River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-11-22
Personalities.


General Lafayctte's remains lie neg
lected and almost forgotten in the old
Pitpus Cemetery, on the outskirts of
Paris. Very few tourists ever ask to be
shown there, and when they do make
the request refuse to go on being told
that they would be compelled to drive
| through narrow, crooked streets, en-
tirely deserted save for the few solemn
and gloomy looking converts which line
| the way.
The wedding ring given by Martin
Luther to his bride is still in existence,
and has been lately placed on exhi-
| bition in Frankfort on. the Main. II
bears representation of Christ upon
the cross and the instruments of the
| Passion, and in it is set a small ruby.
The inscription is "Dr. Martin Luther;
Catherine Bora, June Is, 1925"
Colonel Samuel Shock, of Columbia,
Pa, has reached his eighty-seventh
year. He attributes his long lite to his
careful diet. Before breakfasting, he
always drinks cup of water just as warm
as he can swallow it. AS to his diet, he
SAYS: Il have entirely quit the use Of
| tea and coffee, do not use them at all; l
use a quart of milk daily, dividingit into
| three equal parts one for each meal.
eat but little meat, only using 1t at
one meal per day, and | find that al
ways feel better if eat very moder-
| ately."
Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman has
been annouced lately BY ill-founded re-
ports to the effect that he has abandoned
his banking business, and will hence
forth devote himaelf exclusively to lit
erary pursuits. "Ths,is Just now calcu-
| lated to iniure me-" he said recently
10 correspondent of the Chicago Inter
Ocean. Il have in fact, abandoned
writing to go into business, because |
could not make living for myself and
family by mere brainwork."
Chicago News: One oiElla Wheeler's
Poems of Passion" begins: "She touch
es my cheek, and quiver-I trembIe
with exquisite pain; she signs like an
overcharged river, my blood rushes n
through my veius; she smiles-and ia
mad.tiger fashion, as a she tiger fondles
her own, clasp her with tierceness and
| passion, and kiss her with shudder
and groan." Ella may call this a poem
of passion, but here we call 1t drunk
and disorderly.
The romantic experience of the hat
maker ct Bethel, Ct, who wrote her
name on the band of hat, and finally
married the New Orleans man into
whose hands it fell, has had an uneX-
pected SEQUEL. OF course the other
girls in the hat shop did the same thing,
and now a western firm has refused a
consignment OF has, sent on their order
because so many of them have young
women's names written inside the band.
Trees are scarce in the Orkneys, and
a single specimen adorns the principal
street of Kirkwall When Mr.. Glad
stone recently visited the place, his en-
tertaners at first intended to make q
Joke at the expense of the ''grand old
Teller" by placing upon the solitary yes
| tlge of arboreal beauty a sign, Wood
man, spare this tree" but finally deci-
ded to serve the humor of the occasion
by conducting him carefully along the
opposite side of the street, and explain
ing to him that as this was the only tree
in the town, they wanted 10 keep it out
of harms way.
Some people are unlucKy. A White
county Gao man, while attempting to
cross the river in a batteau the other
day was capslzed and thrown into the
water. Trying to reach the boat his
foot caught in a snag and was sprained,
and at the same time he lost a $50 watch
his hat, a shoe and the boat. He finally
| reached the shore, and was hobbl:np
across field when ferocious bull start
ed Tor him. Reaching tree, he climbed
it lively enough to escape the bull
bnt also lively enough to get into a hor-
nets nest. The hornets objected, enc
he sprang to another limb, VIII eli broke
letting him fall to the ground, fracturing
his wrist With the broken branch he
kept the bull at bay, and finally es-
capped.
One of Prof. Nordenkjold's compan.
ions, DIR. Lathorst, tells how sultry it il
in the Arctic regions. At Waigati
Island they walked about in their shir
sleeves on the slopes, covered viii
plants and shrubs, with butterflies and
bees swarming around. Bathing was
| enioyed and mosquitoes were plenty.