River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-01-26
MISCELLANY

Ior write.
There are now in use on American
.ailroads &c, locomotives, 1882
passenger coaches, 6.325 baggage cars.
S45, 9l4 freight cars. Their value is es-
mated at 800, 000.00
II have a girl. says Jerseyman,
that's so modest she wouldn't even
earn improper fractions in school"
My girl is more modest than that,
-etorted another. '.she always goes into
.he next room to change her mind"
The force Of habits always strong.
A Baltimore young man who was call
| ing on street car conductors daugh-
ter says that the father wandered in at
a rather late hour; and. opening the
door. mechanically exclaimed: 'Sit
close, please. baltimore american.
"A little hunchbaek was seized by a
detective in Berlin and relieved of a
package which he was carrying under
| his cloak i'm front of the cars carriage
| during the ears visit to Berlin. The
package was opened by superior. and
was found TO contain samples of soap.
The hunchback was lot go.
Washington Sunday-school. Teach
err Ito little girl)-"Now, Angelina.
can you tell me what it means to return
good for evil?" Angelina Brooks
"Well, miss. don't exactly know dc
words, but l tink it mean eff any one
sasses yer. doan't yer jaw back. -
HGrper'S Bazaar.
"A company of eaters were cracking
jokes the other day when one of them
startled the rest by asking: did you
ever see a bun dance on the tablet"
After struggling awhile they said they
hoped they always would be able to see
such a thing-especially when hungry.
ST. AlbGns (E.) Messenger
AT the eception.-Miss Vawze
(from Bawstine)-"Which do you like
the better, Mr. Miller, winter or spring."
Mr.. Miller (from Minneapolis -"Well.
a good hard No. spring grinds pretty
well, and there's the most money in it;
but after all. give me the regular old
fashioned wsiter wheat that amt
growed any, and I'll guarantee you the
best flour every timer'-Pac5.
An exchange says that folded
newspaper placed under the coat in the
small of the back is an excellent substi-
tute for an oyereoat. There is consid-
cradle warmth in a newspaper, that's a
fact. Many man has become heated
| by simply reading al article in a news
paper; and at such times he wants to
make it hot for the editor, oo.-Nor-
ristosoa Herald.
Among the ''fowls of the air" are
three. the eagle, swan and raven, which
live to the age of 100 years or more.
The paroquet and heron attain the
goodly age of sixty years. The spar
row-hawk. duck and pelican may live
to be forty. while the peacock and lin
net reach the quarter century, and the
canary twenty-four years. = Boston
Budget.
Any device that will make the car.
comfortable and do away with the
chances of fire in case of accident will
satisfy the public; the railways have
only to consider the question of eff
cheney and economy. 1t is even credible
that a temperature below the stifling
height usually reached by the stoves
would be grateful to great many tray
elcrs. Boston Post.
in 1887 2,067, PSI acres of land in
Dakota were newly filed on; 1856, 672
acres were acquired by final proof and
cash entry, and 1887 acres were pur-
chased by land scrip. There was large
/ immigration into the Devils Lake dis
trict The area of unsurveyed land
taken up. but not filed on, during the
year, is estimated to be about 200, 900
acres.
The ship Macaulay. launched
thirty-two years ago in Baltimore, has
been sold to Boston parties as a coal
hulk. She cost in 1855 $4,000, and
although a sound vessel still, was sold
for mere song. The Macaulay once
made the run from Liverpool to Mel
bourne, Australia. in seventy-cight days,
and once from Southwest Pass. az the
mouth Of the Mississippi, to Liverpool
in twenty-four days. She was among
the last of the famous Baltimore clippers.
"A restaurant proprietor of Mont
martre. in France, recently opened a
curious cafe. The interior is in the
form of an immense tub, the illusion Of
which is carried out by the circular
shape of the doors and windows. The
signboard is inscribed with the word
"Diogenes," whom the uututored folk
of Montmartre imagine to be some
fellow countryman of theirs who had
distinguished himself as cooper.
indications now point to the exist
ence of submarine volcanic crater
between the Canary Islands and the
coast of Portugal. From a cable-lay-
ing steamer in 80 deg. % min. north. 8
deg. "a min. west, the water was found
to measure 1900 fathoms under the
bow and 800 under the stern. showing
the ship to. be over the edge of deep
depression in the ocean bottom. The
well-known inequalities in the bed oi
the Sea of Lisbon are thong hit TO be
due to a submarine chain of mountains.
The time has come, we are glad
to say, when those who can really APP
| preciate possum and later can get the
full worth of their money. The possum
is in all his glory and the tater is sappy.
The combination is superb. 1t has no
superior in this or any other land, and
it is distinctive, for not every man
loves possum. otherwise there would
not be left enough to go around. But
the cold spell is here and the postum
is here. Let us, tellOw-citizens, for
getting the past and looking forward
to the future, make the most of them. -
atlanta Constitution.
A celebrated physician has re-
marked that every house ought to be
| pulled down at the end of the sixtieth
year. as it has by that time absorbed
\ all the diseases of those who have lived
in it, believing that wood and plaster
absorb gases, foul air and feverish ex-
halations as readily as milk or water
does. But as it is not practicable to
tear down houses every balf-ceutury
or so. it is TO be considered II all the
wood used in the interior construction
and all the plain surfaces of plaster
should not be SO thoroughly oiled or
vanished that the power of absorption
should be almost entirely destroyed,
and the character thus so changed that