River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-08-05
SPIRIT OF THE DAY.

Harvard College has abolished com
pulsory attendance at chapel.
Gov. Hill. of New York. has recently
appointed four ladies as notaries pub
lie.
One-seventh of the county superin-
tendents of schools in Kansas are wo-
men.
Rev. DIR. Wayland Hoyt, of Phila-
delphia, has gone for bicycle tour of
England.
Miss Mary Anderson, the actress, will
remain in Europe, where she now is
for four years.
Murat Halstead, editor of the Cincin-
natl Commercial-Gazette has his life
insured for 5000.
The Life of Schuyler Colfax, by 0.
j. Hollister, has just been published 1t
is a book of over 500 pages.
The first anniversary of Gen. Grants
death has passed, but no monument
has arisen to perpetuate his fame.
Public Printer Rounds has purchased
a newspaper at Omaha, and will soon
be in 1.-The rowdy west, growing up
with the country.
Prof. Phelps, of Andover Theological
may be daily seen sprink-
ling the lawn before his pleasant cot
tage at Bar Harbor.
Mrs Fem, one of the early abolition
jackson Davis, died on Sun
day at Orange, n. j.
Mr.. Childs. of the Philadelphia Led
ger, spends Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday in town. and the remainder
of the week at Elberon.
There are no newsboys in the City of
Mexico. The papers are all sold by
women, who hold them out to passers-
by, but never say a word.
Miss Hattie Dennison, who was last
year Postmaster of Vancouver, w. T.,
was the first woman to receive Presi-
Dental office in the Territory.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland has
had a new roof put on her house at
Holland Patent, and the old shingles
are much sought after by silly relic
hunters.
The highest salary received by wo-
man government clerk in Washington
is 81 800. less than a score get 81 1000,
and the larger number receive a salary
of $1,000
Senator COnger declines sit with
the Committee of Commerce while il
deliberates upon the matter of con-
tirming his brother-in-law as a Collect
or of customs.
President Grevy. of France, has
gone to his country home at Mont-sur-
Vaudrey, in the Jura, where he will
remain, looking after his farm and
attending 10 his mills, until September.
The late William f. Forster. the IL
lustrious British statesman, left a con-
siderable landed estate. and personal
property valued at 100000. He be-
queathed it all and Internationally to
his wife.
The Ohio Republican Central State
Committee has selected ex-Gov. Ed
ware +. NOyes, of Cincinnati, tempo
rary Chairman of the State Convention
which meets on Aug 20, and Clarence
Brown, of Toledo, temporary Secre-
tary.
The man who claims the distinction
of being the nOrthernmost editor in the
world is l.. Moller, who edits the illus
trated Esquimaux paper, Atuagaglintit,
coast of Greenland, Ga degrees north
latitude.
Miss Geary, Troy girl, who some
years since married a young Chinese
student OF that city, with whom she
has since been living in Brooklyn, has
applied for a divorce, saying he has
become addicted to the opium habit
and other evils.
A ten-year-old girl who saved two
children from certain death at Lisbon,
Portugal. has been awarded a silver
medal by the King, put in the college
to be educated, and q sum of money
has already been collected which will
be for her marriage portion.
The ugliest man ia the United States
Senate is said to be Senator Walthall,
of Mississippi. He is tall, ungainly,
wears short bob-tailed coat which
must have at one time belonged to his
14-year old son, and generally has a
three days growth OF beard on his
face.
Mrs. Belle Ball has been appointed
assistant secretary in the Kansas State
rooms at Topeka, and has
taken up her residence in that city.
She was q clerk of committee on en-
rolled bills in the Kansas legislature
last winter, and that body passed law
creating the place she now occupies.
f. 2. Wilbur, President of the Lehigh
' alley railroad, has received a cable
despatch announcing that his daughter
Isabella, who is travelling in Switzer-
land, was injured in ascending the
Alps by the fall of stone, her skull be-
ing fractured. The operation of
has been performed and
tkere are hopes of her recovery.
The August number of Literary Life,
the Chicago magazine of which Miss
Cleveland is the new editor. will con-
tain six editorials over her signature
and contributions by Paul II. Havne.
DIR. David Swing, John Burroughs,
Thompson and others Miss
Cleveland will 90 to Chicago in Sep
TENDER. BY that time SIZE hopes to
have completed REX and l,X-Rex,
her novel of Washington life.
John &. SAKE, the poet, says the Bos-
ton Traveller, sees no visitors and rare
" leaves his room. Longfellow. Inner
son and other of the writers of his day
we'd TO ripe age and died in the
midst of their work, but SAKE still lives
on at the age of 30, though dead to the
world, dead to literature and dead to
he thousands of friends whose hearts
yearn to comfort and cheer the man
whose genius and wit have lighteDed
20 many homes, as, in his declining
years, he nears the evening sunset.
One day in the year 1868, Senator
Charles Sumner and his intimate
friend, Henry w. Longfellow, the poet,
we're walking down Pennsylvania ave
lue, in Washington, when Sumner
that they should 90 into a
and be photographed
.ogether. The picture was remarkably
1t is quite large. Sumner
its in an armchair, like those used in
he Senate chamber, LOngfellow in a
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