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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16
How to "Take' Well in a Picture.

''The question is often asked" said
an experienced photographer, "why
actors and actresses take the most
pleasing pictures 1t is because they
study the principles of art and good
taste in their profession, and under
stand how to dress. Moreover, they
usually bring selection of wells, flow
ers, curls, braids, laces, and sometimes
costumes, to give the photographer a
choice of accessories. They come
when they are wholly at leisure, and
are not hustered. A red face takes
black and they know it. Then they
do not load themselves down with gew-
gaws and haberdasheries, to show what
they have got in worldly goods. Few
persons know how to dress for pic
ture like an actress. The best mater
ials for ladies to wear when about to
sit for a photograph are such as will
fold or drape nicely, like reps, winceys,
poplins, satins and silks. Lavender,
lilac, sky-blue, purple and French blue
take very light, and are worse for a pic
ture than pure white. Corn color and
salmon are better. China pink, rose
pink, magneta, crimson, pea green,
buff, plum color, dark purple, pure
yellor, Mazarine blue, navy blue, fawn
colot, Quaker color, dove color, ashes
of roses and stone color show pretty
light drab in the photograph. Scarlet,
claret, garnet, sea green, light orange,
leather color, light Bismarck and slate
color take still darker, and are excel
lent colors to photograph. Cherry,
wine color, light apple green, Meter
nich green, dark apple green, bottle
green, dark orange, golden and red
brown show nearly the same agreeable
color in the picture. A black silk al
ways looks well, and it takes well if
not bedecked with ribbons and laces
that will not take white Dark Bis
marck and snuff brown usually take
blacker than blacker silk or satin,
and are not easy to drape. A silk, be-
cause it has more gloss and reflects
more light, usually takes lighter than a
wooden dress Ladies with dark or
brown hair should avoid contrasts in
their costumes, as light substances
photograph more quickly than dark,
and ladies with light hair should dress
in something lighter than those whose
hair is dark or brown. Few ladies I'M
derstand how to arrange their hair so
as to harmonic with the form of the
head, but blindly follow the fashion, be
the neck long or short or the face mar
row or broad. A broad face appears
more SO if the hair is arranged low
over the forehead or is parted at the
side, and long neck becomes stork-
like when the hair is built up high,
while a few curls would make a most
agreeable change in the effect. Pow
dered hair gives good effect, and
powder should be bestowed upon
freckles. y
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16


EVIDENCE of the adaptability of the
waters of Lake Michigan to the sue
cessful culture of the California salmon
has been furnished by the capture of
one of the noble ish Weighing twelve
pounds in the lake OF Cedar Grove,
Wis. Six years ago the experiment
Of salmon planting in Lake Michigan
was made by the Wisconsin Fish Com
missioners, and this is the first proof of
the success of that experiment. The
prospect of some day seeing the big
lake stocked with millions of we'll
grown members of the salmon family
is one to make an epicure's mouth
water
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16
How Claw CAPTURED a Vote.

1t is a historical fact that the XIVth
congress, beginning on the 4th of De-
cember, 1915, and ending March Sd,
1917, passed what is known as the
compensation bill. 1t gave each
member salary of 81, 800 per annum.
This salary was regarded by the people
as a great outrage, and they retired
early all its supporters to private life.
Henry Clay was among the few who
escaped the wrath OF the people. The
anecdote has come down to us hat
when he was canvasing for renewal
of his commission, an old gentleman,
who had hitherto been his fast friend
said to him:
"Mr. Clay, naustain you no long
er. Your vote on that abomniable
bill shoci,s my feelings"
To which Mr. Clay replied:
90 you ever so hunting?"
Gotten"
"Have you a good riac?'
zone OF the very best that was ever
NADER
HAS it ever snapped?"
Eyes, sir"
what did you do with it then?" Did
you throw it away"
''No, sir. picked my flint and tried
it again and by the Lord / am going to
try you again.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO. June 1l-Tiour-Demand fair and
market firm. Wheat-Unsetted and generally
higher active and Irregular No. 2, red win
tor, l.O4al.I3 No. 2 Chicago spring, 1.0sH
for seller cash; LOSS for seller June; 1.10a
l.101s for seller July and August; 1.07s a
Los for seller September; No. Chicago
spring, 95G99k, rejected. 75a67 Corn
Strong and higher 43as G43A for seller cash:
43SS for seller July; 443s for seller August
AZ for seller September; sales, 427.44 for
seller July; rejected, 46. 0ats-Active, firm
and higher; 371s for seller cash; 3716 bid
for seller July; 272s for seller August; $500
q for seller September; rejected $50 Rye
Dull and lower; 1.02. Barley-Strong and high
err los Pork-Quiet but firm; 6.l0 for seller
cash; 16.2ha1615 for seller July; 1925 for
seller August. Lard-Quiet but firm; 1910 for
seller cash. I0.72hal0.75 for seller July, 1875
a10,76K for seller August. The "Drover's
Journal reports: Hogs Receipts, $4,000;
shipments, 1000, in good demand; active and
steady; poor to good mixed packing, o.55a
SIS; light, 5.s0a575, choice heavy, 5.90a6 20;
eulls and light Workers. 4.50G 500 Cattle
Receipts 1000; shipments, 4,f00; active and
very strong; exports, 6.Ooa6.30; good to choice
shipping. 575a590; conuon to fair, 5.25a
sos; distillery, 5.60a6lO; fair western corn
fed, 5.60a6.O0; northern wintered Texans, 4.5Oa
$50 thorough grass Texans. 3.25a4.40; nation
butchers, active and steady, 2.50a5.oOi
stcekers and feeders, strong and in fair de-
mand at 350a5.OO. Sheep-very weak: de-
clined i4a3se.; all sold, Texas sterlings, $50;
common to medium 81 Aa4 50.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

6 THE village of Bradley, in Hampshire,
England, was almost totally destroyed by
FIRE.
An incendiary fire destroyed Van Epp's
tannery at Mount Clemens, Mich, which
was valued at 5000.
ALoss OF $4,000 was incurred at South
Lancaster. VI, by the burning OF the rail
way depot and new saw-mill.
DURING the past week four children met
their deaths in Jersey City, n. j.. by fall
ing from windows.
A LOCAL passenger train was wrecked on
the Hudson River Railroad, and the
wrecking train sent to its assistance came
into collision with another passenger
train.
A TERRIBLE boiler explosion occurred at
Gaffney & Co. s dye-works at Kensington.
Two men were killed and a number badly
injured. An inexperienced fireman was
employed as engineer.
A WEST freight on the Texas aud
St. Louis railroad ran off the track in
rounding curve, badly wrecking the
train, killing one man and seriously wound
ing two others.
LIGHTNIHG struck the barn of John
Spacy, near Ambia, Ind, setting it on fire.
Seven horses were burned to death, five
escaping from the building with the flesh
dropping from them.
BALTIMORE has been visited by the Sc
verest thunderstorm of the season. Light
ming struck in several places, and the
streets are strewn With tops of the trees
blown off by the storm.
THOMAS CRoLL, wealthy farmer, living
near Henryville, Ind, was killed by light
ming. He was found with his horse three
miles east of Henryville, with one foot in
the stirrup. Both man and beast were
dead.
JUST after entering shaft No. 2 of the
Chicago, Wilmington and Vermilion
company, at StrnatOr, ILL.,, W. Richen,
aged 50, was instantly killed by a lar, e
stone falling from the roof.
A FIRE in the lumber at Brett Bros
mill at Ashton, seven miles north of Reed
City, Mich, destroyed $4,000 feet of cher
ry belonging TO john B. Hershherger, and
$4,000 feet Of cherry and 225,000 of pine
owned by Halliday & Son.
THE body of Thomas Hoarly, the
other victim of SUNDAYS collision on the
Chicago and Northwestern, near Cedar
Rapids. was found underneath a heap of
shelled corn, upon which large portion
of the wreck had been piled in clearing
the track.
A wHIRLwIND in Deadwood Gulch
killed one lady and severely injured
three other persons. Four houses were
destroyed, and the trees and telegraph
poles were torn up. Hailstones fell for
two hours. one measuring TWENTY-FIVE
inches in circumference.
By the explosion of some dynamite at
Lowmoor, Va. four colored men were
fatally injured The tug Jack Brands blew
up off Sandy Hook, n j., and the engin-
neer was blown overheard and drowned
and his son was fatally injured. The rest
of the crew escaped.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

PRISONS connected with the manage
ment Of the star-route cases say that
there probably will be one hundred in
dictments, including members of both
political parties, and that the trials
will occupy the time of the criminal
court at Washington during most of the
fail and winter. The conspiracy stat
ute, under which the indictments will
be passed, is of the most sweeping
character, and holds all persons respOn-
sible who have participated in the pro-
ceeds of frauds against the govern
ment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16
THE DISMAL SWAMP.
Visit TO spot of UnreIieved DesoIa-
tiOn

When we left home there was but
one thing in the entire south we wished
to see and that was the great swamp.
We felt about as we imagined the dis
NAL swamp looked. We had planned
to go to Suffolk, and thence by the
canal TO Lake Drummond. But there
was no conveyances. We were out of
season, and it was perilous to risk the
long trip by private boat an mule team,
as it would compel a shelterless night
camp on the borders of the lake. We
had, therefore to content ourselves
with journey of about twenty miles
in the swamp, but in section by no
means equal to its more desolate parts.
We were satisfied A very moderate
amount of desolation fills the measure
of our ambition. The dean of our
youth has ended; we are convalescent
from our infatuation for The dead
heroine, who
"All night long by ERE fly lamp,
Paddles her light canoe"
on the lake of the Dismal swamp.
We were always good deal stirred
up that they should make for "a soul
so true. grave so cold and Damp"
but we find they had to do it, for the
swamp is half under water 1t is
singular what strange power this wierd
ballad of Moore's has over many minds.
hold the mind by a stronger
spell than the simple beauti-
ful possesses. The eye of the
basilisk compels fatal admiration we
prolong, by every art, our dreams of
agony; with endless iteration we re-
hearse the tortures of our inner spirits,
and sit down to no banquet with such
CHASTITY yet enhancing pleasures as
when we "sup of horrors" The sec
ton of the swamp seen by us was I'M
relieved desolation. Lofty trees of cy-
press, with great swollen trunks rising
from a spongy soil, with great arching
limbs, draperied with tangled vines !;
narrow channels running into dense
thickets, walled with matted reeds, with
dry bushes of hay and juniper with
tatters of old moses pendant from the
trees, with great black pools of Shiny
water, with fallen trees rotting with de-
cay, and the sonberness of a dull, col
orless March sky brooding over all the
limitless waste.
Excursions are frequent in the sum-
mer season from Norfolk. Several
years ago, the governor of the state,
while on one of these extra convivial
parties, being somewhat the worse for
extra libations, threw over the stove of
the yacht and now, whenever the
careless pilot runs his boat upon snag,
it is said he enters i'll the log-books,
Grounded on the governors stove"
The water of lake Drummond is beau
tifu as wine, the color being given to
it by the roots Of the cyress trees. 1t
is of singular purity. When first taken
from the lake it undergoes a fermenta-
ton, and after twenty years of voyaging
on shipboard has been known to be
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

RECENT orders to military officers in
Ireland are to the effect that, before
firing into mobs in Ireland, rounds of
blank cartridges must be fired into the
air; and in case of charge muskets
must be dubbed and no bayonets used
unless the soldiers are in imminent
peril The orders have encouraged the
peasants, who can hurl a volley of
stones at the troops and then
escape before the rounds of blank cart
ridges are finished.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

carried by vote of 1SS to IA. At the
same time Thomas Power O'Connor, N.
p. for Galway, was called to order for
using the word "mendacious."
A SOLITARY robber stopped stage near
San Antonio, Tex, in which were four
passengers, and forced them to bring the
mail-pouch near him, cut it open and
pour out the contents. Two of the pas
sengers had coeked revolvers in their
hands, and on the person one was secret
ed 81 600, which was not ascertained by
tine robber.
O'MAHoNEY, leader of the Balledehab
Land league. was nabbed by the constahu-
larry, but the people rescued him. He
then offered to go without escort to Linn
erick Jail, and was permitted to do so. The
warrant for his arrest charges him with
melting to murder. A serious riot is re-
ported from Cork, where houses were
wrecked in two streets. At the railway
station at Limerick the police charged on
an assemblage with fixed bayonets.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16
Eggs VS.. Meat.

Would it not be wise to substitute
more eggs for meat in our daily diet?
About one-third of the weight of an egg
is solid nutriment. This is more than
can be said Of meat. There are no
bones, no tough pieces that have to be
laid aside. A good egg is made up Of
ten parts shell, sixty parts white, and
thi ty parts yolk. The white Of an egg
contains sixty-six per cent. water, the
yolk fiity-two per cent. Practically an
egg is animal food, and yet there is
none of the disagreeable work Of the
butcher necessary to obtain it. The
vegetarians of England use eggs freely,
and many of these men are eighty or
ninety years old, and have been re-
markably free from illness. Eggs are
best when cooked four minutes This
takes away the animal taste that is of
fensive to some, but does not harden
the digest. An egg if cooked very hard
is difficult Of digestion except by those
Of stout stomachs such eggs should he
eaten with bread and maSticated very
finely. An egg spread on toa is food
fit for king, if kings deserve al, bet
ter food than anybody else, which is
doubtful Fried eggs are less whole
some than boiled ones. An egg drop
ped in hot water is not only clean and
handsome, but a delicious morsel.
Most people spoil the taste of their egg
by adding pepper and salt. A little
sweet butter is the best dressing. Eggs
contain much phosphorus, which is
supposed to be useful to those who use
their brains much. Poultry ReUielC.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

Col. CHARLES T. O'FARRELL has been
writing caustic articles on Mr.. d. S.
Lewis in the Harrisonburgh VA old
Commonwealth, and Mr.. Lewis has been
retorting in the Rockingham REGISTER
Both gentlemen met IN the streets of
Harrisonburg the other day. The Hi
Virginian blood of O'Farren was
up. and so was the Virginian blood of
Lewis. They came to blows, when some
policemen stepped in and took the
belhcose gentlemen to jail.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16
New York Sharpers Escaping" Troy
GreenhOrHs.
From the Troy Times.

The peddlers of "prize package soap"
have made there appearance here This
game has been praeticed long and sue
cessfully in New York. The modous
operandi is simple and effective. The
vender generally stands upon a corn
err of some prominent street, and in
variably gathers a crowd by explaining
the many virtues of his soap. Alter
while he rnsinuatingly remarks that the
manufacturers, in order to place the
preparation successfully before the pub
lie, give away money in nine packages
out of ten. At this stage Of the pro-
ceeding the vender takes from his pock-
ct a roll of greenbacks and with aggra-
waiting GOODNESS puts one in each box of
soap and apparently drops them into
the satchel which he holds. He then
obligingly says that the proprietors
propose to spare no expense in discov-
eriEg to the public the superior quality
cf the soap for securing purposes and
removing stains. One package costs
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

IT is the duty of the starter of the
Third avenue horse railroad in New
York to watch the clock face closely,
and ring a gong about every five Fights
of a minute. He has sat nine hours
in day, seven days in a week, for
ten wears. in the little box at the Broad
way end of the Park Row, and has
never missed a single day. At the end
or ten years more this faithful servant
will be allowed TO retire to some salu-
brious insane retreat and pass the re-
mainder Of his existence in peace and
guiet-at his own expense.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16
Business Before Pleasure.

Hartford (COnn.) C0ur3nt.
There is a sagacious Newfoundland
dog in Norwich. He will take the
basket, in which is note, and go to
the market, get meat, vegetables, or
whatever the note calls for, and carry
it safely home. But he has a daily
task assigned him which he performs,
rain or shine, and hat is to carry his
mistress her dinner. She keeps a
millinery establishment, and does not
go home to her MONDAY meal. Regu-
larly as the day comes around the dog
may be seen trotting along Main street
at about II 80 with the basket in his
mouth looking neither right nor left,
but going straight to the store, where
be sets it down and watches it until his
mistress comes for it. And he is so
well known, too, among the Norwich
dogs that he is never molested. But
on Monday a stranger dog undertook
to have little racket with him while
he was loaded down with commits
airy stores. He hung to the basket,
but stopped long enough to get good
look at the cowardly cur that had in
terfered with him and then started off
on a run to the store, where he drop
ped the basket and Immediately re-
turned to the street and began to search
sor his assailant. He found him on
Franklin avenue and proceeded to
chastise him in true canine style. In
about half minute he sat down and
watched that cur put in his best jumps
for the hill-tors of Voluntow giving
a ki-hi at every lean.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

A facetious brakeman ON the Central
Pacific Railroad cried out as the train
was about to enter a tunnel: This
tunnel is about one mile long, and the
train will be four minutes passing
through t." The train dashed into day
light again in four seconds, and the scene
in the car was one of painter. Seven
young ladies were closely pressed by
fourteen pairs of masculine arms, four
teen pairs of lips were glued together,
and two dozen inverted whiskey- TASKS
flashed in the air.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

THE following message has been tele-
graphed President Garfield by Boyton:
from Kilmainham prison, Ireland 81
hope the American government will
never submit me, or the honor of the
Republic fought to maintain, to the
degradation of an appeal to the benev-
olence of the cowardly British govern
ment, incapable Of extending to my
countrymen the commonest justice"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16
From the Hub.

There is perhaps no tonic offered to
the people that possesses as much real
intrinsic value as the Hop Bitters. Just
at this season of the year. when the
stomach needs an appetizer, or the
blood needs purifying, the cheapest and
best remedy is Hop Bitters. An ounce
of prevention is worth pound of cure,
don't wait until you are Frustrated by a
disease that may take months for you
to recover in.-B0stop Globe
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

Marshall Stieman. One year ago brother
of deceased was shot dead by the deputy
sheriff of Washington county from which
affair sprang the latest tragedy. There
are loud threats of lynchiLg, and it is
feared other persons may be involved in
the feud.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

MILWAUKEE, June ll-Flour.-In fair de
mand. Wheat-opened strong and higher
No. l hard, l, 10. No. i'll; No. 2 hard
Ill; NJ. 2, LOS; los for seller June; l.O9A
for seller July: l.1O24 for seller August; LOS q
for seller September; LOSS for seller October;
No. 3. at 81; No. 4, 49, rejected, nominal
Corn-Firmer; No. ?, Az. 0ats-Firm; No.
2. 9616. Rye-Lower; No. l. 1.O2. Barley :
Strong and higher; No. 2, LILO,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

THE partisans of the revised version
Of the New Testament are using great
efforts to modif, the general hostile
verdict in England, with slight success.
Lord Selborne's letter warning clergy
men not to incur the danger of commit
ting an illegal act puts a stop to the
movement of the reyisers' friends to
smuggle the new version into use in the
churches
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

TIE lowest bid for supplying post
masters with all official and registered
package envelopes for the year com
mencing July l, 1881 is S54,724. The
bid is based on the number of envel-
opes (2S,97725Ol used during the year
ending March 81, 1881, and which cost
the United Stat s1O0,810 Mr.. James
does things much better than Mr.. Key.
Brady is not around to look after the
contracts and the contractors.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

THE English holders of the Confed-
crate bonds are a somewhat hopeful
set of persons. They cling to the idea
that the bonds are worth more than
waste paper, and have agreed to pay
p cents for every $500 of the bonds
which they hold to defray the expenses
of urging our government to pay them.
1t is to be feared that the Britons are
being fooled to the top of their bent by
some adroit American claim agent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

john ". MAcKEY, who returned
rather suddenly from Europe, gave a
dinner IN New York to Thomas l..
Young, of Ohio, at which many mining
magnates were in attendance. The
bonanza king then took his departure
for Nevada.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

BRADY, ex-star-route manipulation in
the Post-Office Department evidently
intends to be prepared fer the worst in
the prosecution soon to be inaugurated
by the Department of Justice. He has
retained Enoch Totten and Shellenbar-
ger & Wilson as consul to defend him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-06-16

ANTI PROHIBITIoNIsTs in Kansas have
ingenious methods of evading the new
liquor law. jug trains are doing
good business. The friends of temper
ance believe that the law will eventu-
ally be entirely successful.