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tricirys claimed to have the
same effect as age, mellowing
the wines by the decomposition
Of the bitartrate of potash.
The electric light was used
in a recent search for three per-
sons who had lost their way in
an attempt to ascend a peak OF
the Alps. The use Of the light
was not successful. but the idea
seems to have been a good one,
and in many similar cases might
serve to direct the wanderers.
The terrible strength of glass
has been shown to be between
1000 and 5000 pounds per
square inch, and the crushing
strength between 5000 and Io,-
900 pounds per square inch.
By trials a short time ago, M.
Traulionie found that flooring
glass, one inch square and one
foot between the end supports,
breaks under a load of 40
pounds.
Alarge fortune Of several mil
lion francs was left by M. Henry
Clifford, the eminent engineer,
who recently died at his home
in Paris, to the French Govern
ment for use in promoting the
progress of scientific discovery.
An English gentleman has
exhibited a hyacinth which, in
consequence of being under a
stone, had blossomed six inches
below the surface of the ground.
The leaves were white, but the
flowers were a deep purple.
Camels live from 40 to 50
years; horses average from Is
to 80, oxen, about 20; sheep 8
or 9; and dogs IL to ID. Con-
corning the ages attained by
non-domesticated animals only
a few isolated facts are known.
The East Indians believe that
the life-period of elephants is
about 900 years, instances being
recorded ofthese animals having
lived 1870 years in confinement
after capture at an unknown
age. Whales are estimated to
reach the age of 400 years. /
Some reptiles are very long
lived, an instance being furnish
ed by a tortoise which was con-
fined in 1858 and existed until
1923, when it persisted by an
accident. Birds sometimes
reach a great age, the eagle and
the swan having been known to
live 100 years The longevity
of fishes is often remarkable
The carp has been known to |
live 200 years; common river |
trout, 50 years; and the pike, 90 |
years, while Gesner-Swiss. ma
turalist-relates
s. III F.. :.
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THE flow of the gold tide has
changed and now it is going to
Europe instead OF coming here.
Three million dollars gold was
shiBped from New York.
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THE federal positions in Tex
as are filled without regard to
Gov. Davis wishes, and every
man in the state knows it who,
knows anything about it.
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CANNED GooDs.-)ust receiv-
ed afresh supply of canned
vegetables, fruits, etc.
]. J. LIEB.
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| pOlNNNfOIl WOIlH last TIludy'
The Flatonio Argus urges
the business men of its town to
have good roads; its entire trade
depends upon having good high
ways.
The chairman of the Har-
ris county democratic execu-
tive committee has called a
county convention to meet on
the nth of July.
The Bolton correspondent Of
the Temple Times remarks that
the scarcity of news compels
him to be brief-his letter makes
over a column.
- Rev. Hodges is now run
ming opposition to Brother Penn;
he has gospel tent in north
Texas, and lately converted
sinners in Gainesville.
= Two men named Martin
and Mcdonald were arrested
near Shreveport the other day,
charged with completely in the
train robbery at Ranger.
The commissioners court
of Austin county has agreed to
exempt the Santa Fe railway
from taxation as ordered by the
same court some years ago.
1t is settled that on the
goth OF June Guiteau will sus-
pend. His last public appear
ance will be made on that day.
He will literally drop out of ex-
istence.
DIR. F. w. Smith, charged
with setting fire to his store in
Denton and burning the south
side of the town, abouta month
ago, has been bound over to an
swer before the district court.
= Over in Smith county they
are having June apples. The
variety known as June apples
are the earliest, hence they have
them in May; the ordinary
May apple does not ripen till
July.
The Bonham News says
that Dallas whiskey makes peo-
pie want to shoot somebody or
commit suicide. Bonham, Par
is and the other local option
towns to the east of Dallas draw
their supplies of whiskey from
Dallas.
"A drunken man at Waco
stopped to rest by hanging his
head over a picket fence; his
knees weakened and he was
caught. A wide-awake police
man discovered him in time to
save his life; he took him -
to the calaboose.
-Waxahachie had s
fire last Thursday nigh
ty-fve buildings mort
square were consumed
ing a loss of about
much of which wa
The office of the 4
newspaper, was cref
The Llano Ru,
if Gen. Robertso16
ernor he will be
that will
who think $1,000
vincible. The R
ond paper that
general any con
Dallas couu
than dozen can
legislature lurkiE
shade. The i
man to go to-
who will not tai
oath to limit the
railroad and
panies.
One of tl
ty at the con-
known as
drowned hS
;istern at
lad been
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ES~ My friend, look here you know
how weak and nervous your wife is, and
you know that Carter's Iron Pills will re-
lieve her, now why not be fair about it and
buy her box? Sold by Finklea & Ralston.
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For Sale.

For Sale.
l will sell the set of parlor
furniture used at the opera house
at bargain.
A. SIMON.
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Garden Seed.

Garden Seed.
A complete assortment of
Ferry garden seed, fresh and
warranted for sale at ! 7. LEIl
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Ea5" The medicines composing Carter's
Liver BitterS are all American, fresh, home
grown, active and valuable. They form 4
bitters which cannot be used without bene-
fit. See advertisement. For sale by Fink
lea & Rnlstnn
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A SPECIAL troF &
to the Galveston
the killing OF MOS
was noted loci
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JUDGE MchEH
United states mar
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and IS worthy ai
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AN Independent q
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ton' ior governor, is "a
Austin: 1t IS to be
by FINLEY, Crosby, Z
SraWtora ana perhaps
ouch a movement WI
FRANK r AMEs is oecs
quite ubiquitous; latterly ne n
Deen seen IN nan a dozen tow
at the same TIME. "A Gay
TWO ago ne was at dallas and a
nunoer OF flnKertons detec-
yves were looking Tor MN and
RANK JACKSON late OF the Bass
gang.
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The original Little Liver Pills" are DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets" and
are extensively initiated. They cure sick
and bilious headache. Private government
stamp with DR.. Pierce's signature and por-
trait mark the genuine. By druggists.
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Bpeaking, star
iood circulation
has hitherto been
be the heart in
hsss simply a gland.
been noticed that
Especially when hard and
improved in flavor by
hge of an electric cur
ugh them. The cleo
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BuggieS, Hacks and Wagons.
A full line kept on hand and
for sale at bottom figures.
L. ]. LocKETT.
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R9 Every nervous person should Try
Carter's Little Nerve Pills. They are made
specially for nervous and dySpeptic men
and women, and are Just the medicine
needed by ailPersons who, from any cause,
do not sleep well, or who fail to get proper
strength from their food. Gases of weak
stomach, indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
and sick headache. &C., readily yield to the
use of the Little Nerve Pills, particularly
if combined with Carriers Little Liver Pills.
In walls at IS cents by Finklea & Ralston.
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MATHUsHEl
Agent for theN

Parties desiring their InstruHierts
their orders at my Music StoA
Prof. Chas. FELTON,, a
B@ Orders by Mail Re-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-16
FOREIGN

THE Mexican press views with disfavoi
any reciprocity treaty with the United
States.
THE Swiss Federal Council denies that
there are any anarchist committees in that
country.
EgLIsTMENTs at Cairo for the expedi-
ton against the False Prophet are pro-
crossing satisfactorily, and many Ger.
man and amnestied off GERS have rendered
their services.
THE Spanish cabinet at a meeting Sat
urday. over which King Alphonso pre-
sided, resolved not TO surrender the Cuban
refugees to England.
THE Lyons socialists held riotous
meeting Saturday night, in which the po-
lice, upon interfering to prevent trouble
were pelted with mud and hustled about
and cries of ''Long live social revolutionp
rent the air.
DUBLIN journals oppose the granting Of
the freedom of that city to Gen. Wolseleyt
as on two distant occasions he expressed a
hearty willingness to lead an expedition
to ireland to uench insurrection AIRY
fires.
HERR BEBEL, the German socialist, ha'
commenced to serve term OF three
months in prison at Leipsic, for using the
press to express his sentiments in regard
to the government.
TRooPs occupy all the strategic points
in Lyons, prepared 10 act at the first ap.
pearance of trouble. If any more explo
sions occur, the city will be placed under
martial law. A quantity Of dynamite hal
been seized by the police.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-16
A Circus ROmanee-The Fat Girl and
the Living Skeleton.
~ want a bundle OF old papers. "

81 want bundle OF ola papers.
"What do you want them for?"
"Well, you see, after we get through
reading them, we feed them to the only
Egyptian Bovaltpus. to clear his voice,
besides the patent medicine advertise
ments in the papers purify his system
and prevent him from contrac ting the
chills, and other malarial attractions
YOU have down here in Texas"
"You seem to be connected with the
circus?"
eyes, travel with the circus. How
did you come to find it out? Who gave
me away.?"
"Just guessed it."
"Well, you must come around and
see our curiosities. You may not have
the curiosity to see them, but we have
the curiosity to show"
eTo what curiosities do you REFER"
ave have got living skeleton who
is thinner than the defense in the star
route case. He is SO thin that when
we were in Georgia he frequently re-
ceieved an immense popular applause,
being mistaken for Alex. Stephens.
Then we have got a fat girl who kicks
the beam at 573 pounds, / mean figur-
ativelyspeaking. Of course she couldn't
kick D at all, and she wouldn't do it
if she could, for she is very shy and re-
firing, owingI suppose, to her having
travelled with circus. That brings
out all the latent modesty there is in a
person"
"How long have you been travelling
with a circus ?"
s.Not very long, but don't you put
any of these statistics in Texas Sifti,lgs
She is very musical, but of course she
can't get close enough to piano to play
on it, so she has to sit off and strike
the keys with couple OF croquet
mallets. It's wonderful, wonderful I"
''Sne mutt be quite contrast to the
living skeleton
"She is, but the funniest part of it is
that he began to pay her attentions,
and finally he fell in love with her, and
offered her his hand-skeleton hand !;
and told her he would stand between
her and the storms of adversely. Just
think of it, she as big as one Of these
water tanks you see on the railroad,
and he only weighing So pounds when
he has got an overcoat on. But he was
dead in earnest. He told her that if
she would be his she would never re-
greet it; that he never knew what love
was until he saw her"
"How did she take it?"
ssShe just laughed at him. The idea
was so comical that it put her in a
good humor, and she laughed and
grew fat. The more she laughed, tn
fatter she got, and the circus has in
creased her wages, as she laughed 175
pounds to her weight in a few weeks.
"How did the living skeleton take
it?'
"Poor fellow, it nearly killed him.
He fell off one pound and half in two
weeks. That's not as big falling off as
that of the Republican vote in Ohio, but
it is right smart for man only weigh
ing about sixty pounds, after square
meal. He has never smiled since that
day when, on his attempting 10 en-
circle her waist with his anatomical
right arm, she threatened to sit down
on him."
'sThey are thrown great deal to-
gether travelling on the cars.
II should say they were thrown To-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-11-16
COLLEGE ATHLETIC SPORTS.
Sweeping Charges TO be Made i'm theil
Management at Harvard.
Roston Herald


DIR. Dudley A. Sargent, for the athlet-
ic committee of the Harvard University
faculty, has issued a set of rules which
will make a sweeping change In the
management, direction, and tendency
of college athletics of every kind at
Harvard. The faculty has scarcely ever
interfered with the sports of the stu
dents, but the number OF sports and OF
students, and the influence which
athletics are exerting. have, it appears,
seemed to it to demand attention. No
college club or athletic association of
Harvard is allowed to compete with
professionals. This rule will only affect
the base ball nine, which is now debar-
red from playing the Bostons, Metro
politans, and other professional clubs.
No person is allowed to assume the
functions of trainer or instructor in
athletics ON the college grounds or in
the college buildings without written
authority from the committee. No stu
dent will be allowed to take part in any
athlethic sport or competition without
previous examination and permission
by the director of the gymnasium. No
person after this year, will be allowed
to row in any crew unless he can swim.
These last two provisions are deemed
excellent in their way and are expected
to go a great way toward warding of
danger in athletics, they not allowing
student to compete in an exhibition
unless he be physically able to endure
the test and strain.
The provision relating to swimming
will compel every candidate for the
university crew to learn the natatorial
art, and will tend to prevent repeti-
ton, at least with Harvard, and of the
sad calamity suffered by Columbia last
summer at New London. No match
base ball game can hereafter be played
out side of Cambridge on any other
day than Saturday without permission
from the committee. This rule, il is
thought, will interfere much with the
unworthy nine, as most of the intercol-
legiate games fall on other days than
Saturday. The freshmen games, COM
ing mostly on Saturday, will not be in
terfered with to any extent. Probably
the new rules will secure more atten-
ton to their studies by all students m
nected with the athletic organizations.
1t is believed, however, that the COM
mittee will not DE inclined to be more
stringent than is just and for the interest
of all concerned. The base ball nine
viii suffer more than any other inter-
est. The practice with professional
has been Of great benefit to them in
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fGeOrgian'S Shit.

In 1864, while Gen. Sherman was
passing through this section, the Kings,
a wealthy family of Roosevelt, owned a
factory worth about $4,000. In order
to keep Sherman from burning it, they
transferred it without consider. .tion to
Theophils Roche, Freedman en-
ployed in the factory, whereupon the
Frenchman raised the French flag
upon the property and claimed protec-
ton under it. Sherman disregarded
the flag and burnt down the factory
and put Roche under arrest. Roche
now sues the United States foy $4,000
and interest, damages for destruction
of property, and $4,000 damages for
his arrest and imprisonment, interest
and all aggregating about $125, 900. G..
]. Jenkins, attorney at law, has been
appointed commissioner, before whom
the testimony in the case will be taken
at Archaeological Chronicle.
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Riellmond in Var Times.

Mary w. Early, in the Philadelphia Times.
Every Tuesday evening during the
winter, we had meeting of what we
called "The Starvation Club, our re-
freshments consisting of cold water;
but as we had excellent music, high
spirits and youthful bouyancy, we en-
joyed these meetings greatly and
danced away merrily with the young
officers. / remember one of these who
had won golden spur, of which he
was so proud that he wore it at y meet
ing of our stub, spreading havoc among
the young girls, whose trains he ruth
lessly tore.
At other entertainments we had
handsome and abundant suppers, even
during the utmost stringency of the
blockade, for the Richmond people
could still command fowls, game and
old Virginia hams, though imported
wines and Java and Mocha coffee were
scarcely more than things of the past.
Our costumes, especially during the
last and most brilliant social season OF
the war, the winter of 1S64-65 up to
February, were "far from complete"
bnt, as nearly all of us (women at
we were seldom made TO feel badly by
seeing our neighbors dressed better
than ourselves, o test rs fatal 10 female
friendship as the one Cowper lays
down:
1.-THE nymph must lose her female friend
If more admired than She"
Ohe's envy was seldom excited by
seeing our friends in "store clothes, as
backwoods people express it, except in
some rare instance where persons IN
Baltimore or other northern cities would
contrive TO smuggle trunk or box OF
things through the blockade to friends
or relatives in Richmond. There was
striking picturesqueness in street life in
those old days, even in the unconscious
grouping of men, with their snowy uni
forms and eager faces. Almost hourly
you would see something of interest on
the streets, drill, dress parade,
procession, or something stirring and
imposing. The capitol square was
used as drill and parade ground for
some time, and every evening at
O'Clock the band would strike uI, and
hosts of young people who made the
square their rendezvous would flock
thither. "The Mocking Bird" and
"Twinkling Stars" were especially
popular airs, played almost every eve
ming by the band.
The old fair grounds at the west et
of Granklia street (now Monroe Park
were used for drills during the white.
of 1858 Ga. Sometimes whole regi-
ments would pass through the city on
their way to join one of our generals,
and the pageantry of military funerals
was thing very familiar to us. / re-
member Of being especially touched by
the funeral of young cavalry officer,
a Captain Fairfax. believe, whose
death occurred in December, 1862.
The coffin was borne through the
streets wrapped in Confederate flag,
while the slain warriors horse was led
behind, and the air vibrated With SOL
emn strains of a funeral march. The
most imposing funeral witnessed dur
ing the war was that Of Gen. Dimmock
in October, 1868, Still greater were
the honors paid to the remains of
Stonewall Jackson as they Jay in state
in the capitol in Richmond.
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acquiring GOODNESS and steadiness, and
in accustoming them to meet foemen
worthy of their steel. An attempt to
induce Yale to join the other colleges
in similar crusade against profession
ais failed, because Yale has gained
more by practice against professionals
than any other college, and because, by
giving up this custom, it would probab-
ly seriously endanger and impair its
own interests. Harvard has thus far led
all other colleges in general athletics
under the workings of the old system,
and, although there has been much
grumbling at some of the new rules,
especially that relating to professionals,
there Is said to be considerable curiosity
among the students as to the result OF
the new arrangements.
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gether great deal on these Texas rail-
roads, but they were thrown more to-
gether yesterday, about fifteen miles
from Austin, than they have ever been
before. They were in the same car with
lot of other curiosities, and there was
.. break down on the train"
ssDo you N can niger dancer
mo, mean smash-up. Their car
stood up on one end, and remained
that way, all the occupants, according
to the laws of gravitation, being jam
med together. ] was afraid everybody
was killed. Mr.. Doris, one of the pro-
prietors, was nearly crazy, for fear
some one of the midgets and the fat
woman had telescoped. 1t was dread
full. The living skeleton was damned
up in one corner with the fat girl and
two midgets on top. / should say they
were thrown into each others company
some, but the living skeleton didn't
mind it. He said that the half hour
he spent in her company was the hap
piest in his life. We pulled him out
through the window, but we had the
mischief of time getting the fat girl
out-had to lift her out with a der
rick"
'sDo you think she will ever look
upon the living skeleton otherwise ex-
cept in the light of brother"
'She hates him worse than ever.
Poor devil, / feel sorry for him, but the
fats in the fire now, after what he did
this morning"
"What did he do2'
"Well, you see, he imagined she
would love him if there was no such q
contrast in their personal appearances.
What do you think he did?'
"Don't know"
"He bought bottle of anti fat rem e.
dy and gave it to her. That hurt her
feelings. She imagined that he meant
to intimate that she was too fat to be
good looking. She tried to catch him.
If she had she would have sat down on
him, certain, but it was like a COW try
ing to catch a mouse. He avoided her
for the first time. Jec whilikins want
she mad Y
Just at this crisis the noise of brass
band was heard, and the circus man
gathering up his bundle of old papers
and skipping across the street, tossed
them up to the shabby-looking driver o.
the gilt edged chariot. on the top o.
which roasted the $4,000 beauty-and
that was the last we saw of him.