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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

TIE body Of Mexican editors now on
a visit to the United States. had curl
Gus experience at Washington. On the
day Of their arrival there four newspa-
per offices burned, and the death of
General Grant occurred on the day APP
pointed for the banquet to be given
them. causing a change of the intended
programme.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

IFthere is any place where the whip
ping post is needed it is at Youngs-
town, Ohio, where a monster named
VESSEL, who could not whip his wife,
set a ferocious bull dog upon her. The
woman was cruelty torn and Iaceratod.
and found by her friends in frightfal
condition.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

AMONG the five daughters of Queen
Victoria it was reserved for the young
est to have passed her twenty-ninth
birthday before marriage. The eldest
daughter, Victoria Adelaide, was mar
ried at IS, Alice. the second, at 16,
Helena. the third, at 90, and the fourth
Louise. at %.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

TIE annual report for 1884, of the
Central Pacific railroad, exhibits that
the gross earnings for that year We're
SO. POI 900, falling of OF two and a
half million dollars from the year pre-
ceed'ug, while the expenditures for
1881 were S1.OO0,000 greater than in
1883 The deficit, including unearned
dividends paid, was S1,S9O,000 1t is
claimed that the government owes the
company S63O,O00, which is held by
the United States treasurer without
sanction of law.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

EX-PREsIDENT FISH. of the Marine
bank. is said to be the most uncom-
planning convict at Auburn. He is not
required to walk the lock-step with the
other prisoners. and friends have been
allowed to furnish his cell with a carpet
and an easy chair.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

A MOVEMENT has been instituted to
organize Burns clubs throughout the
world, for the purpose of holding a
centennial celebration in honor of Bob
bic Burns, at Kilmarnock. Scotland,
next year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

EDWIN Boom began his career As a
public performer at Baltimore in a
negro minstrel show. Booth, who was
then a fine banjo player, was one Of
the end men, and John 5. Clarke. af-
forwards his brother-in-law. was the
other. The admission to the entertain
ment was 124 cents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

Within a radius Of eight miles Of the
town of Sanford, Florida, there are p
992 orange groves, with 165, 235 trees;
These groves now produce 2,500,000
oranges, but only five per cent. OF the
trees in this radius are bearing; but
when the other ninety-five per cent.
come in, there will be production OF
so, 600. 600. or as many as the entire
State now produces.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

THE extension of the franchise in
England will enable two million people
to vote for the first time this fall. The
Liberals are lookingfor large acces-
sion Of numbers from this fact.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

For the fiscal year ending May 81.
1885. the net earnings of the Chicago
& Northwestern railway were Sf,557,-
OF, an increase Of S856,32O over the
preceding fiscal year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

THE coming election in England
promises to be the most closely con-
tested Of any since the famous cam
paign Of 1886 The Conservatives have
secured an enormous election fund.
and will contest every constituency in
Great Britain. except about forty.
where the Liberals are too strong to be
beaten. Encouraging reports come
from the Conservative, or Tory. side
but it is too early to predict actual re-
suits. The contest viii be watched in
this country with keen interest TO the
end. Mr. Gladstone IS said to be 80
seriously affected that he will be unable
to participate in the campaign. beyond
perhaps single address to his imme-
diate constituents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

A WASHINGTON rumor has it that
Chief Justice Waite, of the supreme
bench, will soon retire and be sue
ceeded by ex-senator Mcdonald OF In
diana.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

The Philadelphia ship builder,
Cramp, says that in his opinion there is
not man in the United States, in the
navy. or out of it, who can design 4
ship of war, and further that in the
whole world there are but four men
who are competent, and England has
two of these. Mr. Cramp also says
that at Barton. Wilmington. Chester
and Philadelphia there are ship yards
having the equipment for building
such ships, but added to the yards and
tools must be brains
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

DR.. Pierce S ''FaVOrlte PRESCRIPTION
is not extolled as a ''cure-al but adj
mirably fulfiIls a singleness of purpose.
being most potent specific in those
chronic weaknesses peculiar to women.
Particulars in DIR. Pierce's large treat
ise on Diseases Peculiar to Women, l6l
pages, sent for 10 cents in stamps.
Address WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDI-
CAL ASSOCIATION, Cos Main Street,
Buffalo. Y. Y.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

THE dowry bestowed by the English
government upon the Princess Beatrice
is $50, 900 per annum.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

THE presence OF burglars at Grand
Rapids, Mich, has caused the whole
population to arm, and the pistol trade
has been immense.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

The practice Of feeding cooked food
in some form, with vegetables, for the
morning meal, is highly beneficial to
fowls, and is now much more in vogue
among experienced fanciers and
breeders than it was formerly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

THE heroine of w. d. Howell's new
book, ..An Indian Summer Is sup
posed to be Mrs Kate Chase Sprague
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06
He Had Lots of Fun and was Paid For 1t.

He Had Lots OF Fun and was FaId + OF To
1T is mighty hard work for man to
drive balky horse and be Christian
at the same time. tried it years ago,
and gave both up as a bad job. But
say, did you ever hear of man hav-
ING horse baIk on him in such way
as to make him laugh-to please him
all over, and make him right down
Happy? Well, sir, did, and was the
man. He was horse that l had
ira led for, and he was an awful baker.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

A Washington Judge has decided
that organ grinders are entitled to
pay for their labor, and hence pass
inc round the hat after perform
ance is not begging.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

KATE FIELD wants to be cremated.
No cards.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06
Baron HuddIeston's Bantam Coo
Disturbs the Judges Sleep.

Baron HuddIeston's Bantam Cock
Disturbs the Judges Sleep.
Baron Huddleston, when holding the
assizes at Worcester, complained
sorely to the Chief of Police of being
disturbed in his sleep in the early
morning by the growing of cock,
and asked whether anything could be
done to stop it. After a consultation
among the officials the neighborhood
was searched, the result being that IN
pen. a few streets distant, bantam cock
was found The police told the owner
the charge against the supposed offend
inc bantam, and suggested that the bird
should be removed or taken some
distance away. The owner immediate
" took the part of the bantam, saying
that it never disturbed him, and that
he should let it remain where it was.
He had never heard it crow louder than
a tomtit. and surely there was mistake
in supposing it was the disturber com
planned Of The officials returned
to the judges lodgings and,
to the amazement of all present
it was found that the cock
which had disturbed the learned Judge
was one which his own cook had
brought with him in hamper TO be
killed when wanted. 1t was executed
before cock-crow next morning
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06
THE MARKETS.


ST. PAUL.
Wheat-No. 1 hard, cash and August,
Ole bid September, 93c bid; No 2 hard Soc
bid; No. 2 regular, nc bid
Corn No 2 43c, bid
Oats No. 2 mixed, SOC. bid, Soc asked.
No. white, 81 &c. bid.
Barley No. ., soc bid.
Rye No. ?, 4Sc bid,
Baled hay, $500 asked timothy $1,000.
Dressed beef, choice steers SIC. 90 81 ;
veal, I a. s c.
Flour, patent spring s4.75 a. 500
Butter, extra l5c. bid, IL c. asked.
Cheese g Sc.
Eggs, extra l0l5c bid lie. asked
Potatoes, new, As per bushel asked
Raspberries, $3.50 per case of "a pints.
Blackberries, S400@45O per case of "a
quarts.
Blueberries, SCOOPS per bu.
Chickens dry picked Sc@9c
MINNEAPOLIS.
Wheaton, call Mol hard was offered
at 92c and later at 9l15c, with 9Ol9c bid
August, 9l15c askel, without bids; Sep
TENDER 92l5c bid No. 2 hard, cash, SSHc
asked; No l cash sold at S3c; No.
Northern, September SSlIc asked; October,
SOC asked No. 2cash 99c bid, Sic asked
| Flour-Patents S4.75G15.10; straights,
| $450@4.75; first takers, 50. 75@5.l0; second
/ bakers, S330(6355; best low grades, $2.25(1
2.55, in bags.
CHICAGO.
Wheat, August SIX; Sept. 895s.
! Corn, August 80 Sept. 4534
| Oats, August 81; Sept. 24I
Mess Pork, August, $9.75@9.95; Sept.
| $9.S0(d9. S215
/ Live Stock, Cattle s45015.90; Hogs
/ S4.55(d4.75 Sheep S2.00G4.25.
MILWAUKEE.
Wheat No. 9, August S735; Sep. S91s.
! Corn August 45}l
Oats cash 253sc.
! Barley No. 2, 5Sl9c.
DULUTH.
Wheat Aug. 92e; Sept; "a Oct. $50
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

NOTES OF THE TIMES.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06
WIT AND HUMOR.
C.P. Huntington's Butter.


Coils p. Huntington, the railway
magnate years ago kept general store
in Sacramento. One day a trader came
in from a mining camp to buy stores,
and among other things he wanted but
ter. Huntington had several tubs
brought from Orange county, the fam
Gus butter producing region of New
York. The miners had all the good
things that money would buy, and the
storekeeper from the mining camp was
bound to take back the best he could
find.
81 want some bang-up butter, : was
the way the storekeeper from the camp
signifed his desire.
well, SAID Huntington, ''Here is
some all the way from York State, the
real genuine Orange county article. .
Huntington ran the trier down to the
bottom of the tub and the storekeeper
ran his nose along it when it was pulled
out.
whats the tax on that grease?"
he asked.
That's thirty-five cents pound, -
replied Huntington.
''Hain you got something a leetle
better?' asked the storekeeper.
Yes, said Huntington, going to an
other tub of the very same kind Of but
ter He knew the storekeeper would
not be satisfied if he did not show some
thing better, and he was equal to the
occasion. Here some for fifty cents, >
said Huntington as he drew the trier
out, and the storekeeper 5 nose followed
it from one end to the other.
Now, that's little like it, said
the storekeeper, "but, he added with
wink, come now, haint you got
something that the flies won't settle on,
that's fur-lined and hair-topped?
There's nothing too good for US, and
we've got the DUST 0 pay for it.
Eyes, again said Huntington,
Heres something that we don't often
bring out. " The trier went down into
the third tub of the same lot, and the
storekeepers nose followed the line of
butter for the third time.
How much is she assessed at?''
asked the storekeeper, as he looked
aflectionately on the butter.
'SiXty-five cents a pound.
You hain't got too much for me,
said the storekeeper. Financial
journal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06
How Raymond was Blufed Out of III
supper BY a Texas Waiter and
Il Horse Pistol.

supper BY a Texas Waiter and
Horse Pistol.
During John I. ReymOnd's recent
engagement at the Walnut Street the
alter, says the Philadelphia Times, he
stopped at the Continental hotel. He
has reputation for being one of the
drollest story-tellers among men who
travel, and almost every night after
the play knot of men waited at the
hotel Office counter for the comedian
to come and make them laugh. Two
men who listened one night in particu-
lar were drummers, and in relating
some hotel experience Raymond told
of visit to Texas town.
'Our train was late, began the act
or, ''and it was raining and the air was
raw. | felt cold and out of sorts.
We had Just twenty minutes in which
to eat supper and get to the theater.
| remember | hurried into the little
dining-rOom of the hotel, and sitting
down at one of the tables | picked up
my plate and turned it over felt cold
anu CiAluIll}s anu GdleA " biiC EChtIC-
men Gall the walters in Texas are gen.
tlemen), who stood selling me up. in his
shirt sleeves and a napkin tied around
his legs for an apron:
"'Please warm this plate.
"'Warm it? What the HI do you
want it warmed for? Do you want to
eat ftp
THAT was the reply got, " went on
the actor. II sized up the waiter once
more. | saw but the butt end of a
horse pistol sticking out of his hip peck
ct and then | saw that | must be polite
and take what | could get So said,
as / forced laugh:
".Oh, no. l don't want the plate
warmed, old boy; l was only joking.
"'Old boy? Say, look here, you're
id familiar. ain you?'
THAT settled it, said the actor. 81
played Mulberry Sellers that night and
all the supper had was the raw tur-
nips | ate on the stage.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-11-19
A BIG Tortoise.

The discoverer of the of the gig an
tic extinct sea-turtle found neal Fort
Wallace, in western Kansas. first o.
served the large bony shields project
ing from a bluff neal Butte Creek.
They were carefully taken out and
brought to Philadelphia, where the
restoration was made. The fore-fip-
pers alone were nearly five feet long,
while its expanse from the tip of n
extended fipper to another was about
seventeen feet. The question may
arise, how did this sea-turtle become
buried in a bluff in the State of Kan
sas? A natural supposition would be
that Kansas is the bed of a former
ocean, and s. it is. Ages ago, in what
is called by geologists the Cretaceous
Period, that part of the world was the
bed of a great sea, in which the great
turtle swan, together with other
monsters of curious shape and appear
ance. Gradually the crust of the
earth was raised, the water fell back,
or became inclosed, and left the in
habitants of the Cretaceous Sea high
and dry, to be covered by the earth
and preserved for us to study ages
afterWard.
The shores of this ancient ocean are
easily found and followed by geolo-
gists. Its extent has been traced on
our Western Plains by the bleaching
and disintegrating remains that have
been found, upon and beneath the sur
face.-Frsm .'Giant Turtles" by
Charles Frederick Holder, in st. Nicho-
Inc
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-11-19
God EVERYWHERE.

remember going once to our lake
shore with my children, who had car
ried me off with them to play. And
sitting down on q sand bank, while
they strayed along the margin of the
waters, L gradually got into a waking
dream about the mighty inland sea- /
thought of the primitive era, when. by
some new balancing of the internal
fires, ''God said, Let the waters be
gathered together. and it was so; and
God saw that it was good" But the
picture l made of the scene was vast,
'dreary, and uncertain, as the waters
of the lake seem to be on the edge of
a wild winter night, with not a touch
of blessing or beauty about it. Just
then the children came running to me
with a treasure they had found in the
sand. 1t vas a small shell OF exquisite
beauty, bedded in a piece of limestone.
1t was a sermon in a stone. For it
said to me: Il was born In the time
you have just made SO dreary. 1 was
III LlOlC ~ GHdG @OI WHICH, Il WIS mdu0
than the garment is for your child.
Yet you can see how beautiful I must
have been, and then gusss what bless
ing past your understanding vas pres
ent in the world you have made so
dark. Look at me and repent of your
incipient atheism, and believe that
wherever there is life, let it be ever so
and poor, there also is God.
The whole round world, with all it's
life, is touched in some way by his
shadow and his light. "-RO6ert Coll
Ier.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-11-19
New Orleans and Its Exposition.

Richard Nixon, the secretary of the
past and coming Exposition in New
Orleans, thus closes an Open Letter in
the November Century: cit is fitting
that New Orleans shonld be the pro-
moter of this international enterprise
for the additional reason that it was
through the Worlds Exposition that
the general public became aware OF
the great resources of Mexico and Cen
trail America, and the advantages in
evitably to follow a close commercial
reciprocity. Every one had of course
read the tales of travellers and had
learned to speak of the wonderous
wealth of Mexican mines and South
American forests in much the same
way as they spoke of the magnificence
OF oriental princes, vaguely and some
what incredulously. But the Worlds
Exposition gave unmistakable evil
dence of these and many other extra
ordinary natural u Indeed,
it was the immediate success of Mexi-
co.'s exhibit that has stimulated the
other Latin-Amerlcan countries to take
advantage of the opportunities pre-
sented by the new enterprise.
''The management of the American
Exposition is national in its organiza-
ton and is working for the prosperity
Of the entire country. 1t purchased
the plant of the late Worlds EXPOSE
ton, and will open its doors on the 10th
of November, unembarrassed in any
way whatever. With steam transpor-
ton from the heart of the city to the
exposition grounds, and with unpre-
cedently low railroad rates, there is
every assurance of success. The man
agement has set aside for the discus
sion of the great commercial problem
certain days, when leading minds of
the three Americas will meet for an
interchange of ideas, and give to the
industrial life of this country an i'm
petus as irresistible as the mighty
river upon whose banks they deliber-
ate."
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-11-19

ing in ivory. Mrs. Belmont exhibits
two modern French fans. One is paint
ed by Charles Detaille, a brother of
the famous military painter. the other
by De Pene. Both are spirited hunt
ing scenes. the former representing a
fair hunter taking her fences, and col
ors-yellows, reds, and blacks-are
boldly rendered. The other shows the
men, hounds, and yellow drag, the
features of whose gay occupants are
sharply individualized. A jocky fan
shows the mounted jockeys in full
dress and at full speed. These private
exhibitions will give an impetus to fan
painting which has been comparative
ly neglected Chicago Mail.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-11-19
Perpetual Motion.

There is a clock at Brussels which
comes about as near being a perpetual
motion machine as car be invented,
for the sun does the winding. A shaft
exposed to the solar rays causes an up
draught of air which sets a fan in mo-
ton. The fan actuates mechanism
which raises the weight of the clock
until it reaches the top, and then puts
a break on the fan until the weight
has gone down 4 little, when the fan
is again liberated and proceeds to act
as before. As long as the sun shines
frequently enough, and the machine
ry does not wear out, the clock is
practically a perpetual motion ma
chine.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-11-19
An Awful Predicament.

A well-dressed young lady Yves
walking along the south side of King
street on Saturday afternoon, near
Leader lane, when she stepped into a
grating with several broken bars. One
of her legs was held fast above tie
knee in the hole for some time. A
crowd of several hundred people
gathered around her and many offers
of help were Indignantly refused by
the young lady. Finally a gentleman
procured a crowbar and by breaking
some of the bars released the impris.
oned lImb.-IOront0 Globe.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-11-19

has in fact been connected with diplo-
matte work from the day of his birth.
His father was one of the members of
the council which made the Geneva
award of $15, 500, 900 to the United
States. The minister of the Neither
lands speaks good English. A numoer
of the foreign ministers live in New
York. Among these are the Turkish
minister, Hussein Tewfk Pasha, the
representative of Belgium, and the
representative of Hayti.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-11-19
GastrOnOmic GOssiD,

Butter to be kept for some time of
curse should have salt added to 1t, but
for everyday use it is much better
without salt; the delicate flavor of but
ter is ruined the moment salt is added
to it, and it is a fortunate batch of but
ter that does not take from the salt a
rank, tishy, or other foreign flavor
the moment they are blended to-
gether.
Various recipes for cooking sweet
potatoes are given, but only an
old soldier who climbed the mountains
of Tennessee, and marched through
Georgia, knows what this vegetable is
when properly prepared; i. e., baked
slowly in the ashes of wood (fence raiD
fire, and served hot, with expedi-
ton auce
"Schrod," said Gen. Benjamin F.
Butler to a representative of the Cook,
sis a dish known well in Boston. You
will find it on the bills of fare of good
Boston hotels. Take a small Goldfish,
not too thick, clean it thoroughly,
open and draw it, split, and lay it with
the back down; pour salt and water
Il prepared brine-over it, and let it
lie over night. In the morning drain
him and broil him, first face down and
then with the back down, in q plenty
of good butter. 1t isn't fresh cod
and it isn't salt cod. It's schrod."
The topic of hoe-cakes and corn
dodgers is thus settled by a Southern
writer: when the old negro cook
makes a dodger she mixes some water
with corn meal in the bread tray and
works it up into a stiff dough, takes q
handful and pats it into an oblong ball
between both hands, and drops it into
the pot that is boiling the bacon and
green's, and as the pot boils the white
ball of dough lodges up and down.
Hence its name, dodger. The hoe-cake
Of to-day is corn-meal dough baked ON
a griddle, first one side and then on
the other. But in old colonial times
the negroes made griddles of old cast
away wedding hoes, and baked their
corn-bread on them. Hence the hoe
cake"
At a dinner party in France, not
long ago, dessert was brought in in a
novel form. A tray which appeared
to be filled with hard-broiled eggs was
placed before the hostess, who gave
each guest a couple, and poured over
them a sort of syrup or dressing. In a
strange country the tourist is always
on the lookout for odd things, but this
seemed to cap the climax-hard-boil-
ed eggs at a swell dinner party for
dessert. But it soon was discovered
that the white of this bogus egg was
blanc mango, and yolk was made of
ounce jelly, egg shells being used for
mOldS. -HOteL Mail.