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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04
A Mexican Adventure.

/ wanted to get box of liver pills, as
the climate of Vera Cruz is slightly tine
Tired with malaria at all seasons of the
year, and I was anxious to carry home
as good liver as had with me when
left the white settlement. We found a
drug store with little difficulty, and, mp
on going in, the first object which at
tracted our attention, aside fro the
distinct odor of 1900 different smells,
was the appearance of the drug clerk.
He was long-necked Young man, with
resplendently oiled hair and eyes like a
docile gazelle's.
How am / to rake this Mexican
heather understand what / want?"
asked Capt. Wicks; and, by the way,
what a telegraph pole Of neck he has
got on him. Looks like giraffe"
"Or a swan" suggested Wicks.
"See hox be is CREASED" | observed.
'just as though he was ready TO be swal-
lowed by an anaconda"
''He does that" said Wicts, land
what a magnificent sign ne makes for an
apothecary shop"
"What champion he would make to
run a sausage suffer- continued: "but
how am l going to get the pills."
ASK for pIldores, said Wicks; that's
Spanish for pills"
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RECORD or CASUALTIES.

Thomas Bear. of Wlnslow township. jeff
erson county Pa, went out hunting few
days ago. He not having returned search
was made for HIM His headless body was
found in The woods, thres miles from his
home. His hea3 and portions of his breast
and shoulders were found in the brush
twenty-five feet away from the body. a
short distance beyoy where the body lay
a large tree had been felled. The trunk
wss chopped only half in two and was
split up for several feet. It was plain that
Bear had been chopplng the tree down.
probably to secure racaon which he had
freed, when the trunk split and one-half of
it hying up struck him in tee breast With
such force as to tear his head snd shout
ders from his body, and hurl him to the
spot whsre be was found.
San Francisco Special.-The recent ex-
plosion NJ the California Powder works.
situated near the Pinole miua. on the Cen
tral Pacific railway, took place in tie mil
ling DOM. The cause will pr sbably never
be known, as al those engaged. c0mpr iug
forty hiHamen and oae white overseer,
were blown Ia atoms. scraps of bodies be-
ing picked up in different directions al
distance Of fully quarter OF a mile nom
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04

The New York Sanitary Engineers re-
ports that du ing the week ending Sep
tember SJh in thirty-twO cities of the
United states, having an aggregate
population Of Z, 05j, 900, there died 1881
persons, which is equivalent to an an
nual mortality rate Of 2)2 per 1000, a
diminution from the rate for the previ-
Gus week of2l19 For the North At
lantlc cities the rate was POP; for the
eastern cities 223: for the lake cities,
1914; for the river cities, I7.3; and in
the southern cities for the whites 1S.5,
and for the coiored 327 per l 900. The
deaths of children under five years OF
age formed 444 per cent. of the whole
number, the proportion of this class of
deaths cOnunulng highest in tn e lake
cities, viz, % per at, or over half of
all the deaths Accidents caused 40;
consumpriau q o. ND 10; diarrhpal
diseases 1871; aad d.phtheria 3 g per
cent, Of ajy deaths In the North At
laEtic cities darrboeal diseases caused
23.2 per cent. of all deaths; in the eastern
cities I25; in the lake cities p A i'll the
river cities, III; and in the southern
cities for tue whites Ia 4, and for the
colored lS.5 per cent.
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PERSOy4F, MENTION

Ex- Congressman T. c.. Deering and w.
L. Eaton OF Usage Iowa, and Capt. ].
c. Standing, Chrnito, Iowa, representing
a syndicate of Iowa capitalists. have COM
pleted the purchase of twenty five acres OF
valuable coal lands, of General Land
Agent Weymiss of the Northern Pacific.
The lands are located on the east side of the
Missouri river, sixty miles orthwest oil
Bismarck and contain a Fine foot veia
outcropping en- the bank OF the river, $50
feet below the surface. This is the first coal
devetopement east of the Missouri, and the
coal is in Quality much superior 10 the
Ignite found west of the stream. The
field seems to be quite extensive and it is
understood that the syndicate Will probab-
ly increase their purchase. The gentlemen
composing the party are all capitalists Of
large means and of wide business experience,
and it is their intention TO prepare their
plant and commence working the vein in
the near f ture, having bought the land
for the purpose of developing its resources
and not for speculation.
Or. Simonton of st. Paul, Mimi, reports
having brought the Books comet, within
the field of his three-inch glass on the even
ing of the 25th, placing it about thirty de-
grees west of the north star. This comet is
to be at its nearest point to the earth about
the middle of January, 1884, when it will
be distant from us about go, 100000 miles
and visible to the naked eye. 1t will be
visible for months to come and is identified
as the comet of 1872.
Richard X. Fox, owner of the Police Ga
zette, is but thirty five years old, and has
an income of 5000, 900 year. He started
ten years ago with cash capital of SO
Mrs Caroline Barrett, wife of j. E. Bar
rett master of the Howard Grammar school,
Cambridge, Mass, committed suicide a her
home, recently by taking poison.
MisssGrey, the professional fat woman of
New York, whose weight is519 poun2s was
married recently to Moses, the cigarette skel
eton. The wedding was big time.
A telegram from Shasta, Cal, announces
the death at that place of S. S. Montague,
chief engineer of the Central Pacific rail
way, aged forty-six.
Gen. Fsirchild has given a portrait OF De
Solo, which he bought in Spain, to the
Wisconsin State Historical society.
Charles B. Pettingill, promine nj Cleve.
land politician is dead. He was a revenue
collector under Hayes.
A japanese prince has arrived at Quebec,
to join her majesty 5 ship, Northampton as
a midshipman.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04
FOREIGN VIEWS GOSSIP.

China CLAIMS both banks of the Red river
with neutral zone south. The French gov.
eminent has declared it cannot accept these
| terms, because to do so it would lose the
| fruit itself. The text of the Hue treaty will
not arrive for a month. The recent con.
| duct of the Black Flags is explained by tLe
fact that since the signing OF the treaty the
king of AMMAN has ceased to send subsi-
dies.
Bradlaugh has addressed letter to Sir
Stafford Northcote, in which he declares he
will again demand his seat in the house Of
commons on the Resembling of parliament
ana charges Northc0te with causing all the
mischief that has grown ut of the contin-
ued violation OF his (Bradlaugh's) rights.
The Paris newspapers have begun a war
upon King Alfonso, being convinced that
henceforth he viii be an ally to Germany
IS he accepted the c0lonelcy of Italians at
Siransbury, Alasca, and appeared publicly
in the uniform of his regiment.
The Nation accuses the British govern
ment and American legation in London of
foul play toward 0'Donnell, in the hope
tfat be may 'mplicate tAe friends of Par
nell in the conspiracy to murder Carey, the
iuformer.
Italian priests, He expressed qualification
at their presence, as evinciug the union ex-
listing between the clergy and the Holy See.
1t is reported at Smla, India, that the
Ghiizea have engaged with 5000 Afghanis-
tan tire ps and routed them. The Amer
has sent relnforcements from Cabul.
Croatianmembers of the reichrath declare
they will not take their seats in that body
until constitutional administration of gGv-
eminent is reinststed in Croatia.
Dom Pedro has given Prof. Lacerda $40
600 for his discovery of permangate of po-
tassiun hypodermcally injected, as an an
tidote for the bite of The cobra.
A dispatch from Hong K ong reports .
renewal of disorders at Canton, arising
from popular dissatisfaction with The light
sentence of Tidewaiter Logan.
Rev. Seguin of st. Cunegonde, Ont, has
been called upon y the bishop to explain
regarding the rebuke to the Irish Catholic
from his pulpit recently.
Thomas Burt, member of the British
house of commons for the borough of Nor
peth is making tour of the United States
and Canada.
It is reported that Suleman Pasha recent
~ appointed governor of East Soudan, has
been murdered by Arabs.
Sator1s has reioined his wife, nee Nellie
Grant. at his fathers country seat near
Southampton.
Three diplomas have been awarded Amer
lean exhibitors at the electrical exhibition
at Vienna.
a man by the name of Waltz has been
arrested in Winnipeg on the charge of for
gery.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04
How Bananas arc Raised

As every body knows who has eaten q
banana, the luscious pulp is seedless.
The plants are propagated from other
plants, so that the stock is not likely t.
run out. The plant requires for vigorous
growth deep rich soil, abundantIy wa
tered. With these conditions present
there is said to be no risk OF a crop in
the hot regions where alone the fruit
is produced. Nine months after cut.
ting has been planted purple bud ap.
pears IN the center Of the unfolding
leaves that shoot out from the mead OF
the parent stem. The stem on which
the bud appears grows rapidly above
the main stalk As the bud increases
in weight the stem bends downward bv
q graceful curve, on the extremity Of
which the bud continues to grow TIL the
purple blossoms falling off, little shoots
appear as the embryo fruit Each fruit
has a yellow blossom at its outward ex-
tremity. AT the end Of from three tC
four months the fruit has grown TO ma.
turity and is picked long enough before
it is dead ripe" to preserve it in mar
ketable condition. From the roots Of the
parent stalk other shoots appear, which
are trina ed out or left to grow. as the
cnlhvator may deem best. A single
stalk, therefore, bears only one bunch
or crop as its life work. Spaniards have
religious reverence for the banana,
believing it TO be the fruit of which
Adam partook. This fruit has long ieen
regarded as extremely nutritious. 1t is
recomen ed above all others for invalids
who are unable to swallow harder food
An estimate by Humboldt claims that
II ,060 pounds Of bananas can be produced
on the soil that would be required foI
1000 pounds of potatoes, and that the
anne area that would be required to
raise wheat enough for one man would
produce enough bananas to feed 81
men.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04

It was also asserted that diphtheria
was increasing slightly but steadily in
the North Atlantic and eastern cities;
1t is about equally prevalent in this
country and in Germany. and much
more so in these countries than in Great
Britain. Typhoid fever caused 81 per
cent. Of all deaths; malarial .fevers %;
scarlet fever Is: pneumonia 8. 4; mea-
sizes OF and whooping cough IS per cent
The mortality in the English cities con-
tinues unusually slow.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04
{" For Sale"

4 Detroiter who advertised a horse
asst week noleG down the objections OF
all VINO ctlied t, looA ~ the animal, and
some of them are here given:
TOO large
FOO small"
"Too Old"
''Not Old enough"
TOO lively"
Rather too sleepy"
=" Object 70 the white hind feet"
Would take her if she had more white
feet"
Don't ike her color
Color is Just right, but she is too fat"
Weighs too much"
Don't weigh enough"
Has bad eye"
Eyes all right, but ears too small"
Yes. handsome ears, but the nose
spoils her"
Legs all stocked up
Legs all right, but feet bad"
IF Shakespeare had said that no man
knew what he wanted in horse there
would he none to dispute it.-Detroit
Free Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04

The coming renort 0 the senate com.
mittee appointed Al the last session tc
investigate he agreement made by the
Sioux commission promises to add an
entertaining chapter to the lengthy
history of Indian affairs. The commit
tee find that the Indians were, in nearly
every case, coerced into signing the
agreement, and that they strongly OBJ
ject to giving up their land. After care
fully examining the whole matter, d
unanimous report has been decided on,
recommending that the agreement in
question be not ratified.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04
Hail-Storms and Forests.

At the annual meeting of the Swiss
Foresters society, which has recently
been held at Tug, Herr Ryniker, chief
forester Of canton Aargau and a member
of the national council, read an interest
ing paper on the effects of forests on
hail-storms. The apparent connection
between forests and hail-storms was
pointed out twenty years ago, but it is
only lately that the connection has been
placed beyond doubt by a series Of OBJ
seryations made in Administrations
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04

In the United States there are seventy
ne railroads which report an average in
earnings during August offs per cent.
over the earnings of the corresponding
moth in 1882. This is significant from the
fact that the August railroad earnings of
1882 gave a total Of 10 per cent. increase
over those OF 1881, % per cent. over
those of 1880. and 81 per cent. over
those OF 1879. Thus for the four years
the increase of August earnings has
been 80 per cent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04

IS writer in the London Journal of
Science dwells upon the advantages af-
forded in Germany to technical education
and asserts that Chemnitz has already
undermined the glove trade of Noting
ham, and that in the opinion of many
the hosiery interests of the same town
are being slowly undermined. The in
habitants Of Chemnitz cannot compare
either mentally or physically with those
of the English manufacturing centre,
but they have far superior educational adj
vantages. in Boon there is quite an En-
glish town springing up, inhabited al
most entirely by English families who
reside there for the purpose of giving
their children practical education.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04

The trial ofO'Donnell, the slayer ofCa-
reg, is likely to be notable one, for
length at least. The fact of criminal
being tried at a place as far from the
scene of his crime is an unusual one,
except in the cases of mutineers an
murderers at sea. Those who svmpa-
thize with O'Donnell and the number is
large one, are trying to secure the ser
vices Of Charles Russell, NJ. p, to take
charge Of the defense. They are san
guine OF acqUittal if only eminent coun
sci can be obtained. II is doubtful
ifO'DOnnell can escape.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04

Astronomers have apparently estab-
lished the fact that the Brooks comet,
so called, now approaching the earth is
identical with the comet of 1912. The
date of It's periheion will be January %,
1884 InlSl2 it was computed that its
return would be about September 3,
1884 or within eight months of what
proves to be the actual time When il
is considered that this orbit is based
upon observations made seventy years
ago, which were neither numerous nor
widely distributed at the time, its ac-
curacy is remarkable. The period OF
the comet is seventy-one years, four
months and ten DAYS
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04
LATE MARKET REPORT.


WIfEAT-Receipts are liberal, and country move
nents are active. he various wheat mar
Tets have weakened, causing caution OF
the part Of operators here, that
the local market has been dull. The
declines in prices have been gradual, amounting tC
about SC all around, Tuesday the feeling was
little better, and prices showed a little more
strength. The milling demand is fair, but mod-
ded by the course OF prices in the market, Quail
ity in receipts shows improvement. Closing prices
Street wheat 90a95c: on change, No. hard, 81
No. 2 hard, 95c; No p $4,000: No. 3, 7S9S0c-
all bids.
CoRN-This market is again developing strength
after after an easy decline early in the week.
Stocks aud receipts have been light, and the de-
mand has been increasing little. Prices have been
regulated in part by Chicago doings, but now the
light supply seems to be the principal cause for
frmness, closing as follows: No. 2, 4so bid. SOC
asked: No. g. 45c bid.
OATs-After week If comparative quiet, the
market closes more active aud at titmer prices.
Stocks are run down and the demand is good
Prices are stronger by C since last weekly review.
On Tuesday there were but few offerings aud less
pressure to sell. Closing figures No. mixed,
26 &c bid; September, 2Sc asked October, 26c
bid, 2Sc asked November. 2Slac bid: year, 26c
bid, PIC asked; No. 8 mixed, 25c; No. 2 white.
27c bid; September 29l2c asked; No. 3 white,
26c bid; rejected, 23c bid. Tuesdays sales: cal
No mixed, old, Soc, t. O. b; car No. mixed.
November, 2S6c; car condemned. 26l2c.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04

which are still going on under the d.
rectlon of Herr Ryniker and of Prois.
COLLATION. and Dufour of Geneva and
Lausanne. Up to 1867, as related by
Herr Ryniker, the district of Muir has
enjoyed long immunity from hail
storms, hut in that year and in 1867,
1909, and 1871 it was visite by storms so
frequent and destructive as to rouse gem
eral attic ton. A careful examination
resulted In the discovery that all the
storms had broken at the same point
and followed the same path-a gap in
the forest OF Schlatt, on the crest of the
L,lndenberg, produced partly 10y or
binary wood-cutting, partly by violent
WIND which had blown down many
trees. The discovery. and the fact that
other districts had suffered in like man
her, suggested to the chief forester the
idea of extending the inquiry 10 the
canton at large, it resulted from this
inquiry that in the three years
in question damage has been
wrought 10y hail-storms in Aragau TO the
amount of 5000 900 francs, and that in
the south part of the canton. as in the
north, the FIRE quency of haiI-storms was
in inverse proportion to area covered
by forests. In the forest district of
Zofngen, with 40 per cent. of its surface
wooded, there were two slight down.
falls which occasioned damages estimated
at 10000 francs; in the district of Lenz-
burg, Kuhn, AMI Aragau, with % per
cent. of land 3lanted, there were six
hail-storms, the losses arising from
which amounted to 2S0, 900 francs; in the
district of Freimat, with 10 per cent. of
its area wooded, the number of hail
storms was TO- and the damages amount
ed to 10000 francs. The storms come
generally from the southeast, the west,
and the northwest, rarely from the
northeast, and hail-storm never passes
a compact forest of pines planted on a
height. Hail-storms move in column
and torn in the neigh orhood of low
lying lands and well-cultivated valleys
heated by the sun, and take the direc-
ton Of the prevailing wind. Scattered
groups of leafy trees even when planted
on height, are not sufficient to hinder
the march of a column of hail, while fir
woods. even if they are small, make
very effective barriers, especially when
they happen to be in the path of the
room.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04
PITH OF THE NEWS.
Events IN WASHTNGTON.

1 Il a " ~
The following are recent postoffice:
changes: Postmasters commissioned: Iowa
liver johnson, Lake Center; Gibson Dor
| othy, Albany. Dakota: Donald Melon.
| aid, Grand Forks. Postsffices established.
Dakota: William sport, Emmens county:
lsconsi1: Criyilz Msrinette county
POST office names changed-Iowa. Eveland
Grove, Mahaska count . Post-office name
| sns sight Wisconsin, SechlervilIe
| Jackson county, two and hail miles west
TO Cur an. Mail messenger service estab-
lished-Iows; Cherokee Cherokee county;
rom Illinois Central railroad, eighty-iour
rods, IS often as required. Montana He
| lena, Lewis and CLARKE county; rom North
ern Pacific railroad, route 20 Dol, one and
three-iOurths miles, as of Ell as required.
Star service cbanges-MiDnesota PayLes-
vile to Atwa er. from Oct. l; curtail service,
to begin at New London, omdting Paynes-
vile, and decrease distance fifteen miles
The adjustment Of salaries of postnlasters
II presidential classes has just been COM
pleted by the postoffice department, and
salaries as adjusted began on the 1st inst
The resdjustment affects the salaries of
2.176 postmasters. Forty-four offices have
been added tn the presidential list and
TWENTY-FIVE presidential offices have been
reduced to the fourth Class, leaving the
number of presidential p9stoffices on Oct.
/, 2, us with salaries amounting to So. 750,-
noe. Every part OF the country is incluied
In the readjustment
The second comptroller OF the treasury
IN passing upon the pay accounts of GER
tain officers were dismissed from the army
and subsequently restored, has decided that
these officers are BOT legally in the service
This decision will apply 10 quite mum ber
OF army officers on both the active
and retired lists who had been dismissed
aHd subs quently reinstated at different
lines by President Johnson and Hayes.
The following are recent postodioe
changes: Postofices established-Iowa,
Ross, Audubon county; Minnesota, Fahleen,
Kandiyohi county; Nebraska, Pella, Ian
caster county; Wisconsin. BARI Lake.
Washington county. Postotiices discon-
t'nued-Dak@ta, Sidney Csss county. Post
ot1ce name ami site chauged-Wi sconsin,
Chandler, Washhurn couaty, two miles
southwest Spooner.
The secretary of the navy has approved
the action of the court martial in the cases
OF Commander F. r. Saith and Lieut..
Daniel w Davis, both of whom were CON
victed OF gross violations of The naval regu-
lations, and sentenced to dismissal from the
service.
The president has appointed Sidney D.
Waters Putnam agent of the Indian Coll
vile agency, Wash, vice John A. Simms,
resigned.
Samuel w Melton, United States district
attorney for South Carolina, is said to have
sent his resignation o Washington.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04

New York City is threatened with a
prolonged seige of typhoid fever, as it
is spreading rapidly. Defective sewer
age is probably It's promoters.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-10-04

The Dakota Collegiate institute at Sioux
Falls was opened for the first time on
the 18th inst. First-class instructors
have charge of the several departments.
and the students already IN attend
ance ensure the success of the institu-
on