River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17
BRIEF ITEMS

| North Siders refer to it as the River
and harbor "Pill'
The popular voice" just now seems
to be the 'voice of discord."
Miss Susan B. Anthony is to give a
series of lectures in Texas.
Mark Twain is supporting colored
student at Lincoln University.
Madame Materna thinks of under
taking a season of German opera in
this country.
The British soldiery will soon sprawl
all over Egypt under special inspira
| ton. Tennyson is writing a new battle
hymn,
Patriotism knows no terrors Most
of the congressman are anxious to
/. brave another term of "that dreadful
malaria"
A genial editor down East writes that
brother editor has procured "a brand
new set of type to call people liars and
blackguards in"
Mai. Henry Clay Mcdowell has
purchased Henry Clay's old Ashland
homestead.
Bull Run Russell will figure as the
| Egyptian war correspondent of the
London Times.
Street horse cars have just been in
troduced in Toxic, Japan, with great
success.
A railroad bridge is to be built across
the River st. Lawrence just above the
Lachine Rapids.
The Irish leaders have formed
committee to counteract the operations
of the land corporation,
Alaska is suffering from the plague
"a combination of scarlet fever and
measeles-and the mortality is fearful.
The legislative, judicial and execu-
tive appropriation bill, as passed by
congress, calls for the sum of $50, 03S,-
600.
Kansas City, Mo-, last week organ
lied an exposition company which
will open its first exhibition September
Goth.
Sarah Brown, a daughter OF "Old
Ossowottamie," Is employed in the San
Francisco mint.
Geo. Francis 1rein intends to keep
silence for eight years-the public will
be glad to know.
Col. Robert Crockett, grandson Of
Davy Crockett, is publishing literary
paper in Arkansas.
Evangelist Harrison's engagement at
the Loveland Camp. ground was for 500
a week and his board.
Vennor is described as the possessor
of striking countenance, pale, with
dark, brilliant, restless eyes.
Mr.. Gladstone has of late been very
closely guarded, even at church being
attended by two policemen.
Rowland Hills famous Surrey
Chapel" built just a hundred years
ago, is to be converted into a manufac-
tory.
Walker Blaine has been appointed
counsel on behalf of the United States
before the court of commissioners of
Alabama claims.
The will of E. j. M. Hale gives the
city of Haverhill $150,000 for a public
library, and $50, 1000 for hospital.
Jim Fisk, though dead yet speaketh
through medium. He prophesies
the speedy and mysterious death CT
Jay Gould.
The London critics attack Ristori
savagely They say her powers are
rapidly failing, and that in English
tragedy she is complete failure.
Annie Louise Cary Mrs. Raymond
has so far recovered her voice that she
often delights the Summer resorters at
/ Cape Elizabeth with her singing.
, Mrs. Sally Robinson is the name Of
woman who died suddenly in the
Rocky Mountains of Georgia the other
day, at the authenticated" age of lis.
The Egyptians are saved any further
wear and tear of intellect over the
mathematical problem of finding the
weight of a given cannon ball.
The secretary of the navy has de.
cided to allow the Marine band to go
to Cape May for one week in August
to give concerts.
A circular has been issued by the
French war minister ordering the re-
sumption of the use of drums in the
French army.
Careful compilation fixes the crop of
sugar on the island of Cuba at 601 500
tons, being an excess of 90 per cent.
over the last crop.
A carrier-pigeon let loose at Easton,
Pa, the other day, made the distance
of sixty five miles to IFS roost in New
York in forty minutes.
A whale ship arrived recently at
Shetland from North Greenland With
two hundred bottle-nosed whales and
five hundred seals on board.
Prof. Baden Powell must be working
in the interest of the fool-killer. He
has voiced an opinion that "the dam
gers of ballooning are exaggerated"
1t was foreordained that The New
York Herald should discover that 'lhe
two Cleopatra needles knit Americ q
and England so closely together on the
Egyptian coast"
Mr.. John w. Bookwalter, who led
the Ohio democrats to defeat in the
governorship contest, is spoken of as
Speaker Keifer's democratic opponent
in his district.
From Hamburg comes the announce.
ment that the marriage banns have
been published of Hans Guido Won Blu
low, the famous pianist, and Maria
Amalia Katharine Josepha Schanzer.
General E. 0. G. Ord is thinking of
settling permanently in Washington,
purchasing his fathers old house on
Twelfth street, and refurnishing it as it
was in the days of his boyhood.
The marriage of Miss Bette, the
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