River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-06-25
FACT AND FANCY.

About dozen English sparfowa
have taken up their abode in Pickens,
IS. c.
There is baby in Los Angeles, Cal,
2 months old, which weighs but five
pounds.
Twenty ounces of gold dust were
the result of months work for one
man in the Hassavampa placers, near
Prescott, Arizona.
The love of notorety is illustrated
in a Gilmer county, Georgian, man
who claims to have haudled rails that
Abraham Lincoln split.
The Leesburg (Va.) Washi,lgtoniaa
has been published seventy-nine years,
and its present editor has been on duty
as such for thrty-five years.
In the course of recent Montana
cattle case cowboy testified that "a
marverick is somebody else's calf
that yon get your brand on first.
An effort WILDE made to secure stat
PIE of OK President Pierce, to be placed
hn the capitol park at Concord, N. H.,
Us a companion to that of Daniel Web
kter
A farmer in Marion county, Florida,
has l65 acres planted in whtermelons,
which he expects will yield 44S. 800
melons, at the rate of three melons to
vine.
California has produced $3.50 000,-
600 IN gold out OF total of |, 267,-
900, 600 worth OF gold deposited in the
minis for coming since their organ
izatIon in 1898.
Fish are dying in large numbers in,
Suffer lake, near Sacramento, Cal.s
and their death is attributed to an over
supply of food furnished in the shape
of grasshoppers.
Secret-society skeletons, that will
stand the racket of the goats attack
as well as any, cost about $50 EACH
They are nearly ali imported from
foreign catacombs.
The Californians are a patriotic peo1
pie. Four hundred dollars has all
ready been subscribed at the little
town of Donnieyillc toward the Fourth
of July celebration.
An express train recently made the
run from Yuma to Tucson, Arizona, y
24S miles, i'm six hours and twenty
five minutes, beating all previous rec1
oruS over lnab line.
The Union Leauge club of New York
city has contributed 1000 to tbs
Bartholdi statute pedestal fund, and
promises to double the amount. The
grand total is now over 800, 900.
Complaint of the pollution of the
national capital water is still being
made. The Washington Stur AYERS
that the water drawn from any spigot
or hydrant IN that city has an offensive
smell.
Snapping-turtlesa are contrary crea-
lures. When IN captivity they are SO
delicate that they are liable to die at
at any time. But if their heads are
cut oil they will live for an incredibly
long time.
The San Francisco board of educa-
ton asks for an appropriation of about
81 200, 600 for the year beginning July
/, and of that sum less than $40, 900 is
for teachers salaries, while over S43,
600 is for janitors' salaries.
Suppose, said an examiner to
student in engineering, ''yoH had built
an engine yourself, performed every
part of the work without assistance,
and knew that it was in complete
order, but, when put on the road, the
pump would not draw water, what
would you do?' 81 should look into
the tank and ascertain if there was
any water to draw" replied the stu
dent.
Two of the bidders for the govern
ment envelope contract, on their way
from Holyoke to Washington, We're
talking over the situation with much
assumed candor. 1t was readily agreed
that, as the bids had been registered,
there could be no risk in comparing
notes; so each promised to mark his
bid on paper and pass il over. Both
scratched away, the papers were eX-
changed, and both were blank! Each
weasel counted on the somnolent con
diticu of the other. -
A socialistic society called the Har-
monists, at Economy, Pa, near Pitts
burgh, which once numbered thirteen
hundred members, has dwindled to
thirty. The survivors are all ages. and
none OF them will probably be alive
ten wears hence. The property of the,
society is estimated at fully $l,000,0 600
for each member, and what will be the
final disposition of it is known only to-
a small circle. 1t is said that many OF
the members have not handled penny
in their lives, and would not know Il
piece of money if they saw it."
They get ready for camp-meetingS
in businesslike way down in Texasl
1t will be noticed that IN the following
extract from The BGSLOp AdUertiSeri
e oh fi,p III
but this was probably an oversight:
Immense preparations are being made
for Maj. PENIS camp-meeting, which
begins in HIS prairie on the LIST of
July. August Albrecht will run a
restaurant, ice-cream, lemonade, and
soda-fountain on the grounds build
ing now being erected for that purpose
forty feet in width by seventy in
depth.
OF one of the navy chaplains The
Christian AdU0cdte relates that he has
been on leave now for something more
than two years. For the past six
months he has regularly supplied a
pulpit in certain church, and has re-
Gently accepted call from that church
for one year. He makes no secret of
his tiistaste for work in the navy, and
has often said that he only wishes to
keep along for eight or nine years
more, when he hopes to be retired,
land to be able, in the meantime. to
draw his pay without the liability to
Ibe called on duty. According to his
iown account he has not been at sea
for four years, aud has been on leave
most of the time He is robust man,
in the enjoyment of excellent health.
He draws 81. 900 Il year, and does
nothing for it, while he * paid $500
or 5000 for preaching.
The province Of New Brunswick has
a new law, directed against the prac-
tices of campers. to whose thought
less, unconcern many destructive con-
faorations have been due, 1t is
ordered that every person who, be-
tween Nav l and Dec. /, may start q
fire In or near forest, for the pur-
pose of cooking or obtaining warmth,
shall select place in which there is
the smallest quantity of vegetable
matter, dead wood, branches, brush
wood, dry leaves, or resinous trees;
shall clear the place By removing all
combustibles from the soil within q
radius of five feet from the fire, and
shall exercise every reasonable pre-
caution to prevent the fire from
spreading, and carefully extinguish
the same before quitting fireplace.
Any person vino throws down burn
ing substance or discharges tiTearm