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Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31
opening windows and doors. Four hours seem hardly enough, but 1t is evident that the old plan is not . good one

President B. E. White, of Purdee universi. ty, denies that the satisfactorily rule which has been adopted in that institution has re. suited in reducing the attend ance of stu dents The famous rule, he says, was adopted in 1877, and the years 1878, 1880 and 1881 are the only years in which the fra ternity agitation among the students has been serious annoyance in the university, and those are the years of largest increase of students, eliminating in 1881, when the total enrolment reached 254. The slight falling of the next year in the academy and special school (there was continued gain in the col- 1ege) was immediately subsequ snt to the raie. ing of 1te standard of admission to these de- partments. The balance hes been and will in creasin gly be on the side of gain. The col lege which leads all the colleges in the West in the number of students has excluded col lege fEaternities from the beginning.
 The remarkable suicide of Professor Von Fus1itz cE SAs University of Berlin has 6ee1 generally accounted for on the theory that he had taken part in what the Germans call an American duel, and had drawn the lot that required him to take his own life but now comes story that the real motive for the suicide was the fear of exposure of pe- culiar fraud that Won Putlitz had been guilty of in building up the reputation for learning and ability which had won his professorship for him, and which gave hisa his standing in the world of letters and science. At the same university there was formerly blind professor of great talent and scholarship, known to all German scholars as Dr. Duh ring, and this man is said to have written a work for Von Putlitz, which the latter palm ed of upon the world as his own but he promised to pay Duhring 15,0oo marks (about $3,5 ,5OO) for it, and on his failing to keep his. agreement Duhring threatened to send tb original manuscript of the work to the faculty of the University of Halle, where Won F'utlitz had been called to fill one of the pI incipal chairs. This is quite as plausi- ble story as the original one
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31
A Chicago Drum-NIaJ Jor.

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 Nothing that ever was will be, or by any possibility can be, as soulfuily beautiful as the drum-major of the Chicago Lyon & Healy band. He is a creature fatally fair, and his uniform is fairer than he is. He carries big stick, large enough for modest fagpole, gilded from end to end, and topped with gold ball that is wonder of size and brilliancy. When he appeared the great crowd held it's breath he whirled the stick and the mighty building trembled; he threw the stick in the air, caught it on the fly, and so great were the emotions produced that even the hotel clerks were observed to be al- most affected. The bandmen themselves, in white trousers, red stripes. top boots, gold-laced red coats, and tall white fur hats all that the most theatrically minded could desire, but their splendor is as an unlighted sulphur match to an electric light compared to the drum-major. He is, in short--long, too-all that could be expected in Chicago drum-msjor, and language certainly could go no further.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31

Tbe indications now are that the River and Harber bill next winter will be large enough. The estimates of the government engineers continue to be gene rous. Thus the officer in Vermont asks for $17o, 900 to be spent on Maquam bay, This bay is a landingplace two miles from Swanton, into which one small steamer plies during few months sf the summer. He thinks that $28s, ,0O0 can be proftabIy spent at Burlington. and to deepen Otter Greek, for roW-boat navigation to vergsnnes, hs estimates that $3o,74s can be well spent.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31

The St. Louis Democrats who keep liquor saloons have gone little too far in defying the new law. The Democratic governor threatens to call an extra session of the legis- lature, and announces that though he is an anti-prohibiionist from the sole of his feet to the crown of his head, if he has to choose between lswlessness and prohibition he is 8 prohibitionist. These are strong words, spoken at the right time.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Mgr. Capel is evidently not a warm a6lvo- cate of the immediate emancipation of Wo- man." In his lecture at the Brooklyn Acade- my of Music he said: ''We hear much about women's rights. For these there is no more perfect place than the cloister. The nuns elect their own president-the Lady Superior"
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31

The number of foreigners who have been naturalized in Brazil during the past fifty seven years is only 5,3O9, or about ninety three year. In the same time the United States has received about II, GOO. .O00 of emi- grants. There have been many things in Brazil not attractive to those seeking homes in strange land, namely, slavery, great landed estates. religious intolerance, jealousy of foreigners and poor government.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31

Things have apparently oome to pretty pass in Europe. A pretty orphan girl, with over $2, GOO, 900, has been advertising in the German papers for a husband. She describes herself as twenty one years old. orphan and Catholic. She wants to marry young man with 8 very honorable name. She may be addressed as N. o. O. N., at the postofice. RrusseIs
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31

Judge Clifford of the Westchester (New York; County court intends to propose to the Board of Supervisors that workhouse be built, and that to it be sent every vagrant who sets foot in the county, the said vagrant to be compelled to earn his living. If this plan is carried out tramps will soon be scarce in Westchester county.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31

How Uncle Sam is Defrauded Out o1
 Large Rsvenues-A Special Treasury
 Agent DtscIoses the Secrets of Custom
 Duties Evas1Ons.
 GFrom the New York World.l
 'Now is the time we have to keep our eyes open." " said 8 prominent member of Captain Brackett's staff of custom house detectives to reporter of the World yesterday. t'All the gay birds of fashion who spend the sum- Iner abroad are on the wing for home, and if they can slip in even few yards of costly lace without paying duty it would save them the expenses of their trip"
 DO ladies indulge in amateur smuggling ?" =. "An of them don't, and some are so over Conscientious that they even offer to pay duty on non-dutisble goods. But human na- ture is the same, whether it is 8 fashionable dressmaker or the wife of 8 prominent cler- gyman, like the one who had twenty yards of fine Valenoiennes lace tackled in her petticoat. cannot give you her name for publication, for no proceedings were taken against her except to have the lace removed from the garment and sent to the public stores, from which her husband afterwards obtained it by paying $4 8 yard duty.'
 Are the ladies cunning in the devices they adopt2"
 ''Their ingenuity is unbounded. Take for instance the case of Mime. Leone, the fash ionable modiste, who was arrested for snug
 
 was an actress and that the dresses which she attempted to pass through without paying duty formed her theatrical wardrobe and were entitled to be sent in free under the section relating to tools of trade. She showed contract in which she was engaged to perform the leading female roles in a number of plays. On the trial this contract was proved to be forgery.
 Ladies will bring over sealskin sacks in the middle of summer and wear them when the thermometer is in the nineties, simply to be able to swear that they have been worn. I remember 8 lady who wore bran new camels hair shawl valued at $2, 500. In her trunk was another shawl of the same material, worth about $500. She claimed to own both of them, but the dearer one was confscated and never afterwards called for. It was subsequently ascertained that the person. who had given her the commis- sion had made her present of the cheaper shawl with the understanding that she was to get the other one through free.
 Another device of the ladies is to fold new dresses inside of their old ones, and it takes an experienced eye to detect the fraud. In one case a lady covered $500 Worth dress with an ordinary calico wrapper much the worse for wear. knew that she was too aristocratic to wear anything so humble as calico and that awakened my suspicious. Had she taken one of her ordinary wearing dresses instead of her servants the fraud might have been suc- cessful. Some ladies do not hesitate to resort to trunks with false bottoms. One trunk in particular had false sides as we'll, and when pulled couple of screws out it all came to pieces.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31
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NERVOUS debility, the curse Of fthe American people, immediately yields to the action of Browns Iron Bitters. sAAA;
 KEoKUK, IowA.-Dr. E. E. Fuller says: "I have used Browns Iron Bitters in my own family with excellent results"
 ELM GROVE, N. C.-Dr. c. N. Roberson says: q prescribe Browns Iron BitterG, and find it all it is recommended to be-"
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31
NO ARRESTS MADE.

"Do you ever arrest ths ladies whom you catch in the attempt to smuggle ?"
 ''No. The only case of arrest that I remember is that of Mime. Leone We are contented to confscate the goods. We send the articles to the public store and the owners can obtain them either by paying the duty or proving under oath that no duty is due. We take that course even in cases of suspicion, and I admit that inno- cent passengers sometimes suffer delay and hardships on this account. We must be extra cautious or Uncle Sam's revenue would be seriously diminished. You have an idea of our work when say that over $8O, GOO are annually collected at the docks of the va rious steamships for duty on baggage brought over by the passengers. This is exclusive of what passes through the custom house in the ordinary course of business. How large an amount the government is defrauded of in the year by people who would be mortified to be called smugglers and who are not profes- sionslIy engaged in the illegal trade cannot pretend to say"
 ''HavS you had much experience with the tricks and devices of professional snug gIersT'
 q should say did," replied the detective, with a smile, as he took from his desk a hollow boothee1 fashioned of iron, to which was attached an iron clamp, and showed 1t to the reporter.
 sDo you see tkis 7' That clamp was fastened to @ mans boot after the leather heeI of the latter had been removed. Then this iron heel was filled with diamonds and screwed to the clamp. The shape and color are exactly like that of an ordinary heel, and were it not that the smugglers nervousness betrayed him, he might have. defrauded the government out of about q, 900 in duty.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31

The report of the Superintendent of Schools, presented to Che Board of Education last evening, contains much that is interest ing One of the most important recommenda- lions made is that concerning the High Schools. The daily session in the High School has been five hours with but half an hour intermission. During this intermission few of the pupils leave the building, and dur ing much of the year there is no thorough ventilation. The Superintendent thinks the wisest and most hygienic policy istp fix the hours for the High School at from g to l o'clock, with two or more brief recesses during which, as in other schools, the pupils shall be required to leave their seats, and g thorough change of air shall be secured by
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31

The Chicago Board of Aldermen is fine body of men. The Tribune of that ci ty says it consists of fifteen professional Irishmen, two Irishmsn who do not make their nation ality profession, one exile from Canada one gentleman from Bohenia,s two Ameri- cans. enc of whom prefers being ea profss-1 sional foreigner, and one Engishmsh who, ia zsorry he is not Iriah- At the headaof. this party of twenty one is gentleman who, though originally 2 Kentuckan, has been .a Hollanasr, a PoIander. Hebrew. Hiber- nian, aa Englishman when In England, 6 .Sootchman at St. Andrews banquet, Ger mana picnics, an Italian at Rome 1.3.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31
DESCRIPTION IN CIGARs-

Another case happened on board one of the Havaaa steamers. wRs looking for smuggled cigars, and having, as thought, satisfied myself that there were none on board, was about to leave, when I noticed that the cleat of the wiadew of the barber shop, which was on the upper deck, wa' a trihe loose caught hold of 1t and pulled, and, to my surprise, the panel came out. re vealing an aperture about three feet high and one foot In depth, and running along the whole width below the window. This space was filled with boxes of the choicest cigars. After my men had seized them the barber and the steward of tho vessel mysteriously disappeared, and have not shown up around the skip again.
 a5ssDid not the captain know of this ?" sNo, from his explanation felt convinced that the smuggling vas being done entirely without his knowledge. He had sixty men in his crew and only one pair of eyes to watch them while they were watching him. I wish [ could say that all captains of inbound vessels are as innocent of eomplicity in
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Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31
Smugglers.

How Uncle Sam is Defrauded Out of Large Rsvenues-A Special Treasury Agent DtscIoses the Secrets of Custom Duties EvastOns.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-31

IE8 IaUy WnOIn IOYeO U6BBs And passed beneath the mansions shade Where erst her chamber used to rest. He warbled till the morning light
 Game dancing OCT the hill-top'g rim, But no fair maiden blessed his sight, And all seemed dark and drear to him. With heart aglow and eyes ablaze -,s He drew much nearer than before, When to his horror and amaze, ~ He saw s'To Let" upon the door,
 Youths Companion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-19
Personal MENTION.

A steamer which has arrived at Lisbon
from the Congo river, reports Henry M.
Stanley in good health, but five Belgian
members of his party died Stanley was in
May about to start for ten months
journey toward the east coast of Africa.
An Austrian explorer with him had COM
mitted suicide. Stanley had formed an al
lance with two upper chiefs, thereby
checkmating Debrazza, the french explor-
er.
Gen. Alfred Awkward, the leader of the
South African Beers, recently eloped with
Miss Carrie Van Hoesen, a member of one
OF the most aristocratic families of Brook
Ign, n. Y, proceeded to Boston, and was
married. The bride is about twenty years
old, and Is said to be highly accom- plished
and very pretty.
Information has been received al DeCa-
tur, Ill.,, of the death by yellow fever of Gen.
Jesse A, Moore Uuited States consul of
Gallo, Peru. He was a colonel of Volun-
teers in the war of the rebellion, and served
two terms in congress from Illinois. He
had been i'll consular service thirteen years.
An interesting incident which marked the
college, at Macon, Ga, was the marriage of
one of the graduates, Miss Susie Derry,
to Thaddeus Parker, ESQ. Twenty two
classmates helped give the bride away.
The death of Tom Thumb, was very sud-
den. He had just risen from bei, and
shortly after being left alone by his brother
in-law was heard to fall Going to his room
he was found lying upon the floor, dead.
DIR. Riggs, the Sioux mission ~, has
been Frustrated with lever for four months,
is now gaining strength and approaching
convalescence.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-19

Senator Edmunds of Vermont has
lately visited the glaciers on Mount Ia
coma, Washington Territory and gives
an enthusiastic description of what he
saw, and is thoroughly convinced that
no resort in the United States will be so
much sought after as this when once
people come to know that what men
cross the Atlantic to see can be seen in
equal splendor, if not surpassed, at
home He says: The emotions stirred
i'll one S breast completely defy all the
powers of language to express. When
we reached the foot of the glaciers, foot
sore and weary as we were, could not
help pausing in breathless silence as we
reviewed this majestic mass of ice, i'm
bedded in the bosom of this gigantic
monarch among the Alps. | have been
through the Swiss mountains, and ! am
compelled to own that, incredible as the
assertion may appear, there is absolutely
no comparison between the finest effects
that are exhibited there and what is seen
i n approaching this grand isolated
mountain | would be willing to go 500
miles again to see that scene. This con-
tinent. is yet in ignorance of the exist
ence of what will be one of the grand
est show places. as well as sanitarium.'
Upon the completion of the Northern
Pacific, near at hand, there will be an
immense influx of tourists from our own
and other countries. to witness what SO
delighted Mr.. Edmunds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-19
Underneath New Orleans.

In his graphic account of Food and
Plague in New Orleans" which is pro-
fusely illustrated, in July Century,
George w. Cable describes as follows the
geological formations underneath the
city as was ascertained in boring an
artesian well: The alluvial surface
deposit is generally two or three feet
thick, and rests on a substratum of uni-
form and tenacious blue clay. The well
in Canal street found this clay fifteen
feet deep. Below it lay four feet more
of the same clay mixed with woody mat
ter Under this was amixture Of sand
and clay ten feet thick, resembling the
annual deposits of the river. Beneath
this was found, one after another, con-
tinual, irregular alterations OF these clay
strata, sometimes a foot, sometimes sixty
feet thick. and layers Of sand and shells
and OF mixtures ofthese with clay. Some
times stratum of quicksand was passed.
At five hundred and eighty-two feet was
encountered a LAYER of hard pan; but
throughout no masses of rock were found,
only a few water worn pebbles and some
cOntorted and perforated stones. No
abundance of water flowed. j lie con-
tlnual alterations of tough clay aud loose
sand and shells in sa:h variable thick
nesses gave a clear illustration of the
conditions of delta soil that favor the
undermining of the Mississippi banks
and their fall into the river at low stages
OF water. ieyees being often carried With
them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-19
RAILROAD RUMBLIEGS.

Six directors of the Rutland Railroad
company announce that ex-Treasurcr
Ravens cash account is short S38, 900. The
total deficit can on,y be determined by
thorough investigation. There has been a
large overissue OF stock, at one time 1892
shares, but the actual overissue apparently
outstanding now is 1891 Shares. Alta CHI
ment has been placed upon the property OF
Havens, which, with lis bond, may save
the road ultimate loss.
A meeting ofthe general managers of the
Northwestern, Milwaukee Il st. Paul, Rock
Island & Pacific and Northern Pacific roads
is so be held in Chicago, al an early date,
for the purpose oil comforting toeethCr in
regard to arrangements for through traffic
to the Pacific coast from connecting lines
with the Northern Pacific,
According to the Railroad Gazette the
five months of the current year, to the end
of Nav, show a total of 720 railroad ac-
ciden s, 1873 killed and 713 injured; a
monthly average of LA accidents, 81 killed
and 143 injured. The month OF May was
considerably below the average for the year.
Over $500 miles of new railways counting
main line only, and excluding sldings and
other tracks, have been laid during the past
six months, although the weather during
only a small portion of this time has been
favorable to outdoor work in most of the
states.
The Union Pacific has begun its annual
cleaning out of conductors.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-19

A professor at Yale College maintains
that the development of the tro ting
horse is "a special product Of the high
est civilization the world has yet SEEM"
and San Francisco paper appends
this remark: while the horse has
reached high st lndard of civilization,
it hardly follows that the trotting horse
marks the highest stage of civilization.
This one fact, however, is pretty well
established, that he is making greater
speed, both as n runner and q trotter,
than ever before. Statuary, and in the
line of physical training we have not
vet reached the Greek standard, but
~ horse flesh we are ahead. Our pub
lie galleries of art, and our public libra
ries are meagre concerns. But the
world wilt take notice, that if we have
not developed the man to perfection
the horse is little ahead
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-19
Great Fire at Cokato, Wright Coun-
fy Minnesota


On the 14th inst, Cokato, Wright County,
Mimi, sixty-one miles west OF st. Paul, on
the Breckenridge division of the Manitoba
road, met with almost total destruction
from fire. The fire seems to have started in
a hotel occupied by section men, early on
the previous morning. About twenty men
were in the building, three of
whom were burned to death and
several others badly scorched.
The section men who persisted were as
follows:
Richard Kelly of Wayerly.
James WilIigmsn of Montross..
William Shepherd OF, Howard Lake.
Kelly and Shepherd were single men,
but Wiiligman leaves widow and five
children. The bodies of the three were
burned to a crisp and the remains were
forwarded to the friends of the dead this
morBing.
A wind blowing from different directions
caused the fire to spread with great rapidity,
and in a short time almost the entire town
was in flames. The scenes of suffering and
despair were horrible. A large part of the
population were driven into the open hir
half-naked and remained in this condition
until late tie following forenoon, when
kind-hearted people from the country took
them in and provided them with food and
clothing. The actual loss is difficult of es-
timation, but 1t is thought will reach $50, 600
with probably half that amount OF insur-
ance, Out Of twenty three stores but two
were saved.
The losses and insurance are set down as
follows
A. w. L. Almquist, hardware and imple-
ments, worth $1,000 or $4,000; carries a
stock of about $4,000.
Bodin & Johnson. general store, carries a
stock of S., 900; insured for $500.
Dull, Edmunds, Coulson & Co.'S elevator;
the Arm is worth about $50 900; the eleva-
tor cost So 800 in 1881
Hans Englands saloon, he is worth
about s., 900.
Il. f. Glrboch & Co., general store; he
lives IN Minneapolis.
Peter zumberg, agricultural implements;
carried small stock.
o. HendricksoR, saloon; worth $500 or
s.. 0O0.
o. & !. johnson, jeweler, worth from
$500 to $500.
King & Bradshaw paid $4,000 for their
hotel and furniture a short time ago.
A. A. Sn1der, general store, carried q
small stock-$5,0O0 to $1,000; insured
for So, 600.
p E. Nelson, boot and shoes stock worth
So 600 to $4,000.
IN the store OF HANS Eng lanu, OGGO Vic
son, lumber dealer, did small business,
| worth 81, 600.
Guy Perkins kept hotel of small size.
Peterson Bros, general store, had a stock
| of Sc, 900 or $500.
A. 2. Peterson carried a stock of about
| S., 900 and owned the store and building.
James Runnion lumber and furniture, car
ried stock worth $1,000, the store was
worth about 5000.
P. Stevenson, general store carried one OF
the best stocks In town.
Peter Swenson, wagon-maker, worth $500.
John Tracy, .saloon-keeper, carried out a
small stock.
DR.. Joe Trow, drugs, carried stock of
| So, 900.
p J.. Weberg, furniture; stock of $500.