River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-09-09
SPIRIT oFTHE DAY.

iNCHA -AullilEdl OOuh IL AAtHstil mas
been placed on the retired lisr.
w. ID. Howells says that George W.
Cable is one of the best novelists he
ever read.
Gerald Massey, the English poet,
has entered enthusiastically into the
home-rule fight.
A new volume of poems and sonnets
by George ii. Boxer is announced for
publication in the fall.
A Pennsylvania citizen named Cutt-
ing has applied to the Legislature for a
change OF name.
A call has been issued for meeting
of the millers of the country in Mime
apolis, Sept. Is and Ii.
There were nearly 5000 deaths in
Japan in June from cholera, and /, 1893
for the first half of July.
The receipts of the United States for
the month of August We're S32, 1875, 326;
expenditures, S2S, 90S, SS7.
Henry Nj. Stanley is t. deliver a
series of fifty lectures in this country
during the coming season.
EX-President Arthur, with cheek
bronzed by the Atlantic winds, now
tips the beam at l75 pounds.
Alexander Storrs, father of the late
Emory A. Storrs, died at Hinsdale, n.
l., yesterday, aged seventy-six years.
The next volume in the Eminent
Women series will be Mary Robinson 5
life of Marguerite of Angoulene,
Queen of Navarro.
The win of the late Jesse Hoyt, the
New York millionaire, concerning
which there has been a bitter legal
hight, has been sustained.
The mayor of Princeton, Ind, has
sent TO New Orleans tor bloodhounds
to be used in Kidding his city of burg
lars.
1t is reported that the highest peak
on the Island of Galita, off Tunis, in
the Mediterranean, is in a state of
eruption.
August Belmont and others, who
were summoned IN Newport for hav-
ing unlicensed dogs, were each fined
SO.
Fifty cents. with costs reaching to
nearly five dollars, was decided to be
the penalty for mild swearing in Key
port, n. j.
A Canadian meteorologist says that
Pittsburg, Pa, will be destroyed by a
meteorlc shower in the latter part OF
September.
Cyrus Fillmore. the only living
brother of ex-President Fillmore, and
whose home is in Indiana, has been
visitingin Buffalo.
An uprising is reported in Cochin
China, where the natives are massacring
whole villages of Christians and des-
troying their property.
A Catholic college will be opened in
Salt Lake City next month under the
direction of Father Kelley. Another
blow at polygamy.
France has 1859 newspapers and
periodicals. Of these $40 are issued
in Paris and 2,8l9 in the rest of France;
sos are designated as "nouveaux
journeaux.
The Rev. Dom Boniface Krug, prior
of the famous Benedictine Abbey of
Monte Casino, Italy, is Baltimorean
by birth and is at present on visit to
that city.
An eagle near Chambersburg, Pa.
recently tried to carry off a boy, but
the youngster was too heavy. The
lads face and clothing suffered severe
~ in the battle.
Near Niles. Ohio, the dead body OF
Mrs. r. A. Williamson was found by
the roadside. She had considerable
money in her possession. Two tramps
have been arrested on suspicion OF
having murdered her.
Cotton batting is coming into use in
the California cannerieS. The batting
is used for the covering of the jar,
which should be filled to the neck be-
fore the batting is used.
1t is rumored in Berlin that EN-
perez William has minated to Prince
Alexander that circumstances compel
the striking of his name from the
Prussian army roll.
The fleet in the Arctic ocean is dis
couraging, the catch at latest reports
being very small. This has had the
effect TO advance the price of whale
bone % cents pound, to s..
One of Gen. Phil Sheridan's old
scouts has just sent him from Utah a
gift of lively wildcat as pet for his
children. Very appropriate for the
children of a fighting man.
The green glass bottle factories OF
the West have resumed, the bottlcrs
having won their fight to have the
brewing companies use homemade
bottles instead of importing them.
Prince Plon-Plon has taken up his
permanent residence in the Chateau
of Prangins, on the banks of Lake Le-
man, two miles distant from NyoH.
He will not come to America, as rU-
mored.
M Jules Simon publishes a letter ~
which he predicts that France Will
eventually become a Conservative re-
public, which he declares to be the
only stable government for French
men.
Sunset Cox writes to an Ohio friend:
Il may come home, and may again 20
! into the old arena. The odor of the
sawdust comes over ME, and l feel like
vaulting through the hoop, etc, to Ill
out the scene.
1t is stated that it IS the purpose o.
NJ. de Freycinet to remove from bis
Cabinet three Radical members, L
GLIDING Gen. Boulangcr, Minister Of
/ War, and Nj. Granet, Minister OF Posts
and Telegraphs.
Prof Eli T. Tappan, nominated by
| the Republicans for School Com
missioner of Ohio, is son of the ia
nous Benjamin Tappan who was con-
! tempOraneous in the United States
Senate with William Allen.
Mr.. j. w. Clayton, well-known
businessman of Atlanta, Ga, esti-
mates that at least 10000 people have
emigrated from that cityin consequence
of inability to procure employment
since the prohibition craze struck the
town.
The great age of Hon. Simon Gamer
on, of Pennsylvania, does not dwarf
his interest in things material. He has
lately bought fine farm of 14O acres
near Donegal Springs and is personally
looking after extensive improvements
Ex-State Senator Edward S. Cleave.
land, of Hartford. is an aspirant fo1
the Governorship of Connecticut. He
is said to be q distant relative oil
Grover Cleveland, a democrat, and
looks like the late George Washington
Samuel Jefferson of Tamauqua, Pa,
died Thursday night at the age of l04
wears. jefferson was colOred barber
and claimed TO have heard Wilkes