River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-01-25
Personal Gossip.

One ofthe victims ofthe Milwaukee fire
was James Vose, Of Newport, r. L., who
has been employed in the Government
Engineers Office at that place for many
years. He leaves a brother and two sis
tiers in Providence, a sister in Newport
and brother in Greenpoint, Ii |.
Emperor Alexanderis closer student
of the methods of the Russian secret
police, who are his safeguard, than of
the organization of the whole army.
Jealous petty police officers are extray-
agantly rewarded by the Gar.
Major Elijah Use, of Springfield. H.,
who is one of the most interesting ofthe
many Northern visitors now in Florida
was q. captain during the Blackhawk
war, ana then the young ADe Lincoln
was private in his company. Major
Use is eighty-siX years of age.
A member of the Indiana legislature,
SAYS a correspondent, explained the fact
that on his salary of 81 900 he had in
one session saved $4,000 by say ing;
"Gt's all OWN to my wife's bein' econ
omical in not keepin' hired girl that
we've saved so much"
A large number of prominent mer-
YorkIhave invited Sir Edward NJ. Arch
ibald, for many years British onsul
general at that post, to complimentary
dinner at Delm0nic1's on the 29th ofthls
month. Mr.. VIM. NJ. Eyart will pre-
side.
Major Charles l.. flanagan, Phila-
delphia journalist, has secured wind
fall through the death of a bachelor un-
Gle in Liverpool, Eng. It consists .oi an
estate of about $4,000 in British con-
soils and an interest in a line of steam
ers from Liverpool to Ireland and
France, worth several hundreds of thou
sands of dollars more.
Pastor Cowle of the Third Unitarian
church, Chicago, was annoyed by many
anonymous letters, to which he paid no
attention, but his secret enemy found q
way to DISTURB him at last. The clergy
man received a telegram from New DIRK,
stating that his father was dying in Sara
toga, and desired him to come immedl-
ately. lie made the journey in hur-
ry, only to find that the old man was IN
excellent health.
A correspondent tells this story of
Mrs. George Ticknor's last summer at
Newport. In her hall always stood a
most impressive liveried footman, bear
ing a silver salver on which to receive
cards, and showing usually no more
emotion than the wooden hat rack. But
one afternoon, when Mrs. Ticknor was
out and the house was very quiet, an
amanuensis, copying notes in an upstairs
room, was startled by a series of hoYls
and wells from below She
kept at her work, thinking that
If the servants in the kitchen
were killing each other, it was no bust
ness of hers. Soon up came maid to
ask If she was frightened. She said she
was not. ''Oh, We amt? Well, ! thought
I'd tell We, mum. that it's only the foot
man. When the folks is out an the
house Gsiet, he can't stand it, an he has
TO holler; it's kind O. relievin' to him"
Says the New York Hour: "Mrs Lang
try, when she was in this city, proved
not only that she had an appetite for adj
miration, but also that she had no aver
sion to receiving miscellaneous presents.
A sharp tradesman in Fulton street sent
the Lily an ingenious ring, which con-
tanned revolving disc beneath the
stone setting. Touching a spring, there
out shot the disc and revealed the woi Is
God bless you,' or something else
equally appropriate. She wrote letter
thanking the jeweler, who is just now
about as proud as any tradesman in
town, because he has the Lily's auto
graph. Mrs. Langtry, rs might be ex-
pected from her strong lower jaw and
broad shoulders, writes a singularly
bold hand for lady"