River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-07
Personal Gossip.

The late Mrs. Charlotte Piffet, who
kept famous LIGHTHOUSE in New York,
beoueathed 5000 to the Typographical
Union of ii at city. The typos consider
it one of the "fattest" Of fat takes"
Mrs. Piffet also left 5000 to the News
boys Home $4,000 to the Jewish Wild
ows' aud Orphans Home, and So 900 to
the Charity Hospital. Her estate is.valued
at 100000. and goes to her descen-
dants.
Mr.. James Tissot has returned to Par
is, and is said to have definitely settled
there. His first work in his new or
rather old home has been to design ten
etchings to illustrate Goneourt's Renee
Maurperin.' 1t is said that the effect OF
Nj. Tissot's stay and work in England
shows itself prominently in these new
designs.
A curious law suit is now awaiting
trial in New York. Some ten months
ago Miss Annie Petit, a young girl of
unusually large proportions, was engaged
by dime museum manager to exhibit
herself as "lhe largest young lady in the
world" Miss Petit was given to under
stand that her position was s lie one,
and it probably would have been hadn't
nature interfered and reduced her size
so much that she was no longer curios-
ity. The management promptly dis
charged her and she now sues for rein
statement.
Yves Guyot, the Paris journalist, tells
how King Louis XVIII, when he re-
turned from exile, asked Fouche if his
movements had been watched by spies.
Fouche admitted that the Due de Blacas
had been so employed. "And how
much did you give him?" asked Louis.
1.-TWO hundred thousand livres," was the
reply. Good said the monarch, II
find he did not cheat me. We went
halves"
"In France" says the Pail Mall Ga
zette, ''the monarch or chief of the exc
cutiye ha always exercised the prerog-
alive of mercy independently OF minis
terial control. NJ Grevy finds it a pain
! full privilege, and whenever a male
| factor is dosmed to death he goes over
| all the evidence on which he has been
condemned, and really in petto rear
CUES his case He does it so well that
| few murderers have lost their heads
since he became president"
Austin Blair, the war governor of
Michigan, is at present in delicate
health, and his labors during the war
are beginning TO tell on his naturally
strong physique. He IS paying strict
attention to his law practice, and takes
only a passing interest in politics. lie
recently purchased six acres of land in
| Orange county, Fla, where he intends
| to reside hereafter in the cold winter
months, as he finds that, as he advances
in age, he suffers from cold weather.
Among the clerks in the treasury de-
partment, at Washington, is young
man who was found buried among the
dead on the field of the second Bull
Run. When the burial squad pulled
| him out from among the dead he was
| found to have terrible wound In the
side aud his left hand was hanging by
| few tendons. These he bit off and
threw the hand away, gave his canteen
to diving Confederate and crawled OF
towards the hospital, preferring to help
! himself so the squad could search for
others who might be in the same fix.
| The next day he received his commits
sion as lieutenant. He married the sis
ter of the Johnny" to whom he gave
the last drop of water he had, and lives
happily on Capitol Hill,
Sarah, tradition tells us, was SO jeal.
Gus of the preference shown by Abra-
ham for Hagar that she took a solemn
vow that she would give herself no rest
until she h ad mutilated the fair face of
her rival and bondmaid. Abraham, who
had knowledge of his wfe's intention.
did his utmost to pacify his embittered
spouse, but long in vain. AT length,
however, size relented, and decided to
forego her plan of revenge. But how
was she to fufll the terms Of the vow she
had entered into? After mature refiec-
tion she saw her way out Of the difficult
| ty, instead of dlsfguring the lovely fea-
lures of her bondnaid, she contented
herself with borlnr hole in each of the
rosy lobes of her ears. Turkish women,
all of whom wear earrings from their
seventh year, derive the use of these
Jewels from Hagar, who is held in ven
Grafton as the mother of lshmael the
founder of TIL cir race.