River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-05
She Wanted a Notice.
Chicago Tribune
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The several occupants of the room
looked around and discovered a young
lady standing in the doorway. She
nodded slightly to the horse reporter,
and that individual returned the salu-
tation with a placid mile-and- "a half
over eight hurdles smile whose grand
eur of expanse would alone have made
| it noticeable.
"You are right this time, madame"
he said. "This is the exact spot where
the seething brain of the trained jour
nallst proceed to bubble, and the lam
ces OF Thought that pierce with uner-
ring aim the brazen hemlets of Wrong
are ever held in couehant poise by
strong arms ready to launch them forth
at the slightest sight of danger"
Papa doesn't know that am up
here" said the vision of Low eliness, "but
mama does. The very minnie | told
| her | was going to see an editor she
said it was the best thing could do,
but when got right to the door |
thought would de-
you don't appear to be in danger of
immediate dissolution" remarked the
horse reporter.
ooh, of course don't mean exactly
that" said the young lady, ''but / was
awfully nervous, you knew always
was that way-and when | was little
girl papa used to say the only way to
govern me was by kindness"
"Well, we'll be gentle with you," was
the reply. would you like to read the
Hawkinsville Clarion or the Cohoes
FreenaaH?" pointing to pile of ex-
changes.
"No l don't care about it, thank you,
was the reply. You editors must have
a hard time managing all the people
who come up here"
"There is a managing editor for that
purpose" said the horse reporter.
"How NIGEL and do all these gentle
men editP"
eyes"
'I'm going to be married next week"
said the young lady. "Ain't it funny?'
"Quite ludicrous, no docbt," was the
reply.
"And l came up here" she continued
"to see if you would put nice notice
of the affair in the paper. Will you dc
it?"
Certainly" said the horse reporter
"Would you like to have it referred to
as another one of those delightful
events in which the happiness of q
trusting love finds glad fruition in we'd
ded bliss or the marriage bells rang
out merrily last evening, telling to the
star-lit sky a joyful tale of loves fna'
triumph? Both those sentences are
kept in type, and you can have your
choice"
81 rather like the last one BEST" said
the young lady. 1t is more tenderly
beautiful Don't you think so?'
EYES," replied the horse reporter,
"there is sort Of curfew- will.not- ring
tonight tinge to it that lays over the
other one" "Well then l will take
that. And will an editor be around tc
write it up?'
Certainly"
81 will send you a piece of the wed
ding cake" continued the young lady
3d." said the horse reporter. There
is dog up my way that needs killing.
DIR. Baer, in recent address before
the Board of Health of Berlin, state,
that during the last twelve years the
number of drinking shops in Belgium
had increased from 46 900 to SO 900, anC
the consumption of alcohol from AZ IL
II litres.per mead. On the other hand. il
Gothenberg, since the liquor shops HAYS
been reduced in number from 81 to 81
and the selling of liquor on credit for
hidden by law, the arrests for drunken
ness has fallen Oh two-thirds, as also til,
cases of delerium tremens. DR.. Bae
finds that in Prussia, 32 per cent. o.
murders and personal violence occu
on Sunday alone and IS per cent. oil
Saturday and Sunday together.