River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-04-07
IN A NUTSHELL.

idence at Chautauque Lake, n. Y.
A ST. Louis girls foot thoroughly
heated through this summer will be
better than 3 hot brick in bed next
winter.
The amount of pin money required
by the married women depends on
whether she uses diamond pins or roll
ing pins.
1t is estimated that more than $780,
100000 in cash entered into the con-
struction of railroads directly and in
directly in 1880.
In boiling eggs hard put them in
boiling ten minutes. and then put them
in cold water. 1t VIII prevent the yolks
from coloring back.
Rev. Simeon Parmelee, of Oswego,
\. Y, is in the Tooth year of his age,
and is believed to be the Oldest Congre-
gatiOnal minister in the country.
One of our recently young married
bellies, who at once went to house-keep-
ing, put the cake she had baked for
party cat Of doors n few evenings since
to be frosted.
Professor I. c. Chamberlain, of Be
lott College, Chief Geologi>t of the
State 0fWisconsln, has been appointed
by Major Powell director Of the United
States Geological Survey.
THE senate of Connecticut has passed
bill giving to women a right to vote Mt
school meetings, and making them eli
gibie for members of Boards of Educa-
ton No registration is required
Samuel j. Tildens niece, Miss SIM
mons, nice schoolgirl, has made
herself amous by composing the
raquet galop to which the giddy youth
of the United States and Europe are all
dancing.
Two canons have been brought to
Charleston, South Carolina, which had
evidently been used in the Revolution
airy war Divers and wreckers oper-
ating in Town Creek found them. They
are ten feet in length and siX-inch bole.
"What is the first thing to be lone in
case of fire?" asked Professor Stearns.
Sue the insurance company" prompt
ly aswered the boy at the foot of the
class, whose father had been burned
out once or tHice.-BeriiHg, Hd,ok-
eye,
; cretary-ofWar Lincoln is said to
have more visitors than any other men,
Der of the cabinet. His list is swollen
by troops of colored people who pour
in simply "to shake hands with the son
of the man who issued the emancipation
proclamation"
The man who invented the cherry
tree-hatchet-W Washington story was
bitter enemy of boys. Boys are told
that George WAS great and worthy of
imitation. Result more boys thumped
for chOpping trees than you can oscillate
piece Of timber ut.
a device has been introduced in the
sleeping rooms of some of the fire en-
CINE houses in New York by which the
bed clothes are automatically pulled
of the beds and lifted up toward the
ceiling on night alarm of fine. This
should be utilized in families where
there are growing boys 1t is indubt-
ably long felt want. ihere'2 millions
in it. Boston Transcript
EASY SOLD
Sighed Mr. Jones MY dear Miss May;
l dreamed an auctioneer one day,
Cried going, going gone
l thought was the slave he sold
And y9a---you bought me with thy gold
To kneel before thy throne
''Youre easy sold, i" smiled sw ct Miss May,
For when heard the fellow say
| You're gong, going, gone.
| thought, alas: he little knows
Hes selling one no never goes
And" Mr. Jones had flown.
No,Tisto,cn Herold,
AFTER being out "A hours, the jury
| in hA IA oil Mt
brought in verdict OF not guilty. The
verdict received much applause, and
the defendant was heartily cougratu-
lated by his friends. When Kailoch
was discharged, and got into the ear
riage to 90 home an immense crowd
took the horses from the vehicle and
pulled him to his home, some three
miles
True philanthropy: Mrs. MagofIin
had been reading i'll the newspapers of
a man who died, leaving a young and
attractive widow to whom he devised
his entire wealth. "Now that's what
l call true philanthropy" she remark
ed, removing her spectacles and look
| ing at her husband as if she expected
! to be contradicted. "Why SOP" he
amiably asked. Because" said she,
che left his property in such way
| that some other man will be sure to en-
JOY it,"
The Bank of England was incorpolat-
ed in 1649. 1t covers five acres ofgrouud
and employs nine hundred clerks.
There are no windows on the street.
Light is admitted through open courts;
no mob can take the bank, therefore,
without cannon to batter the immense
wall The clock in the center of the
bank has fifty dials attached to it.
Large cisterns are sunk in the court,
and engines in perfect order are always
in readiness in case OF q.
Posey county, Indiana, claims to have
raised the largest COW in the world.
Her name is Lady Posey breed, mixed
Durham and Big English. Her
measurements are: Greatest height, 5
feet 10 inches; girth S feet inches;
length IL feet 6 inches, or including tail
II feet. Her form is good; and though
not fat weighs 5000 pounds. Her color
is red and white, red predominating.
Age, SIX years. Her present owner
lives in Stark county, Illinois.
THE cement commonly used for fast
tliiiS Nl1t lOpH VI htiNNtiAt
plaster of Paris, which is porous and
quickly penetrated by kerosene. An
other cement which has not this defect
is made with three parts Of resin, one
OF caustic soda and five Of water. This
co4position is mixed with half its
weight Of plaster of Paris. 1t sets firm
~ in about three quarters Of an hour.
1t is Of great adhesive power, not per-
meahle to kerosene, low conductor Of
heat, and but specifically attacked by
hot water.
A marriage service was in progress
at st. Johns church, New Orleans. A
closely yelled woman with an infant in
her arms walked up the centre aisle
just as the clergyman asked if anybody
objected to the union. IL do" said
the intruder, pulling off her veil, and
laying the baby at the feet of the bride
groom Here is your child. You
are my husband. | am lawfully your
wife, and you shall not marry this wo-
man." She made II furious attempt to
attack him, but was restrained by the
ushers, while the bride screa med and
tainted. 1t transpired that the woman
was not the mans wife, though he had
for years made her believe so by means
Of forged certificate.
A physician going from Neftenbach
to Winterhout, in Switzerland in his
navriaoa mot an tho rOaI a yelled lady