River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-08-26
SPIRIT OF TIHEDAY.

Is sald, 400 acres OF peaches.
The transfer of the Able LISTS re-
mains to Hungary is mOoted.
Gon. Rosencrans attended Grand
Army reunion in Indiana last week.
Secretary Manning, at Watch IHn,
Il. L., takes yacht sail every suitable
day.
Secretary Bayard was the only mem
Der of the Cabinet in Washington. last
week
Congressman Frank HiseOck of New
York is a candidate for the United
States Senate.
DIR. Sir Andrew Clark declares that
there is not a. unsound spot in all MIR.
Gladstone's physical being.
An avalanche of peat swept down on
Port Stanley IN the Falkland Islands.
and almost completely wiped out the
town.
Instead of going as usual to Bedford
Springs, ex-> ecretary Cameron is This
summer visiting among the various
watering-places.
The most modest girl in the world
resides at Syracuse. 1t is said of her
that when pupil at Vassar she refused
to work on improper fractions.
Sir Lyon and Lady Playfair are ex-
pected to visit Nahant soon, where
they will be the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
,. IL. Russell, Lady Playfair's parents.
Successful experiments were made
at Fort Point by Lieut.. Graydon, on The
navy, TO demonstrate that dynamite
shells may be discharged from cannon
like ordinary powder filled shells.
Mrs Laura c. Holloway's motion for
an injunction against Bradley Il Co,
publishers, TO prevent them from issu-
ing The Ladies of the White House,
was denied by Judge Butler in Phila-
delphia.
Mrs. Clifford, of Portland, the veneer
able widow of tine late Justice
Clifford. of the United States, is still in
excellent health and is passing a few
weeks among relatives and friends in
the town of Newfield.
A lot of Eastern editors are engaged
in disputes over the meaning of the
following decision of the Concord
School of Philosophy: The self can
know itself only by discriminating itself
through self-regulated distinctions in
| itself !"
Count Ysugi, son of the Premier of
4 Japan, is at Chicago TO arrange with
/ paDiIsners for school text books in the
English language for use in the Japan
/ csc schools, the Mikado having ordered
! that the English language be taught in
the public schools
The late Sir John Anderson invented
\ for the British Government machinery
4 which reduced the cost of making bull
I leJs from Sl.2j TO IL cents per loo,
/ and of bayOnets from Sl.S7 to 81 cents
I each, but never made anything out of
4 il beyond his salary of 50 900 a year.
Japan has accepted the amendments
/ of the United States Senate to the extra
/ dition treaty between the two cOun-
/ tries, and both countries are now ready
\ for the last step in the matter-the
/ formal exchange of copies, after which
/ the PRONUNCIATION by the two Govern
ments will Immediately take place.
Luther home as a child at Mansfield,
1 SaNony, has just been restored to its
4 original condition when the Reformer' 5
parents dwelt there four centuries ago.
! The old house will be inhabited by a
/ body of deaconesses, who will nurse
I and care for the sick and the poor of
the town
Capt. Landgren, Of the French bril-
gantine Tombola, has been awarded 4
gold medal b Y the British Board Of
1 Trade for his kindness TO the girl Jour
neaux, who in April was picked up
alone in an open boat in the Atlantic
Ocean, having drifted away from
Guernsey.
Thomas Walter Robinson. the oldest
Free-mason in Pennsylvania, died at
/ Wilkesbarre Thursday. He was "a
years of age. and obtained his thirty
second degree many years ago. lie
settled in Illinois in 1882, where the city
OF Peoria now stands, being the first
white resident.
The Democrats of the Chillicothe,
Ohio, district have nominated Gen.
James w. Denver, for Congress. The
capital city of the Centennial state is
named for the General who was once
delegate in Congress from the terri
tory Of Colorado.
Gen. O. O. Howard, in his recent
tour of inspection of the Indian reser-
walton on the falmouth, attuned his
rich baritone voice TO NINETY and
Nine, Pull for the Shore, and other
hymns of the enthusiastic kind. Ills
tcamsters petitioned for a change.
They wanted to JON in the chorus.
Miss Jennie McCabe young lady
( guest at Lake George, New York, was
recently sitting on a rock near the wa
ter when she was horrilied to find a
rattlesnake nestled in her lap. She
sprang forward into the lake. from
which she was rescued unhurt by her
brother.
/ { ssius ". Clay is a very old man
and was supposed to be ''ilickering in
the socket. But somebody having
/ questioned the truth of passage in
his Memoirs, has called to life again
/ the old fiery and impetuous spirit
which made him famous in the political
strifcs of long years ago.
Mr. A S. Abel, proprietor of the
Baltimore sun. celebrated the eightieth
anniversary of his birth on Tuesday
last a. GuilfOrd, his Baltimore County
residence. and the venerable gentle.
man was fairly overwhelmed with
loving remembrances from his sons,
daughters and grandchildren. For
tune has been kind to him in every
direction.
Ida Lewis, famous for her efforts in
rcscuing the drowning at Newport, is
the only woman in the world who
holds the position of Government
light-ho sc keeper. Although past
middle age she is always on the look
out for any unfortunate needing her
help, and would 90 to their relief as
promptly as when 1.-the and active
girl.
An American lady. who has recent
ly seen the prince of W ales and his wife
says HE. (the prince is little fat
man with a shiny head. and his wife is
a thin woman who has scar on her
neck. limps badly. and is quite deaf
English society women wear high col
lars and circle their necks with velvet
bands because the princess does il TO
hide her scar.
One more successful American
woman has been discovered. She
lives in Washington Territory and her
name is Mrs. Annette Wynne. This
lady is the pr0prietress of Il fine farm.
which cont aims 420 acres, much of it
in state of cultivation. Here she cone
duets a stock and dairy business, al