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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-02-08
Mango In Horses.

Acorrespondent of the Chicago Field
gives the following as safe and
speedy cure for mango.
Treatment.-Makea mixture in the
following proportions Train or whale
oil, one and one-half pints oil of tar,
two pints spirits of turpentine, one
half pint common sulphur, one
pound.
Take the horse on the stable floor,
and with a bottle of convenient size IN
one hand, commence at the horse S
ears, determined to saturate every
hair on his body, rubbing it in wen
with the other hand. When there are
scabs on the skin they must be raised
with the finger nail so that he mix
ture may reach their seat. When the
animal has been thoroughly treated,
take his tail in hand. Remove all
throw away al the litter, scrub off the
floor. and dust sulphur from a cloth or
bag all over it. Wash the sides and
manager, and everything the horse has
come in contact with in benzine with
as much turpentine in it as you can
afford Boil the horses clothing and
rub clothes in soap suds. Cleanse the
harness, gfrths, halter, brushes
everything that is used about the
horse or that the groom handles. with
the benzine and turpentine.
If the animals treated are running
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Treatment Of Canary Birds.

saw in your paper of two weeks
go n inquiry how to restore the song
of canary birds. The following has
been my experience. A friend of mine
gave me a bird that had not sung fol
over year. treated it as follows:
Canary birds, as well as all kinds OF
" human birds" must have variety in
their food. l put in one seed cup oat
meal, in another, seed mixed as fol
Iows:- One pound canary and one-hall
pound rape seeds, putting on the TOP
of this seed cup about one dozen hemp
seeds daily, and part of the time leay
ing out the hemp and giving a little
good fresh lettuce seed, say 20 or &c
seeds daily, not too much or it will
make the bird drunk and dumpish.
Hang also in the cage nice piece OF
salt pork as well as good cutie bone.
After treating the bird in this way, for
three or four weeks, procured another
canary. fine free songster. and hung
it in the hearing but out of sight of my
bird, and in a very short time | had as
good a singer as | could wish. He has
sung ever since, through melting and
all. Most people are afraid of getting
their birds in too good condition, but
remember you must not get them fai
on hemp seed for that seed is theil
candy and cake.
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they should be changed to another
field for three weeks, else they will
contract it again from their scratching
places.
One thorough application of the mix
ture is sufficient, which ought to be
made in warm weather; for | should
hesitate about filing a long winter coat
of hair with it.
In cold weather / should clip the
horse before application, and keep him
In an apartment warmed with fire for
three or four days, thereafter, until
the skin and its pores has become ma
tural again.
Treat all afflicted animals in your
stable on the same day, else the groom
will infect cured horse, the second
time, with his hands or some stable
utensil.
If you are vigilant, fully alive to its
infectious character, and spare no
pains, but follow these instructions
closely, you will succeed; but half
comply and you will be cursed with it
as long as your laziness lasts.
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A Sound Life Insurance COMPANY.

From the New York Insurance Chroniee Jan o. 1877
I" Able, prudent and honorable. -
This is the verdict pronounced by the
New York Insurance department upon
the management of the Washington
Life ms. Co., of this city, after care
full and thorough examination, out of
which it comes as gold from the fur
mace. purified and well refined. The
reports of the results of that examina-
ton elsewhere published, will come to
every friend of life insurance as glad
tidings of great joy. Nobody of sense
doubted the abundant solvency of the
Washington but few expected dem.
onstration so complete and satisfactory.
Rightly named was the Washington
Life ms. Co., and right worthily does
IL bear that name which is the synonym
of purity, prudence and everlasting
success.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-02-08

Shoes and Stockings.

According to Harpers Bazaar, ladies
are dressing more sensibly this winter
than they formerly did, and many are
wearing for the first time the beau
tiful wooden stockings that are now
far handsomer than any before i'm
ported. Those of dark navy blue are
most fashionable. These come in the
long English shapes, made of exceed
ingly fine soft merino that takes up but
little more room in the boot than the
favorite Balbriggan. and cost from
Sl.25 to 50 per pair. The same fabric
is shown in seal brown, and in the
fashionable cardinal red. The latter
are warm-looking, and though object
ed to at first by ladies of fine taste
they are being as generally adopted as
Balmoral petticoats, against which
there was such an cutlery at first, but
which are now universally worn.
There arc also heavier ribbed stock
ings of English make, all of fine wool,
sold at $3.50 per pair. Light tints are
also shown as well as the prevailing
dark cOlors, and these are especially
handsome when clicked with darker
shade. Thus among the cashmere
stockings that are part cotton, and
therefore less liable to shrink, are
beautiful pale blue shades clicked with
a dark blue or with cardinal red. There
are also navy blue with red clocks, and
vice versa. Seal brown stockings
clicked with red or blue are very much
liked. Some ladies with grave tastes
object to gay colored hosiery, and still
adhere to the gray, drab, and London
smoke cOlors so long in use, brighten
ing them up perhaps, with clocks of
blue or scarlet. With this warm hos
iery are worn heavy walking-boots of
pebbled goat, with soles half an inch
thick. and the sides buttoned high up
on the ankles. The heels are of me-
dium height, so as tc keep the foot
well up from the ground, but are not
in the slender French shape that is so
uncomfortable to wear, nor yet as low
and dowdy-looking as the English
styles. They cost from IS to So
pair. The reader is reminded that it is
fashionable to wear these thick shoes,
and ladies that persist in wearing the
thin soles that are so ruinous to health
are out of fashion, and look as if they
had not yet prepared their winter
wardrobe.
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How to Live and How to Die.

The Journal of Health says: ''lf g
man wills not to die, he can live in
spite of disease and if he has little OF
no attachment to life he will slip away
as easily as child falls asleep"
Let those of our readers who wish tC
live forever and day." read the first
part of the above paragraph, and take
comfort. All they have to do is tC
hunt up ''will'' and use 1.-THE thing
is done-they will live on, on, without
any end. What glorious opportunity
is thus afforded for horticultural and
agricultural pursuits-for working out
the problems of chemistry as applied
to agriculture, that require years OF
observation and experiment.
Let those who mediate suicide, read
the last part of the above paragraph
and also take comfort and not dream
of taking poison. All they have to dc
is to ascertain that they have no at
tatchment to life. Then they will
'sslip away" Both are as easy as roll
ing off a log, and, when generally
known, will doubtless be regarded as
among the most beautiful discover
les of modern times. They are al
once the realization of the EliXer OF
Life and of Death. To live or not tC
live is no longer a question of any mo
ment
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Mastering Vicious Horses

From the San Francisco Chronicle,
Yesterday afternoon an exhibition
was given at the corner of Ninth and
Howard streets, of a new and simple
method of tanning vicious horses,
which is claimed TO be superior to any
in use. The first trial was with a
kicking or bucking mare which, her
owner says, has allowed no rider
on her back for five years. She
became tame and gentle in as many
minutes, and allowed herself to be
ridden about without sign of her
former wildness. The means by which
this result was accomplished consists
of piece of lightrope, which is passed
around the front jaw of the mare, just
above the upper teeth, crossed in her
mouth, and then secured back of her
neck. 1t is claimed that no horse will
kick or jump when thus secured, and
that bucking horse after receiving
this treatment few times will aban-
don his vicious ways forever. A very
simple method was always shown by
which a kicking horse can be shod.
It consists in connecting the animals
head and tail by means of rope fas-
tened 10 the tail and then to the bit,
and draw tightly enough to incline the
the horses head to one side. 1t is
claimed that it is absolutely impossible
for the horse TO kick on the side of
the rope. At the trial yesterday a
horse which for years had to be bound
on the ground TO be shod, suffered the
blacksmith to operate upon him with
out attempting to kick while secured
in the manner described.
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.Jackin-the-Pulpt." ST. Nicholas for Feb.
Here is fable that has never been
told in print, though it is very popu-
lar in the bee country.
Once upon a time, there was bad
king, and the people wished him to
make certain good law.
"No," said he, Il will not make
that law.-it is too good. 1t will make
peace. Here is the law wish to make
Then all my people will go to war.
The two documents lay in front of
him on the table all written out, and
whichever one he signed would be the
law of the land. He took up a big
Ouill pen. drew the bad law nearer to
him, and dipped the pen in the ink.
Just then, bee began to buzz. 1t
was wise bee. :,
ssZ.z.z.z.z! No zuch Flaw zhall pazz!
buzzed the bee, over and over again;
Int no one noticed him. Zign re oZzer
Ze-oZZer-.Ze oZZer---Ze OZZzer!,
The king would not listen; so the
wise bee lit on his nose and stung him
lust little, still buzGing: 'Sign re
ozzer. re ozzer, re ozzer!''
"Open the window, roared the
king. ..and drive out this bee, or kill
him.
They opened the window. Out flew
the bee, and in rushed the wind. lt
blew very hard. The papers Tapped
and flew across the table. The PAD
king was so mad that he stamped his
foot. seized one of the papers, and
signed it in a rage. There was his
name.-ssKing Blunderbuss. land
nothing could alter it. Then he saw
that in his haste ard rage he had
signed the good law. But he was TOO
proud to own his mistake.
The bee hurried to the garden and
whispered to the honeysuckles:
"Zome of your beet, ---Zome or your
beet! Zhe good law is zigned, and all
zhall be peaze and happinezz! :.
So the honeysuckles gave him all
their best honey, and the people out
side of the kings palace built great
bonfires and shouted with JOY:
"Long live the kingl Long 1--we the
good King Blunderbuss! :.
..Ohor' said the king to himself,
when he heard this; ''that is the best
sound have heard for many year.
"And after that, he was AFRAID 10
give way to anger, for fear he might
SIGN a bad law by mistake. The bee
did not have to light on hisnose again
The king made only good laws and to
the end of his days his people shouted;
"Long live the king!
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During the prevalence of Diphtheria
every remedy however simple or like
ly to be efiicacions, is sought with
with eagerness by the masses, and we
cannot blame them so long as many of
our physicians of good standing in the
community seem to be utterly power
less in staying this fearful disease,
consequently we give the following
remedies which lately appeared in the
Western Farm Journal, hoping that
they may prove to be of value, should
any one of our readers be so unfortu-
nate as to have occasion to use them.
A small quantity of either sulphate
of iron, tannin, or chlorate of potash,
put dry upon the tongue, and allowed
to dissolve there, once in every hour,
have all been found to be most efficient
remedies in the early stages of diphthe-
ria. This terrible disease appears
under three varieties or forms First.
there is fever, severe pain in the
back, bones and limbs. and a very great
prostration. There may be no sore
mess of the throat, but on examining
it, small white specks will be noticed
on the tonsils, but few or none on the
rest of the throat. These cases will
recover under any and every variety
of treatment in four to six days. The
great, but false, reputation of many
remedies and physicians is based upon
the necessarily favorable results of
these cases. Second. Large patches
of false membrane will be observed
both on the tonsils and back of the
throat but the glands of the neck do
not become swollen.
The majority OF these cases will also
recover, under very simple treatment,
unless the disease extends down to the
.windpipe, which it rarely does.
Third. True malignant diphtheria,
with swelling of the glands of the
neck and under the jaw; profuse and
often offensive exudations in the
mouth and throat; more or less dis.
charge from the nostrils. Chlorate of
potash is disinfectant as well as
curative remedy, and if given pure
and dry upon the tongue every hour,
night and day, will rarely disappoint
the practitioner. a small dose every
night may act as preventive remedy.
Sometimes tannin may be given more
readily than the chlorate of potash.
The sulphate of iron is rather more ir-
ritant, and must be given in smaller
quantities. The main points in the
use of these remedies are to give them
dry upon the tongue, and frequently
and regularly both night and day.
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Feeding Straw 20 Horses and Cows.

" AMERICO-GERMo" says that he
saves SIS per ton, by feeding his horses
on sedge, with 400 pounds of linseed
meal, at cost of $12; and also by
feeding his COWS straw, with the same
quantity of linseed meal per ton-that
is, he saves this money by not feeding
good hay with no linseed meal.
Let us look into this subject little
and see if farmers can really make
money by following his system of feed
ing. What is the cash cost of a
ton of "red top, timothy, or clover
hay" to the farmer who grows it-an
average cost in the entire Northern and
Middle States! The selling prices,
during the last ten years, for these
kinds of hay have averaged, in the
rural districts, about SIS per ton for
red top and timothy, and So for clover.
But farmers, in estimating the expense
of feeding hay to stock, should rate it
at what it is worth in their barns-not
what it will sell for ten or twenty
miles away; and, consequently, the
cost or value of every ton of good hay
fed out will not average. throughout
the Northern and Middle States, over
about twelve dollars per ton.
Now, what is the average value of a
ton of good rye or wheat straw in bun
dies Not much less than that of
good hay. 1t is worth in some places
$50 per ton, for making paper and SO
or SIS per ton in all cities or large
towns, at the livery stables. Then
comes up the fact that straw which
was perfectly dry when the grain was
Icut contains no nutrition and, of it.
self, has no more value as food than a
Isawdust pudding has when served up
for a man S dinner and | contend that
there would be quite as much wisdom
in saying that the expense of feeding
a family can be greatly reduced by
making a pudding, daily, composed of
sawdust as basis, with eggs, milk and
sugar, las to claim that farmer can save
money by feeding his stock straw, with
an addition of something to render it
eatable. Sometimes oats are cut in a
somewhat green state, and the straw
in such cases is good to feed to young
stock as part of their food; but the
bleached and sunburnt rye and wheat
straw, as usually found in farmers
barns, is of no value as food for cattle.
What would be the benefit of paying
SO for 400 pounds of linseed meal to
feed with ton of straw, worth fully
as much as the meal, making $24, when
a ton of good hay, costing only So,
would, even according to "Americo-
Germo's," admission, be equally nu-
tritioGs, and, as | claim, good deal
more so.
| do not discus the question in re-
gard to feeding ''sedge," as that arti-
Gle exists in but few places in COM
parison with other grasses.
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A Word of Joy.

From the Hon James Ross. Grand Lecturer Of I. o. G
I. Of Wisconsin.
From feeling of gratitude, / take
great pleasure in giving testimony to the Ell
cacy Of Hale's Cough Cordial in easily curing
a persistent cough. For month while en-
gagged nightly in public speaking, | had suit
tered with an annoying cough which stub
bornlv resisted the various cough remedies
that had taken. Through the advice OF
friends fortunately gave Hale's Cough Cor
dial trial, when my coughing cased at once,
and the following day it had dore its work
complete and elt AL right. The first dose
went directly to the cold spot in my lungs,
and in the midst OF a general warmth and
perspiration the stubborn cough seemed to
dissolve. In gratitude and esteem, | am
Yours truly, JAMES Ross.
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1t is now generally admitted by honest ply
sicians, that when once the consumption is
fairly fastened upon the lungs, no human
power can save the patient from death. They
also say that about fifty per cent OF those who
die from this disease can trace the cause to a
neglected cough or cold, which might have
been cured by small bottle Of Liquid Opo-
deldoc, or what is the same thing, Jvhnson's
Anodyne Lniment
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An Extended Popularity.

Each year finds "BROwE's BRONCHIAL
TRocHEs" in new localities in various parts of
the world. For relieving Coughs, Colds and
Throat Diseases, the Troches have been proved
reliable. Obtain only 'BRowN's BRONCHIAL
TRoCHEs," and do not take any OF the worth
Less limitations that may be offered. Sold
everywhere.
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The Mystery of Dreams.

A man fell asleep as the clock tolled
the first stroke OF twelve. He awaken
ed ere the echo of the twelfth stroke
had died away, having in the interval
dreamed that he had committed a
crime. was detected after five years,
tried and condemned ; the shock of
finding the halter around his neck
aroused him to consciousness, when
he discovered that all these events lad
happened in an infinitesimal fragment
of time. Mohammed, wishing to illus
trate the wonders of sleep, told how a
certain man, being a sheik, found him.
self, on account of his pride made a
poor fisherman that he lived as ole
for sixty years, bringing up family
and working hard, and how, upon
waking up from his long dream, SO
short a time had he been asleep that
the narrow-necked gourd bottle, filed
with water, which he knew he had
overturned as he fell asleep, had not
had time to empty itself. How fast the
soul travels when the body is asleep
Often when we awake we shrink from
going back into, the dull routine of sor
did existence, regretting the pleasant
er life of dreamland How is il that
sometimes when we go 10 strange
place we fancy that we have SCENT be-
forel Is ii possible that when one
has been asleep the soul has floated
away, seen the place. and has that
memory of it which so SUI prises US !
In a word, how far dual is the life of
man, how far nc.
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DR.. WalcOtt has we'll said that the turnpike
road to peoples hearts lies through their
mouths and this accounts for the immense
popularity of the Greenman House, corner St.
Peter and Fifth streets, St Paul, and lis ac-
commodating proprietor, john Baugh. Irav-
elers should not fail to give him call.
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Is there one reader OF this paper suffering
from rheumatism Ii Sc, write to Helphen-
slime & Bentley, Druggists, Washington, ID.
c., for a circu ar OF Durang's Rheumatic Rem
ady. This medicine is taken internally, AID
will positively cure any case OF rheumatism
on the face of the green earth. Price, one
dollar a bottle.
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dis country is gwine to HI as fast as
it kin J Use been up and down the
alley, aad stole all the wood | could
find, ami in the present demoralized
condition of society, / can't do no
better
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A graphic idea of the demoralized
condition of society in South Carolina
was furnished to Congressman Abbott
at Charleston, S. c., the other day.
An old darkey, was trying to build a
fire in his room, was so slow that the
Judge asked what the matter was.
The reply was prompt and comprhen-
sive: ..Fact is, Judge, that dar IS no
coal down stairs. It's no use talking,