River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-04-03
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Probably the onlypersons IN this
country who attended Sapoleon's funeral
at St. Helena, are two men now living
within one hundred niles of each other,
in AIichigan-F Francis dartin, ofDetroit,
and William J Paine, of Battle Creek.
General Robert Tombs, of Georgia,
owns large tracts of Ind in Texas. He
refused SO an acre br one tract of a,
600 acres. A writer in the Atlanta
Constitution says; 4 suppose it was
this land General bombs referred ia
when he replied to the inquiry of the
Yankee in Paris. TWAS just after the
war and the Generalwas living there In
easy style. Tell him. replied the
General, that ] an eating an acre Of
dirt day He waselling Texas lands
at So an acre, which was about his daily
expenses.
Mr.. Edison saysthat in fifty years al
the furthest we sail reach the electri-
cal millennium. NJ the town-boy, who
would fly his kit secure from those
vexatious wires, his to do is to wait.
The London Atlfnaum reviews two
current English elitions of Emerson in
an article which announces that the
practical task nov offered to English
literature is the Hlucation of the Amer
lean peoplel TIL, main bulk of this ed
ucational work is TO be done by English
authors. Two Americans, however,
rise above the m.diocrity -Longfellow
and Emerson. Then, after the admis-
sion that Emerson is one of the most
valuable personalities in the modern
world, follows an elaborate disparage-
ment and his qualities as writer, NOR
alist and philosopher in which the com
plant was madethat he was never SUI
ticiently pessimBtic.
The Early closing Association OF
New York smaAes the plate-glass win
dows of dry goods stores that do not
close early. They want more time to
improve their minds.
DR.. Francis u. Gunnell, Medical di-
rector of the n1y, who has been NOM
mated by the president to be surgeon
general and chief of the Bureau of Med
icine and Surgery, is native of Wash
ington, and has always made that place
his home. He is the son of the late DIR.
James S. Gunnell, and was born in a
house which stood on lot where now
stands the Department of Justice build
ing. Educated at Georgetown univer-
sity, he received from that ancient Col
lege the degree of bachelor of arts in
1876 and the degree Of master of arts IN
1919 During the thirty-five years in
the medical corps he has had more sea
service than any other officer in the
corps. The register shows that he has
been at sea sixteen years and seven
months.
If John Adams had taken Benjamin
Franklin by the arm some fine after
noon about the year 1854, and had said
aBen, within hundred years they will
stretch wire from New York to George
town. and will talk over it, in all prob
ability Benjamin would have said to
John, Go away; you are visionary
but this is what they have been doing
every day the past week.
Somebody thus feeIingly writes of q
well-known gentleman of leisure: a
tramp NAV be very bad man, but a
trampis life is bad enough for any bad
man. No house, no home, no friends,
no money, no food, no fire, no regular
meals, no warm room or blankets al
zero. no smiles from his fellow-man
his food picked out of the gutter and
ash barrels when begging and stealing
fail him. A bird has nest and in ii
life something like regular habits.