River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-12-16
NEWS AND NOTES.
Charles Francis Adams left no will

NEWS AND NoEES.
Charles Francis Adams left no will.
Ephraim Keyser, the sculptor. has
modelled bust of Cardinal Gibbons.
An iron tower, 400 feet high, will be
erected at the head of Oxford street.
London, to commemorate the Queen :
jubilee.
The Grant monument fund now
amounts to 1928, 7O9.61. and the New
York committee i going to deliberate
again shortly.-Boston Herald.
Miss Clara Sands. sister of Colonel
Alex. c. Sands. of Cincinnati. has Just
returned to this country from Japan
after year visit at her old home in
Ohio
Women are now employed As ticket
agents ut stations on the Staten Island
/ a. " Railroad. This century will 90
out seeing no post or occupation denied
woman that she can adequately FILL
Miss Winnie Davis has gone from
Syracuse to New York City, and has
taken apartments at the New York
Hotel. She expects to remain in the
city until after the holidays.
The Atlanta Constitution perceives
the rapid appropriation of Southern en-
| terprises 10y Northern money kings and
comedies that this transfer of control
may work for the common good.
Miss Cathnrinc Wolfe. noted for her
enormous fortune and boundleSs chart
ties, Is very i'll at her residence in New
York and all hopes Of her recovery have
been abandoned. She is 60 years old
and has been an invalid for two years
Mrs. Henry Schuncmann. of Lapier.
Mich. doubted Kittie Kingsburv's de
sire or ability to dig potatoes. and
| offered her one cent for every hill she'd
| dig. Miss Kittie went TO work. and
before she quit at night had dug 500
hills and earned s..
While Mrs. Rebecca Phillips. of
Blairsyille- Ga, was milking last Sat
Saturday, she fell back with a violent
pain in her head and died in great agony
that night. The COW apparently
healthy, was similarly stricken and
died AT the same time.
John NJ Wolf of Martinsburg. w.
Va. died Monday, aged 81 years He
not only was the oldest man in the
town, but had been a church member
sixty years. had never used tobacco.
had never drank whisky or other in
toxicants, and was never heard TO utter
an oath.
A Washington correspondent saws
that there was hitch in the proposed
marriage between Miss Mitchell, the
daughter of the Oregon senator, and
the Due de Rochefoucauld. who met
her in Paris and was deeply smitten
by her charms. 1t seems that the Due
demanded larger settlement upon his
bride than the senator could afford to
give, and therefor the engagement was
broken,
The men whowant to whip the editor
are getting scarce. Two men and
woman went into the office of Josiah B.
Gwin, editor of the New Albany Public
Press, to whip him for an article that
appeared in his paper. Mr.. Gwin
kicked the men under the table. took
the cowhide from the woman. and then
drove the whole party into the street.
NJ. Rouvier declined to be the sue
cessor of Paul Bert in Tonquin because
he could not get the life-inSurance com
panies TO issue him policy to go there.
NJ. Greyy tried hard TO persuade him
to 60. "Only think" he said. ..vou
will have $4,000 a year salary, $4,000
for Your funeral. and $4,000 a year pen
sion for your widow" but even that
presentation of the case did not pre-
vail.
Nine. Marie Boze Mapleson was
greeted with tremendous enthusiasm at
Glasgow recently when she appeared rs
Elsa in ''Lohcngrin. One thousand
university students marched down in a
body, took possession of the galleries.
presented to the singer a splendid
diamond-set locket and chain. and after
the opera took away the horses and
themselves dragged the carriage to her
hotel.
4 curious agency has been started in
Paris. 1t Is model agency. where
painters may 90 and pick out new
models for their work The demand
for models for some reason always ex-
ceeds ,he supp Y. \ good model in
Paris J. never IN want of work, nor.
indeed, is he in New York The
agency in Paris is recruited from the
ranks of unemployed workman and
women. and supberb specimens Of
physical beauty have already been
found ia It's ranks.
Art lovers VIII be gratified to hear
that an official distinction has at last
been drawn by the Treasury Depart
ment between ancient and modern art
upon canvass. Hereafter any picture
painted before the year 1900 may enter
an American port duty free. SjGre
that date, by order OF the Secretary oi
the Treasury, every piece of canvas
painted has been modern.
Thaddeus Fowler, who died recently
in Seymour. Conn, was most prolific
inventor. He inveuted machines for
sticking pins in paper. for manufacture
ing iron pins, head and all. at "A single
stroke: for making needles, for pointing
wire, for making horseshoe nails and
for stamping metal. He also invented
a reaping and binding machine and /
the sewing bird used on ladies work 1
tables lie had little business ability /
and died poor.
In the statement of the amounts that |
can be profitablv expended during the /
next fiscal year in river and harbor |
improvements the chief of engineers /
makes the following allowances for the /
Mississippi: St, Paul to Des Moines |
rapids, 100000; improving rapids, /
dry docks. etc. $9l $50; Dies Moines
rapids to Mouth Of Missouri. 1864 coo, (
between mouths of Ohio aad Illinois
rivers, 100000; above ii. Anthony
Falls. Sj00.0QQ, nom Cairo down.
s. 900, goo, For the Missouri 81 ,0OO,-
coo is recommended; for the Gasconade
and Usage rivers, SIC. 900 each.
The Little Girl and the MINISTER.
a little girl asd her mamma occupied