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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-29

were enchanted only a few said it
ought to be subjected TO musical train
ing. The Princess Cantucszene Altieri,
in her beautiful story, "Poveverina,"
gives this description of Fra Giovanni's
voice and its powerful effect in a
church: "Then a voice arose which
excited a sort of trembling in the crowd;
all heads turned in the same dire ction;
all curious and eager looks rested on
the same point in the tribune. 1t was
tenor voice, fresh, pure, caressing,
out, above all, touching and tender
one IF those voices which, in spite of
defects, dlsarm all criticism, because
they make vibrate that chord Of true
feeling which exists in all human
souls"
Fra Giovanni del Papa had many
rich and tempting offers from imprts1-
riS, but he always refused them firmly.
Fra Giovanni was protege OF the AL
teri family; he was under the protec-
ton of the prince, and occupied room
IN the Polazz) Alter, Rome, whenever
he wished; he was petted child of the
family. He was gay, happy, bon en-.
Jdnt, with heavy, coarse form aud
face; there never was such contradic
ton between body and voice. it was dit-
ficult to believe they were of one being.
He was most imprudept in his mode of
living, never took care of his health and
ate and drank the most indigestible
food and common wine at the most I'M
reasonable hours.
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Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, April "a Flour Steady and in fair
demand; western spring, 5C0g5.50; Minnesota,
5.5e@6.25: winter. 55oG6 25; exports, AS 5 10.
Wheat-Unsetlled but generally higher; iuctua-
ting rapidly; No. 2 Chicago spring, 1.i5l4 @
113h for seller cash; 113s for seller April 1.l4%
for seller May; l10A for seller June; 1.0i% for
seller July; sales, 1.l3%01l6 for seller May;
1.09d111H for seller June; No. Chicago
spring, 90 bid; rejected, 81. Corn-Strong and
higher. closed easier; 36& for seller cash; 36a
hid for seller May; 36a bid for seller June; 36S
for seller July; sales, 352lG37as for seller May.
Osts-Aetiye, firm and higher: 2sh for seller
cash; 30x for seller NAV; 29A for seller June.
Rye-Firmer at IN. Barley-Firmer at 81.
Pork-Actlve, firm and higher; s.11aG9s0 for
seller cash and May; 9.g2H 99.95 for seller june;
100561O ora for seller July; sales, 10t01l017M
for seller July. Lard-Exclted and higher; 80
G692n for seller cash and May; 95@6.s6s for
seller June; 7.G2a for seller July Close:
Wheat-Unsettled but generally lower; i.1316
for seller May; 1OsS for seller June. Corn
Unsettled and lower; 36l4G369s for seller May;
% for seller June; 36as for seller July. Oats
Dull and tending cownward; 29H for seller May.
Pork-ln fai: demand but at lower rates; 3 1o
asked for seller May: 9s2n for seller June.
Lard-Easier; declined ~. The Drovers'
Journal " reports: Hogs-Receipts, H. 90; ship
ments, 6, SO; stronger and sc higher; mixed
packing. 4.0oG4 IS; light, 4.lsd4.5o chiefly 45;
choice heavy, 4.40G465. Cattle Receipts
4, 500; shipments 900, dali aud slo" declined
u from Wednesday; fair business for shipping
4e0G5-20; butchers, steady; COWS, 2o1G35O;
bulls, 2.25G25C; stOckers' and feeders, 3OOG
400. Sheep-Receipts, !, 600; shipments, : 2oo'
strong and steady common TO medium, 57oG
500; good to choice, 625G6.6sls.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-29

Prof. Judd, of the Royal School of
Mines, London, gave recently q very
interesting explanation of the formation
of the Swiss Alps. The results of geo.
logical observations. he said, show that
four stages can be recognized in the
history of these A ps. First, the exist
ence of line of weakness in the earth's
crust nearly coincident with the lines
of the present mountains. This is evil
denced by the fact that along this line
of weakness there were volcanic out
bursts, the result of which can still be
traced. Secondly, there followed along
this line of weakness depression and in
this huge trough" of miles in extent
there were accumulated sands, lime
stones, and clays by various forms of
water agencies, and by animals living
in the waters. Thirdly there followed a
consolidation Of these soft and loose
materials. There is evidence that the
accumulatiOns was from six to seven
miles in thickness, and the mere weight
of the supericumbent material on the
lower strata would have share in eff
fecting consolidation. But this was not
all. Under this vast covering heat had
led to capitalization from fusion. There
was. too, the crushing in from the sides
of the trough. This was illustrated by
d model of the late Sir H. de la Beche,
where lateral pressure was employed
on layers of different colored cloth,
showing how crumpling resulted, with
uplifting of parts of the accumulated
mass. Fourthly, there had been the
sculpturiug all this into its present
form, which was the work OF rains and
frosts. Some of the existing peaks,
even 5000 feet high were composed en-
tirely of the disentegrated materials re.
sulting from the action of the water,
either as ice in glaciers or as rains and
streams. The amount Of material re-
moved in this way was so stupendous
it was almost staggering to try TO grasp
the facts. The sculpturing of the con-
tours is still going on. This fourth
stage was of quite recent date speaking
geologicalIy; but the whole history in
yolved lapse Of time which at the be-
ginning of this centuray philosophers
would not have been prenared to grant
even if this since-acquired knowledge
of facts had been presented to them.
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instances the fires were speedily extin-
guished with small loss. The fires were
all undoubtedly incendiary, and were
within a circuit of half mile. Great
excitement exists in the portion OF the
city adjacent thereto.
THE Giant Powder works ia the dis
trict of Bernithy, across the bay from
San Francisco exploded on the 10Th inst,
killing IL whites and 10 or Is Cinnamon.
This is the third explosion the company
has sustained-all attended with loss OF
life. The explosion occurred in the
packing room, and all at work there were
killed. There were about 5000 pounds
of powder in the room. All the victims
were blown to atoms. Large pieces OF
them were found, and part of the skull OF
a Chinaman. There were six houses in
side the works, and all were blown TO
slivers, but the workmen in them es-
capped, with the exception of one man in
the magazine, no trace OF whom was
found. Outside of the works are SIX
houses, including the boarding houses
of the hands; all were more or less dam
aged. The entire cause of the explosion
is supposed to be carelessness. The
workmen are employed by the piece,
and are directed to use wooded millets In
packing cartridges, but they found that
they could work faster and make more
money by using iron hammers-a risky
business around giant powder. IL is
supposed that some man hit once too
many, and his cartridge went off, ignitin
the powder before him, which COM
municated with the adjacent packages,
with the terrible result noted.
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The Most Perfect Tenor Singer Who
Ever Lived.
Partisan

fARIs, March 13.-Fra Giovanni del
Papa, the famous Franciscan tenor OF
the Sistine Chapel, and monk of Ara
Cell, is dead. He had been singing a
great deal in sll the church festas this
season. At every function in the Sis
tine Chapel, at st. Ienazio, for the
requiem mass of Plus TX, on all occa-
sions, we have heard his angelic voice
soaring pure and clear, lImpid and
sparkling, like a mountain stream
thrown up into high-water shaft, and
spreading off in spray as transparent as
sunny sheen against the heavens. Sew
eral times when / have heard him sing
this spring l have thought, ct is an
angel and DO human being"
The poor Frate was i'll only few
DAYS Nth violent infiammatory gas
trio fever. aggravated by intestinal gan
creme. Fra Giovanni was simple,
kind-herted cortadino. He was the
son Of coRtddini. and was born thirty
seven years ago at S.. Maria del Giudice,
near Lucca. He entered the order of
the Minor Osservants Franciscans when
he was only II. He was, 1t is said, a
good student Of religious philosophy
and theological discipline, and at one
time was a robust and effective preach
er. About six or seven years ago it was
discovered that he had a magnificent
tenor voice of marvellous sweetness,
extent, and. what is unusual with
that style of voice, of great strength, and
it seemed incapable OF fatigue. Its
freshness and purity were truly I'M
eoualed. 1t was totally unlike other
human voices. All who heard him
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-04-29
A TOUGH TOWN.
LeadyilIe, Colorado, the Hardest Place
in CreatiOn-Full of Exiled Outlaws.

The Times correspondent has been in
many mining camps" but none that
could in any way approach this car
Donate camp-in anything. Until his
visit here he thought that one.sided
town Virginia, New, was the toughest
place within the borders of civilization
or out of it. But Leadville takes the
belt. Here are assembled the scum
and the refuse, the "exiled" outlaw,
and the immoral outcasts of Christen-
dom. On tie streets are to be seen the
man who failed as lawyer in Chicago,
and is shyster here; the "broker" who
abs"onded with the funds of his clients
in San Francisco, and now loiters in the
hotels selling spurious claims to the
wise man of the east; the women OF viz
tue gone wrong, who were as common
as the lowest In the eastern and west
ern cities, who ply their vocation here
under the cover of Emusic teachers"
and amateur theatrical performer"
and, in short, the ragtag and the bob
tail, the dregs and dross of humanity,
seem to have all floated 10 this wild
camp of lawlessness and immortality,
and seem well and congruously mixed.
There are more broken men and flush
prostitutes to the square foot than i'll
any other three towns of the same size,
combined. The latter is certainly not
superinduced by the climate, for it 10
said that the al;itudinous atmosphere
'dlsconrages immortality. Yet it
Aour;shcs here to an alarming extent.
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The Comet Seen in Australia.
Melbourne Argus.

melbourne Argus.
The comet mentioned in the last
summary as having been seen for the
first time on Feb. 2, has passed out OF
view Ito the naked eye) During the
time the tail was at It's brightest
stage the evening sky was usually hazy,
owing to the prevalence of southeast
winds, which, in the latitude of Mel
bourne, are accompanied by haze this
time of the year. While, therefore,
the tail of the comet, which formed an
angle of so degrees with the holizon,
could be distinctly seen, the nucleus
was always hidden behind low cloud
bank. DR.. Bone, an amateur observer
at Castlemaine, where the air was clear
er, was able to fix the place of the
nucleus some days before any data
could be obtained at the Melbourne
Observatory. When first seen the tail
# the comet appeared as 4 bright
freak, twenty five degrees in length.
Each succeeding night the tail grew
longer, hit at the same time fainter,
until in about ten days 1t faded out of
sight. Measures were taken of the nu-
cleus on the 9th, 10th, and 18th, at the
observatory, from which the following
notes have been received "The APP
proximate positions were, Feb. 8, D.
M: Right ascension, 53h. Aim. ii IS. +;
declination, 33h. Ann. 525. south. Feb.
10, 8 .. M: Right ascension, 23h.
56m. 23s.; declination, 33h. 44m. SIS.
south. Feb. IA, 9 p. M; Right ascen-
sion, III. Pm. 1865; declination, 3Bh.
21m. Is south. These observations,
combined with those secured a week
before, afforded the means of deducing
rough approximation of its apparent
motion, and there is no doubt now
that it has passed its perihelion and is
rapidly receding from us. The nu-
cleus on the 10Th was exceedingly
faint; still with a good telescope the
tail could be traced for some distance
from it. On the 14,h it was still faint
er, and even with the great telescope
the tail could only be seen as thin
wisp extending eastward from the
head for a couple Of degrees. The
head itself appeared simply as faint
nebulous mass, with slight central
condensation. 1t is impossible to say
whether this comet i? new one, or
one which has been seen at former
perihelion passage, until the elements
of its orbit have been computed, and
for that purpose further measure of its
positions are necessary.
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THE PRINCE CoysORT.
His action in the Mason.sIidell Affair.

HIS Action in the MaS0n.Slideli Affair.
Mr.. Theodore Martins concludiDgvol-
ume Of the life of the prince consoft has
especial interest TO American readers
on account of the light it throws upon
the position taken by Queen Victoria
aud Prince Albert on the Trent affair.
Until now it has hardly been known
that it was largely owing 10 the efforts
of the queen and Prince Albert that an
amicahle settlement ofaffalrs was reach.
ed. On the receipt of the news that
Mason and Slidell had been arrested
Lord Palmerston instantly ordered
troops to be sent TO Canada. At that
time England was in state OF excite
ment. The illness of the prince con-
sort, the insideous attempts on the part
of Louis Napoleon to instigate the Man
chester people to active opposition 10
America, and the natural hostility of
many kept things in ferment. In the
midst of this excitement and hostility
Prince Albert rem aimed cool and anx.
ious to settle the affair amicably. III
and scarcely able to bold pen, on the
! 1st of December, 1861, he made cor
rections, with strong objections, to the
dispatch OF Lord John" to Lord Lyons,
the tenor of which and his opinions
may be gathered from the queens
memorandum on returning the dispatch
to the foreign office. 1t reads "The
queen returns these important drafts,
which upon the whole. she approves,
but she cannot help feeling that the
main draft is somewhat meagre. She
should have liked TO have seen the ex.
preston of hope that the American
did not act under instructions, or, if he
did, that ne Inexperienced them;
that the United States government
must be fully aware that the British
government could not allow its flag to
be insulted and the security OF her
mail communications to be placed i'll
jeopardy; and her majesty's govern
ment are unwilling to believe that the
United States government intended
wantonly to put an insult upon this
country, and to add to their many dis
tressing complications by forcing
question of dispute upon us: md that
we are therefore glad to believe that
upon full consideration of the circum-
stances of the undoubted breach Of ill.,
ternational law committed, they would
spontaneously offer such redress as
alone could satisfy this country, viz,
the restoration OF the unfortunate pas
.sengers, and suitable apology" The
result of this was that the dispatch
finally sent to Lord Lyons was so mod
flied that, even in the excited state of
I-the two countries, it was received by
both with satisfaction. This averted
war. and, as the queen said, at was
greatly owing to her beloved prince"
whose observations on the drafts of the
two dispatches were the last words that
he wrote.
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ABOUT two weeks ago George l.. lay
lor, d well-to-do citizen of Denver. Col,
began to feel weightiness in his
CHEEKS. The muscles appeared to be
growing stiff and the skin certainly had
become hardened. Mr.. Tdylor's friends
made iocose remarks about his cheek"
when the hardening began, but the ,uf-
ferer himself was in no mood for fun.
Before the expiration of week both
sides of the mans face had assumed
the solidity of marble. He was unable
to hold up his head. His eyes took :.
stony glitter. One side Of the neck also
grew hard, and on Tuesday Of last week
the victim died The Denver ply
sicians pronounce the case one Of de-
eide petrifaction Mr.. Taylor was
eighty-two years Of age, and jus before
the appearance of the singular disease
weighed sixty five pounds. After death
the petrifaction continued, 50 that the
weight of the J mans booy is now
six hundred p, 4nds. Mr.. Taylor had
the use Of his tongue until the hour of
his death, and, realizing the oddity of
his taking off, requested that his body
he sent to the Smithsonian Institute.
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CRIME.

HERMAN LIMBERG, shot and killed
NcGarry, stranger whom he met in
| saloon in Chicago on the 22nd inst
There was little prOvocatiOn. The muir
derer was arrested.
THE Kane county, H., grand jury re-
| fused on the 23rd inst, to indict Wells
Brown for the murder of his mistress in
Aurora. on the theory that the woman
killed herself.
GEORGE w. REDDING and Jacob Full
ton, arrested at North Vernon for coun-
/ terteiting, were, on the 23rd inst, com
mltted to Jail in de fault of $4,000 bail
each. Spurious com was found on their
person.
The straw shop of the HilI Manu-
| featuring Company and the straw works
OF H. S. Fearing & Co., burned on
the 24th inst, at Amherst, Mass. Loss
100000; insured. The coal yards of
f ID, Hunt and w. Morgan also burned
a DIssIPATED youth at May6eld. Ky,
who persisted in paving attentions to a
young lady, despite the objection of her
brother, was shot dead by the latter on
the 23rd inst A pistol and pair of
brass knuckleS were found in the pock-
cts of the deceased.
4 HARD case by the name of Jake
Bond got into a quarrel with two coal
miners on the Goth inst, at Des Moines,
and stabbed them both. Selch, one of
the men, will get well the other, Andrew
sheldon, is in critical condition, and
it IS thought he will die, as the knife
reached his lungs. Bond was arrested
ana is in Jail.
GEORGE RoCKHoLD, a farmer living on
the Cairo and st. Louis railroad, twenty
y ~ . 10
goth inst, to see Grant While Rock
hold was in Cairo his hired man ran
sacked the house and succeeded in get
ting away with $3.50 cash. The thief has
so lar escaped arrest.
A DESPERATE fight occurred on the
Goth inst, in New York, between Officer
LiGdeman, of the Ninth precinct, and
number of thieves, during which the aft
Ger was stabbed with table knife and
cut on the head with a stone. The off
Ger, being in fear of his life, Irew his re
volver and shot two of his ASSISTANTS
named Jerry Callahan, of 146 Leroy
street,and Edward Coleman, of 5G3 Hud-
son street.
JAMES Jewell, policeman, entered
the store of Cooley s. Son,at Jacksonville,
Ohio, on the 23rd inst, and with but
single word of warning shot Charles
Cooley, junior member of the firm, kill
ing him Instantly. He then went out a
short distance and shot bimsef in the
head. Physicians say he will die.
Cooley leaves a wife and ore child.
Fegell has wife and three children.
a SERIOUS stabbing affray was report.
ed fromthe town of Greenfield. Miiwau-
kse county, on the 23rd inst. Two farm
ers, John w. Ward and Eugene Morgan,
met at Boltz' saloon on the Janesville
plank road and got into an alteration
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Two Terrible Duels.
London Glohe.

A horrible story of duel between
3wo inhabitants of Morocco is reported
from Dram. The two principals, both
occupying good positions, were en-
amored OF the same beauty and agreed
TO fight for her possession. The com
hatants met ut short distance from
Mequinez, each being armed with
Rarbne, a revolver, and hunting
knife, and mounted on horsebs ok. The
duelists rushed at one another at full
speed, which resulted in one of the
horses being killed, and the fight was
continued on foot. After the TWO men
had received several bullets in differ
ent parts of their bodies they closed and
commenced a violent and horrible
struggle with their knives. One OF them
thrust his knife into the others throat
and received a cut from his enemy
which opened the whole of his chest.
Too weak to use their arms, the dying
men took to biting one another, and
expired, the one with his teeth closing
on the others cheek, who gave up his
last breath in endeavoring TO rip open
his adversary's body. The object OF
the encounter was thus gained, as each
prevented the other obtaining the hand
of the girl, who must in future endeavor
only To captivate one admirer at time
if she wishes to secure a husband.
The Impartial, of Madrid, publishes
an account of terrible duel at Valpar-
also. A quarrel between two rival pro-
fessors of music led TO a challenge, the
instrument selected being neither pen
or sword but the piano. The cCndi-
tions of the encounter" were that Meth
er party should not eat or drink until
honor should be declared duly satisfied,
and that no values or other lively airs
should be INDUCED in. Seconds were
appointed and the duel proceeded with
cut intermission for forty-eight hours,
ct the end of which time one Of the mu-
sicians, after playing a "Miserere" for
The one hundred and fiitieth time, fell
forward and sank exhausted 10 the
floor. He was taken up corpse. His
adversary had been literally trans
c9rmed into an "enraged musician" and
was in that state transferred to the
hospital. The seconds themselves gave
ssgns of being seriously touched" and
each of the pianos was found to be in
O. hopelessly crazy condition. Such at
last is the result Of the medical exam
iAation.
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SEVERAL American residents of Yoke
hama, Japan, have sent to their home
friends accounts in detail of the recent
earthquake atthat place. One of these
accounts has reached the Baltimore
san. The writer says that on the
morning of the earthquake the first
shock caused him to turn over i'll bed
merely, as he attributed the commotion
to some lesser cause. AT the next shock
the noise was awful (the word being
used not in its schoolgirl sense, bnt in
rs meaning "full of awe" At day
break ne found both the chimneys
that belonged to his house were gone.
Other chimneys were hanging by the
edges of loose stones, and looked as
though they might have been showed
over with the little finger, Many OF
the houses were cracked from cellar 10
ridge. The writer continues: Glow
strong this earthquake was one can see
by looking at heavy pianos, which have
in some instances been moved three
fee; away from the wall into the room.
1t was by far the strongest shock l have
felt so far, ana on the bluff there is
scarcely house which has escaped
damage altogether. All the ladies de-
clare that they are going to leave this
country by the first mail steamer, and l
feel sure that some will really so if We
get another shake like this last one,
which Go forbid. have had enough
of earthquakes and do not wish for any
more.
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How Weed Pulp is Made.

Portland (Me. Press.
So much is said about the paper pulp
which is extensively used in the manu-
facture of paper that brief description
of the process of making it will be en-
pertaining. Any white soft WOOD may
be used. The bark is taken off, the
knots and dark and decaved places are
cut out. II is then put into a large
caldron and boiled, which extracts all
the glutinous matter and resin and rem
ders it soft. 1t is then put OH large
stone grinder, with water pouring on il
all the time. The grindstone wears oil
the fibres until they are finer than saw
dust, which float away into areceptacle.
The water is drained off by the means
of a fine sieve leaving the pulp, which
consists of fine fuzz or splinters of wood.
II is white and requires no bleaching,
but is ready to be mixed with rag pulp
or anything else that has strong fibre
and receive the proper constituents to
make it into paste, after which it is run
off into paper sheets, whereas rags have
to be washed and bleached with chic
ride Of lime, soda ash aud alum and
such strong chemicals to take out the
color. They are picked to pieces and
made into pulp. The process by which
the wood pulp is made is purely me-
chanical. 1t can be made cheap, say at
about one cent a pound.