River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-26
miscellaneous Matter.


Selma, Ala, has over sixty artesian
wells, and the water from no two OF
them is exactly alike.
More than half million pounds ster-
ling were spent by twenty three OF the
British railway companies in law and
parliamentary expenses last year. The
Midland spent over G55 coo, the Great
Western, 945,000, the London and
Northwestern ell coo, the Northwestern
s25, 900 and the Great Eastern Goa, 600.
And this money was mainly spent by
the companies in fighting each other.
1t is said that there are four firms in
Philadelphia which make business of
collecting eggs that have lost their pris-
tine purity-are, in ct, bad eggs. They
are opened aud graded. The hopelessly
demoralized are sent to tanneries for
polishing purposes. Those that are
merely too emphatic in tone for culin-
ary purposes, are separated, the whites
| from the yolks, the latter being used by
morocco manufacturers, and the former
so says INSCRIPTIONS report-by con-
fectioners.
When Forepaugh's circus was in Port
land, Me-, twelve lumbermen started
from lodging camp in New Hampshire
to visit the show. They were accom-
panied by the wives of two of their num-
Der, both with infants in their arms.
They had to walk seven miles to take
railroad train that started at twenty min
utes of six in the morning, and rode one
hundred aud two miles to the scene OF
action in Portland.
The Arkansaw Traveller: whats
the value of your personal property, old
MANI" asked tax assessor of negro.
"What's yer wanter know dat fur?" $50
We'll know how much to ma Ike you pay
"My stuff's done paid fer, sahp' yes
but you'll have to pay taxes on your
household goods" "Da taxed me
enough in de fust place. sab Ain't
agwfne ter pay no mol" All rlght. Ii
you don't you can't vote at the next
election" "All right Da don't count
my vote nohow. Go off some whar and
tax man fer habin de rhematiz."
Robert Laird Collier writes from Ok
ford, England. concerning that famous
university OF three thousand students,
twenty five hundred are the SONS ofgen-
tlemen who are not fitting themselves
to earn a living, but only to ornament
society. Their academic work has been
done already at one of the great public
schools or under private tutors. Then
the boating, the football, the cricket,
the tennis, the hunting, the intercourse
with 'felows," Scholars" lecturers
and professors, the acquaintance of the
Young aristOcracv, and the nameless air
of academic refinement, are the neces-
sary and finishing requisites of an Eng
lish gentleman. To be that is the ambi-
ton and aim of every well-born and
well-bred English youth.
Northwestern Colorado is reported to
be region of great mineral wealth, but
its occupation, as the reservation of the
White River Utes, has prevented its
exploration and development. No
white man could cross over into the
territory without rjsking his life at the
hands of the Utes, or being subject to
arrest by the United States authorities.
Tho country remained practically unoc-
cupied until the legislature in February
last opened it up by creating it cofn-
ty, which was named Garfield. A full
set of officers were appointed soon after,
and now the county government is fully
organized. The territory OF which this
new county is composed is over 100
miles from east to west, and about elgh-
ty miles from north to south. Miners
are now f1ocking into the country, and
a mining town has been located on
| mountain almost on level with the top
of Pixies Peak, being about II 900 feet
above the sea level The shafts sunk
developed richsilver- bearing ore. The
Denver and Rio Grand railroad is ex-
tending in the direction of the camp.
Edmund Yates says in the London
World: Every one knows that many
so-called Americanisms of speech are
not American at all. but survivals of
| English words and phrases which have
gone out of use in the old country. |
have long been losing faith in the origi
| nality of ANYTHING American, but con-
TESS that | did cling with the feverish
fervor of dying belief to the Transat-
| lantic origin of the phrase, q bully boy
| have been compelled to let 1t go. Last
| week, in turning over the leaves of Mr..
w. J. Lintons delightful volume, Rare
Poems of the Sixteenth and seventeenth
Centuries / came across q song entitled
| Three Poor Mariners which was pub
| ished in 1909, and Of which the follow
| ing are the concluding lines:
| TO them we dance the round. the round;
And ne that is a bully boy
| Come pledge me on this ground, around,
around.
1t would seem as if there were nothing
genuinely American but the novels of
| Messrs. Howells and James, and Ameri-
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