,
dated at Bombay.
President Garfield and his family
occupied their old pew in the Chris
tan church in Washington yesterday.
The church was crowded.
Miss Potter, the eldest daughter of
the Hon. GARRISON Potter, of New
York, is engaged to marry Mr.. Leslie
Cotton, of Wyoming Territory.
Princess Marie, the eldest daughter
of the Comte de Paris, is a beautiful
girl of ii, with wealth of golden hair,
fair complexion and large blue eyes.
Massachusetts evidently intends that
the small pox in that state shall not get
among the people. They have it pent
up within the walls of the state prison.
Ex-President Hayes and party re-
manned over Sunday at Altoona, Pa.
None of them were injured in the col
fsion at Severn Station Saturday after
noon.
'Mop-heads" is the name that the
female aesthetics who make London So
ciety ridiculous go by. It's the way
they wear their hair that earns the
name.
Mr. Edward Mcpherson, of Pennsyl-
vania, is a candidate for first, and Mr..
Chauncey |. Filley, of Missouri, for
second, assistant under Postmaster Gen
eral James.
Ex-Governor Washburn, of Wiscon-
sin is now so far recovered as to be able
to leave his bed, and will leave La
Crosse for the Arkansas Hot Springs as
soon as the trains begin running reg
ularly.
Charles Dudley Warner says news
paper, IS an ingenious continuance for
the diffusion of the prejudices of the
few among the many" Mr.. Warner is
an editor, and of course speaks for
himself solely.
Leopold Rothschild, just married to
Miss Perugia, is an excellent skater
One day he skated his name into the
ice at Hyde Park, London, when an
other skater added the legend: "Pay
the bearer $50, 900, 900"
The anxiety of Paul Boynton has
been relieved by a letter received by
his mother, dated the 9th of January,
which said that he had gone to the in
torior of Peru.
Rev. DIR. Theodore IL. Cuyler, of the
LAFAYETTE avenue Presbyteri"0 church
of Brooklyn, will sail for + in the
Bothnia ON March %, sIx-months
leave of absence.
A Chicago merchant, 3red with
snow, was asked one DE- week how
business was, to which eplied "Our
firm name has chang 0 Doolittle &
Sitmore."
Ex-Governor Coburn, of Skowhegan,
is the richest man in Maine. He gives
large sums to schools and churches in
different parts of the state now and
then when the benevolent mood is on.
Three hundred and thirty-six per-
sons over sixty years of age died In
Boston last year There were two cen
tennarians, and singularly enough, both
were men. One is said to have been
107 and the other 101.
The dinner to Secretary Schurz in
Boston is to occur on some day between
the 18th and Goth of March. Among
the signers to the letter of invitation
are John NJ. Forbes, Martin Brimmer,
Thomas Talbot, James Freeman Clarke,
Edmund Quincy, Francis Parkman,
Charles Francis Adams, Henry w.
Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The university of Pennsylvania has
scooped its esteemed contemporaries.
1t conferred the degree of Doctor of
Laws on Gen. Garfield last Tuesday.
DIR. Garfield will be liable to arrest,
however, if he practices medicine I'M
der that title in Wisconsin when the
medical bill becomes a law.
Mr.. Thurlow Weed is writing his me-
mOirs-a work undertaken at an earn
est appeal of Gen. Winfield Scott. Mr..
Weed says that he has rich mine of
material in letters covering a period of
more than half a century. But age
and its infirmities seriously embarrass
his progress, and the twelve or thirteen
hundred pages now written only bring
the work down to 1888.
President Garfield's class at Williams
College has not only furnished Presi-
dent, but a Treasurer of the United
States (Gilfilland), member of Con
gress (Jacobs) and an Assistant Quar-
termaster General (Rockwell.) General
Garfield and General Rockwell have
been companions and friends for many
years.
Olive Logan, who is on a occurring
tour. saws in connection with the gen
eral subject of Fanny Davenport: ''It
is a terrible experience for any woman
to observe The signs of her loss of beau
ty-the grow .ullness of the eye, the
lines about me mouth, the lack-lustre
hair, the changing figure; but to an ac-
tress this gradual decay is a terror only
second to death itself" Fanny car
now free her mind about Olive.
Baroness Burdett-Coutts is so happy
in her marriage that she wants to make
all about her happy also. She has
given s. each to the tenants on one Of
her estates, spending for this purpose
about 5000 Substantial presents were
also bestowed by her upon the persons
| employed upon her other estates.
Rev. F. X. Wendte, of the Unitarian
| church at Cincinnati, formerly of Chi
cago, in his sermon last Sunday, de
nounced the school-board of Cincin
natl as composed principally of meI
| low in mental culture and social stand
ing, and that they were failing to adap
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