River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-09-08
MISCELLANEOUS.


bill collector who has date with you
then will get around on time.
"A blush on the cheek is not the
same thing as red nose. but il is the
next thing to it-Philadelphia Times.
-"Have you learned much German,
Tommy, with your new governess?"
$40; but the fraulein's learned lots OF
English"
What is so rare sstealS well done?r
said the June poet sadly to himself as
he contemplated the in-coolSed meat
Philadelphia Record.
-Billings-"So Twinley is going to
take orders is he? The church has
claimed him." Ballings-'No. it is
widow that has. Inter Ocean.
Don't you think Mrs Frastly took
her husbands death very calmlyP
Wife-''Well, my goodness, who
wouldn't? She got $4,000 insurance
money. Inter Ocean.
Young man." said the merchant,
''do you think you could keep our
books?'' "Y-a-a-s, | pwesume so; but
why the deuce don't you lock them up
in youah safe?"-Washington Star.
Miss Mclean Tourist from Boston)
Its strange that the Sphinx keeps
silent in the face of the remarks of these
vulgar people" Mr. Blcon ditto, from
Chicago)-"It wouldn't, reckon, if il
didn't have lots o. sand Smith &
Gray's Monthly.
Spain was the first of the European
nations to found colonies and make con-
in A marion nj $l,.a
ming of the 10th to that of the 10Th
century possessed a great part of that
continent, both in the northern and
southern hemispheres, now occupied by
independent republics.
Quite a number of foreign yachts
are likely to be in Chicago at the time
Of the worlds fair. Robert S. McCor-
mick, representative of the exposition
in England, makes announcement to
that effect. All depends on how favor
able are the facilities for getting
through the Canadian canals and for
safe anchorage in Chicago At his re-
quest full particulars on these points
will be furnished.
-Rotting tree stumps may be easily
removed in this way: With one-and-
a-quarter inch auger bore hole in the
center of the stump about eighteen
inches deep, and put in twenty ounces
of saltpeter, fill the hole with water
and plug it tight In the spring take
out the plug, pour into the hole a half
pint of crude petroleum, and set it on
fire. The stump will burn and smolder
TO the end of the roots, leaving nothing
but ashes.
"A short time ago, while the North
western Single association was in ses-
sion, il was announced TO that body
that the Washington State worlds fair
building would require 337, 900 shingles
for its roof. Thereupon the association
promptly instructed its secretary to buy
that number of shingles and to donate
them to the worlds fair board for the
state. The quarrymen, lumbermen and
lOggers of Washington have been equal
~ generous. and almost all the build
ing material that is required has been
donated.
Daniel Potter, an old resident Of
Gloucester, Mass, once called the at
tention of his guests to an old clock,
great favorite of his. lie told his
VI hAo kACstb dNtdCtliltHJ " AtAtS
ancient time piece, and said, in voice
full of emotion: "Gentlemen, l have
wound up that clock every night for
more than forty years" He had evil
IDENTIFY made an impression on his visi-
tors, when one guest, who had been
carefully examining the clock, turned
the tide of feeling evoked by the story
oy saying, dryly: well, always did
think You were something of an idiot
That's an eight-day clock"
There is probably nowhere in the
United States an odder people than the
mountaineers in the remote districts of
West Virginia. These people welcomed
the civil war less from sympathy with
secession than from feeling that the
disordered state of the country made it
easier to manufacture moonshine
whisky. The ''stone boat" of the quarry
is often substituted for wheeled vehi-
Gle in drawing loads down the noun
tains, and the people are so unfamiliar
with the amenities of civilized life as to
be ignorant of many words in common
use among better educated country
folks. "Mr. Rosser's crittcr comp'ny'
was the mountaineer's phrase for Gen
Rosser's cavalry.
"A beautiful marble palace, much
resembling the White House at Wash
ington in its architectural effect, will,
when completed, be the summer home
Of Mr.. W. X. Vanderbilt and family at
Newport. The house has been three
years in building, and the utmost
secrecy regarding its plan and orna-
mentation has been observed. The in
terror is of Numidiau marble and Next
can onyx. and thirty skilled Frenchmen
have been steadily working for three
months carving it in the most elaborate
manner. The magnificent entrance
gates modelled after the entrance of
the palace of Versailles, but far sur
passing them in magnificence, are two
hundred and fifty feet wide, sixteen
feet high and weigh fifteen tons.
The Puritan fathers were greatly
addicted to smoking. Indeed, the prac-
tice became SO common that even these
STRAIGHTFORWARD observers of times and
seasons actually smoked in church. This
custom soon caused very considerable
annoyance, as the religious exercises
were greatly disturbed by the clinking
Of fiints and steels to light their pipes,
and by the clouds of smoke in church
Hence, in the year 1869, the colony
passed this law: ut is enacted that
any person or persons that shall be
found smoking of tobacco on the Lords
lay, going to or coming from the meet
ings, within two miles of meeting house,
shall pay twelve pence for every such
default" Under this law several per-
sons We're actually fined, but the pun
ishment failed to secure the carrying
put of the arbitrary second portion of
the enactment