River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-09
BRIEF ITEMS.

Lyons.
Congressman Updegraf, of Ohio, who
is suffering from chronic Inflammation
of the bladder, and is seriously i'll, yet
hopes for ultimate recovery.
Miss Celia Logan plumply denies that
women of the stage, meaning those hav-
ing a recognized standing as actresses,
are less moral and virtuous as class
than other women.
An English lady writer is delighted
with the arrangement of Miss Fanny
Davenport's hair, wound round and
round in fiat, shiny folds, neither coiled
nor plated"
An impairment reporter asked Mrs.
Langtry If her going on the stage did
not cut her off from society. The Lily
gave a neat reply. She said: zone
doesn't have much time for society
when one is always hard at work."
The widow of old John Brown, the
anti-slavery martyr, was given recep-
ton in Boston recently, and fund is
being raised for her benefit. She will
start for California soon.
Mrs. Langtry says that she is more
anxious to succeed as an actress than
to accumulate money. She seems to
be less avaricious than Patti or DR..
Bliss.
United States Senator Philetus Saw
yer, of Wisconsin, is confined at his
house at Oshkosh by injuries received
ten days ago from the upsetting of his
carriage in the night.
Mr.. George B. Standish, who died at
his home in Boston recently, was of the
sixth generation in direct descent from
Miles Standish, the fiery "little cap
tain" of the Plymouth colony.
A. M. Sullivan, the Irish member of
parliament, is at New Orleans, where
he addressed large audience. He
intends to visit some Of the larger SUI
gar plantations in the south.
The silver wedding of the German
crown prince, Frederick William, and
his wife, Princess Victoria, of England,
will be celebrated the 18th of next Jan
uary, with unusually bright festivities.
The widow OF General "Stonewall"
Jackson and her daughter, a young
lady of 10 years, are now living at
Cleveland, o. Mrs. jackson left the
south because she was there compelled
to mingle with society, and could not
/ find the retirem ent that her health de-
manded.
1t is reported from Berlin that Herr
Won Eisendecher, the present German
Minister to Japan, will be appointed
Minister to the United States.
The venerable missionary at Con-
stantinople, Rev. DIR. Elias Riggs, and
his wife celebrated their golden wedding
in their new home by the Bosphorus
last month.
The family of John Brown visited his
grave at North Elba, n. Y, October
18th, to bury the recently discovered
remsins of a son who fell at Harper's
Ferry twenty-taree years ago. Some of
John Browns letters were read at the
funeral, as were also letters from Wen
dell Phillips, A. Bronson Alcott and
some old neighbors of Brown in Kan
sas:
Dr. John G. III. Dielman, director of
music at Mount st. Mary's College,
Emmettsburg, Nd, who recently died,
at the age of seventy-two, was the first
man in this country to receive the de-
gree of Mus. Doc. 1t was bestowed
upon him by Georgetown University,
and the deploma was presented to him
BIB President Zachary Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Howard have
just completed their thntieth year as
actors in "Uncle Toms Cabin"-the
former as St. Clair, the latter as Topsy.
The imperial prince of Japan, who is
still youth, having taken several
courses in the army college at Toxic,
military studies.
Miss Burke the sister of the late
British under secretary for Ireland,
does not recover from the shock which
the news of the assassination gave her,
and her health is very feeble.
Sir Garnet Wolseley and Sir Beau
champ Seymour being offered by the
English government pensions of e., 900
a year for life or gifts of $4,000 each
in cash, sensibly chose the cash.
Mr.. Irvings recent presentation Of
"Much Ado About Nothing" at the
Lyceum theatre, in London, is pro-
nounced the most brilliant and COM
plete performance on the modern Eng
fish stage
Additions are daily made to the Eng
lish Longfellow memorial committee,
which already numbers about 800, and
includes the most distinguished men
in all departments of intellectual
activity.
Two of Ismail Pasha's daughters
have been placed in fashionable
school in Paris, and are described as
bright and winsome girls. The harem
of their ex-royal papa is in the Rue
Bayard.
Mr.. Henry Willard, the President o
the Northern Pacific Railroad, has Of
fered to endow Oregon University with
$50, 900 if the state will increase its an
nual legislative allowance from 81
500 to 5000.
President Arthur went to Princeton,
N. j., last week, to accompany his son,
who entered the Sophomore class, and
was heartily received by the students.
Elk Senator Dorsey has been suffer
ing for several months from disease oil
the eyes, which has already greatly
impaired his sight, and he has gone to
the hot springs of New Mexico in the
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