River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-01-04
Things in General.

Vermont thus reeounts some of her
"wnnders:" ''The Rev. S. A. Parker,
of Bethel, married four couples n four
different towns in one day recently.
A west Randolph blacksmith has just
shod thirty-lour horses in Two days--a
record not often equailed. On one street
in Vergennes there live fifteen old bach
elors and thirty seven old maids. Turn
bridge has a tweiYe-Year-oid girl play
ing in the local orchestra.
Typhoid fever is almost an epidemic
in some parts of Massachusetts and the
neighboring states, and, joined with the
fast spreading malaria in the river dis
tricts, bids fair to deprive New England
of its reputation for healthiulness.
So much OF the water Of Arkansas riv-
er is diverted into irTigating canals in
the western part of Kansa7 that there is
serious complaint ut Hutchinson and
other points in the east, where for some
time past the stream has been practic-
a iy dry, and many mills and other es-
Establishments have been seriously incon-
yenienced. tits proposed to place an
injunction upon further irrigation pro-
jeets. and a warm contest Is anticipated.
The Irish question in nut shell: Ire
land contains about 26, 600, 600 acres of
land, which in 1876 were owned by Ge,-
III persons, in population of about 5,
250, 100. But of these 6S,7l1 owners Of
the whole island, 3,746 owned four-fifths
of il, while more than hail belonged to
IA of this number. One man was the
owner of about 40, 900 acres; two others
owned over 10000 acres each; fourteen
others from 50, 900 to 100, 900 each; while
out of the whole number of owners, a.
IA. or more than half, owned less than
an acre each. or all together q little
over 1000 acres.
Ola Chicago restaurant the New York
Tribune remarks: "a sirloin steak COM
plete with potatoes. etc, such as we pay
so cents for in Broadway, is sold for 80
cents. Not drop of wine or liquor Is
served, but 8 CREST glass of pure cream
for 10, equal in portion to the 2o-cent
in New York, and the establishment,
imposing on nobody, clears S5O,0UO q
year."
In the historic town of Boscawen, N.
IT,, is a Congregational church which
celebrated last Wednesday the forty
fifth anniversary of the installation Of
its second pastor, the Rev. Edward Bux-
ton, The change ofsentiment among the
people. as to the use of liquor is forci-
blv illustrated by these entries in the
account books of the church on July 3,
1923, when the frame of the present
ediice was raised: 81 potindss sugar at Is,
SO: 200 lemons at 3s. dozen. So Tlj7 81
gallons w. I. rum, IS 81; "a gallons OF
n. E. rum, 81 81; mug and tumblers,
50 II.
At Newport the other day New
York snob, who has summer residence
there, proposed that a COMMITTEES to
arrange benevolent entertainment
be composed of "three citizens and
three gentlemen" A 'citizen" thereupon
arose and objected, because the latter
condition woul exclude the proposer
from the committee which is contrary to
parliamentary custom.
The old Mormon temple IN the little
village of Kirkland, O., twenty-three
miles east of Cleveland, is undergoing
repairs, and is, according to the Cleve-
land Leader, to be rededi, ated on the
9th of next April in the presence of a
thousand Mormons from the West, to
the propagation of the faith once deliva
cred to Joseph Smith. A few members
Of the old Kirkland community re-
manned behind when their brethren de
parted to a new field, and still survive,
faithful to the tenets OF Mormonism,
minus, it is said, the polygamy doctrine.
The creed of the rejuvenated church is
expected to make vigorous declaration
against plural marriages, and in that case
It's disciples viii be tolerated in northern
Ohio.
1t is one of the curiosities oftiie fenaaie
heart that sometimes they insist on mar
rying men who they have refused over
and over again. The Indiana girl, who
pursued a man with q pistol and threat
ened to blow his brains out Unless he
married her, must have peculiar ideas
of the happiness of married life under
such circumstances. Another case quite
as strange is that of a young woman IN
Ohio, who falsely def rmed herself, IN
order to compel g marriage between her
and a man who now applies for 9, d.
vorce on the ground that he was made
to marry her under false pretenses.