River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02
Miscellaneous Matter.

Ruskin says: There is in every ami
mails eye dim image and CLEAN of hui
manity, flash of strange light, through
which their life looks out and up to GU
great mystery of command over them,
and claim the fellowship of the creature
If not of the soul"
The indictment against the Jews at
Nyrreghaza, Hungary, who are charged
with killing a Christian girl and using
her blood TO their Passover bread, viii
be withdrawn, and the government in
tends to prosecute to the utmost the
concoctors of the plot against the Jews.
The Pacific Slope Board of Underwrit-
ers at San Francisco, Cal, report the
destruction of property by fire on the
coast the past six months at 81 800, 600.
The yearly average insurance loss for
the last twelve years has been under
100000
Tobacco caddies, or plug tobacco boxes
are made almost entirely of sycamore
throughout the country. and in Boston
about 300, 5000 feet were used for this
purpose last year. This wood is valu-
able for this purpose, as it will not i'm.
part any smell or taste to the tobacco,
and will not absorb moisture readily.
Ruskin says: "There is in every ami
mails eye dim image and gieam of hui
manity, flash of strange light, through
which there life looks out and up to our
great mystery of command over them,
and claims the fellowship of the creature
if not of the soul" Mr. Ruskin would
be good man to train bad bull.
Work has been commenced at the
government printing Office on the list of
pensioners, which was ordered by con-
gress last session. The work will make
about 400 octave pages OF nonparlel
type, and will comprise 100000. One
thousand and nine hundred copies will
be printed.
The English are beginning to show
serious interest in fish and fisheries. At
the Exhibition over 560,000 peraous
we're present in 81 days, showing gen.
eral public attention in the subject.
The Fishmonger's Company are very
urgent in advising the government to
protect the fishing industries anda it is
likely thai Il change will be made in the
Governments policy.
Mrs. Grundy writes to the New York
Mail "rhat great curiosity at New
port is the married man who pays any
attention to MS own wife" Also that
American girls who wed titled English
men soon wish they had not been so
foolish.
There is being held in Paris this week
a congress of statisticians and educators
of the world. NJ Leon Say presides,
and the topics under discussion are the
statistical and moral results of provident
institutions, such as savings banks, COM
mercial unions, mutual aid societies, etc.
The chief aim of the congress is TO dis
cover the best means for the working
classes to save money,
Washington Territory will send abroad
this year $50, 000, 900 feet of lumber, 200.
COO tons of coal, 20o, 900 pounds Of hops,
100000 cases ofsalmon, 5000, 600 bushels
of wheat, 3.0O0.0D bushels of oats, l00.-
600 bushels of potatoes, and 100000
pounds of wool. In cargoes of 1000
tons, this quantity Of produce will load
92g large ships, or three every day in
the year except Sundey.
SIN the distribution of an annual sur
plus Of 500, 100000, says the Philadel-
phia Record CInd.,) ''the pro rata share
of Pennsvlvapia would be about s., 000,-
coo. That would be more than the re-
ceipts oil the Pennsylvania Treasury have
ever amounted to in any year. With so
large an annual sum as this from the
bounty of the government at Washing
ton there would be no need of levylng
taxes for state purposes.
An Eng ish railway company has Sc
cured new trial in suit for damages
on the ground that Mary Bullock, the
prosecuting party, who was slightly hurt
and her sisters, who appeared as her
witnesses, were so beautiful that their
charms seemingly deprived the jury of
common sense, and Il ridiculOusly excess
siye verdict was rendered.
silk worm culture is extending rap
idly A Bloomingto3 Illl lady began
the business last year, and has been so
successful that numbers Of other ladies
in the same place have followed suit.
The industry has now been introd uced
in many states, and the prospect is that
it will become an important one 1t has
the great recommendation of being a
bust ess which females can engage in
and make profitable.