River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-09-27
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| California sea coast that streams OF wa
ter have formed under trees where g
large amount of moistu re had concen-
| trated
Twenty years ago Mr.. Frank Buck
land was ridiculed for predicting thet
the dav would come when salmon would
be cheaper than meat in England, but
the dav has come and his foresight is
confirmed.
A careful examination of the ruins in
Ischia shows that the great destruction
was due in part to the ttimsy manner IN
which the houses were constructed.
The National Board of Health reports
that Dayton, Ohio, is the healthiest city
in the country. 1t is below Is in every
thousand, while the average for the
whole country is over 10. New Orleans
and Memphis have the highest death
rate-27 to the 1000. Brooklyn and Bos-
ton are % per l 900 each.
The cod-fshing in Iceland this season
has been almost failure. Several smacks
tried to force their way as far as North
Cape, but were prevented from doing
SO by barriers of ice. The Shetland fleet
| is expected home about the end OF NO
vember.
The number of letters despatched by
the British post Office department last
year gave an average of 40 for each in
habitant in England and Wales, 80 in
Scotland and Is in Ireland. 10 the
United States the average is 81, in
France 10, in Germany, and in Italy
g.
The Chinese soldiers, who may soon
face the French troops, have one fight
ing advantage. They wear light, airy
uniform, which consists solely of cap,
thin linen jacket and gauze pair of
pants, while the Frenchman are attired
i'll thick blue uniform, solid red trous
ers, a thick shirt and hard leather
boots.
1t is predicted that Washington will
be gayer and more dissipated than ever
the coming winter. The session of con-
gress is the long one.
Railroads on the continent in Europe
are not friendly TO dogs; they refuse to
carry them in the passenger cars, and
declare that they must be transported
as freight Notwithstanding this rule,
women are to be met with their pet ca
mines packed into sort of valise, which
is covered when they enter the car, in
order to elude inspection. When they
are once seated, however, they lift up
the slide OF the valise, under which ther
is an open wiring, which enables the dog
occupant to get air. Conductors wink at
this.
Galveston merchants hope to solve
the problem of deep water for that port
by forming a company with $1,000, 900
capital to build wharves out through
Galveston Bay to deep water in the |
Gulf of Mexico. They will endeavor to |
induce the state, which has surplus of |
So, 900, 900 in the treasury, to lend the |
money on bonds bearing per cent. in |
terest and to run thirty years.
Kansas City is profoundly excited ov-
err the professional engagement of
Mdlle. Rhea. The papers come out |
with the stern demand that during that |
amiable actresses season in their midst |
full dress shall prevail. This has natur-
ally occasioned widespread consterna- |
ton. Heretofore Kansas City people |
have been in the habit of doing opera |
and theater in the same calico gowns |
and blue overaIls with which they pur
sued their daily vacations of laundrying |
and pork packing. 1t remains to be |
seen whether Rhea and the Kansas City |
papers can accomplish the social reform
they have undertaken at Kaw's mouth. |
The latest way of making raise
comes from Clinton, Mass, where it is
said lady mixed a batch of bread
which failed TO rise, even after delay
of twenty hours. She did not wish her
father to see the waste of flour, so she
barred the dough IN the garden. The
next morning her father called her out |
to see an enormous white mushroom of
an unheard of variety that he had dis
covered. He was calling his neighbors
to see the curiosity, when his daughter
enlightened him as to the nature Of the
plant.
An English tailor in Paris uses for the
purpose of advertisement several red
carts. Some of these are driven by in
visible coachman, others by coachmen
seated on the roofs of the carts. Three
wears ago the project of police issued a
warrant for the suppression Of the carts
with invisible coachman, as they fright
ened horses. But Lord Lyons, on the
petition of the English tailor, interfered,
and the execution of the warrant was
suspended for three years. The pres
ent protect of police went to work the
other day and had all the red carts i'm
pounded, and the English embassy once
more com. to the rescue Of the tailor.
Gentlemen are at Saratoga this season
who knew the place in the olden time,
when all corners travelled on horseback,
with ladies on pillions behind the sad
die; the "Spring" was in the midst of
the woods, when little shanty on the
site of the old United States was the sole
hotel, and board was 81 week; when
tin cups were used for drinking, and
when the table was better than now
lucious drop cakes, genuine cream, de-
licious butter and broiled chickens that
we're chickens, graced the board; when;
when fashionables were few, and the
real invalid, halr, lane and leprous
came to stay and to be bealed.
Richard WhalIen, st. Lou youth,
turned variety theater performance Tito
tragedy by killing himself after an ineffec-