River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-01
RECENT EVENTS

FARMER Of Santa Rosa, Cal, has raised
a Japanese cucumber that measured three
feet six inches in length.
A MAN who died at Flint. Mich, some timS
ago wrote his own funeral sermon, the
hymns TO be sung at his funeral, the words
OF consolation 20 his friends and the epltaph
tor his tombstone.
A LAKE steamer that was sold TO firm in
Honduras lately started from Chicago foI
Belize. She went down the Illinois and
Mississippi rivers, and then through the
Gulf OF Mexico 10 her destination.
A QUEER story is told of a Kansas City
woman. She was travelling with her hus4
band, and when the conductor came around
after the fares he found the husband cold
in death and his wife talking 10 him. She
had been carrying on a conversation witt
dead man for AZ least two hours
A CITIZEN Of Curtis, Fla, received a lot of
toilet soap for his barber shop In placing
lhe cakes on the shelf he noticed that one
Of them was much heavier than well-cou.
iucted soap generally is. Cutting it open,
he found a silver dollar Of the vintage of
ISS2. He resolved 70 continue trading with
the barber.
A REMARKABLE sand-storm prevailed at
Fresno. Cal, one day recently from four to
six O'Clock in the afternoon. The heavens
were so darlencd that one could scarcely
see across the street, a complete pail hung
over the city and the gas had TO be lighted,
while doors and windows had 70 be shut tG
keep ont the fine dust.
TIE heaviest article which has ever been
carried by an Erie canal-bOat passed
through Rochester lately en- route from
New York TO Chicago. Il was q block of
granite eighteen feet square, two and one
half feet thick, and weighing iifty-tive tons.
The pebble was quarried in Maine and was
brought 10 New York City on q steam
barge.
NEAR Espauola, in the northwestern part
Of New Mexico, alcC,y the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad, are situated on the top Of
steep mountains numerous eiif dwellings
which were occupied hundreds Of years age
by an Aztec people. On one Of the highest
points a Me,scan lately managed to place
Cleveland and Thurman flag at the risk Of
bis life.
A DIXON tCal) man lately lost his way
when hunting fer his COW, and was three
DAYS without food in a very rough country.
tie became so exhausted that he concluded
that he could not live longer, but managed
70 build fire, by which he lay down. BE
was then not over one hundred yards from
The house Of a ranchman, who saw the fire
and went to it, surprised enough to find
starving man at his very door.
A LITTLE girl created sensation on q
Pullman sleeper the other evening near
Memphis. She got up TO get . drink, and
then, getting into the wrong berth, lay down
with an old gentleman who she thought was
ler papa and went to sleep. Her father and
mother discovered her absence and became
frantic They fOund her at last, after rous-
ng the sleeper. and no one IN the car was
more surprised than the old gentleman, who
had been sleeping soundly all the time.
a MAN in Trenton, n. j., was recently
drowned in a beer glass. He had been
drinking hard, and was well under alsholiS
influence, when he entered a saloon and or.
Tered glass Of beer, which was brought
aim. He sat down at table and fell into a
stupor, his head dropping forward into the
glass before him. When the barkeeper
tried TO arouse him half an hour later, il was
found that he was dead, his nose being inn
mersed in the liquor in such way that res
piration was completely stopped.