River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-07-20
BRIEF ITEMS


Hoblot X. Browne, of London, al
illustrator of Dickens works, is dead
A statue of Theodore Parker - soon
to be placed in public square AZ the
south end of Boston.
In Paris the influx of American
tourists is great, and the shopping sea-
son has fairly opened for American la.
dies.
Blanche Douglass and Walter NAL
ley were shameless enough to attend
the theater together in New York Sat
urday night.
The Prince of Wales has begun to
shine as farmer. He won three first
prizes at the Norfolk cattle show; one
for Shorthorn bull and two for South
down sheep.
Prince Amadeo, Duke of Aosta, son
Of King Humbert of Italy, and for two
years king of Spain, has been making
tour through Belgium and northern
France. He is described as 'still the
same handsome, languid fellow that he
was in 1860, with huge black mus
tache, an easy soldierly gait, and a
fondness for long black cigars"
Ladies at Newport who go on''yacht-
ing parties" dress as elegantly and
deliberately as if they were going to a
high tea" or reception on the ave-
nue. in the height of the season.
President Arthur and ex-senator
Conkling are announced in the printed
posters of the Minnesota state fair, to
be held in Minneapolis in September,
as having accepted invitations to be
present there and then.
As the Princess Of Wales has a
chronic sore throat which she neck
laces in velvet, go the English women
have cen taken to revival of the
velvet dog collars which the gentle sex
was wont to wear quarter of a cen
tury ago.
The Princess Olive Lubin, only child
of the late emperor of Hayti, has ar
rived in New York, and will soon make
tour of the chief cities. She is the
widow of Gen. Lubin, is SO years of
age, and was educated with great care.
Bernhardt is still wearing in London
some of the same costumes which she
used in America, among them the dark
blue plush she wore in "Frou-Frou
and the red embossed velvet which did
service in Camille" The Bernhardt,
since her marriage, has evidently be-
come economical.
James Gordon Benefits yacht, the
Namouna, which sailed from New
York month since with party of
gentlemen on board, was last heard
from at Gibraltar. From thence they
will cruise through the Mediterranean
and the Levant to Constantinople, re-
turning to Cowes for the yachting sea-
son. The Nam0una, it is said, has not
turned out to be as fast craft as was
expected.
Ex-Governor Ichabod Goodwin of
New Hampshire, who died recently at
the age of Sc, was model war COVER
nor. In the exciting times just pre-
ceding the civil war his influence vas
very great, the banks and citizens of
the state rendering $680,000 on his in
dividual responsible toward recruit
ing and equiping troops. He enjoyed
health throughout his long
life. For years he attended the Uni
tartan church.
Hon. Carroll E. Smith, the editor of
the Syracuse Journal, in his Fourth OF
July address at Conesus Lake, n. Y,
said: "This day we pay respectful
homage to Americas greatest exem-
plars: Washington, liberator of peo-
pie and founder of a nationl Lincoln,
of race and savior of
the union! Garfield, embodiment of
the highest qualities of American man
hoodp
Miss Edith Holman Hunt, relative
Of Holman Hunt, the artist, writes from
Jerusalem to the London Times that
the foreign population there is at the
mercy of the Mohammedans, should
events in Egypt bring on holy war.
The seacoast is thirty six miles..away,
and the road is difficult. Miss Hunt
urges that men of-war be sent to Joppa,
30 relief may be sent to Jerusalem, if
needed, to guard the flight of the
foreign population.