River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-08
Personal Gossip.

Grant smokes a medium strength ci-
gar, which he imports from Cuba. He
talks while smoking, never lets cigar
go out, and smokes the stub on a wood
en- toothpick. Sherman smokes nerv-
ously, and is always relighting his cigar.
Sheridan enjoys a quiet smoke, but
can't do anything else while he is smok-
ing. Butler rarely lights a cigar. but
carries the wrong end in his mouth.
Logan smokes only at long intervals,
but when he smokes at all, it is inces
sanity.
1t is we'll to be posted in the French
names of some of the brand new shades
which fashion has introduced; "Gris"
is steeley drab shade. "Shauvette, !"
shade of drab beige. "Armande,"
delicate salmon yellow. "Isard." an
ashes of rose or pinkish, beige shade.
"Champignon" is yellowish soft drab,
or, as its name suggests, mushroom
shade.
Judge Dickev, of the Illinois Supreme
Court, shed tears when on the Shiloh
battlefield a few daysago He told the
three hundred Union veterans around
him how the husband of his daughter
General Wallace, was killed near the
spot then under foot During the bat
lie Mrs. Wallace, approaching to join
her husband, met messenger, who
told her of the Generals fall.
At station in Montana the other
day Boston girl stuck her head out of
a Northern Pacific car aud exclaimed:
''The bewildering womance which
cwowns this twanscendental scenewy
with such understandable facination and
tinges its eyewy featuh with such over
pow'iug interest quite bweaks me up"
And a number of members Of the local
vigilance committee standing on the
platform look grimly into each others
faces and muttered, "Oh, if it was only
man
The Montreal Cam Witness says:
"Among other worthy deeds, the late
Joseph Mackay left 10000 for Pro
fesso1 ship in Montreal Presbyterian
College His surviving bryther, Ed
ward, supplemented this by a gift Of
$40, 600 and called the professorship af-
ter his brother. At his death the late
Edward Mackay left $4,000 to found a
chair in the college. Now his three
nephews have added $40 900, and call
the professorship after their uncle.
"The Indian girl of Eureka, New,
says the San Francisco Chronicle, "who
had been given all the benefits Of civil
ization. including dresses of the latest
style, and who recently cast them aside
and went to live in wickiup with a
piute buck, has repented of her passion
for savage life. Recently, after drink
ing bad whiskey all night, he arose in
the morning and began to beat and kick
her. She escaped to town and has once
more donned the garb of civilization.
Perhaps it would he q good thing to
send her east as a lecturer on the beau
ties of savage life.
The present wife Of the emperor of
Germany was not his first choice. The
lady whom he wanted to marry was the
Princess Elizabeth Radziwill The lat
ter returned his love to the highest de-
gree, but she was much too noble
minded to accept the sacrifice of his
hand. and, in a last interview with the
prince, she besought him to release her.
She went into q nunnery, and Wilhelm
welded Augusta. but their married life
was not for many years a very happy
one. 1t is only since the different at
tempts on the eInperor's life that their
relations have become warmer, and on
those occasions the empress always
spent many hours daily near the bed
side Of her husband.