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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08
A Gigantic Sugar Corn Factory.

The Chicago Sugar Refining COM
pany are building q factory to convert
rs. 600 bushels of corn into sugar day,
or something like 100000 bushels a
wear. The buildings cover 100000
square feet, and are expected to cost
81 100000. The sugar-house is 100
feet square, with eleven stories and
basement, and 40 feet high. 1t is to be
of wood and brick, containing 100000
bricks. 1t will be supported by ninety
piers of masonry, resting on piles, each
pier carrying about 400 tons. There
will be required 1900 fortv-foot piles,
or 316 miles of piling.
Adjoining the sugar-house is build
ing for corn, 60 by 100 feet, and three,
stories high. 1t contains five large
steam engines, two pumping engines,
one flowing engine and several small
steam pumps. The pumps have ca
pacity of 100000 gallons per day.
The steam engines will be equal -
1000 horse power, and the Blowing en-
CINE blower furnishes blast for 7,O0O
horse power boilers.
Next to the corn house is the filler
house, 100 by 100 feet, and eleven
stories high. This building is fire
proof one, built of brick, iron columns,
wrought iron floor beams, with brick
arch floors. Its twenty-four piers carry
500 tons each, or 1900 tons. There
are $500 forty-foot piles driven fifty
feet below the surface.
The next building is a corn house,
sixty feet square and three stories high,
with machinery in it to empty the cars
automatically.
The next is a boiler house, 70 by 80
feet in size, three stories and basement,
with a coal bin suspended above the
boilers 20 feed them automatically with
coal. The boilers have capacity OF
1000 horse power. There are twenty
of these, known as the Babcock d VIII
son section boilers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08
HOUSEHOLD HELP.


CREAM CooKIEs.-One pint cream,
two cups sugar, three eggs, two tea
spoonfuls soda, four teaspoonfuls cream
tartar; mix as soft as possible TO roll;
nutmeg or cinnamon; bake quick.
CORN FRITTERs. tea-cup
butter, the same of -four, one egg, pep
per and salt, one pint grated corn, beat
it up, and fry it ON . wel[buttered grid
die. They are as good as fried oys-
tiers.
FRIED SQUAsH.-A delicious dish can
be made of the summer crook-n ecked
squash simply by frying them in but
bers, dip in flour, fry to brown, and
imagine that you are eating fried oys-
tiers.
LEMON PUDDING.-Put in basin one
quarter pound of flour, same of sugar,
same of bread-crumbs and chopped
suet, the juice ofone good-sized lemon,
and the peel grated, two eggs, and
enough milk to make it the consist
ency of porridge; boil in basin for
one hour. Serve with or without
sauce.
SPONGE GINGERBREAD.- one cup
of sugar, one cup of sour milk, one
small teaspoonful of soda, one cup of
molas ses, four eggs, the white and yolks
beaten separately, one. cup of butter,
one tablespoonful of ginger, one cup
of raisins, four cups OF flour In place
of sour milk and soda, you may use
sweet milk and baking powder.
Picked LIMEs.-Make brine strong
enough to float an egg; stick your lines
on two sides with silver fork; then
put them in thesbrine with weight on
the lines to keep them well under the
brine; let them stand in warm place
for week; they are then fit to eat.
You can add some red peppers to the
brine.
FRIED EGG-PLANT.-Pare your egg
plant; cut in slices a third of an inch
thick, and lay them in strong cold salt
and water for three hours, putting a
plate and weight on them under the
water; wipe each slice; dip in egg
beaten with tablespoonful of cold
water and fine cracker-crumbs; fry in
boiling drippings of half lard and but
ter.
STEwED CoRN.-Scald the corn just
enough to harden; slice off the ear so
as to divide the kernel three or four
times; scrape the chits 1.-THE sweetest
part) from the cobb, ,dd sweet milk, a
little water, a little butter and salt;
simmer ten minutes; beat one egg and
add, stirring in evenly just before TAX
ing off the fire. A very little sugar inn
proves it for the taste of most people.
COOKING ONIoNs.-It is a good plan
to boil onions in milk and water; it di-
minishes the strong taste of that vege.
table. 1t is an excellent way of serving
up onions to chop them after they are
boiled, and put them in stewpan with
little milk, butter, salt and pepper,
and let them stew about fifteen min
utes. This gives them a fine flavor,
and they can be served Up very hot.
HOMEMADE CRACKERS are
more wholesome for children than
cookies, and the novelty of having
them made at home goes good way
toward making them eatable. Take
three-fourths of a cup of butter or lard,
one pint of sour milk, three teaspoon
fuls of baking powder. Stir ali except
the milk in with the flour, and when
thoroughly mixed put the milk in. Be
careful not to knead them too much,
as there is danger Of their being tough;
roll thin and bake in quick oven.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08
Romantic.

One evening last week, says The
Amesbury News, man drove rapidly
into our village in search of surgeon.
Fortunately one of our younger men
in the profession was standing close by
a drug store where the man halted, and
in a few words was informed that an
accident had occurred on the outskirts
of the town, which rendered his servi-
ces necessary. Procuring his required
apparatus, he accompanied the stran-
ger. Taking the direction of the beach,
they kept on a mile or so, when the
doctor was informed that the utmost
secrecy must be observed in this mat
ter, and that he would be well paid for
the Job: also that he would have to be
blindfolded during the rest of the ride
The doctor, who likes an adventure,
readily assented to this; and after rid
ing several miles farther, In direction
which it was impossible for the doctor
to determine, they halted before one
story hut, in the depths of the woods,
where they dismounted and entered
The person who had brought the doc
tor entered first, and in a short time
returned for.the doctor. Upon coming
into the room the handkerchief wa
removed from his eyes, and he saw
before him, on cot, a middle-age man
of fine physique and elegantly dressed.
Upon his face was a silk visor, which
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08
Returning Home After Nineteen Years


Mr.. Zebbeus Compton and his wife,
of Plainfield, n. j., while at their home
at noon yesterday, were astonished by
the entrance of their son, Sylyanus, who
was last heard of by them nineteen
years ago, and whom they have since
believed to be dead. Before the War
Sylvanus Compton was druggists
clerk in Plainheld. At the breaking
out of hostilities he joined the navy,
being about q years of age. He be-
came attached to the surgical staff, and
in June, 1862, his parents learned,
through letter from him, that he was
on board ship taking some sick sol
diers to New Orleans. This was the
last heard from him directly, but they
found that he had landed safely in New
Orleans, and had been in that city. No
further trace of him could be found,
however, and after a few years had
passed his parents concluded that he
was dead.
The returned son says that while in
New Orleans he fell in with pleasant
agreeable man, who invited him to join
in drinking a bottle of wine. After
this, he remembers nothing until he
was aroused from the stupor caused by
the drugged liquor, and found himself
on board SLAYER three days out at sea.
He escaped from the ship at one port,
and told his story to the American
Consul, but found that that official had
alaeady been warned to arrest him as
a deserter and send him back. The
Consul advised him to take the ship
again and escape at some other port,
where there was no official to arrest
him. He next left the ship at an Afri-
can port and made his way to Cape
Colony. Here he settled down for a
time, married and had one child. He
sent no word home through fear of
being arrested as deserter and taken
back to America for trial. From Cape
Town he drifted off to India and other
parts of Asia, and finally TO Australia.
From Australia he finally returned to
New York and went from there direct
ly to Plainfeld in search OF his parents.
The father and mother we're COM
pletely overcome hy his sudden and
unexpected return, the mother faint
ing from Joy. Com pton has number
of relations living al Plainheld and all
those who knew him before he disap-
peared recognize MIN now. When he
went away he left two brothers and two
sisters, but one sister has since died.
The two brothers and the remaining
sister are living in different parts of the
country. Those who knew Compton
twenty years ago speak OF him as
young man of excellent reputation.
quiet and much liked.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08
cows MILK FOR INFANTS.
some of the Dangers Attending ATS
Use
New York Times

New York Times.
DIR. f. +. Brush, in a late number of
the Medical Record, presented some in
teresting facts in regard to cows milk
when used for the nourishment OF in
fants The dissemination of disease by
bad milk is fact which he calls on
medical men to recognize. At present
DR.. Brush declares that the laws seem
to be made ''for the pecuniary protec-
ton OF corporations and herdsmen."
1t is perfectly true that the laws pass
ed in the Safe respecting milk are en-
tirely i'll the interests of the butter and
cheese makers, and not at all for the
babies. We have certain laws of a
most unsatisfactory character, emana-
ting from the New York Beard of
Health, well meaning, no doubt, which
are quite readily evaded. The selling
of watered milk may be punished, but
to give diluted milk, or even skim milk,
to an infant, though it might starve, is
hardly as dangerous as to give it dis
eased milk, which is sure to poison it
at once. DR.. Brush writes: 81 am con-
WINGED that the greatest cause of dis
ease among infants in New York city
ACTUALLY dIlSCo HUN Vic NAoC VI ulSttbSCA
milk, and the mixture of colostrum
with sound milk" 1t may then be
considered positively dangerous to give
a child milk when this milk has been
drawn from COW the third or fourth
day after calving Nature then pre-
sents in the tactical fluid of the COW a
substance which is highly purgative,
useful to her newborn calf, but certain
ly prone to give cholera infantum to a
child. According to good authorities
colostrum corpuscles remain in the
milk until the fourth or fifth day, and
occasionally until the twentieth day,
and as a general rule returns with any
disease which supervenes after deliv-
cry, or in case the mother is attacked
by any acute affection. In cases of
pleuro-pneumonia in cattle the milk is
absolutely poisonous. What DR.. Brush
proposes is that "every milk dealer
should be compelled to take out Ii
cense, and that in every death certifi-
cate of an infant the name of the milk
man supplying it with milk be inserted"
Ifsuch thing were only possible, a
milkman whose supplies were followed
by the greatest mortality among the
children would rightly be considered as
the Herod of his calling
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08

The chimney for the house is $40
feet high, with twelve-foot inside fue.
The base is forty feet square.
Between the boiler house and the
chimney is an economizer, that the
waste gases of the boilers pass through
on the way to the chimney. BY this
means the heat is utilized by pumping
the feed waters of the boiler through
this economizer.
The works will commence with 70
600 bushels of corn per day, which will
soon increase to 5000 per day. The
corn can be received by car or vessel,
and the goods likewise shipped.
The company will manufacture all
kinds of starch for laundry and culinary
purposes, syrup and grape sugar.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08

three months, when / may redeem it !?
| do not know that | can, but will
save every penny | earn, if you will
but do this for me-
''The man smiled and consented.
"He marked the gold in my sight,
and laid it away. Within the time /
had regained possession Of it. 1t is
here, Miss Laurence. 1t seems a
trifling sum now to both Of US, but re-
member that it has made me all that
am. Yet is payment does not pay
my debt. You said, perhaps / might
play at your wedding. Command me,
and | obey, even though / thus for
bear my second debt to the boy who, a
second time, in my manhood, causes
me the deepest misery my life has
known"
He paused, and held outstretched to-
ward her the open purse. His face was
ike marble; his eyes shown with a
wonderful fire.
"Of what are you speaking" she
said, gently. "Whom am to marry?"
Last night he told me you were be-
trothed"
HE? Who?"
Fairfax Farley"
1T is not true. He has wished it so,
but did not know my own heart, and
asked shat he should wait. i know it
now. know that it can never be. Carl,
you poke of the gulf between us. Is
it one that love will not bridge?"
The next night Fairfax Farley and
Herr Seiberg met.
'You have decided ?" asked the for
mer.
sit is apostolic" Carl replied; "but,
since you so kindly have asked me to
play at your wedding, may I not ask
you to dance at mine?"
"Ah, you are betrothed, then?"
Eyes"
"And to welcome whom ?"
"Miss Laurence" the young musician
answered, proudly.
Two little words-a name soon to be
merged into another identity; but
their momentary utterance had can
celed his two-fold debt-redeemed his
boyhood's VOW.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08
A Young Woman Who Rides Old Nep'
tune Bareback and Tirelessly.
San jose (Cal.l Herald.

While at Santa Cruz last week we
had the pleasure of seeing Miss Alice
Boston, the champion lady swimmer,
in some of her exploits DER the waves.
Last Wednesday was her 18th birth
day. She was raised in Santa Cruz;
goes into the surf summer and winter.
She is small in height and weight,
being light built, and has every appear
ance of a young school girl, not repre-
senting that masculine strength of some
girls. She wears bathing suit of light
material, worn loosely around her
body. She plays with the breakers
like sea-gull. On her last birthday
she swan mile into the bay with Mr..
Joe Enright and returned not fatigued
in the least, while her partner became
much wearied and caused her much
alarm. This was considered quite
feat for so young a girl. Yesterday it
was announced that she was to take
much longer swim, and 60 it alone. 1t
drew many anxious eyes to the beach,
who had heard but not seen. She was
late entering the water, and the visitors
became anxious. at few minutes
past IL o'clock she came out and dart
Gu IuTOuSu bu6 DIedkSIS ike ~ ISL.
After playing for few minutes near
the shore she was seen to move forth
into the sea. Many were the glasses
that went to anxious eyes to watch her
movements. Soon nothing but black
speck could be seen. A vessel lay
upon the water a mile and a nalf from
the shore, and she seemed heading in
that direction. Women became nerv-
Gus for fear she might cramp and go
down. No one expected her to go out
as far as the vessel and return. But
ere long the little black spot came up
TO the side of that vessel. She swan
out around it, and then started for
shore. When she came about third
of the way in seal was seen immedi-
ately in her path. The watchers be-
came anxious lest it should frighten
her, and cause her to drown. But no,
she moved on near it, and never seem
ed to care. 1t was getting late, but no
one w uld leave the beach until they
saw her safely landed. She finished
the three miles, darted a time or two
through the breakers, and trotted off
to the dressing-room as though she
had been out but few minutes.
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prevented an observation of his coun-
tenance, as was also one upon the face
of the only attendant. Silence was
enjoined upon all. The doctor adjust
ed the broken limb. No words were
spoken, and hardly groan escaped
from the victim Of the accident. A
well filled purse was thrust into the
doctors hands. He was again blind
folded and brought home, arrig ing
there at A. NJ. He was very reticent
about the affair, in fact, he don't know
much about the affair himself, not
knowing where he went or who his
patient was, other than that he was a
person of distinction and wealth, who
was travelling incognito.
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How Men Become Insane.

The Hermit of the Troy Times writes:
A large number of lunatics in orr asy-
lums are the victims Of their own. mis-
conduct. Almost any man can make
himself lunatic if he pursues the di-
rect method. There are hundreds and
perhaps thousands in this city driving
themselves to madness. Gambling,
speculation, and hard drinking will I'M
dermine the strongest intellects. A
young man ofmy acquaintance has late
Iy been sent to Bloomingdale Asylum,
who was a few years ago so promising
as to obtain an important appoint
ment. He abused his position, wasted
a large salary, became suddenly gam
bier, and a rake as well as a defaulter.
Such a course of vice destroyed his
reason, and he is one of the incurables.
The same idea is advanced by Ho-
garth, who finished the "Rakes Prog
ress" by the scene in the mad-house.
During the last five years large num-
bers have been carried TO the asylum,
the victims of speculation. The love
of pleasure and the haste to get rich
have done fearful work. After the
intellect has been over-driven it must
sink, and perhaps remain in hopeless
prostration. 1t may be added that the
increase of insanity since the opening
of the present year is CT unparalleled
degree. More than 500 cases have been
reported during this brief interval, and
hence it is not surprising that the
asylums are more than full, The at
tention of the public has been called to
this subject by the press, and additional
room must be provided. We must
either abate that furious intemperance
which is driving so many to madness
or we must double our asylums all
through the State
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08
A Sub-TreasnrY Gold Wagon.

The New York Scientific Antey9can
says: The little, dingy-looking gold
wagon" which has been used for twelve
years past to carry the money received
for duties from the custom house to the
sub-treasury, has been retired from SER
vice. Sometimes it made as many as a
dozen trips daily, carrying as much as
$4,000 glittering gold coin each time.
The money was usually put up in bags
of $4,000 each, which were placed in
heavy oaken boxes with massive rod
iron handles. These boxes were then
put into the wagon-box and a lid with
clamps of iron was locked down over 1t.
The wagon was pushed like a hand-cart
by two custom-house porters, accom-
panied by an armed Waterman, whose
duty it was to see that the load oftreas-
ure was not interfered with by thieves.
The little used up wagon has carried
in its time probably not less than
$500, OO0, 900, or about 4 800 tons weight
in gold, and the dead weight and strain
of the precious freight had rendered it
rather rickety and unsafe. In its place
new wagon has been purchased, with
solid wheels GRIT with iron tires half an
inch thick, painted a deep blue color.
and marked with the sovereign letters
sU. s. in front.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08
What an Albany Man Said.

One of the lumber dealers in this
state has for the past three years been
supplying a dealer at Albany. For the
first year everything went well, but at
length the Albany man began to COM
plain. He found shortage and culls in
every carload sent him, and demand
ed discounts therefor, and this spring
it was impossible to please him. No
matter how carefully lumber and shin
giles were culled and billed here, he
was sure to write back that they were
not up to the standard. Some time
ago load of ''star" shingles was sent
him. The "star" shingles beat any
thing made in the country, and they
know it in Albany as well as Michigan,
but as soon as the car arrived the deal
er replied that he really must protest.
The shingles were hardly "clear butts, "
and he could not unload the car until
assured of a discount o. twenty-five
cents per thousand.
The Michigander had suffered long,
but the end was nigh. He had inspect
ed every bunch of shingles on that car,
and he made up his mind to 60 to AL
bany and inspect them over again. The
nCNC1 oCGlL AlIIli, anu
the Wolverine walked into his office as
a would-be purchaser of some extra
fine shingles.
1--WE got exactly what you want"
promptly replied the Albanian. give
got carload of Michigan stars out
here which lay over any shingle you
ever saw"
"Are they all perfect :"
Every one of them"
"No culls in the centre of the
punches ?"
''I'll eat every Gull you find. got
them from a Michigander, who is a.
straight as the Ten Commandments.
and he has never yet sent me stick of
second-class stuff Come and see 'em."
The Wolverine quietly pulled out his
business card and laid it on the desk.
The dealer took it up, read the name
and sat down on stool with q queer
feeling in his knees.
There was an awful silence as they
glared at each other, and ii was a full
minute before the victim slowly ex-
tended his hand and hoarsely whis-
pered:
'Did you ever see a man make such
an Internal ass of himself? Shake I"
Detroit Free Press
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Harry and Jimmie Garfield have
completed their preparatory college
course, under tutor Hawke, in Wash
ington, and will enter Williams college
by certificate in the fall. With the ex-
ception of the first two weeks of their
fathers illness the boys have responded
daily to the call of their instructor,
who praises them as the best scholars
he has ever had, and thus early vent
ures on the hazardous prediction of
their future eminence.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08

THERE has been little rain for the last
two months in the counties of Jeifer-
son, Shelby, Oldham, Owen, Spencer
and Scott, Kentucky, and in these
places the corn and grain crops, where
they have not failed altogether, are very
poor. Even the small streams and
watercourses in these regions are en-
tirely dried up and cattle and horses
are suffering from want of water. Peo-
pie find some difficulty in finding water
for washing purposes. The farmers of
the region are trying to dispose Of their
stock in the Louisville market.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-09-08
ECHOES FROM a PAST LOVE.


A desd leaf rustling meath the foot
VIII bring 70 memory's view
A day when every pulse was stirred
By eyes Of liquid blue;
When ali the warblers in the wood
Made music sweet and clear.
And, elasping close her hand, / sighed
lis heaven to wander here"
A CLINT Of sunshine on the stream
viii bring to fancys gaze
A crown Of hair too richly rare
For words Of idle praise
And dreaming on that distant past
| feel the subtle thrill
With which her soft caressing voice
Was wont my heart 70 fill.
The tender love Of hygone days!
All. who would scorn its powerl
Rich autumn's fruit if but the crown
Of spriBgtime's fragile flower;
And al! that joy that lights my life
Would not be half SO sweet
Without these echoes from that love
So distant, yet complete.
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a can of baked beans exploded in
Patel son, n. Y. few days ago, de-
molishing range and freseoing the
walls. When the representative of
Boston culture acts that way it is time
to PROFOUND the new conundrum,
WHITTIER are we drifting?' The Fe-
mans should be watched or they will
conceal number of these internal
machines in outgoing English vessels
NorriSotoa Herald
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In the Pyrenees-A guide is showing
off remarkable echo to band of
tourists: sYou viii observe, ladies
and gentlemen" he says with rapture,
show the sound is repeated from rock
20 rock, from crag to crag, and espec-
tally how beyond the frontier the echo
replies with perfectly distinguishable
Spanish accent