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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05
Thinking Before Buying.

From the New York Evening Post
A simple rule which has worked Won
ders financially, and is in many other
respects of value, and worthy of the at
tention of mothers, is this: When the
children come in wild with excitement
and with strong desire for some entire
" unnecessary thing which you doubt
will afford the expected delight, coun-
sci them to wait week before deciding
upon its purchase. A week is long
period of time; many changes may take
place in seven days, and probably will
in the minds Of your children. This
experiment has been thoroughly tested,
and grateful children have been heard
to exclaim, "How thankful ] am,
mother, that / didn't spend my
money for that. If ] hadn't waited
week my money would all have
been gone; and in one remarkable in
stance a boy who wanted a toboggan,
and waited a week before purchasing
it. changed his desire, and at the end of
the week wished only for pair of old
fashioned "bobs;" at the end of another
week he had decided not to purchase
these, but wait and get bicycle and q
pair of roller skates; and by tins meth
cd of procedure has saved his money,
after having enjoyed mentally the pos
session of one of these articles after an
other, though in somewhat delusive
or evasive way, and is just thinking OF
Saving up" for a rifle. OF course this
is an extreme case. 1t is rule which
might be adopted by some parents also
with good. effect, and / fancy that a
great deal of money would be found IN
the family treasury if each member were
to try this plan tor year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

The grand Duke Louis of Hesse persists in his
demands for legal separation from Madame
Kolemine The latter referred her claims to the
Hessian minister from Darmstadt
The French government proposes to eele-
brate the centenary of the commencement of
the revolution of 1850, and has resolved to
make an especially brilliant exhibition in Paris
in 1889
The president of Venezuela has ordered the
cremation of the bodies of all persons dying of
yellow fever, ON the ground that there is dan
ger of infection froE buried bodies for months
after the burial
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05
Agricultural Miscellany.

As pigs grow older the more feed is
required TO make pound of growth.
The German feeding tables show that
q pig or 3 months old, weighing fifty
pounds, needs daily 81 pounds of feed
A pig to II months old weighing 259
pounds, took 81 pounds of feed. Pigs
at intermediate ages took like proper
tons Professor Miles shows that it
requires 38 pounds of corn meal to
make one pound of growth on pigs to
months old. Stewart says two pounds
can be put on young pig with the
same feed required to make one and a
half pounds on an older shoat.
A correspondent of the London Gar
den who by planting early, and again
in June, has sweet pea flowers until
November, speaks of them as charm
ing at all times" and offers this advice
for securing constant supply: The
treatment given to ordinary culinary
peas suits them admirably. If stakes
cannot be had, they may be allowed to
scramble on the ground, when they will
form tangled mass of lovely color and
fragrance Mixed seed, which produces
flowers of every hue, is very satisfactory,
and although many might have the
means of growing every kind by itself,
to many this would not be as pleasing
as mixed mass.
In transplanting, where the land is
abundantly fertile, wet cabbage set in
x,o;e4 aartb 10 rood aponnh INIT if tba
soil is not quite so rich as it should be
then pudding the root in COW manure
is beneficial. This is a German method,
and is taught to boys in the common
schools there. A German lad / had last
summer practised this manure pudding
while we set beets, turnips and cabbage,
and he made holes in the soil for the
plants with his finger. He knew his
business. He was entirely indifferent to
the leaves upon the plant; when set
they withered and died but new ones
fourished wonderfully.
The following are some Holstein but
ter records: Messrs. Smiths & Powells
Jannek made % pounds ounces in 10
days, and their Netherland Queen, 20
pounds in seven days. Snowflake, bred
by Hon. Gerrit S. Miller, made 81
pounds ounces in 10 days. Mr.. Mitch
ellis Frieda made pounds 8 ounces in
two days. Mr.. Thos. b. Wales, Jr.'s,
Jantje made 80 pounds ounces in 81
days, and his Mercedes made in 30 days,
SO pounds 81 ounces of unsalted butter,
thereby making the greatest butter
record known, taking the Breeders Ga
zett's challenge cup, which was open to
all competitors, and standing champion
of the world.
A company has been formed for the
purpose of stocking ranch in Dakota
with pure bred cattle and with good
mares. The latter will be mated with
Percheron stations. All the cattle on
the ranch will be pure-bred. The profits
from such venture will no doubt be
very large, as the company will be able
to sell the increase of its herds for $3.50
to $500 each as soon as the calves can
be taken from their dams, or at least at
very early age, where they would
have to wait three years for market
for ordinary beeves at $50 to S45 each
The cost of raising the pure ed stock
will be but little more than that of
raising the scrubs, and even if this
should be made double the cost of the
scrub the profit would still be enormous.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

According to the report of Consul
Tanner, our exports of butter to England
fell from $4,000 tons in 1880 to 2, soc
tons in 1882. He ascribes this princi
pally to the attacks made on the Amer
lean provision trade when German
excluded our hog products, and which
attacks mate rally affected every inter
est we have in the provision supply for
export. He predicts that America will
eventually regain the trade by supplying
better quality of products than any
other country can furnish. This is a
hint to the oleomargarine makers to
brand their goods honestly and let the
dairies make the butter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05
Charles O, conor,s modestv.

A Nantucket correspondent of the
Boston Globe says of Charles O'Conor;
'On one occasion he laid so bill on
the plate at the Roman Catholic church.
At the next service the priest mentioned
the circumstance, and warmly praised
the donor. O'Conor was very angry.
"They will get no more from me-" he
said, and they did not O'Conor gave
with liberal hand where he believed
the object a worthy one. He has dis
tributed 5000, 600 in Nantucket" said
one who knew something Of his acts.
Owing to his peculiar methods it is diff
ficult to learn the extentof his charities.
Within the past two months some un-
known person paid the debt Of the
town, amounting to over $1,000. No
one can cay who did it, but every one
believes it was O. Conor
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05
THE PITH OF THE NEWS
Washington Gossip.

Mr.. Strait received notice that pensions had
Been allowed to the following Minnesotians: Z.
z. Horton of Morristown and Ludwig Wing of
Re Sueur county.
Nearly the entire day Wednesday was devot-
cd by the Senate to the Mexican pension bill,
and several amendments were acted upon.
Mr. Morgan said our army in Mexico was never
defeated and added 35O..OO0. 600 acres to this
republic, yet we were here dlckering with the
poor Mexican soldier as to whether we should
give him the paitry sum of SIS month unless
be went down on his knees and begged for it,
and produced certificate Of his poverty.
Postal Bullitin: Postmaster's New Bonds
Iowa; Fillmore City, Pocahontas county, Lin
coin E. Childs; Kirkman, Shelby county,
James W. French: Nicol, Museatine county,
Henry l. Yerink; Whittemore, Kossuth coun-
IN, Charles ID Creed Minnesota: Stirbuck,
Polk county, Ole J. Sandyig. Wisconsin: Ben
ion, Lafayette county, Joseph Buchan; East
Middleton, Dane county, Herbert G.. Beale
Hixton, jackson county, Aaron Clinton; Mon
ticello, Green county, Edgar I Wright
On the 29th the following no. linations were
sent to the Senate. Theodore F. WiIlsey, Cali
fornia, agent of Indians of the Round Valley
agency, Cal Postmasters: George l. Nichols,
Fergus Falls MINI. f. w. Wright, Livingston
Mont; John Kellogg, Reedsburg, Wis; Alex
]. Reed, Appleton, Wis. The fol-
lowing were confirmed by the Senate:
Joseph H. Speed, Alabama, United States mar
shall Middle and Southern districts of Alabama.
Postmasters: Alexander r. Reid Appleton,
Wis. John Kellogg Reedsburg, Wis. John S.
Nichols, Fergus Falls, MINI.
Senator Cullom reported from the committee
on pensions, a bill comforting a pension upon
all persons who served three months during
the war and have honorable discharges and
who are or shall become disabled from any
cause and not the result of their own gross
carelessness, disreputable conduct or vicious
habits, and shall also be dependent wholly or
in part upon their own labor or pecunialy as
sistance from others for means of comfortable
support Representative Ragley was instructed
by the house committee ON invalid pensions to
prepare favorable report on Representative
Laird's bill regulating proof required IN pen
sion cases.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

The attention of the Senate OF the
United States has been directed to the
sehems of spectators to acquire vest
ed rights in the National Park, and to
get virtual control of it. When mil
lions of acres of government land are
seized and fenced in by spectators,
with nobody to lift a hand against
them, it is not to be wondered that men
are bold enough to gobble up the Nation
al Park.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05
Moody and sankey in London.

Speaking of Messrs. Moody and San
key, Mr. Robert Laird Collier says.
Although they are in London, we here
know very little of them or their doings.
Once and again we read in two or three
lines of the newspaper that they have
shifted their base Of operations from
one outskirt to another They seem to
be making the circuit Of the metropolis.
But the truth is, their mission has
been unprecedentedly successful-as
they deem success. Their meetings
have been, and still are, daily and night
" crowded, and the old revival machin-
cry is just as efficient rs ever II must
be in the order and growth Of civiliz-
alton that these methods ofreligion will
give place to others more after the fash
ion OF present-day life.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05
The Dakota Bogus scrip Gases.

Yankton Special: Among the cases to be
tried at this term of the federal court begun
Tuesday at this city were those of E. E. Carpen-
ter and j. D. Cameron, charged with making
and selling bogus land scrip Preparatory to
the trial of these cases the government had as
sembled here over 100 witnesses, some from St
Louis and number from other distant points.
And now, when all things are ready for the
trial, E. Z. Carpenter the central figure, in the
case, is not here. His bail, $4,000, mostly fur
nished by his father and brothers. and it is I'M
derstood it viii not be valuable to the govern
ment in case it is forfeited. without him it is
doubtful if the other cases will go on, as evil
dence relied on to convict f. Il. Carpenter is
the keystone of the whole case against all the
parties, implicated in the Santa Fe scrip bust
ness
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05
An iowa weather Prophet on June.

Couch, the Des Moines weather prophet, pre-
diets that the warm days of June will be near
the dates 3d. 5th, Sth, 18th, 18th, 10th, oath
and 2Sth; the cooler days near the Sd, tth, It'll,
9th. 18th, 18th, I'D, 26th and 30th A length
ened period of sunny sky will occur near the
18th, during which Venus can be watched, and
she will be noticed to waits up within few
degrees of Jupiter, making her obeisance the
10Th, and then will chassez back toward the
west in retrograde motion, moving thus till
Aug 2 There will be no frosts for June, I'M
less during the first part most likely near the
9th Il can see no frosts for July" he adds.
''There will be a tropical cyclone near the both
with exhibitions of marked phenomena near
the 18th and 22d
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

was 10 explode the dynamite at night when no
one was IN the building and so destroy the
building without taking life.
Nellie Morton an inmate Of disreputable
house, committed suicide at Indianapolis, She
had been for several years intimate with a son
of one of the most prominent citizens of Fort
Wayne, who was divorced several years ago in
Chicago Another woman with whom he had
been intimate committed suicide three years
ago, and his devoted wife entered house of
ill-fame in Chicago Her father, as a result be
came insane, and died in madhouse. He was
married a week ago, and whom Nellie Morton
heard of it she became Respondent, and it is
supposed it caused her suicide.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05
An Old Sailors Superstition.

From the New YORK Times
An accident which occurred few years
ago on an American vessel which was
nearing port after an extended voyage
around Cape Horn, illustrates the SUI
perstitions that are held by sailors.
Among the crew Of the vessel was an old
sailor who was noted for his meanness,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

the vastness of the view. AS the hall now
stands. the officers of the convention and the
invited guests will occupy the 400 seats at
the north end. Then the press tables will fol-
low and the next to them the delegates and al
ternates. Aisle on ether sides of the seats for
the delegates and alternates separate them from
the extra press seats and private
boxes, the latter painted red. The boxes num-
Der thirty-six on esch side and viii hold ten
persons each This makes total of 720 box
seats Proceeding south in the hall, railing
separates the delegates and alternates from the
general public. After2, 900 seats are distributed
to the holders of stage and press tickets and
1000 to the delegates and alternates, there will
be 1900 seats FOR the general public. This
makes total of Il, coo This number includes
the 500 seats ineach gallery, the private boxes
and the flies
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05
The Marriage of the Midgets

London Cable: The marriage of the midgets
stGen Mite" and Mile Edwards of Manchester,
was very interesting event After the civil
marriage at the registers office there was an
imposing religious ceremony in a large public
hall, which was deliberately decorated with flags
and flowers and packed with people. Among
the features of the decoration was large
wedding cake, in which the bride and
groom could easily have stood
and which, after being exhibited, was cut and
distributed III little satin covered boxes to the
ladies of the audience as they left the hall
The band of the Third Dragons was in at
tendance and played a wedding march as the
unique procession came down the aisle. The
brides costume was of cream-colored satin,
with pearls and orange blossoms, and the groom
wore a full-dress uniform and sword of a ma
jor- general in the United States army. The
bridesmaids were Miss Thornton, a local
belle of Manchester, and Miss Alice Flynn,
the groom's sister, and the generals best man
was Herr Alpts, German dwarf The officiat-
ing clergyman was Rev Mr. Mackie, presby-
terrain minister, who performed the ceremony
solemnly and impressiyely and delivered a
touching Grafton After the customary tears
and embraces, the happy little couple were
driven TO the station to begin their honeymoon
tour of the continent
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05
The steamer Neptune to be used in the HUI

The steamer Neptune, to be used in the Hud-
son bay exploring survey, viii be fitted out
at Halifax coal at Picton, Nova Scotia,
whence she leaves on Aug - for
Hudsons bav via the straits of
Belle Isle Six parties viii be located in the
straits to winter and vessels will cruise in the
bay till the latter part Of October. The meteor
illogical observations viii be in chargeof Lieut..
Gordon, of the royal navy, and the geological
scum of geology.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05
Personal Points.

Mr.. Joel Vaughn Of Seneca City, s. c., has
been married four times His last three wives
were widows, all of whom had children by pre-
vious husbands, respectively eight, seven and
four and total of nineteen. These four wives
bore Mr.. Vaughn twenty seven children. The
old man is now eighty years of age, and his
youngest child is an infant
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05
girer falls gullrnal.


Congress will not do much business.
Turing the great conventions of the two,
parties. Many of the members will at
end the conventions and those remain.
ng in Washington are not expected to
10 ANYTHING.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05
CONVENTION BUILDING.

Picture and Descriptions of the Great Ez
position Building in Chicago, Where
Both Conventions will be Held.
Both the Republican and the Democratic Ma
tional conventions will be held in the EXPOSE
ion Building at Chicago, the same building IN
wlich Garfield was nominated four years ago
The south end of the large exposition building
which is the largest rooted enclosure in the
world, was used in 1880 This years conven-
ion is to be held in the north end of the building.
The apparently never-ending rows of chairs
In the hall, the immense sounding boards, the
large boxes on either side of the hall, and the
Itage which seats AGO people, contribute to
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

us of 200 acres per mile for 400 miles to the
Northwest Central Railway, running between
Brandon, Northwest Territory, and Battleford
Beat, the company's president, has cabled 10
England an acceptance Of the offer Of loo.
900 worth Of bonds at par. He says Io5 miles
of road will be bnilt this summer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

Two farmers saw couple Of dudes
on street in Troy, when one exclaimed :
"Goshl what things we see when we
don't have no gun"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

Chiefly the seashore has been the
point of departure to knowledge, as to
commerce. The most advanced nations
are always, those who navigate the most.
Emerson.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

Attorney General Brewster has written 10
Springer, chairman OF the committee on expen-
fitures of the department of justice, relative to
changing from the fee to the salary system IN
compensating United States court officials
Brewster SAYS he regards the change impera-
live
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

Mr.. Palnell, the chairman, and Sir Baldwin
Leighton. one Of the directors, of the Irish
Land company. are at Tuam, ireland, arrang-
ing for the purchase of the Kilcooney and 9TH
err estates in County Galway. Mr.. Parnell ex-
presses strong faith in the migration scheme of
the land company and is hopeful of It's COM
pIete success in relieving the congested dis
tricts eff Ireland, and furnishing comfortable
homes and profitable employment to hundreds
of Irish families
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

Frank H. Cushman, second teller of the
Merchants National bank, at Providence, did
not appear at his desk. The first teller, NJ J.
Barber, returned that morning, after weeks
absence and in looking over the cash account
he found deficit of $3.50 IN gold and 81, 500
in currency, the latter having been covered by
the entry of a check for $3.50 as paid when
no sueh check had been paid Cushman has
fed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

All of the railroad land in Ransom county,
Dakota, has been sold except so acres. The
county contains over 500 Geo, acres, half Of
which was the property of the Northern Pacific
company.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

B. J. Treaeey of Lexington, KY, has been
fined $500 for publishing a slanderous card
about Circuit Judge Morton. Three news
papers that printed the card are under indict-
ment
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

A woman who pretends to laugh at
love is like child who sings at night
when he is afraid j. J Rousseau.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

James Waters of Hartford separated
from his wife a few months after mar.
riage, giving her 81 900 bank account.
Before long the couple reunited, and
Waters asked the court to compel his
wife to return the money. The woman
he said, begged him back and, having
gratified her wish he thought she ought
10 hand back the bank account. The
court looked through another pair Of
spectacles.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

Perrin H. Sumner, broker arrested m New
York on the charge Of swindling Daniel NJ
Davidson, late OF West Virginia. out OF slu-
600, has been committed for investigation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

be as common for women to offer their
hands to men as it is for men to propose
to women. o lucky day for bashful
bachelorsl ~
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

The city OF Boston pays Mrs Mary T. Blake
1o0for her poem on Wendell Phillips.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05

Milwaukee, La Crosse, Sparta, Madison,
Fort Howard Green Bavl, Wis, Winoua,
Owatonna. Mankato Mimi, Cedar Rapids,
Des Moines, Webster City, Algona. Gin
ton. Marshaltown, Iowa, Freeport, Elgin,
Rockford, ILL.,, are amongst its 500 local
stations on its lines.
Among few of the numerous points
of superiority eniovcd by the patrons of
this road, are its DAY COACHES which
are the finest that human art and inge-
nuity can create; its PALATIAL SLEEP
ING CARS, which are models of comfort
and elegance; its PALACE DRAWING
ROOM CARS. which are unsurpassed by
any; and its widely celebrated.
NORTH WESTERN DINING CARS
the like of which are not run by any
other road anywhere In short. 1T is as
serted that IT IS THE BEST EQUIP
PED ROAD IN THE WORLD.
All points of interest North, Northwest
and West of Chicago, business centres,
summer resorts and noted hunting and
fishing grounds are accessible by the
various branches of this road
1t owns and controls over 5000 miles of
road and has over four hundred passen-
ger conductors constantly caring for its
millions of patrons.
Ask your ticket agent for tickets via
this route, AND TAKE NO OTHER.
All leading ticket agents sell them. 1t
costs no more to travel on this route, that
gives tirst-clasS accommodations, than it
does to go by the poorly equipped roads.
For maps descriptive circulars and
summer resort papers, or other informal
ton not obtainable at Your local ticket
office, write TO the
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Negro Brown was hanged for murder At
Belleviile, III