River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-02-22
Personal Mention.

| heQ IiOuQ. luc koiOiiA IAlC4, WIS the
| guest of Professor Marsh, of Yale coll
Iege. 1t is related in New Haven
paper that when citizen there held out
box of cigars, saying. Take one,n Red
Cloud innocently helped himself to a
bunch. "Will you have one continued
the entertainer, addressing the chiefs
companion. and the other Indian slipped
the other bunch from the box into his
ulster pocket.
Hung All Duck, a Chinese murderer at
San Rafael, CAL, anticipated his hanging
with the utmost satisfaction He i'm
plored the judge to fix an early day for
the execution, believing that after death
he would be in purgatory Tor a period of
not less than one year nor more than
twenty, during which period he would
1 be able to return to the earth and tor
ment his enemies This doctrine caused
him to look forward with so much pleas
ure to his death that he attempted sui
eide, and when taken to the sca fold lit
orally jumped for joy.
Lille Singleton, school girl of Cam
bridge, Mass, slipped and fell upon the
street, and lead pencil which was in
her nocket, penetrated her right side to
the depth of about four inches, causing
serious injuries. The pencil was broken,
and a surgical operation had to be per-
formed to extract It,
DR.. Hans Won Bulow, the famous pian-
list, is now confined in lunatic asylum.
He has not entirely lost his reason, how
ever, but is merely under treatment for
d te nporary alteration of mind caused
by too close application to his profess
sion.
| George Washington conldn't pop the
question any more than he could tell
lie. He had several love affairs, but his
difidence prevented him from coming
to the issue. The Widow GUSTS, whom
| he finally married, had the experience
necessary to bring George to terms, and
he finally succeeded in fix ing things with
| her without going through the usu-
al formalities. AS she had $40 900 in
cash and large property besides, G.. w
| had considerable incentive to screw up
his courage.
AT recent meeting of the Jersey City
| bank, Mr.. Boise, the president. stated in
his report that the institution had pros
pered far bevond his most sanguine ex-
| pectations, and urged that thanks be re-
| turned to the Almighty for the favor
shown to the concern. When the direc-
tors discovered, two weeks afterwards.
| that Mr. Boise was a deiau.ter to the ex-
tent of many thousands of dollars, they
| thought of this pious exhortation, and
| tedup their voices.
The rumor that the Rev. Joseph Cook
is not so big fool as he talks. would
seem to be not wholly without founda-
/ ton. Prof. Park, of Andover, recently
1 4 on M n -
| Phillips Academy, and now you are
more talked about than any of its teach
ers; you went to Yale, and you are more
talked about than any of the Yale facnl-
] ty: YOU came to our theological seminary,
and you are more talked about than any
of us; you lectured at Harvard, and are
more talked about than any professor at
Harvard" Cook calmly replied: $50
was GuiteauW
| Joseph Cook is described by Mary
| Clemmer as man in early middle life;
large man, of nervous sanguine temper
ament; fatter, it seems, than man of
such restless activities should be; larger
MT waist than shound his chest, apoplec-
| tic of neck, with round, frank face,
| pleasant mouth, a non-aggr assive nose;
| blue, kindly, overtaxed eyes, that pc r
/ sist in shutting to rest themselves; Il high,
| broad brow, burdened by reflective fac
| ulties; large head, well covered with
name of brown hair, and the moon like
roundness ofhis visage is heightened by
a full brown beard.
| List is always surrounded by women,
writes correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Bulletin, who cling to him in
manner that suggests the love-sick
| maidens. He has the manners of a
very young man toward these devoted
| women though in one respect he enjoys
| the privilege of old age. He kisses
| both hands and cheeks whenever he
| takes the fancy. Nearly every woman
| who grCets him bends low over his hand
and kisses it. There is g deal more
| kissing done here than one sees in an
| American drawing-room, nearly all the
| German ladies kissing the hands ofWag-
ner ano List atgreeting.
A novel attraction is offered at the
Drury Lane Theater, London. Charles
Lauri, the pantomimist, made up as
| poodle, runs entirely round the theater
| on ledge on the dress circle at every
| performance The other night the
Prince and Princess of Wales and their
| two sons being present, the question
| arose i'll the managerial mind whether
their royal highness would approve of
| this part of the performance. The prln-
| cess gave her consent. Whereupon the
| poodle came round to the royal box, sat
| up, begged; held out his paw, which was
| shaken by the future king of England
| amid the hearty laughter and cheers of
| the audience; especially the pit and the
| gallery. crammed with the denizens of
dingy Drury lane and soapless Seven
| Dials.
The Rev. w. II. Chaxning, writing
| from London to friend, says: Edwin
| Arnold is, without exception, the most
astonishingly productive writer who has
ever come within my cognizance. Do
you believe, can you believe, that only
last May he began to compose series of
poems on the ninety-nine beautiful
names of Allah, according to the Koran
and the poets and narrators of Islam?
This book he completed, copying it out
| and illustrating it with Arab texts i'll blue
and crimson characters, with his own
hand, during his summer vacation at
Lock Katrine."
National Republican: "Did you know"
said senator to the avenue man, "that
Senator Plumb and Whitelaw Reid
worked in the same Office one time"
The a. m. pleaded ignorance, and the
speaker continued: "Plumb was foreman
of a little weekly paper in Xenia, Ohio,
of which Reid was editor, and worked
together for quite a while. Both have
struck luck since those DAYS. The UNI
known editor of the insignificant weekly
go in with Jay Gould and Jim tlaine.
| made money, and married millions. His
| foreman went west of the Missouri and
caught on, to use a street term, Just at