River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-04-24
General Items.

Hnry Irving says indianapolis is not
at present a congenial home for the high
forms of art The press is far ahead OF
the people" who prefer to pay 10
cents to see fat woman at side shows
| to paying - to see Nellie and himself.
| Mr.. Irving seems willing to pass Indian
apolis by hereafter, without stopping to
dispute about tastes.
There is current notion that tho
proportion of unhappy marriages il
| greater among authors and people OF
| literary pursuits then among other class
| es. tits as groundless as the opinion
that brain workers are short lived
Abundant statistics prove the reverse.
The statistics show that Their are in the
United States physicians and surgeons
| of all classes, schools and qualifications,
abot 60, 900; and, estimating our popula-
| ton at 30, 900, 900, there is one to every
| 900
The Providence Journal says that OF
| three varieties of Ioudness- that of dress,
| laughter and talk-the first is the most
| pardonable, since we have only to close
our ewes and we are not offended by it.
"We believe" it says, that psycholo
| gists are agreed that the ha-ha laugh
indicates cultured mind, the he-he
laugh shallow mind, and ho-ho-ho-o
| laugh a gross mind.
The Women's Medical College OF
| Philadelphia graduated twenty six of its
students last week. This college main
tains very high standard of work, and
| those who enter there must be very
| thorough If they succeed in going
through and winning diploma. One of
those who won the prize in this class
was from off Burmah.
In two places in India, Ahmednugger
in 1882 and Siroor in 1888, an extraor-
| binary mortality among cats prevailed
| simultaneously with cholera among hum
man beings. The diseases which car
ried off the cats presented the same symp-
toms in both places, death resulting
from swelling of the throat and
asphyxia. During the first three weeks
of July, 1882, about $50 cats died at
| Ahmednr gger and 300 died last June at
| Siroor.- Eabitha Abroad.
| So-called neuralgia pencils are now
being offered by number of German
pharmacists, especially in Berlin. They
are said to consist essentially of mix
ture of menthol, thymol ande ucalyptol,
| fused and cast in small comic pellets,
which are fitted in suitable handle.
| The forehead and temples are touched
with the pencil. A slight impression
of burning is at first produced, which
soon gives way to a pleasant, cool sen.
sation. New York Medical Record.
A Californian planted eucalyptu
tree in his yard ten years ago. For sew
| en- years he noticed no improvement
| nor growth At the end of that time,
however, the tree shot up rapidly. Re
Gently, while cleaning his well, he
| found the bottom matted with eucalyp
tus roots, which had forced their way
through the brick walls of the we'll 50
as to get at the water. The we'll was
| fifty-tive feet distant from the spot
where the tree stood above the ground,
The colored people of Memphis and
vicinity have heard that the Lime Kiln
Club is donating the sum of 800 to
each and every colored person DESTROYS
of immigrating to Liberia. There are
102 of us here who propose to start for
that country early in May. Please for
ward $4,000 by express at Q. G..
Quiggs, M. d., ID. ID. S. off dar' am
any SIGH movement on fut in dis club !
haint heard of it." replied the presi-
dent Indeed, reckoned it was purity
ginnerally understood dat We would
sooner pay a premium to our people to
remain at home. Liberia may be good
locality for Guild gem'len who wants
to go to bed out doahs ten months in de
var, change shirts cherry six months, an
support his family on roots, but he Will
have to git dar' Independent of any ack-
shun of dis club. Detroit Free Press.