River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-04-10
Personal Gossip

On one occasion during the war.
when Anna Dickinson had moved an
audience to alternate cheers and tears.
Wendell Phillips, who had spoken at
the same meeting said to her: Gamma,
would give much TO be able to make
people cry es yot do. Why cannot
10 it?" II suspect the reason is be-
cause you never cry yourself" was the
answer.
T.. O. Stanard, once Governor of Mis-
souri,, is visiting Washington. He tells
a reporter that it is his belief wheat
never will be high in America again.
He thinks that the British producers in
Australia and India with labor at twelve
cents dav, will soon take the wind
from our sails with respect to that IN
dustry.
DIR. yassmayer, an English vegetarian
crank, has come to grief. He advocates
the doctrine of living on a regimen re-
presenting a penny farthing a day, and
had the honesty to try it on himself.
He began toward the end of November,
and after the first week published an
account of the wonderful intellectual
clearness and sense of physical light
ness and elasticity produced. He IS
now at deaths door, with three regular
M. DIS attending him.
Mrs. J, W. Maekay's jewel chest
which she keeps in the vaults of Paris
banking house, contains the finest col
lection of precious stones outside of
royal treasury, that exists in Europe,
1t is valued at something like 81 ,000,-
900. Foremost in the collection shows
respondent the famous set of sapphires
which attracted so much attention when
exhibited by the ieweler Boucheron at
the Partisan Universal Exhibition OF
1878. 1t is valued at $500, 900, and com
erises the diadem, bracelets, rings, ear
rings and necklace, with large pen
dant. The necklace is double, the up
per row being band of large, square
diamonds and sapphires, fitting the
throat closely, while the lower row, q
wide arabesque of the same stones, sup
ports the pendant. This last is com
posed of one enormous sapphire, peer
less in color and in water, and set in
large diamonds. The stone is of the
size of pigeons egg, cut transyersely,
a perfect oval in shape, and is alone
valued at $50, 600.
Apropos of Gambetta's facility in
speaking on the inspiration of the mo-
ment the following anecdote is told:
While journeying one day with young
deputy from Paris to Versailles, he
said do not speak to me. ! have a
long and important speech to make,
which have not even had time to think
over" The silence, therefore, remained
unbroken. When at last his friend
looked round he saw that Gambetta was
not deep in thought but fast asleep,
nor did he wake until they reached Yer
sailles. When reminded of the speech
he intended to prepare he only laughed
and shrugged his shoulders. In the
evening, however, he delivered speech
as splendid and finished rs if he had
made voluminous notes and careful pre-
paration.
Count William Bismarck, the
Princes second son." says st. Jamess
Gazette, "was, like his father, long
troubled with obesity. One happy day
literary friend introduced to him
certain Doctor Schwenninger. Bava-
rian, who claimed to have hit upon
regimen which was an infalible cure for
fairness. Count William placed himself
unreservedly in the hands Of the Herr
Doctor, and in few weeks had lost his
superhuous bulk Thereupon Doctor
Schwenninger was summond to the
Chancellor, whom he undertook to cure,
as he had cured his son. AT the end OF
seven or eight weeks Prince Bismarck
weighed sixty pounds less, and he now
looks upon himself as cured, He sleeps
long and TRANQUILITY he is at his desk at
seven in the morning. he takes long
walks which would fatigue a young
man; and. after ten years absence from
the saddle, he is now able to ride. All
this is prodigious; but what is Doctor
Schenninger's mysterious regimen =