River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-07
All Sorts of Paragrahs.

Kate Field says: Matthew Arnold
may talk about the superiority of
American women over men, and / know
better. Don't quote foreigner-man-
to me. All man wants from a woman
usually is receptivitv. American women
are more sympathetic to him than men,
hence in his estimation superior. Don't
talk to me of the superiority of my sex.
When women are superior to men they
will demand the suffrage, and several
other things"
American women owe bow to the Pail
Mall Gazette, which says American
girls have deserved reputation for gem
eral courage above all their sisters else
where"
A German doctor says; "Melt some
suspected butter, soak worsted or a
wick in 1t. when cold light it like cam
die. blow it out; If it IS olegmargarine, it
will smell like blown-out candle; if it
is butter, it will smell like butter.
The total number OF children of
''school age, which varies in each state
from four to sixteen, is estimated at 49,
052 1888; the school rolls for 1882 show q
membership of 9,7Sl,53l, however, and
daily average attendance of !, 705,S42.
The furniture interest in this country
is enormous. Three years ago it
amounted in New York to 800 families
and product Of nearly $40, 100000. Gin
cinnati had ll9 factories, with profit OF
81 ,500,O00 Chicago turned ont above
S6,000,010; Philadelphia, $2,0O0,0O0, and
Boston, $4,000,G00.
According to the last statistics there
are in Paris, 1911 800 dwellings inhabited
| by rica or well-to-do people, amounting
| to 100000 individuals. and 472, 600 houses
| for 800, 900 workmen or poor people.
| About 200, 600 human beings are living
in / 1853 ''garnis" or secondclass tene-
ment houses.
The Baltimore Sun says; woman is
a luxury-loving and generous buyer,
and it is to her demand for beautiful
| fabrics that the manufacturer, under the
new social conditions OF the last two CEN
| turtles, has looked with most confidence
| for bis reward This demand did moi
exist to anything like the same extent q
| hundred years ago. when woman, being
| regarded in the ordinary walks of life as
a somewhat inferior creature, was re-
| stricted in her liberty, her expenditure
and her discretion as to a number Of
things, dress included, affecting her
happiness"
Queer old China is the only civilized
country in thS world which has not re-
sorted to gas as a means oe lighting, and
even among the rich the methods of IL
| Illuminating are primitive in the extreme
l 4bnx,olN all 10 ,nuv ru mildly ppyn =
| ing INTO use withina considerable radius
of the treaty ports.
A foolish man in San Francisco adj
vertised for 1920 rei-headed girls; must
be good looking" and not one response
was received. At the suggestion of his
wife. who is red-headed, he advertised
| for 1920 golden-haired Beauties and be
| fore the paper was out two hours the
| street in front of his oifice>was crowded
with Just the style of beauty he desired
The Mobile Register says if intelligent
northern people would visit the soutl
during political campaign and election
| they would "no longer express surprise
| that race so ignorant and unframed a
| the negro can not withstand the arts anc
devices of superior race"
The New Orleans Picaynne says tina
on Sunday mornings the French market
in that city is visited by an unusually
large crowd Of strangers who do the
market, taking coffee, etc, attend the
fine services at the Cathedral, and wind
/ up with breakfast at some quaint, out
of-the-way little French restaurant.
The last census gave Texas total pop
ulation of l,59l,7 49, of which s57, 81
were males and 1853, 900 females. Native
born, LAY, 1888; foreign-born, 1l4,6I6
whites, 1877 ,237; colored 1874. 5l2. Tn,
area of the state includes los, 1923, l6
acres of which only 6,S4l ,705 acres arr
| under cultivation, ana 46,302. 800 ar
covered With timber. In 1880 Their
were under cultivation, in corn, 5000;
coo acres; in cotton, 2,Sl0,1l3 acres, il
in wheat, 400, 900; in sugar cane, Isl 80
acres. OF the religious sscts the Roman
! Catholics are the strongest, having
membership of - 600 in the state; mex
are the Methodists, S2,939; then the
Baptists, 1850,