River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-01-20

is a daughter of General Ord, has
been seriously i'll at the City of Mexico
James B. Keene charters n steamer
for $50 every time he goes home to
Newport.
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll is con
templatlng a lecturing tour through
Australia.
Nine. Outrey, wife of the French
Minister, is very i'll with whoop-
ing-cough in Washington
The Duke of Westminster, who was
raised to his present title by Gladstone,
is the richest man in England.
III. H. Hayden the alleged murderer
of Mary Stannard, is now working for
chair company in New Haven,
Conn.
1t is rumored that Bjornstjerne
BJornson is to be married to the widow
of the late Ole Bull, now resident OF
Milwaukee.
The Russian minister and wife are
conceded to be the handsomest couple
among all foreign legations, at Wash
ington.
A German physician of Milwaukee
found a remedy for painful chronic
rheumatism. He inhaled chloroform
till he died.
A portrait of the late II. Stephen T.
Logan has been presented by his fami-
ly to the supreme court rooms in the
Illinois state house.
Joseph F. Armour, brother of Philip
ID. Armour, of Chicago and member
of the firm of p. d. Armour & Co.
died in Cincinnati on the 18th inst
The sale of season tickets to four
nights of the Sara Bernhard engage
ment at Pixies Opera House, Cincin-
natl, netted 1878.
President Butterfeld has recently Sc
cured donation to the amount OF
$40, 900 for their further endowment Of
Oiivet College, at Charlotte, Mich.
New dinner sets are decorated in
Japanese designs, each set, consisting
of plate, cup and saucer, being in differ
ent patterns.
At Cornelius J. Vanderbilt's 50th
birthday dinner he presented the sixty
one couples present with horses and
cows hoofs filled with flowers.
1t is believed in st. Louis that Rev.
William Walsh, of that city, will he the
next bishop of Nashville, to succeed
Archbishop Feehan, now Of Chicago.
President-elect Garfield has, it is
said, offered the position of private
tutor to his sons to DR.. w. II Hawkes.,
a graduate of Brown University.
Sara Bernhardt's performance in
Baltimore last Saturday evening was
her fiftieth in this country. The re-
ceipts thus far are reported to exceed
$4,000.
General Sir Evelyn Wood, who bore
creditable part in the campaign
against the Zulus, will be second in
command in the operations to crush
the Beers
Queen Emma, the young wife of the
old king of Holland, is mentioned as an
amiable German lady, not pretty, but
possessing honest blue eye and kindly
expression.
The distinguished French painter
M. Detaille, has just been commission
ed to paint the portrait of the duke of
Connaught. The duke will be repre-
scented in military dress.
friend ofGeorge Eliot, in speaking
of the deep tinge of melancholy in her
books, says that one of her most con-
slant thoughts turned on the waste of
force in the world.
The horse ridden by Wilkes Booth
in his attempt to escape is yet alive,
aged %. 1t belongs to John A. Pearle,
of Abingdon, Connecticut.
Secretary Schurz, it is said, will go
into land speculation when he retires,
and will possibly get married. He as
serts that he has had enough of public
life.
Salviini, the Italian tragedian, is de-
lighting thd people of Boston with his
representations of Shakesperean char
acters, and has been doing wonder
full business"
Cards are out at Washington for the
wedding of Dwight X. Trip, of Chi
cage, and Miss Cassie Williamson,
daughter of the commissioner of the
United States land office.
Vice President Wheeler denies the
ruth of the rumor that be IS about to
marry the widow of the late DR.. Wood
worth, who was superintendent of the
Marine Hospital service.
"Eye-peeping" is the new g anne.
Two holes are made in screen. The
performers stand behind it and place
their eyes inthe holes, while the persons
in front guess to whom the eyes be-
long.