River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-12-20
Personalities.

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An amusing incident that occurred to
the Rev. Frederick Baylis Allin, assistant
rector of Trinity church, Boston, is
called to mind by the number of we'd
dings that have taken place there OF
late, A Young couple called at his resi-
dence TO be united in wedlock and after
the ceremony had been pronounced the
groom. taking coin from his vest pock-
ct, handed it to Mr.. Allin and departed;
When they had gone Mr.. Allin looked
at his fee and found it was five cent
piece.
Sojourner Truths most remarkable
speeches are being recalled now thatshe
is dead. In 1851, at Akron, o., when
she was eighty years old, in the course
of a woman's rights convention, she
shouted "Den dey talks bout dis ting
in de head-what dis dey call it?' C'ln-
tellect," whispered some one near)
Oats it, honey. What's dat got 10 90
wild women's rights or nigger's rights!
If my cup won't hold but a pint, and
yourn holds a quart, wouldn't you be
mean not to let me have my little hall
measure full? Den dat little man in
black, dar--he says womin can't nave as
much rights as men, because Chilst
WANT a woman! Whar did yoGr Christ
come from? Whar did your Christ corle
from? From God and a woman! Max
had nothin' to do wild him"
Perhaps more extraordinary suicide
was never heard of than that which is
reported from Venice. Three young la
dies went ont, took their passage to the
Lido, were observed to be very mean.
choly during the journey, and ended by
drowning themselves. They appear to
have taken their own lives, two out of
mere melancholy and from tedium vitae.
the third out of sympathy and for the
sake of company. They had losi their
n, other, one of them had weak sight,
ant Their was subject to fits, and they had
ali bs an reading II Promessi Sposi," the
one n, liam book which most English
schoolgirls have read. The least af-
r.. ted of the sisters was a girl OF great
beauty.
One Of the late. st incidents Of the Paris
7roI ia Arms neotio. ned: For trifing
matter G. found hin 1selt drawn into a
duel, and he chose for witness one of
those ferocious creatures VINO make a
reputation at the expense of the skin OF
q friend. Daring the negotiations q:
waited at Il rendezvous the decisNon OF
fine witnesses. At last his TREND ar
rived, radiant with joy. lie looked as
if he had'captmed town. Good news.
Your affair is arranged. You will Sight
in one hour--with the pistol-at three
naces. | had good deal of trouble to
get consent to the three PAGES. They
would not believe that you are near
sighted" Fortunately, however, the
quarrel was amicabsy settled,
Lord Sackvile, brother of the British
Minister at Washington, owns magni-
fcent old house (whOse roof covers five
acres) and park called Knole, near Sew
enoaks. a small town in Kent. Rail-
roads have of late years brought it with
in half an hour of London, ard multi
plied ter-fold the crowds who went to
see the house. The thing has become
such a nuisance that Lord S. will no
LONGER allow 1T to be seen, and all the
Sevenoaks hotel keepers and publicans,
who have mainly lived on it. and deem
ed its exhibition q pTescriptive right of
theirs. are furious. A letter has appear
ed in which the writer says that If Knole
catches fire he doubts if men would be
got in Seyenoaks to man the engines.
Governor Terrazas, Of chihuahua,
having commissioned the fr0Ltiersmen
of the foothills of the Sierra Maires to
come for breech-loading rifles AMI one
thousand cartridges each for the pur-
pose of crushing, if not exterminating.
the Apaches and all other hostile ms
dams of the mountains. orders that
word be sent to all the frontiersmen of
the Territories of Arizona and New
Mexico to Join the mountaineers of that
State, declaring that they can share in
the $3.50 premium offered on each scalp,
and the plumber and animals, arms, and
captured ammunition.
When Senator Beck visited his old
home in Scotland, in 1875, while stroll
ling through the fields lie met an old
schoolmate, "You don't remember me,
Donald?" he said to him. mo" said
Donald, 81 don't know your face. But
caught a six-pound salmon to-day in
the firth, and whenever | have done
that before something has happened. i
don't know on by sight, but you're
either John MCPHERSON, who left us
thirty years agone, or you're jim Beck:
Now which is it," Sure enough
cried the senator, otis Jim Beck"
"Weel, Jimmie, they tell re that the
Americans are going to elevate you to
the House of Peers. Is it SOP Come
aong home tuen aud well e1o the fish.
An American lord is good enough for a
Scotch salmon"