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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-07
The Growth of a Feather.
Prom the Popular Science Monthly

from tne Popular science Monthly.
In the skin of bird where a new
feather is to grow there is little pit,
and at the bottom Of this an elevation
or pyramid; extending up one side Of
this pyramid is groove, or furrow,
deepest at the base, and gradually grow
ing shallower until il disappears near
the top from each side of this furrow
a great many smaller grooves extend
around to the other side of the pyramid,
and these also decrease in depth, and at
last disappear just rs they are about TO
meet on the side opposite the large fur
row. The whole pyramid is covered
with skin, and the surface is made of
the same scales, or fiattened cells, that
are found over the rest of the surface of
the body; but instead of falling offwhen
they are pushed out by the new ones
below them, they become united or
welded 10 each other, so as to form a
horn coat over the surface of the pyra-
mid, with ridges on its lower or inner
surface, corresponding TO the grooves
on the pyramid and, as new cells grow
ut the base, this coat or cast of the sur
face is pushed upward till il breaks at
its thinnest part, which is, of course,
the smooth part withoutridges opposite
the large furrow; and then, as it is
pushed onward and fattened, it assumes
the form of feather, the ridge formed
in the main furrow being the shaft,
while the casts of the side grooves form
the separate barbs of the vane. When
all of the vane has been formed and
pushed forward, the pyramid loses its
grooves and becomes smooth, and the
wall now formed on its surface, being
of the same thickness in all parts, does
not break, but remains tubular, and
forms the quill, which is attached to
what is left of the pyramid. A finger.
nail or hair is formed from the same
kind of scales in the same way, the pro
cess differing only in those features
which give to each organ its specia
character. Feathers, scales, hair claws
and nails, all are made alike from the
dead, hattened cells crowded to tn,
surface by the process of growth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-07

The cones of all evergreens are gath
cred when ripe and allowed to dry,
after which the seeds should be beaten
ont and cleaned. Mix the seeds with
at least ten times their bulk of sand in
boxes having so thorough drainage that
water will pass freely therefrom. Water
thoroughly and place them where they
may freeze and thaw slightly. In the
spring SOW thickly in beds, lightly
shaded from the sun keep free from
weeds, and when one ortwo years old,
pick out into rows one foot apart by
four inches in the rows. When large
enough, transplant into nursery rows,
until large enough to finally transplant
70 the place where they are to stand.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-07
Interesting Statistics

In tlh population Of the world, China
stands first, gith I25, 2l3, lj2, the Brit
ish Empire second, with 1919, Sl7 600,
and Russia third, with ~, l72, 022. The
United States are fifth. In density OF
population Belgium comes first, with
l5l per square mile. England is next,
with 3S9. Belgium has one mile Of rail
road 10 g square miles of territory
Great Britain 10 square miles, and
the United States are eleventh, with !
mile of road 10 Dc Of territory. OF cleo
trio telegraphs, Great Britain has | mile
to every square miles; Belgium, ] q
., and the United States 10 36. The
mercantile navies Of the world comprise
81 400 vessels, and total tonnage ol
1854, 029. OF these. Great Britain has
1861 steamers and 2O,S32 sailing yes
sells, the United States coming next
with 403 steamers and 6,7Sd smiling
vessels.
VINO can doubt that anything which
makes man discontinued with his state
without giving him the certainty OF
better, is a curse?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-07
Washing Batter.

During the past year, several of your
correspondents have strongly advised
never to wash butter. have not been
beguiled by them, having before exper-
imented sufficiently; and as l am
anxiousto learn and adopt any improve
ment, / would like to learn how, during
June, July and August butter can be
manufactured without washing to keep
sweet for SIX or eight months. My cat
tie breath the purest air, have a sweeter
and more nutritious heritage than found
in moister climate no swamp grass
and abundance of pure spring water,
and the cleanliness of milk house and
utensils is evinced by the fact that
with the thermometer ranging through
the day at from 80 to 1909. in the
shade, milk kept perfectly sweet for
forty eight hours. j cannot make but
ter that will keep without washing, no
matter how wellworked, but made kept
under the same conditions, but well
washed, i have no difficulty in produc-
ing good article. II has seemed 10
me that the loss Of flavor and aroma.
said TO be due 10 washing, is attribut-
able rather TO the salt ] can never
discover the nutty flavor and aroma M
plain after sailing; but il seems 20
me to be palmer after washing than
before. --New Nerico ia Rural Ncw
Yorker.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-07
A Scene in Ofenbach's New BurIesque

"0rphee aux Enters" is thus pic
tured by Mrs. Hooper in the Philadel-
phia Press With the rising of the cur
tain ON the second act (the gods in
Olympus), public expectation was on
the qui UiUe, for of the mise-en-scene
of this act such stories had been told rs
had greatly excited public curiosity.
Thick wells of blue and silver clouds hid
the stage completely from view, and the
chorus of the sleeping gods was heard
from behind. The first veil was lifted,
revealing, half hidden in mist-like
clouds, the Celestial Clock, a graceful
female figure poised ON an azure globe
and holding a pendulum. The clock
strikes and the hour appears in an Ilu-
minated figure on the globe, while
from below appears "A personified Hour,
dancer clad in gray and silver or pink
and silver The ballet of the Hours and
the Dreams succeeds, and then the
Hours lead in the Dawn, at whose APP
pearance the clouds rise and disappear,
all save the gold-edged and saffron
hued clouds of sunrise, which still hide
the back of the stage. At the conclu-
sion of the ballet the clock sinks into
the earth, the dancers disappear, and
the last clouds dispense, revealing vast
amphitheatre, ON the steps of which re-
pose the sleeping gods and goodness
Nothing can be imagined more superb
than this scene-exquisitely painted
and dazzling with light, while the sleep
ing divinities are grouped with skill
that might render a classic painter jeal-
Oug
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-07
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Wine Grapes.

WINE tsrupcS.
The Cincinnati Bulletin says the Ives
Seeding is very thrifty and productive
vino, with berry large, black and pulpy,
andmakesa superior red wine. Norton's
Virginia Seeding, vigorous, healthy
and productivevine, with large lunches,
berry rather black and small, but sweet
and rich, makes fine wine similar to
Burgundy. The Concord yields large
quantity of wine, +" 1000 gallons to the
acre" says Hussman. The Delaware
is famous vine, truly delicious grape,
very healthy, branches rather short,
but the berry full medium, dull red,
rich and sweet, and resembles the
choicest Rhenish wines. The still wine
made front the Catawba, yintageo of 1870,
is particularly excellent. Where the
quality of thewine is an especial object,
the vintage is made at two or three diff
ferent times. At first the finest and
ripest punches are gathered, and from
these the fine sparkling wines are made.
The second gathering makes wine of
an inferior quality, and the third still
poorer. Unripe berries shoots, leaves,
etc., are not allowed in the basket in
gathering, for if they get into the watts
they injure the quality of the wine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-07
Wind Of the Winter Night.

Wind OF the winter night hear
Thy midnight voice, weird, Wild md drear,
sad, soemn, slow:
Hear Il without my window pane -
Hear in the soul-arous'ng strain
The voice Of long ago.
That hollow voiceful spirit tone,
An instant heard, then vanished, gone.
Unlocks the past,
And lights of other days that lie
Deep IN the mist Of memory,
Flash bright and fast
Some vivid stream Of long ago,
OF lifes fret fires, or loves first glow,
Buried for years
In ashes Of the past from sight
Wakes, at the tone, again to Light,
And reappears.
The form, the words Of some loved one
Once BY my side, now parted, gone
To the realms unseen;
Or, haply separated wide
BY weary leagues OF land aud tide
Aud years between.
o, memory sad o, memory sweet
How often thus, evoked, meet
Again my lost
NV arms are outstretched 10 embrace,
But heart 10 heart, and face TO face,
Is but the ghost.
Mysterious life! How little we
Know what you are, or what shall be
When dust to dust -
But that dread Power that formed the soul
n wise 10 order and control;
There rest, and trust.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-07
nn.Lrt Willow nnd boz CnIlI,nllon.

Mr.. A. V. Wallace, in the New York
Tribune, describes mis- mode of cult
waiting the Osier Willow, az follows
While the willow is very hardy and
will grow almost anywhere, where veg
citation can exist. find the land most
especially adapted ~ il is muck, or made
soil that has received the drainage and
wash from higher surfaces. Such land
should produce from four to five tons
per acre. As the soil grows more wet
the product will fall off until one or two
tons would be a good yield from sur
face covered with water from one or two
months during the growing season. On
dry hilly, and gravelly lands, with little
depth Of soil and good patural drain.
age, the product ID generally light
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-07
Summers Marriage,

His marriage was the most incompre-
hensible thing he ever did throughout
his long and useful life. Mrs. Hooper
was very beautiful, brilliant and
greatly admired woman, who moved in
the choicest Boston circles. Her posi-
ton could not have been augmented by
becoming Mrs. Sumner, although her
ambition might have been gratified, and
she certainly forfeited her fortune. She
was used to homage from men her
husband was accustomed to reverence
from everyone. She found him an alb
sorbed man, only going into society for
the etiquette of the thing. She was de-
voted to gay life, and drew around her
a crowd of worshippers. When the
Senator, weary from his duties at The
capitol, would at an early hour be ready
TO order the carriage, the madame was
in the zenith of her enjoyment, and /
have been told of several remarks she
was wont to make to him before people,
singing 30 his self-love and Notifying
TO his pride. She il accredited with q
high temper, over which she exercised
not the slightest control. We cannot
penetrate the causes which led to the
estrangement, for MIR. Sumner never
mentioned the matter after the separa-
ton, but who can tell what he may not
have suffered. His death, SO immedi-
ately following his wife's application
for permission to marry again, is, by
some, thought TO be the effect of learn
ing the above news, his physicians
prophesying that any sudden excitement
would prove fatal Be it as it may, L
pity her the remorseful feelings she is
probably mistress of to-day. Wash
ingfOt Letter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-07
How the Eye is Swept and washed.

For us 20 be able tosee objects clearly
and distinctly, il is necessary that the
eye should he kept clean. For this
purpose il is furnished with little
gland, from which flows watery fluid
tears, which is spread over the eye by
the lid, and is afterward swept of 10y it,
and runs through hole in the bone TO
the under surface of the nose, while the
warm mir, passing over IL while breath
ing, eyapOratcs IL. II is remarkable
that no such gland can be found in the
eyes Of fish, az the elementin which they
live answers the same purpose.
II the eye had not been furnished
with liquid 10 wash il, and a lid TO
sweep il of, things would appear as
they 10 when you look through dusty
glass. Along the edges Of the eyelids
there is n great number Of little tubes
or glands, from which flows an oilysub-
stance which spreads over the surface
Of the skin and thus prevents the edges
from being sore or irritated, and il also
helps 10 keep tears within the lid. There
are also six little muscles attached 10
the eye which enable US 30 move il in
every direction and when we consider
the different motions they are capable
Of giving TO the eye, We cannot but adj
mire the goodness Of Him who formed
them, and thus saved us the trouble Of
turning our heads every time we wished
20 view an object.
OsE ov the most perfect viktorys yu
kan achieve over emmy man is ~ beat
him IN tlnliInnnan
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-07

by JOHN PAYNE.

Life stayed for me within breach Of days,
Sundered aihwart the gray and rocky years.
Above, the day was dim to me for fears
Aud memories of the many-chasmed ways
Through which my feet had sfryen. At amaze
Awhile, stood and listened with wide ears,
As for the coming Of some Fate that nears,
AT last, athwart the moon-miet and amaze,
Tho haggard earth lay speeehless at my feet
But as waited, suddenly there came
within me as the Pickering Of flame,
Aud like the mystic bud that bursts to meet
Its hundredth spring with thunder and acclaim,
Love lowered upon me, terrible and sweet.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1874-04-07

OEE ov the most perfect viktorys YIN
kan achieve over emmy man is ~ beat
him in politeness.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-04-01

ScRIBNER's MONTHLY FOR APRIL.
The April number of SCRIBNER's
contains another generous Install
ment of Mr.. Kings Great South, I"
the subject this time being, "A
.-RaInl1le in Virginia, from Bristol 20
the Sea-" The illustrations as
usual are procuse. Among the no.
table features of the number are the
beginning of Jules VeFne's serial,
1.-THE Mysterious Island !" an essay
by Augustus Blauvelt, author of the
articles on Modern Skepticism enti-
tied. Christ's Resurrection Scientif-
cally Considered = and timely pa
r,er, 6y Miss Beedy, on :. The Health
and Physical Habits of, English and
American Women Noali Brooks
has an article Concerning some
Imperial Booty" The new story
writer, George W. Cable, tells a tale
Sf the g" Bellies. Demoisells Planta-
ton" Mrs, Davis's serial is con-
eluded, and Miss Trafton's Is con
tinned. The number opens with an
illustrated poem by Benjamin f.
Taylor, and there are verses BY A.
r. Macdonough, John Fraser, J. G.
H.. Charlotte F. Bates, and Edward
King. Dr.. Holland, in Topics OF
the Time, writes about q Jules
Verne's New Story" THE Taxation
or Church Property" and Social
sTJsages.'.> The Old Cabinet 10 con-
cerned with Yeracity !" Amateur
: Theatricals are practically discussed
In Home and Society, and the other
departments have theft Characters
tic variety.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-04-01
LITERARY.

The Leonard Scott Publishing
Co.'s reprint of the London Quarter.
n Re0ies0 for January has justreaeh-
ed US, It is rather late this quarter,
bit none the less noticeable on that
account. The epithet "ponderons,
frequently applied by some Quarter
" Reviews, is certainly not fitting
one for this number, which is flied
with articles Of universal interest. i
No less than three biographical
sketches arrest the attention as we
turn over the pages, Winckelmannss
History of Ancient Art has long
Bscn standard authority {; bat few
have known the career of the au-
thor, as given in the pages of this
reyiew-patnfuT in its outset, tragl-
cal at IT'S close. In a review or 1.-The
Personal Recollectioge'7 Of Mrs.
Sonerville, we have the outline of
another life, one of repose and peace,
contrasting strongly with the troub-
led story of the other. The little
Scotch kssfe, whose parents thought
one wears schooling when she was
ten years old would fit her for her
work in life. had a love fOF study
which could not be repressed by the
great discouragements which attend.
ed her early years. 1t has been
well remarked, 1--WE shall never GER
tainly know, although it may be that
hereafter we shall be able to guess,
what Science lost through the all but
utter neglect of TIE unusual powers
OF her mind" No department of
mathematical research was beyond
her powers. It is unnecessary to
xecapitulate Mrs Somerville's works
they are too well known. We
content ourselves with a glimpse at
the writer. "Her head was rather
smaller than those of other women
other moderate height, and the i'm
preston which its form conveyed
was that of extreme delicacy of feel
ing. and elevation of character rather
than Of power. Head, counteDancei
figure, manners, all were IN perfect
harmOny with the gentle int efEigent,
wen-bred lady, who talked so pleas
,antly in society, painted such pretty
pictures, touched the piano with
such taste. and worked such Lovely
embroidery" g
John Stuart Mill is the subject o
smother biographical article, in Wnlct
the 5deyelOpInent Of his mind fs Illus
Jsratsa by reference to the work.
produced at the dfereDt stages o
his career. ~ F sss 1s5
zee Other articles are "SimplifSatfoi
Ecf the Law ''Sacerdotalisan, An
9cient and Modern" treating ON thl
Eaistory and growth of Protestan
confessions, and other ritualistie ch
.sservances Lombard Street. show
ing the importance of the Cash Re
serve of the banking department o
8he Bank of England, as the ulti
mate safety-fund of the English meE
camille system 1.-The Despotism Q
of the Future" of universal interes
in these days when the labor ques
ation is being agitated all over tn
world: prosper Merimee's Lettre
a une Inconnue," which have creates
such an extraordinary sensation i
Paris; Russian Songs and Folk
Tales" illustrating Sclavonic Myth
ology and Russian Social Life; an,
the Difficulties of the Liberal Party.
If we have not dwelt at lengt
upon all the articles in this number
it is because our space fails us
Every one is worth reading.
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