River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-03-02
In A NUT SHELL.

Mr.. Whittier's book-mark is the tai
of gray squirrel killed by his cat.
/ Patti was sick, and did not sing al
announced she would, at Cincinnati.
Princess Louise has consented to be
come Patroness of the Women's Emf
| grafton Society.
Robert Bonner is go, looks well, and
hopes ito be continued" Pin the next
world.
Gen. Banks says the United States
and Russia will eventually be the great
powers.
Patti is convalescing, and will sing
Saturday and Monday evenings at Gin
cinnati, provided she has no relapse.
Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson is the
only surviving editor of the Dial, pub
lished some forty years ago.
| Belle Boyd, the confederate CORE
spondent, spy, and blockade runner,
lives now in Corsicana, Texas, and fire.
quently lectures.
1t is said that Kathi Schratt new
German actress, possesses in many re-
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and Mary Anderson.
Ex-Vice Prest. Wheeler has given up
his proposed visit to the Pacific coast,
and will return to Malone, N. Y, next
month from Florida.
Thomas McElrath, business man.
ager of the New York Tribune during
Greeley's regime, celebrated his golden
wedding Thursday night.
Money is active" Fogg read in his
newspaper. "That's SC" he said; "it's
active enough to keep out of my
reach"
A benefcent man: "Half of those
smiles are mine," said dentist who
looked at an audience from his box
Governor Tabor, of Colorado, had a
daily income from his matchless mine,
during January, of about 900. He
has devoted suite of rooms in his
opera house, at Denver, to the use of
the press club, of that city.
Colonel Charles Treischel has been
reinstated as auditor of the custom
house in New York-a position from
which he was removed by ex-Collector
Merritt in favor of brother-in-law of
the then Vice President Wheeler.
Senator Pendleton and Hon. e. B.
Washburne have been selected as the
orators at the La Sale bicentennial Gel
ebration, which will be held in New Or
leans April 8.
The new paymaster general, VIM. b.
Rochester, will be the youngest man
wearing brigadier generals star in
any of the staff departments of the
army.
Clarence Barton, the Washington
editor who figured in the Soteldo affair,
is nephew of Barton Key, whom Gen.
Sickles killed many years ago.
President Arthur was one of the
guests at Justice Fields dinner in
Washington. He took out Mrs. Field,
and sat at her right hand, British Min
lister occupying the seat at her left.
Husband and wife," says some sage
person, SHOULD no more struggle to get
the last word than they should struggle
for the possession of lighted bomb"
They don't. The wife gets it without a
struggle.
Oscar Wilde, the aesthetic, lectured at
Fort Wayne, Ind. A number of young
would-be aesthetics attended, attired in
knee-breeches and carrying lily or
sunflower in their hands.
Hon. Alexander Mitchell, president
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway Company, left Milwaukee last
week for Jacksonville, Fla. Mr.. Mitch
III +rox,a1S ~, :, cnaoial oor which &c co I
to be the finest ever manufactured in
the United States.
Peoria is experiencing social sensa-
ton. A rumor has reached that city
of sour mash that Miss Ida Farrell, the
daughter of a we'll known Peorian, and
sister of G. P. Farrell, brother-in-law of
Colonel Ingersoll, is being henored with
especial attentions from President Ar
thur.
The Hon. Mark Alexander, of Meek
lenburg county, Virginia, who is the
only survivor of the Virginia Conven-
ton of 1829-30, celebrated his ninetieth
birthday, on Wednesday, the 8th inst.
He was a representative in congress for
sixteen years. He is reported to be in
excellent health for his advanced age.
Margaret Mather, the young lady ]
M. Hill is educating for the stage, gave
private rehearsal to the critics and
m anagers of Boston the other evening,
and they agree i'll pronouncing her the
coming wonder in the theatrical firma-
ment.
Professor Ko Kun Hua of Harvard
College, has just died of pneumonia at
Cam bridge. He was a native of China,
and was the professor of that language
in Harvard. His place is not likely to
be filed, as there is not much demand
for instruction in that department.
The late professor was Mandarin of
high standing, or high ribbons, in his
native land.
The English Duke of Norfolk is q
staunch and devoted son of the Vati-
can. He has just petitioned the pope
to allow him to divide the large diocese
Of Southwark, and to allow him to
erect new see at Arundel. In all
probability Leo will grant the request
of his moneyed servant, and his Grace
will erect cathedral fer the new do
cese. He is now erecting one at Nor
| witch.
ooh yes" said Mrs. Brown, as she
surveyed with evident pleasuresher new
parlor sldeboard, covered with china
and decorated with highly colored tiles.
"Mr. B remarked last night that | was
becoming quite an atheist, and the old
lady's countenance fairly beamed with
delight as her eyes rested on q sixteen
cent japanese tea pot.
Comic tragedians: Two whimsical
plumbers were once made in the course
of performance of "Macbeth" at a
poor little country theatre. The Lady
Macbeth, (who had probably been a
laundress), instead of saying merely "a
little water clears us of this deed, y
added ga little soap and water" etc. A
little later on the Thane observed to his
spouse, mysteriously, Eve have
cotched snake and killed it," to the
great admiration of all present.
How Nutmegs Grow.