River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-11
Personal Mention.

| ~ I!LtlCF - III MS rooms At L1B Hotel
| Winthrop, Boston, for the winter.
Bartholomew Tarney, of Bath, Steu-
| ben county, signalized his one hundredth
| birthday the other day by walking three
miles.
Madame Ristori has aged rapidly of
| late, but she will appear at Bath, Eng
land, shortly, and play in English.
Professor Brooks, of the Red House
| Observatory has been awarded the
| Warner prize Of 800 for his recent dis
covery of the comet of 1912.
Rev. Albert DonneH, of Berlin Falls,
\. H.. has in his possession two seven
eaved clovers, one eighl-leaved and
| one uine-leayed, ali picked from the
same plant.
Spurgeon is well enough to sit in a
| char while preaching.
General Lees daughter, Miss Mildred
| is to live in Washington next winter.
| Mrs. Stonewal Jackson viii also be at
| the national capital for some weeks.
The Duke Of Argyll has been STAYING
for a few days with Mr.. Iennyson at
AIdworth. Professors Tyndall and Hulk
| ley were included in the party during
| the Dukes visit.
Caleb Stockwen, of London, Ont, was
exceedingly surprised the other morn
| ing when Mrs StockweIl presented him
with two sons and two daughters, all
new. subsequently, when asked what
| he'd got, he sOrrowiully said, 'Only
/ two small pair" The little ones are
/ thriving.
1t is grayely announced that Col. Mike
Sheridan will write book on the Vel
| loWst0ne park excursion.
| Mary Anderson has returned with
thanks play which Oscar Wilde wrote
for her Wilde's career as a playwright
/ seems to be not more successful than his
| season as a dude.
". S. Chamberlain, father of the
young lady who is receiving so much at
tention from the Prince of Wales and
other London society, appears in a card
| denying that his daughter is engaged to
! Mr. Cairns, the Wyoming cattle tealer.
| This Is important, if true, but as Cairns
| is 3 bad man from way back, and would
! as soon rip an editor up the back as
/ twist a refractory steers tail, we prefer
/ 90 hear from him before having anything
| To saysabout his love affair with the
| Cleveland belle.
/ ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Sheridan will as
sumo command of the United States
army on the first of November. Gener
| nj John Pope will succeed Sheridan as
| commander of the Military Division of
| the Missouri.
/ Mr.. Jonathan NOrcross, whose name
betrays his Yankee origin, but who has
resided in Atlanta, Ga, for the past fif-
! IS vears-so long, he says, that he has
| become q natiye-has writtena book en-
| titled Democracy Regarded as a Party
! Name and Organization" which the
| Putnams have now in press. Mr.. Nor
| cross was the republican candidate for
| governor of Georgia in 1875, and has
| had chance to learn something of de-
| mocracy from experience, as well as by
| long observation, and his book promises
to be as readable as The FOOLS Errand'
Judge Kelley viii sail from Liverpool
/ for home on Oct. IA. He writes to a
| friend in this city: THE platform of
no convention, nor the dictation Of any
! wouli-be leaders, will prevent me from
/ promoting, by every means IN my pow
| er, the abolition of the internal tax sys-
| TEN, the demoratlZing effects Of which
are even more apparent in England
| than in the United States. My motto
| for the campaign will be, "The internal
| tax system must 90.
The general committee of the British
Association for the Advancement of
| Science has elected Lord r leigh presi-
| dent OF the association for 1914. Among
| the vice presidents selected are the Mar
| ouis of Iorne, the Marquis of Luns-
downe, Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir
| Charles Upper, Sir Alexander Gait,
the Right lion. Lyon Playfair, DR.. Chas
William Siemens and Professor Hulk
| lev The date ofthe next meeting which
| Will be held at Montreal, has been fixed
| for August =, 1851 The programme
will include free excursion to the
Rocky Mountains and trips to Quebec
and Philadelphia.