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

All along the seven miles from Mt.
McGregor to Saratoga the track was
lined with country people to view the
funeral cortege. At Saratoga the re
mains were transferred to the n. Y.
Central funeral train. Next to the en-
CINE came the funeral car, Wood
lawn. The other cars were occupied
a. follows: Car No. ,. clergy and Dr.
Douglas; third. the sons and notable
mourners: fourth. Gen. Hancock and
stan. fifth. Gov Hill and staff; sixth,
the press; seventh and eighth, the mil
itarv escort: ninth, the baggage. The
remains were lifted in silence by the
guard ofhonor to the car ''Woodlawn,
and the funeral parties were transferred
to their respective cars.
To all on board the beautiful drapery
of the cars was a subject of comment.
No woodwork. except the sashes of the
windows, was visible. The engine ten
der was draped in plated black. radia-
ting from a rosette center The sides
of the cab were covered in like manner.
Black cloth was draped from the boiler
rails. and the front was fixed with
taste The funeral car ''Woodlawn'
was plated in the panels and center.
and the national flag was festooned
gracefully, but so there was no fiutter-
ing. The other cars were not so elab-
orately finished, but all were draped
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06
A Cats Gratitude.

My cat, with regard to his meals, is
a most grateful cat, and, however
hungry he may be, he never thinks of
eating until he has purred his thanks
and rubbed his head against my hand.
This trait of character was once dis
played in the most affecting manner.
One day ''Pret" had been shut up in
the loft on account of q lady visitor
who had a strange antipathy to cats.
was going to town that day and did
not return till after midnight. As l
was going up stairs / heard 'Pret's"
voice calling me in a very anxious
manner, and on inquiry l found that
the poor cat had been forgotten and
had been shut up all day without
morsel of food or drop of milk. OF
course | Immediately procured some
milk and meat for him and carried it
up to him. The poor creature was half
wild with happiness when he heard my
footsteps, and on seeing the plate of
meat and saucer of milk he flew at
them like mad thing. But scarcely
had he Tapped drop of milk when he
left the saucer, came up to me with
loud purring and caressed me, as if to
express his thanks, Then he went to
the plate, but only just touched it with
his nose, and again came to thank me
for having attended to his wants. both
of food and drink. 1t quite brought tho
moisture to my eyes to see the atfec-
tionate creature, though nearly wild
with hunger and thirst, refrain from
enjoying his food until he had returned
thanks Los angeles Times.
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Hugh Conway.

Many who knew Mr.. Fargus person
ally have to regret the loss of a gifted
and attractive friend. The far greater
number who were familiar with the
name and writings of Hugh Conway
will feel deeply the removal from con-
temporary literature of aname associat-
ed with great success, and attended by
the promise of even better things.
There is something profoundly melan-
choly in the thought that Mr.. Fargus
had for so many years worked on pa
tiently and persistently almost un-
known, until on q sudden success and
popularity came to him, and gave to
him not merely money, but the posi-
ton and reputation which are far dear
er to q literary man. Mr.. Fargus sue
cess was startling, but it was not I'M
deserved. He could tell story to q
generation that were very eager TO
have stories told to them, and were
beginning to get little weary of the
purposeless and bloodless pamphlets
which had of late been usurping the
place of romance. A useful, honor
able, and even brilliant literary and
dramatic career was opening out be-
fore Mr.. Fargus. His prose style was
maturing and improving, and his last
work, appearing in the pages of the En-.
glish Illustrated, was a marked and
striking advance on anything he had
hitherto done. We earnestly hope that
the story was completed before MIR.
Fargus' untimely death. We can re-
member few instances in which bright
promise was so suddenly and SO sadly
marred. - Whitehall ReUieq0.
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Took No Stock in Evolution.

81 never took much stock in this ev-
olution, Darwinian theory Of the origin
of man." remarked an elderly passen-
ger, as he moved to the other end of
the car to escape the drawl and cigar
cite smoke of dude who had just
come in from the sleeping car. For
years friend of mine has tried to
make me believe in the theory, and has
argued it all out. A fayorite notion of
his is that at certain stages of the de-
velopment and in certain cases evolu-
ton turns back and moves toward its
originals. l never was able to believe
in the doctrine, but now that / see
with my own eyes indisputable proof
of the correctness of the latter part Of
his idea l am inclined to accept the
whole of it.
What proof do you refer to?''
"Why that thing down there at the
other end of the car smoking a cigar
cite. It's hard to believe that man
sprang from the monkey, but if that
isn't a case of man re-evoluting toward
the ape I'm no good as an observer. y
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

New YORK, July 30.-A circular,
signed by Chester A. Arthur, chair
man, William B. Grace and Hamilton
Fish, vice chairmen, and Richard L.
Greener, secretary of the Grant me-
mortal committee, was issued to-day.
1t says that action will soon be taken
for the organization of committees tC
represent the entire country for the
erection of a suitable monument above
Gen. Grants grave. Pending this the
committee calls on all newspapers,
railways, telegraph and express
companies, postmasters, banks, bank
ers, churches and municipal author
tiles, commercial bodies and exchanges,
manufacturing and business establish
ments, to cooperate in the immediate
collection of contributions, to be for
warded to Drexel, Morgan a. Co. for
this committee. or the mayor of New
York. All contributions will be ac-
knowledged. The Western Union Tel
egraph company to-day also sent in
struction to the managers of all its
offices throughout the country to receive
contributions from the public and for
ward them to the committee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06
When The Rahx Came.

Always in the house there was trouble and
contention,
Little sparks of feeling flashing into flame,
Signs of irritation,
So sure TO make occasion
For strife and tribulation-till the baby
came.
All the evil sounds fun of cruel hate and ram
cor,
An the angry tumult-nobody to blamel
All were hushed so sweetly,
Disappearing fieetly,
Or quieted eompletely-when the baby
came.
Faces that had worn a gloomy ven of sadness,
Hearts intent ON seeking for fortune or for
fame
Once again were lightened.
Once again were frightened,
And their rapture heightened-when the
baby came
All affections windows opened TO receive it,
Pure and fresh from Heaven, ana give 1t
earthly name.
Clasping and caressing
In arms of love- confessing
That life had missed blessing-tillth the baby
came.
Homes that were in shadow felt the gentle
Smiling, as if anxious their secret to pro-
claim;
Grateful songs were swelling,
OF mirth and gladness telling,
And Love ruled all the dwelling-when the
baby came
Hearts that had been sundered by tide of
passion
Were again united in purpose and in aim;
in the haunt secluded,
Peace diYinely brooded,
When discOrd had intruded-till the baby
came.
Little cloud dispelleri little comfort hringerl
Baby girl or baby boy, welcome all the
samel
Even DER the embers
OF bleak and cold Decembers,
Some fond heart remembers-when the baby
came.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06

Gov Hubbard has designated the
following gentlemen to represent Min

Gov. Hubbard has designated the
following gentlemen to represent Min
nesota at the funeral of Gen. Grant:
Hon Alex Ramsey of St. Paul;
Hon. w. ID. Washburn, Hon. j. b.
Gillfillan, Col G. w. johnson, Mai. r,
Il. Henderson, Capt. j. n. Cross. Min
neapolis; Gen. j. B. Sanborn, Gen. r.
w. johnson, Hon. 5. j. r. Mcmillan,
Hon. Edmund Rice, St. Paul; Hon. ID.
NJ Sabin. Saltwater; Hon Knute Nell
son. Alexandria; Col. c. H. Graves,
Duluth; Hon. II. b. Strait, Shakopee,
Hon. j b Wakefield. Blue Earth City:
Hon. Milo White, Chattield; ID. Sin
clair, Winona; Hon. j. f. Meagher,
Mankato; l.. A. Hancock. Red Wing:
Hon. +. b. Clement, Fairibault; Hon.
l.. Il. Rogers lie Sueur.
The Governor has also detailed Com
pany d. Minnesota National Guard,
Capt. Bean commanding. to attend the
funeral and participate in the military
parade.
The Governor and his Staff accom-
pany Company d. and the entire
party left St. Paul on Tuesday evening
for New York.
Gov. Rusk of Wisconsin, with his
Staff and the judges of the Supreme
court left by special car for New York
on Wednesday evening.
Gov. Pierce, of Dakota, has selected
the following persons to accompany
him to the funeral: Gen. Thomas A.
Free, adiutant general; Col. o. w.
Bennett, First regiment; Col. NJ. w.
Sheafe. Second regiment; Col G. B.
little, aide-de-camp.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-08-06
Ladies Cooperative schemes.

Ladies are beginning to practice CO.
operation in q small way, and they find
it pays. We have heard of party of
three or four, who wear the same size
of gloves, that buy a dozen pair at
time and divide them around. They
also buy stockings, handkerchiefs,
towels, sheeting, muslin, underwear
and other things wholesale, and in this
way they save the dealers profit. This
is hard on the middlemen, but in these
days of reductions and shrinkages of
incomes it would seem to be a measure
of legitimate economy. We hear talk
among them, also, OF the Utopian fell
city of living so near together that they
can further economic in the way OF
help by hiring one-iirst-class cook to
do the cooking for the four families.
In this way they could secure better
living than now, when each family
whether of two or ten, has each a
middling cook of no ability beyond the
common. This strikes us as an adj
mirable idea. 1t is Just as easy to
cook for six as two, or for dozen as
six. If things were so arranged-and
they certainly could be-as to cooper
ate in cooking, laundry work and
other matters, housekeeping might DO
so simplifed as to become a business
combining comfort and pleasure in
stead of toll and task beyond the
mental and physical ability of most
women to conduct in the best manner
The bureau of housekeeping, combined
with the care of children, their cloth
inc and all the thousand and one other
things together, are the cause of tho
breaking down of most women. Mod
ern ideas and demands are so far in
advance of those of our grandmothers
that the brain of a Minerva, combined
with the strength of Hercules, could
hardly be equal to the task, let alone the
average woman. PittSbury Dispatch.
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Eminent Smokers.

Tennyson, according to Carlyle,
s.foats in and out in great ell
ement of tobacco smoke, wide,
breezy, comfortable figure of a man
not easy to waken, but great when he
is once aroused" Carlyle's own pipe
went with him to the end. doctor, J"
he said in his later days, when at some
health resort he had called in the local
Esculapius, "I'll do anything We say,
but We maun ma tax away my pipe.
When he was usher at AMMAN he suf-
fered, as he always did, from dyspep-
STA. He went forty miles to consult a
doctor of great local fame, who told
him to stop smoking. He stopped sew
eral months, but it produced no effect
upon his malady, so he took up his
abandoned pipe again. 81 found, he
said, ''that | might as well have put
my woes into the long, hairy, hollow
ear of the great jaekass | met ,as to
have ridden forty miles to consult that
DOCTOR Bismarck always smoked
like a Vesuvius until the infrmities of
advancing years compelled him to
exercise a certain discretion, but even
now that he has passed his 10th birth
day he is rarely seen outside of official
hours and spaces without a huge por-
celain pipe, with its stem yard long,
hanging against his waistcoat 1t is
plain enough that tobacco has been as
sociated with some of the highest prac-
teal speculation and imaginative work
which has been done in the world since
it was discovered, and if it could be
brought face to face with its enemies in
some court qualified to sit in judgment
on its case it would doubtless have a
good deal to say for itself. -Brooktyn
Edgle.
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DIR. Hall on Conversation.

Keep clear of personalities in gener-
al conversation. Talk of things, OBJ
iects, thoughts. The smallest minds
occupy themselves with persons. Do
not needlessly report i'll of Others.
There are times when we are compell-
ed to say, Il do not think Bouncer a
true and honest man" But when
there is no need to express an opinion,
let poor Bouncer swaggle away.
Others win take his measure, no doubt
and save You the trouble of analyzing
him and instructing them. And as
far as possible, dwell on the good side
of human beings. There are family
boards where a constant process of de-
preciating, assigning motives, and cut
ting up character goes forward. They
are not pleasant places. One who is
healthy does not wish to dine at a dis
secting-table. There is evil enough in
men, God knows. But ii is not the mis-
sion of every young man and woman
TO detail and report it all. Keep the at
mosphere as pure as possible, and fra
grant with gentleness and charity
n. I. Observer
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ARRIVED IN NEW YORK.
sunday with the Dead.

Mr.. MCGREGOR, Aug. 2.-This has
been a memorial day at Grant cottage,
and the family have been paying fare
well to the dead This afternoon the
widow asked that DR.. Newman be sent
for When he came Mrs. Grant re-
minded him her dead would be hers
only little while longer, and asked
him to be with the family while they
gathered in the cottage parlor to say
their farcwells. Thus it was that about
, o clock Mrs Grant and her daughter
and each of her three sons and their
wives were in the room with the dead
DR.. Newman and wife were also pres
ent. The family surrounded the cata-
falque. Mrs. Grant from a table brought
her dead husband 5 Bible, which she
opened and passed to DR.. New
man. 1t was found the book was
opened at the 18th chapter of Job.
The chapter was read ana then the
clergyman re-read the 10th and 18th
verses and then a prayer of gratitude
was offered gratitude for the beau
tiful character of the silent one. After
this the entire family, there alone with
the pastor, entered with him into relig-
ious conversation and then each and
all dwelt upon "reminiscences of the
generals last sickness. Dr. Newman,
after carefully scanning the general 5
face. expressed satisfaction at its ap-
pearance and the opinion that the re-
mains were in a condition of perfect
preservation
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ADinnsr Spoiled.

All who are familiar with India must
know how particular the Brahmins are
about the cooking of everything they
eat. 1t is not mere touch that has to be
avoided, even the shadow of low
caste person, or European will spoil
any amount of food if it comes even
near to it. l had an experience OF
of this when travelling in the Himalay-
as. Among my coolies We're some Brah-
Minis; they always separate from the
Others to do their cooking One day
while passing them and keeping wide
Of the ground they occupied, noticed
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Mr.. MCGREGoR, July 30.-Mrs. Grant
who has remained in the upper rooms
of the cottage since the general death,
last evening descended to the parlor,
where she viewed the remains of her
husband after they had been composed
in thu casket. To-day she was as well
as usual, her mind distressed, but phys
ically well. 1t is quite possible that
Mrs. Grant, in order to spare herself
the fatigue of the throngs along the
route, and the two or three days of
waiting in New York before the inter
ment of the general, may deem it wise
to defer her departure from here until
Friday, Aug. Z. 1t had been thought
by those who will have charge of the
funeral car in New York that it would
be appropriate if colored Grand Army
veterans should lead the 50 horses that
will draw the car.
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"Talking shop.

The following incident teaches a good
lesson. 1t is not always best to assume
too much on your acquaintance with
your friends, whether their station be
above you or below YOU The anec-
dote is told Of Poole, the famous Lon
don tailor. He was making holiday at
Brighton, and, one morning on the
pier. he met one Of his noble customers.
..Good-morning Mr. Poole. said the
peer. ..Good-morning, my lord, re-
Piled the tailor. who then passed on.
STAY. Mr.. Poole. | wanted to show
Won this coat, replied the aristocrat
lit doesn t fit me at all. " Poole was a
man of ready wit. He stopped, looked
carefully at the coat. and then. draw
ing a piece of chalk from his pocket,
said: your lordship is right. The
coat wants to be taken in here, and let
out here, and shortened here, and just
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out of danger. Two or three others
were also less seriously hurt. The
mountain telegraph wires were also
Frustrated, and dispatches had to be
sent to Saratoga for transmission.
A large number of persons this
afternoon awaited themselves of the
privilege of viewing the remains
When Gen. Grants remains were
placed in the coffin yesterday after
noon, Col. Fred Grant put packet
in the breast pocket of the coat. 1t
now transpires that it was letter
written by Mrs Grant. 1t acknowledged
the farewell letter of the general
found in his coat pocket after death
and added a farewell until both should
meet in the better world. The ring
placed on the generals finger was one
that Mrs Grant had given him, but
for which in life his finger had grown
too small.
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"Fiddlesticks'' said Louise; ''as if a
stepmother could love one! Oh, hate
her already! And you, too, my poor
wounded gazelle, will be driven from
your refuge. If ! could only offer you
a home
"It's SO good of you, darlingr'
whispered Mile. '.But | don't really
think that it viii be necessary. because
--because-'
YOU'RE not engaged to be married,
tooP'' almost shrieked Louise, struck
with a certain consciousness in her
friend face.
Yes, l am, said Mile, hanging
down her head.
"And to whom, you precious little
conspiratorP"
Toto your father!' said Mile.
''Oh, don't blame me, Louise, indeed |
couldn't help it!'
Louise was little staggered at first,
but she, too, was under the glamour of
love, and the two girls flew into each
others's arms.
ITO think that you should be my
stepmotherv said Louise.
.'And you my sister-in-lawi" chirped
Mile. 'But | declare | don't know
how to tell mamma, after all that |
have said about second marriages, you
know"
LET me tell her." coaxed Louise.
Charley is going to take me to see
her. | am to be her daughter, you
know"
"And her step-grand-daughter at
II
dear! what relation are we going to be
to each other?"
Mrs Beverley received the truants
with open arms of welcome and con-
graduation. The squire laughed I'M
til his portly sides shook.
II told you they would learn wisdom
one of these daysr' said he.
But to this day the family have not
settled the complex problem of their
relationship to each other
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one was making a soup with vegetables.
As we were in high region, near to
the source Of the Ganges, asked
where he found the vegetables.
He answered. . In the JUNGLE; at the
same time lifting the brass dish from
the fire, he poured out its contents on
the ground and said it was "biggar
gia, or spoiled. Understanding : at
once that | was the cause. ! asked.
How for had preserved a distance
from him of four or five yards He
pointed to my foot, which was touching
the end Of a falling trunk, and he had
made his fire at the other end of it.
so that ! was actually touching part
Of his fire This was the contamination
which had rendered his food unclean.
-Fraser's Magazine.
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Sam Patch's Last Leap.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, who describes
himself as an eye witness of Sam
Patch's last two jumps, writes as fol-
lows: Sam Patch, the famous cat
aract leaper, who asserted that some
things could be done as well as others,
took his final, eternal and life's fatal
leap as local poet expressed it at
the time, on a gloomy day in Novem-
Der in the year 1929. He had jumped
the Genesee Falls at Rochester, their
natural height, one week before, and
was induced by the gamblers and
roughs who were grooming and man
aging and living off him to repeat the
feat on the fatal occasion. They erect
ed sort of scaffold on the jutting
rock whence he had taken his depart
IRE on the previous occasion, making
it 25 feet above the rock, or 100 feet in
all, from the scaffold floor to the sur
face of the river at the foot of the falls.
Ascending to the scaffold with some
difficulty, considerably inebriated, and
by a steep ladder, the unfortunate
demonstration Strengthened up with a
jerk, bowed awkwardly on all sides to
the witnessing thousands, then pushed
pet bear off he had with him and
instantly leaped forward himself. His
person 'canted over on the left side
and struck the water forcibly, no doubt
bruising HIM and forcing the breath
from his body. Nothing more was
seen of him till the next March, when
his corpse was discovered among some
bushes at the mouth OF the river, seven
miles below, very much mutilated, but
recognizable by a handkerchief tied
around the body. Patch, beginning on
the schooner yardarms at Paterson, n.
j., was a special leaper for twenty
years or more, jumped from amazing
heights at Niagara twice before he tried
the Genesee rapids, and challenged the
inspection of admiring thousands to
the realities of his feats. If yet living
he would be about 90 years of age. but
who knows if he had not tackled John
Alcohol, his bear, and great leap at
one time he might not be jumping
vatpi'
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! II Cures All Kinds Of
| kinney. STOMACH and BOWEL C0MpL ANTS
st. Paul, Mimi, April l2, 1885.
1877 West Third st, St Paul MINI
The st. Paul National Bank,
St Paul, Mimi, April %, 1855.

COL Juafs H. Ddrj8sOH,
Hinugey P1imVrd springs SaHH0ri0m %.
Dear Sir:-I visited your Sanitarium
aud springs recently, and was very favor
ably impressed with the excellence Of the
building and improvements, and the
variety and number of natural mineral
springs From information derived from
citizens who had long known the medicinal
virtues of the springs, ] think they possess
excellent curative properties. From
personal experience in my own case, IN
drinking the waters there, and since, ]
know it to be most excellent drinking
water. have used the Bethesda Spring
water, and am fully as well pleased with
the water from Zenobia's Fountain Spring.
which / am now using, as with Bethesda:
[ can commend it as a most palatable and
wholesome drinking water, aud believe it
will give satisfactory results TO many who
may use it. Respectfully yours,
PETER BERKEY.