River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-04-29
SPIRIT OF THE TIMES.

NAih.tuo oatCcH ID III 1ul hO-o ap1h-
esque designs.
A new English dictionary is coming
out with $4,000 words.
At drum tap 100000 soldiers
could take arms in Europe.
1 The Connecticut Senate has rejected
the woman-Sufrage bill by vote of IS
to 5.
The American Congress of Churches
/ will be Eeld at Cleveland, May %, 20,
and "a.
! About 50, GOO, 600 worth OF American
made locomotives are sent abroad ev-
cry year.
Queen Victoria has taken quite a
fancy to Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleve-
land S book.
1t costs $4,000 to clean up and put in
readiness for the summer season the
great Saratoga hotel.
! The fire indemnity paid by insurance
companies on Boston property last year
amounted to over 81 900, 600.
Nine Helen Hopekirk, the pianist
will remain in Boston until May 5,
when she will sail for home.
A new flag staff on the Grand Union
Saratoga, is eighty feet high and weighs
nearly three-quarters of ton.
There are $4,000 telephones in use
in Great Britain, while the United
States helloes through 326, ZOO.
Jacob Twaddle, Ohio, blind from his
birth, claims to be able to tell the col
or of horse by the sense of touch.
Thousands of peach and other trees
in the Sacramento Valley, California,
are dying from defective drainage.
W. S. jackson, husband of Helen
Hunt will probably become President of
the Denver and Rio Grande Railway.
BY Japanese process; seaweed is
made into paper so transparent that it
may be substituted for window-glass.
Fairy stories are told of the rapidity
with which cottages are being rented
at Bar Harbor, LenOx, and Newport.
Atlantic City has a new ocean pier
which is to be doomed among the
attractions of the coming season ut that
place.
The printers in the calico-making
mills of Connecticut refuse to impart
the secrets OF their trade to any but
/ their own sons.
The congregation of the Church of
| St. Alphege in the City of London mum;
bers thirty st. Benet, twenty-four-
and ST. John five.
The value of the hardware produced
| in the United States each year is now
about $50, 100000 and nearly half of it
is made in Connecticut.
L. b. Aldrich, editor of the Atlantic,
/ lives near q graveyard. He says he
has excellent neighbors; they never
send in any manuscript.
The church of England in the last
/ twenty-five years has raised and spent
for religious and educational purposes
the sum of S407 SOC, I85.
The Southern Baptist Theological
| Seminary at Louisville is to have new
building to cost $50, 900. The amount
has already been pledged.
The next general conference of the
NJ. f. Church will have to make at
least four new bishops, as that number
have died since last season.
The Indian School 1T Lawrence,
Kas., has experienced a remarkable
revival, resulting in the conversion of
nearly one-half of the pupils.
! Movements have been started by
women in New York and Philadelphia,
looking to the organization OF societies
for the protection of American birds.
Wyoming cattle kings have Tur-
! chased 67. 200 acres in Hillsboro and
Manatee Counties, Florida, for a cattle
range. The price paid was S84,500
cash.
Eight thousand dollars have been
subscribed to defray the expenses OF
the General Convention of the Episco-
pal Church to be held in Chicago in
October.
The Indians cost Canada last year
so. 600, 600. The Toronto Globe
wants the Indians after this boarded at
some first-claSs hotel to keep down
expenses.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York
City, rents for S1S5, 900 a year. The
lessees get back ayout 100000 of this
from storekeepers who have leases on
the premises.
The Twenty-fourth Ward of Brook
| lyn, is two miles long and one mile
W lllts anu tAs IL II SttlAls llltl Z - uOA
single white Protestant Church in the
whole ward
The annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Home Missionary Society will be
held at Saratoga, beginning June L.
The Rev. DIR. James Brand will preach
the annual sermon.
At Methodist conference in Phila-
! delphia the fact was brought out that
many preachers of that church receive
only $500 per year salary, and that the
average is not over $500.
Nine Bernhardt will wear in her
performance in London the trousseau
prepared for her projected American
tour. The dresses which are exceed
ingly handsome, cost Is, 125.
Thomas S Taylor, a wealthy resi-
dent of Meervick, Long Island, acci-
dentally shot and killed his coachman.
Thaddeus Gritman. Taylor shot at a
tomato-can placed on Gritman's head,
and the bullet entered the man 5
brain.
Queen Margerct of Italy is a woman
who never follows q fashion at the eX-
pense of beauty. She utterly refuses
to wear the eXtravagantly high and
towering headgear now in vogue.
A largely-attended public meeting
was held in Montreal, Canada, at which
resolutions were passed indorsing Mr..
Gladstone and his Home-Rule bill.
The Mayor and city officials took part
in the demonstration.
A fleet of French vessels is at Pa
peete, the capital of the Tahiti Islands,
and it is thought that France intends
either to annex one of the islands or
establish a protectorate. and that
islands of other groups may be includ-
ed.
Since the organization of the Ameri-
can Pathological Society, nearly thirty
eight years ago, more than GOO named
varieties of fruits have, by common
consent. been discarded and their
places in the catalogue filled by better
sorts.
A movement has been iDaugurated
IN Chicago to adopt the eight hour
| system for employers in tho large re-
tail stores. from $50 a. m. to $50 p.
m. The new system will 90 into effect
May 1st and with no reduction of
wages.
1t is proposed to make Mount Nc
Gregor, where General Grant died, a
military station with a garrison band,
and if the government acts upon Mr.