River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-05-28
PASSING EVENTS.

for the market gardeners in London.
Goldfish is 40 cents per pound in
Guatemala, and is considered a great
delIcacy.
Cornell university claims the best
arranged collection of shells in the
world. 1t has cost $4,000.
There are now but 5,400 residents in
the Virginia county where stood
jamestown of early settlement fame.
A short time ago miner in Tue
lumne county, California, took ten
pounds of gold from q mine in that To-
cality.
An Indian doctor in Utah was stoned
to death recently by his tribe for hav-
ing failed to cure patient placed
under his charge.
Mr. George Riddle, of Carroll coun-
| ty, Maryland, has under the same
roof with him no fewer than twenty
two unmarried daughters.
Electricity is now employed in ex-
tracing teeth, a recently invented
machine pulling, in an actual test,
seven teeth in five seconds.
A recent invention is pocket for
coats which can be readily detached
and used as cap. 1t is expected to
| prove very convenient for travelling
| men.
Stage robberies have become some
what numerous on the Pacific coast.
one stage alone having been pillaged
no less than four times within six
months.
The cost of maintaining the New
York schools is rapidly Increasing.
Twenty years ago it was 81, S17,814,
ten years ago $780, 900, aud now 1t
is $4,6l6,841.
Some of the southern cities have
very capacious and comfortable club
houses. One of the newest is the Cap.
| ital City clubhouse at Atlanta, which
is worth $4,000.
The current of Lake Erie has an eff
feet upon the adjacent shores sufficient
to make the spring season from two to
four weeks earlier in and around To-
ledo than at Buffalo.
France and Greece have one hun
| dred holidays annually; Russia, sixty
six; Belgium, sixty-fiye; England,
eighty-four; and the United States,
sixty. These include Sundays.
A large and valuable mineral deposit
has been discovered close to Bent noun
tain. near Roanoke, Va. An analysis
OF the ore shows 80 per cent. zinc, $25
to $50 per ton silver, and 81 per ton
gold.
Liquor sellers are SAID to do good
business upon the grounds of the
United States at the Soldiers home in
Togus, Me. They claim that the state
has no jurisdiction over land ceded to
the United States.
The operations of the mechanical
appliances in watch factory have be-
come so rapid and systematic that it
is possible to take the raw materials
from stock in the morning and have a
watch running from them by noon.
1t is reckoned that the marble bust
ness of Rutland, Vt, has trebled in the
last ten years in production and in
wages paid. The total amount of sales
in 1884 Appropriated $2,000,000, and
this year it is likely to exceed that
Fifty thousand lawn-mowers are
produced annually IN the United
States. The cutting season has begun,
and will soon be characterized by u
cheerful chorus of the machines from
one part of the country to the other.
A farmer near Macon, Ga, has AGO.
600 willows growing on his place. He
has set out $4,000 this season, and will
set his entire levee with them. A ton
to the acre is the average yield. and
when dried they are worth 5000 per
ton.
1t is told on the authority of the sup
erintendent of an ecclesiastical depart
ment in aiewelry establishment, where
the work was done, that New York
gentlemen has a baptismal font made
for each child born to him, the number
at the present date having reached five.
Camphor gum is obtained by chop
ring the wood and roots fine, and boil
ing them until the camphor begins to
stick to the tool used for stirring the
mixture. The liquor is strained, and
the camphor crystallizes from it when
it is left standing. Crude camphor re-
sembles moist unrefned sugar.
A champion eater signalized his ar
rival at HOLSTER, Cal, by eating
twenty-seven raw eggs at one sitting
After his repaso he offered to wager
that he could eat three of the largest
cans of oysters in town and seven
dozen eggs. Those who were present
thought he could, and his offer was re-
fused.
In a Washington street (Boston)
window are five pairs of shoes which
look as if they had been made for as
many giants. They are thirteen inch
es long by five inches wide, and are
manufactured of stout pebble-grain
leather. The order for them came
from Nashville, Tenn, and they are
said to be intended for mother and
four daughters. They would be in
keeping with the Tennessee noun
tains, and large romance could be
constructed around them by a genius
like Charles Egbert Craddock.
A resident of Silver City, New
Mexico. has curious relic of the days
of the Montezumas. 1t IS made from
what is called serpentine stone, and is
in the shape of turtle with frog on
! its back, and was worne as charm,
suspended by string around the neck.
This is the kind of stone from which
the Montezumas manufactured their
gods. 1t is very rare, and susceptible
of very high polish. The stone con-
tains three different shades of green.
/ Fred Estes, farmer OF Watervale,
| Onondaea county, N. Y, advertised
recently IN paper that his wife had
left his bed and board, and gave the
usual notice against trusting her on
his account. Thereupon the injured
wife sent the following letter for pub
LEGATION: 81 see in your issue of the
oath inst, under the head of business
notices. statement by Fred ID. Estes
that Nellie B., his wife, has left his
bed and board without just cause. and
that he warns all persons against trust
ing her on his account. 1t seems TO
me that he has gone to a needless ex-
pense, for was refused credit on his
account while lived with him, and
as regards mis- bed, he never had any.
/ / had to work for my board the geater
part OF the time after | married him
| have not left anything but the man,
and j have no regrets for him. {"