River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-01-04
miscellaneous.

The organ OF the negroes, ahe New
York Globe, says: The law-making
power has done all it can for us-it has
given us common rights before the law.
The law-making power, broadly speak
ing, cannot make us equal with anybody
we must do that ourselves; nor can 1T,
broadly speaking, give US education and
wealth-We must acquire these as other
do. Upon your ability to assert tins
social and c vic doctrine depends all
that the law guarantees us in common
for the law, which eomprehends the
whole people, makes all government
tai benefits common, and leaves to the
people the assertion and enjoyment of
of them"
The Centennial exhibition grounds at
Philadelphia now presents a scene OF
weary desclation. Where the main and
machI cry buildings once reared their
imposing structures, an empty waste
tires the eyes with desert of mud,
bitches, decayed lumber, twisted pipes,
rusty iron, and broken rubbish of every
kind. The destruction of the two great
buildings has left the acres they COW
cred looking like an old battlefield. In
the rear of this sea of confusion CLEANS
the massive front OF memorial hail, the
two bronze figures in front standing OUT
in strange contrast over the ruins over
which they look. To the left and rear
the bright hues of horticultural hall give
the scene patch of color.
Kossuth writes to the leader of the
radical party in Hungary that the
very existence of an anti-Jewish
agitation there is a shame and dis
grace to the nation 1t is inconcelvable
to him, he says, how anyone possessing
democratic principles can join in such a
craze A bad economic policy has re
duced the poorer classes, and now they
are told by adventurers that the Jews
are to blame Kossuth adds that he
himself has received letters accusing
him of having been bribed by the Jews,
and he concludes by asking how great
must be the terrorism in Hungary when
even in foreign city such attempts are
made to influence him.
A man who has attended his own eX-
eeution, and survives to relate the de-
tails, is worthy of short ragraph.
According - the Lond IN Echo his name
is Colonel Marteras, and in 1869 he was
on the point of being proclaimed Presi-
dent of Uruguay when he was arrested
and put to death On Monday, June 80,
of that year Ito be precise), he was taken
10y platoon of soldiers out uf the city
to a meadow in the heart of a forest,
and bound to a chair. AT the word
"FIrei' 'fspasmodic shock" threw him
to the ground; he did not hear the vol
ley; the soldiers marched away without
giving him the Gus omary coup de grace;
and Marteras by the kindly aid of a lab
txoS tsts lodi
and to-day serves society more humbiy
but yet more safely az waiter In Par
is cafe.
A pleasant anecdote is told of Sir
Jonn Mcdonald, the Canadian premier.
He was on visit to Quebec, and when
about leaving his hotel one day was sur
rounded by lot of cabmen, all crying
"I'll take you, sir. I've fine horse, Sir
John" Then occurred one of those acts
which more than ever his great ability
has endeared Sir John to large portion
of the Canadian people. SirJohn asked
whether Jim Mccullough was there. Jim
was not there, but little boy said Jim
was on the stand, and he would fetch
him. Many years ago. when parliament
met in Quebec, Jim always drove Sir
John. Jim now came, old and ragged,
driving the WO1Sb Gao III NSueD6C. OF
John shook hands with him, inquil ed
how Biddy and the children were, and
then amid cheers, in which even the
disappointed cabmen joined, drove off
to visit the governor general and the
Princess Louise.
1t is an old saying that "a man is as
old as he feels and woman is as old as
she looks. DR.. John [. Brown, the old
estapothecary in Boston, who died yes
terday at the age of ninety-two years,
was, in that sen ie, ever young man,
always enjoying life keenly, in tenn
perate, rational manner. He was par
ticularlv fond of the society ofyoung peo-
pie. A friend tells us that when, as
young man, he was taking his first les
sons in dancing, DR.. Brown, at that time
over sixty years of age was member OF
the class, as sprightly as the youngest,
ard in great favor among the young ladies'
as a partner, on account ofhis good dane
ing and entertaining conversation be-
tween the changes.