River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-04-05
Personal Items.


d. X. Russell, once a husband of Ada
Isaacs Menkin, is now professional beg
gar in st. Louis. Another of her hus-
bands was John G. Heenan, the pugilist,
and another Orpheus G. Kerr, the hui
morist.
Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake lectured in
New York recently, in answer to the
Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix. She said: when
womaL's influence is left in its proper
place, men will be more humane, and
their minds converted from brute force. =
Among the public requests in the will
of the late Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston,
are $4,000 TO the Boston Provident
Association, 5000 to the Childrcn's
Hospital, and $4,000 to the Massachu-
sets General hospital.
''For long time" says New York
letter, ''the Vanderbilts were not in
what is called fashionable society in New
York; but the strongest gates have
yielded to the golden touch, and one
sees their names now at entertainments
in the most exclusive circles" Is New
York society founded on anything better
than money, that it should ever have
turned up its naughty nose at the Van
dorbilts?
A Berlin dispatch of March to a
London paper says: yesterday after
noon the Prince Of Wales paid second
visit of considerable length to Prince
Bismarck, who, in the course of the day,
also received calls from Prince William
of Prussia. the Duke of Genoa, and
others. The Prince of Wales also gave
sitting yesterday in the palace of tn,
Crown Prince to the painter Angel,
probably with a view to making pres
ent of his portrait to the mess of the
Butcher Hussars."
Mentioning the arrival of United States
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, at
Aiken, S. c., the Recorder of that town
says: "His family have been spending
the winter here, and are comfortably
ouartered at one of our hotels. The sem
ator keeps stylish carriage and his own
horses, driven by white coachman ar
rayed in blue coat and brass buttons
Miss Edmunds is frequently seen out
riding on fine animal other own, which
is said to have cost ST. ,000."
Kate Middlesworth of Norwood, O.,
was noted for beauty and recklessness.
The richest young man in the place
wished to marry her, bat she rejected
him because she preferred Pat Henry;a
railroad switchman. To her surprise and
indignation Pat was not transported
with delight bv the distinction, and she
made up her mind to kill him and her.
self. She obtained a revolver and start
ed for the switch house, intending to
shoot him through the window, but in
nervously cooking the weapon she acct
dentally discharged it into her own
head.
Senator Pugh has bass voice of trem-
endous depth, and a correspondent
thinks his throat must be coiled up like
the stem of brass horn in order to get
it into his body, ample as its proportions
are. When he says No" during rool-call
it sounds as the voice came up through
the traps from the sub basement to the
Capitol. Senator Sawyer also has strong
voice. When he responds to his name
it sounds like man hallooing through
the woods. Senator Vance answers
eyes or mo" with hearty cheerful
ness eminentlv suggestive of the highly
entertaining stories he tells in the cloak
room, which provoke SO much laughter
that it is often necessary to close the
cloak-room doors so that the business of
the senate can proceed.
Sir Charles Gaven Duffy. in his latest
volume on Ireland gives piquant sketch
of the poetess "Speranza" now Lady
Wilde, who first wrote for the London
Journals under mans non-de-plume.
II was greatly surprised" Mr.. Duffy
writes, "by the first contribution, and
requested Mr.. John Fenshaw Ellis to
call at the Nation office. Mr.. Ellis, in
reply invited me to visit him in Lesson
street. | did so Immediately, and was
ushered into the presence OF a tall girl,
whose stately carriage and figure, flash
ing brown eyes, and features cast in a
heroic mold, seemed fit for the genius
of poetry, or the spirit of revolution
This young girl represented substan.
tial force in Irish politics, the vehement
will of woman ofgenius." Lady Wilde's
essays on English women and society are
quite familiar to readers of the Press
sunday supplement-