River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-01-25
Matters of Fact.

The pension commissioner thinks he
can get along next year with only $751;.
100000 He has not been able to pay
out the hundred millions allowed foI
| this year so fast as he expected, and
| thinks he shall have about twenty mil
| lions over.
A young girl was brought before New
York court, the other day, charged with
an attempt at suiclde-an offence under
the penal code. But the judge had nc
opportunity to pass sentence, for sud-
! denly there came into court the lover
1 whose deseftion had unsettled the girls
/ mind, with an offer of marriage, and the
4 magistrate without more ado united the
| lovers and dismissed the case.
A Boston gentleman in Texas writes
home a melancholy description of the
/ country as a land flowing not with milk
and honey but with mud. Black Texas
| mud, ne says, IS a substance possessed
| of properties watch no New Englander
| not seeing can appreciate. s'You put
| your foot down on spot that has been
| moistened by ever so brief rain, and
! on lifting it you think there has been
| tied to 1t stone. A man of large pedal
| extremities must of necessity carry with
/ him some five or ten pounds, and as for
| getting rid of it it is ont of the question
| except as the result of long and patient
| process with proper tools.'
a California capitalist hypo, heeated a
large block of mining stock for loan
/ the stock Immediately began to rise, and
| the person TO whom it WAS pledged sold
/ it. When the price fell he bought it
/ back clearing S295 900 by the transsc-
| ton. As soon az the real owner heard
! of the speculation he sued for the enlife
| property is belonging to him. and the
| supreme court has decided in his f&vor,
and ordered the sum paid to him. !.
A case was la,ely decided by the Penn
| sylvanis upreme court, bearing upon
the responsibility of a railroad company
in case of injury to a person riding on a
pass. A woman riding on pass was
badly scalded and otherwise injured by
a collision, and the company resisted
/ her claim for damages on the ground
/ that one of the conditions expressed in
| the pass was that the user assumed all
| risk OF accident, without claims for dam
| ages on the corporation. The Jury gave
| the woman 81 600 damages, and the case
| being appealed by the company, the SUI
preme court affirmed the decision of the
lower court in favor of the plaintiff.
Since the great outburst of sun spots in
November, and the accompanying mag
netic storms and aurOras, the sun has
shown very little disturbance, and on
the day of the transit of Venus old Soils
face shown free from any blemish, ex-
cept few slight specks, although it was
near the height of the spot period. Soon
after the transit some disturbance Of the
solar surface was again Wis bic, but the
spots were very few until New Years
day. Then seHeral groups appeared,
and now the sur is evidently storm-dtiv-
en- once more. In one place the solar
surface over an area of hundreds of
| thousands of square miles is pitted with
! ehasms and ridged with fiery elevations.
More auroradispays are likely to follow.
1.-THE philosophy of Gray's Elegy be
true, vast amount of human talent is
wasted for want of an opportunity, and
the eldest sister of Hawthorne, who has
Just died in the old homestead at Salem,
having seen four score years, was an il
lustration of Grays doctrine. Her IA
nous brother is said TO have declared
that if she had devoted herself to lit
erature she would have surpassed him
in fame, whereas her secluded life has
disclosed her rare qualities of intellect
and of heart to only narrow circle OF
friends, while the world has been obliv-
ious of her existence. Her nobleness OF
character was appreciated by some OF
the best people of Boston, who rec
ognized in her sensitive temperament
and subtle Imagination a striking re-
semblance to the greatest of American
novelists.