River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-12
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Bost0n's ''rhost respectable citizens,
to quote The Advertiser, vh6 happen
TO own property rented for gambling
bells, are greatly stirred up over the ac-
tiGr! Of tins society tor the suppression OF
vice, which has gi7~u them notice that
unless they clean up their tGns"ent@
they will be prosecuted. 1t will inter
fere with the rent rolls to keep only
honest tenants.
The original habits Of the black bass
ranged from Virginia to Florida, and
from Canada and the Red Fisef Of the
North to Louisiana and New Mexico; 1t
embraces the whole of North America
south of the British possessions and east
Of the Rocky mountains, except the wa
ters flowing .into the Atlantic in New
England and the Middle States.
fhe CONSUMPTION oi ice in New York
in hot TeatRet and at present low prices
is averaged by dealers to be from 500 to
10, 900 tons per day, and with supply
of 3 900, 900 on the Hudson here is little
fear of an ice famine. But there is
prospect that unless the extreme low
prices create greater demand for ice
tn, n is expected there will be from 7O0,-
600 tons of ice carried over to next year
A prominent woman's advocate of fe-
male suffrage is ont in a defense of a
sehoolteacher dismissed from her posi-
ton on the score of incomoetenCy. She
saws: "Had Miss-had the ballot in
her hand should have looked for quite
a different result. She has not been
from first to last as she should have
been had she been invested with com
plete citizenship"
A remarkable and highly interesting
"fnd" both historians and psychologists,
has lately been made in the out-ofthe-
wav bnt picturesque little village of Tin
tinhull, in Somerset, England In a gar
ret of the house Of the present church
warden was discovered great pile of
narchments, letters, and books of vari-
ous descriptions, and amongst this pile
OF much that was useless were found the
church books. carefully boun and we'll
preserved, written IN various but clerkly
hands, and giving concise account of
ti1e history Of the church from the year
1878 back to i422.
The officers Of church in New York
t;e@e been soliciting the opinions Of
members upon Chs desirabiity of lit
urgical services. A gentleman writes
that he does not object to responsive
service if there is a fair understanding
that ali hands shall go in, But If 1t IS
only going to be a clfirp or two here and
there, it will be simply ridiculous, and
Won can count me out" A lady 3fites
that if responsive service means that she
has got to keep saying she IS "mlser-
able sinner" during prayer time, she IS
opposed To IL; for it isn't true.
The evils of English rule in India are
fearlessly exposed by Florence Hightin-
ga,5. In Bengal the zemindars are
native landlords end the ryot are the
peasantry. The ryot mas, it appears, to
pao ees for every marriage in his own
family. as we'll as in that of the zornin"
dar. has to provide bracelets for the
zemindar's family, and even furnish
forth the fruits which the zemIndar
gives to his friends. In 0rissa the ryot
has to pay eleven different kinds OF
annual taxes, and seventeen kinds OF
occasional tax, hey are charges by the
zeluind r three rupees for water, which
: supplied the zemindaT, for one rupee"
Miss nightingale reckons that since the
British took possession the zemindars
have despoiled the peasantry OF a sum
equal to the FrancO-German indemnity.