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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-02
Report OF Gen. Grants Condition.

The following appeared in the New York
Medical Record on March Is
During the past week Gen. Grant has been in
a comparatively comfortable condition. The in
somnia with which he has been affected has been
controlled so he obtains, by aid of anodynes, a
normal amount of sleep. He has not lost flesh,
and his powers of assimilation are otimpalred.
At the weekly consultation, attended by Drs.
j. d Douglas, II. B. Sands and George f. Shady,
1T was decided that the local disease was still IN
allegiance and that the area of liberation had
not perceptbly increased Virtually the same
stationary tendency was noted by DR. Fordyce
Barker who had visited the distinguished pa
tent at intervals during that period. The swell
ing under the right angle of the lower jaw ls
somewhst greater, but the gland in that sltua-
ton is not more indurated, nor has it become
more firmly fixed The liberated surfaces
in the throat and on the tongue are covered
with yellowish emulation, to which alternate
applications of lime water and a weak solu-
ton of pormanganate OF potash have been
effectively made by DR. Douglass. The topical
remedies employed have had their desired
effect in reducing the local irritation and i'm
perceptibiy checking the progress OF infilera-
ton. There is no pain in swallowing No
fear is entertained at present of any sudden
failure of the vital powers, nor of any en-
croachment of the Lucrative process upon
any of the neighboring blood vessels. The
general is able, with no other assistance than
that of his cane, to walk about his rooms, as
cending and descending the stairs, and was
strong enough to enjoy an airing in his carriage
during the fine afternoon Of wednesday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-02

No. l, one eye; No. 2, two eye; No. 3,
three eve, and so on through the five.
You should hev seen them later tops
grow though during the summer
Looked like young hedge, they was
so rank It bein' out of the question to
do much with horse and plough, /
give em level culture with an old trow-
el. But now fur the result Plot /
had 10 taters, measured 8 quarts; plot
2, 6 taters measured Z quarts; plot B.,
II taters or 10 quarts; plot 4, 8 and s,
and plot 5, 30 and II quarts. There
you be, J" seq |, "all easy figurin', and
figurs don't lie."
Let's see, nowl Altogether [ raised
As quarts in box containin' 5 square
feet. Accordin' to old Daboll, i'll an
acre there is jest 43 $50 square feet, and
in 46 quarts there's jest 1.4375 bushel,
that is, one bushel and so much over.
Now if I divide 43, $50 by 5, thatll tell
how many 5-foot boxes I'd hev in an
acre, which gives SIP boxes. But in
every box thar would of course be
1915 bushel, so multiply 8,712 by
1915 and it gives 12,5234 bushels.
That's cleer. "Thar you hev it, sew l,
I've beet the world. Tell everybody
Uncle Hezekiah has raised 12,5234
bushels of taters to the acre, and there's
your figurs. It's as plain as the nose
on your face" SEE l to myself But
speekin' leetle too loud Sally Ann
overheard me, and she seq, whats SO
awful plain, Hezekiah?"
why, these yer taters and these yer
figures" SEE ].
Them is whoppers, SEE she, "both
taters and figurs; and now you've done
so we'll, Hezekiah, | 'spose you'll plant
that big side hill lot next spring and
show folks how to raise 10000 bushels
on every acre, but you'll hev to Civ
your individual attenshun to each in
dividual hill. Now fore YOU write out
your experiment, Hezekiah, for the pa
per, you'd better make it plain that you
didn't hev 5000 and more boxes like
mine all over your acre patch, and that
it was at the rate of 1000 bushels, not
actually that, for you'd hev all your
neighbors latin at you, Hezekiah, jest
as they do at these big yields of corn
and potaters they read about in some
of our agricultural papers" And SO
thought HEzEKIAH.
Our Country Home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-02
Chat with Our Girls Who Expect to be
Aousekeepers.
Rural New Yorker.


Not long ago attended the wedding
of one of our Rural girls. For the last
five years she has been in the habit of
working out, when her assistance was
not needed at home. Although she
worked for stipulated wages she has al
ways been considered member of the
family where she served, receiving the
treatment of an elder sister rather than
that accorded to servant, and she
seemed to take the same interest in the
work of the farmhouse as did the ma
tron herself. She strove to excel in the
art OF cooking, and making use of
good economy, and she was as
skillful in the sewing room as
in the kitchen. Having sunny
disposition, with willingness to amuse
and instruct the little folks, she soon
became a favorite with the young peo-
pie as we'll; and a certain young farmer
in particular cast admiring chances upon
her rosy, dimpled cheeks, and appreci-
ated her many good qualities, and he
finally obtained her promise to become
his wife some time in the future, and
now she has fulfilled this promise.
What have you laid by from your
earnings, Minnie, towards housekeep
ing?" l Inquired, as | put the finishing
touch to a pretty wreath that was to
ornament the brides loaf" of cake. and
she arranged pictures and vases of flow
ers, in preparation for the occasion.
"She has almost all the necessities
for beginning;" said friend, who,
like myself, had arrived the day before
the wedding.
''You know" said Minnie, "that some
time ago purchased a full chamber set
for my room, including half-adozen
cane-seated chairs and large and small
rocker. Besides these, / have pur-
chased a cottage bedstead, two good
feather beds, and plenty of blankets,
cloth for nine pairs of sheets, twelve
pairs of pillow-slips, a dozen towels.
three linen table cloths, with napkins,
a good set of dishes, with steel cutlery,
and heavy silyersplated spoons, besides
several pieces Of tinware and little con
yeniences that do not cost much, yet
are seldom found IN farmers kitchen.
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Lincoln's Farewell.

On the morning of Feb IL, 1861, the
citizens of Springfield, ILL.,, began to
assemble at the depot, and by eight
o'clock large number had assembled.
The day was gloomy, the sky dark, and
rain was falling At precisely five min
utes before eight o'clock Mr.. Lincoln
and single attendant emerged from
private room and walked slowly to the
car, the people falling back and as many
as could shaking his hand. From the
platform of the car, after removing his
hat and drawing himself up to his full
height, he stood in profound silence for
several seconds surveying the faces of
his friends and neighbors. An account
says there was an unusual culver Oh his
lip and still more unusual tear on his
shriveled cheek. His solemn manner
and long silence were as full of melan-
choly elequence as any words he could
have uttered. The crowd stood uncov-
cred, with unmistakable sympathy. Be
ginning slowly and in husky voice he
spoke as follows:
Friends no one who has never been
placed in like position can understand
my feelings at this hour, nor the oppres-
sive sadness / feel at this parting. For
more than quarter of a century | have
lived among you and during all that
time | have received nothing but kind
ness at your hands. Here / have lived
from my youth, until now | am an old
man. Here the most sacred ties of
earth were assumed. Here all my
childred were born and here one of them
lies buried. To you, dear friends, /
owe all that have, all that 1 am. All
the strange, checkered past seems to
crowd now upon my mind. To day L
leave you. / go to assume a task more
difficult than that which devolved upon
Washington. Unless the great God
who assisted him shall be with me and
aid me / must fail, but If the same ON
niscient mind and almighty arm that
directed and protected him guides and
supports me, / shall not fail shall
succeed. Let us pray that the God of
our fathers may not forsake us now.
To him commend you all. Permit me
to ask that with equal sincerity and
faith you invoke his wisdom and guild
ance for me. With these few words [
must leave you, for how long I know
not. Friends, one and all, I bid you
an effectionate farewell"
Mr.. Lincoln had never appeared so
affected before, and his simple eloquence
moved his listeners deeply. The train
moved out, and his friends, with few
exceptions, never saw him after. When
q little more than four years have pass
ed his remains were brought back to
the same place for burial. Correspond
ence of thePhiladelphia Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-02
Much Made Out of Nothing by Frugal
Housewives.

From the New York Mail and Express.
Some women have faculty of MAX
ing something out Of nothing, at least
it so appeared to reporter for the
Mail and Express. He was coming
down town from Harlem on the eleva-
ted railroad Directly III front of him
sat two young ladies inspecting a square
of what is known in feminine parlance
as "crazy patchpork."
II feel awfulIy hurt" said the owner
of the delicate specimen of handiwork.
II spent two weeks on this square, and
when ] gave it to Mrs. - last night to
help along with her quilt she told me
the quilt had been finished for several
DAYS. / think it's too mean for any
thing. Two weeks time just wasted "
GLOW so? returned the other. 'tYou
can make it into a beautiful little hand
bag. Seven inches squared just the
right size. Hung from your waist by
a broad satin ribbon it will bereal stun
ming. You can cord it around the edge
and put pocket on the inside for your
handkerchief.
$50 | can Seeing you are so handy
at using up odds and ends, tell me what
can [ do with these two yards of stiff
turkev-red cotton / had these left over
from my curtain borders"
eff [ were you would make two pan
els of it TO hang up in the dining
against that dark Eastlake paper. Make
them half yard wide and yard and a
quarter long. Put curtain stick in the
10 1Yp on
king. A cluster of daisies or grasses
embroidered on them in wool will look
lovely. It won't take you long. for the
work is not fine, and youcan get bunch
of daisies for a model very cheap Just
now. But what are you going to do
with this ?" and she pulled a piece of
pretty blue sateen sprinkled with pink
moss buds, about half a yard long, from
the bundle.
"That is piece of my new dress. l
am going to give it to our washerwoman's
little girl for dolls dress"
"Nonsensep You can make a most
comfortable little foot-rest out of that.
Take a small soap or starch box, pad it
nicely and tl4en cover it with this,
lacking it down with silver headed
tackS. L oOtStoOlS look aWIully pretty
in bedroom, and besides they are so
comfortable"
Chow nice? / am real glad you told
me- / guess will keep my scraps after
this. usually throw them away"
"You don't mean to say you haven't a
catch-all?' Make one, then, by all
means. You can make it out of stuff
goods or YOU can cochet one. 1t should
be about twenty inches long, and close
at the top and bottom, with a draw
string. You will soon find some good
use for your odds and ends then. As
for me, never throw away a thing"
no. thought the reporter, as he left
the car, mot even an opportunity to
teach your friends economy and useful
ness. {"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-02
Boston Girls.

II wish" saws a writer in the Kansas
CITY Times, II could trust my pen to
picture for Won some one or more of the
Boston girls one sees on Commonwealth
Avenue or Beacon Street of pleasant
afternoon. They are not to be equaled
And remember that [ am impartial
enough, for Boston girls are not my
preference as rule. Not Frisco, with
its women of beautiful Drawn; not Bal
tlmore, with its women of rounded fig.
ures and dark eyes and hair; not New
York, with its women Of graceful car
riage and easy inconsistencies one
of these can show you the type Of 8
beautiful Boston girl She has hail
that looks as though it wore sand and
sunbeams interwovon-t that clear COM
plcxion tinged with red that makes one
think Of a berry buried in lily; we'll
cut nose and mouth; the low, Greek
forehead with the hair brushed off it;
the fiat back and well-turned shoulders
of an English girl, and the nervous,
plant movement in action of an athlete.
She rides and plays tennis, swims and
shoots sometimes, and carries about
with her a fresh ar kind of atmosphere
that makes ones eyes brighten and
nerves Jingle at the sight of health sc
charmirulv housed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-02
Governor Hoyt's School Days.
from the Rochester Democrat.

From the Rochester Democrat
"When I went to Lafayette College
in 1849," says Ex-Governor Hoyt, of
Pennsylvania, speaking of the good old
college days, ut cost me 81 cents a
week for board in the village. The col
lege charged $1.20, and we boys from
up the country thought we ought to
save little something, and so we
boarded at the cheaper rate in town.
The fare, as you may imagine, was not
luxurious, but it was coarse and sus-
tanning. Judge Schuyler, of North
ampton, the man now in contest with
Judge Reeder over the President Judge
ship of the county In which our old
college is situated, was my classmate.
In 1848 we left the college in harvest
time and went across the country to
work in the field during wheat cutting.
Nice buxom Dutch girls raked and we
bound We worked a week and each
received Sc more money than
we had ever had before. This
was so much gain on the allowance from
our parents. Ten millions now would
not look to me as big as that Sc did
then. Schuyler and [ set our wits to
work to see how we could invest it.
We could buy a glass of mead for 2 cents,
an ice cream for ftp and eight cigars for
a cent. Neither of us could call up
vices enough to consume our fortune.
The $12 between us lasted the entire
fall and we had some left when we got
into mischief the same autumn and left.
He took the stage for his home near
Sunbury and for Wilkesbarre. From
there we went to Williams College, and
graduated Just think, then we had to
stage it from my home 100 miles to a
railroad point in New Jersey. The
country has grown amazingly since
then, but the good old town of Easton
is but little changed, and my companion
of school days finds his way back there
and is aJudge.'
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-02
Uncle H zekiah's Experiments.

One night arter all the chores WIS
done, last spring, | tho't, thots /, ez
how | wud try sum experiments on po-
tatere, ez I'd been readin' bout other
farmers dom Sum of my agricultural
papers had been tellin' as how they had
RACED 1000. 1900, and even 1900
bushels taters to the acre, or / should
say at that rate, so why couldn't l?
So | went to work | found one O
Sally AIMS old flower boxes out in the
shed that had five separate boxes or
apartments INTO it. and took it out into
the garden Sally Ann spied me,
What yer dom with my posy box out
there, Hezekiah" seq she.
Experimental, seq I. I'm jest
goin' to see how many taters l kin raze
on an acre and prove it. What's the
everlastin use of alters scratchin, and
diggin, for twenty-five bushels to the
acre and small ones to boot, when sum
of our hardfsted laborers who edit ager
cultural papers, and who kin do no
more nor / kin, raze / 800 bushels !?
That's what want to know" At that
Sally Ann went into the house and L
went to work.
As / sed, the box was five feet long
inside measure, and exactly one foot
wide. 1 numberd the plots /, 2, 3, 4, 5,
got some good soil and put in all just
alike, then mixed in, or else put on arter
wards, several kinds of these yer later
fertilizers they tell so much about q
don't give no names, as that might adj
.yartisa IAN, a little Won knnw4 only on
one plot didn't put none.
Well then come the question of how
many eyes to the hill, so I put EN- in
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suY sALzER's ia Crosse. Wis., SEEDS.

GRAPE s'.eH;,'i.si .1 Ss! ss
"a kEAs EazExcssior Lake Minnotoaka. MINI.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-02
Upper Ten" Negroes in South
Carolina.

It is said that there is an upper ten"
circle among the negroes of South Caro-.
lima, consisting principally of ginger
bread colored people, with a small
sprinkling of ebony. At recent party
given by one of the favored class, Chi
nese lanterns illuminated the grounds,
while the house was one blaze of gas
light from cellar to attic. The company
was not large and did not assemble I'M
til eleven o'clock. All came in carriages
with the exception of two young men,
who wore their hair beautifully banged
and carried crush hats. To attempt to
describe the toilettes of the ladies were
to try to gid gold or to paint the lilies.
Some wore white null, some satin,
some silk, but one woman black as the
ace of spades, wore black velvet, black
gloves and diamond bracelets, earrings,
tiara and necklace. The effect was start
ling. The men all wore full evening
dress, and there were but two who
failed to put on diamond shirt studs
and high eolors. The orchestra was
composed Of white men. "The German"
was the feature Of the evening.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-04-02
HOUSE And FARM NOTES.


Tighten the labor of the farm-hou
kitchen Give the gudewife few labor
saving implements. They don't cost
very much money, but what an amount
of unnecessary toll they do save, to be
sure!
The New England consumption of
Chicago dressed beef has risen regular
ly and very steadily from 4,740 tons in
1878, to log, SG4 tons in 1888, while
the consumption of Western beef re-
ceived on the hoof has fallen from 81
OFT tons to 40, 200, and the former
kind last year amounted to u per
cent. of the whole.
Mr. It. L. Wright says, in the Fruit
Recorder, that he obtained, last Spring,
200 plants of the Atlantic Strawberry,
md that of hundreds of different kinds,
no other ever did better The berries
were the size of those of Charles Down
ing, very late and of exquisite flavor.
Edward E. Hale remarks, in The
Critic and Good Literature, that virtue
is one of the things that is caught by
contagion. Is this not equally true of
good farming? And will not the boys
and girls learn to love the farm sooner
and surer by such contagion than in any
other way.
Paris statistics of 1881 mention $500
horses and 400 mules consumed as food
in that city, and The Hygienic Gazette
speaks of the meat as "a valuable
resource" Science has demonstrated
the excellent quality of the flesh, the
animal being essentially herbivorous
and no noxious element elaborated in its
economy; while its organic resistance is
such that of 5000 cut up well-known
veterinary surgeon did not find one in
which the yiscera showed any trace Of
morbid lesion.
The Governor General of Canada,
Marquis of Landsdowne, Gowns" "a ,554
acres in Ireland, and James Redpath,
who travelled over the estates, declares
that the peasantry are worse fed, clad
and housed, and treated with less con-
sideration and regarded in practice as
having fewer human rights than the
negroes of the most penurious slave
holders of our South before the war.
A recent traveller across the con-
tinent describes Nevada as Everywhere
nothingness mingled with little scrag-
gy sage and lots of alkali," excepting
the oasis known as Humboldt Station,
where a spring coaxed from the noun
tain has started little grass, a bit of
garden and few trees. 1t was here
that the polite proprietor of the hotel
remarked to Ben Wade: "You see what
irrigation can do. All Nevada needs
is water and good society" Humph,"
replied the bluff Senator, that's all the
lower region lacks"
In the finest quality of butter the salt
is so evenly diffused that, as appears un-
der the microscope, every grain is sur
rounded by a film of clear and trans
parent brine. This shows the necessity
of avoiding the overworking of butter
before the salt is added. In the first
working every praticle of milk ought to
be got rid of, but enough clear water
should be left to dissolve every grain of
salt in twelve hours before the next
working If this is attained there is lit
tie danger Of streakiness in the butter,
but to get the best results the salt
should be very finely ground
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How to Cure Hams.
New Hampshire Farmer.

new hampshire FARMER
The process of gar-curing hams is
as follows: The hams are trimmed and
bench for day and night. They are
then wiped dry and packed in clean
barrel, and each one is rubbed with salt
as it is put down. They are packed as
closely as possible A pickle is made
as follows: For each hundred pounds
of meat, seven pounds of salt, two and
one-half pounds of brown sugar, and
two ounces of saltpeter are dissolved
in hot water, and the liquid is boiled
for short time. being skinned if nee
essary. 1t is then cooled, and when
cold is strained into the barrel
through a doubled cloth on to the
meat. The meat should be kept three
inches under the pickle. 1t is best to
head up the barrel and pour the pickle
through a hole i'll tn head, and then
cork it tight. Otherwise a loose head
should be put on the meat and weighted
down, and a cover put on the top of the
barrel. After two months the hams
may be taken out, we'll wiped and
rubbed with ground black pepper and
then smoked. A very neat and conven-
lent way to flavor meat with smoke is
to smoke the barrel and then pack the
meat in it in such pickle as you choose.
This saves much trouble and the meat
is as good for home use but it lacks the
color which takes III market. Make q
fire on the ground and pile on some
meadow hay or straw and turn the bar
rel over the fire which it will smother
and the smoke will be dense and pene-
trating. Repeat this three times day
for a few days and wipe out the barrel
with cloth and 1t is ready for use.
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S. r. MORSE, MI. D.,
Marine Hospital.
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JOHN =. CALDWELL, WI. D.,
author Of Electro Therapeutics" &C.,
and Member. of Medical Societies OF
NetU York, BrO0iiL,ir, and Baltimore.

For centuries it has been contended that a
cough medicine to be effective must contain
morphia, opium, or some other equally dan
gerous drug, and to-day nearly every cough
mixture in the market has for its base some
one of these deadly poisons A purely vege-
table and at the same time efficacious cough
cure has been considered impossibillty.
The harmful and at times fatal results attend
ing the use of morphia and opium cough mix
lures of common occurrence everywhere,
and in every part of the Union deaths have,
according to the testimony of physicians and
coroners, resulted from the use OF these dan
gerous preparations. 1t is for this reason that
medical authorities and leading public men
speak so enthusiastically of the Importance
and value of the discovery of Red Star Cough
Cure Governor McLane and Attorney Gen
eral Roberts, of Maryland; May or Latrobe and
Postmaster Adreon, of Baltimore and other
well-known officials of Federal, State and mu-
nicpal governments have publicly certified to
the harmlessness and marked efficacy Of Red
Star Cough Cure. Every one will find it a
safe, sure cure 1t is entirely free from
opiates, narcotics emetics and poisons 1t
leaves no bad effects 1t does not derange the
system. 1t is pure, pleasant, prompt Sold
by druggists and dealers in medicine through
out the United States at fifty cent bottle. THE
CHARLES A. VoGELER COMPANY, Sole ProprIe-
tors, Baltimore Maryland.