River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-12-13
InClpEnIs oE INTEREST.

A WATCH has been presented to Mrs.
Cleveland on behalf of $50 girls employed in
; Philadelphia watch case factory as a speci
men of their handicraft.
A CHICAGO woman whose husbands death
was FASTENED by the use Of alcoholic drinks,
sued firm which sold him the LIQUOR and
obtained Judgment for 5000
A CURIOSITY OF patchwork recently re
eeivsd in Rich mond Va, from Norfolk, is
nantel lam orequin made Of sixty-six badges
collected at the Gettysburg reunion las,
Jaly.
A MAN in Newark, n. J., is playing game
Of chess with his cousin in Australia by
mail They have been at it for five years.
The Newark man now sees defeat staring
him in the face.
THE following telegram was sent 70 J. F.
Dunn, of Ocala, Fla, who is now in New
York, on the report that he had been killed
by runaway horse; Reports here say
that you are dead. Is 1t truei"
TwESTY-oSE little girls, aged nine TO thir-
Teen, were recently brought TO New York
by Mormon elders from Europe en- route to
Salt Lake City. They were ordered by the
customs collector to be sent back to Europe.
NEWS comes 10 Greenwich, Conn, that
Rev. +. l.. II. Pott, young man Of that
place who went out To China about a year
ago as missionary, has married Miss ). n.
Wong, whose father was his first Chinese
convert 20 Christianity
A MILLER who operates a mill near the
dam Of the New Market lake, New Jersey,
emptied the lake ostensibly TO make repairs
TO the dam The lake is a stocked stream,
fostered by the Government, and tons of
bass and other fish escaped down the
stream.
A RESIDENT of Cuthbert, Ga, found a real
horned snake the other day. The horn was
about two inches long was on the end of
the tail, and was hard enough to penetrate
soft substances. The snake seemed harm
less aud made no effort to use its peculiar
attachment.
THE correspondent of the Colierg Guar
dian reports case which, if true, must be
Interesting to biologists. In the Coleford
district Of the Forest of Dean a small col
liery has recently been opened, and while a
collier was engaged in breaking up fall
Of block coal, he found toad IN the center.
Il seemed firmly embedded in the coal, and
It was alive. Its form was imprinted upon
the face Of the mineral. and the animal is
still living The incident has occasiOned
much interest in the neighborhood.
THERE was circus at Chestertown, Nd,
one day lao4y and with it were seven ele-
plants. Their car was run alongside a
locomotive. One Of the elephants put his
trunk out through a crevice in the car,
reached over to the tender of the locomotive,
lifted the nd of the water tank aud helped
himself. The other SIX elephants did the
same and in short time the tank was dry.
The train hands did not see the performance,
and only when the engineer tried 10 start
his engine did he find that the water was
gone
NEAR Laredo, Mex, there was lately dis
covered the remains of a concrete 0a1.
across the RIO Grande. evidently built in
that time wherein the record runneth not,
and the other day, less than one hundred
yards from it, there was picked up clasp
knife, with blade about the length of the
modern bowie knife and handle thickly over
laid with the purest gold, deeply chased in a
sort of cipher pattern Intermixed with ami
mails whose like has not existed since the
flood. How or whence it came no man can
say, but it is thought to be relic Of q
prehistoric age, and hence is held at much
beyond it's weight in gold by its present
proud possessor