River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-02-08
Personal Matter.

Miss Louisa Alcot recorns in tho Bos,
ton Saturday Evening Gazette that her
first story brought her S. and her second
$40, with request for more of her pro-
auctions. Zone Of the memorial mo-
ments of my life" she adds, -" is that in
which, as trudged toscnool on wintry
day, my eye fell upona large yellow pos
ter with these delicious words: Der
tina" new tale, by the author of ''The
Rival Prima Donnas," will appear in the
Saturday Evening Gazette. was late;
it was bitter cold: people jostled me;
was mortally afraid l should be recog-
nized: but there | stood feasting my eyes
on the fascinating poster, and saying
proudly to myself, in the words OF the
great Vincent Crummlies, This, this is
famew
Mr. w. Ignatius Dyer, the builder and
contractor, who recently died in George
town, was powerfully built man and
weighed at the time Of his death 375
pounds. He was the largest man in the
District of Columbia. His last illness,
while partially resulting from fall, was
chiefly owing to the increasing aecumula-
ton of fat, the cause of his death being
the growth Of that substance about the
internal organs. The casket in which
he was buried was made for the occasion
in Philadelphia. 1t was six and hall
feet long, three feet wide and very deep,
being the very largest casket that could
be carried into the house. There were
ten pailbearers assisted by four expert
enced men furnished by the undertaken.
The casket as it was borne away weighed
over 500 pounds.
Cardinal Bonnet, archbishop of Bor-
deaux, whose death was announced the
other day, once narrowly escaped from
being buried alive. 1t was when he
was young man. During serious i'll
ness his body suddenly assumed all the
aspects of death. He was rigid, breath
less, and his heart had ceased to beat.
The doctors pronounced him dead, he
was placed in coffin, and every pre-
paration was made for his burial. Yet
all the time he was perfectly conscious
of everything that was going on. AT the
last moment, just as the lid of the coffin
was being put in place for the last time,
the awful mental agony broke the bonds
of muscular inertitude, and he rose to Il
sitting posture, to the establishment and
horror of the attendants. Afterward he
made plea, powerful with personal
conviction, in the senate for law
against rapid burials.
Governor Butler caused sensation in
the Massachusetts state house last week
by appearing there at $50 O'clock and
making the rounds of the departments
In some of the offices he found no Occu-
pants. At the state house he has intro
duced the plan of seeing all visitors who
have real business with him in the order
of their coming. The visitors hand their
cards TO the executive messenger, who
takes them to the governor. on the
governors desk are little pile of Cards.
He takes up the topmost card, they hav-
ing been arranged in the order OF the
arrival of his visitors, and rings his bell,
and the messenger responds. "Show
Mr.. Blank in" is the governors order,
and the visitor is ushered into the pres
ence of the chief magistrate.
The new Archbishop of Canterbury
is described as follows: 'The bishop
has a very happy manner, wide sym
pAthies, and an enormous appetite for
work of all kinds. He may, perhaps,
be best described as High Churchman
with broad learnings and evangelical
fervor. He has done wonders in Corn
wall, not only in raising funds so rapidly
for cathedral. but in reviying spiritual
life in the scattered parishes of the
country, and welding into harmonious
whole the divergent elements OF religious
sentiment Notwithstanding the attack
on the Liberation Society, the bishop
has made himself very popular with
nonconformists in the county, many of
whom have joined the English church"