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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-01

Such is the value of the pearl that life
will be always risked for its attainment,
and if the sharks would only SOW the
banks with pearls they might confident
" rely on a regular harvest of men. As
it is, they levy grim tax from the div
ers, and but for the hustle and noise
along the oyster beds during the ''fish-
ery," which frighten off the less daring
monsters, the percentage of deaths
would be much greater. The Bahrein
and Ceylon fisheries, are of course, the
largest and most valuable; but China
and Japan, South America and Australia
as we'll as some of the islands off the
African coast, produce the precious
oyster in abundance. The number OF
shells is not any guide as to the number
of pearls, and even the toughest aver
age which the diver may make of the
value of the seasons collection Is there
fore. liable to be utterly wrong. The
shells themselves are, however, of great
commercial value, and often yield a
larger revenue than the seasons find of
gems. so that the diver really never goes
down in vain. Nor is the smallest "seed
pearl valueless, for it is pretty natural
fact that only pearl powder will polish
properly polish pearls, and, more
over, the gems ground up command a
ready market in the east, where they
are supposed to have a surprising
efficacy in restoring exhausted vitality
and renewing wasted vigor.
The diver, therefore, has always en-
enlargement in his perilous labor; and
to the last even when he takes his fatal
dive to the waiting shark, he has still
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-01

the faeination before him of a possible
prize that shall send him home to live
at care for the resi- of his life. So he
calls out the shark charmer 10 charm
his best, and, with the delusiye spell
ringing in his ears plunges down to
death. But the monster of the deep
that has been lying waiting for him far
under the shadow of the boat cares lit
tie for exorcism or enchantment, and so
the diver is never seen again. His
comrades in the boat feel the rope sud
denly shaken and as suddenly raised !;
the lessened strain tells the grim story
at once, and then the empty bucket
comes floating up to the surface, mes
sage that the diver is dead. In the vast
majority of cases, however, the divers
grow old at their toll, neither meeting
with sharks and kings ransom's in their
groupings along the shell-strewn banks,
and the Bahrein speak of it as mo-
notonous and laborioos means of liveli-
hood and an in which they seldom earn
competence.
The surroundings of their works are
squalid, almost revolving; for the shore
is heaped with deco ling masses Of oys-
sters, and the sea breeze perpetuallv
blows the smell of them across the en-
camplnent of the fishers, which lie
sweltering under terrible sun and
but poorly provided with the few things
that 90 to make the Oriental comfort
able In Ceylon matters are little bet
ter, as far as the divers are personally
concerned, and in China and Japan the
industry is one that attracts only the
lowest orders. From these sources most
of the gems of our markets are derived
but the pearl oyster is of such extensive
distribution, a creature ofevery shore,
that nearly all countries contribute
pearls to the general stock.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-01
The Greatest i'm the World.

Without question Buffalo, N. Y, can boast 0
the largest and most complete private Sanitariun
in the world. The Invalid's Hotel was founded
by DR.. r. V. Pierce, who has represented his dis
trct as state senator and in congress, ant
is known throughout the United States as tht
originator OF DIR. Pierce's Family Medicines, ant
who has also become widely celebrated IN tn
treatment OF chronic diseases. The erection o
this mammoth home for inyalids was made nee
essary by the large number of afflicted who flock
ed to Buffalo from all parts OF the United State
to consult Dr. Pierce and the eminent medica
gentlemen associated with him as the faculty o
this celebrated institution. The establishment
is said to have cost nearly half million of dol
lars, and is furnished with every app lance anC
facility for the care of chronic ailments. A cor
respondiDgly large branch institution is located
in London, England. The whole concern is own
ed and operated by the Worlds Dispensary Medi
cal Association, of which DR.. Pierce is presi
dent-his brother, an uncle, and other eminen
medical gentlemen taking part in the treatmen
of cases, In treating cases they are not at al
confined to the narrow limits of prescribing The
Justly celebrated remedies, DR.. Pierce's Colder
Medical Discovery, Pleasant Purgative Pellets
or any other set remedies, however good, bu
have resort to the whole range of the Materit
Medica, as well as to Turkish and other baths
Swedish movements and other approved rene
dies and methods of cure
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A XaSnS Strategy.

Mr.. Seth Green says that one morn
ing when he was watching ii spiders
nest, mad wasp alighted within an
inch or two of the nest, on the side OPP
posite the opening. Creeping noiseless-
" around toward the entrance of the
nest the wasp stopped a little short of it,
and for moment remained perfectly
quiet Then reaching out one of his
antenn@ he wiggled it before the open
ing and withdrew it. This overture had
the desired effect, for the boss of the
nest, as large spider as one sees, came
out to see what was wrong and to set 1t
70 rights. No sooner had the spider
emerged to that point, at which he was
at worst disadvantage, than the wasp,
with q quick movement, thrust his sting
into the body of his foe, killing him
easily and almost instantly. The ex-
pertinent was repeated on the part of
the wasp and when there was no re-
spouse from the inside he became salts
fed, probably, that he held the fort.
At all evects he proceeded to enter the
nest and slaughter the young spiders,
which were afterward lugged off one at
a time.
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A Fossil Forest.


An interesting discovery has been
made at Edge Lane quarry, Oldham
England The quarrymen, in the
course of their excavations, have come
upon what has been described as fos-
sill forest The trees number about
twelve, and some Of them are two feet
in diameter. They are in good preserva-
ton. The roots can be seen interlacing
the rock, and the fronds of the ferns
are to be found imprinted on every
piece of stone. The discovery has ex-
cited much interest in geological circles
round Manchester, and the 'forest" has
been visited by large number of per
sons. The trees belong to the mid
die coal-measure period, although it
has been regarded as somewhat re-
makable that no coal has been discov-
cred near them. The coal is found
about 250 yards beneath. Professor
Boyd-Dawkins. of Owens College, has
visited the quarry, and declares there
is not such sight i'll Europe
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THE ARMY WORM.
Its Devastation ON Long Island
Farmers in Despair Compelled to
Cut their Green Crops TO save Them
from the Insect New Jersey Invad-
cd
New York Herald.


The Long Island plague continues
without abatement on the south side,
and the pest has also put in an appear
ance ut several places on the Sound.
1t Northport, especially, the army
worm is in great force, and, as on the
shores of the Great South Bay, is de
vouring everything along the line of
march. So far the central parts of the
island have escaped, but it is only a
question of time as regards the exist
ence of the insect whether the entire
grain crop of Long Island will not be
devoured. Already the wheat, rye, oats
and corn on nearly every farm within
three miles of the beach on the south
side are destroyed, and where, few
days ago, there was still hope among
the farmers, there is now only despair
On Friday the farmers at Islip were
strong in the hope that the worms
would disappear from that locality; but
on Saturday the several corps de, armee
were as stong as on the previous day,
and yesterday they all appeared to
have received fresh accessions. The ex-
pectation that the devastation was
nearly if not entirely ended was based
on misapprehension of the habits of
the insect Closer observation shows
that the worms do not feed at night, as
was supposed, but in the afternoon and
evening During the night and while
the heat is the greatest in the daytime
they lie dormant, but about3 o'clock
each afternoon they begin to travel, and
then the ground which they are trav-
ersing becomes literally black with
them. Early in the morning there are
scarcely any of them to be seen, but by
turning up the sod clumps and the
other places where they can find pro
lection or shelter they will be found in
gangs of from twenty-five to fifty, en-
joying their repose. When the daily
march begins it is by the million, and
they sweep everything before them
which they find to their taste. So far
trees and shrubbery and potato vines
and clover to some extent have escaped,
but rye and wheat fields are stripped so
completely that often nothing but the
stalk remains. Corn is cut off even
under the earth, so that it is feared
even the roots will be devoured and
thimothy and "red top are eaten up SO
completely that fire passing over the
meadows would not leave them more
Grid
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-01

GRAND MEDAL AT THE PHILADELPHIA
EXPOSITION. SILVER MEDAL AT THE PARIS
EXPOSITION. The most valuable family
remedy known for the treatment OF
wounds, burns, sores, cuts, skin diseases,
sun-burn, rheumatism, chilblains, ca
tarrh, hemorrhoids, etc. Also for coughs,
colds, sore throat, Group and diphtheria,
etc. Used and approved by the leading
physicians of Europe and America. The
toilet articles made from pure Vaseline-
such as pomade, cold cream, camphor
ice and toilet soaps-are superior to any
similar ones COLGATE d Co, Sole Agts.
Try THEM. 25 and 80 cent sizes of all
our goods. Sold by all druggists.
Females that are liable to suppression by taking
cold or irregular or painful mensuration, should
always keep Carriers Compound Extract Of Smart
weed on hand, and Its use will convince them that
it is Natures remedy in those complaints. II.
Bosworth & Sons, wholesale agents, Milwaukee.
o. Noble Il Co, Proprietors, Erie, Penn.
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Pottery Manufacture.

The Hon. John L. Blake, in 4 letter
to the Hon James A Garfield, gives the
following interesting information con-
corning the manufacture of pottery in
this country: ''The industry Is one of
comparatively recent origin in this
country Porcelain clay was discov-
cred in Vermont in 1910, and, in 1925,
porcelain ware was first made, in the
city of Philadelphia, from kaolin, found
in Chester county, Pennsylvania. About
thirty years ago there was but one pot
terry in the United States; all the flint
and stone being imported from Great
Britain. 1t was, perhaps, five years
later when the manufacture of white
ware was introduced ut Trenton, \. j..
Since then, and particularly since the
outbreak of the recent war, the progress
of the trade has been very rapid. At
present it is said that there are 81 pot
teries in the United States for the manu-
facture of white ware, the same being
located as follows: New Jersey, p
Ohio, 16; New York, 8; Pennsylvania,
3; Massachusetts, 1, and West Virginia,
l. The capital employed is estimated
nj S6000,000 and the annual production
is of at least equal amount. New Jer-
sey represents one half of this capital,
and employs 5000 hands, paying them,
IN wages, 81, 100000 per annum, Such
wages range from - to 8 30 per day.
And it is estimated that the labor SO
employed receives 525 per cent. of the
value of the manufactured goods. 1t is
to be borne in mind that these figures
do not include the manufacture of COM
mon earthen ware; nor the money
whether in shape of capital or of wages
: engaged in the preparation Of mater
ials for potters' use. OF equal interest
but in an aesthetic point Of view, is the
improvement which has been made
during the last twenty years in the pro-
cess and results of the art. The wares
now shown compare favorably with the
European kilns in excellence of mater
ial, in beauty of form, and In good taste
of decoration. 1t is no longer neces-
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Robbed of Her Hair by a Tramp.

Agatha Dockrill, aged II years, the
daughter of Madame Dockrill, the
bareback rider who is travelling with
Barnum's show lives with her aunt,
Miss Rosa Kemble, in Valentine ave-
nue.. near the Kingsbridge road. She
goes to school at South Fordham and
to reach the school house crosses Il
lonely field know as Dunn's Orchard,
hedged in by stone walls. AS she passed
large rock standing in the field on
Thursday morning a tramp sprang for
ward and seized her by her hair, which
fell over her shoulders in long braids.
With one slash of long knife he cut
one of the long braids close to the head,
and reached for the other. The child
screamed and, pursued by the tramp.
His foot was caught in the root of an
apple-tree, and he was flung heavily to
the ground. The girl reached the main
road and the school house much ex-
hausted. The principal took her to
the Fordham police court and made
her tell her story to the police. The
woods were secured for the tramp, but
he was not found.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-01
The Girdle Around the Earth.
Partisan.

If you send Geographic dispatch
from Paris it will reach Alexandria,
Egypt, in hours; Berlin l hour 80
minutes; Basic, in l hour 10 minutes
Bucharest, in 3 hours; Constantinople,
in ) hours; Copenhagen, in 4 hours
Cuba, in 10 hours; Edinburgh, in l
80 minutes; Dublin, in 8 hours; Frank
fort-on-the-Main, in / hour 20 minutes;
Geneva, in l hour 10 minutes; Hong
Kong, in II hours; Hamburg, in 2 hours
80 minutes; Jerusalem, in hours;
Liverpool in 2 hours; London, 1 hour
10 minutes; Madrid, in hours 30 min
utes; New York, in 4 hours; New Or
leans, in hours; Rio Janerio, in hours;
Rome in l hour 80 minutes; San Fran
cisco, in IL hours; st. Petersburg, in 3
hours; Saigon, in II hours; Southampton
in 3 hours; Valparaiso, in II hours;
Vienna, in hour 10 minutes; Washing
ton, in6 hours; Yokohama, in IA hours,
and Zanzibar in Z hours.
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A Dog and a Doctor Save Child.

Shortly after noon yesterday, as DIR.
Porter, the phrenolOgist, was walking
along briskly in the vicinity of the
corner of Utica and Tompkins streets,
he noticed a dog trying to pull some
object from the running water in the
ditch at that point. AT the first glance
il seemed to be an inanimate thing,
such as a bundle of rags, but upon
looking again the doctor was startled to
discover that it was Il child with its
head under water. The dog had hold
of the clothing, and was straining every
muscle to haul the weight to the bank,
but did not appear to have strength
enough to do it. The doctor quickly
covered the thirty feet intervening be-
tween himself and the spot, and in an
instant he had child II or IA months
old in his arms. The babe was insen-
sble and, to all appearances, nearly
dead, but fortunately the doctors efforts
to expel the water from its lungs were
rewarded with success, and in Il little
while the plump little boy opened its
wondering eyes and looked around. he
faithful dog looked on while the doctor
worked to restore life, and acted as
though he understood that help had
come to his little playmate. The babe
proved to be the child of Hiram Van
Order, who lives on the corner at which
the accident happened. While at play
it had fallen into the ditch through
which flows stream some eighteen
inches deep. fed by living spring on
Tioga street, several blocks distant.
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DER DOG UxD DER LOBSTER


Dot dog he vas dad kind of dog
Web dot rat SO slyat ket,
lind squeeze him nit his little teeth.
Ind den dat rat was die.
Dot dog he vas inquisitive
Vareffer he vas 60.
Ind like dat woman all der time
SOmeding he wants to know
Won day, all by dat market stand
Ware fish md clans dey sell,
Dot dog he poke his nose aboud,
Und find out yot he smell.
Dot lobster he vas took dot snOoze
Nit Won eye open vide,
Und den dot dog vas come along,
Dot lobster he was spied.
Dot dog he smell him NIT his nose,
ind scratch him nit his paws.
Ind push dot lobster all abOud
Und wonder what he vas.
Und den dot lobster he yoke up
IND crawl yOost like dot snail,
IND make vide open all his claws.
Und grab dot doggie's tail.
IND den 50 quick as never vas,
Dot cry vent to der sky.
Ind like dem swallows yot dey sing.
Dot dog yos homeward fly.
foost like dot duderbolt he vent
Der sight was awful grand
Ind every street dat dog va turn
Down vent dot apple stand.
Der shildr9n cry. der yimmin scream
Der mems fall on de ground,
t'nd dot policeman with his club
V0s nowhere u be found.
make dot run. und cali dot dog
Ind vistle awful kind:
Dot makes no difference vot / say,
Dot dog don't look behind.
| nd pooty soon dot race vas end.
Dot dog vas lost his tail
Dot lobster vas took him home,
IND cook him in dot pail.
Dot moral vas, | tole you bout
PefOre was neffer known
Don't want to find out too much dings
Dot wasn't Ov your own
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-07-01

IL one of his recent lectures in Lon
don, DR.. Erasmus Wilson exhibited the
photograph of a woman SO years old
and five feet five inches high, whose
tresses, when she stood erect, enveloped
her entire form in a golden veil, and
trailed several inches on the ground.
The longest fibres measured six feet
three and one-half inches. Thirty
inches is the mean length for females,
and three feet is considered a very re-
markable length. This instance is ex-
ceeded, however, by two American
women-one whose hair measures seven
feet six inches, and another, The wife of
a druggist in Philadelphia, whose luxur-
liant cheuelure is almost as long, and so
thick that when seated upon chair
she can completely cover herself with
it.
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sary for us to initiate the foreign trade
mark in order to obtain ready sale for
our goods. What has been the result
on the other side of the water? Our
importations have steadily fallen off,
For fourteen years, between 1856 and
1879 both inclusive), the average i'm
portation of earthen and China ware
was 81, 453, $50 per annum. For the
twelvemonth ending June 80, 1879, it
was 81, 044,S75, being more than S4O0,
600 less than the average, and nearly
100000 less than the highest valua-
ton, in 1878"
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Cheating at Faro.
Innlnn Truth.

| happened. in response TO pressing
invitation, TO find myself in a law court
a few days since, when a curious mode
of cheating at faro was shown. The
game is played thus Thirteen cards
are spread out on the table-that is to
SAY, an entire suit. A pack of cards Is
shuftied by the banker. then cut by Il
paver. when the banker proceeds to
draw the cards one after another from
the pack. first removing one. If Il
player has put a stake on any one of the
cards, which has been laid out upon the
table he wins, provided its equivalent Is
an odd card in the pack, and he loses
If it Is an even one. Now 1t would
seem impossible that a player could
cheat the banker. This is, however,
how ii Is done. In shutfling the banker
generally shows the bottom card. When
he hands the pack to be cut the player
| cats an even number of cards, SO that
when the cut is put back by the banker
the player knows that what was the
| bottom card will be an odd one. and
/ knowing also what that card will be,
can stake upon it with certainty that
he will win. But how does he cut the
plumber of cards that he chooses? By
very simple process. One side of the
nail of his thumb is allowed to grow
straight, and little notch is made in it.
Provided the length of the nail from
notch 10 notch to the end be always
kept the same, and that he presses the
nail against the cards in cutting, he
must always take up exactly the same
number.
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A QUESTION drank seems to be dis
turbing one of the great railway com
panies The assistant general manager
so it is said-sent message to the
superintendent of machinery to come tC
his office as he wanted to see him
whereupon the latter sent this reply: III
is the same distance from your office to
mine as mine to yours" While this
statement as to distance was doubtless
correct, it did not facilitate intercourse
between the two officials, and it is not
recorded whether they have succeeded
in having an interview yet. The only
way consistent with the honor of each
that we see, would be for both oagree
upon half way meeting place.
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A RUSTIC'S MISTAKE.
The Young Farmer Who Wanted to
Make Money by Using the Mails H.


A week ago the superintendent of the
National Printing Warehouse, 10 Bar
clay street, New York, received a letter
from Lawrence B. Craft. postmarked
Shoemakertown, Bucks county, enclos-
ing sample of an obscene card and
asking estimates for gettiug up electro
types or other kinds of illustration. This
letter was handed over to Anthony
Comstock, special agent of the post of
fee department and state agent Of the
New York Society for the Suppression
of Vice. He visited Craft yesterday on
the farm where he was employed near,
Shoemakertown, and found him to be Il
callow youth, with budding NOUS
tache. Comstock talked to him in the
capacity of Il canvasser for the printing
company, and got Craft to acknowledge
that he wrote the letter and say he want
ed an electrotype prepared. He also
said he had obtained the card from an
other young man, near by. and expect
ed to make little by the sale of the OBJ
scene things. He was not afraid to send
such things through the mail and had
never had any trouble Comstock then
called up deputy marshal, who took
GRAFT INTO custody. lie was gwen q
hearing before United States Commits
sioner Gibbons on the charge of using
the mails for the transmission of obscene
literature and was bound over in default
of $500 bail to answer at the district court.
The commissioner took occasion to re-
mark his regret that there was no whip
ping post for offenders ofthis character
Agent Comstock had a dispute about
his witness fees, claiming S11 He said
he had been seven years employed by
the state society and received no salary
from the government, but was always
allowed witness fees and travelling ex-
| penses.~ He talked awhile and got his
money PhikaieLnhin Tirnes
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Tho Cause discovered.

Most of the readers whose eyes scan thes'
pages have suffered from headache, lassitndc
nausea or pains in the back; hut we doubt II thel
knew what the cause was. In nine cases out o
ten it was some trouble with the kidneys or liver
This is a truth which has just become known
and the result which Warmers Safe Kidney ant
Liver Cure has accomplished The above named
troubles are caused by disordercd kidneys ant
liver, and the remedy which cures the cause ban
ishes the pains which arise from it.
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Prejudice Kills.

"Eleyen years our daughter suffered ON bed
of misery under the care OF several OF the best
(and some of the worst physicians, who gave her
disease various names but no relief, and now she
is restored TO us in good health by as simple a
remedy as Hop Bitters, that we had poohed at for
two years, before using 1t. We earnestly hope
and pray that no else will let their sick suffer
as we did, on account of prejudice against so
good medicine as Hop Bitters. The Parents.
-TekeQFdm.