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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
Strawberries For Next Summer.

Whether we make bed the coming
fall, or next spring, by setting out plants
from runners that have taken root in
an old bed, fair crop of fruit eonnot
be expected until 1886. A few scattered
berries may be borne, but nothing like
a crop, until such plants have been in
their new location for year. The only
way in which it is possible to prepare
bed that will afford a crop next spring
is to set out pot layered plants.
AT present nearly all of the nursery
men supply pot-layered plants; it is
true that they cost more than plants
dug up from the beds where they
have taken root, put only enough more
to pay for the extra trouble. If one
has an established bed, he can easily
strike the runners in pots himself. The
earliest runners will give the strongest
plants, but it is not too late to layer
them this month. Small pots, two or
three inches across the top, are to be
filled with light rich soil. Strong
runners, just about to take root, are
selected, and a pot of soil is set or
plunged in the soil of the bed, directly
under each runner, planting the pot
well down, so that its edge will be on
a level with the surface of the bed.
Place the runner, or rather the young
plant at the end of it, in the center of
the pot, and hold it in place to prevent
it being blown about, by the use of
small hooked pegs, pieces of wire bent
like hair pin, or even by laying small
clod or stone upon it. When
well rooted, which will
be about in three weeks, the slen
der stem that connects the new plant
with old, may be cut, and the potted
plants will be ready to set out in the
new bed. The sooner such plants can
be set out the better, August being the
best time if the plants are ready. The
bed being well prepared, and MANFRED,
set the plants in rows two feet apart,
with eighteen inches between them in
the row. Give the pots thorough
watering, and the ball Of earth may be
turned out without the least disturbance
of the roots. In dry time the plants
should be watered, and all runners that
appear upon them are to be pinched
off, In order to concentrate the growth
in the crown. At the approach of win
ter, cover the bed with straw; it should
lie thinly over the plants, and thicker
between them. America Agricultur1st.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
Kindness as an Investment.

There is nothing worse for domestic
animals than to scare them half to death.
Fright uses up the vital forces more
than work, more than the growth of
flesh or fat, more than anything else,
unless it is persistent starvation.
We have had two men working for
us, with teams, on the same farm at the
SANE time. One would take his horses
from the stable when they had been re-
freshed by a few days rest, and were
feeling well, and because they were
pretty frisky while they
were being harnessed, and the
off horse did not keep the furrow well
at the first send-off, would get out of
patience and yell at his team till finally
they would break into trot, when he
would throw the pillow to the full depth
into the first hummock he could find,
bring the team to full stop, and by
this time they won d be well in "lath-
err and q1livering with excitement.
After he had yelled few minutes, and
the horses had become fully frightened,
they had used up strength enough to
move the pillow for an hour.
The other man knew better. When
he observed, while ''hitching up" that
the horses heads were carried high, and
that they were feeling first rate, he
would say to himself: "There is a
good head of steam on to-day,
and I shall be able to get a
good days work out of these fell
lows if L save it all to be used to the
best advantage" Therefore he would
speak in as quiet tone as possible,
would move gently about, and aim to
get his team afield without the risk of
any rumpus or excitement, and would
bear with few irregularities, such as
getting out of the furrow and pulling
by fits AMI starts few times. The con-
sequence would be that when they We're
warmed up to their work, they would
move on smoothly and at the same
time quickly, and at the end of an hour
there would be row Of nice burrows to
show as an equivalent for the "steam"
the other man had used up in mere
fret and fume and worry and passion.
AS it is with larger animals, SO it is
true Of fowls; if you at all times exer
else kindness toward them, they will
doubly repay you for all your care
and kind attention. American Poul-
try Yard.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
EYEGLASSES.

Inotice eye glasses seem indispensa-
BILE to every young person in the East
ern towns. while / have never seen an
eye-glass, I think, in the West on any
Young person. How is it to be account
ed for? 1t cannot be great study, be-
cause the Western men read their
newspapers all through in little type
and ought to have no eyes at all. 1t
cannot be the mutations of the weather,
for the average Western man is always
full either of chills or quinine, and he
is up in the morning trying to find his
cattle in the fog and frequently Is drunk
at night trying to find his way home.
Others drink so much cold water IN
order to establish their stability on the
temperance question that their eyes
have an aqueous and filmy nature. /
have about come to the conclusion that
the Young man from the East wears
an eve-glass because he is a fool. Ii
seems that the latest agony IS to wear
only one eye-glass and look through IT
with both eyes; this is supposed to give
precision to the mind. By the time
the West gets properly civilized large
part of the East viii have become bar
barous through its Alterations. -GARTH.
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over eight feet high. for they commence
bearing well only after the top is
reached
The best time to cut Canada thistles
is when they are in flower, the root
being then in its weakest condition.
This cutting, while it of course will not
Kill them, renders it less difficult to
destroy by later cuttings.
Prof. William Brown, of the agrieul-
tural college at Guelph, Ont. says that
there is no line of the farmers work at
the present moment, even with wool so
low, that pays so well gives so little
trouble, fewer risks, earlier returns, and
in most ways makes things so comforts
able, as wool.
When COW learns the trick of suck.
ing herself she is rarely cured. The
habit may be prevented by putting a
girdle about the COW and a halter on her
head, and fitting wooden rod from
ring in the girdle to another in the hal
ter, making it pass between the fore
legs. She cannot then get her head
around to her side. But generally it is
best to fatten such troublesome COW
for the butcher. Germantown Tele-
graph.
The small red spiders which infest
house plants may be destroyed by dust
ing them with fine Scotch snuff or sui
phnr, or by dipping them in tobacco
water. The common kerosene emulsion,
made by dissolving ounces of soap in
a spoonful of kerosene-oil and beating
all up until thoroughly mixed is q good
remedy for all the pests which infest
house plants, whether on the leaves or
in the soil at the roots.
The American Cultivator says there
are not so many good plowmen now as
formerly, in part, doubtless, a result of
using the sulky pillow, with which extra
skill in blowing does not count. An
other reason probably is, that few hired
men now understand the art of setting
pillow so that it will run easily for
both team and holder. The pillow
should run level, the point neither dig
cling downwards nor turning up. 1t is
but the work of minute to set the
pillow right for one who understands the
business. Good blowing is an art; bad
luck to the country should it become
one of the lost arts.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
Mrs, ParnelI's Mission,

In Boston, few days ago, Mrs. Parnell of
Ireland, held conference with a number of
Catholic bishops and leaders of the Irish Ma
tional league concerning the means by which
the coming political contest in this country
could be turned to the advancement of Ireland 5
cause. 1t Is understood Mrs. Parnell repre-
scented her son at the conference. Mrs. Parnell
submitted details Of a scheme for the benefit of
Irish home industry which she stated had been
conceived by her son.
Mr.. ParnelI's proposition was that u direct
offer be submitted to the political parties of
the United States as follows: If, in accordance
with the friendly feeling expressed toward
Ireland in America by Americans, one of the
political parties will incorporate plank in
It's platform in favor of admitting goods of
Irish manufacture free of duty, specifying
such goods as cannot be manufactured else
where than in Ireland, and the Importation of
which will not complete with American pro-
auctions, then such party will receive the or
ganized support of the Irish American vote
Even il direct organization is not made, yet
the Irish vote can be directly influenced III
favor of the party which shall champion the
cause of Irish industry.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
rlenro Pneumonia in Illinois.

The Chicago Breeders Gazette says: AT
last the unwelcome truth is forced upon us that
contagious pleuro- pneumonia has found
Judgement in the prairies of Illinois. The ey-
idence of its baleful presence in not less than
five Jersey herds in Illinois is overwhelming,
and grave fears are felt that the extent of tho
infection has only dawned upon u.s. In view
of these developments the following order has
been issued:
Department of Agriculture, Washington,
Aug 10 1854. To the cattle Owners of the Unit
ed States: Owing to the existence of dis
ease supposed to be pleuro-pneumonia, in sew
eral herds of Jersey cattle In the State of Hi
nOis, | hereby request owners of all herds of
Jersey cattle in the United States, into which
new animals have been introduced since Jan.
/, to stop the shipments of cattle until after Oct
!. The disease seems to have been introduced
by animals sold at Virginia, Cass cOun-
ty, Ill, in February, 1854, and these
animals were widely distributed through
out the Western States. 1t is hoped,
therefore, that persons owning cattle trac-
ing to this sale, and all others having cat
tie affected with disease of the lungs, Will at
once communicate with DR.. De Salmon, chief
of the bureau OF animal industry, care of
Breeders Gazette, Chicago, and clearly state
the condition of these herds, and the symptoms
of disease. The attention of owners of cattle
and railway and other transportation COM
panies is called TO section of the act establish
ing the bureau of animal industry, which makes
it misdemeanOr punishable by fine of not
less than 500 nor more than S5,0Oa, or by
Imprisonment of not more than one year, or
both, for shipping cattle with a contagious, in
fectious, or communicable disease, and es-
pecaHy he disease known as pleurO-pneu-
monia, nom one state or 9rrtory into another
The con,hal cooperation of the state authori-
ties and vi persons interested in the welfare of
our cattle industries is earnestly desired, in or
der to avert danger which menaces the herds
of the country.
[Signedl GEORGE b. LoRNG,
Commissioner of Agriculture
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
The Boston Girl.

1 know plenty of young men who
contriye to have great deal of cheap
fun at the expense of the average Bos-
ton girl. The newspapers, pictorial
weeklies, and even the magazines fos-
ter them in it. Some of the girls, to be
sure, are curious creatures; but many
whom the New Yorker. in Boston has
met are remarkably nice and first rate
people to know To be sure they are
wholly different from the young ladies
he is accustomed to meet at home.
They have more substance, but less
sparkle. A New Yorker feels con-
strained to be careful what he says and
how he saws it. After an hours chat
he goes away feeling very tired, and
his heart doesn't bound with delight at
an invitation to call again. He doesn't
feel half so sorry to go as he does after a
little witch in his own city has been en-
tertaining him. He feels a strong de-
sire to go home and read up. For the
street the Boston girl dresses plainly,
but extensively, and with an utter dis
regard of what in New York is called
style. She neither seems to know nor
to care how to pat on her clothes to the
best effect. a female relative of the
New Yorker tells him that they are
very thorough; that beneath the plain
skirt Of a Boston damsel you will never
see a cheap or soiled linen underskirt,
but clean and costly as her purse will
allow. This female relative asserts,
moreover, that with many New York
maidens who make considerable display
the reverse is the case. Many an ex-
pensive silk raiment hides from all but
the critical of her own sex shockingly
untidy petticoat. As this is altogether
out Of my bailiwick, / drop it with a
mere statement Of the facts. Cor. New
York Mail.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
What Influenced Kitty.

An extraordinary cat-story is told by
the Worcester Gazette. What it illus
trates, we don't exactly know. 1t may
show the cats obedience to habit, or its
respect for superior strength. Perhaps,
as the Gazette suggests, it may exhibit
a cats pity and generosity, though the
chronic feline selfshness makes this
last supposition doubtful:
A householder is the possessor of two
Thomas cats, the elder of which has
never shown anything but a self sh,
grasping disposition, while the young
er is the possessor of a generous, hap
Ply spirit.
At meal time the elder of these two
feline brothers has an unpleasant habit of
forcing his junior to sit at second table,
in fact showing a selfish and catty dis
position.
His greediness often excited the in
dignation of members of the family,
and when, one day, the daughter of the
house went to feed them, she took
Master Selfishness by the nape of his
neck, and intimated to him that he
should wait a few minutes, until the
other had had his dinner.
The younger astonished at the sud
den turn affairs had taken, gazed as if
paralyzed at the feast thus spread be-
fore him. His establishment, however,
speedily gave place to pity; he could
not appreciate. the justice of this I'M
usual division of food.
Frasping in his jaws the largest
piece of liver on the plate, he fastened
to deposit it beneath the nose of his
captive brother, who made short work
of it, while the Samaritan betook him
self to the remainder of the food.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
AHaunted Shin.

Captain James T., an old Portland
shipmaster, told the following ghost
story to citizen: He said that one
night, on the voyage from which he had
Just returned, while lying off the Bat
terry at New York, waiting for the crew
to come on board, he heard some one
on top of the house calling: James T
Pr Now. this was not only the cap
tain's name, but also that of his son,
who was his mate on this voyage. Only
the captain, mate and steward were on
board, and on hearing the voice they all
went on deck, but saw no one. The
stewards dog, which slept in front of
the cabin door, lay quiet on his rug
The next day the bark sailed for Rio
Janeiro. and several strange occurrences
took place ON the passage. One
morning his son, the mate, said to him !:
Captain, the ships haunted. turned
out on my watch at four o'clock in the
morning, and as i went out of the cabin
door / saw some one in white, but be-
fore could distinguish whether it was
male or female it disappeared around
the main mast. The steward said he
saw it also and was frightened" Some
days after this the steward called the
captain and told him the mate had not
yet come on deck. The captain went to
the mates stateroom, and on opening
the door saw the mate apparently laugh
ing at him, but ON taking hold of him
he found he was dead. From his dis
torted countenance it appeared that he
had been frightened to death. Several
other strange occurrences happened on
board, and on arriving at Rio the stew
ard left the vessel on account of feeling
that she was haunted. Strange noises
continued to be heard on board, such as
the working of the windlass in heaving
the anchor, but on going forward no
one was to be seen. Now comes the
strangest part of the story. During the
captains absence on this very voyage
another son Of his, Samuel t, ar
rived home from voyage, and re-
marked that he would go down for his
dunnage. He came back with it and
lay down for nap. Not coming down
to tea, some of the family went to call
him and found him dead. This was
about the time that the mate and stew
ard saw the figure in white. Portland
Argus
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Living ON His Dead Comrade.

Winnipeg Special; ". B. Mcbride
of Chicago, who has arrived here from
trip to the Rocky mountains, brings
word that man named William Owens,
a California miner, was found by some
railway navvies near Kicking Horse
river few days ago in famished and
partially demented condition. Owens
said he started June ID, with Joseph
Williamson, from Kainloops ON a pros
pecting trip, expecting to strike the
Columbia river, but their supply of
provisions gave out before reaching
there. They travelled for six days and
a half without food, when Williamson
laid down and died. Owens then cut
strips of flesh from his dead companions
legs, which he ate sparingly, and pro-
ceeded on his tramp. He had been liv-
ing six days on human flesh when found
and still had a quantity of the dried
flesh in an old handkerchief. He was
very weak and emaciated, and told his
story with difficulty. He repeated the
horrible details on several occasions
and all who heard him are CON
WINGED that the story is true. He had
a large roll of bills with him. The police
have taken the matter in hand and will
investigate it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.
The Art Of Drinking nilk.

Milk should not be taken IN copious
draughts like beer or any other fluids
which differ from it chemically. If we
consider the use of milk in infancy, the
physiological ingestion, that is, of food
provided for it, each small mouthful is
secured by effort and slowly presented
to the gastric mucuous surface for the
primal digestive stages. 1t is thus reg
ularly and gradually reduced to curd,
and the stomach is not oppressed with
a lump of half-coagulated milk. The
same principle should be regarded in
case of the adult. Milk should be
slowly taken in mouthfuls, at short in
teryals, and thus it is rightly dealt with
by the gastric juice If milk be taken
after other food it is almost sure to
burden the stomach and cause discom-
fort and prolonged Indigestion, and
this for the obvious reason that there
is not sufficient digestive agency to dis
pose of it, and the better the quality Of
the milk the more severe the discomfort
will be under these conditions.-Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
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Fruit and the Cholera.
donor > Chronicle lLondonl.

Gardener . Chronicle QLondonl.
1t is to be feared that the report in
dustriously circulated that the cholera
at Toulon originated with the free eat
ing on the part of some of the popula-
ton of unripe apricots, may lead to a
fanatical cutlery against the eating of
fruit in any form during the present
season. There is no proof that unripe
fruit had any connection with the chol-
era outbreak at Toulon, and it does not
seem certain whether the disease preva-
lent is of the dread Asiatic form, or is
of the sporadic order Fruit growers
will 10 we'll to send TO market only ripe
fruit, and that which is in perfectly
sound state 1t is not, however, so
much from the growers that any danger
of that kind will arise. 1t is rather
from dealers who are not too careful as
to the places in which they store their
unsold fruit, or to the condition in which
it may be- However, fruit is perhaps
less injurious, if at all, when sound than
many other articles of food, and rightly
used may help to promote the public
health rather than bring it to any dan
ger
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
Electric Lights.

There are two kinds of electric lights,
wholly different in principle, in bril-
Iianey, in appearance and in the mode
of use. A writer in one of the daily
papers, explaining the difference to an
inquiring correspondent, writes:
Inc distinguishing difference, to an
ordinary observer, between and incan-
descent electric lights may, 1 think, he
briefly stated thus: Are lights burn in
the open air, with carbon sticks or pen
ellis, the very points or ends of which are
heated to a white heat and gradually
consumed. Such are our street lights.
Incandescent lights, on the contrary,
are produced inside small glass globes
of various shapes, from which the air
has been exhausted. These lights are
caused 10y the passage of electricity
through a fine resisting wire or thread
tusually bent for convenience into the
form of a horse-shoe). which is thereby
raised into a white or incandescent heat,
without being consumed, on account of
the absence of air. If the air leaks in,
the filament Immediately burns mp, and
that Is the end ont.
The term arc" is an old one, adopted
years ago, referring to the supposed
shape of an electric spark in passing
from one carbon point to the other.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-08-28
The oldest of English Families.

Lord Palmerston's country residence
Is well known to have been near Rom
sey, Hants. In the course of his ac-
customed rides in the New Forests he
saw a laboring man burning lime and
entered into familiar conversation with
him, asking to be obliged with his sur
name. The man replied that it was
Purkiss. Now, this was the reply that
was sought, and Palmerston exclaimed.
II thought as much" He accordingly
asked the man if he was descended from
the lime burner of that name who carted
away the body of William Rufus after
his unfortunate fall by the arrow of Sir
Walter Tyrrel. The man answered in
the affirmative. "Then give me your
hand," said his lordship, "for though
you are laborer, must not forget
that you are brother Hampshire man"
at the same time handing the man Gf
my memory serves me- the medium of
procuring some refreshments at his ear
lest cessation from toll. "Thus," said
his lordship, in relating the incident,
~ have had the great honor Of con-
versing with an honest workingman
who is descended from the Oldest family
and bears the oldest surname in Eng
land. Notes and Queries.
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The Matter of Thirty Years.

In 1854 John Hallock, prominent
farmer of the town of Mount Hope,
Orange county, New York, went away
from home and never returned. He left a
wife and infant daughter. Mrs. Hallock
long ago made up her mind that her
husband was dead She never married
again. A few months ago Mrs, Hallock,
who has lived near the village for sew
eral years, was notified that John Hal
lock had died in Spencer, Tioga county,
New York, and left s. to his daughter,
Mrs. Carr. The rest of of his property
was left to his widow, who lived on the
farm on which Hallock died This led
to an investigation by Mrs. Hallock
She learned that her husband had mar
ried lady in Tioga county over thirty
years ago and that she was ignorant
that he had another wife living. The
Orange county widow at once brought
suit to recover her dover right in her
deceased husbands property. Hallock's
executors claimed that he had procured
divorce from his first wife in 1855 in
Kentucky, but last week offered tc
settle with Mrs. Hallock No. by pay
ing her 81, 500. She accepted the offer.