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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-05


The other night a passenger chang
ing cars at Harper's Ferry was leaning
against the railing on the river side,
when train came along, and, fearing
he might not be safe, sprang lightly
over the railing. having mistaken the
river for a meadow. His stunning
amazement may be better imagined
than described when, after fall of
twenty or thirty feet, he sank in ten
feet of muddy, swift-running water.
He, however, had sufficient presence
of mind to keep his head above water,
aud was carried down to the bridge,
where he drifted against pier, and,
climbing to ledge, called for help.
When he was rescued he refused to
tell anything about himself. Fortu'
nately the river was high, as generally
the spot where he fell is bare, had it
been so then he would have been
killed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-05

TIE heirs OF Francis L. Farmer, of
indianapolis, are contesting will that
gave 5000 to Bishop Chatard ard 3d.
600 to each of four children, leaving
100000 to accrue for the benefit of
the estate.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-05

LADY BEAuT rFIERs.-Ladies, you cannot
make fair skin, rosy cheeks, and sparkling eyes
with AL the cosmetics of France, of heautifers
of the world, while in poor health and nothing
viii give you such rich blood, good health
strength and beauty as Hop Bitters. A trial is
,ars asrn mr..
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-05

Denis Kearney prays God for the
day when there will be no conventions,
and when 100 candidates will be run
ming for each Office. Unfortunately
for Denis scheme, the sovereign, by
the time he had taken drink with
100 candidates, would be too drunk to
deposit his snowflake.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-05
the estate.

DR.. ]. G.. HOLLANDS widow and two
daughters still occupy ''Bonnicastle,"
the stately mansion built by the dead
author five years ago on the st. Law
ence Bay.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-05

MISS HULDAH SARGENT RoBER TsoN
the oldest women in Vermont, died
last Friday at Bethel. she was born
in Chester, N. H., April so, 1879, and
was the last survivor of family of
eleven children. The daughters of this
family were remarkable for their long
evity, six of them living to be over 80
years of age, and two of them over
100 vaars
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-05
Better Late Than Never.

But better early than late is medical aid when
the liver is disordersd, the stomach enfeebled or
the bowels constipated. The derelictions in duty
of these three organs should be reformed by the
earliest possible discipline. The entire. mechan-
ism of the body is thrown into chaotic condi-
tion by the disorder of one or more. Timely re-
form effected through the use of Hostetters
Btters is worth any amount of drug-taking in
the latter stages Of disease. While there is the
best foundatio for the allegation that the Bit
tiers is an excellent remedy in obstinate cases Of
the types of disease for which it is recommended,
there is still greater ground for urging its early
uss a preventive. Malarial disease, indigestion
and obstruction Of the bowels should especially
be treated in their first phase.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-05

Two bishops and three re ctors are to
ofhciate at wedding to be held in Chi
cago in October, and instead of the
music of the organ there will be band
in the choir loft.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-05

ENGLAND has a blind postmastergen-
eral who fills the post with unprece-
dented success, and last year blind
man assembled Mont Blame. What
seems almost as remarkable is that,
according to the Wolverhampton
Chronicle for II 90, zone Brisco, man.
ager of small theatrical company,
though stone blind, plays all the
heroes in his tragedies and the lovers
in all genteel comedies"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-05

PETER COOPER, who was born in New
York February /, 1871, when that city
had population of $1,000, has spent
the last three months in preparing his
autobiography. His health is excellent
and his mental faculties unimpaired.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-05

Hon. CHARLES J. FoLGER, secretary
of the treasury, and candidate for gov
ernor of New York, is Ga years of age.
He resides in Geneva, on Seneca lake,
where h has substantial but UMPIRE
tentious house, overlooking the lake
Over this one of his daughters presides.
His wife, who was Miss Selover, of
Auburn, died some years ago, and he
is widower. A son, G. w. Folger, is
a farmer in Minnesota. A younger
daughter is at school in Massachusetts,
A FEW days ago a lady who resides
near Chattanooga, Tenn, but across
the Georgia line, while at work in her
garden, discovered something spark
ling IN the underground, and ON closer
examination discovered that it was an
English sovereign. She continued her
investigation and soon collected forty,
which were strewn promiscuously IN
that locality. They were all dated be-
tween 1920 and 1927. How they came
there is a mystery.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-05

The fall term of the North Western
Business College and Academy, Madi-
son, Wis, begins Monday, Sept. 4!h.
Send for College Journal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-10-05
Life in a Montana Frontier Town,

The picturesque features Of life in
western Montana town like Missouri
are best seen as evening approaches.
Crowds of roughly clad men gathere d
around the doors of the drinking
saloons. A group of Indians, who
have been squatting on the sidewalk
for two hours playing some mysterious
game of cards of their own invention,
breaks up. One Of the so uaws throws
the cards into the street, which is al
ready decorated from end to end with
similar relics of other games. An
other swings baby upon her back,
ties q shawl around it and herself, Sc
cures the child with strap buckled
across her chest, and strides off, her
moccasined feet toeing inward in the
traditional Indian fashion. She wears
gown made of scarlet calico bed
quilt, with leggings of some blue stuff;
but she has somehow managed to get
~ civilized dress for the child. They
all go off to their camp on the hill
near by. Some blue-coated soldiers
from the neighboring military post,
remembering the roll-call at sunset,
swing themselves upon their horses and
go gallopingsoff, little the worse for
the bad whiskey they have been
drinking in the saloons. A miner in
blue wooden shirt and brown canvass
trousers, with hat of astonishing di-
mansions and a beard of years
growth, trots up the street on mule,
and, with droll oaths and shutting talk,
offers the animal for sale to the crowd
of loungers on the hotel piazza. No
one wants to buy, and, after provok-
ing deal of laughter, the miner gives
his ultimatum "I'll hitch the critter
to one of them piazzer posts, and if he
don't pull it down you may have him. +"
This generous offer is declined by the
landlord; and the miner rides of, de-
claring that he has not a single four bit
piece to pay for his supper, and is
bound to sell the mule to somebody.
Toward nightfall the whole male
population seems to be in the street,
save the busy Cinnamon in the laun-
dries, who keep on sprinkling clothes
by blowing water out of their
mouths. Early or late, you will find
those industrious little yellow men at
work. One shuffies back and forth
from tne nyurant, carrying water LOT
the morning wash in old coal-oil cans
hung to stick balanced across his
shoulders. More indians now - a
''buck" and two squaws, leading ponies
heavily laden with tent, clothes and
buffalo robes. A rope tied around a
pony's jaw is the ordinary halter and
bride of the Indians. These people
want to buy some articles at the sad
dlers' shop. They do not go in, but
stare through the windows for five
minutes. The saddler knowing the
Indian way of dealing, pays no atten-
ton to them. After a while they all
sit down on the ground in front of the
shop. Perhaps quarter of an hour
passes before the saddler asks what
they want. If he had noticed them at
first, they would have gone away with
out.buyiDg October Century.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-17

the syllable F'born, p and repeats it i've times. The same IshiEg happens in the famous aria "Ihe trumpet shall sound, on the syllable chang d" and in two famous choruses of the 'Messiah'' the words ''halleluiah" and "amen@ are repeated hundreds of times in nearly as many bars of music. But, of cou rse, Handel belonged to that class of mu- s'cal composers who believed that music should express the meaning or the sentiment of the word, and not to those so-called ad- vanced persons who pretend that the music and that even a synonym of the same word would require another interpretation in mu- sic.
 Musical hypocrites also those whe try to persuade the public that melody is not 8 necessary requirement. for the composition of dramatic music and who prefer opera with out melody. Herr Von Wollzagen, a Ger man musical critic, has published a list Of the '1eit motifs" Heading motives) of Wag~ ner's 'Nibelungen," and tell ns that there are ninety of them in the four operas which constitute the Ring of the Nibelungen," each consisting of short phrase or cer- tain passage in the orchestra. or certain fig ure on single instrument, intended to repre- sent or describe the character of the different personages in the play, and recurring from time to time at the entry exit of the prin- cipals in the opera but Mir. Wollzagen neglects to inform us how many fright square, melodies are to be found or heard in that quadruple operatic drama. It is to be understood from this omission on his part that the melodies in ''Nibelungen'' are numerous that it is impossible to count them, or is to be inferred that melody is not essential to an opera, and that illustrative phrases or peculiar harmonic combinations, repeated in various forms, and modified by different instrumentation, are sufficient Such theory would remind the reader of the story of the fox, who, having lost his brush, started the doctrine that foxes brush es were out of fashion, and exhorted all the other foxes to cut off their brushes and to the little remaining stumps as ''leit mo- if
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-17
A BOSTON NOTION.


 One of the ''Boston notions' and 8 very good one foo is what are called vacation schools.'' The idea was first put into prac tical operation few years ago by Miss M. E. Very, teacher in one of the public schools. She gathered forty eight street children about her in chapel, and, unaided by either money or labor, tried the experi- ment. It was successful, and proved that the need for it existed. There was only one drawback to entire success. As the school was held in Protestant chapel, Roman Catholic families would not allow their chil- dren to attend, notwithstanding the repeated assurance that their religion would be re- spected and that the school would confine itself purely to secular affairs. The next year there was no school, but the year fol- lowing that the city gave the use of one of the public school houses, and the 'svacation school" had 295 memb CTS. Miss Very was the principal teacher and she had an assist ant teacher and sewing teacher to share her labors. In 1881 there were 4S5 names on tered, and another school was opened This year other schools have been started and it is estimated that between seven and eight hun dred children are in daily attendance. The object of these schools is to take poor children away for short time each day from the influences which do them harm, and to ! teach them something that will benefit them But very little restriction IS laid upon them | and the chief endeavor is to keep them cool, comfortable clean and happy. The mothers of the children as rule go out to work by ! the day, and if this refuge were not open the ! o1.s . kl~ 4. One acquainted with the work the schools are ! doing says: ''The children regard the hours \ spent in the school the happiest part of the day; they sing, they are read to, they have ! little lessons in history, arithmetic and ge- l ography the girls embro1der sew, have their pretty kitchen garden games, while the boys draw, write, amuse themselves with puzzles, l all of them instructive and modelled in clay. ! The school rooms are cool and well venti- | lated, the teachers are patient and pleasant, ! and the three hours from nine until twelve | are the shortest hours in the day, and the | children sorry when they are ended
 * Cleanliness is strenuously insist ed upon, and no child is admitted whose skin | is soiled and whose hair is unkempt. This very rule forms habit of cleanliness among the children, and it becomes perceptible after awhile in the clothing. To realize what the influence has been one should have seen the children as they were when they first came
 to the Anderson street school and then see
 them again as they are now. A tidier, more
 comfortable looking set of children cannot be found anywhere"
 The rapid growth of the t'vacation schools
 is very gratifying to the workers in them,
 and it is thought they will outgrow private government before long. In that case it is
 hoped that the city will take them up and
 carry them on.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-17
I'M M AT ERIAL.

The sight of fat man trying to look graceful ln bathing suit is what makes the little baldheaded fishes stand on their tails and grin.-Phstode!pht0 Chronicle Herald.
 It is said that Arabi Pasha was a confec tioner in New Orleans. Perhaps this is the reason that he has been able to give so much tatfy to the English people.-fhtlaaelphs Bulletin.
 A dealer adyertises in an anglers paper, 'Flies, reels, rods, tobacco, whiskey and all other requirements for anglers" If the
 fisherman has full supply of tobacco ana
 whlskey, he might dispense with rods and reels. Fish have such queer tastes.-N0771s- toaon Heratd.
 Should the next child of the king and queen of Spain be boy, it will bear the name of AIphonso Ferdinand, or both. Should the next child of MT. and Mrs. Snig- ges, sovereigns of the United States, be u boy, it will bear the name of Bill or Jim, or both.-CottrSer-eJ Journal.
 citizen of Hoosick, N. Y, has just | bought eight pianos, which he will present to his five married daughters and three
 niecss. When the pianos get agoing and the I daughters and nieces begin to sing, all the ! citlzens of that town will begin to exclaim, l ''Hoosick Philadelphia Neaos. | A stranger dropped in one morning before ! breakfast at a Washington drug store and l called for bottle of Congress water. The ! 1nt6iuSent clerK OuckeQ beneath the counter,
 promptly producing bottle of old Monon | gahela The customer tasted it, and then depositing his glass remarked: '.Do you ! call that Congress water ?" That's it,'' an swered the pill compounder, smiling pleas. 1 antly. Every Congressman who comes in ' drinks it. it.'-Broohttyn Eagte.
 The colored voters are beginning to under stand politics as well if not better than most
 white voters. One of the candidates for an ! office at the municipal election in Austin not ! long since relied on the fidelity of old ! family servant to help him out among the 1 colored voters. A The candidate was beaten. ! After the election he was told that the col 1 ored political friend had voted against him He dld not believe it. but meeting him one l day the ex. candidate said "I'll g1ve you 6 1 dollar, Jim, to tell me whom you voted for. '
 II voted agin you, boss" Well, here if ! the dollar for your candor." "Look heah,
 boss if yer am gwine to pay for de candor ! mout as well own up. l voted agin you free ! different times. Three dollars more if you
 please, boss, ,''-Teros SJttngs. l Only an August election ticket!
 | Curled aud soiied on the bricks it lies, ' Waiting for some vne, perhaps, to kick it \ Only a roost tor the buzz1ng flies.
 ! Who could have dropped this election ticket?
 rurb black or white he?
 \ What his pay, aud where did he stick 1t Tell it me- card of the sycamore tree Victor and vanished there the ticket; Side by side bricks they le;
 | Spare 1t, O freeman and pray don't kick 1t Whs knows when You may have votes to buy? ! C0urier-.Joarndl.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-17

Canon Basil Wilberforce has written let ter to the Archbishop of Canterbury which has already made some stir, and will prob ably make more. It deals with the fact that property owned by the established church is leased for drinking saloons. It charges the bishops and archbishops in their corporate capacity with being perhaps the largest
 owners of public house property in the coun- try" and adds that ''so well is this fact known among the working classes that ire quently in the western road from Hyde Park corner, through Knightsbridge, they are in the habit of pointing, as typical of the estab- lishment, to church of England the right hand side of the way, near Albert gate, having gin palace on each side of it, built up side by side in 8 row, the place of worship and the gin shops being all church property" "It is stated, ," the canon continues, land believe it would be found to be fact, that the bish- op of London, when he leaves his house in St. James, square and rides to his palace at Pullman, passes on his road more than 1Or
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-17
Musical Hypocrites.

Hypoorites are found in every class of SO ciety-in politics as we'll as in the pulpit in public and private life in the seminariss for young ladies, as well as in the penitentiaries for old offenders. Hardly anything that is good and true in the world escapes the infiu ence of hypocrisy. In the realms of the beautiful, the musical hypocrites ten times outnumber those in the other branches of art One rarely finds among poets or intelli- gent readers anyone who would dare to say that an ode, even if written by Horace him. self, story by Dickens, fable by La Fon- taine, or 8 sensational sermon by some fash ionable preacher takes a higher rank in liter ature than tragedy by Shakespeare, Schil- Ter or Goethe. In music, however, it is diff ferent, and among musicians and musical dilletanti there are hundreds who would not blush to declare that string quartette, a mass symphony oratorio is of a higher order of music than opera, even if that opera should be "Don Juan" "Fidelio, |" Les Huguenots," or others of the highest dramatic expression.
 There are many people who would pre- tend to be horribly shocked at witnessing the scene in the opera of Fra DidUoL0, where Zerlna goes to bed and the three robbers are watching their opportunity to get undiscov- | cred into Affords room but the same peo pie would gloat with unalloyed ecstacy if the story of ''Susannah and the Elders" with 1 appropriate music, were served to them iu I the form of an oratorio. In nearly every congregation there are bald headed deacons i and green-spectacled elders who would abhol the idea of visiting an opsratic performance
 but who would listen with religious feryor tc
 melodies from Flotows Martha or Leoocq'i
 "Giroae," adapted to the words of then hymns and prayers, and who would end tn, ! Sunday morning service with a march ol ! polka from Ofenbach or Strauss and stil
 more curious, one may hear in many syna
 gogues the 'Infammstus' or the "Quis es | Homo," from Rossini's ''Stabat Mater, | adapted to Hebrew words.
 There is another kind of musical hypo I critics, who, in their eagerness to condemn
 everything which does not belong to the ney
 school of "musio of the future,'' will fin'
 fault with hoIid music, and will try to ridi
 cule operatic composers like Rossini, Bellini
 and even Mozart for repeating certain word
 in their arias or concerted pieces, for writ
 ing many bars and runs and cadenzas in on
 single word or even syllable. These same ir
 falllble judges, however, would never dare t
 mention Handel, and to point out in hi
 Messiah the same incongruity. However the Messiah" of Handel Is not an opert but an oratorio, and to attack Handel woul
 be considered crime folly and woul
 lower them in the estimation of the clergy In the Quartette For unto us a child ws born.n Handel, in his Messiah" writes } four bars and fifty-six notes Q
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-17

Some Russian officers recently got up a very fantastic a4fair in Warsaw. Adjutant General Count Pillar and Prince Mijanowicz, of the Hussars, conceived the idea of Ro man banquet in the style of Lucullus, and twenty-six other officers united in the novel diversion. The banquet hall was filled with roses and perfumed with all she odors of Arabia, and the feasters arrayed themselves in Roman togas and wore garlands of roses on their heads. Swallows nests from India wild African pigeons and ragout of night ingales were among the costly viands with which they were served. The banquet last ed eight hours and cost $21,O 1000, or $75O apiece. This astronomical extravagance has provoked bitter criticism in Warsaw, where 1t is denounced 8 wicked imitation of the wanton luxury which preceded the fall of the Roman Empire, and where 1t has, at least, done nothing to make more agreeable the re- | lations existing between the Polish popula. | ton and the Russian garrison.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Fifteen million barrels of beer are made annually in the United States.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-17
THURSDAY MORNING. A
Sonrnal ano Courier.
EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY HARRINGTON & CO.
Thursday Morning, August IF, 1882.

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Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-17
Price Four Cents.

his reputation as jester by initiating Wal lett in his Shakespearean and poeticaI quota tions, but would have done better had he confined himself to legitimate clowning. which was his natural forte. William Stout was educated for the ministry before he took to clowning, and was in his day famous not only as clown, but as a wrestler and . herculean performer. It never appeared that his early religious training did him much harm in his business Bill Gates graduated from clown to comedian at the Old Bowery theahex.
Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-17

Those who are unhappy because nobody has died and left them lot of money may find crumb of comfort in soma remarks made by the widow of Baptist deacon to tho
 editor of @ Richmond paper She said: ''The
 great mistake of my husbands life was leav-
 ing $2oO, 900 to his children. My eldest son
 had not been in possession of his portion six months before he had acquired incorporate , habits, and to-day, wrecked in health ana morals, he hasn't a dollar left of the thou sands his father left him. My daughter mar ried an immoral man, who has spent her por- tion, and now her life is sad and dreary. It would have been thousand times better had my husband devoted his means more largely l to education and Christianity"