River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-09-02
NEWS AND NOTES.

The Saratoga training school is to
be placed in charge of Miss Sarah l..
Arnold, of Middleboro, Mass, who.
says the Boston journal, has won peda-
goglcal fame as an author and essayist
on educational topics.
The Chicago News brings statements
to the effect that Mrs. Thompson, the
beautiful and accomplished widow
who runs the Post-0ffice at Louisville,
IS going to write a book and if the
book Is successful she win retreat from
official life, move to Chicago and en-
gage permanently in literature.
The wife of United States Senator
Mitchell, OF Pennsylvania, presented
him with son this week. Early this
year the wife of a grown-up son of the
Senator made MIR. Mitchell a grand
father. 1t IS not every man, much less
senator, who can be made a father
and a grandfather in the same year.
The suicide of William Gray, default
ing treasurer of the Atlantic and
Indian Orchard Mills, was the tragic
ending of a life which not long ago
seemed to have gained the ripened
fruits of success. He was a graduate
of Harvard, a man ofretined tastes, of
liberal views, and possessed that per-
sonal nagnetism which drew to him
many warm and royal friends He
had wife and children, and his habits
seemed above reproach.
Frederick Douglass and wife are
domicillated for the present in
Rochester hotel Frederick views the
political situation with the philosopher
caimness Of a man with enough to
| carry him comfortably along to the end
Of his days.
Mr.. Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of
4 Gen. sherman, will be Professor of
Rhetoric in Detroit College during the
next year.
Mr.. Frank Hamilton Cushing. the
ethqologist, as N Boston and is so far
recovered from the severe illness
brought on by the hardshipS of his Zuni
Investigations that ne has been permit
/ ed by his physician to resume the inn
| portant work he has in charge for the
/ chronological Bureau of the Smith
sonian Institution. Three Zunis who
are to assist in this work have recently
| joined him
Sir Lionel Sackville West, the Brit
ish Minister, and his attache, Earnest
Lehman, are guests at the house of
the German Consul, Sebastian b.
Schlesinger, in Boston.
In some of the rural districts econ
omy is virtue that can by 10 possible
means be carried to an unreasonable
point. At Fort Ann, n. Y. Mr..
Cossey, as reported, said he would
have cared nothing about his daugh-
ter's elOpement which occurred last
Sunday, IF she had not spoiled two
hills OF potatoes by jumping ont OF the
window"
DR.. L. E. Hale, of Boston, having in
his Chautagua lecture on Washington
laid some stress on the fact that he
had faults and frailties like other NOR
tails, provokes the Pittsburg CONNER
cial to say that something of this sort.
is necessary in order TO get Washing
ton within reach of popular apprecia-
tion and sympathy.
A clergyman vino has recently inter
viewed Cardinal Newman and Mann
ing describes them as being plain.
simple men, with little pomp about
them. Cardinal Manning was emacia-
ted and his face had several bad rashes
as if he bad shaved in the dark aud in
haste. His fingers were all bone"
it is added, land the ring slipped up
and down upon it as he spoke. 1t
would almost brighten you. Cardinal
Newman presented the appearance of
a very old man, with his teeth gone,
but his face wore an expression of re-
pose. He would rather impress YOU as
a sweet character
At Chautauqua recently there was a
class of fifty who entered COMPETE
tion in English pronunciation. At the
end of one hour forty-four had gone
down on errors. fifteen minutes more
set led three more. The rem iining
three wi.hstood the tests without fail
ure for forty-five minutes more, when
two failed. This left Miss Mary c.
Cook, teacher in the Buffalo Female
Academy, the winner
The following conversation was over
heard at the Point of Pines on a fire.
work night. The speakers were a
well-dressed middle-aged woman and
her husband and the moment was dur
ing a brilliant shower of pyrotechuic
jewels. Said she: "Oh, John, ain t
it lovely ?" He: why, yes, it's pretty
good. :" "GoodP It's lovely, lovely,
lovely ! I've never seen nothing like it
before. ''P'raps not, but you II get
used TO il by and by. It's as good as
this every night in heaven"