River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-10-27
MISCELLANEOUS

Photograph dear sir, if photo
graphy did justice to everyone who has
his picture taken the art would soon
grow unpopular n-Demorest's Maga-
zine.
The coronach, or mourning for the
dead, IS still heard in many parts of
Scotland, As well as in ireland 1t is
weird chant, cries OF lanentation being
mingled with circumstances addressed
to the departed for leaving his friends
/ and relatives.
why did you tell the judge your
name was Murder?" So that he
wouldn't commit me" "Humph! Why
didn't you tell him your name was
Gum what good would that have
done?'' He might have discharged
/ you. "-Harper's Bazar.
"A novelty in eounterfeiting ap-
4 peared in Sioux City. where a young
+ man took new silver quarters cut out
I the quar- and changed the last to
/ n, making it read ten dollars" and
I plated the coins neatly with gold. He
/ bought five or ten-eent articles to get
/ the change till he was caught
In the report of her majesty's in
"a GA tAff>Aktc 4tfi Ltlt past wear.
/ two samples of guncotton were referred
/ to. one of which had been under water
/ for sixteen years while the other had
been buried under ground for twenty
/ years. Both these samples We're in fine
/ condition, and as ready fer their work
as on the dav of their manufacture.
"A cat which patronizes the soda
I water fountain Is an attraction of
I drug store in Sixth avenue. New York
Long ago it discovered that the cream
of the fountain suited its taste and il has
habit of going up to the counter and
waiting until it is served with light re-
freshments in its own particular saucer.
They tell me You have learned to
count, Robbie" said pious old lady to
her little grandson, who was paving
her visit out in the country. Course
i can" answered Robbie IT isten-
one, two, three. four. five. six"
That's right" said the old Tady. en-
eouragingly. go on" Seven. eight,
nine. ten, Jack, queen, king.
in the government pawnbrol1ing
establishment at Paris, known as the
Mount of Piety, there are stored tens of
thousands of watches anG hundreds of
thousands of jewels On watches alone
a total of no less than IS, eco. 0o0 has
been pledged. There are more than
5000 opera glasses and about 4. 900 um-
brellas- The annual interest has been
fixed at six per cent
The Tombstone Epitah recently
spoke of garden near Yuma, Ariz., in
which are growing twenty-five date
trees. the largest of which is thirty feet
in heightand fifteen years old. This and
five of the other trees are now in bearing,
and some of the lunches of their fruit
weigh fifty pounds and are estimated to
contain S,OO0da each.
"A great quantity of unknown but
interesting music will be released from
years of confinement by the sale of the
Borghese Library in Rome, more than
two hundred and fifty compositions be-
longing to composers of the first half of
the seventeenth century. Operas. mad
rigals, motets, villanelles. and airs by
composers Of the years 1860 and there
abouts are also found in the collection
"A statistician of the German gov
eminent has come to the rescue of
those persons who do not share the
widespread superstition that Friday is
the most unluclzy day of the week. A
short time ago he determined to make
a scientific investigation of this ques-
ton. The most fatal or unfortunate
week day, according to the investiga-
tor, is rot Friday, but Monday
AS an innocent-loolSing old man was
going up Washington street, Viclzsburg.
a drayman nodded to him and said:
''Want a dray, Mister" No, l guess
not, replied the old man. I'm too fur
from home and cant pay freight on it
Much obleeged, tough. Vicksburg is
powerful nice town. A Teller back
there asked me If i didn't want coat,
another inquired if / wanted a hack,
and now you offe- me drayl / wish /
| lived here. Reformed Church Nessen-
ger
Prof. Garner, who has gone to
| Africa to study the language of the
gorilla and the chimpanzee, says he
viii not return to this country until he
| has secured sufficient photographic rec
ords of the speech of these two great
types of monkey life to be able to settle
| definitely the subject of monkey Ian
guage. He has So lar. in twelve years
study, been able to reproduce three
sounds in the monkey language which
are Ineligible TO monkeys. They were
sounds expressive of desire for food,
for drink, and of terror
Madame Bernhardt gives these
rules for dress: Whatever you do
dress becomingly. That is my rule
See that what You wear suits you-your
person, your individuality. Make your
costume suit you, not yourself suit the
costume. 1t is not wise to rely
upon the uniform Judgment of one per-
son or to advoca te eternally the skill of
a certain few. II you cling to
the same costumer monOtonously, you
will always wear the same stamp, ike
your goddess on the American dollar"
Baron Maurice de IIirsch, the He
brew millionaire, philanthropist, sports
man and financier. is reported as soon
/ to make tour of this country. The
barons charities amounted to fifteen
millions in the year 1891, and his gener-
Gus fund for the aid of immigrant jews
has given him wide fame al over the
world. He has the touch Of Midas, and
everything turns to gold in his hand.
Not long since, he purchased the de-
preciated assets Of a bankrupt Belgian
bank at a small price and realized four
million dollars from them.
"A very elegant private car. with
complete fittings. can be bought for
SIS. 600. All that is necessary is to go
to one OF me palace-car companies and
give the order. When the car is COM
pleted il viii be delivered as freight to
the purchaser. About twenty-five per-
sons in the United States own private
cars, most of whom are railroad pro-
prietors. For $50 a day one can hire a
car consisting of an observation room,
two drawing rooms and dining room
twelve feet long. The middle part of
the car contains seventeen berths, which
are sofas during the day. Heating,
/ lighting and three servants are pro-
/ vided OF course fares must be paid
extra, but stops can be made wherever
/ desired, and the car can bc sidetracked
] and used as a home. For $40 day
/ d whole train can be rented. consisting
of for sIeepers, a dining car and
/ buffet smoker
Goats Milk.
The great prevalence of tuberculosis
| among COWS, and the consequent dam
ger Of contamination with this disease
through the use of milk, has given re-
Gently prominence to the fact that goats