River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-07-13
BRIEF ITEMS.
he blow before q word in Iowa.

The first circus started out" in 1927.
Mr.. E. G. Stedman is back from
Europe.
Blaine seat 81 600 to the cyclone suf-
ferers of Iowa.
Bret Harte is writing serial story
for a Glasgow paper.
Liberty can be safe when suffrage is
illuminated by education.
The fashionable shade this summer
is the shady side of the street.
Bishop Spaulding of Peoria, ILL.,, is
taking his ease at Newport, r. |.
If you would not be thought fool
In other conceit, be not wise in your
own.
He who laughs at cruelty sets his
heel on the neck of religion and godli-
ness.
To discuss an opinion with fool is
like carrying lantern before blind
man.
than to raise confidence and then de-
ceive it.
A San Antonio rexas) woman has
10000 silkworms at work.
A correspondent wants to know
what kind of dessert a maybe would
make?
Food for reflection: Mince pie.
cheese, lobster salad. No sleep. Time
to think.
Fogg says beef should be classed
under the head OF game, because it is
dear meat.
The resolution of moment with
some men has been turning point of
| infinite issue to the world.
Herbert Spencer never heard of
Oscar Wilde, until the latter's trip to
America.
"The parting gives me PAIN" as the
man said when he had troublesome
tooth extracted.
Before marriage he thought she was
little dear, but after marriage he
found she was very extravagant.
Professor: "What Latin word mean
ing money shows the fact that former
iy cattle were used as medium of
barter?' Junior: Bullion"
"She struck him with fiendish
SMILE" says q sensational novelist.
That's better than striking him for two
dollars.
A wise man will desire no more than
what he may get justly, use soberly.
distribute cheerfully and live content
eddy with.
No use in holding elections if money
is to determine the result.
General 0. E. Babcock's wife (daugh-
ter of Hon. Benjamin II. Campbell, of
Chicago) is seriously i'll in Washington.
Her recovery is despaired of.
The congregation OF All S uls church
New York, has just raised a purse of
$50 900 in behalf of Mrs. II. W. Bellows,
widow of their late pastor.
1t is said that Mr.. Davis, of Philadel-
phia. who projected Our Continent, sunk
100000 in the venture, and then es-
capped.
Mr.. John Defrees, ex-public printer,
has derived benefit from his removal
to Berkeley Springs, but can hardly re-
cover
Mr.. Walter d. Jones, muni6cent
Englishman, has recently given $3.50 600
for the religious missions in Japan and
China.
81 want little change" said Mrs. B.
to her husband. "Well," was the heart
less response, Gust wait for it. Time
brings change to everybody"
San Jose, CAL, has just put up a
Brush light on a mast 200 feet high,
made of gas pipe, and has been able
to do without one-third of its street gas
lamps.
English gold coin is on the average
half of one per cent. short-a serious
loss in keeping metallic currency in
(, circulation which English economists
| claim the state should share.
The Hon. w. G. Depauw, of New
Albany, Ind, has made an offer to give
Asbury University an endowment of
$4,000 on condition that the name be
changed is Depauw University.
Mary Odenheimer Fowler, daughter
of the late Bishop Odenheimer, of New
Jersey, secured the prize of $500 in the
late Sinclair competition for the best
artistic device for advertising cards.
There were 400 entries.
At North Wingfeld, England, there
is tug of war concerning pew, and
the first corners lately placed them
selves on the knees of those already
there, and refused to bulge at the
rectors request. Pew wars are of the
bitterest in England.