River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-16
FACT AND FANCY.
Toronto has a water famine.

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The losses of cattle in Indian Terri
jory this winter are placed as high as
IS per cent.
Harvard students complain that the
aculty give them more liberty in their
studies than in their sports.
1t is said pinch of powdered alum
dropped into pitcher of muddy water
will clear it almost instantly.
OF the 623 newspapers and periodic
ais published in foreign languages in
this country 483 are in German.
On the 1st of February the sum of
SIG. 343.53 remained as balance in
the general treasury of Mexico.
From the various signs of Candle
mas day it was inferred that there will
be six more weeks of winter weather
Oysters are becoming SO scarce in
MARYLAND waters that several vessels
have given up the business as bad
job.
Piano-tuning has been added to the
course of instructions for women in
the New England Conservatory of
Music.
1t is expected that the subscription
opened in the City of Mexico for
Spanish earthquake sufferers will reach
$50, 700.
A New York letter says: 1.-THE feel
ing against O'Donovan Rosa since he
was shot by Mrs. Dudley has been very
marked here"
The February moon fulls on the 28th
at IL o'clock in the evening, so that we
come within an hour of having no full
moon in February.
Fall River roughs took the Saliva
ton army at its word, with volley of
stones, disabling several women, and
fatally injuring one.
Seth Green is probably the first fish
tracted live trout's teeth without in
iuring the ''speckled beauty"
San Jose is the only city in Callfor-
mia with a population exceeding ten
thousand that is not in debt. There
are but five such in the United States.
Legislation against the sale or gift
of cigarettes to boys under 10 years of
age has already got through one
branch of the North Carolina legisla-
ture.
The Chinese government intends
making the expulsion of Chinese from
Eureka, Cal, an international matter,
and will claim indemnity from the
United States.
A Maine Judge recently gave pris-
Oner light sentence, saying he was
entitled to some consideration for not
taking the stand and adding perjury to
his other crime.
A file and knife throwing artist
nailed conhding Winnipeg youth to
to the back of the stage while illustrat-
ing how near he could come to hitting
him without actually doing so.
Good, cultured Boston is shivering
on the brink of a big social sensation
that promises ono or two divorce suits
and an interesting chapter IN the ca
reer of at least one local literary idol.
A correspondent asks a Western ed
tor why it is more natural for women
20 shed tears than it is for men, and
ne replies that it is because women as
a class drink more water than men do.
1t is more than suspected that very
many of the snake bites causing death
in India are caused by parents desiring
to put an end TO supertluous offspring
in manner which deties discovery of
guilt.
A person sleeping on his right side,
according to a celebrated French phys
iologist, will have incoherent and abb
surd dreams, but when sleeping on the
left side the dreams will be of an intel
ligent nature.
Many southern railway companies
have this year placed their old cross
ties at the disposal of the mayors of
towns along the lines of their roads to
be distributed to deserving poor peo-
Pile for fire-wood.
In dry-goods fight at Chambers
burgh, Pa, one firm put the price of
calico down to one quarter of cent
per yard, whereupon the rival concern
offered calico at one-eighth of cent,
or eight yards for cent.
Prof. Bauer of San Francisco states,
as a result of careful research, that
sure remedy for phylloxera is to mix
half an ounce of quicksilver with its
weight of clay and introduce it into
the hole in which the vine is planted.
"What makes you SO late coming to
school this morning?" asked teacher
in one of the New York public schools
of tardy pupil. "They arrested
burglar on fifty-eighth street, and ma
sent me to the station-house to see if
1t was pa" was the reply.
A steamship captain who was marri-
ed in Boston recently was denied the
the pleasure of his wife's company on
his return trip to Europe, as 1t is
against the rules of the company by
which he is employed for captain to
have his wife with him on his trips to
and fro across the ocean.
An extraordinary amount Of suffer
mo among the widows and children of
;he lost Gloucester fishermen is re-
ported by The Cape Ann advertiser.
The fund subscribed for the benefit of
these people is nearly exhausted, and
the stores of provisions and clothing
collected for them are rapidly dimin-
ishing under the steady drain that is
made upon them.
Bookmaking five hundred years ago,
was costly business. The bill for de-
signing and writing in manuscript in
l4OZ mas just come 10 llShI. Inc
parchment, the writing, the miniatures,
the silver nails, gold-plated and enam-
eled, ink figures, seventy smaller gold
plated silver nails, a gold-plated silver
clasp, sky-blue satin, and binding to-
gether cost, according to present
value, 1886, the miniatures alone cost
ing $50 The missal is now no longer
extant, but is called pttlcherrinaaDl ct
eIegdntissinlunl in the bill.
The Revista de Monterey makes
known a discovery that calls to mind
the prediction of Nostradamus that
the world would come to an end in
1886. There was recently found in the
church at Obervel, in the diocese of
Trevera. Mexico, a stone upon which
is an inscription to the effect that the
destruction of the world will take
place in the year when the Passover
occurs on st. Marks day, Pentecost on
St. Anthony's day, and Corpus Christi
on st. Johns day. All this will hap
pen in the year 1886.
The Story of VesuVius.
A little more than eighteen centuries