River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-08-02
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Passing Events.

A capital description of a theatre is
that given in Julian Hawthornes For
tunes Fool" by little girl to boy who
has never heard of one:
ooh, it's where everything is the way
| it ought to be, and people do things tnst
make you laugh and cry; and they seem
| to live all their lives, and yet it is over
| in two or three hours. And
everything they say means something,
| instead of being only How do you feelP'
and "Ips fine day. as real People do;
and they tell you all they mean to do;
just as you think when You are alone,
= Then, when it's over, great
green curtain comes down, and you go
out, and there are people going up and
down the streets just as If nothing had
| happened, and it is so common and stu
| pid you can hardly bear it. 1t makes
| you wish there were no real people
alive"
The Shaw locomotive, which attracted
much attention at the recent Exposition
of Railway Appliances in Chicago be-
cause of its promise of furnishing here
tofore uneoualled speed for. railway
travel, made run over the Chicaao and
Northwestern railroad a few weeks ago.
A despatch to the Chicago Tribune says:
''The verdict of engineers and experts
was that it would serve to draw fight
trains at a tremectious rate of speed;
but that for the G...llsary uses and pur-
poses of railway VIII the lack of power
in the locomotive, as at present con-
structed, was more than an offset for its
capacity for speed"
A St. Louis restauranteur tells the
Post Dispatch; 1--WE have a great
many more customers in the summer
than in winter, and our profits are al
most double in the same amount OF
checks. There is less profit in meat
dish than any other kind. The num-
Der of customers in July and August is
fully twice as large as Ia February and
March; February is the smallest month
for otir business, as well as the shortest
month. There are several reasons Tor
this; one is that the families of many
are absent iii the summer, and another
that more are on the streets"
In 1875 there were but twenty-four
cotton-seed oil mills in the country.
During the past season about 100000
tons of seed were crushed, the product
of all being estimated at over $50, 900
barrels AS the product of seed for the
year was 3 500, 900 tons, itmay readily be
conjectured that the stock of raw mater
ial will allow a considerable expansion
of oil production. About $40, 900, 000,0 900
is already invested in the mills, which
now form one OF the most important in
dustries of the South.
There are persons who make money
by getting rancid country butter at ten
cents a pound, doctoriag it so that it
will taste good for twelve hours, and
then selling it at fifteen or twenty cents
to housekeepers who are prejudiced
against oleomargarine.
A Vermonter writes to the New Eng
land Farmer that this is the time when
the city cousins think they will visit
their farming relatives where the child
rem can have fresh milk and eggs and all
hands can enjoy the fruits and products
of the farm while having nothing to do
but to, get up when called to break
fast. The farmer says this is becoming
serious question with farmers, in whose
houses, ia the hot and busy days of the
simmer, their wives and daughters have
more work than they ought to do, and
should not be called upon to wait upon
company who simply make them dead
head convenience.