River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-03-01
Personal Intelligence.


Tuesday night, gwhile officiating at a
marriage service, Rev. George F. Bron-
son, pastor of the congregational Church
at La Sale. H., fell dead at the feet. OF
the couple whom he was marrying Just
as he pronounced them man and wife.
At the marriage of Mile Tourreil,
daughter of the wealthy stock broker,
with NJ. Saglio, which was celebrated at
the Trinite in Paris, the great baritone
Faure sang three pieces for which he
received the sum Of 1000 francs. Amin
genious arithmetician calculated that
each note cost ten francs.
General Robert Toombs submitted TO
an operation for cataract in Atlanta,
Ca, on Wednesday. He is nearly sig.4t-
less.
Captain Shaw, the chief of the London
fire brigade. has sent to Chicago for some
Of the fire appliances which he saw in
that city.
The proceeds of sale of the real es-
tate of Signor Blitz, the magician, have
lust been paid over to his heirs in Penn
sylvania. They amounted to S3i,045.
II belong" said Christine Nilsson to a
st. Louis Reporter, to the old Lutheran
church, and | never leave my room to
give concert or 90 on the stage for an
opera without dropping down on my
knees and praying to God to help me in
my effort to please the people. 1t gives
me strength and confidence to success
fully 90 through my performance"
The original story about the bloody
footstep at Smithells hall, that story
which haunted Hawthorne so persist
emily is that one George Marsh, who
was burned during the reign of Queen
Mary, going from Smithells to the stake,
stamped his foot, with prayer that if
the religion he was dying for were true
the mark might always remain, and there
on a flagstone at the threshold, it does
remain-a standing Protestant miracle
the Bloody Footstep.
A nobleman who has come down in
the world sufficiently to trade in stocks
is not regarded in England as deserving
of much. When messenger called at
The London Stock Exchange for Lord
Walter Campbell, the porter regarded
the appendage to the name as an insult
to the democracy of the place. Lord
Walter Campbell?" said he; "we have
no lords here" and then he shouted,
DWalter Campbell is wanted"
At st. Stephens Episcopal church.
Philadelphia, Sunday last, Miss Annie
Hover Forr ey, second daughter of the
late Colonel John w. Forney, was mar
RED to Mr.. William Weaver Filter, of
that CITY. The wedding was strictly pri-
vate. on account of both bride and groom
being in mourning, and was only wit
messed by members of the Immediate
families.
DR.. Hamel, editor of the Goriltz a
German Conservative paper, has been
condemned to two months imprisonment
for challenging the editor of Liberal
.Tournal. The bearer of the challenge
win have six weeks imprisonment. The
defense made was that duelling was a
recognized social custom in cases of in
iured honor and that an imprisonment
Of one day would be sufficient, but on
this occasion the court did not see 1t
in that light.
A man named Peter Vending living
IN Bismarck. Pa, was recently examined
by the Philadelphia County Medical So
ciety and pronounced wonderful med
ical curiosity. He has neither hair nor
teeth, does not possess the sense ofsmell,
and has no pores in his skin.
The latter fact is the cause of much Won
der, as it has been held that no person
could live without porous skin. Wend-
ling experiences great acknowledgements
incapaclty for perspiration and his body
grows so hot that his clothing has to be
kept wet in order to mitigate his dis
comfort. He has always been in good
health and has wife and eight chill
dren. None of the children partake OF
their fathers peculari les, except that
none of them have perfect teeth.