River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-01-15
Personal Paragraphs.

Anthony Carnegie, the Pittsburgh
millionaire. is native Of Scotland, and
entertains some very positive opinions.
He says he believes that if ballot were
taken throughout Great Britain and
Ireland, and every respectable citizen
of 81 years were allowed to vote, a ma
jority would be found in favor Of elect
ing Chief Magistrate to take the place
of royalty after the death of Queen Vic
toria.
The will of the late Mary A. Foster,
which has just been admitted to probate
in New York, is peculiar one. The
testator, who was an old maid and the
sister of the editor OF the Sportsman,
made provision in the instrument for
the support of a favorite horse and three
dogs as long as they live. The rest OF
her estate is left to her brother, Charles
j. Foster.
The vanderbilts, Astors, Rhineland-
ers and the other wealth-toned families
of the country are attendants of the
! Episcopal Church, and each Sunday
humbly pray that they "may be con-
tented in the position of life to which it
hath pleased the Lord to call u.s."
Speaking of big whales, Captain J..
/ P. Nye tells the Nantucket Inquirer
that while master of the bark Alto, in
1864, he took two sperm Wholesome in
| the south and one in the north, Atlantic
which slowed down 302 barrels of oil,
allowing 7 per cent off for leakage and
shrinkage.
Bishop Coke says that during pis
| twenty years residence in Western New
York there has been some improve
ment in religion and morality, but the
increase in impiety and infidelity is on
the whole appalling. Blasphemous
publications are circulated, frightful
atheism is uttered and gross licentious-
ness abounds. asa
There is woman in Cleveland called
"Slugger" Lewis. She claims to be
the champion female prize fighter of
the country. She desires an early OPP
portunity of knocking out any living
woman for 81 600 This is another IL
Illustration of how women are fast mos
nopolizing the callings heretofore exclu-
sively in the hands of the males. 1t
will get 50 after while that the men
will have to get married in order to be
supported. M &
The first money Mrs. Ella Wheeler
Wilcox ever received for poem was Sc
from Frank Leslies publishsng house.
4 Since that time her muse has been
phenomenally prolific, not less than L.
200 effussions being attributed to her
authorship.
The thrift and industry of the French
women in bourgeois family is charac-
terized by Margaret Bertha Wright in
( the Atlantic as IAN unintellectual, mar
row system, involving wearing out of
human brains and strength in cease
less struggle to stretch pound of meat
to the utmost limit of its nourishing
tenuity, to extort its last fibre of wear
ing capacity from yard of cloth. Body
and soul were bent to the ignoble bust
ness of mere living, and it was pitiable
to know what artistic inclinations and
ideal inspirations were crushed out un-
der this Juggernaut of economy.
The property which the late Arthur
w. Austin, of Milton. Mass, bequeath-
ed to the University of Virginia amounts
to nearly OF. quite $500000 The will
provides that the income of the estate
shall go to Mrs. Austins children. who
are three in number and all grown, I'M
til their death The entire property
will then revert to the university
The property consists of railroad and
other bonds we'll secured, and same
real estate. In the body of the will the
bequest was made to William and Mary
College, but this was revoked by codi-
Gil