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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-16
American Fables.

A parrot who lived next door to q
nightingale one day rushed over and
rang the bell and called OUT
"For heavens sakel do ask your
children to stop that noise"
"What noise?"
"Why, that internal chattering and
shrieking in your back yard. People
talk about the sweet song of the night
ingale, but in truth it is enough to
drive one insane. | demand thai you
keep your children still"
"But I have no children"
"Well, who is it making such noise
behind the house?'
"Beg pardon, but the noise is in your
own yard"
"Then what business have nightin-
gales on the premises ?"
"The racket is caused by your own
children, Mrs. Parrot"
Indeed, so it is; but if you didn't
live next door they wouldn't act So"
"You forget that | had lived here for
years when you came into the neigh
borhood."
ayes; but / didn't think you would
he SO touchy about trihing noise"
LET me tell you had not even no
ticed the noise until you came over
here to complain"
"Oh, WELL" snapped the parrot as she
turned away, "if you are bound topick
a fuss with me because the voice of a
parrot is sweeter than that of night
ingale, you will certainly find some ex-
cuse to do so, and | might as well save
my breath"
Moral.-If you are parrot, never
get among nightingales, unless you
banker to be abused.
THE HAWK AND THE HEN.
4 fish-hawk who had way OF
throwing three cards about in dex-
trous manner, one day met hen and
invited her to bet on his game.
"But / don't understand it"
"Why, all there is about il, | throw
the three cards so, and 50, and 80, and
you bet, for instance, that you pick up
the ace of spades"
81 don't want to lake your money,
said the hen.
Oh, as to that, you are quite well
CONS"
"Well, here's an X that | PICK up an
ace"
The hawk smiled as he thought how
easy it was to throw snuff in the hens
eyes, but lol Biddy picked up the ace
she had named, and raked in the SUI
gar.
an be hanged film not discouraged
trying to earn an honest living" cried
the hawk, thowing down the cards in
disgust; and he thercupon not only
turned robber, but he ate the her to
boot.
Moral.--Never discourage thrift and
integrity by taking money from a
three card monte player.--M Quad.
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From Every Cline.
From the New York Herald,

The statistics kept at Castle Garden
show among other interesting things
the number of aliens landing at this
port from each of the countries of the
globe. A statement OF this sort, cover
ing the nine msnths that have elapsed
since the LIST of January, 1882 has just
been prepared. OF the whole number
of foreign steerage and cabin passen--
gerst there were 206,597 adult males,
104 $40 adult males, and SO, 166 chill
dren who were under II years of age.
From England there came $3.50 per
sons; from Ireland, 45,650; Scotland
II AS; Wales, 3,446; Germany. 159,
Gil; Austria, 2,144; Hungary, 6,913;
Sweden, 81 ,675; Norway, 1891; Den
mark, II ,342; Netherlands, 6,606; Bel
GUM, SIS; Switzerland, 9,312; France,
1878; Italy, 22,505; Roumania, Sc;
Greece, 90; Spain. 1,229; Portugal, 6;
Russia, 14,914; Luxenburg, 404; Bo-
hemia, G, 227; Turkey in Europe. 115;
India, 5; China. 277; Japan, 8; British
East Indies, IL; Africa, 104; British
America, 303; West Indies, 1851:
Mexico, 256; Central America, 1872;
South America. 352; Sandwich Islands,
1; Australia, 81; New Zealand, 8; Ice
land and Greenland, 5; Bermudas, SO.
The total number who came from Eu-
rome was 391. 42S.
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Thirteen Bridal Couples.

There have been in the city, at a
quick estimate, more than fifty bridal
couples during the week, and IN one
hotel Yesterday there were sheltered
eighteen brides and husbands. But
thew scatter while here, and one meets
them even on top of Washington Mon
ument. But the trip to Mount Vernon
concentrates them, brings them to-
eether as it were; for, by the mysterl-
Gus inspiration of newly welded lie,
Il has come to be felt that trip to
Washington is special happiness, and
a visit to Mount Vernon Is a special
GOOD omen. Yesterday Captain Blake
took thirteen couple down the river to
the historic spot.
Perhaps the prettiest sight of the
day was that witnessed at the tomb.
The eager, pushing throne had gone up
the hill ahead, and ut the tomb were
entertained by very red-nosed man,
who had much to say about the sar-
cophagi, and who seemed to be sell
appointed guide. He had led the
throng away when the young married
people reached the tomb. They formed
q phalanx in front of it, and the &C
curacy with which they ranged them
selves was all the more striking, be-
cause it was unprecedented. There
they were, man and woman alternat-
ing, standing before the tomb OF the
father of his country like thirteen
couples before the altar.
The dresses of the brides were OF
various shades, russell brown predomi-
mating, and ali wore jaunty hats. A
little, slender bride on the extreme
right actually laughed, but SO merrily
and innocently that the sound did not
seem any more irreverent than the
song of the bird in the oak over her
head. A giant bridegroom seemed
constrained and looked difidently at
the woman at his right, who was the
other mans bride; and the boyish-
looking groom at the extreme left, IN
the pepper-and-salt business suit,
seemed to be saying sentimental things
to the girl in drab on his arm. Now,
the strange feature of all this Vas the
utter Inconsistencies each couple
seemed to have of the others presence;
but it was to be noted that when at
last the giant and his peach checked
bride broke the line and started leisure
ly toward the house the others were
not slow to follow Washington Cgp'tdl.
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Facts of Interest.

The Baroness Burdett- Coutts. Bartlett
owns the smallest pony in the world.
1t stands thirteen inches high, and is
five years of age.
Milwaukee cliims 10 have the largest
brewery on this continent, and the sec
ond largest in the world. This estab-
lishment turns out 100000 barrels of
beer per annun.
"Bitter beer ia England has re-
ceived deadly blow at the hands of
the Northwestern Railway Company,
which has recently purchased a large
herd of COWS and proposes hencetorth
to supply pure and wholesome milk
to thirsty passengers, who have hither-
to had no recourse except beer.
One of the curious consequences OF
the construction of the Suez canal has
been the introduction into the Medit-
erranean Sea of sharks, which were
formerly almost unknown there. The
sharks have proved very destructive
to the edible fish, and it is now difficult
for fishermen to supply the demand.
C.P. Bailey, of San Jose, CAL, Col.
Richard Peters, of Atlanta, Ga, and
Col. Robert Scott, of Frankfort, KY,
are the goat kings OF America, Mr..
Bailey alone having herd of 5000
Angoras on his ranch in Nevada. Last
year he shipped eastward 10000
pounds of mohair at sixty cents per
pound, and during the past two years
he has sold $4,000 worth Of goats.
A small-sized mammoth cave has
been discovered near Sierra Valley,
Cal. Its interior is said to be marvel
ously beautiful. From the roofs of the
chambers huge stalactitcs are grouped
II grotesque positions.
The official report on silk culture in
Hungary Is encouraging. There were
1876 cultivators last year, against but
1859 in 1880, and the product amount
ed to 1887 kilogrammes of cocoons
against 1912 killogrammes in the year
preceding, the values of the same re-
spectively being SIT ,425 and $4,61O. A
school for sericulture is to be estab-
lished under government patronage.
The payments out of the Wisconsin
treasury last year FOR bounties on wild
animals were $21 .5S1, representing the
interest on $40 600, SO that the wild
beasts of the state are equivalent to an
incumbrance of over hall million dol
| lars.
With new apparatus for ascertain
ing the velocity of railway trains, a
train weighing 125 tons and travelling
at a speed of forty. i've miles an hour
has been found to run on level track
q few feet more than five miles after
steam had been shut off.
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Josh Billings, Jannf.

I met Josh Billings wondering aim
lessly down broadway, writes a New
York correspondent. He had rot been
seen in New York for several months.
ave thought you were dead" said J..
The philosopher neither laughed nor
sneered, but looked solemn. "Not
dead, said he, and drawing me to one
side in a nook, he told M all about it.
He has Just returned from long jaunt
through New England and Canada in a
top-buggy. So excited is he over this
way Of seeing the country that he is
telling his friends with wild, sweeping
gestures, that it is the only way to travel
You would naturally suppose that when
his tall, round-shouldered form, sur
mounted by a big solemn face, framed
with long, struggling locks, made its
appearance in village, it created a
sensation. 1t did. A crowd would sur.
round him and Mrs. J. b., who held
the lines all the way. before he could
alight from his carriage. The crowd
would clamor for a speech, and he
wuuld agree to read them his lecture
on "The Probabilities Of Life"-the
same old lecture under new name, he
says, which he has been reading for
nineteen years. 1t is very peculiar
lecture, just as everything about the
man is peculiar. There is no more be-
ginning or end to it than there is to a
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FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

Two deaths by yellow fever and nine
new cases are reported from Pensacola.
TIE wooden railroad bridge a cross the
Susquehanna river at Great Bend was
burned Tuesday.
A LOSS of 100000 was caused at To
ronto, Saturday, by the burning of the
storehouse of the Hamilton and Western
railway.
2 FIVE business places at Shreveport, La,
valued at sos. 600. were swept away by
fire Tuesday.
THE death by apoplexy of Rear Ad-
miral Chas. II. Poor is announced in q
dispatch from Washington. He entered
the navy in 1927.
THE Lake Shore fast train from Chi
sago, while passing through Cleveland
early Sunday morning. killed John
Gibbs, an employe of the Whipple manu-
featuring company, who was walking on
the track
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Chicago ct.

CaIcAso, Nov. 10 Flour -Quiet and un-
changed. Wheat lpastive and lower regular
OK for seller November; 81 for seller Decem-
Der 92& for seller the year; sszs Ge5 for seller
January; i.00H for seller May; Ne. Chicago
spring, 92z for seller cash; rest same reg
ular No. Chicago spring, SIX; No. red
winter e5 for seller cash; 951s 096 for seller
November; No. 3 winter, 91k; rejected 6s. Corn
Demand active, prices advanced; 73x for seller
cash; 6sx G6sz for seller November; 625f as
for scllsr December; 62g. for seller the year;
Sax a IS for seller JANUARY; 55X 80 for seller
May rejected. 6s. oats-ouiet; 34k9S4h for
seller cash; "a for seller November; SSa for
seller December, the year. and January; S5H
for seller May; rejected, 3lGS1k. Rye
Steady; 56K. Barley-Higheri 81. Flax Seed
Dali; LI5ka116. Pork-Lower, 2o.5oG
2l.e0 for seller cash; l9.20els.22h for seller
November; 1s.50GIs. sex for seller December
and the year; 1s.52aGls.55 for seller Janu-
AIRY; is. 55g1s.5Tss for seller February; ls.s09
1885 for seller May. Lard--Lower; 1L4T q 1l.se
for seller cash; lI.2TAGIl.30 for seller No
vember; II.12Aal1.I5 for seller December, the
year and January; Il.15G1l.l7ss for seller
Febrsary; 1l-22a 9l1.35 for seller May. Bulk
Meass--In fair demand; shoulders. 7.50;
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International Rifle Matches.

Pursuant to resolution adopted by
the National Rifle Association, Mr..
George j. Seabury, its Secretary, has
forwarded letter to the Council of
the National Rifle Association bf Great
Britain, in relation of the proposed
return rifle match next year. After
complimenting the Britishers on their
victory at Cfeedmoor, it qualities the
compliment by mentioning the adyan-
tage under which the visitors shot, aid
declares the object of the match to
be the creating of friendly rivalry and
the bringing of the military rifle to
perfection. Particular stress is laid
upon the American success in shoot
ng with the sporting rifle as opposed
o their failure with the military weap-
on, and a request is made that the
time Of enlistments be extended to
Jan. /, 1888. The privilege to use the
Yind-gauge is also requested.
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circle. 1t is made up of two and three
line paragraphs that have no conzec-
ton or dependence upon one another
whatever. He cannot write in any other
style. Just rs soon as he attempts to
expand one of his aphorisms, he says,
it loses its essence. Taking his note
book from his pocket, he showed me
how he wrote his ayings. His ideas
come to him without effort, and they
are jotted down on hespot, but thought
is afterward given TO them to test their
truth, and to improve their form. He
has his own notion of humor Accord
ing to his theory, there can be no
humor that is not based upon truth.
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HUMOROUS.

Fair weather makes corn; foul y cath
er makes 'em ache.
When does q clock conceal itself;
When it gets behind time.
Say, for instance, 3 dog loses his paw,
and rooster loses It's NAV, does it make
orphans of them?
Philadelphia citizens are very well
liked at home, judging from the reward
offered for their return when they leave
the city
The Cars version of the familiar
hymn would be:
I'm going home, I'm going home,
Tn going home to ay-na-mite.'
Twice within the last week, says a
western contemporary, temperance
audience in Oskaloosa, Iowa, have been
disappointed by total abstinence lectur-
ers, who were too drunk to lecture.
A subscriber wrote to an editor in the
west: 81 don't want your paper any
longer" To which the editor replied
81 would not make it any longer even
if you did; its present length just suits
me-"
"Marmion" has been voted out of the
Ontario public schools as an immoral
poem. Probably Il book-publisher in
that region who had a lot OF copies he
desired to sell contrived to influence
the school authorities.
An advertisement in a western paper
offers fashionable" piano for sale.
Mrs. Yeast was at loss TO know what
fashionable piano really was, but she
has come to the conclusion that it must
be one that is banged"
"What station is this?" asked a lady
passenger of an English tourist near by
Looking out of the indow and reading
sign on the fence, he replied, Trough
on Rats, | guess, num-"
Statistics are fine things. When q mar
gets smashed up on the railroad it must
be great consolation for him to reflect
that on the average only one passenger
in several millions gets hurt.
Mrs. McCoble, an Austin lady, rebuk.
ed her colored cook, Matilda SNOWFALL,
in the following words: when | hired
you, you said you didn't have any male
| friendl, and now linda man in the
kitchen half the time" 'Lor' bress
your soul, he amt no male friend oil
mine" who is he, thenY 'He am
only my husband"
Professor Swing characterizes the
''Salvation Army" in England as brio a.
brac in religion harmonious blend
ing of the clergyman and Oscar Wilde. y
Ex-Governor Fenton has just resign.
ed the office of Village Trustee o:
jamestown, N. Y, in the expectation
of being absent from the town for sew
eral months.
Mr.. Thurlow Weeds condition con-
tinues much the same. He rests com.
fortably, being free from pain, but feels
very weak through inability to partakt
of sufficient nourishment.
Father Chiniquy the we'll khowr
French Canadian Protestant and mis-
sionary, has left Springfield, Mass, fol-
Chicago, where he will deliver few
lectures. He then expects togo to Eng
lard for month or two,
The first Congregational church, Col
umbus. o., has extended unanimous
call to Rev. Washington GLADDEN., LII
D., of Springfield, Mass. to become its
pastor, and confidentially believes that
he will accept.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-16
AN ODD LITTLE INDUSTRY.
How the Oil of Wfntergreen is Dis
titled in the Forests OF Pennsylyan.
Providence Journal.

Providence Journal.
The manufacture of oil of winter
green has some interesting features--in
fact, nothing from shoe peg to loco
motive is without details of more or
less interest to sill readers. Just at this
time the essence of wintergreen is
very high-as high as So a
pound The oil of wintergreen comes
chiefly FROM New York State and
Pennsylvania where the wintergreen
vines and birch trees grow in album
dance. Wintergreen is a plant COM
mon in nearly all parts of the country,
but not in every part do the inhabi-
tants therefore make the oil of winter
green. The makers of wintergreen
essence are under the surveillance of
the government.
The oil is made from wintergreen
when wintergreen is abundant. Ii il
is not plenty, birch is used. The plant
of an oil-maker consists of furnace
made of rough stones, boiler, tin
pipe trough, a barrel and running
brook. The tin pipe leads from the
top of the boiler through the water in
the trough to barrel. Under the end
of the pipe is placed barrel and on
the end Of the pipe in the tarrel is
hung a glass jar. The boiler is filled
with water and birch bark and winter
green twigs. A fire is built, the steam
Is forced through tin pipe, and is
condensed by the pipes passing
through the water in the trough. The
oil of wintergreen and the water fall
into the glass jar, but the oil being
heavier than the water, goes to the
bottom of the jar, while the water
runs over into the barrel and is used
again.
The business is carried on in certain
seasons, both day and night, as the pot
must be kept boiling. The men who
work at this business make THEN
homes during the season in the forest
or field wherever the birch or winter
green is to be found. They enjoy s.r
allseason picnic unless the Interna
Revenue Collector ''drop down" upon
them, as he has done upon many, ano
collects $50 for every stilthke appara
tus he finds. 1t is supposed that some
of the rude affairs for condensing
which the government calls stills are
so concealed in the forest that the col
lector does not find them. The man
ufacturers dispose of it THE oil) tt
apothecaries for about 81 pound
who after diluting with alcohol, sell i
to confectloners and others at the
usual apothecaries' profit.
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The Will of Miss Barbara Scott, a
wretched old woman who inherited
several fortunes and increased them
nv every means which her misery in
stincts could devise, has been upheld
bv the superior court in Montreal.
MeGill university gets 10000, and va
rious hospitals, churches, and charit-
able institutions receive the rest. For
wears before her death she lived isoiat-
ed in the old f mily mansion in the
suburbs of the city, until the dirt and
filth became. so intolerasle that the
hoard of health was forced to interfere.
She refused even to employ a female
domestic. but allowed an old man to
visit the house daily to do chores. She
died without any attendant, and, when
the executors took possession, thou
sands ofdollars were found rolled up IN
scraps of old paper. Not the least
remnant of food was discovered in the
house. and the doctors thought she
starved herself to death. The relatives,
who were practically ignored tried 10
break the will on the ground of insani-
ty. but the court held that the testatrix
was of imposing mind though eccentric
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Indian Marriage Laws.

A paper on this subject, read by the
Rev. j. Owen Dorsey, before the Anne
rican association, notices some remark
able customs in relation to marriages
and kindship as prevailing among the
Degitha Indians, particularly by the
Omahas and Poncas.
When tribe is hunting, it camps, by
gentes or nations, in circle, each gems
bearing the name Of some amin al
All the members Of one gems are re-
latives, and marriage between members
or one gems is absolutely forbidden.
Membership in a gems is by descent In
the male line, not in the female. The
relations of man are denoted by col
ors for example-black, grandfather or
grandmother; blue, father or mother.
His connections are denoted by mixed
colors, such as pink head and skirt,
with light-biue triangle on the body, for
sister-in-law. A man can marry his
brothers widow, and her children call
him father even before there fathers
death. His sisters children are only
nephews and nieces. His mothers sis
ter is always called mother for the
same reason, and even his paternal
grandfather's brothers. son is his father.
These and many other distinctions
show that the terms of relationship are
far more numerous and complicated
with the Omahas than with us. A man
may marry any woman belonging to
another gems, whether connected with
him or not; though marriage into his
mothers gems is also forbidden. A man
can not marry any woman to whom he
is relate by the ceremony Of the culu-
metdance. Sometimes man may
take the children of his deceased
brother without their mother herself.
Sometimes the dying husband, know
ing that his male kindred are bad, tells
his wife to marry out of his gems. 1t a
widower remains single for two three
or four years, he must remain SO for
ever. Widows, however, must wait four
years before remarrying. The same
system prevails among the Iowa, otos,
and Missouris.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-16

THE first purchase of California red
wood timber lands for eastern account
by Buffalo syndicate during the past
summer has created demand among
local capitalists, who have recently
bought about seven thousand acres on
Eel river, Humboldt. county, known as
the Ralsten tract. The price paid Is re-
ported at 100000. This syndicate pro-
poses to build a railway from the tract
to tide-water at Humboldt bay, a dis
lance of some twenty miles. Prominent
lumber men of Chicago and Detroit
have had representatives in California
at various times during the past year,
with view of ultimately using red
wood for finishing work in place of white
pine.
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The Famous India Jugglers.

A Hindoo, leetaring in Brooklyn, said
of the famous India jugglers: 4Jhey
can swallow chain and make it c,ink
in their stomach, and also can swallow
sword. The Magic trick is one of
their best feats. They procure a small
piece of wood, and having planted it in
the ground they ask the bystan Ter what
fruit he would prefer. The juggler,
wrapped in sheet, will crouch to the
earth, and through rent in the gar
ment one can see him cut himself with
q razor under his arms and rub piece
of wood in his blood. The tree then
comes forth, FIRST as sprout, then full
of leaves, and finally bearing fruit"
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A Dress barometer for Women,

Are you going down town this
morning" asked South End belle Of
her friend. "Why, do you know, |
haven't thing suitable to wear"
"Where's that big ruffied suit?' "Oh,
I'm not going to wear that I've
worn that three times already, and
George says look like a picked chick
en- looking through a hedge in it, and
she obliged herself to wait for q couple
Of weeks for sealskin sack weather
to appear. What woman needs is a
dress barometer that shall decide just
what she shsl! wear every day.-Boston
GLnbe.