River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-16
PERSONS AND THINGS.

short and wear almost an entire wig.
| A fresh portrait of Columbus has
lately been discovered 10 the Madrid
museum.
The late Daniel Murphy, the Nevada
"cattle king" left an estate worth about
| $3.0000O0.
Sentinels are still guarding the tomb
OF General Garfield, in Lake View GEM
etary, Cleveland
Mr.. Bell, the inventor OF the Bell tel
ephone, has become permanent resi-
| dent of Washington.
| Shoes longer than the feet are abso-
lutely the style for ladies, preposterous
though il may appear.
General Grant has accepted an invi-
tation to be present at the New England
institute Fair at Boston next Wednes-
| day.
The bust af Garfield which Preston
ial niche in the old hail of representa-
tives at Washington is now finished and
on exhibition at the state house in
Columbus.
Seth Green will start for Florida
about the middle of Nov. to study the
habits of migretory fish, under the in
structions from the State Commits
sioners of Fisheries of New York.
The newly-accredited minister from
Japan and his suite arrived in Washing
ton Oct. 22d, after a journey of % days
and 10 hours from Yokohama-the
quickest time on record.
Canon Common, who has lived thirty
years on the Isle of Wight, near o.
friend of Queen Victoria, has been
made Dean of Windsor and domestic
chaplain of Her Majesty.
Walt Whitman. the poet, has been
| Frustrated for two years at his home
near Camden, N. j., with q severe bill
lious attack. His illness, however, did
not assume serious form, and be is
now conyalescent.
| During the storming of Tel-el- Kebir
the Rev. A. Corbet, chaplain of the
Brigade of Guards, was not two hun
dred yards behind the advancing bat
talions, and the Roman Catholic priest
was one of the first wounded.
The dollar subscription to the Gar
field Monument Fund of Cincinnati
now aggregate about 000-enough
for the purpose. The statue is to be of
bronze, full length, of heroic size, and
mounted on a granite pedestal.
Mrs. Mary Austin, who lately died at
| Washington, had forty-four male chill
dren. eleven of whom survive. She
was a doctor of medicine and surgeon,
and served through the war with the
rank of major. Mrs. Austin had trip
lets six times.
Attorney general Clifford Anderson,
of Georgia, in response to call from
leading members of the Legislature, has
| entered the race for United States Sen
ator, to fill the place of the late Benja-
min III. Hill. 1t is said he will be
strongly supported.
Rev. Charles Spurgeon, son of the
| famous pastor of the London Taber-
nacle, has been preaching to crowded
congregations in st. Louis and other
Western cities. He breaches short,
| plainly sermons, with touches
of pathos and quaint humor informing
led, and with dramatic style of de-
livery.
THE heirs Of Conrad Geyer, most of
whom live in Philadelphia and Mont
| gomery county, Pa, are preparing to
| collect the immense estate left by the
wealthy Cuban sugar-planter. Geyer
was born in Montgomery county, of
German parentage, and left his home
when young man. He settled in
Cuba. and by industry and economy
soon became the owner of plantation.
He afterward engaged in business as a
sugar refiner near Havana, and at the
time of his death, q few years ago, was
worth nearly 100000. Geyer died
intestate and without issue, he never
| having been married. He had five
| brothers and sisters, three of whom sur
vive him, and the heirs who claim the
estate are the next Of Kin of the de-
ceased millionaire.
| If " illiam Penn had been permitted
to read the description of last weeks
celebration in his honor, he must have
been astonished beyond the power of
expression. One of the minor facts
certain to bewilder him is the con-
sumption of lager beer during the BIZ
| centennial festivities. The books of the
internal-rev enue. office showed that DUR
ing the week 28.39S barrels, or 10, 000,-
| 600 glasses of beer were delivered and
presumably consumed in Philadelphia
an allowance of ten glasses each to
every man, woman and child, includ-
ing the strangers within her gates. The
quantity delivered during the CORES
ponding week in 1881 was Is, 420 bar
rels, so that the recent celebration is
directly responsible for the consump-
ton of nearly 10000 barrels of beer.