River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-10-25
NEWSPAPER GLEANINGS.

An organ in New York church is blown
by electricity.
TEEfrst directory of the city of New YorB
was published in 1856 and contained but st
names.
LABoUcHERE says that 1.-THE American girl
has almost entirely cut out the English CIR
in public favor
THE people Of Vanceburg, KY, are dis
cussing the singular fact that the last
ninety-five babies born in that town are all
girls.
YALE Colleges Chinese graduate, yam
Phon Lee, has taken a high-salaried posi-
ton in San Francisco bank as Chinese
manager"
THE tennis "arm' has been succeeded
by the tennis " leg" 1t consists Of a rupt-
ure of the membrane covering the muscular
part of the calf in consequence Of sudden
starts
THE success Of the great Worlds Fair al
Melbourne, Australia, has melted San Fran.
cisco TO undertake a "Great Pacific Slope
and International Exposition " in that city
in year or two.
B. r. HUTCHINSON, the Chicago wheat
manipulation, is averse TO having his photo
gragh taken and has never allowed aphotOg-
rapher to point a samera at him. His son
said a few days ago that he would give
$1,000 to get photograph Of his father.
Isaac WALSH, who lives on a secluded
ranch on the Missouri river in Dakota, was
born near Boston in 1175. He still enjoys
good health and bids fair TO weather the
billiards. Of several more Dakota winters.
He lives with white haired and wrinkled
son, who is in his eighty-ninth year.
DIR. TANNER, who won glory few years
ago by breaking the fasting record, is now
proposing to give his soul rest for sixty
days, having his body sealed meanwhile in
an Rir-tight casket. At the and Of the two
months he promises 10 come out Of the cot
fin just as well as he was when he was
boxed up.
Mrs. MARGARET Fox KANE, one of the
three famous Fox sisters who first intro
suced the Rochester kuockings, and origi-
aated Spiritualsm, declares now that it was
all a fraud, and that the knockings were
made by her and her sisters with their toe
Joints. But she is a confirmed drunkard
and the Spiritualists say it is all nonsense.
Mr.. GEORGE w. CHILDs TO present the
United States Government with portraits Of
he three great Union Generals Of the civil
war, he late Generals Grant and Sheridan
and Sherman. The portraits will hang to-
gether With none others near them, on one
81 the walls of the mess building at West
Point, that Mr.. Childs had named "Grant
hall"
ACCORDING to a New York correspondent,
The Western man is looming up on the horl-
ton of the New York woman In a most as
lonishing way. /" He is just beginning" he
writes, Ito take his place here in social
life, and he takes an awfully big place. He
Iakes away the breath Of the Eastern girl
oy his self-coufident methods, and by the
time she RECEIVERS IL she very often finds
hat it is in reality her heart that is gone"
A COLLECTION of postage stamps recently
exhibited in Boston is said to be worth
hearty $4,000. There were in the collec-
lion single stamps valued at 500 each, and
teveral groups Of six were placed al $1,000
That the prices were not all fancy was
shown by the offer of $50 from dealer for
blue envelope on which was a in all stamp
marked Bremen. One group, consisting Of
four Government stamped envelopes, now
obsolete, was appraised at 500.
A REPORTER OF the Philadelphia Record,
rho was anxious to know how far the ex-
pressed desire of Mrs. Cleveland IN regard
70 the abandonment Of the hustle had been
observed IN that city, took up position on
The corner OF two Of the most important
ghoroughfares, the other day, and noted re-
suits as follows in one hour: No hustle, "a
bushel-sized hustle. IS; moderate-sized
hustle, 81; smaIi-sIzed hustle, o.; couldn't
tell whether it was bustle'o or not, CT.