River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-07-31
General Gatherings.

There was such an extraordinary rush
for tickets to recent Sunday bull fight
in Madrid that riot was nearly caused,
and the presence of several hundred
horse and foot police was required to
preserve order. About ten thousand
persons of all ranks besieged the doors,
some of them remaining all night at the
approaches to the bull-ring, where tick
cts realized fabulous prices. The Gag
erness to gain admittance was occasioned
by the appearance of a new bull fighter,
who is said to surpass all the most ia
nous heroes of the bull-ring since the
days of Ell Tato and Cuchares.
During the last sixteen years there
have been ten divisions in the house of
commons on the question of the en-
reimbursement of women. The follow
ing record of the results will be inter
esting at the present time: In 1867,
for woman's suffrage, 81 against POP;
1870, 119 against 244; 1871, 159 against
22S; 1872, 1913 against 242; 1878, 172
against 239; 1875, 40 against 205;
1876, 161 against 24S; 1878, 155 against
235; 1879, 1874 against 245; 1888, log
against 179; 1881, 135 against oil.
The professors of the university of
Jena, who have been investigating the
effect of tobacco upon the human sys-
TEN, report that moderate quantities of
the weed may be used without injuri-
Gus effects. They say that in the Ger
Il ~ orr
very properly furnished with smoking
tobacco, because smoking enables them
to endure severer fatigue upon smaller
nutrition and with greater alacrity and
confidence than would other wise be the
case.
The Alps contain two peaks about
Is, 600 feet, six or seven about IA 900
feet, and in all about thirty which are
called first-class peaks. The Himalay-
as, on the other hand, or rather the
limited part of them with which we are
familiar, contain peaks from 10000 feet
downward. More than LOO have
been measured exceeding 10000 feet,
and it is computed that at least 1000
exceed this height.
The coal miners of Pennsylvania say
that their bitter opposition to the en-
ployment of Hungarians in the mines is
not due t. he matter of wages. We
don't care" they say, whether they pay
these men more wages than they do us
or not. II is not question of wages.
We might as we'll commit suicide as go
into the mine with them, since they do
not understand the manner Of handling
the safety lamp and may set off the gas
at any time and burn us all to death.
They don't know how to read, they can
not tell the danger signs when they see
them" The business men of the sec
ton, it is said, dislike the Magyars
quite as strongly as the miners.
The peculiar sect known as the "Shak
ing Quakers" deserve credit for many
of the useful inventions of the present.
More than half century ago they first
originated the driving of sweet corn for
food, and they first raised. papered and
vended garden seeds IN the present
STYLES. From their first methods of
preparing medicinal roots and herbs for
market sprung the immense patent
medicine trade. They began the broom
corn business. The first buzz-saw was
made by the Shakers at New Lebanon.
This is now In the Albany Geological
Hall. The Shakers invented metallic
pens, first made of brass and silver.
All distilled liquors were abandoned as
beverage by the Shakers sixty years
ago, and ducing the past forty years no
fermented liquors Of any sort has been
used, except as medicine. Pork and
tobacco are also numbered among the
forbidden articles.