River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-09-21

be reached as to what sex the judges
shall belong to.
Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie & Co. of
London, bankers, are receiving sub
scriptions for Jacob Brett, aged "a, one
OF the original projectors Of the sub
marine cable. He is ruined through an
unfortunate Investment.
The Princess of Wales recently wore
a costume of cream colored silk with
old gold lace, the ruff being also of
the latter material, and red geraniums
being worn at the center of the low cut
bodice.
1t is proposed that a monumental
cross in memory of T. III. Burke, who
was murdered in Phoenix Park, Dublin,
be erected by the resident or stipendia-
ry magistrates of Ireland, in Glasnevin
Cemetry.
The tracking of the Joyce murderers
near Cong, Galway, was due to the ex-
cessive barking of dog, which thus
rousing his master, who awoke his son
and brother, and then the three tracked
the murderers and saw the deed they
had done.
| A fire broke out in trunk which
was being knocked about by baggage
men at New Bedford, and it was hasti-
ly thrown into the Sound, under the
impression that it contained an intern
al machine, whereas some matches had
kindled the flame.
The chief justice of one of the West
India islands, of good name and fami-
ly, highly connected at home and well
known in London circles, has just mar
ried his black cook. The alliance has
caused much surprise in the colony,
and some admiration among the judges
friends, who vaunt his courage.
Near Fort Valley, Ga, lives man
who has named his children after
animals, having belief that they will,
in consequence, live to an old age.
There are four children, and they are
named respectively Rabbit, Coon, Fox,
and Postum.
Mr.. Boucicault says: Egypt was
fatal to Assyria; to the Hebrews; to
st. George. who was hung for looting,
and to Napoleon. 1t is the graveyard
of the world, and England has gone
there to steal lot for a quiet family
vault"
They were only 10 years old, those
Southern youths, but they had quar-
rel, and Walter Dorr produced re-
volver, and, taking out his watch, told
| Thomas Walker he could have three
minutes TO pray before he died. At
the expiration of that time Dorr put
bullet through Walkers head killing
him instantly. This was at Shreve-
port, La.
An English chemist, who has been
called upon to analyze several socks
and stockings of red color, which had
been found to cause great irritation to
the skin of the wearers, discovered the
cause of the trouble in the tin salt used
as mordant in fixing the dye. He
succeeded in obtaining over % grains
of tin in the form of the dioxide.
When acted upon by acid Precipitation
| the tin oxide forms an exceedingly ir-
ritating compound.
A wealthy old English farmer says
| that he has always selected his farm
hands after putting them through q
whistling exercise. He never knew
whistling laborer to find fault with bed
or board, complain of extra work, or
| be unkind to children or cattle. He
is thoughtful, light-hearted, economi-
cal and good-natured.
Prince Arisagawa, of Japan, who is
now in England, is thus pleasantly de-
scribed by one who has seen him:
'His Highness is little, fat, oily man,
with twinkling, oblique eyes. His
nose is simply pair of nostrils. There
| = - o., Nfe hriIrro IN ~
Miss Jennie Rawlins, eldest daugh-
ter of the late Secretary of War, Gen
eral John A. Rawlins, of Galena, ILL.,,
was married to Mr.. George Holman,
in the Presbyterian Church at Goshen
N. Y. Among the friends present at the
ceremony were General Grant and
| Mrs. Grant.
The Court of Rome has granted the
Countess of Imecourt's request. and an
nulled the marriage of her daughter
with Musursus Bey. In this case the
Cardinals allege that Mile. d'Imecourt
when she bestowed her hand upon the
young Turk (who is of that Greek re-
ligionl, was possessed by the evil one.
General Robert Toombs, of Georgia,
according to an Atlanta letter, has
greatly changed recently in his physical
condition. His eyesight has nearly
failed him, and his once full face has
grown thin and wrinkled. 1t is predic-
ted that his long career, with all its
successes and failures, will soon come
to an end.
The Rev. Thomas Motley recently
wrote of Herbert Spencer's system OF
philosophy as filling Several yards of
| shelf in most public libraries" The
author, apparently shocked by the IN
| accuracy of the statement, wrote note
declaring that less than two feet was
the actual space covered by his thirty
years of philosophical work.
The year 1888 is the periodic cholera
year. The first appearance of the pes
| thence in this country was in 1882; 1T
has since appeared at intervals of sew
enteen years-in 1849 and 1868. it is
now raging in the Philippine Islands,
and has manifested itself at other points
in the far Orient. Will it come to us
next year? or will it interrupt its dread
periodicity?
Mr.. Gladstone has been improving
the recess by taking trip down the
Channel in Lord Wolverton's steam
yacht, the Palatine. He was accom-
panied by Mrs. Gladstone and other
members of the family. On Sunday,
August 20, the party landed at Port
land and visited the convict prison that
| furnishes such sensational scenes in
the play of The Black Flag. Re-em-
barking, the voyage was continued
around Lands End and up the Welsh
coast as far as Milford Haven.
1t has for some time been known
that green is not the national color OF
Ireland, and now it appears that she
owes the harp in her arms to Henry
VIII, though it was not Officially mar
shalled in the royal achievement" ux-
til the time of James |, on which occa-
sion the Earl of Northampton, then
Deputy Earl Marshal, observed shat
for the adoption of the harp the best
reason he could assign was that it re-
sembled Ireland, it being an instru-
ment that it cost more to keep in tune
than it was worth"
Sir Bernard Burke, the we'll known
Irish herald, has frequently been asked,
"What is the surname Of the children
of Queen VictoriaY' and he says: Il