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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
Curious Surgery-Experiments in Skin
Grating.


Occasionally the public hear through
the newspapers and medical journals OF
skin grating" This is a curious sur.
glcal operation, bat is now not uncom.
mon in the hospitals and in private
practice. Professor A. b. Mott, of
Bellevue HospiIa, has introduced a
novel practice. Some time ago an
Irishwoman of this city was severely in
jured by the explosion of kerosene
lamp, by which her clothing was set on
fire; and her right arm, and her right
breast down to the stomach, were
frightfully burned. She was removed
to Bellevue Hospital, and placed in DR..
Motifs ward. Her case was under
treatment for months, and the patient
appeared incurable. At the same time
man named McClenahan was in the
hospital, whose leg bad been amputat.
ed ut the thigh, DR.. Mott considered
that he might use the healthy skin
from the limb in one more effort to
cure the disabled woman. He resolved
to test the operation of grating"
Eishty-nine pieces of integument, each
about ~ OF an inch square, were cut
from the amputated limb before the
natural warmth had passed out of it,
and by gentle pressure applied to as
many points of the great open sore on
the woman's breast and arm. OF these
SO pieces so adhered and became part
of her system. The cure is now per
feet, and the man who gave of his body
to heal the woman's is also well.
The practice of grating" is looked
upon with favor by eminent surgeons.
Sometimes the skin is obtained for the
purpose rom the body of a person will.
ing to render SO much service to- an
other, but more frequently il is cut
away from the healthy parts of the pa
tents own body. In this case, how.
ever, DIR. Mott used skin from an ampu.
tated limb, and thus effected cure.
Old and obstinate ulcers and burns will
yield to this treatment when they will
not to any other. After the "slouch.
ing" from surface wound has taken
place, Nature proceeds in the work of
restoration by a granulating process
over the whole area of the wound. A
thin, delicate pelicle of skin growing
around the healthy border of the wound
covers the granulations; and if the pro-
cess is perfect, the cure is also perfect.
But the border of the wound may not
have sufficient vitality to form the cca.
trix which is necessary to healing or it
may be that the wound is too large to be
covered. 1t is in these cases that graft.
ing" is of no avail. Every separate
fragment of skin grated into the sys
tenn is center of vitality from which
the necessary process OF cicatrizaton
begins and spreads until the cicatrix
covers the sore.
A man with malignant tumor, lead
ing under the eye and occupying the
floor of the orbit, recently was placed
under Professor Motifs care. The car.
otid artery was tied on the side of the
tumor, so as to stsrve it out by depriv
ing it of the nutriment which 1t had
obtained, and the tumor itself was cut
away. The man has recovered. -Neu
York Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
How English Lords Dress.

1t is singular that there is no place so
good as the House of Lords. or perhaps
the House of Commons, TO see genuine
curiosities in old.fashioned costumes.
There are plenty of men in either House
who seem to have permanently adopted
some favorite fashion of their youth,
and chung to it fondly and faithfully
through all times and changes, as more
romantic souls cling to the memory of
lost love. Stand any day about half.
past at the rear of Westminster Hall
and note some Of the costumes that
pass you; the young men, of course,
and many Of the oldsters, are made up
to the hour by Poole, the fashionable
tailor. who cuts the clothes and some.
times backs the bills of the aristocfacy.
But never mind these com monplace
correct ones. Look at that old Peer,
the collar of,whose coat comes up so far
behind as almost to touch the curly
brim of his high.crowned hat. The
coat has a fur collar; it is long in the
waist and long in the skirts, plumed out
in front like the breast of pigeon or a
pantomime Prince. | suppose that
coat was in fashion when George the
Fourth was Regent here. See here a
tall old Commoner in a blue coat with
gilt buttons, buff waistcoat and tight
gray trousers. Look at another, who
wears white duck" as they used to be
called in the days Of our fathers, tight.
ly strapped down over the boots-that,
suppose, began to dress after the
Duke of Wellington, and has not no.
ticed any change since then. Talk of
the costume Of Greeley, why he would
be a glass Of fashion and mold OF
form when compared with some Of these
legislative eccentricities. As matter
Of fact, hardly any Of our leading states.
men ever dress well. Gladstone's
clothes seem 10 be thrown on with
pitchfork,as the old phrase was. Disraeli
looks like an ancient picture of
bright dandy from book of old
fashions. Bright dresses like a plain
country manufactures. The Marquis OF
Salisbury is as shabby looking as an old.
clothes man. Earl Granville and the
Duke Of Argyle alone seem TO care
much about maintaining the sartorial
dignity of British statesmanship.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
Steam Cultivation.

The extension of steam culture in
Europe is somewhat surprising even to
those who have given the subject some
attention. John Fowler, the father Of
this system, after spending S350,000 in
experiments, had nothing TO show for
his expenditure of brains, labor, and
capital, but lot Of old useless machinery.
But the principle for which he con.
tended has since his death been fully
established. The superior cheapness
and efficiency of steam blowing was
established in 1865. The extent to
which it is practiced in England may be
seen from the fact that there are estab.
lishments in that country employing
twelve hundred men in the manufacture
Of steam plows,
The Pacha of Egypt employs four
hundred of these steam plows. In Ger.
many, steam culture has revolutionized
agriculture. In England ii is stated that
five hundred steam plows are held by
individuals and companies for hire. A
track Of five hundred acres, near Lon.
don, which would not bring a rent OF
SO per acre, after being steam plowed
brought a clean profit Of $4,000 on
grain crops. In Scotland steam plow-
ing is also becoming common. We have
no doubt that ii is destined to secure az
great results in this country as in Eu.
rope,-Erchaage.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
Science of Advertising.
ertising is a science.

Advertising is science.
Jucicious advertising always pays.
II you have good thing advertise II.
Don't be afraid to invest in printers
ink, lest your sands of life be run out.
Never run down your opponents
goods in public. Let him do his own
advertising.
Let your advertisements have some.
thing of dash in them, without great
exaggeration.
You can't eat enough in week to do
you a whole year, and you can't adyer.
tise on that plan either.
It's as true of advertising as of any.
thing else in the wcrld--if it's worth
doing at all, it's worth doing we'll.
No bell can ring so loudly as a good
advertisement. People will believe
rather what they can see than what they
hear.
We can't recommend advertising as
the best way to get a wife; but know
that il is the best way to get trade.
People who advertise only once in
three months forget that most folks
can't remember anything more than
ab ut seven days.
you can arouse curiosity by an adj
yertisement, it is great point gained.
The fair sex don't hold all the curiosity
in the world.
A constant dropping will wear rock.
Keep dropping your advertisements on
the public, and they will soon melt
under it like rock salt.
Ceaslng to advertise in dull times, is like
tearing down dam becasue the water
is low. Either plan will prevent good
times ever coming.
Dull times, it is said, are the best for
advertisers; because when money is
tight and the people are forced to econo-
mise, they always read the advertise
NETS to ascertain who sells the cheapest.
and where they can trade to the best
advantage.
The man who advertises shows not
only business talent above his neigh.
bors; but he may be at once reckoned
among the independent, generous and
public spirited of the community.
The man who didn't believe in adj
vertising has gone into partnership with
the Sheriff, and that official does the
advertising.
Learn the science of advertising.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
Negro Mortality in the South.

There has been considerable specula
ton as to the effect of freedom upon
the physical condition OF the former
slave. By many it is thought that his
Ultimate fate will be that Of the Indian,
and for this opinion there seems to be
some ground. That immortality and
disease are largely on the increase can
not be doubted; of this fact am as
sured by leading physicians, and the
statistics would seem to confirm the
state ent. The general Importance of
the subject has led me in 10 an eSamina.
ton OF the mortuary records of the city
of Charleston, and the results will be
found in the following table, commenc.
ing with 1866, and giving the relative
mortality Of the whites and the blacks
during the last siA years. 1t must be
borne in mind that the entire popula-
ton in 1866 may be estimated at $4,000
to 10000, and in 1870 the United States
census shows a total of 4S,956. The
average surplus of blacks and colored"
over the whites during the six years
may be placed at about 5000. The total
number of deaths in each year is as
follows
1866. 1867. 1865. 1869. 1870. 1871.
B Mlaiff GS So 80 sgs s 81 lS Sss rs
OF all the great contrasts between the
past and the present in the South, / can
truly say that not one has struck me
more forcibly than the seeming dearth
of negro children. 1t is not so notice
able in the cities and towns; but in the
country it might be supposed that some
new Herod had inauagurated slaugh.
ter of the innocents. Whether this
statement holds true with reference to
other portions of the South, | cannot
yet say say from my own observation
but it is certainly so in this part of Caro-
lima. Formerly on well kept planta.
tons, as soon as practicable, the mothers
were relieved of the care of their off
spring, and the master. had them prop
erly attended to in regular nurseries"
In fact, to the slave.own the actual
profit came from the increase, and self
interest compelled a proper amount of
attention. Now, however, this care is
thrown upon the mother, and the test-
mony is unanimous that the present
startling mortality among children is
due to the persistent neglect of their
mothers. There seems to be an alb
solute indifference want of maternal
instinct. The result of such conduct
especially where there is no proper
medical attendance-may be readily
imagined.-Charl Cor. of the Nation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
Not Himself, but Anxious about Him.
self

Nothing is more curious in the psyche
logical history of man than freaks of
the insane. Some of the strangest of
which we have read Of late have been
exhibited by a man from Detroit, who
left his home year ago and has been
travelling about under the impression
that he was somebody else, but retain
ing at the same time peculiar interest
in his real SELF He would write home
to his wife occasionally, inquiring after
her husband, being especially anxious
to learn whether he had got over his
crazy spell YETI He was traced from
place to place for nearly q year before
his friends could come up with him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
4 Paris BaZaar.

In Paris, since the resurrection of
trade from its temporary prostration af.
ter the war, the excellent bazaar system
has become more complete than ever.
One OF the best of these bazaars is the
MagaSa Bon Narche, which does bust
ness of about 100000 in gross receipts
a year. Though nominally one and
under the same proprietorship, the es-
Enlistment is.divided into twenty-five
shops, each of which is entirely indie
pendent of the Others. The building
covers four thousand square yards, and
is five stories high. Less than twenty
years ago a small diapers shop stood
upon the site, and from that this has
sprung. The arrangement for the com
fort of employees is remarkable. About
ninety girls are connected with the
trade, who are required for strict sur.
Vigilance to lodge on the premises.
Large, well-ventilated and well-fur-
nished bedrooms are provided for
them, and an elegant drawing-room,
with piano, pictures, games, and all that
luxurious comfort requires, is common
property. A dining-room for the whole
seven or eight hundred employees is at
tached, with excellent fare, and hair
dressing and billiard-rooms are connect
ed with it. The salaries allowed these
clerks are small, but they are allowed
percentage on all they sell, and per-
sonal attractions in that case counting
for so much, the young ladies may. be
supposed to have an advantage over
their male competitors.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
unrrent Items.
NwoRTH, Kansas, has 10000

LEAyENwoRrH, Kansas, has $4,000
people.
one dollar a plate for ice cream At
Niagara NJ VIII "a
PHGNIxyILLE, Pa, exports pottery to
England.
A PErRIEIED buffalo y the latest Iowa
sensation. ~ fNA .Nt
OBERLIN COLLEGE has more students
than Yale.
SARATOGA. bellies keep the ball rolling
in the ten'pin alleys.
TWENTY-FIVE counties of Iowa are
worth $l0000,000 each.
The New York Weekly has reached
circulation Of 100000. -. s@.a s.g
THEY gather caterpillers by the b. sket.
ful in Barbour county, Ala.
The Jews of New York city are said
to be seriously considering the ex.
pediency of transferring their weekly
religious services from Saturday to Sun.
day. Several of their synagogues
throughout the country are now opened
on both days.
woNDERFUIGcave has just been dis.
covered in Kansss, which has a lake of
pure, clear water extending almost from
the entrance, in a northeast direction,
as far as the vision of the discoverer
could reach. He threw stones as far as
possible, and could hear nothing but
the splashing sound that water gives
echoed back to him. The height of the
roof above water is seven or eight feet.
A NUMBER of the leading business
men of New York are said to exhibit
vagaries which can only be explained
by the theory of insanity. One man of
wealth and rare business capacity has
been building a flying machine. An
other business man of wealth and
character has spent $4,000 in vain at
tempts to extract iodine from sea water
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
The New Parcel Post.

The Post law now admits Of small
packages, not exceeding twelve ounces
in weight, composed Of dry material,
such as will not injure other mail mat
ter being sent to one address at the
rate Of two cents each two ounces, pre-.
paid by postage stamps. No written
matter bat the address permitted to be
connected. Every parcel should be 10
fastened as TO permit Of It's contents be-
ing examined. Seeds, samples, etc,
may in this manner be forwarded at q
small cost, saving much in expressage,
which has heretofore been from % 10 50
cents per package
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
A yeriiable Cain.

Tom Mcclellan, the Ohio desperate,
killed Myers and Nallandigham, but
that wasn't all he did Mr.. aghead,
OF Dayton, who defended the murderer
with such ability as to get verdict Of
acquittal from Montgomery county ia.
ry, has been debarred from nomination
for Congress on account Of his connec-
ton with this case; Gov McBurney, an.
other Of McGehan's counsel, has met
with a similar check 10 his political as
pirations from the same cause; and
Judge Hume, still another Of Mcclellan
victims, had been defeated in the Ohio
State Democratic Convention, where his
name was offered as a candidate for the
nomination Of Judge Of one Of the
State Courts, principally because he had
defended the Dayton murderer. And
the lawyers had to sue Mcclellan to get
their pay. a Cain-lke curse seems TO
follow Mcclellan, which is worse than
the penitentiary.
Tossra eova fhgt "a pawu kratrar'n CWsoa
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
Curious Custom.

According TO the Boston Journal, the
OF Dutch families among the Catskills
sll5ve most lugubrious custom of keep.
ing stock Of grave. clothes on hand.
Every member of the household has
complete outfit prepared. The material
is the most costly that can be afforded,
and the garments are exquisitely fitted
and made. They are laid aside ia cam.
phor, and renewed from time to time,
If their Intended wearer lives so long
that they become yellow with age. This
is probably the strangest instance OF O.
stitch in time" On record.
81 will preach from dat portion Of de
Scripture dis evening" said a colored
dominic, "whar de 'Postle Paul pints
his 'pistle at de 'Phesians.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06
Origin of Yankee Doodle.

In l755, simultaneous attacks were
made upon the French posts of Amer.
lea. That against Fort Dn Quesne' the
present site of Pittsburgh was conduct.
ed by Gen. Braddoek; and those against
Niagara and Frontenac, by Gov. Shir
ley, of Massachusetts,, and Gen. John
son, of New York. The army of Shr-
ley and Johnson, during the summer
of 1855, lay on the eastern bank of the
Hudson, little south of the city of
Albany. In the early part of June the
troops of the eastern provinces began
to pour in, company after company;
and such motley assembly of men
never before thronged together on such
an occasion, unless an example may be
found in the regiment of Sir John Fail
staff. 1t would have relaxed the gravi
ty of an anchorite to have seen the de.
scendants of the Puritans marching
through the streets OF that ancient city
[ Albany), and taking their station to
the left of the British army, some with
long coats, some with short coats, and
others with no coats at all, with colors
as varied as the rainbow; some with
their nair cropped like the army of
Cromwell, and others with wigs, tie
locks of which floated with grace around
their soldiers. Their march, their ac-
coutrements, and the whole arrange
ments of the troops furnished matter of
amusement to the rest of the British
army. The music played the airs of
two centuries ago; and the tout ensemble,
upon the whole, exhibited sight to
the wandering strangers to which they
had been unaccustomed. Among the
club of wits that belonged to the Brit.
ish army there was DIR. Shackburg, at
tached to the staff, who combined with
the science of surgeon The skill and
talents of musician. To please the
new corners he composed tune, and
with much gravity recommended it to
the officers as one of the most celebrat-
ed airs of martial music.
The joke took, to the no small amuse-
ment of the British. Brother Jonathan
exclaimed it was nation fine, and in a
few days nothing was heard in the
provincial camp but the air of Yankee
Doodle. Little did the author, in his
composition, then suppose that an air
made for the purpose of levity and rldi-
Guile should be marked for such high
destinies. In twenty years from that
time the national march inspired the
heroes of Bunker Hill, and, in less than
thirty, Lord CORVALLIS and his army
marched into the American lines to the
tune of Yankee Doodle.
This tune, however, was not original
with DR.. Shack burg. He made it from
an old song which can be traced back
to the reign Of Charles /. 1t ran thus
"Nankee Doodle came to town
Upon little pony,
With feather ia his hat,
Upon a maccaroni."
When the battles of Concord and
Lexington began the war, the English,
when advancing in triumph, played
along the road, "God save the King"
but when the Americans had made the
retreat so disastrous to the invaders,
these hen struck UP the secuted Yam
kee Doonje. as if to say: ''See what
we simple Z, nathans can dol
!, From hat time the tune Of intended
derision was assumed throughout all
the American colonies as the national
air OF the sons of liberty.-Central Mag.
dzine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06

a milkman living up above Totowa
was feeding two calves yesterday during
the thunder shower. One of the calves
was standing on each side Of the man.
a fearful flash Of lightning, accompanied
by deaiening thunder, struck dead both
the calves, but, singularly enough. did
not iniure a hair on the head Of the
milkman.--Patlrsoa A. ~ Gaardian.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-09-06

HENRY WARD BEEcHER don't avor
total abstinence for himself
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JoSEs says that pawnbroker's Office
must be a loan some place.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-04-17
SUCCESS BASED upoN MrRIr

II Is subject Of general remark, among both whole
sale and retail druggists that medicine introduced
10 the American public has ever gained such popu
larlty and met with large sale in all parts Of the
land In the length Of time, DR.. Perces Golden
Medical Discovery This cannot depend upon It's hay,
ing been more largely advertised than any other med
cine as such IL not the The correct explanation
We think IL fou In tho fact that this medicine pro
uccs the most wonderful and perfect Of very bad
cases Of bronchial throat and lung Diseases Is undoub
ody the most perfect and efficient remedy for all kinds
II coughs that has been introduced TO the public
and tho time possesses the greatest Of blood
purifying and Strengthening properties that medical
science has been able to produce, thus rendering II
sovereign remedy not snly In the Of consumption
bronchitis hoaeness and coughs but also for all diseases
OF the liver and blood scrofulous and skin diseases
blochos rough sku pimp'es black specks and dlseol
oratons II has therefor Wide range Of application
and usefulness and IL not only gives the most perfect
satisfaction all who H. but far exceeds the expec
tatlon the mest sangulne, thus ocitng the loudes
praise and making permanent hing advertising mediums
Of all who use IL. For these Is that there
not perhaps druggist In all the vast domain Of this
continent who tries to please his and supply
their wants that does not Keep and sell large quantities
Of this most valuable medicine, 80