River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-01-13
IN A NUTSHELL.
Pearls are fashionable l,

81.
Jefferson Davis will =. Europe
next June.
Ice dealers are happy over solid
north.
Hope is the dream of those who are
awake.
Daily matinees are now given at one
of the New York theaters.
New York pedestrians on Broadway
revel in "slush a foot deep"
The boy with new skates and new
top boots IS the happiest Christmas lad
i'll the land.
Thurlow Weed has read all OF
Dickens books frequently, and is still
at them.
Major Alfred Little, a well-known
musician and composer, of Webster
y. H., is dead.
Merchants say that more expensive
gifts have been purchased this year
than ever before.
The Merry Circle club, of Rome, Ga,
has for its motto: The next best thing
to religion is fun"
The melancholy days are come in
which it behooves all good citizens to
swear off.
The Duke of Aosta, once King OF
Spain, now lives in Turin, and is a
widower with three little sons.
The fashionable bonnet is small, fits
snugly to the head, and is of black
50 tin StuIdnd with stool
Mrs. Sherman, the wife ofthe general
is i'll, and will probably not perform
any social duties this winter.
Jay Gould and Mr. Haverly, the
theatrical manager, are said to some
what resemble each other.
Jay Gould controls almost 10000
miles of railroad, not to mention tele-
graph wires and other things.
On Friday night there was desper-
ate struggle for the scepter between
80 and 'S1-and 81 won.
Ada Cavendish is seriously i'll with
pneumonia, and her company has been
disbanded in consequence.
The cable announces the death of
Gaillardeui, the French historian, and
Macchi, the Italian rhetorician.
The Chandl, use in Washington
is being prepapo for the reception of
Mr.. Eugene Hale and his family.
The Fourth of July will fall on
Monday this year, and next Christmas
and New Years will fall on Sunday.
Upholsters used to depend upon the
carpet-makers for styles, but now the
upholsters dictate to the carpet makers.
A S. Logan, lineal descendant of
the famous Indian chief, has been APP
pointed to position in the interior
department.
United States Senator Kirkwood of
Iowa, visited Mentor lately and
spent few hours as the guest of Gen
eral Garfield.
OF a misery man somebody wrote;
"His head gave way, but his hand new
er did. His brain softened, but his
heart couldn't"
When a married woman buys Il pug
dog for low price she gets bargain
and her husband gets something to
boot.
Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels have
reappeared at Her Majesty's Theater,
London, after a successful tour in other
parts of Great Britain.
Vanderbilt's gift of 1000 shares of
Lake Shore to each of his daugh-
tiers was u neat thing as a Christmas
present, wasn't it?
Mrs. Jessie Fremont has organized
classes in history among the grown up
sons and daughters of poor settlers in
Arizona.
Mrs. Eleanor Littlejohn, mother of the
Bishop of Long Island, died New
Years morning, at the age, of 81, at
Ailegan, Mich.
Samuel Calender, one of the oldest
citizens of Buffalo, has just died at the
age of 81 years. He was born in Bos-
ton, April 10, 1900.
Mrs. Jean Davenport Lander, the
actress, has returned from Germany,
where she has left one of her adopted
sons for dramatic study.
Emery A. Storrs, of Chicago, and
Mr.. Brewster, of Philadelphia, are to
act us counsel for Cadet Whitaker in
his coming court-martial.
Look upwards in the city and see the
network of wires. Then you will I'M
derstand why it is natural that there
should be so many rumors in the air.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg. has
signed contract to sing in Paris, after
her Russian engagement, for twenty
nights-the salary to be 10000 francs.
Samuel Tilden without the middle
initial J j was arrested for drunkenness
in New York the other night. This
Sammy is a seller of CLAIMS
Mr.. H. NJ. Plaisted will, it is rumored,
be married to beautiful girl from the
eastern part of Maine. The wedding
will be at Augusta, and will be celebrat-
ed with much ceremony.
The late Rev. DR.. Chaplin was the
author of the expression: Il lecture for
fame, $50 and expenses" DR.. Chaplin
was very eloquent lecturer at one time
and never had thin house.
Mr.. Yung Wing, who has been thirty
years in this country, is the only mem
Der of the Chinese Legation who has
the special permission of his govern
ment to wear the European dress.
Augustin Days troupe Of
dancers and jugglers, now in New York,
was increased by one New Years night,
being the first HindOo child born in
America. The mother is II years old.
1t is said that Mr.. w. w. Corcoran,
of Washington, has given away, in all,
e, 100000 in public benefactions, and
81 100000 in private charities, and that
this was about ,hree-quarters of his
fortune.
General Charles B. Stuart, the emf
nent civil engineer, is dangerously i'll
at the Forest City House in Cleveland.
There is little hope of recovery.
The winter scenery at Niagara Falls
is unusually impressive this year.
The river is full of huge cakes of ice,
which every moment crash over the
falls and threaten to jam and form a
destructive ice bridge in the gorge be-
low.
Kate Field says the only portrait OF
George Eliot is crayon, in possession
of one of the Blackwoods, which is a
good likeness. She was never photo
graphed.
General Sir Frederick Roberts, it is
said, doesn't want to be paid by peer
age for his services in Afghanistan. He
is a comparati 5ely poor man, and feels