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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-10
GOING TO HEAVEN BAREFooTED

During the pioneer days Of Iona, the
town had an editor who was patient and
long suffering. Some Of the members OF
the church got him to gige twenty dol.
lars toward securing a minister; then
they wanted five dellars for the heather
then they wanted their religious notices
inserted free; then he was asked for
twenty five dollars toward helping to
build a parsonage, and he finally found
he was giving the church more than he
gave his family. lie nevertheless 'hung
on for a time longer, or until one evening
he went to prayer meeting and was asked
to leave his office for a week, and go and
help, and clear the grounds for camp
meeting That was the last straw, and
he rose up and said
Gentlemen, I'd like to go to heaven.
/ know you all. You are clever and
obliging, and kind and tender, and il
would be nice for all Of US, as a congre.
cation, 10 90 together, but I've concluded
to leave you, and dodge in along
with somebody from Detroit, Grand Rap.
ids or Lapeer. It's money, money,
money, all the time, and if my wife
should die she d have TO 60 to heaven
barefOoted."
The congregation seemed to realize that
free horse was being rode to death.
They let uD on the editor and pacified
him. lie even had special tent assign
ed him at the camp meeting, and all was
we'll
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-10
4 SIMPLE DsINFEcTANT.

One pound Of green copperas, costing
seven cents, dissolved in one quart Of
water and poured down n water.eloset,
will ehectually concentrate and destroy
the foulest smells. On board ships aud
steamboats,, about hotels and other pub.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-10
POETRY.
THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
BY II. II.

BY II. II.
II may be small and poor and lowly, yet
We love it alw tys memory may fill
Her chambers full !, and time and care may chill
Our hearts, yet stands the dear old homestead
set
In picture that we never can forget
At sudden thought Of it our eyes will fill;
When we are old, we journey 10 il still
Though strangers live in it, our loving debt
We pay the same.
think il is like this
That saints In Heaven, though no JOY they mss,
look back upon the little planet earth
And come, upon our bright and sunny DAYS.
Swift winged angels, flying down to gaze
On this old homeatead, where they had their
birth
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-10

Strawberry Shortcake.- With one
quart Of site flour mis- thoroughly two
teaspoonluls Of cream.tartar and one u
soda. or the equivalent to these IN baking
powder, rub IN bit Of butter the size Of
an egg, little salt, and sweet milk
enough to form soft dough roll hall an
inch thick and bake IN shallow pan Is
or 20 minutes; have ready two quarts oI
fine fresh strawberries: split the cake,
place half the strawberries between and
cover thickly with white sugar and cream
put the other half on the top and cover
the same way serve soon as done.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-10
coLoRING FOR WEARING FABRICS.

The fact that a number of cases have
occurred in which colored wooden garments,
worn next the skin, have produced pc.
culiar kind of poisoning, has been much
discussed by the German press. 1t APP
pears that violet gray wooden stockings,
after having been worn less than SIN
hours, caused redness Of the skin and
permanent pustules, in connection with
feverish symptoms and constipation.
The same results followed after the stock
ings had been treated with boiling water.
Similar symptoms were produced by gray
WOODEN shirts next the skin, and by the
red binding of others. The opinion of
DIR. Hagar, Of Berlin, is that the analine
colors are, as rule, poisonous in their
action upon the skin, as, he asserts, has
also been established in regard to coral.
inc. He recommends, therefore, that
wooden garments colored with analine
dyes should not be worn next the skin,
and suggests, as a test, that portion OF
the wool be heated to boiling in test
tube, with 90 per cent. Of alcohol, and il
the latter acquires red, violet, or violet
blue tint, the colorlng matter is suspic-
iOus
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-10
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Every housewife thinks she can cook
"greens." 1t is the simplest of all dish
es, AMI yet, in most cases, they are not
well served, for much depends upon the
manner in which they are boiled. The
water should be soft, and tablespoonful
of salt added to a large-sized pot
of It, which should be boiling hot
when the greens are thrown in
and then it should be kept on
the boiling gallop, but uncovered, until
they are done, which can be told by their
sinking to the bottom of the pot, and they
should be skinned out as quickly as pos.
sible into cullender, so that all the wa
ter will run out. Press them with small
plate, then turn upon platter, add a
large piece of butter, and cut up fine
Serve while smoking hot.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-10

lordship's ear. "0h not at an" said
Erskine. 81 have not been listening"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-10

A loquacious blockhe after babbling
some time to Lord Erskine, said that he
was afraid that he was obtruding on his
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-10

The Lafayette (Ind.) Journal of the
9th inst. says: "Cale Scudder's black
horse, the mate to the one that died sew.
eral months ago, is said to be actually
dying from grief at the loss of his assoc
ciate. The animal has been for some time
on pasture at Corey's farm, south Of the
city. Its appetite seems to be good,
though it eats little, and seems TO be con.
tinually wasting away in flesh. 1t will
have nothing whatever to do with other
horses in the pasture, and seems to be
continually on the outlook for another.
In addition, it, every few moments, day
and night, whinnies, as it used to do
when The other horse was alive and the
two were separated for time. Mr..
Scudder proposes bringing the horse back
to the city, in the hope Of curing it of
what canno. be otherwise than genuine
case of heartbreak at the loss Of mate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-10

A sad incident occurred at clam bake
Of pilots on Long Island Sound, the I'd
inst. Among the party was Signoi
Vianni said to be of the suite of Count
Corte, the Italian Minister. While the
festivities were in progress yianni was in
duced to give a recitation in imitation Of
Rlstori. lie went through the recitation
with great feeling, finishing with the ex
clamation in Italian: "God who Judges
all will judge this. and then placing q
pistol at his head shot
himself dead. AT first the
spectators thought the act part of the
recitation. but when the truth was knowr
that Niann' had really taken his own life
the greatest excitement prevailed. NJ
cause ii assigned for the act.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-10

lie places, there is nothing so nice to pu.
riiy the. air. Simple green copperas, dis
solved in anything under the bed,
will render hospital or other
places for the sick, free from
unpleasant smells. In fish markets,
slaughter houses, sinks, and wherever
there are offensive gases, Dissolve copperas
and sprinkle about, and in few days the
smell will pass away. If cat, rat or
mouse dies about the house and sends on
offensive gas, place some dissolved cop.
peras III an open vessel near the place
where the nuisance is, and it will purify
the air. Then keep clean.
1t seems strange that marble.top tables
should be considered unhealthy. The
Herald of Health says of them They
are cold and rapidly absorb the heat and
vitality Of che body, robbing it of its life.
We have heard of one invalid, whom the
doctor could not cure till one day he no.
tlced that she used a marble stand, and
suspected it had something to do with
her i'll health. So he forbade her touch.
ing it. Soon she was cured We know
healthy people who feel the twinges OF pain
in the shoulder by sitting near one. They
are handsome but unhealthyifor all that.
To Extinguish Kerosene Flames. - One
OF the most ready means is to throw
cloth OF some kind over the flames, and
thus stifle them; but as the cloth is not
always convenient to the kitchen, where
such accidents are most likely TO occur,
some one recommends flour as substi.
tute, which, it is said, promptly OK.
tinguishes the flames. 1t rapidly absords
the fluid, and deadens the flames, and
can be readily gathered up and thrown
out OF doors when the fire is extinguished.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1875-09-10

Qho con per day at home. Terms Free Address
VJEVdU q. STISsoN & Co., Portland. Maine.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12
ROCKVILLE MARYLAND. FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH r. 1875.
LONGING IN


! would were an unblown rose
Close shut 10 leaves OF green
So shut that none had ever guessed
The color hidden in its breast
The blush Of pink between.
Then when your face but turned my way
AS now, the crnmpled sheen
OF crimson bid SO safe away
Would stir the livelong summer day
Within, unheard, unseen;
But, when your footsteps nearer drew,
Would hurst the green apart,
And petals glowing In the sun
Would chronicle to every Que
The new life at my heart.
And tally sweet Of all the Leagues
You passed Of sea or shore
The casping calyx still should hold,
For every one. there would unfold
One velvet pelnl more,
SO when at last, no space between,
Your own from stem you broke,
And in yonr hand my perfect grace
Perchanced yon lifted 10 your face,
Although no word you spoke.
All, then, indeed the petals all
Down on the dewy sward might fall
Before you as you went;
Aud If perchaace yonr eager feet
Might find for them the way more sweet,
Then were all content
For so methinks the ono lost word
That mocks my various quest
Might uttered be, though never heard,
And that were rest.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12

Gracious hcayings p said Mr.. Mar
rowfat to hor "doycy," the other evening,
lido tell me. Miltiades, what does Beech
er mean by "a paroxysmal kiss" "Why,
lovey Z said Mr.. Marrowfut, stroling
his Dundreary beard with a Boston ex-
preston on his countenance, "a paroxys-
NAL kiss, the kind that Becchcr seems
to have introduced into bis church, is n
kiss buttered an inch thick with soul
sass IA sort Of combination ofamorous
applejack Jerusalem jelly and HoIyland
honey $ nice, they say, loyey" Mrs.
Marrowfat was astonished into silence for
the next half hour, Miltiades IN the mean
time putting on his hat and leaving.
''for little while, to see d man"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12


SEAsoaABLE ADVICE -Getting up in
cold room to make fire is like getting
up in lie. II you crawl timidIy out
Of bed, go on tiptoe to the stove, and
allow the shivers to get control Of you
before the kindlipg starts, your fire will
probably be q failure, aud you will half
freeze to death in the operation But if
you jump out bravely. hustle around,
pull on your clothes, knock over chair
Or two. and pitch in the stove- wood you
viii probably be too warm by the time
the fire gets to burning, and have to
open window. So IN life. Attack
T it tinidly, and you will fail. Grapple
with it, hurry up things, stir around,
conquer fortune, and you will be sue
cess
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12

A correspondent of the Chicago Tri-
bune enters protest against the practice
Of sbampooing. He says: ut is well
enough for people Of this country 10 un-
dcrstand once for all, that the reason
why there are so many bald-headcd
young men nowadays y the universal
custom that prevails Of sbanpooing
the bead with stimulating washes. The
wonder is that there are any men left
who have full suits Of hair. The GUS
tom should be discontinued at once. and
young men should be warned 10 season
against this most pcrnicious pratice
Let shampooing cease from this time
forward"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12

Many years ago when David Crockett
was member of Congress, and had re-
turned to bis constituents after bis first
session, a nation of them surrounded
him one day and began to interrogate
him about Washington What time
do they dine there, Colonel r. asked one.
Why" said he, common people,
such as you here, get their dinners at ono
o'clock, but the gentry and big ones dine
at three. AS for the representatives.
We dine at four, and the aristocraey and
the Senate, they don't get their yictuals
till iye.p Well. when does the Prcsi-
dent fodder r. asked another Why
exclaimed the colonel, attempting to APP
point time in accordance with the dig
pity Of the station, Why, he don't dine
till the next day
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12

Three sisters Of Dubuque are so set
in their temperance principles, that they
make the bred girl smell the breath Of
every gentleman caller and report the re-
suit before admittance TO the parlor can
be obtained.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12

A boy stood with his hands in his
pockets one cold morning watching the
burning Of his school house, and after
the novelty Of the thing ccascd. be ran
home saying: I'm glad the old thing is
burned down. for didn't get my jogra-
fy lesson no how.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12

When boy is sitting on the sunny
side Of a barn, waiting for his father to
come out and lick" him. you might talk
astronomy to him for four straight hours
and not excite his interest.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12

A lady WANTS to know what is the
meaning Of "ante" and pass the buck. "
Her matrimonial companion uses it in
his dreams, and she is afraid it indicates
typhoid fever.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12

FGArrEaY-- Nothing is SO great an
instance Of iIl-manners as hattery If
you hatter all the company, you please
none; IL you fattcr only.one or two,
you affront the rest.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12

Have you any eggs?y inquired q
peaceful-looking old man, as he leaned
over the counter of a hardware store yes
tcrday. "No, sir; this is hardware
store we keep nails, stoves, &c an-
'swered the clerk "Well, / did want
some eggs drawled ont the old man.
'.but | hain't particular, and you may
give me d pound Of nails.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12

A wife's secret-her opinion of her
husband
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12

Best engineering building bridge
Of faith over the river Of death.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12
BUILDING & REPAIRING

A LII KINDS Of Building and Repairing
IA promptly attended to by FRANK Ca
TOR, Rockville, nd FURNITURE Of al
kinds neatly repaired. Those in want Of q
practical workman are requested 10 give hin
a call.
Na- Prices to suit the times. [nov 10
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12
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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12
Loneliness Of the Ocean.


One who has never travelled upon the
ocean expects to fnd it somewhat
thickly populated. He thinks Of tho
vast travel and traffic that goes over the
waters, and he is ready to imagine that
the great deep is alive with this hurry
ing to and fro Of nations. He reads Of
lands whose commerce whitens every
sea, and he is ready to think that the
ocean itself il as full Of sails as the har-
Dor Of some mighty metropolis. But he
finds his mistake AS be leaves the
land the ships begin to disappear; as
he goes on his way they soon all vanish,
and there is nothing about him but the
blue sea and the Blended sky. Some
times he may meet or ovcrtake soli-
tary ship through the day; but then,
again, there will be many days when
not single sail will cross the ocean.
There are spaces measured BY thousands
of miles, over which no ship has ever
passed The idea ola nations commerce.
whitening every sea is the widest
fancy If all the ships that ever have
been built were brought together in a
single feet they would fill but bands
breadth Of the ocean. The space, there
fore, that man and his works occupy on
the sea is sofsmall in its extent that the
hold on it by his power is slight and
superficial Both togetherare as nothing
The ocean covers three -fourths Of the
surface Of the globe; and by far the
greater portion Of this vast expanse il.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12

A rare fIowor-the pink Of pOliteness.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-06-25

room, on the second morning-a little pale,
bntwith glad and thankful hearts. and hap
py though fearful faces. Andrew wore a
look az pure and innocent as he had carried
away and, when he talked of his next voy-
age, his mother subdued her shudderine
terror, feeling that lie who had rescued him
from the peril OF the seas, was able to pro-
tect him still. In all this fair broad land.
there could have been no more happiness
than on that morning, in the old red farm
house
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-06-25
PIIANTASYs DEATE-LOvJ


Where'er ] roam, by hill or stream
There reigns sweet Phantasy;
And / behold, as in a dream, i
My love steal silently.
As lovely as when lovcliest
She glided in the dance,
Yhe peeress of the hour confessed,
Admired by every glance,
Her face shines sweeter than in lifa,
Her brow is more serene;
For she is sinless of the strife
OF souls, that mars earth's scene.
Her step is lighter; though on earth.
None pressed more airy light,
By sickness bed, in halls of mirth,
Mid sorrow or delight.
Her form in Beauty's perfect mold,
The same that glowed with health
Oft meets me on the ver,lant world
AS ii it came by stealth.
And always, in whatever place,
/ must be quite alone,
III woU.d find her phantom form
Beside or near my own.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-06-25
NUMBER %.

beautiful and enchanting scene. 1t ap-
peared like some fairy grotto, such as we
read of, or like a fairy transformation scene
as witnessed IN theatre. Everything was
green the ground, the sides, the roof, the
air-and felt little green myself in
such place.
The next and greatest place of interest
is the cave in which Crusoe lived while on
the island. 1t is only few hundred feet
from the beach, in the side of one of sever
al mountains separating the valley which
it is in from the valley in which the other
caves are, facing the anchorage. To reach
the cave from the anchorage by land is
next to impossible, on account of the steep-
ness and wildness of the intervening mour-
talns, but by taking boat pull of a mile
and half or two miles, around a nroiec:-
ing mountain, will bring one to the foot of
the valley in which the cave lies. As Just
stated, it is only a few hundred feet from
the beach, in a mountaia side, facing the
west. The mouth of the cave is irregular
IN shape, forming aH imperfect triangle.
1t is about twenty-five feet wide at the
base and twenty feet high az the apex, the
depth being twelve feet. From tie en-
trance the sides and ceiling slope downward
toward the rear. The interior is rough,
as If the cave was cut out by a pickaxe or
similar instrument, making no pretensions
to shape or evenness. 4 few places were
dug out in the sides for keeping his house
hold articles, but these, like the cave, were
empty. The only articles TO be seen were
few nails in one wall, and a small hatchet
hung up in a corner, evidently placed
there by some later occupant The en-
trance had once been closed with rustic
work of branches filed in with mud, this
is now all gone except q small piece in a
lower coroner that looked as if newly re-
paired. And this rude cavity was the lone
ly, cheerless habitation of Robinson Crusoe
for more than four years
The highest mountain in the vicinity is
called Selkirk's Lookout. Near the sum-
init of this lookout, in cief separating i.
from another mountain, is a tablet, the
copy of which, herewith presented, explains
itself The tablet is of cast-iron, twenty
by thirty inches, and half an inch thick,
placed in the side of a rock. Such is the
monument that marks the resting place of
Alexander Selkirk, or Robinson Crusoe.
Dying in the English naval service, his re-
mains were conveyed in man-of-war to
the island which he had made famous and
interesting by his solitary, almost mythical
residence upon. And in that far-away un-
frequented spot, away up the mountain
side which he so often ascended in life,
"Watchins for a sail;
No sail from day to day."
with the wild birds for its watchers and
the south wind for its p,aintive mouner,
lies the body of man, the record of whose
life, or at least four years of it, has prob
ably found a greater number of interested
readers than that of any other man the
world has ever soen.-HearM and Home
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-06-25

THE MOVING SEAsoN.-The moving sea-
son having closed, and the things put to
rights, the woman of the house has the
woman of the next house in to show her
the rooms.
1T must have beer an awful job to
have got all those carpets down, and cur
tains up" says the visitor. Il don't see
how you ever did it alone"
at was pretty good job modestly
admits the housekeeper, with her face
shining with satisfaction.
al should say it was" responds the
visitor; with emphasis. Don't you feel
completely worn out ?''
go, don't know is the artless reply.
'It was hard work to be sure, without a
woman but then they are often more of a
bother to watch and look after than doing
all the work yourself. Aud as for George,
he is so awkward and grumbles so much
man-like--that l might as well do it all
myself. And SO l told him l should try
this time to get along alone. And l don't
know as feel bit more, or even as tired,
as when l had help"
george is her husband, OF course. Ever
since the moving he has employed pretty
much all of his waking time in trying to
find position he can remain in for five
minutes without suffering pain. He has
worn the skin from his knees and hands in
making carpet stretch three inches
farther than the manufacturer intended it
should he has got thumb which will
never again look as it has done, owing to
the appalling eccen:ricity of the family
hammer; and not single joint in his
whole body fits squarely i'm its socket.
Even at the very moment his wife is in
geniously summing herself in the amazed
admiration of neighboring women, the
miserable wretch is wondering if he will
be able to sit on a chair as he used to.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1875-06-25

Only that there i to De storm some day.
Women are 50 foolish, you know
Mary was soon restored. She had no fire
lady nerves, but sometimes her deep and
tender feelings betrayed her. She woke to
see the sun she had hailed so gladly, sinking
down into great black western cloud. II
seemed like pail, and beneath it was her
son