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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28
ONE of the difficulties of life Talking
to deaf person in an omnibus.
SOME TIMES LEARNED By COR.
RESPONDENTS ABROAD.

IL
Americans abroad wear white cravate
in the morning so that they may be re
garded as clergymen.
In Venice it was great satisfaction
to find out the exact tint of genuine Ii
tian red hair. 1t is q sort of illuminated
molasses candy color.
At Ostend, with health, and ability to
spend So a day, man may live as lux
uriously as any Prince in Europe, and
much more happily.
These American travellers are always
smoking, and it is wonderful how pa
tiently the ladies bear it; some of the
ladies adapt themselves to it by smok-
ing themselves.
A correspondent in Paris observed
the streets placarded with Lecoq's OPP
era lie Jour ct la Mutt and he won
ders why should day be masculine and
hight feminine.
Prisoners led over the bridge could
see the light on the water, and they
would think that they would never be
free again and then they naturally
sighed. Then they called it the Bridge
of Signs.
1lie American tourist in the Old
World misses the delicacies of his ma
tive land-terrapins, canvas-backs, soft
shell crabs, or even dainty hard shells;
and if he finds turtle it is too expensive,
while oysters are both poor and expen-
siva
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-12-28

Business booming at the saw-mill.
Mr.. Plath has new piano for his
daughter Anna.
A Happy New Year to all the read
ers of the Journal.
Services held once a fortnight 10y
our Swedish friends at this point.
w. York, of Porcupine Greek, will
speak at this place again January It'll.
w. Dowln and J. Bean have opened
blacksmith shop in the suburbs of
our village, on the Maiden Rock road.
Our hunters report pleasant time
in Barron county. A Mr.. Pearsons
killed ten and Mr.. Harrison five deer.
Our miller seems to keep about a
fortnight's work ahead. 1t therefore
behooves us to guard that the flour
barrel is not empty.
Died, of Group, on the morning of
the 9Th inst, Anna, youngest daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Barnstaff, aged
two years and eleven months.
1t is rumored that some timber land
in town is suffering again. Under our
statutes all citizens are protected, and
it is time some lawlessness in town
was abandoned.
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MAGNITUDE OF CLoUDs.

We are little apt, in watching the
changes OF mountainous range of
clouds, to reflect that the masses of
vapor which compose it are huger and
higher than any mountain range of the
earth that the distance between mass
and mass are not yards of air traversed
in an instant by the flying form, but
valleys of changing atmosphere leagues
ever that the slow motion of ascending
curves, which we can scarcely trace, is
boiling energy of exulting vapor rush
ing into the heaven thousand feet in
minute /; and that the topping angle,
whose sharp edge almost escapes notice
in the multitudinous forms around it, is
a nodding precipice of storms, 5000 feet
from base to summit 1t is not until we
have actually compared the forms of the
sky with the hill ranges of the earth,
and seen the soaring Alp overtopped
and buried in one surge uf the sky, that
we begin to perceive or appreciate the
colossal scale of the phenomena of the
latter. But OF this there can be no doubt
in the minds of any one accustomed TO
trace the forms of clouds among hill
ranges, as it is there demonstrable and
evident fact that the space of vapor
visibly extended over an ordinarily
cloudy sky is not less. from the point
nearest the observer to the horizon, than
twenty leagues that the size of every
mass of separate form, If it be at all
largely divided, is to be expressed in
terms of miles and that every boiling
heap of illuminated mist in the nearer
sky is an enormous mountain, Is, 900 or
90, 900 feet in height, six or seven miles
over an illuminated surface, furrowed by
thousand colossal ravines. torn by
local tempests into peaks and promon-
tories, and changing its features with
the majestic velocity of the Volcano
John Ruskin.
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Wa verify.

Pay your taxes.
Taylor Frye has gone home to spend
the holidays.
Blakely & Co. are prepared to GRIND
feed at their saw.mill.
A Grand New Years Ball will be
given at FL Paso, on the evening OF
January lst.
Miss Ellen Shannon. of the "Mount-
in District, )" will give her. pupils II
week vacation.
j. II. Bates is building an addition to
his house which when completed will
improve its looks somewhat.
Al. Andrews, who was seriously
wounded while hunting up North y
colliding against II trap-gun wire, has
returned home much improved.
We alluded briefly TO DR.. 1homp-
sons visit in Indiana, in last week 5
items, which was omitted. Omitted
because the Doctors visit and return
had been more extendedly noted in our
issue of the previous week. -Ed.l
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Mrs. Fannie Nick, from Dakota
county, Minnesota, is visiting parents
and friends in Big River Valley.
MIR. Consider King. of the Falls, an
Old time Trimbellian, is about to take
his place at his old stand. the grist
mill at Trimbelle.
A partnership has been formed
in this town, composed of j. Reeves,
d. l.. Gilman, g. f. Gilman and Adei-
bert Taylor, to be known as Reeves,
0ttman & Co, for the manufacture
and sale OF lumber. The Company
have recently purchased $50 acres of
land on the Trimbeile and Ellsworth
road near the residence of Levi Stat
ford, and will erect mill there the
coming season.
A person representing himself as
United Sta es Deputy Marshal has
ragged edge of anxiety, and caused
them to grasp their pocket books with
vice like grasp, by personal visits
and the posting of notices of the sale
of their property, the sale to take
place February LIST, at Ellsworth. The
notice repres, hts the decree to eman-
ate from the United States District
Court for the Western District OF
Wisconsin, in favor of the assignee in
bankruptcy of the old Insurance
swindle of the Rock River Insurance
Company.
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AWoNDERFUL PLANT.

There is plant in Ceylon that seems
made to grow where no other green
thing can. The curious thing about it
is the way that it manages to scatter its
seed over the dry and desert places. The
seeds grow in round case, shaped like
a dandelion's seed head, but much
stronger and larger, being as big as q
child's head When they are ready to
grow the boxes of seed get loose from
the stalks, and the first strong breeze
starts them off on the sand. Away they
go like balls, scattering the ripe seeds
on their path for miles, and wherever a
seed falls it takes root and grows. II
the ball comes to water it is so light that
it floats easily, while the wind still car
ries it on. In this way the seeds are
carried to the most barren shores and
begin the work of covering them with
green. This curious plant is the water
pink, called by the natives The Great
Beard of Rama. London World.
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innickinnic.

Mr.. Cook now pumps water with a
new wind mill.
Miss Carrie Williams came home to
spend the holidays.
Mr.. Barney recently bought forty
acres Of land of Mr.. VIM. Elicit.
Emf Musser sports new cutter; it
seems he intends To use the sleighing
Beverly White, of Prescott. has
been spending few days with Cotton
Whitcomb.
We understand that Mary Day,
daughter of Henry Day, is sick from
wearing poisoned flannel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leach. are visiting her
mother. Mrs. Chase. George left for
Minneapolis last Monday.
Mr.. Albion Burr and his sister
Carrie, and Mrs. II. S. Baker, came
home to spend the holidays.
Frank Nye came down from Clear
Lake and spent Christmas lie re-
turned next day with his family.
Mrs. Marco Parker, who has beer
home ON visit, returned LIST Satur
day, accompanied by lady friend.
Kinnickinnic Grange was well rep
resented at the Pomana Grange, held
at Pleasant Valley last Thursday ami
Friday.
The surprise party at Mr.. Coles
new house last Friday evening was a
grand affair; there were about forty
present and all had good time.
Fred Dodge, who went to Red
Wing last Tuesday, returned Saturday
accompanied by George Williams, oul
fellow townsman, who Just stayed
lover night.
/ A short time ago one of the River
Falls young men (never mind who, so
long as he is an editor) started to sink
IA coal shaft near Clapp's mill, but
finding the snow too deep, (ts he said)
| he failed to reach his destination and
returned sad and lone.
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A.
/ Is Mr.. Cox, and / could mention
others who have no freshness about
them. But the majority of men,
beers come here unttught, unread
and unskilled in the most perilous
work ever attempted by man,-the
work of legislation. Tae worst of 1t
is, that they no sooner learn the prim-
er of craftsmanship in the routine of
legislation, and the intricacies of the
executive Departments and bureaus,
than they, by an idiotic rule of rota-
ton, which is the unwrlttsn law in
most of the congressional districts s,
must give place to another open
mouthed country pumpkin whom his
party has sent here to make laws foI
great nation and to make history
for all time.
During a residence of eleven years
| IN Washington have seen Congress.
es come and Congresses go, and if it
were possible for me to hold mp a
mirror to show some of the congress
sional constituencies how they are re
fected here by their elect. / would
like to do so. In the language of the
exhibitor of the fat woman and the
learned hog this show would be "both
moral and instructive. 1t is no ex-
aggeration to say that when the aver
age member first comes to Congress.
he is dazzled and dazed by unfamiliar
sights and sounds. and until he has
ceased to be freshman, or has been
well "hazed." as it were, has gone
through seasoning process, he is no
more fit for his place, than he would
be to drive the locomotive of hight
ming express. Everyone who has
seen a three-year-old colt s first APP
pearance in town, or rural dog
city debut, will recognize the picture.
Not that the colt may not achieve
fame as many modern horses do, or
the dog prove both honest and saga
cious, so that he may deserve the
name of "the watch dog of the treas
ury." But what | am trying to de-
nOunce is the custom of continually
supplying fresh, raw, green congress
men, and recalling to private life
those who have learned in the very
expensive school of experience.
There are many pitfalls in the way
of congressman here, and many con-
gresslnen in the way of the pitfalls.
The lobby assumes a thousand pleas
ing DISCUSSES recognizable only to the
initiated and the wary. resistible only
Ivy the strong. The lobby that hangs
about the corridors of the House and
the Senate, that panetrates commit
tee-rooms, that lures Senators and
Members to little suppers. where
other women than their wives are in
vited, is the least dangerous because
the least disguised. The better and
more influential class of congressman
cannot be caught in such coarse mesh
rs. Bnt there is lobby in which
there is greater display of finesse
and refinement. The man of expert
ence, the man of the world, the
scholar, the diplomat, 1.-THE glass of
fashion aud the mould of FORM" in
short what is kno wn as the best Wash
ington society--the Army and Navy
Circles form lobby through which
The greatest wrongs have been com
mittrd against tue country and the
treasury. G. A. 5.
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SIBERIAN GOLD MINES.

The gold annually taken from the 81
berian mines is estimated to be worth
100000. The first discovery of the
metal in that country was made at the
beginning of the century. The average
coss of an expedition in search of gold is
estimated at $1,000. Therefore, only
capitalists can indulge in the luxury of
experiments. One of the principal ope-
rators is said to have spent quarter Of
million before nnding any ore. The
miners are paid only So month, with
board and lodging. The sale of liquor
is forbidden within twelve miles from
each shaft. that discipline may be main
tanned. The number of mines has
largely increased since the second
quarter of the present century, but that
period was the most prosperous in the
history of Siberian mining. The labor
of the serfs then cost next to nothing,
though the pay of the workmen is now
pitiably small.
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EUROPE 200 YEARS AGO.

In the year 500 after Christ, what was
/ the state of Europe? The Cloths, the
Vandals, the Franks, the Huns, the
Normans, the Turks, and other bar
barian hordes, had invaded and over
thrown the Roman empire. and had es-
tablished various kingdoms upon its
ruins. These hordes of savages had de-
stroyed, not only all the works of civil
izAtion, but civilization itself. Ignorant
as they were of everything that dis
tinguishes and elevates human nature,
they broke up the schools, ruined the
monuments, abolished arts and manu-
features, prevented commerce, and re-
duced the conquered nations to their own
condition, inaugurating in the CON-
pletest manner the reign of brute-force
and mental darkness. If they afterward
espoused Christianity, they nodded it to
their own savage superstition, till at
last naught was left of the divine dis
pensation but its name, to cover the
most degrading idolatry and demonism.
At the time we begin our specific ex-
animation we find that, in the then So
called Christian nations:
There existed no science worthy of
the name, no schools whatever. Read
ing, writing and ciphering were separate
and distinct trades. The masses, the
nobility, the poor and the rich were
wholly unacquainted with the mysteries
of the alphabet and the pen. A few
men, known as clerks, who generally be-
longed to the priesthood, monopollzed
them as special class of artists. They
Taught their business only to their SEM
inarists, apprentices; and beyond them
selves and their few pupils no one knew
how to read and write, nor was it ex-
pected of the generality, any more than
it would nowadays, that everybody
should be shoemaker or lawyer.
Kings did not even know how to sign
their names, so that when they wanted
to subscribe to written contract law
or treaty, which some clerk had drawn
up for them, they would smear their
right hand with ink and slap it down
upon the parchment saying, Witness
my hand" At later date some genius
devised the substitute of the seal, which
was impressed instead Of the hand.
Every gentleman had seal with Pc
cuiiar device thereon. Hence the sacra-
mental words now in use, Witness my
hand and seal, affixed to modern deeds.
serve at least the purpose of reminding
us of the ignorance Of the middle ages.
~-PopulQy Science Monthly
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A considerable amount of teaming
is done between this point and Lake
City.
Lorin Lusk and wife, of Brookville,
spent Christmas with friends in this
| place.
The grammar department of our
school opened ON Tuesday of this week
with full school.
Santa Claus went the rounds in our
town and many merry voice was
heard ON Christmas Day.
Several siGdIes of venison have been
| brought to town of late, which found
ready sale at ten cents per pound.
John STAN and Ella Walsingham
were married last Sunday. Mir. STAN
will take charge of the store here
after.
| Our fish mongers, Loucks and Hicks,
took a pckerel from the lake that
| measured 8 feet and inches, and
weighed Is pounds. DR.. Ware picked
| its bones,
Owing to unforeseen circumstances
the spelling-match noticed i'll d previ-
Gus issue stands adjourned until Fri
day evening. January 5th. A general
invitation is extended.
VIM. Wilson & Co. have opened II
| feed mill in our midst. Farmers will
| find it to their interest to give them a
call, They have good corn-sheller
in connection with their mill.
Miss Julia Akers returned to her
home in Spring Valley the first of the
| week. She has for some time past
acted as clerk in our post-oflice and
proved herself quite efficient in that
capacity.
The primary school closed on Fri
day last with we'll arranged program
of recitations, songs, etc. Miss Belle
Frye has succeeded well notwithstand-
ing so large school. The winter term
commences Tuesday. Jan. 2, for term
of ten weeks. Lucy Potts, Amy
Green and Harry Larson having pass
ed satisfactory examination have
been promoted from grade / to grade
II.
Our people will organize literary
society on Wednesday evening of this
week. 1t is hoped that all who can
will lend helping hand to make these
meetings as pleasant and profitable as
possible. The exercises To consist Of
recitatlons, essays, dialogues, a socie-
ty paper containing the chaps" and
"mishaps'' of the times followed by
a debate n I've topics. We want
Yuu To cJue aud wios yow fr3eSds.
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Several Of our neighbors are haul.
ing cord wood to River Falls.
Barney Nc Ginnis had his ankle
sprained, which laid him up for few
days; he is now able to be around
again however.
Frederick, wife of S. S. Anderson,
died on the 18th inst. of consumption.
She leaves husband and six chill
dren. the youngest about two years
old.
Last Sunday number OF Catholics
were disappointed by Rev, j. X. Her.
mon not putting in an appearance.
The storm on the Saturday previous
was probably the cause.
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"Jeptha," said Mrs. Jones, "if you
will get the baby to sleep / will pick
over the currants for the jelly and have
them all ready for the morning"
Cant do it," said Mr.. Jones, who
was at his desk up stairs 81 have q
scheme to map out tonight, but TAXI
care of the baby isn't part of it.
"Oh, he won't trouble you; let him
run around little and he'll be sleepy
enough to go to bed. What is your
scheme? new railroad to the moon %
asked Mrs. J., trifingly.
"No," answered Jones, with his pen
in his mouth, "but it's railroad that /
predict viii yet run right through our
garden, making the property worth--let
me see-the right of way win be through
the currant-bush row, and take in the
arbor and the fountain-of course must
sell the whole property at my own price
and then well build q mansion. See,
Maria?"
Yes, / see," replied Mrs. Jones /;
but just now the cufrants are spelling I;
take good care of the baby" ana she at
once vanished down stairs.
She hadn't been there long before she
heard peculiar thump, thump, bump,
bumb, on the stairs. followed by a
terrific scream, and running in found
the baby sprawling ON his back in the
front hall, beating the air with his hands
and feet, while his infantile mouth
emitted shrek after shrek his mother
picked him up, satisfied herself that no
bones were broken, and then turned on
the delinquent Jones.
GLOW could you ?" she gasped
severely, with look of keen reproach.
!" I couldn't" answered Jones meekly,
ST didn't try to; he did it all himself
without any reference to me |"
"Oh," sneered Mrs. J. sarcastically,
he isn't half as much importance as
an old railroad on paper, bless his dear,
little, broken head He's nothing but
the baby and not of enough consequence
to- have part in papa's great schemes,
poor little tootsy pootsy r.
eyes. he is, answered Jones, briskly,
che constitutes of present the entire
rolling stock. Detroit Post
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Company.

Walter Earquerson is spending the
holidays with his friends.
Miss Lillian Beardsley, of Warren,
Minnesota. is here OH visit to her
parents.
Miss Emma Wilson was visiting
friends in Minneapolis part of last
week and this.
Rev. Bushnell preached to a large
audience, last Sunday evening, on the
subject of Memories"
The Christmas Ball came off Monday
night, in Gray's Hall. 1t was an en-
ioyable affair to all who attended.
Mrs. G. McCray has returned from a
protracted visit to her daughter, Mrs.
Joseph Howes. of Grand Forks, ID. I.
Prof. Baker, Principal of the Jeffer-
son School, ST. Paul, spent Christmas
with his friend g. l.. Bowman. in this
city.
Mrs. J. X. Ravens has recently re.
turned from Bloomington, Illinois,
where she has been visiting relatives
and friends.
C.S Dunbar, former resident Of
Ellsworth but now OF Hastings, Mia
nesota, passed through the city en-
route to his former home.
The Christmas Arch at the NJ. E..
Church, Saturday evening. was an EN-
joyable affair. The gifts were wei
arranged and the exercises appropfi'
ate. Uncle Gum takes a peculiar
pride in having everything excel that
he attempts.
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rs THERE WAFER ON THE MooNs


Mr.. Helmuth Dueberg presents new
theory of the moon, and argues the
possibility of its being inhabited on the
farther side. 1t is we'll known that the
moon always presents the same face to
the earth. Because this side of the
moon lis an airless and waterless desert,
we are not justified, Mr.. Dueberg thinks,
in assuming that the other side is like it.
Since the moon does not revolve so as to
change the side presented to the earth,
and since the attraction OF the earth for
the moon is very great, the heavier side,
if there is any, must be turned this way.
Surprising the moon to possess air and
water, these lighter and more fluent ele-
ments of her composition wouldof neces-
sity lay at the farther side. In the alb
sence of any centrifugal force due to
rotation on her own axis, the only GEN.
trifugal force acting upon the moon
must be that resulting from tho moons
motion round the earth. This would
tend still more to throw the moons air
and water to the "out side with re-
spect to the earth. For a practical
illustration of this view, Mr.. Dueberg
suggested ball swinging in circle by
means of cord. The ball, like the
moon, will always turn the same side to
the center of evolution and if it be in
any liquid, the liquid will be rapidly
accumulated on the opposite or outer
side. Hence, the possibility OF water,
air and life on the moon, around the
shores OF a central lunar sea. on the
side always turned away from US.
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Brook VILE.

Mr.. Dawn is quite low with con
sumption.
We are pleased to learn that Mr.. z.
Hinmau's little son is getting well.
Our blacksmiths have no time to
spare; they have all they can do in
their line.
A brother of James Stewart, from
Manitoba, is visiting him and other
friends at this place.
A Happy New Year to all the read
ers of the Journal. and success to the
JOURNAL for the future.
The Good Templars in this place
keep augmenting their NUM- ers, and
are in flourishing condition.
We notice that Mr.. John Higgins
has returned from Cumberland, where
he has been at work for the last six
weeks.
The mill yards are fast filling up
with logs. Neither men nor teams
are idle; all at work from early morn
ing until late at night.
o. II. Kimball has sold one hundred
and sixty acres of his land to Abe
Jensen and Hans Iverson. Consider.
alton. one thousaad dollars.
Mr.. Burton, from the to IN Of Erin,
this county, has bought one hundred
acres of land from Carson & Land,
and will make this town bis future
home.