River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-03-13
Things IN General.

The battle Of Waterloo was fought
june Is, 1855 (Which fell on Sunday.
between the French troops, under Ma
poleou Bonaparte, and the combined
forces of England, Germany and the
Netherlands, commanded by the Duke
OF Wellington. 1t resulted in the abso-
lutte overthrow of Napoleon, and the
Bourbon kings were restored to the
French throne. The battlefield is sit
uated in Belgium, about two miles from
the village of Waterloo, and twelve
miles south of Brussels.
An Atlanta Constitution correspond
ent says: 'The other night while talk
ing to United States Senator Brown /
noticed piece of rabbit fur protruding
above his collar L asked him if he wore
a rabbits foot about his neck. No. he
replied, but l do wear rabbit skin on
my chest, 4 lady recommended it as
the best possible protection against
cold. | got fine rabbit skin, cut off
the feet, and, tying the two legs togeth-
er with a ribbon, tied the skin about
my neck 1t has worked like a charm. !"
4 New Hampshire correspondent
writes: In Warner there is a school
district in which fifty years ago there
we're some forty scholars, and now there
is but one. For distance of y miles
on travelled road in the south part of
the town, where sixty years ago there
were thirty homesteads, cultivated by
their owners, with families in the dis
trict. In those days large herds were
seen ON every hand, now there are none.
The people of Boston have organized
and opened what they term THE peo-
pies Church in that city. 1t is much
after the form of the Moody church in
Chicago. 1t accommodates $500 peo-
lie, with accommodations for $50 more
in adjoining chapel, which can be uni
ted with the main audience-roOm by the
throwing open of doors. The seats are
arranged in semi-circular form on q
gradually sloping floor, like those in n
theater. and folding chairs are substitu-
ted for pews Attached to tue church
is a parsonage. All the seats are free
and membership in the church rests on
a broad and catholic basis"
The old house in which General
Grant was born, at Point Pleasant, O..
came very near being carried away by
the floods during the recent overflow
Clermont County, in which Point Pleas
ant IS situated. is almost surrounded
bv the Ohio and the Little Miami Rivers
and when the overflow occurred aceres
of land were submerged, The waters
rosa to within n short distance of Cen
eral Grants old home, and for time
threatened to carry it awy, but, fortu-
nately subsidized before any damage was
done.
Some idea Of the magnitude of the
business of raising sweet-scented flowers
for their perfume alone NAV be gather
ed from the fact that Europe and Brit
ish India consume about l50, 900 gallons
of handkerchief perfumes yearly that
the English revenue from eau de CO.
iogne Is SIC. 600 annually. aud that the
total revenue of other perfumes Is esti-
mated at 500 600 annually. There il
one great perfume NlSttAitEN "a 3aA1ussS
in France which uses yearly 100. 900
pounds of rare flower leaves. 81, 600
pounds of jasmine blossoms. - 900 Of
tuberose blossoms, and an immense
quantity of other material
Miss Anthony SAYS: II have been
roundly abused and ridienleI for allow
ing a female clerk of mine to send let
ter in which woman suffrage Was spelt
suffrage, and was not corrected
There IS a little secret history alsoEgs
that letter that viii be aEnnsinq III those
who cannot spell Suffrage lie Iae il
that nv clerk made corrae cops u
the letter, which ! approx Il s 5ah
was then sent to q male eIsF alsese.
graduate. to make a large ssIs q
copies Every copy Witch
man prepared fezd aud
what Is still more stsrf "a m
Of members Of congfe
the letter, adopted the
biography.