River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-12-27
Personal Paragraphs.

Miss Phillips, of Norwood, z l., aged
| 100, does all her own homework and
saws her own wood after bringing it on
| her back from the woods To a young
man looking for wife Miss Phillips is
certainly not without substantial attrac-
| tons.
Some roughs at Connellsville, Pa, on
Saturday evening, threw stones at Mrs.
Iangtry's private car when the train to
which il was attached passed through
that town. No one was hurt.
The Crown Prince of Portugal, who is
only twenty, is developing as linguist.
lie is said to converse in fourteen Ian
guages.
Mr.. Yoshida. Japanese Minister at
Washington, it is said, can bow and touch
the top of his head to the floor without
rush of blooI to his face.
The German crown prince has been
severely criticised for attending a Span
ish bull. fight 1t was an excellent OPP.
portunity for him to make firm stand
in the interest of humane civilization,
but his duty as guest made his duty to-
ward humanity difficult.
The new lord mayor oC London, who
is credited with being very level head
ed gentleman, declines to take out hia
state carriage and liveries on Sunday
| because it would give work To his SER
wants, and he wishes to give them day
of rest.
Mrs. Carlisle, wife Of the new speak
er of the house, is TALL blonde lady of
great dignity, and courtesy of manner,
and except in years, in which Mrs.
Robinson has the advantage in point OF
youth. she is not unlike the vile OF the
Massachusetts governor elect.
Rev. Thomas Sherman, son of Gen.
w. Sherman, who entered the Cltho-
lie priesthood, made his fl rst pearance
before a congregation in ~. Louis on the
10Th lust, celebrating high mass.
Justice Duffy, of New York, is a
marked man, and when woman suffrage
becomes general he will be the first in
divdual to be retired to the obscurity of
private life. Hear what he has said
"Some people say mothers-in-law are
an abused class, but since | have been
on the bench have had before me over
one thousand cases of abandonment,
and in almost every instance the aiore-
said relative made all the trouble"
Gen. bob" Toombs, of Georgia, lives
in big two.story frame house, into the
hall of which wagon-load of hay could
almost be driven. He is rich, having re-
ceived for years q handsome income
from bis law practice. When he was
young he bought large tracts of land IN
Texas, and it is said that he has cleared
100000 on portions thereof that he has
sold, while he still owns enough to turn
him two or three times as much more.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes birth
place, the "0ldlHolmes House" at Cam
bridge, is to go, the Harvard university
buildings crowding it out of existence.
1t was built in the year 1858, or there
abouts. One Of the owners, Jonathan
Hastings, who lived in It from 1877 10
1872 IS said to have originated the word
yankee" usinlTttO xpressleHceleuce,
speaking of Yankee good horse" or
Yankee good cider" and the students
are supposed to have disseminated the
word.
Mr.. George w. Cable, the New Or
leans novelist, who is in Boston reading
selections from his novels, has not es-
capped the critics there: He prints a
card in the papers, saying: II you will
confine your musical critic under
lock and key and deposit the
kew in bank, or furnish any other guar
antee that he is literally or fguratvely
chained up, / viii intersperse next Tues
days readings with half a dozen more
snatches of African Creole's songs, rem
dered with sufficient native skill to ena-
Bile any studious ear 70 pick out the
tune"
The father of the brothers Drexel, the
well-known bankers was portrait
painter, probably OF German birth, who
onceiged tie idea about forty or more
years ago of going TO Mexico to paint
the portraits of the wealthy gentlemen
and planters there. and to decorate per-
haps, some of the churches and converts
with portraits. He returned to the
United States With respectable sum of
Money, which he at once put into circu-
lation, having natural taste for bank
ing, andEHetore he died was about equally
celebrated for his success and his thrift.
TennySons income is about $4,000
year. If he is made Lord he will have
a pension. There is no style in 81 900
year.