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

Much of the hay is spOiled; even
that which was stacked has moulded,
and many are burning the hay on the
ground. One of our townsmen has
fifty acres of fine hay SO badly dam
aged that although it is cut he will
not stack it. 1t is too wet for the
corn, and if the rain continues it will
probably be injured. Toward Maiden
Rock oats are being harvested, but are
badly lodged.
A delegation from this Post went to
Maiden Rock Saturday to finish mus
tering in the officers of the new Post
there. 1t is recorded as U. 5. Grant
Post, A. S. Otis, Commander.
Rev. Hathaway preached at the
Brown schoolhOuse Sunday.
In looking over the reports made to
the clerk of a certain town in our
county, | was amused at the different
meanings attached by the writers to
the word ''site.' One district clerk
returned his schoolhouse site as being
36x24x14: another said that the site
was well enclosed with boards and
plaster.
If any of your correspondents have
a little swamp angel pointed this "a
way, pray allow me to draw the fuse
and pour cold water on the explosive.
There was a slight mistake in my
last week s items-in point of fact, it
was the old chapel which the church
society sold, and not the log chapel.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06
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Place can top down ga hot love untii heated the
remove the ami smell chemist " III not be
CURED - detect the presence u ammonia.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09
An Animated Dialogue.


"Wheie do | camp" he inquired,
and Was shown the lower berth next 10
NE.
That's my pigeon hole, i ,2 All right,
old son, just watch my motion while | file
myself away.'
At this juncture he was desired to turn
over his revolver TO the porter, which
he declined 10 do in very spirited man
ner.
"'O.d Dad (his revolvetl and me always
sleep together, and We don't want no d.
vorce," he explained.
The conductor demonstrated, but was
advised not to Try to braid his males
tail"
This here's sleepin' car, amt i,2" he at
length inquired.
..Yes."
"Well, why in---don't You let people
sleep then when they've paid and gone IN
10 your game? II you're aiming to keep
people awake and want company, just dance
into the next car there's lots of folks
there don't want 10 60 to sleep, no how, and
they'll be glad to see you"
The conductor withdrew and my friend
pulled off his boots and stretched HIM
tone on the poverty of the surround
ings.
In about ten minutes this erratic person
had his head out i'll the aisle.
Say you boy !" TO the porter.
"Well, sah.'
Come runnn'."
The porter drew near and was
handed pillow about as big as a PIN
cushion.
"Take that goosehar thing away" com
manded the cowboy
''Don' you want a pillow, sab ?" asked
the porter.
THAT amt no pillow and | don't
want it no how I'm afraid it'll get in my
ear"
After this, silence, and for a short
time l slept. reused up, however, at
an exclamation on the part of my neigh
bor
Hold on there, my son, jist drap them
boots"
81 was only jest gwine to black EN-,
boss"
'Drap EN-"
They drapped.
"Jest gwine to pull them spurs, reck-
on. Now, don't monkey around my camp,
taking things no more. If YOU want any,
thing speak for it. If you car't speak make
signs, and if YOU can't sigHs shake
bush. You ha'ar me ?'
"Yes, sah."
After this silence. The wheels and rails
again sang together and the car again kept
approving time and presently slept with
out interruption.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09
About Widows.

| have "A vague idea that a widow, TO be nat
ural, should always be plump. | can't give
my reason for it. l have long had a con-
viction that grief over departed husband l.
fattenng. l know that stage widows are al
ways wan and pale and faint at the sight OF
any relic of the deceased. But that Is dramat-
ic license and only in comedies where true
love and devotion are made funny, not to say
ridiculous, do they make widows plump.
Come to think of it, I don't see why widow
shouldn't be plump. She has nothing to wor-
~ about. She is heroine of one great battle,
with weakened world before her to conquer.
l like woman who has got the best Of man.
He may have been good deal Of man, or
very little of man. but she's got the best Of
him. 1t seems to be awfully hard for wo-
man to survive her husband. l do not wish to
ask whether matrimony is, after all, disease
that is fatal to woman. / don't say that a
woman should never marry some other man.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09
Bowdoin's New President.
[Winsted Conn. Letter to Springfield Repub-
lican.


From pastor of a little church of $50
members in Paterson, n. j., to president of
Bowdoin College and professor ofphil-
osophy is quite promotion for a young
man of q, only two years out Of theologi-
cal seminary, and but six years out of col
lege but the ability and acquisitions of the
Rev. William DE Witt Hyde seem to mer-
1t this honor ; and those who know Bowdoin
and those who know Mr.. Hyde are of the
opinion that the college has made no error
in her choice. Mr.. Hyde entered Harvard
from Exeter Academy in 1875, country
boy from Globe Village. Mass, with the
hayseed as il were still in his hair, but with
already good reputation for scholarship
and for what is rarer at Harvard, facility in
public debate. He won honors all along
his course, both from faculty and students
BY the end of his senior wear, though one
of the youngest members, he was considered
Intellectually as perhaps the most "sold"
in his class physically also he was athletic
especially at base ball.
He was one of the founder. of the Har-
ward Philosophical Club, president of the
two senior literary societies, the 80. X >
and the "Sgnet," and also president of the
evangelical religious society. The Chris
,ian Brethren" in which position he exerted
a most marked influence on the religious
life Of his associates. Graduating with hon
ors in philosophy, he was given place on
the commencement stage, and was also
made Phi Beta Kappa mars hal Of his class
for the day His commencement Grafton, on
"The Modern Worship Of Culture was a
bril- liant and caustic arraigrment of those
tendencies at Harvard which initiate
against the higher life and created almost
a sensation. Indeed. at the dinner following
the Rev. nr II W. Bellows Of New York
devoted himself 10 replying to the attack Of
tie young graduate. Mr.. HYDE next passed
two years at Union Seminary then after a
years further study, was graduated at An
dover in 1852, his commencement thesis
there being "Iaultr and the Mystics." He
pursued a post graduate course in the
oogy at Andover and also in philosophy at
Harvard, under Prof. Palmer During his
pastorate Of two Years at the Auburn Street
Congregational Church. Paterson. y. j., a
debt Of - 900 in his church has been extin-
gulshed largely by bis efforts; and he has
found time to publish two articles in the Netr
EHyiaHder which have attracted notice.
TheoIogicaly he is believed 10 be in the
main in sympathy with the advanced views Of
the so-cailed AudoNer type. While without
practical experience IN teaching except as a
private tutor, Mr. IIyde's influence on the
boys Of Phillips Academy while nj An-
dover warrants tile prediction that in the
recitation room hc Will BE- a positive force.
Personally, Mr.. HYDE viii attract attention
for his winning face and dignied man
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09
Helpful Surgery for Pianists.

From the Philadelphia Record.
The skill of a wel-known physician in
this city has come to the rescue Of number
OF prominent pianists and musical students
in most singular and interesting particu-
lar. The facts have just been made the
subject Of paper read before the County
Medical Society. To comprehend this as
sistance rendered by surgical science TO
musicians, very well known fact must be
understood When the middle finger and
the little finger are brought down by the
hexor MUSCLES and their ends are held down
against the keys of piano, for the purpose
of producing continuous sounds, and it is
necessary to extend and then fex or bend
the third finger in order to produce accom-
panying sounds, it will be found that the
third finger cannot be very effectively used,
unless after long and constant practice, and
often not then.
The reason for this stiffness is simple. The
tendons of the little and middle finger are
connected with the tendons of the third FIN
ger by lateral or accessory tendonS, so that
when the two former fingers are held down
the accessory teudons hold in check the
power Of the muscular fbres operating upon
the tendon of the third finger, and thus it
can be but cumsily used Such accessory
tendons are sometimes found in one hand.
sometimes in the other. but usually in the
right hand. They are source of serious
annoyance and difficulty to musical per
formers.
Dr. William S. Forbes, the Demonstration
of Anatomy in Jefferson College, has per
formed an operation that severed or cut off
the accessory tendonS from the little and
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09
Some Funny Parrot Stories.

The late Dean Stanley haIa parrot Of
which he vas very fond. Il, cage was hung
IN the family sitting room POty kept her
bright, wicked ewes open and heard all that
went on. Every morning the good dean as
,embled all his servant, in tins room for
family prayers. Once he invited friend TO
spend the night At his house. In the mora
ing this guest walked IN the garuen before
breakfast. Tie found the servants grouped
together under a laburnum tree. ih-v
seemed to he IN some excitement, and were
looking up into the tree. lie came near and
found they were gazing at Poll, who was
perched upon a branch out Of reach. She
had escaped from her cage. Polly saw the
group of upturned faces The dean. too,
came out at that moment Il was Just as she
had been accustomed to see them in the
good mans sitting room. She looked 1t
her master, then arched her head to one
side, turned her roguish eve steadily upon
the servants moment and remarked SOL
EMMY, Let u> pray
Here is another anecdote quite a, good
\ parrot belonging 10 an English gentle
man was taken out Of his room because /,
disturbed him while he was ill. The cage
was hung ~ tie kitchen. While there the
thl-yi~h lrd one day Stole some rai,u,
from pudding The cook was very angry
and threw some hot grease upon Po.v,
head. The parrot did not forget the pun
i'hment, as was plainly shown BY and by.
Her master had been 50 SICK that ii was
necessary 10 shave bis head When he re-
covered his pet was taken back TO his room.
She 10 Jked at his shaven head momeu, IN
great astonishment, and appeared to be
thinking. Then she said slowly:
'lou bald headed rutiian You stole the
cooks raIslns -
The gray parrot is very intelligent. \
bird owner placed one of these alongside a
Young Amazon parrot, The gray one taught
the other 10 talk. If the pupil did not pro-
nounce tie words correctly the gray would
turn away contemptuously and exc!aim
Block khead ~ Nobody need say that bird
did not know what il was talking about
Yet one more parrot story. \ bird Of the
gray n va, kept in chidrcns
nursery. >ne became fond Of the little ones
just as a sensible human being would have
done Her greatest delight was TO see the
pretty little baby bathed She showed very
good taste there, too. The child became
sick, at length, and Polly was bani,hed to
the kitchen, like all unfortunate parrots
when they are in the way She watched
everything there with her bright little ewes,
and thought out her wise bird thoughts all
to herself. One dav The family were startled
by terrible scream from the parrot. They
heard her cry The baby The dear baby -
In alright they ran to the kitchen. The
parrot was watching in the widest excite
nent the roasting Of Young pig before the
FIRE. She thought the pig was The baby.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09


The care of sixty years he bore;
The charms of youth had withcrcd away
From his iron features long before
In his dull old house OF blackened stone.
With servants quaint and tried and few,
For many year he had lived alone.
As the harsh, and the cold, and the heartless
do
There was plate on his sideboarl-plate of
price
His pouch had ruddy gold at need;
And twenty men might well suffice
The lands he held by dover and deed
He had lived, the world said. much too long
He had sold his heart for wealth and pow
And tales they thought, OF bygone wrong,
Would be walled, too late, nj his dying hour.
Beside the bed of grim Sir John.
The quaint old faded bed OF state.
Where in the centuries dead and gone.
Had slept gray heads with a diadems
weight
Beside his bed and near at hand
To his ca>y-chair OF oaken wood.
Fastened and strapped with bar and band
\ huge black casket ever stood.
No friend of his they were far and few
Had ever seen the open id
Not even his trusted servant knew
What thing Of wealth the ca>kct hid.
Twas rumored that at dead OF night.
When shut and barred were window and
door.
It opened to the old mans sight:
But that was rumor. nothing more.
Eyes glanced upon it, quick and keen.
Aud minds with doubt impatient swellcd;
W hat could these wears Of ms >t,ry mean.
What could bc the wealth the ca~kei hclti:
Twas wonderful wcalth->o much knew all
- 4
Remember, all, II harm hcfal-,
save his, whatever else i losi -
Perhaps the rrd gold nestled there,
loN ing and close II in the mine;
or diamonds lit the sunless air.
or rubir- hlnshcd like bridal wine.
some giant gem, like that hich bough;
The half of realm in Timour's dAN.
Mieht here, beyond temptations thought
BE hidden in safety; who could -ay:
Sir John wa. dead. The needy heir
Followed close and thick behind hi, bier.
Blending disgust at the tedious prayers
With proper sob and dccoruu- tear.
And scarce the sound Of feet had died.
Closing the vault for hi mouldering rest,
When runc the ch-el. opening wide
That ,trangc old guarded trea>urc-ehcsi.
What found they: Face, dsrkcned ami
fruwncd.
And cur,c, .mothcrcA under the breath
A. III" heavy lid was at la-i unbound.
And the heir cApcctant looked lsncatlI.
Not an acrv, not 4 banquet NOR,
Would All the wealth II the ca.kHt buN
y" wonder thrir faces this anger wore.
That ourlel the ljp and flashed lho eve.
What found they: Top, and whip. and ball.
And knife ani cord zach Veric>i toy
Il -,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09

-"You have a very rich soil here" re-
marked tenderfoot to Dakota farmer.
"Rich Well, should say SO. Two years
ago young man from the east came cut
here. He carried a snakewood cane. He
stuck it in the ground and left it here" 81
suppose" remarked the tenderfoot with a
smile, ''you mean to tell me that it sprout-
ed" '.Sprouted! Well, should say it did,
and blossomed too. Why. last year killed
ten bushels OF black snakes on that patch of
ground, and each one was vanished and had
hammered silver head"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09
SeOtt's Emulsion Of Pure
Cod Liver OIL with HyDoyhe.yb ttr,

Both as q food and medicine.
The combined virtues of the Cod Liver Oil
with the Hypophosphites, not only supplies a
nutritious food to the system, but by its reme-
dial power gives strength and tone to the
nerves, and builds up the wasted tissues.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09

had saved her from his rival. And Mrs.
Deacon Gibbs has never regretted the oc-
currence which decided her fate.
As for the lawyer. his chagrin upon learn
ing the truth Of the matter may be better
imagined than described.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09

How many have Heart Disease late
years. said an old lady, 'and the only remedy
know of Is DIR. GRAVES HEART REG
ULATOR, which cures every time" Free
pamphlet Of +. E. ingalls,, Cambridge, Mass.
$1.OO per bottle.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09
Who Was ''Hoyle ~

"Accordmg to Ho,le' Is phrase COM
mon among card players, many OF whom are
under the impression that Nh Hove wls a
reformed gambler who turned ul~ s'teu.iaa
to bookmaking as means Of keeping him
self out Of the poorhou,e. EJmauI ll1,.e
wa> born over 200 years ago and lived To-
the advanced age Of -. dying ia CaysnI,A
square, London, in l7G9. lie W.. among
the first VINO took special interest in whist,
and after 1t became a craze he devoted >sv-
crai Years Of hi, life to teaching the game
at a guinea lesson. Some supposed he in
vented The game, but it was well known be-
fore he was born. However, he dill much
to perfect it. lie was paid 5000 for a
treatise on whist which was published in
lIf3. At the time he was attached to a
government office in Ireland Toward the
close of his life he revised his treatise and
included in it backgammon and other nom
uiar games Of the day.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09

How did the Queen Of sheba travel when
she went 10 see Solomon" asked Miss R
Of her sunday school class Of little girls. No
one Yentured an answer. If YOU had studied
your lesson you could not have helped know
ing" said the teacher. Now look over the
verses again" Could She have gone by the
cars"' asked Mis-, R, beginning to lose pa
tience as the children consulted their books
but appeared to arrive at no conclusion.
''Yes'm,' said little girl at the end of the
class. "She went by steam ears" Did she,
ndeedr' said Miss R. "WeIl. Louisa, we
would like to know how you found that out -
"In the second verse" responded the child.
lit says she came 1uh a eery great train"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09

Too Busy HOUSEWIFE You know that
cake made tor the dear boys and sent away
on Saturday. 1t has never arrived | wonde r
what's the reason" Much-worried domestic
There was postman took to the hospital
in great agony on Monday. shouldn' be
surprised if he knows"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09

In the frontispiece Of the july Wide
1trdke, The Wonder story" George Poster
Barnes gives the children one of his most
charming drawings. On the opposite pare
John Boyle O'Reilly. the editor Of the IjIt
contributes WORTHWHILE poem, "A Builder.
lesson" with a dainty illustration by Ua~>atn
A long and exciting boys story follows Mar
Gus Aureliu>,' by Octave Thanet with SONG
especially good pictures BY HaSsam Another
story Of heroic action, is from Mrs Jessie
Bentoh Fremont, an incident of her own child
hood, and entitled '''rhe Big English R,lI.''
A southern writer contributes short story
for the little ones, called "Perita Jane" The
papers of the number ARE highly Interesting
sea>Onably comes All illustrated (lesrripfi1n 0s
Inc French Fourth in the Rue Petit jean
hH Ar- Mary Gay Humphreys independence
Day j. also celebrated by It humorous drawing
by }. &. Beard, and by humorous poem en-
titled, Miss Poly's Fourth; and Wayne
nipple write. entertainingly and instructive
y of boy-iife in the navy in his illustrated ar
tlcie. Jacks First Cruise The chapter of
Ian Phou Lees, When | Was a Boy in
China" describes .sChinese HOLIDAYS and
Rose Kingsley gives delightful account of
Nv hat the Jackdaws of kenilworlh said: -
this is preceded by Mrs. Preston's s.BaIiad of
kenilworth." The serials are rich in enter
tainment and helpfulness; there is Margaret
sidney's business story for girls, "a New De-
parture," and Mrs. A. ID. r. Wbitney,s hIsi
ness story for boys, '.How the Midtlies set up
Shop" and there is Mr. Brooks historical
story. 1.-The Governors Daughter" and Mrs.
Champney's wonder story, ''fIie Child'- Par
adise;' and after all this comes the rich
Chautauqua Readings, by Rose Kingsley anl
Mrs. Fremont, Edward Everett Hale, Prof. Pal
mer OF Michigan University, ,MFs. Whitman. t,s-
car Fay Adams and ii. W. I yler, comprising his
torieai, art, hygienic, scientific aud literary pa
pers. Wide Atcdke is $500 year. ID. I.oih-
rop 4 Co., Publishers, Boston.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09

-"What are you going to do when you
grow up, you don't know how to cipher?'
asked an Austin school teacher of rather
slow boy. 81 am going to be school
teacher, and make the BOYS do all the
ciphering," was the impudent reply The
next thing that boy had TO sigh for was a
soft cushion cn the bench. Il Teras SiGinns.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09
Summer Board.

THOSE desiring To spend the summer months by
/ the seaside, Wilt find oak Point, Trenton
Maine one Of the plea -antest places on the coast
The bay affords excellent facilities for boating ana
fishing. The view Of Mount Desert ami the
numerous adjacent Islands l. unparalleled Those
wishing 10 hire cottages for the season, or to en-
gage board at very moderate rates can do 90 by
applying to
W. H. LELAND, Oak Point, Trenton, Maine.
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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09
Strange Maladies.

SOME MENTAL DISEASES or MODERN LIFE
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09
Poetry.
The Old Knights Treasure.

Sir John was old. and grim, and gray;
The care of sixty years he bore;
The charms of youth had withcrcd away
From his iron features long before.
In his dull old house OF blackened stone.
With servants quaint and tried and few,
For many year he had lived alone,
As the harsh, and the cold, and the heartles.
do.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1885-07-09

Eyes glanced upon it. quick and keen.
Aud minds with doubt impatient swrllcd;
" hat could these Years Of ms >trry mean.
What could bc the wealth the ca~kei hcd:
Twas wonderful wcal;h->o much knew all
For these bold words the covering crossed
Remember, all. il harm bcfal-.
save Mis, " hatcNcr else j. lo.t ="