River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-06-28
Personal GOSSIP.

Cormick, of Arizona, who is the daugh-
ter of ex-senator Thurman, of Ohio,
narrowly escaped death from an over
dose of patent medicine, which she took
for nervous complaint, on Thursday
night last, at her home in Jamaica, l.. |.
The following expressive poetic prose
was found on the interior of box car al
Chicago depot by M. T. Streeter. The
reader will be convinced, after reading
it, that there is at least one honest-mind-
e.. tramp in the world: "Barns and box
cars is my bedroom; rob a hen-roost
when / can; take a shirt off the close
line. / am the stuff they spread on land.
Counting ties is my occupation, hunger
gives me many a cramp; work and | am
no relation, ans Pennsylvania tramp"
Mr.. La Fetia, of the Postoffice Depart
ment, has collected from the official
correspondence Of the department
seventy-one distinct ways in which post
masters, members of Congress, and
others. have spelled the word "schcd-
nile" "Scheoul," ''sedul," "schegal,"
and "skudgP are a few of the speci-
MEMS"
Bishop Potter has quashed the New
ton indictment, and the world will hear
no more about it from him. 1t was rep
resented to him that the secular press
would side so strongly with Newton that
only harm could come of the discussion,
and although the venerable bishop Is
understood to have replied with much
warmth that he did not care a rap, or
words to that effect, about the secular
press, he agreed to put the Indictment
away and forget where he put it.
Mrs. Norton asked permission of the
Duke of Wellington to dedicate to him
some verses on some military men. He
replied that he vas very sorry to Q
obliged to refuse, but had made it rule
to have nothing dedicated to him, and
had kept it in every instance, though he
had been chancellor of the university
much exposed to authors" No better
anecdote of the Duke of Wellington was
never told.
German newspapers report that the
- gnaf 02t f Persia has become a raving
maniac, and the question of his success
or is being seriously discussed. Ills Old
est son, Prince Sell, is an able and popn=
lar man. but is disbarred from the sue
cession by the fac. that he is the son of
a peasant woman The legitimate heir,
who is now minister of war and governor
of Teheran, is, on the contrary, incapable
and unpopular, SO that in case of con-
flict of claims the public would probably
espouse the cause of the eldest son in
spite of the flaw in his title.
Ella Wheeler, whose love poems have
been severely censured on the ground
of their supposed immortality, in the
course of a spicy reply to her critics,
says: "My friends have advised me to
wait and not have my poems appear in
book form until lam, to use their words,
married or dead" But so long as |
believe the poems proper to publish at
all, do not feel the need of husband
or tombstone to shelter me from furth
er criticism"
In 1890 Benjamin franklin wrote
letter to Noah Webster protesting against
the introduction into the English Ian
guage of the newly formed verbs ITO
notice." "to advocate" "to progress"
and ito oppose" employed in the sense
in which they are now commonly used.
To-day we are protesting against the IN
PRODUCTION of the verbs ito suicide, Hto
cable" ''to dynamite" etc. One hun
dred years from now Will JneSe WORDS
have become classic? The latest addi-
ton to their number, by tke way, is the
New York Truths verb ''to confidence"
used thus in head line, ga Catholic
Priest Confdenced," i.e., swindled by a
confidence man.
At the conclusion of the first number
on the Damrosch programme at Denver
a stout miner in the gallery bawled out
"three thousand cheers for DR.. Damrosch
who has come out here all the way to
give us some good music" There was
great sensation in the audience, and Dr..
Damrosch was somewhat embarrassed
for a moment The man continued to
express his admiration in a loud tone,
and wound up by saying: Doctor, you
must excuse this bad weather; it isn't
the kind we usually have in Colorado;
it is what is keeping folks away from
your concerts" BY this time the ush-
ers and bouncers had hustled up into
the gallery and had seized the man and
were dragging him out. Contrary to
all expectation he proved entirely So
Der, and he complained bitterly that he
was not permitted TO express his hum
Die admiration of the muslc."