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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

THE St Paul Pioneer-Press is oppos-
ed to prohibition the question of
which is now agitating the people of
Minnesota as we'll as Of other North
western States, and in referring to the
subject says: 1T is precisely because
the Pioneer Press earnestly desires TO
promote the cause of genuine or NOR
al temperance that it is opposed to the
sham substitute of legal or compul.
sorry abstinence. 1t is opposed to pro-
hibition first of all because it is a ty-
rannical invasion by the State of the
appropriate domain of individual lib
erty in the most oppressive aIad vexa.
tious of all the forms in which the
despotism of the majority can assert
itself. If there is any department OF
a mans natural rights in which he
may reasonably claim exemption from
governmental interference it is Ger.
tainly his right to choose for himself
what he shall eat or what he shall
drink, not to mention other matters
which fall into the same category"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17
Examination Questions for Graduation Issued
Last ring.


AS there are many of the pupils of
the schools of the county who
would like to know about the
examinations required to be passed
in order to get the County Diploma,
we give the questions sent out by
the Co. Superintendent this season,
so that every pupil In the county may
see what is required of them in order
to get this token of honest, honorable
work done in the school.room.
DIRECTIONS.
l. You will please add enough ques-
tions to each list so that there will be
10 in each branch.
2. See that all work is honorabty
done.
5. Hold the examinations as soon
as possible; examine and mark papers,
and send them with both sets of ques-
tions) to me by March 25, 1882.
4. The final examination for grad
uation will be held at Maiden Rock,
April lst, 1882.
5. Work will begin promptly at 10
q. m.
6. Please come and assist me in
the oral examination. Yours truly.
A. RosENBERGER, Co. Supt
(No. l. READING.
|. What are the requisites for good
reading, and why?
2. Define monotone, and state
whether it is or is not too common,
and why!
8. Distinguish volume from stress
of voice, and state how to apply each.
4. Define emphasis, and state vari-
cites and modes.
Select a piece to read at the final
examination, and be prepared to give
a brief oral analysis of it. and a biog-
rapby of its author.
no. q oRrHoEPY.
/. State how voice is produced, and
into what classes it is distinguished, ,
and whyI
2. Make and name the diacritical
marks of Webster.
3. Define accent and each variety,
and state use of each.
4. Write all the single letter diph-
thongs, and their elements.
5. Phonetically spell oaght, physi-
cal, sleigh.
6. Write the rule of pronunciation
for each italicised letter and word in
this sentence.
no. B. oRTHoGRAPHY.
l. State the difference between Or
biography and 0rthoepy.
2. Analyze the following words,
defining the root. the prefr or sufir,
and place each word in a sentence:
bakery, sutfr coparfner, and unhaPpi-
ness.
3. Give two rules for final E.
4. Give two rules for q final.
5. Give rule for doubling conso-
nants.
8. Apply the above rules to words,
stating conditions and results.
(No. 4. GRAMMAR.
!. Name the classes of pronouns,
Decline personal pronoun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17
CLIFTON CHIT CHAT
Threshing next week.


Threshing next week.
Geo. Dunbar is happy father. it's
girl.
VIM. Finley is out with new top
buggy. They're becoming common in
town.
AID. Bourne and Net. Woods, of Cen
terville, have come into town with
their new double-duplex, fr0nt-action,
self-propelling threshing engine, to-
gether with bran new ''Pride of the
West" separator. The boys are the
boss threshers, and when they settle
down to business they'll make things
howl. Wind and weather permitting
they will commence next Monday at
s. McIlroy's.
Some sacreligious sneak thief enter
ed the church recently, whitfield open
the secretary containing the Good
Templars library and stole fourteen of
the best books. A being so lost to all
earned library of Il struggling temper
ance lodge, would embezzle the Golfers
from the eyes of corpse, or hypothe-
cate the oats from sightless mule.
The Glenwilders Will probably take
the precaution to close the doors of
their hall in the future, even if they
do not lock them.
Very little affinity exists between
the journalistic and agricultural occu-
pations. At least that is our ex-
perience and may account for the alb
sence of Clifton items during the re-
cent harvest. We ask pardon Tor past
omissions and will do better in the
future.
J.. &. Crook is very low. All that
can be done for him has been, and is
being done, but all hopes for his re-
covery have been given up.
Our butcher, A. j. West, is furnish
ing ''Ja ckson's Best" to customers in
uIllIHltcQ uustiIL1ltSo d0 Ilo AOhOoS
rates.
S. McIlroy lost valuable horse re-
Gently.
The Misses West are canvassing for
book on etiquette.
The male attendance at the insti-
tute from Clifton this week will be
rather slim. When the happy period
arrives in which the impecunious
schoolmaster can manage to exist on
the pittance derived from his profess
sional labors he can attend institutes,
even in harvest.
A Miss Walls. from Ohio, is visiting
at ThOS. Davis.
G. G. Williams, former Clifton
teacher. has re-hired at Osceola with
an advance of thenty per cent. on his
salary.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

2. What are the parts essential 10
a sentence Write sentence con-
tanning only these.
5. What is agreement of words,
and in what should certain parts of
speech agree. and why
A. You will please parse the four
words aaticised in this sentence.
S. Write the rules of syntaX viclat-
ed in the following: (a) Every one
can do us they please. (bl What do
you see in Thomas wagon. (c) Ny
work is more harder than any ones.
no. g. ARITHMETIC.
J. Copy, point off, numerate, and
read the following: 567 ,804 ,32l, 9IS.
1867, S43, 789.
2. Find the G. G. D., and l.. c. NJ.
of | .544, 936, and 1876.
8. From tie sum of s aud three-ff-
tbs and aud seyen-ninths take their
difference.
i. In business style make a bill of
the following items, and discount the
footing 6 per cent. for cash: 2,345
lbs. wheat q $l.l4; 3.247 lbs. hay q
1915 per ton; ,423 it, wood q 1925
per cord.
5. State and solve a problem in
Partial Pats.
(No. 6 GEOGRAPHY.
|. Map the area within mile "a
diuS of the schoOl.house, and show its
natural features.
.. State its varieties of soil, ana its
natural and cultivated productions.
8. State the nature and results of
the several motions of the earth.
4. Name six large cities OF these u.
S., and give the special causes of their
growth.
5. If you were to start from the
port OF New York with vessel loaded
With the commodities Of the u. S.,
stopping at the usual ports of trade,
~ iliutd anu bdCh W way VI SuCH w
nal, what would you exchange at each,
and what have at the end
(No. ~ HISTORY.
|. Carefully define history.
2. Outline the history of Wisconsin.
3. How came this nation to be an
English speaking one.
4. Give the boundaries of the U. s.
in 1898.
5. Discuss the Secession of
States
(a) Immediate causes.
(b) The doctrine OF secession.
(c) The result of secession: War,
Emancipation, Debt, Reconstruction,
Farther Capitalization.
mo. s. CONSTITUTIONS.
/. What is constitution
9. How many constitutions has
Wisconsin had Why?
8, Through what departments is
the Civil Government of the I. 5. ad-
ministered Wis.
4. State the ways in which bill
may become law in the U. S. Con-
gress. In the State of Wisconsin.
5. What benefit should you derive
from having studied the Constitutions!
no. 81 PENMANsHIP.
l. Name the system which you
practice, and make and name its prin-
ciples.
2. By such system classify letters,
small and capital.
8. State how to sit and to hold pen.
Why!
4. BY attaching numbers to princi-
pies, analyze grange.
5. AS sample of best writing,
copy this line.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17
Prescott PARAGRAPHS

Green corn is now in ord er.
Eddie Meachsm has returned from
Dakota.
W. F. Redmond returned Tuesday
of last week from his trip toSt. Louis.
Sidewalks all over the city are be-
ing repaired.
Mr.. Coulter has been repairing his
house.
Prof. Joel Childs was in the city
the first of last week.
A match game of base ball was
played by two "picked mines from
this place recently.
The Cemetery Association met in
the parlors of the Congregational
Church recently.
l.. G.. Crook, of Oak Grove, was i'm
proving at last reports.
Miss Arzelia West seems to be meet.
ing with good success in canvassing
for book on etiquette, judging from
the number of looks she has sold.
Mrs. W. II. Hocum, of Millbank,
D. T., is here to spend the summer
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. B.
Failing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

THE following incident is related of
Senator Voorhees,, which occurred in
the midst of a speech being made by
the ''talI sycamore of the Wabash"
"When he was denouncing the mo-
nopolies of the country, and the hide.
Gus corporations that were eating out
the hearts blood of this country, a
messenger came with dispatch for
him. He paused, and then wrote an
answer. He took out of his pocket a
packet of cOmplimentaries from that
bloated corporation known as the
Western Union Telegraph company,
and from the packet he took dead
head stamp to put on his dispatch. "
Deadhead privileges over railway,
steamboat, express and telegraph
lines, freely dispensed among nation
al and State Legislators, are what Sc
cures to these monster corporations
practical control of the law-making
power.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

THEODORE d. KANoN5E has given out
the programme of the Good Templars
in this State. It was published in the
Miiwaukee Sunday Telegraph. Mr..
Kanouse says: 1--WE shall take off our
coats, roll up our sleeves and go to
work in every Assembly ana Senate
district, and do our very best to elect
men who will favor submitting a con-
stitutional amendment to a vote of the
people. when we find a Republi can
candidate who will pledge himself to
support that measure, we shall sup
port him. If the Republican candidate
willn support it, and the Democratic
candidate VIII. then we shall support
the Democrat. Where neither will
support it we shall nominate candl-
date of our own.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17
SOME NEWSPAPER LAWS.

l. Postmaster Is TO give written notice by let
ter or card--returning papcr does not answer the
law hen a subscriber does not take bis paper
from the Office and state his reas on toi its net le
ing taken; and neglect to do SO makts lie Pest
ma -ter responsible TO the publisher for the ay-
ment.
z Any person who takes paper from ,he post
oflice-wh neither directed to his name or another
OF whether he has subscribed or not-is response
BILE for the pay.
g. &c person orders his paper discontinued lie
must pay All srreaIagCs the publisher may ROM
tinue to send il unti payment is made and collect
the whole amount. WHETHER IT IS TAKEN FROM
| TIE OFFICE not. There can he no legal dis-
| continuance until the payment Is made.
| 4. TIE Courts have decided that refusing 10
| take newspapers ana periodicals from the POST
office OF removing and leaving them nncalied ier.
| is prima faciA evidence OF intentional iraud.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

THERE are politicians who believe
that Thad. Pounds letter of with
drawal from the Congressional contest
in the ninth district was written sim
ply to emphasize his desire for a re.
nomination. ii so, this is an infringe
ment upon the plan adopted years ago
by Senator Sawyer. When Sawyer
was in the House of Representatives
if he desired ''Yindication" he
would give ont that he did not want
to return to Congress and then the
convention would nominate him-and
he would accept, in Difference to the
wishes of bis constituents, of course.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

Ir is rumored that Col A. j. Wa
trous. of the Milwaukee Sunday Tele-
graph, was candidate for the Gov
ernorship of Montana. We had sup
posed that the two Colonels who run
that paper had attained such an ethe-
real plane of independence that Office
holding would have no charms for
either of them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

TIE Ripon Commonwealth predicts
that the temperance people will cap
ture one of the political parties ere long
and make a national issue of the pro.
hibition question. Before prohibition
becomes successful as a national issue
our temperance friends will find out
that the temperance reform is not the
only one that will command the atten-
ton of the American people.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

A CORRESPONDENT Of d Madison paper
desiring a new deal in the third Con-
gressional district makes the follow
ing mention of the gentlemen now rep
resenting the territory embraced in
that district in the prerent Congress:
''For eight years, Mr.. Caswell, of JEFF
ferson, has represented old Dane in
the national legislature. A man just
about smart enough to sit in a village
council and legislate upon the i'm
pounding of stray swine. He is, OF
was, no more identified with the in
terests of the people than Bob niger
soil is with those of the Methodists.
Hazelton, who has misrepresented the
rest of the present district, is no bet
ter" The ''woods are full" of such
congressman.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17
Ell PAsO ETCHING5.

| Ell PAso ETCHING;;.-
Thos. Hurley has gone to Graves
Co, Mimi, where he will remain un-
| til after harvest and threshing.
The grist-mill is shut down for two
| weeks for repairs. The proprietors
are putting in new tiume and other
improvements are to follow.
Naming of Lake City, has sold his
farm here recently, which was known
| as the Carey farm, to Mr.. Eckhern,
from Oconomowoc Co. Consideration
5000.
The potato vines have been struck
with blight and heretofore very
promising crop is likely to be very
light.
Many of our young men have gone
to the prairie to harvest.
Rock ELM CENTER REMARKs.-
George Duckalow will move to Oil
| vet, ard open store at Taylor's old
stand, the first of next month.
Our merchants are sending out
their orders for fall goods.
+. 3. Churchill has a new fence and
gates in front of his residence.
james Rice had four hogs die one
day last week from some unknown
cause. The other inmates of the
same pen were taken sick in the same
| manner, but were saved by bleeding.
The Olivet NJ. f. Church was dedi-
Gated last Sunday. Although the
weather was rainy and forbidding. the
attendance was large, the house being
literally packed. Salem, Union, and
Rock Elm, rs well as other towns,
were well represented. The following
cIergymen were on the rostrum:
p. E. Benson, w. C. Ross, G. N. Foster,
j. Holt, ID. Wilson, and j. p. Whip.
The dedication sermon at 1890, a. M,
by Elder Benson, was mastery effort
we'll worthy of the distinguished speak
er. The Indebtedness, only $4,000,
was soon met, and money to buy stoves,
lamps, ETC., provided tor in few
minutes. The congregation readily
responding in the sum of 5000, nearly
one half the amount being paid down,
the balance to be paid by Oct. lst,
after which the pastor, Rev. j. Holt,
Il dol Af IA alnrx 10
wards the purchase of a bell. The
church structure is a neat building,
capable of seating from two % two
hundred and fifty persons comfortably,
and has been about three years in pro-
cess of construction; the trustees push
ing it no faster than they could and
keep comparatively free from debt.
A warranty deed for the lot was pre-
scented at the dedication by Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Tous,ey. Services were
held all day, Rev. Foster preaching at
p. M, and Rev. Ross in the evening.
Hospitality in abundance was extend
ed to all those who remained to the
afternoon and evening services, and
altogether it was day we'll spent.
The singing was led by the Rock Elm
choir The citiz ems of Oliyet, of all
denominations, and of no denomation.
have labored together with equal zeal
to build the house, and while they
are grateful for help received from
friends in neighboring towns, are just
ly proud of this neat little church
worth ST. 900. All honor to plucky lit
tie Olvet.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

The will of the late Gov. C. G. Wash
burn, drawn with great care, is to be
contested in behalf of his wife whose
dover right appears to have been ig'
nored. Mrs. Washburn has been in
sane for years and is confined in an
asylum at the east.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

MATTEL MERE MENTION
Harvest will be nearly done in this
vicinity this week.
Mrs. and Miss Nelson, from Kasson,
Mimi, are visiting relatives and
friends in this vicinity.
Miss Minnie Thygeson and Miss
Bredhal intend to go to Minneapolis
soon.
Miss Jennie and Lavina Larson and
Helen Anderson are home from
st. Paul.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

''There is no substitute for thor
ough-going, ardent and sincere ear
nestness. Dickens.
"The liquor traffic of Iowa cost $780,
900, 600 annually, while only SIS, 600,
600 was paid for school purposes.
We understand that Miss Annie
Cope will teach the winter school in
Dist. No. 3, Ellsworth. This will be
her third term there.
The State Normal School, River
Falls, will open on the 2lst inst. Cor
respond ence should be addressed 10
President w. ID. Parker.
We see by the Circular of Milton
College for 82-'83" that ex.State
Superintendent William C. Whitford
is now President of that institution.
l am best pleased with my days
work when feel that have done my
best, be my wages ever so small.
NJ. p.
"The popular demand is for intel
lectual results; and to produce them
teachers tax themselves to the ut
most, forgetting that moral instruc-
tion, the formation of character, the
shaping of life, is the grand purpose
of all education. - Education aud
Crime.
Teachers Term Reports received
this week:
Dist. No. 3, Union, Taylor Frye.
" -" 4, a" Minnie Persons
4" /, Gilman, Ellen McShane.
" 4, Spring Lake, Esther Goodell.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

GEN BRAGG, one of the Democratic
Congressman from this State, wants a
denomination, and says: Il have the
nine delegates from Fond du Lac, and
must trust in God and the good sense
of the people for the balance.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

THE Democrats are .all broken up
in Tennessee and seem likely to lose
their grip on that State. The settle
ment of the State debt is the issue
which divides them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

THERE is but little doubt that the
first district Republicans will return
Hon. Charles G.. Williams to Congress
a sixth term.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

Correspondent nee, discussions, etc. are desired
from the TIE AcHERs and the FRIENDS of EDUcA-
TIoN in this county. Addressall communications
to the Editor, at Maiden Rock. Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17
Queries.

No. Il. (a) From what are Ranges
numbered 10 From what are Town
ships numbered Please answer in
Educational Column. j. C. G.
No. 70 How does the T. S. Presi.
dents salary compare with that re-
ceived by the crowned heads of Eu-
ropee L. j.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For Member Of Con gress-Eighth District,
WILLIAM T. PRICE,

w. W BELKyAP, Grants Secretary
of War, pursues the peaceful avoca-
tion of claim agent and Lobbyist.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17
Answers.

No. 81. Robert T. Lincoln, Sec. of
War; Timothy o. Howe, P. NJ. Gener-
al; w. E. Chandler, Sec. of Navy;
Henry D. Teller, Sec. Of Interior;
Chas. j. Folger, Sec. of Treasury; F..
F. Frelinghuysen, Sec. of State; Benz.
II. Brewster, Atty General.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

I = SII.IOUKS " ITUIn u 10 0U,UU
l " jewel-screws for watches $500 90
l +" hair-springs for Ameri-
can watches is worth 10000. 90
One lb. (Troy) of fine gold is worth
in standard coin $248, 062. All the
above statements are based on careful
and actual valuation ,SteeIe's Glenn
iStrU.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17
Educational.

A. RosENBERGER,. Editor.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17
OLE IL. BANG,
Merchant Tailor.

A full line OF Cloths kept constantly on
hand. Shop over Boxrud Bros. store, Main
St River Falls, Wis. NJ
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

''There is no substitute for thor
ough-going, ardent and sincere ear
nestness. Dickens.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17
New Railroad
IN NEBRASKA
OPENING UP FOR SETTLEMENT And
BRINGING INTO NOTICE THE
CHOICEST PORTION TIE STATE,
TO NO r FOLK

| In all of the above counties there are
| Choice Railroad Lands for sale on long time
| and at low rates. Persons contemplating a
| change OF location should not fail to visit
! this most favored portion OF Nebraska, and
in order that the visit may be made with
trifiinp eSDense the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-08-17

No. So. No other metal is SO en-
BANGED in value by labor as iron.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-28

- DIa you say, sir, that L looked
like the monkey in that cage over
there, Y asked Filkinson in angry tones.
"No, Filky,'' replied Fogg; 81 simply
said that the monkey looked like you;
and to tell you the truth. don't believe
the brute more than half liked it either"
Boston Transcript. a
A brother journalist asks us if it
will be too much trouble for us, in cred
iting items from his paper, to add his
name also to the credit. Certainly not,
if the gentleman will kindly add to the
Boomerang credit the number of our
lock box and the casual remark that
this will be long, cold, dreary winter
to those who do not subscribe at once
Laramie Boomerang.
"A London paper describes an
American girl in that city who ''wears a
gown with q flight of embroidered swal-
lows, beginning on her leftshoulder and
ending at her right foot; and swallows
also fly about her parasol" The Amer
lean youth in London is also addicted to
Swallows" but they don't begin on his
left shoulder. They begin under his
nose and run down his throat.-Norris-
fo1p,1 Hos-,TS
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-12-28

under his arm. "How dye do, Mr..
Corwin? I've brought you this
Melon and he deposited it on the
floor; 'it's one of the finest ever
raised in these parts, and I've saved
it on purpose till you come here. A
teller who saw me with it wanted to
buy it,and offered me sixty two cents,
but I told him I was savin' ii for
you, and now I'm goin' to let you
take it for fifty cents. The thor
oughly frantic Corwin paid the halfA
dollar, the man departed, and the
unhappy orator soon fell into a
peaceful sleep. That was the first
and last appearance in that part of
the Western Reserve.