River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-03-24
In A NUTSHELL.

Horace Maynard, who has a mode
rate income, proposes to retire to pri
vate life.
The archbishop of Dublin, in his Len
ten pastoral, severely condemns the la
dies land league of Ireland.
The students of Harvard are to give
three performances of the Edipus Ty-
ranus" of Sophocles in May.
SIS your wife democrat or a repub-
lican?" asked one citizen of another
''She's neither. She's home-ruler."
Wholesome and cheerful, but no
aggravated" is the New York descrip
ton of the tints and shades in spring
goods
A mine in the Tombstone district o.
Arizona is named the "Bob Ingersoll, y
and there are rival claimants for the
lode.
Yale College has been very much ex-
cited over a rumor of smallpox among
the students, but nothing more serious
than case of varioloid has been found
Said a disgruntled old bachelor
"My friend led his wife to the altar,
end"
Mrs. Batchelder, of Bangor, Me-, a
glib and persistent talker, has had her
husband arrested for attempting to pull
out her tongue.
A lady member of Il stranded Uncle
Tom party out IN Indiana writes back:
"The company is still alive and kick
ing-for salaries.
1t is proposed in London to erect a
statue of Carlyle on the Thames EN-
bankment, opposite Cheyne row, and
to place a bust of him in Westminster
Abbey.
The President and the members OF
the Cabinet cannot be said to be rich
men. Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. MacVeagh
have more of this worlds goods than
the others.
The printed portraits of Secretary
Kirkwood, cf the Department of the
Interior bear strong resemblance to
those of DR.. Tanner when he IS in his
prime.
correspondent, with his big face and
silvery hair, looks like a precise Puri-
tan set in a semi-etherealized Dutch
mans skin"
John Griscom, Il New York man, is
coming to Chicago to undertake fast
of forty-fve days 1t will be under the
supervision of the professors of Rush
medical college.
Attorney General Wayne NJ cVeagh
is to be invited to two public dinners
in Philadelpia-one to be given by the
Unioun League and the other by per
sonal and political friends.
Ex-senator Eaton, of Connecticut,
has declined the formal entertainment
which his Democratic friends wished to
bestow upon him on his retirement
from public life.
The fifteen Indian girls at Mr..
Moods's seminary, at Mortified, Mass,
are said to rank high in their recita-
tions, and to surprise their teachers by
their intelligence.
Harvard college is to have full
length portrait of ex-President Hayes,
to be hung in Memorial hall by the
side of the pictures Of John Adams
and John Quincy Adams.
There is a rumor in Paris that Count
Herbert Won Bismark, the CHANCELLOR
son, has eloped to Italy with German
princess, wife of high official at the
court of Berlin.
A eolored man was busily engaged
in saving some wood for a Galveston
gentleman. The ''man and brother
had a large Masonic breastpin on his
shirt bosom. ''Do you colored Masons
and white Masons affiliated" Dom
6llvate wuff a cuss." WHATS the
natter" Dunno, boss, but I'se tried
it. Oar is a barkeeper in dis town whai
toted dis heah berry same emblem.
was in distress; hadn't had dram al
dat morning. / came in and gabe th,
distress signal" did he respondY
"He didn't respond right. He made
motion at de doah wild one hand anC
reached under the bar. / made d.
sign once NOAH and he fetched me be
tween the shoulders wild de bungstarte
| less as / was gettin' out de doah-