River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-11-15
Personalities.

Ostrich iarmi Q, which is increasing
in this country, requires experienced
management before yielding profit. 1t
needs also fearless farmer, for the o.
trlCh is apparently the worst tempered
bird In existence, and has the most fatal
A'ck known. When they can't kick
their object, they lie in the dust and
drum or beat their bodies with their
head.
Joseph Foster and wife of Cairo,
Greene county, ~ y, have recently
celebrated the seventy-ffIh anniversary
oftheir weddin. He is 80 years and
months old. Ills wife is s. years ) -
months OF age. Mr.. Fosters father Is
said to Lave died at the age of LOO years,
and Mrs. Fosters mother lived to be
nearly 100 years old.
Professor Huxley maintains that in
fishing districts an acre of sea was more
profuse in food production than an acre
Of land salmon rivsrs requires protec-
ton, but the cod, herring, pilchard and
similar fisheries, he says, are inexhaust.
able and are entirely beyond the control
Of man, either 10 diminish the number
of fish OF to increase their cultivation.
1t is stated of Charles Hazewell, late
one Of the editors of the Boston Travel
Ter, that he knew the 5000 books in the
library as mother knows her child.
He could repeat the Scarlet Letter"
word for word from lid to lid. But his
greatest feat of memory was to repeat
the sovereigus of England from the old
Danish DAYS to Victoria, giving the
number of children each had, the date
OF their birth and death, and the entire
collateral connections.
General Sherman has received houses
and other presents worth $50 ,GOJ0 since
he became general Of the army, exclu-
sive of the $4,000 worth of diamonds
g zen By the khedive to Mrs Fitch, and
since divided among the generals
daughters. For the past fifteen years
will draw the salary until his death.
Moses c. Harris, editor of tie Morn
Ing Horseshoe, of Hot Springs, Ark, is
writing his editorial articles in jail, and
on Friday evening last a large multitude
headed bv brass band assembled at
the iaii and rendered him a serenade
He made a speech in which he said that
his Imprisonment was in violation of the
ri4ht of court III criticislng the acts of
judge Wood. In his speech to the SER
enaders Mr.. Harris reiterated all his
charges, and dared Judge Wood to give
him opportunity to prove them true.
The vicar of Walznl, England, the
Rev. T. Hodgsou, w. A., after profound
researches, has reconciled science and
religion by the remarkable discovery,
which ne recently announced in a pub
lie lecture. the pre- Adamite remains are
nothing more nor less than fossil angels.
There is in the possessi on of William
Ellery Of Providence, K. l., a grandson
of the William EIlery who sis ned the
Declaration of Independence, a silk bed
spread under which no one but preSl-
dent of the United States has ever slept.
1t was made to cover the bed of Wash
ingtOn when he visited Rhode Island,
and ever since when a president stays
over night in that state it is sent to per-
form a similar service.
Professor Newton, of Yale College
answered reporters question, "Why
was the seyenty-tifth meridian chosen
on the Atlantic coast in the new time
SYSTEM" thus: Because the Phila-
delphia meridian, the one to be convent
emily used, ran the closest to the centre
IF tie population of the country. have
reckoned it that, including the places
which are but from ten to fifteen minutes
distant from the seyenty-tifth iu' ridian,
there Is a population of more than
twelve million people along it in the
United States
4 Chicago gentleman says that Senator
Logan has written two plays, and one of
them has been produced in private with
some success. 1t is a drama.of Washing
ton life, and was intended to be the SEN
atcr's masterpiece; but some who have
seen both consider the other the better
1t is military drama after the order OF
"The Spy" and the incidents are based
upon the generals own experience in
the war. One of the generals plays
was once produced in a Washington
boarding house by amateurs, the author
himself taking the leading character