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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01
neantiruIatFour score.

An old lady over 50 years Of age,
and who was once great beauty,
died recently in Paris. leaving after
her q diary in which she endeayors
to show up the alleged vanity Of
women From the age of 20 to 30 she
spent three hours day at her toilet,
which foot< up for the period one year
niuety-one days and SIX hours employed
ii dressing her hair. powderin@ her
checks and painting her lips From
.,l IL 30 the toilet labors amounted to
tive hou.s a day. the extra hours being
son~ecra1.-I to covering up the tracks
.of time. including the oblitcration Of
crows feet and other necessary filling
in and grading. Time, four years and
forty DAYS. After 80 her efforts had to
be rcdoubled. 10 the last she resisted
the effects Of time. [ Chjcago HrGid
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01

A correspondent writes to the Lon
don St. James Gazette: The sparrow
destructionists of Mirral are at it again.
They are determined to extirpate these
birds, and have accordingly put a
price upon their heads, nests, and eggs.
They may perhaps succeed in their
war of determination to a certain eX
tent in their own neigborhOod; but
there is no need to fear that the COM
mon sparrow will ever be destroyed
from off the face of the earth. In
great cities he does no harm whatever
and is most welcome guest. The
numbers of srarrows in London are at
least equal to those of its human popu-
laton. The birds are as fearless as
the pigeons at Westminster and the
Guilihall. They find their food in the
streets and round about the dust-bins
and the back gardens. In many
households the crumbs are regularly
thrown to them. But London has no
NJ. Baur of its own, and the art of con-
ciliating the London sparrow has yet
to be discovered. He is as quarrel
some and pugnacous as a Zulu; his
contempt for all constituted authority
is only equal to that of the London
Arab; and am sorry to have to admit
that he is most ungrateful. He is the
veriest gypsy-the ''tacho'' or "kaulo
Romany@ of all the feathered race.
There is about him that peculiar ele-
ment of individuality which American
cries call it"cussedness. And as
much as his ways amuse us we doubt
whether any patience and kindness
will ever win his heart.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01

Japanese cloths made of various ma
teriais ans used for covering screens
White Angora mats mahg the pref
test rugs for infant carriages.
Catch-all bags of crazy work, in
small designs, are covered with SPAN
giles and trimmed with gold fringe.
Pretty lambrequins are made OF
pressed plush, with the patterns worked
IN outlines of gold thread.
Family matters should never be dis
cussed before strangers.
TO Presergt CIT Flqicers Somebody
SAYS if small bit of the stem is cut of
and the end immersed in very hot
water, the flower viii frequently re-
vive and resume its beauty. Colored
flowers are more easily rejuyenated
than white ones. which are apt to turn
yellow. kor preserving flowers in
water finely pulFerized CHARCOAL should
be put into the vase at this season.
Where vines are growing in water,
charcoal will prevent foul odors from
the standing water. People who send
flowers through the mail are cautioned
not to use cottonwood for packing.
because being very absorbent. it draws
from the flowers all their moisture.
fresh leaves are better. and the out
side leaves of the cabbage are best.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01

Marian Harlard diScourses in Baby
hood upon the baby that must stay in
town. She is urgent in her advice to
mothers to see that the baby gets out
of the house morning and evening.
And this is part of what she says: If
YOU keep but one (nominaD serving
woman, and she cannot be prevailed
u1,ou to lave her work all standin ia
the llure to tend 4 baby in the NOR
min, postpone the share of household
toll that falls on your shoulders to a
less convenient season, take an early
breakfast. and, arrayed i'll lawn, per
Gale, or modest bingham, brave public
opinion by tending your darling in
person. If he can totter along hold
ing to your finger, the business is not
formidable. To wheel perambulator
is a genuine. had almost said cru
cial, test of Your moral courage and
innate ladyhood. If not superior to
the prick Of false pride, stimulate
maternal devotion into heroism that
shall tread it under foot.
Mrs. Postlethwaite, who stays in
town this summer, in order that dear
Oscar may get his affairs in train to 90
abroad with her in October, takes her
pug for an airing at the same hour you
choose for Your Prince : constitutional.
A beauty Of pug, Of leonine hide. by
acinthine tail, nose like a sOoty pot for
b!acknesS, and vicious scowl between
two red eyes. He does not deign to
salute Baby, who crows out rs the
beauty trotS by. Nor does his mis-
trcSs see Baby's mother, who, if she be
philosophical. Will smile, not sigh, at
the Slight. Why not. when she knows
that the EXTREMIST tip of Baby's pink
finger worth more than all the pugs
imsGrted into America since the for
eign folly bgGame one of our easily-ex-
cited RACES
Have stated hour for Baby's re-
turn from the morning and afternoon
expeditions He must not be over
heated in the one nor chilled in
the other Midday nap and nightly
slumbers will be more profound and
health-giving for both.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01
A AIischfevnus pnrrnf.

Opposite the residence of Polls owner
there were some buildings in course Of
erection, and the men at the top of the
scafiold were in the habit Of calling to
those below for such material as they
wanted, more brick, more mortar,
and so on.
In very short time Polly had these
terms by heart, as well as the gruff tones
in which they were uttered. No sooner
dill the Irish laborer relieve himself of
load than the everlasting cry, more
mortar. assailed his ears. He bore it
with exemplary patience till the mortar
board at the top of the scaffold was
piled up; but once more the order for
,Mortar-more mortar.' was given.
Then, to the delight of theparrot mas
ter, who was standing by, the lrlshman
flung down his bod. and making speak
ing trumpet of his hands, bawled to the
bricklayer above, is it mor-r-t9r mad
that We are? Sure a man may have as
many leg as centerpig LcontlpedeJ
to wait on the likes o yezn'
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01

The Maharaiah of Ncpaul's prolfer
to the British Government Of $4,000
picked Goorkhas' for service in At
ghanistan is one of those offers that
are equally hard to refuse or to accept.
DcSpisc their small stature, these
miniature Montenegrins are certainly
the best soldiers of India. One of
them lately killed man-eating tiger
in the Jungle with one slash Of his
huge curved knife Another, in a
former war, slew three Brit sh soldiers
with three successive blows, theyictims
being almost cut in t,go through their
thick cross belts. But although the
valor of the Goorkhas in 1850 di>mayed
even the Afghans themselves, they
were an equal terror to their English
leaders from the crueltics in which
their native feroc'ty and fierce re-
ligious hatred OF their Mu>sulman foes
found constant vent. After one of the
battles near Candahar, Gporkha
battalion went over the field with their
long knives and literally cut to pieces
every wounded Afghan whom they
found On another occasion Il Goork-
ha soldier set fire to the clothes of a
fallen Mu-oulman, and then danced
around him with shrieks of delight
while the poor wretch was slowly
burning alive.-NelO York Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Cold Dishes.

Cold Dishes.
Happy the housekeeper who can
make up attractive looking and appe-
thing cold dishes. Even the cold NUT
ton can be made to look attractive,
while salads of one kind and another
will serve to please and nourish. There
should still be some picked peaches
and seckel pears from last year, and
these are most tasty additions to a
summer lunch. Fresh fish properly
cooked. suits almost all tastes, and
carefully made omelettes are very en-
joyab!e. Variety should be the order
of the day in summer. Even the bread
should be served in different forms
from day to day. One day have milk
rolls, on another queen rolls, Vienna
rolls, or graham rolls. The loaves
need not always be of the same shape.
And these suggestions are not for com
pany occasions, but for the ordinary
family occasions. Monotony is too
much the order in families Mr. Brown
recalls often his boarding house expert
cnce when the inevitable steak was As
regular in its appearance as the sun. /
will not expose his weakness as mani
tested IN remarks about martyrs at the
steak and the interests of health which
he felt were ut stake. Often he and
his fellow boarders would express their
willingness to stake their reputation
that they were devouring some of
Noah pets. Such Jokes are almost
equally ancient. Suffice it to say that
while steaks appear on our table quite
frequently. variety is aimed at and mo-
notony is as lar as possible avoided.
Ny eve has just lighted on this some
what weak story in the humorous
column of a newspaper: Mistress of
the house Really, | don't know what
to order for dinner, Elsa. It's the
same old thing. week in and week out
roast beef yesterday, hash to-day,
mutton tomorrow, hash next day.
German girl "a recent Importation -
Wy don you hef leedle shange,
ma am-hef der hash der first day,
amt it?" That is about all the change
some families have the year round. BY
all means let there be variety, especi-
ally in summer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01
Fruit Raising In California.

A correspondent Of the Observer at
Willows. California. writes: | would
advise no one who is in health and do
ing well in the East 10 remove to Cali
fornia. And | would say to all emf
grants that they had better not come
without money TO begin with. Such
and as they want cannot be got now
for less than ten dollars per acre, and
from that to forty, aud one or two
thousand dollars are necessary to make
a fair beginning But if determined TO
come. and having the money, then |
can say that this section, Colusa coun-
tv. affords as fine chances as any in this
state. The most favorable part OF the
country in my estimation is in the foot
hills west OF the Willows, and is called
the Stony Greek region. | had the
pleasure of visiting itrcccht!F. and pre-
dict that land will command there in
Icss ,ban ten years $1,000 per acre.
Stony Greek Is a mountain stream us
mo in the Snow Mountain IN the Coast
Range. and furnishes an aboa4ance OF
water all the wear, but 1t Is not needed
EXCEPT for gardening and alfalfa The
first place visited was that Of gentle
man who has a tract of $40 acres tie
is devoting his attention to alfalfa and
fruit growing. Here and at half doz-
en- other PLACES / saw growing apples,
apricots. peaches, pG3rs, plumS, prunes,
nectarines, pomegranatos, ounces,
English and black walnuts, cherries,
cooseberrics. blackberrieS. raspberries
and everything in the vegetable line
that can be grown. 1t is the natural
home of the vine. ] measured the new
growth on some of the trees and found
/ i over seven feet, and the growth OF
vines l. equally remarkable. ! saw al
falfa, planted there years age, as hne
as could be. 1t had never had any wa
+ ter except rainfall and was ready Ion
the third cutting. For this land the
owner refused a few days before one
hundred dollars an acre. | noticed one
appletree thirteenyears old (Bellefleur)
from which $500 pounds were taken
last wear. it is now full of as fine fruit
al ever saw. In the same orchard
stands a black walnut, Of the same
acre. from which were gathered
last wear forty dollars worth
Of nuts. The people Of this section aFt
| lust beginning to realize what they
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01
WHEELS OF FATE.

We met within a tent and at fair,
Where for dime (her price was far from
CREATE
And i'll dress which gypsies nerer wear,
She told my fortune on a wheel of fate.
Oh, little wheel be kind to me
And make my future fair to see!
Thinking of her while riding on my wheel,
And wondering should l never see her
more,
Musing how strange and queer she made
me feel,
l took a header at her very door
Oh, big, bright wheel it was not meet
To-Day me thus before her feet.
They helped me in for / was stunned and
dazed,
Ny poor bumped head they kindly tried
to nurse,
And on my dear ones form again gazcd-
My head grew better and my heart grew
worse.
thanked you for your shabby trick,
O shameless wheel SO bright and
quick
And after that as / rode by each day,
| used to bow, to stop and then TO wait,
Till finally always rode that way,
And never further than the little gate.
Oh, how you leaned against that gate
In those bright day 5, big wheel of fate !!
The rest-how can ever tell the restt
One day, the gladdest day Of llmy life,
With daisies in her hair and on her breast,
The gypsy girl became my own dear
wife.
For orange flowers are out of date.
But daisies look like wheels of fate.
Bessie Chandler in HarpeT's Basdr.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01
The millionaire Widow.

The rich California widow, Mrs. Hop
kius, who is puzzled to know what to
do with her twenty to thirty million, is
spending the trihe of between one and
two million, in erecting mansion in
Great Darlington, Berkshire county,
Massachusetts. the home of her girl
hood. The following is an account Of
the enterprise.
The business boom is being felt here
quite forcibly, juding from the amount
OF work being done and the number of
men employed by Mrs. Hopkins in the
building of her new and elegant man
sion, which is now in progress of con-
struction. 1t is worth ones while to
come here and inspect the work that is
being done. After crossing the bridge
your eve first rests on the mammoth
sheds used by the cutters in preparing
the stone Tor the masons to lay. Then
you start up the hill to the quarry, and
YOU will see That immense derrick used
to hoist The stone on to the wagon to be
drawn 10 the cutters sheds. The der
rick runs by steam, and is one of the
best ever built in this country. There
are at present about 10 men employed
in the quarry alone, and enough to
swell the number in all departments to
400, and within another month there
will be double that number employed.
The blasting, which occurs three times
each day, is done with dynamite, as
the stone are split by the workmen very
easily, and it requires this amount Of
blasting in order to straighten up
again for more splitting. The dyna-
mite is discharged by electricity, the
apparatus of which is quite a curiosity.
Wires run about 800 to 400 feet to the
battery, which appears Ike lifting
machine, with handle you press
down on and then the discharge follows.
The engine which is used in hosting, is
an immense one, and is competent to
do all that may be required oft. Step
into the engine room and you will see
a marvel of beauty and cleanliness.
Then take q look into the boiler room
and you will see the smiling face Of the
old veteran, ''Alf" Couch, who has
charge of this department There are
two blacksmith shops located here,
with several men in each sharpening
tools. as the stone is so hard that they
are dulled very quickly. Through the
Kindness of the superintendent of the
quarry, John Flynn, we were shown
through every department, including
the newly discovered and famed Apo
lonaris spring of the Berkshire Hills.
The water is being bottled by the soda
manufac turers here, and is pronounced
by the bestiudges to equal the famed
spring of that name, and which is in
such demand at the prcsen day"
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Street-Car PoIIteness.

Have you noticed, asked one gem
tleman of another in a New York ele-
waited railway car the other day, in the
hearing of Tribune scribe, "that men
are less courteous to women than for
merly? See how many women are
standing while the seats are filled with
men who look like gentlemen. You
and | can remember when such thing
could not have been seen in any car
filled with respectable persons. Are
we becoming less polite as a people,"
Il think, was the reply, ''that in
real politeness and in Difference to
women we are not losing ground,
though have noticed the change that
YOU speak of, in some Of its outward
manifestations. 1t has been gradual
and not without n Well-detined cause.
Women are themselves responsible for
it. By their manner they seem to de-
mand as a right what men are only too
glad TO confer as gift, and what they
expect to be received as such. After a
man has given up his seat in car a
few times without receiving a word or
even smile of thanks he usually
thinks it about time to stop. 1t Is
amazing how rstde a woman can be III
a public conveyance who in private
circles IS the very soul of grace and
cannot receive the smallest attention
without prompt acknowledgment.
"A few days ago saw a young wom-
an enter a car at Grand street accom-
panied by young man. A gentleman
Immediately rose and gave her his
seat, which she took. At 9th street
person sitting next to her lett the car,
and the gentleman who had relin-
pushed his aeat was about to take the
vacant one, when the young woman
moved over into it, motioning to her
companion to take hers. | think that
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01

gentleman will be less prompt in his
courtesy in future.
"Do YOU see that woman over there
with the ten-year-old lad by her side?
When she came into the car few sta
tons back gentleman gave her his
seat At the next station the scat by
her was vacated and she pulled her
boy into it. Women were standing in
front Of her at the time. but she saw no
reason why her boy should BE- sacri-
feed for them DO you ever see a
woman request a child Of hers TO get
up and give his seat to a woman?
have seen such thing once in awhile,
but not often. Men are as essentially
polite as ever, according to my ob-er-
walton; they are simply learning the
lesson women teach them, and discrim-
mate as to the times and places where
they can exercise their pollteness with
out wasting it. "
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TO A PAIR OF ANTIQUE AND
IRONS.


Warm friends of mine with gayest mien
The Fire-fiend on thy polished sheen
Reflects his visage weird aud keen;
He dances in the golden light
That fills my study warm and bright,
What tho the storm doth rule the night
Let it rage,
OF olden time you well could sing
OF DAYS now fled ON Times fleet wing.
While twining mem ries round you cling
Oh! tell me of that vanished cine,
OF Faith and Love in every cline,
Aud wreathe it into ringing rhyme,
Loud and clear!
The red logs fitful shadows throw;
Like ruhies up the chimney go
The whirring sparks with ruddy glow;
Tho fierce or soft, tho fleet or slow
What matter how the north winds blow
And what care we for drifting snow:
Let it rage
While all the world is cold and drear
And snow begraves the dead old year,
Sweet visions of the past appear;
A host of fancies round me plays,
Elysan dreams of bygone days,
Fled, like the mist of mountain haze
Far away.
The breath of Mem'ry near me signs,
| see the depth of summer skies,
| gaze into my lady's eyes,
This Joy to thee, my friends, | owe,
| watch the shadows come and go,
What tho the north wind drifts the snow
". 7. IN Boston Journal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01
JaDan's PatentLaw.

Tie japanese have at last promulgat-
ed a patent law. The new law APP
pears, like many other recent japanese
laws, to be compiled from similar laws
of other countries-a clause from
England here. from France there,
from Germany in another place, as
seemed advisable in the circumstances.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01

For eight months in year whisky
drinking is too ruinous to be INDUCED
in by the Southerner. 1t is not posi-
bic for man to drink as much whisky
at the South as at the North. If he
attempts it he will 90 under. In point
of fact, there was never as much drunk
enness in this section as in the Northern
States Even in the days when the use
of liquor was general intemperance was
the exception. Down this way all the
forces of nature are arrayed on the side
of temperance.-[A atlanta Constitution.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01

The term of protection is fifteen years;
ARTICLES that to disturb social tran
guilty, or demoralize customs and
fashions, or are injurious to health,
and medicines, can not be patented.
-EgchANAc.
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How an Egyptian Won a Bride.

a few weeks ago a good-looking
Egyptian who called himself Charles
Costiok. late of Arab Pasha's army.
came to Campbell Co, Va, and worked
for a farmer. He fell in love with Miss
Annie Harris, the pretty daughter of
farmer. who encouraged him until he
presented her with Sll5 and q silk
dress, when she Tilted him and went to
Staunton to visit relatives. Her lover
followed and brought suit for the money
he had given her She was about to 60
10 iail but capitulated and married the
EGyptian. Neg York World
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70 make children healthy use plenty
If air, plenty Of milk, plenty Of sleep,
md always have a bottle Of DR.. Bull S
Cough Syrup in case Of Group.
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Sir Arthur Sullivan has made a re-
quest that, in this country, the title be
omitted from programmes where his
name appears.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01

Salvation Oil, the celebrated Ameri-
can remedy is guaranteed TO cure
rheumatism, sore throat, swellings,
bruises, burns and frost-bites. Price
only Twenty-Five cents bottle.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-10-01

The ccuntry's supply of plate glass
is now 600, 900 boxes. The stock at
this season is usually from 800, coo to
$4,000 boxes.
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