River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-01-27
IN A NUTSHELL.

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Mentor.
The sleighing is tip-top, with occa-
sionally tip-oyer.
| Absenteeism in the national House of
Congress Is growing evil.
Gladstone has reduced the rents of
his tenants % per cent.
Bogus "chips of the obelisk" have
been sold in New York for s. apiece.
Ex-Governor Jewell, of Connecticut,
has been quite i'll, but is better now
The New York Sun is publishing a
daily list of congressman who are absent
without leave
The Carpenter memorial entertain
ment in this city Saturday evening net
ted $1,000.
Mr. Peter A. Porter, of Niagara
Falls, has bought one-sixeenth of Goat
Island for $14, 500.
People going to Chicago to see
the elephant" may now take in the
whale, as Jonah did.
Thomas Carlyle's health is growing
better and he is now able to take carriage
exercise again.
The Bernhardt kid glove. in its en-
deavor to reach the shoulder, suggests
a garterless stocking.
Professor Nordenskjold, the Arctic
explorer, is preparing a fresh expedi
ton off the coast of Siberia.
Senator Fair, of Nevada, will be the
next fattest man to Davis i'll the United
States Senate.
Providence, Boston and New Haven
now chat comfortably together over the
new interstate telephone wire.
The Presidents wife gave reception
at the White House Saturday after
noon. She was assisted by Mrs. Evarts.
Charles F., son of Ex-Governor
Washburn, of Portland, Me-, is a mem
Der of the Legislature of Minnesota.
Senator Wade Hampton has discard
ed his crutches, and appeared in the
Senate with bran new wooden leg
The Boston Transcript says it is whis-
pered that Dr. Holland is at work on
new novel for Scribner'S Monthly.
NJ. Ambrose Thomas, the composer,
has been raised to the rank of Grand
officer in the Legion of Honor of Fran
&c.
Baron Adolphe Rothschild, of Nap
les, has closed out his business and re-
tired to Paris with fortune of S36, 900
600.
We are piously assured that Miss
Bernhardt is the mother of e" only one
child"-but that one is half-orphan,
poor thing!
General Garfield sent out 5000 let
tiers from Mentor during the last quar-
ter of 1880, nearly all in answer to of
fice-beggars.
Madame Etelka Gerster and Miss
Anna Louise Cary are charming the
Philadelphians this week with their
sweet tones.
1t has been decided to set up the OBJ
elisk in Central Park, New York, on
Saturday, next week, the weather per-
hitting.
The Washington Star denies that
President Hayes has any intention of
visiting Europe at the expiration of
of his term of office.
General Roger A. Pryor, of New
York, has been retained as counsel for
Ex-Governor Sprague in the forthcom-
ing divorce suit.
Mayor Carter II. Harrison takes
delicious soporifc" every evening
regularly. He has got so that he can't
get along without it.
A woman at West Cornwall Conn,
failing to induce her husband to move
out of a house she did not like. deliber-
ately destroyed it by fire.
Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania,
while en- route to Cuba, will make a
tour of the Southern States to study
political sentiment in that region.
Sixty-four cities in the United States
have each a population of more than
10000. Twenty years ago the number
of such cities was twenty-slx.
Maria Clifford, one of the claimants
to Gravesend and Brighton Beach,
Coney Island, died ut her residence
near Rochester, n. Y, recently
aged 50.
Advices from Vienna state that Herr
Kermer Won Anenrode. late Minister
of Commerce, will probable be appoint
ed to represent Austria in Washing
ton.
Mrs. Ramsey, wife Of the Secretary
of War, is recovering from her recent
illness, and is able to entertain but not
to go into comany outside her own
house.
A Mrs.nne Wood, lady whose life
was a part of the history of that sec,
| ton, died at her home in Hampton,
| Va, last week She was 9S.
Eggs are more scarce in New York
than ut any time since 1874 Over 49,,
100000 dozens are brought to that
market annually.
There are about seventy-fve steam
ers plying between New York and
Europe. The number of sailing vessels
is nearly ten times as great.
Senator Thurman, of Ohio, has re-
sumed law practice in Columbus, and
| it is announced that he will not be
candidate for governor next autumn,
Mr.. William A. Hovey, editor of the
Boston Transcript, has been chosen
president, and Mr.. James r. Osgood
vice president, of the Papyrus Club of
| Boston.
The price Of admission to the Presi~
| dental Inauguration Ball at Washing
| ton, March 4, has been reduced to 50,
but visitors will have to pay for refresh
ments.
Professor Richard A. Proctor, the
English astronomer, will arrive in San
Francisco the latter part of the month,
and make a farewell lecture tour
through this country.
Captain and Mrs, NJ. w. Barnes, of
Watertown. Conn, celebrated theseven-
tieth anniversary oftheir wedding last
New Years Day. The husband is %,
the wife 81 years old.
Professor William C. Fowler, sOn-in-
law of Noah Webster, the compiler of
the great dictionary, and for several
wears Professor of Rhetoric at Amherst,
died Saturday night at Hartford, Conn,
aged 81.
Mrs. Willard fillmore is slowly gain
| my strength in Buffalo, though, for the
most part, she still keeps her couch.
1t is, however, considered doubtful
whether she will regain her former
physical and mental vigor.
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