River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-01-31
Things in General.

Germany discovers tue fact that
tradesmen, manufacturers and tavern or
restaurant keepers are the most usual
matrimonial candidates. Both sexes q K
most about money, next about intelli-
gence. and least ABOUT religious belief.
An oleander at Spanish Town, Fla,
covers q space ofground Sc feet in diam
eter. 1t is divided into 20 or % sepa-
rate stems, the longest of which IS % feet
high The group 10 at least five feet
through and one single stem is IA inches
thick.
The Philadelphia Bulletin makes this
frank admission: Newspapers can
make and unmaKe presidents. they can
overturn corruption, they can forward
great enterprises, but they are helpless
TO convince single woman that deeol-
lete dresses, or high-heeled shoes, or
wasp waists are ruinous 10 health and
deleterious to norals.o 1t is but lair TO
explain that the Bulletin, in using the
term, ga single woman" does not ex
cept married women.
A New York correspondent writes:
"An inquiry at the Christian association
brought the reply that SIS per week is
the highest pay any woman can hope
for either as teacher or book-keeper.
The best pay is earned by few expert
enced hCusekeepers, who are III the
service OF the rich families, and receive
s 600 per year and board. Some artih-
cial flower makers earn SIS per week at
this season of the year, and there are
hundreds of well-trained women who
would be glad to earn from $S-to $40
week, while there are thousands whose
earnings are from So to S."
Somebody has been unearthing lot
of old dispositions in Kentucky clerks
office, and taking notes of the bad SPELL
ing of some of the great men of the past.
A deposition in the handwriting Cf An
drew jackson contains such spelling as
reference" 'deponants," UNTIL,
"hallance," VALUE" and difficult" Old
Hickory's use of capitals was quite re-
markable. Such words as "Dollar" and
Money" he capitalized, while he also
wrote almighty God"
The capitalist who sits down and lends
his money for the highest rate Of inter-
est that he can get is a drone in the go
cial hive compared with the active man
of business who builds mills, factories
and furnaces, and gives remuneratlve
employment to hundreds of needy peo-
pie.
Millemaine is the name of new GER
cal which has been introduced into
South Carolina from COLUMBIA, South
America. 1t is allied to sorghum and
Guinea corn, and has the merit OF an al
most unlimited capacity to endure
\ fV,fr u In. pa5aj
have been described as better than corn
cakes, and the grain has been pronoun-
ced by the chemist of the Savannah
Guane Company superior in food quail
ties to wheat.
According to DIR. Sach, of Buenos
Ayres, there is no danger of an exhaus-
ton of the quinine SUPPLY. The expert
mental plantations in Java and the Is
land of Reunion have been very success
ful; and, besides these nurseries, the
trees have been cultivated in Bolivia by
the million for ten years. At three
places in the last-named country, taken
as they come, the number of trees grow
ing is given. severaiiy, at 100000, 2OO,-
600, and 3,5UC, $50.
The past season has again been very
discouraging to oyster cutivators in
England and the conviction has been
forced upon them that further expert
ments will be only waste of money
From one end of the southern coast OF
England to the other, thousands OF
pounds have been expended i'll endeav-
oring to protect the spawn at spawning
time, but without the least sign Of sue
cess. Tho cause tie failure is the
want of temperature. Only native oys-
tiers will breed in the estuaries of the
| Thames, but of late years the summers
have been so short and cold that there
has been very little spat, and this is the
reason of the scarcity and the conse'
ouent drearness of the "native" which
the English esteem as the best of all
oysters. Artificial breeding in England
has been failure. The only real success
in the artificial breeding of oysters has
been achieved at Areachon, in the south
of France, but even there, during the
| last two or three wet summers, the
crop of spat has been only about one
fourt of what it has usually been.