River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-04-12
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1883 of .accustoming himself to the great
est simplicity of diet, renouneing tea, cof-
fee, animal food, etc, and taking long
walks; his simple tastes enabled him to
live happily at small expense, and, des-
pite natural delicacy OF constitution, to
pro tract life of comfortable health and
vigor far beyond the years usually at
tanned by men,
Since the war nine different news
papers have been published in Vicks-
burg, Miss, and the Herald, which now
alone survives, says that no two of them
ever made mOneyat one and the same
time, the field being too contracted TO
support more than one, despite tile TACT
that the business men of the city are
liberal in advertising.
They think they have discovered in
Portland. Oregon, the meanest man on
the Pacific coast. Some benevolent
ladies contributed money to buy stove
for poor widow and placed it in his
hands. He made the purchase, but
kept the new stove himself and gave the
poor widow his old one. The ladies
threaten to roast him on it.
Kentucky assessors report "A 536, 900
acres of land in the state, worth $780,
S58 900. The comparative riches and
poverty of the soil is shown in a striking
way; by the variations between the coun-
ties. Thus, while the average value per
acre Cor Woodford county is $34.S6,
Bourbon $3495, and Jefferson $3.50, the
figures for Breathett are so cents, sLesle
SO cents, and Perry 81 cents.
Mu1
House in London three foreign consuls
were present, whom the lord mayor
wished to honor by drinking their
healths. He accordingly directed the
POSTMASTER to announce the health o.
the three present consuls. He, how
ever, mistaking the words, gave out the
following: 'The lord mayor drinks the
health of the three per cent. consols."
Mention is made of new kind of
horseshoe, composed of three thick
nesses of cowhide compressed into a
steel mould and subjected to chemical
preparation. 1t is said to last longer
than the common shoe, weighs only one
fourth as much, requires no corks, and
is very elastic.
A year and half ago congress appro-
priated 81 100000 for new reservoir
and overland aqueduct for the city of
Washington but the engineers have ex-
pended a large share of the sum In exca-
vations for tunnel, which has proved q
failure, and now there will be a long
delay and d call for more money. Prac-
tical men consider the plan a foolish ex-
pertinent, but the officers of the Engin
eer Corps seem to have an unbounded
capacity for the expenditure OF money
A w.England editor who publishes
d Journal in the interest of mining ex-
presses his opinion that mining, with
the great enduring wealth of the nations
of the future hidden in her bosom, stands
silent like a mighty mountain range in
the grandeur of her mighty power, while
the shadow of the wings of q polluting
yulture crosses the sunshine of a glory
that stretches across continent" A
more unbiased and dislnterested tribute
to great industry has seldom been paid.
New England mill owners fear South
ern competitions and are asking for
reduction of freight rates on raw mater
ial, which moves the Atlantic Constitu
ton to suggest that if New England men
desire to continue the business of manu-
QOuHGStlC SobQ5 btlSS
give their machinery the advantage of
position that the South affords.
AS an evidence of what thorough
bred horse is worth in Kentucky, and
the peculiar ideas strangers have of the
value Of such stock, stranger at Lex
ington tells the following good humored-
ly on himself Having heard so much
of bluegrass stock, he visited the stab
les of Mai A. G. Thomas recently, to
take look at his horses. One was
brought out with his tail chopped pre-
senting the appearance of scrub to the
eyes of the visitor, who excepted TO see
such animals look as fine as silk with
thead and tail up" and he was asked
what she was worth. After walking
around the animal and observing all its
points, he said it was worth about SIS,
and he was much astonished to learn
that the owner had refused only month
ago 10000 for "Queen Ban"
A bankrupt's lot is not a happy one in
China The broker of a silk firm in
Shanghai which has recently suspended
was set upon in the street by
creditors of the firm, beaten, and hung
up by the queue so that his feet swung
clear to the ground. Having been dis
covered by the police in that painful sit
uation, he was taken for protection to
the police station, followed by the cred
itors, who declared that if he fell again
into their hands they would bite him to
death and eat him afterward.