River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-06-04
Personal Paragraphs.

There are twenty persons whose gifts
to colleges aggregate over 500, 000,0 600
Three of these rich Stephen
Girard, John Hopkins and Asa Packer
gave over $14, 100000.
The college graduate is apt to com
plain to sympathizing friends because
he finds it so hard to "get into journal
ISM" But every managing editor in
the country will tell you that it isn't
the thousandth part so hard for the col
lege graduate to get into journalism as
it often is to get the first principles of
journalism into the college graduate.
Rev. DIR. L. L. Magoon, pastor of the
North Broad street Baptist church, of
Philadelphia has rendered his resigna-
ton, to take effect one year from date,
with the understanding that Ile serve
during the interval without salary. He
is in his 10Th year, and has been pastor
of his present charge quarter of cen
fury.
The Tower of London contains a
specim en- of hammerless gun made in
the seventeenth century, which, says
writer, was far more of an achievement
for that day than the most complex
specimen can be for us. In the matter
of firearms it is supposed there is nos
one principle known to the present
generation that had not been applied at
least 100 times two centuries ago,
The first newspaper in Savannah WIS
the Georgia Gazette. which was start
ed in 1868, and from that time, for 122
years, the city has never been without
newspaper More than a score of
journals have appeared and disappear
ed since then. The News, which was
first published in 1850, is the only sur
vivor of ante -bellum days, though it
has always at least one rival, sometimes
three or four.
Charles Lamb always held Byron
lightly, and in letter recently publish
ed for the first time he is particularly Sc
we're. "a line of Wordsworth is lever
to lift the immortal soul" he says, "but
Byron's can only move the spleen. He
was at best a satirist; in any other way
he was mean enough. dare say do
him injustice, but / can not love him nor
squeeze tear to his memory.
Ms. Sallie Ward Lawrence Hunt
Armstrong, who has been known for
forty years as the most beautiful woman
in the south, was married for the fourth
time recently at Gait House, Louisville,
Ky. The groom was Mr.. G. L. Downs,
wealthy gentleman of high social
position, who is seventy-five years of
age Though the court-ship has lasted
six years, the wedding is a surprise, and
will cause great social sensation. The
bride is fifty eight years old, but does
not look over foTtytive.
The King of the Belgians, who has
spent nearly $4,000 of his private for
tune In the exploration and develop
ment of Africa, is said to have remarked
lately, II am very small man among
kings. but / do not see why | should
not be great man among geographers
and cizilizers." He has fairly won a
great name for himself, and the State
he is planning will be monument to
his royal generosity. From the selfish
and greedy scramblers after territory it
is indeed refreshing to turn to monarch
who seeks nothing for himself or for
his country, but who has done more
than all the European governments
combined to open the gates of Central
Africa, to curb the slave dealer and the
liquor seller and to lay in righteousness
the foundations of mighty African
empire.