River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-11-24
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In A NUT SHELL.

standing on the corner, block from
her house to catch the letter carrier,
you may know that she is expecting
letter from her aunt, and doesn't want
her husband to see it.
A lady in Kinds county, Mississippi,
has been managing her husbands farm
during his absence for the past year
She has paid all her supply bills, and al
so lifted heavy mortgage off the land
with the proceeds of her crops.
SECRETARY BLAINE has resigned his
Craftsmanship of the state republican
committee of Maine. He has held the
place ever twenty years. Senator Frye
was elected in his place.
Siberia includes an area of 100000
square versts-one linear verst being
nearly three, quarters of mile-and
the recent census shows but the scant
population Of l, 1856 goo souls
Miss Meta Polk, daughter of Col. l..
l.. Polk, was awarded the $50 prize
offered at the State Fair to the young
lady who exhibited the greatest and
best variety of products of her own
hands, says the Wadesboro IN. G. Times
Whenever you see woman talking
straight at a man and beginning to nod
her head and keep time to it with her
appraised index finger, it is about time
for somebody to climb a tree.
The Irish people pay $90,000,00O to
the landlords every year. 1t Is COM
puted that $50, 900, 900 of this amount
goes out of the country to be spent in
London. Paris and the gambling dens
of Germany.
A society for the promotion of ex-
Fermentation in navigation of the all
has been formed in Berlin. All plau-
sible ideas and inventions in that d.
rection are to be encouraged, aided
and thoroughly tested.
"My darl;ngl' he intensely whis-
pers, vainly attempting to seize her
hand, "do you know that | love you
madly?" "Oh, yes !" she says, "almost
any fool could tell that"
The latest use devised for paper is its
manufacture into blankets. 1t is claim
ed that they are soft and pliable, and
for warmth excel blankets made of any
other material The uses to which pa
per can be put are truly wonderful.
Out of it almost anything can be made,
from lace handkerchief to a human
habitation. The most expensive suits
are sometimes made. They are cut
libelous.
Victor Hugo is absolutely invisible
to all up to 3 in the afternoon. He
breakfasts alone, and works steadily
both before and after. At 3 o'clock, in
all-weathers, he goes out-if fine, on
foot; if wet, in an omnibus. He takes
the first street or the first omnibus, re-
gardless of its destination, and contin-
ues to walk or ride for three hours.
Gladstone says he is by blood a
Seotchman, by residence a Londoner,
by marriage a Welshman and by birth
a Lancashire man. Even Parnell had
not thought to SO afilict the Premier.
If ladies would look beautiful, here
is certain recipe: Eat meat once
day-beef or mutton-pickles once q
week, sweet meats once year, a cold
bath three times a week, walk five
miles daily, and then you will have no
need OF paint or powder.
A Cincinnati man says the world viii
end the 18th inst. True to his instincts
as an Ohio man he proclaims that the
saints, of whom he is one, will form
the governing class in the next world.
He has not yet announced whether he
will take the post Office or the admin
istration of internal affairs.
Satan rebuking sin. Judas insisting
upon devoted friendship. Arnold dis
coursing upon selfsacIificing patriot
ism, ale al thrown in the shade by
Robert G.. IngersolPs denuneiation of
vituperation, insolence and epithets,
and his commentator of calmness and
candor in discussing the Christian re-
ligion. = Golden Rule
1t is estimated that the reduction of
the public debt for the current month
viii exceed SIS 900 900. The receipts
from all sources vii! aggregate about
$50 900, 900, while the expenses, inclu-
ding the payment of 100000 Of pen
sion claims, will he about $16,000.00e.
Since New York and other Eastern
tea merchants have taken to importing
their own tea, instead of buying of the
great importing houses, the latter have
retaliated by throwing stocks into auc-
ton rooms as soon as received, then
selling at very small profit and invit-
ing retailers and small wholesalers to
buy at auction instead of from the r eg-
ular dealers.