River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-09-28
BRIEF ITEMS.

The Bachelors Mutual Protective
Association, of Knoxville, Tenn, in
sures against matrimony.
Since the first oil we'll began to flow
q, SOC, 100000 has been added to the
wealth of this country by the product
of petroleum.
Wagner's '..Parsifal" is 10 be produced
with great magnifcence at the Munich
Court Theater on Thursday, October Il.
A travelling circus recently pitched its
tent just outside the city limits Of An
derson, S. c., and thus avoided paying
the required $500 corporation license.
A New York man stole parrot, and
if his fine is not ovel 100000 it will be
paid by the parties who lived contiguous
to the abducted bird.
Shoulder capes of black material
studded in the greatest profusion with
steel beads and having steel fringe
are new. They ere best appreciated
in the sun or gaslight.
1t is not probable that the crusade
against the waltz will cause that dance
to be abolished in society next winter,
except probably among the Philadel-
pnla Trlde family.
Searchers after wedding presents are
now out in increased force every day,
and give a "boom" to silversmiths
and jewelers.. The novelties of the
season are innumerable.
Eggs within eggs, says an exchange,
and rings within rings will be more
fashionable in the new autumn than
| 3t, 1T uf
are worn at present.
The recent decision of the supreme
court of Florida, making all railroad
property in the state liable to taxation,
will add about 100000 to the taxa
BILE property of the state.
Greene county, Kentucky, boasts of
a citizen yet in the prime of life who
is said TO be the father of twenty seven
children, twenty five of whom are liv-
ing, and fifteen of whom are married.
He also has sixty-fye grandchildren.
Mad-stones appear to have market
value in North Carolina, where a local
paper records the sale of half inter
est in one for IS, adding that clouded
title lesssened the value of the share
| disposed of.
w. HI. Lingard was arrested in Phila-
delphia the other day upon an action
| for debt brought by one of his former
advance agents, Charles Hood, who
claimed that Lingard was owing him
| 800 for services.
r bert Funk, of Jackson township,
Cambria county, Pa, was attacked on
| the public road few days since by a
bald eagle The bird was captured
after making 8 desperate assistance,
| was found two measure six feet two
inches from tip to tip of wings.
Every twenty four hours /, 40 trains
rush past the signal tower of the Penn
| sylvsnia railroad on Filbert street,
Philadelphia, a record that can be
equaled by no other point on the
globe.
About ten years ago Commodore
Watson, of the De Barry line, on the St.
Johns river, Florida, directed that no
more shooting be allowed from his boat
This is done not only for the protec-
ton of the passengers, but that the
game should not be driven from the
banks of the river. The order has had
q good effect, and now alligators and
birds may be seen as of yore.
| A Cincinnatian has written phamp-
let reeounting the events of "the war OF
1886" between the United States and
Great Britain. The result of the war
is the defeat of the United States. The
object of the pamphleteer is to arouse
attention to the fact that the national
cefenses have been neglected and the
army and navy permitted to become
inefficient.
There is authority for each of the
following methods of spelling and pro-
nunciation: Mo hamne-ed (short az
Ma hom-et (long a. Ma homet (short a J
Properly speaking, Mohamned name
of the prophet, and Mohammed .bat
of his successor, and therefore the
faith should only be known as Mahom-
etanism.