River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-10-09
Miscellaneous Matter.

A large devil fish that was shot at
some time ago by sportsman near Gal
weston is now lying dead about five
miles down the Gulf. 1t is supposed
that the shot proved fatal.
North Carolina has 70, 900 acres of to-
bacco this year in eighty-seyen of nine
ty-six counties There were $1,000
acres last year. Farmers profits are
81 per cent.
Cassells Magazine: Gold beaters by
hammering can reduce gold leaves so
thin that 282, 900 must be laid upon
each other to produce the thickness of
an inch, yet each leaf is SO perfect and
free from holes that one of them LAID
upon any surface, as in gliding gives
the appearance of solid gold.
In memorandum recently issued
the New York state board of health
SAYS that ''for cholera to be diffused
from continent to continent il must
have as factors for its cultivation
center of pollution for its cradle, ship
for its transport, and a number of
towns prepared for its reception aud de
gelopment."
A Brooklyn man, who was angered by
his wife's neglect to mend his panta-
looms, hung them out of front window
Of his residence with placard on them
stating that fact, and ascribing it to
laZiness ON her part.
The Boston Herald thinks that the
watermelon is q much abused fruit.
Eaten when it is fresh and ripe, at the
proper time-which means of course at
breakfast is a wholesome and harm
less article of diet Eaten when under
:ipe or stale, or on top of big dinner
late in the afternoon, it often "creates
disturbance And no wonder.
Melons can be sent from Atlanta to
New York or Philadelphia for about
four cents freight each, and in less
than two DAYS time. There are four
hundred towns of one thousand in
habitants or more west and southwest
of New York and east of the Mississ-
ippi to which MELONS may be sent.
They evade the liquor law in Kansas
in this way. The stuff is keptin dark
room of detached house, which is kept
locked. The owner is conveniently
near, and hands the key of the house to
any one who want drink The
drinker goes in alone and drops the
money to pay for his drink in box.
Then he wipes his mouth and goes out
a law abiding citizen. Once in while
a man gets in who tries to drink out
the whole establishment without pay
ing for it; but such offenders are not
regarded as gentlemen In good topper
circles.
Looking glasses, according TO the
Medical Record, are responsible for
mercurial poisoning. In two cases Civ
en-, of man and his wife, the cause of
the trouble was in looking glass hang
ing in the bedroom, the wooden back of
which was dotted with thousands of
minute globules of mercury. The
apartment was neaJeu nufnS bIle nlBnb.
In another instance the source of the
poisoning was mirror forty years old,
whose back had become weak and from
whose face the quicksilvery freshness
was fading. The aged culprits having
been summarily removed, their victims
speedily recovered.
The late Paul Morphy played several
games of chess with the great monarchs
of Europe. He CALAMITY allowed Queen
Victoria to beat him, hut treated Napo-
leon III and King William of Prussia
very differently, giving them at first an
advantage over him and then sweeping
them from the board numerically.