River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-12-27
PaSsingE Events.

The heirs of an old lady i'll Louisville
who was in her 9lst year, being in need
of money, sold their chances to man
| who supposed she could not live long.
| Three years later the old lady was still
| alive, and so we'll and hearty that she
| got married. At this time there Is not
| the slightest indication that she is to
| pass over the river sooner than anybody
| else, and the man who bought the heirs
is quite as likely to make the voyage as
| she.
The clergymen of Indianapolis met
Yesterday and adopted recommends
tons that funerals should be private;
| that there should be no public exhibit
| tons of deceased people, and that minis
tiers should not be re luired to attend
at the grave.
Oratory is becoming an irrevocahly ''lost
art" in the Eng ish Commons. Of Lord
Hartington's address, an English critic
| impatiently says: sit was not SO much
a speech as a soliloquy; but soliioquy
| in which the speaker rehearsed the ar
| guments which he intends to use here
| after"
People who abroad during the next
twelve months will be compelled to for
felt the pleasure of seeing the Venus of
| Milo. Owing to the dampness of the
room which the statue has occupied, al
| terations are necessary, and meanwhile
| the statue in three fragments reposes
upon bed of straw, The Louvre will
| seem desolate without the Venus.
Buckingham Palace is known as the
Queens London home. Yet, according
to Mr.. Labouchere, she has only slept
beneath its roof one hundred and TWEEN
| ty nights during the last twenty years.
You may have heard this before, but
it will do no harm to remind you-dear
reader-at this season Of the year, that
when you return home fatigued or be-
numbed with cold, glass OF hot milk or
q bowl of hot soup Will do as we'll to re-
vive your strength and diifuse warmth
through your body as a glass Of hot tod
dy which, though an old standby, is
somewhat coming into disrepute in 'our
best families. Foote's Monthly.
A short time ago London pawnbro-
ker was aroused about a. m. by a.vigor-
Gus pounding at his street door. Hasti
ly throwing on a dressing gown, he
rushed to the window and demanded,
who's there?" 81 want to know the
time" came the response from
the pavement in the famil
lar tones of a frequent customer. "What
do you mean by calling me up at This
time of night to ask such question as
that" replied the irate pawnbroker.
"Well, and to whom else should come"
was the rejoinder, in husky accents;
you've got my watch!"
Two sledge dogs from Siberia, which
arrived at San Francisco short time
since on a whaling vessel. found the eli
mate too warm, and were sent to the
Sierras to keep cool. 1t was necessary
on the trip to Frisco, when they reached
warm weather, to feed them on cracked
ice.
A Washington correspondent writes:
The wife of Il far Western member APP
piled for lodgings for herself and her
husband at an uptown boarding house
this week: she said her husband was in
Congress. She was asked which branch
the upper or lower. This ne Wy
fedged officers wife said she believed
her husband was Senator, at le st the
people VIII elected him meant for him
to have the best place he could get.
The landlady, who was keen, shrewd
woman, said with touch Of mild sar-
Casm in her voice, tina. if her husband
should get up very early next Mon
day morning and go up to the Capitol
before the crowd arrived he might Sc
cure seat in the upper house, and the
members wife actually thar ked her for
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