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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01
THE WEEKS WORK
Selected From Every Source.
WASHINGTON.

SENATOR MATT. CARPENTER has been
employed by the great lottery company
of Louisiana to resist the enforcement of
the recent rulings of the pestoffice de-
partment, says telegram of Dec. 22nd.
SAYS a telegram of Dec. 22nd, there
are 81, 1913 widows On the pension-rolls,
the survivors of the soldiers of 1912.
They are ali over 81 years of age.
THIRTEEN cases of small pox were re-
ported in Washington Dec. 26th. The
national board of health took steps to-
ward thorough stamping out of the
plague.
FRANK HOLToN, of the Burlington
Hatokeye, has been appointed postmaster
of Burlington, says a telegram of Dec.
22d, his commission to take effect upon
the expiration of the present incumbent's
term of office.
QUITE party will accompany Gen.
Grant on his trip south, including Lieut..
Gen. Sheridan and Mrs. Sheridan, Col.
Fred Grant and wife, and several other
ladies and gentlemen, says a telegram OF
Dec. 25th.
SECRETARY SHERMAN announced Dec.
26th that from such consultations as he
bad had with New York bankers and
others he believed it would be impossible
TO refund the great amount of 5's and 6's
due in the next two years at less rate
than four per cent.
a WASHINGTON telegram of Dec. 22d
gives the following official information
of the British policy to suppress Amer
lean traffic with the colonies: The sub
stitution of American hardware for Eng
lsh in Australia and other markets is
having a serious effect on the Sheffield
trade At Zanzibar the American trade
is increasing, but the great drawback is
the difficult transmission of funds to the
United States III return for goods. ABOUT
one-half of the exports to the United
States go in British vessels via London.
SPEAKING of the proposed negotiations
for a commercial treaty between the Uni
ted States and Roumania,' a Washington
telegram Of Dec. 25th says it is ascer-
tanned that Secretary Evarts has instruct
ed Minister Kasson to take notice OF the
letter filed at the state department by
Simeon Wolf in behalf the board OF
delegates Of American Israelites protest
ing against any recognition of the Rou-
m ,nian government until il complies
with the provisions of the Berlin treaty,
guaranteeing not only civil but religious
liberty to all ITS subjects. Minister Kas-
son is instructed to act in accordance
with the reuuests of this letter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

The count de Grimbergen, one of the
wealthiest noblemen of Belgium, who
died recently, had to invoke the inter
vention o. the authorities to be disem-
barrased of relations who wanted to
compel him to die with the rites of re-
ligIon. The fortune left by him is es-
timated AZ about "a, 100000 Among his
legacies is one of 100000 for the con-
struction of a seaside residence for the
children of the public schools.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

yolved in the variations of the count
from the returns. Nothing would give
me greater pleasure than an aEthori-
tatiye opinion upon points involved in
the condition of affairs, and in such as
might-be likely to arise. Please to in
dictate points that occur to you which
have not already been adjudicated up
on, and doubt not that we may be
able to secure satisfactory
solution of the doubtful complications
or if not satisfactory, at least such as
may be deemed authoritive. The
fact to which you allude, that so large
a number of republican members elect
fail TO receive certificates, is due to the
fact that so many municipal officers
failed to comply with the constitutional
requirement, and this, by judicial de-
cislon, the governor and council have
no authority to overlook. This con
dition of affairs is no fault of the gov
ernor and council.
Respectfully, yours.
ALoNZo GARCELoN.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01
The Ebb of the Chinese.

The Chinese in California have be-
gun to go. The steamer that sailed
from San Francisco for Hong Kong on
the 10Th, took 901 of them to their ma
tive land. The port statistics of San
Francisco show that the arrivals oil
Chinese during the year ending Nov
l, were 6,12S, and departures 8,746-oI
whom 6,229 went to China, and 2,517
to Honolulu-the excess OF departures
over arrivals being 618. 1t is estimat-
ed that there are $1,000 Chinese on the
Pacific coast, which shows that this
population is decreasing instead of in
creasing, for when the anti-Chinese ag.
itation was begun, few years sgo, the
estimate was 100000. The total num-
Der of Chinese arrivals for the twenty
years ending December, 1873, was ESQ.,
430, and the departures and deaths
233 491 AT thls rate the Chinese
cheap labor will soon be unknown in
California
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

THREE men now living, says The Gin
cinnati Israe'ite, have lived through
the whole chapter of modern Jewish
history, and have been actively engsg-
ed in making it. Two years before the
death OF Moses Mendelssohn, Montetiore
was born, 1854. Ten years later DR..
Zenz, of Berlin, was born, who laid the
foundation to 1.-THE German Jewish liter
allure. Two years later Adolph Crem.
ieGx was born. AT their next birthdays
these patriarchs will count-Monteflore
96 years: Zunz, Sc years, and Cremieux
ST years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

SOMEBODY who knows how things are
managed gives The Neto England Journal
Of Education the following glimpse into
the management of the New England
school district. Nov, when I'm COM
mitteemar, yer see, l jest put my
Melita inter our school, an when my
neighbor Cuttin' has it he puts IN his
Mary Ann, an when it's Fishers turn
his niece, Sarah Jane Clark gifts the
chance. None on 'em amt no great
shakes er scholars, tew to be sure, bu
they manage to keep the young ones
inside the old school-house."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

VICToR HUGO is said to know little or
nothing of America. Although for ten
years resident of the island of Guern-
sey in the British channel, he under
stands hardly a word of English. When
the name of Ralph Waldo Emerson
was mentioned to him, he looked puz-
zled. emf. Emerson" said he, giving
a French accent to the name. "Who
is he? Inever heard of him."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

THERE is child at Richland Station,
n. Y, years old, that looks like baby
of six to ten months, being stunted of
growth, and somewhat malformed. She
is a spiritual medium, so the mother
says, and has a hard time with the splr-
its. Visitors pay twenty-five cents for
admission to seances. The little ones
hands are placed on stand, from which
come sounds like the tapping of a light
hammer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

II is widely rumored that a great
change in the gunnery system Of Eng
land impending. The select commit
tee, which has long been exam ming the
subject, Is about to report, and, it is be-
lieved, will recommend the adoption Of
some breech-loading system which will
practically render obsolete all Inc great
store Of guns now on service or await
ing issue. The increasing thickness OF
armor for iron-clads necessitates an
economy in gun-deck room, which will
leave no room for loading at tae muz-
zIe. The present muzzle-loadiAg guns
are likely to find their usefulness in
shore batteries, etc, but for vessels. their
DAYS are apparently nnmbered.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01
The Groat Volcano Of Java.

In recent book on Australasia, by
A. f. Wallace, DR.. Households inter
esting account of the Tenger Mountain,
the great volcano of Java, is quoted ut
some length in the account Of that Is
land. The crater of the mountain is
said to exceed. perhaps, in size every
other on the globe" yet it is only four
miles and a half in larger diameter and
three and bali IN smaller, while the
great crater Of Haleahala, 10 the Sand
wich Islands, really the largest in the
world. ii is twice as big, measuring over
twenty miles in circumference. Curl
ously enough, no mention whatever is
made ia tie book Of this wonderful
crater nor of the island osMaui, in
which it occurs, in the very meager ac-
count of the Sandwich IslanGsin the
part Of the work which treats Of Poly
neSIa.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

A TALL old gentleman of large frame
crowned with fiaxen hair, visits the New
York Tribune counting-room now and
then, with Jersey mud upon his boots.
and asks if there Is not enough money
on hand to allow him q little as a stock
holder. "When Horace Greeley was
alive" he said once, used 70 get
enough from my dividends to support
me. am getting TOO old now 10 work,
and l need tie money. own one
share of the stock, which my son paid
$1,000 for. He gave it to me to live
of OF as long as l lived" Who was
your SOM Theodore Tilton."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

AN imperial policy costs money the
world over. 1t is costing Great Britain
in increased military expenditure So
100000 a month. The price of empire
in Germany is as heavy, although differ
emily expressed. The average number
of tramps in each work-house in 1871
was $50; now it is $50. In 1875 one
person in 1S4 OF the population of Ber-
lin was a pauper; now one in'74.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

The bumblebee, it is said, gives two
very distinct sounds. And we therefore
advise all our readers to discourage all
advances on the part OF this insect.
There is none like him, though he
humble bee. The hornet, wasp, and
others in tn, singing business are con-
tent with one sound, but that sound
strikes the carmine springs every time.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01
We Needle of 0Iden Times.
Troy Times.

The islanders of the South Sea, even
to the present day, use needles made of
fish bones. The ancient Britons, when
first visited by the Romans, used the
small bones of animals, as we'll as fish
bones, for such purpose; and for sewing
garments Of skin and leather the sinews
of animals were used, as they still are
by the Laplanders. Leather and quill
embroidery are said to be the Oldest
kinds OF needlework, and are still exc
cuted by the Chinese and Indians.
Fine needlework was highly valued by
the Phrygians. Attalus, their king, is
said to nave invented embroidery with
thread or silk. Needles of bronze were
used in Egypt, and also by the Greeks
and Romans, and have been found in
Herculaneum, which was destroyed by
an eruption Of Mount Vesuvius, 10 A. ID.
Penelope, the wife of Ulysses, who lived
900 years before the Christian era,
proves TO us that knitting needles were
used at that time.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

SCORES of thousands of camels are
killed by over exertion and starvation
in every campaign in India, and mill
tary critics claim that the future of
Europe in Central Asia depends upon
the ability of engineers to lay down
slow, cheap steam railways which can
carry their own creek bridges with them
and transport food and ammunition in
time of war.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

"WHERE is our American navy p
shrieks an exchange. eff this excited
editor says the Norristo1ra Herald, sis
laboring under the impression that it is
concealed ia this town he Is mistaken.
We haven't seen anything of the Amer
icar navy, and we are in the vicinity of
the Schuylkill canal good deal, too.
If the navy is lost the price of it should
be deducted from secretary Thompson's
salary. We told him six months ago
that If he did not pat bells on the
necks of our steam rams the entire
navy would wander away and lose itself.
He said he could get up another one
just as good inside Of two weeks, and
now let us see him do it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

SOME time ago, medical man in ex-
tensive practice sued the London and
Southwestern railroad for compensation
for injury, and obtained $4,000. Sub
sequently he renewed the suit on the
plea of inadequate compensation, and
ne has Just received $4,000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

THEY talk of forming this winter, in
Washington, d. c., a congress of ladies,
of which all the wives of senators, mem
bers of the house, and other dignitaries
will be members. They will discuss
grave and disputed questions of eti
quette, dress, cooking, bFic-a-brac and
confectionery.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

THE personality of Satan was discuss
ed ina conference of Baptist clergymen,
at New London, Conn. There was no
vote, but a majority of the speakers
were on the affirmative side of the
question, {" Is there a personal being an
swering 10 the name of Satan I"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

SENATOR G.. T. .HoAR has bought the
land at Princeton, Mass, on which John
Hoar, an ancestor, once redeemed a
captive, Mrs. Rowlandson, from the In
dams. A bowlder called Redemption
Rock" lies upon this land, and on this
bowlder a suitable inscription has been
c1t
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

BY means o. the polygraph, an APP
paratus invented by a Russian, sixty
copies of any written document or draw
ing can be made in an hour, and the
cost of material for the sixty copies is
only two cents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01
cABLEaRAms

THE bin for the abolition of slavery in
Cuba passed the Spanish senate at Mad.
rid Dec. 2Srd.
TIE mintstryet Carovas del Castillo,
says a Madrid cablegram of Dec. 22d, Is
daily becoraing more unpopular. One
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

A COMMON advertisement in English
papers: american fresh beef-whole-
sale and retail. Consignments re-
ceived every Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

"THE Sunday iaw"-said the city
marshal of Omaha-"it must be obeyed
regardless of consequences" This was
last Sabbath, and forthwith he pro-
ceeded to arrest nearly the whole town.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

JAMES REDpATH tells the following
anecdote about Bob Ingersoll's power
j over a jury
A farmer was on trial for murder. He
! had shot one of his neighbors dead. |
! have forgotten the details. The evidence
was conclusive as TO the killing and who
did il: but 1t could be construed to show
that the slayer might have cause TO
| Think that he was acting in selfdefense.
When Colonel Ingersoll was address
| ing the jury ne drew a poetical picture
of his clients wife and children at home
he had refused To allow the wife and
children to be present, as a less skillful
advocate would have done-and he said
even at that moment the loving wife
was standing III the door, with the sun
light on her face, waiting to
welcome the husband back to his fire.
side, and the little boys were swinging
on the gate and looking from time to
/ time along the road. expecting to see
him come, and jump into his arms and
kiss him, "And won't you let him go
homer" be asked. Thejury were listen
ing with moist eyes, and leaning for
ward in their seats. The foreman, q
great, sturdy farmer, with tears running
down his sunbrowned cheeks--as If the
question had been asked for immediate
Information. nodded his head and said !:
@Yes, by thunder, Bob, we'll let him 20
.aome to 'em."
Ingersoll bad not half finished his ar
gument, but he sat right down at once.
The Prosecuting Attorney made a long
speech in reply, but Of course it was no
ase--the defendant was unanimously
acquitted.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01
NOTES OF THE DAY.

THE '.New York Business Mems
Society for the Encouragement of Mod
Grafton" contains about $4,000 men,
beers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01
A Iady's wish.

aOh, how I DO wish my skin was as clear and
soft as yours said lady 10 her friend. sIou
csn easily rnske il 20. answered the friend.
SLOW inquired the first lady. aBy using Hop
Filters, that n8kes pure, rich blood and bloom
ing health. IL did il for me, es you observe"
Read OF it--CGtr, Ss.legia
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

The debt ordinance seems TO have
been adopted in Louisiana after all, ~
OF the So parishes in the state Giving il
{, 162 majority, and the probability that
the remaining parishes will not over
come this majority has sent state bonds
up again. lac debt ordinance main
tains the principal Of the state debt,
but scales the interest to two per cent.
for five yeats, three per cent. for fifteen
years, and four per cent. thereafter,
and it's adoption will fix the state tax
at six instead Of FIVE mills.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01
Bachelors and Boys.
New York Times

Imagine bachelor on principle, of
middle age, and small boy Of 5 or q
or 8 of the regular American pattern, in
the same room, and obliged to remain
together for an hour. What delightful
companions they would proyel What
reciprocal joys would be theirsl A cat
and dog, drunken Comarche and an
exhorting elder, or fish on dry lend
would be as harmonious as they. The
bachelor Id wish to be let alone
severely, anu would be enamored Of
quiet, The boy would be anxious to
search the mans pockets, to use his
watch as hammer to crack refractory
nuts and probe his eye with relentless
finger. He would be DESTROYS, too, to
knock all the pieces Of furniture violent
ly together, and to assist the din with a
variety OF roars and yells, such as a
healthful, i'll reared native urchin can
originate. 1t is not likely that the
bachelor would not enjoy the winning
pranks of the merry child; he might
fail to appreciate those earnest efforts
TO break the drum of his ear.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

0xE hundred and twenty.six thou
sand two hliadred aud ten pounds of
beef have Teen shipped to England
from Lexington, KY. The ISoascrip,
says thet the beet is intended for the
royal fanlilyss Christmas beef. Victo-
Fia's appetite is said 70 be good.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-01-01

The soap mine near Eureka, New, ia
turning out hundreds of tons Of ga
ponaceouA quartz.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-11-06
"Tasted Dretfal Queer"

We have heard Of people curing others
of using strong drink, by putting an
emetic into their whiskey bottles. The
following story, told in Harper's Draw
er, illustrates the wedding manners of
seventy years ago, and the simplicity If
a green young Benedict.
A minister of NewburypOrt was once,
called up, after he had gone to bed, to
marry q young, couple. The hour was
late and the minister's wife did not rise
to witness the ceremony, but gave her
husband particular directions for the
entertainment OF the wedding guests.
wine, doctor,' said she. "The cakes
are in the corner cupboard, and yon'Ii
find the wine on the third right hand
shelf in the side board"
The doctor promised obedience, nut
ON his clothes, and went down to per-
form the ceremony. Returning a half
hour, later, he found his wife sitting uD
in bed with an anxious expression on
her face. Doctor" she cried, "did Won
give them any wine ?"
"CertaiDly, my dear, just as you toIi
me.H
Not from the lecanter on the third
shelf of the side board 2"
"There is exactly where you directed
me to find it, wife,
Dear +! dear. Did they drink much
of it?"
.,",sl,;; "Why;; yes; they emptied their
''What shall we do . Doctor, made a
mistake-it was ipecac wine you rave.
them. Oh, how sick they must be Do.
dear, put on your cloak and go right after
them they can't have got far
The doctor found the bridal party at
the corner of the next street. "What
made you drink the wine 7" he asked.
Couldn't you tell by the taste that
there was something wrong about it ~
The bridegroom answered, between
his quallps, "She whispered to me that
it tasted drctfnl queer, hut | told her
twas because we was settin married,'a
St. Landry democrat., 1880-11-06
The Right Sort of Men.

You will find, as q rule, that the men
who are favorites with men are the best
and truest in their relations with women.
Yes, the men who like sometimes to
turn their backs upon all women, and
go off with the other fellows and have a
good boyish time on the water, or the
mountain or in some other man S 'den.'
Women never need be afraid to trust
their happiness to those whom other
good men esteem good fellows, but if a
man is avoided by men, however, much
women admire him, shun him. 1t is he
who has flirtations that come to nothing,
and has not been very nice to the girls
who have broken their engagements
with him, who when he marries, wrings
his wife's heart, if sue has one, and spoils
her temper il she is naturally an angel.
Manly men are the best lovers, the best
husbands, the best companions for
women, just as womanly women are
the best sweethearts and wives.
What do we think of women who shun
their own sex, however charming men
may find them ? 1t is seldom, if ever
that your mems favorite ill-uses his
wife. Perhaps it may be explained in
this .Way-friendship OF a sublimated
sort is what love becomes after a year
ly friendly to the entire depths of his
soul enters into this state happily and
is ready for all the delights that follow.
But IL man who is capable of nothing
but that ticeting affection that ever fol-
lows Il new object, and cares for no wo-
man when she is won, hates the domcs-
tic ties and becomes detestable in con-
sequence. 1t is the man who would die
for his, and for whom his friend would
die, who makes miraculously happy
wife of the woman to whom he scarcely
knew how to make love when he court
ed her.
St. Landry democrat., 1880-11-06
Marriages Of Noted Men.

Robert Burns married !, farm girl
with whom lie fell in love while they
worked together in plowed field.
Milton married the daughter of a
country squire, and lived with her
but short time. He was an austere
literary recluse, while she was ROSY,
romping country lass, who could not
endure the restraint imposed upon her :
so they separated. Subsequently,, how
ever, she. returned, and they lived
tolerably happy.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
were cousins, a rare example in the
long line OF English monarchs, wherein
the martial vows were sacredly OBJ
served, and sincere affection existed.
Shakespeare loved and welded n
farmers daughter.
Washington married a woman with
two children. 1t is enough to say she
was worthy of him, and they lived as
married people should live in perfect
harmony with each other.
John Adams married the daughter
Of Presbyterian clergyman. Her
father objected on account of John
being lawyer.
John Howard, the great philanthro-
pist, married his nurse. She was al
together beneath him in social life and
intellectual capacity, and, besides this,
was tiftytwo years old, while he was
but twenty five. He wouldn't take
" No" for an answer, and they were
married and lived happily until she
died. which occurred two years after
ward.
Peter the Great of Russia, married a
peasant. She made an excellent wife
and sagaciOns empress.
Humboldt married poor girl because
he loved her. OF course they were
happy.
1t is not generally known that An
drew Jackson married lady whose
husband was still living. She was an
but amiable woman, and
was most devotedly attached to the
old warrior and statesman.
John G. Calhoun married his cousin,
and heir children, fortunately, were
neither diseased or idiotic; but they
did not evince the talent of the great
States rights advocate.