River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-07-19
Miscellany.

Sir Henry Thompson has written
letter to the London Lancet about
cigarette smoking. He points out that
in the East cigarette without a mouth
piece is rarely smoked more than hall
way thr ugh, and thus very little of the
offensive oil of tobacco reaches the
smokers mouth. Here. whore tobacco
is dear, he suggests that holder should
always be used, and he says that he him
self invented one, which opens trans
versely in the middle, disclosing small
cavity which is filed with cotton wool
to catch the oil. Smoked simply" Sir
Henry continues, "and with cotton wool
interposed, / do not hesitate to regard
the cigarette as the least potent, and,
therefore, the least injurious, form of to-
bacco smoking"
The crop prospects in Southern Ind
lana are decidedly encouraging. The
barley harvest has commenced. and the
wheat is about ready to cut. The yield
of barley is twenty per cent. better than
was supposed, and that of wheat above
the average. The corn fields are clean
an promise well. In the western part
of the state the prospects are greatly I'M
proved.
The official organ of the Chinese gov
eminent, published at Pekin, recently
contained this announcement: "Ihe
Censor, Lin En-p'n, requests that all
high officials, civil or military, who are
addicted to opium smoking, may be
compelled within three months to give
up the habit" An official decree fol-
lowed, approving the suggestion in these
words; 'HenceforwaTd let all such of
iiceIs purify themselves of this vice;
those guilty of outward assent and secret
disobedience to this warning will be
most severely punished"
A large colony of Dunkards viii soon
settle in Brown county. in northern
Kansas. Thousands of this moral, intel
ligent, law-abidinL, and thrifty but pecu-
liar people will probably be added to
the population of the state in the next
few years
A new use has been found for cotton.
Manufactured into duck it has been sue
cessfllly introduced rs q roofing materi-
AL Aside from its cheapness it possess
es the advantage of lightness, as COM
pared with shingles or slate; it effectual-
ly excludes water, and it is said to be
non-conductor o neat
The total rainftll in Kansas for the
first five months of 1888 was 1907 inches
or 2.25 above the average for the same
period of fifteen years. Unlike their
Illinois brethren, the Kansas farmers
welcome this unusual degree of mois-
ture. Under its influence corn is grow
ing finely and wheat is looking remark
ably we'll.
How much longer the British House
of Lords will continue to exist as por-
ton of the political system of Great Bri-
tain is a question that must unpleasant
" suggest itself to the noble nobodies
when they read about the bill submitted
to the Cortes by the government of Por-
tugal, abolishing the hereditary cham
Der of Peers in that country. The con-
sentative Englishman makes haste slow
w, an so long as the House of Peers
"does nothing in particular" the reform
NAV be postponed, but that it IS bound
to come one of these days seems certain.
ANY unwonted display of activity by the
lords would be liable to precipitate the
un pleasantness.
The University ofCambridge( England)
in 1881 formally sanctioned the admis-
sion of the women students of GirtOn
and Newnham colleges to the Tripos
competitions, that is, to the mathemati-
cal aud classical examinations for honors.
The girls have since then answered on
exactly the same papers rs the men,
and have had rank in the competition
assigned them on the same scale. The
only discrimination made against them
was that the names of the successful did
not appear in the university calender
among those of the men, but onlyin that
of their own college, 1t is now under
stood that even this is to be done away
with, and that the senate of the uHiver-
sity is so satisfied with the success of
the experiment that they will prob
ably next year publish the names Of the
female wranglers and junior ard senior
odd times in the regular university lists.