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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-12-02

RESOLVED. By the Board of Supervisors Of
Pierce County, that the chairman of this board
be and is hereby instructed to appoint before
Nov. /. 1887, a committee on roads consisting of
three persons out of the members Of the county
board to be elected in the spring of 1887, and
that said committe be and is hereby authorized
to exercise all the powers mentioned in subdi-
vision county roads, chapter 50 of the revised
statutes Of Wisconsin for the year 1873, and
laws amendatory thereof. That said committee
so appointed as aforesaid shall report its doings
in fun as sucu committee to the county board
of Pierce county at its annual meeting in the
year 1857.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
The Short Hair Craze.

Time was when woman gloried in her
tresses, but she doesn't glory any more
Now, let me think moment. Yes; it
was Ellen Terry who started the craze.
Rose Cleveland, the Presidents sister,
was the first to catch the fever, and from
this lady the contagion has spread until
nearly every city and town in the country
has large number of we'll developed
cases. Why, last week woman about
forty-eight years old came here and
threw herself into one of the chairs like
a threc-times-a,week shaver. Did she
want her hair cut! Well, ! chould hurry
to reply she did. l run tie shears around
and up ard down the back Of her
Uranium until ! found some wrinkles
back OF her head ana then etopped. In
a modest sorl Of way told her of nv
discovery ard recommended MIXTURE /
nave for renewing the fugrowc OF time.
Why, sir, that woman was 80 hrmiliGtod
that she left orders 20 rave ner tresse9
iii"NS INV q wy, cAu d bW'sC.l, anu OllV
yesterday ! saw this lady promenading
on State street with per hair fastened on
with pins, nets and strings. Let ME tell
you OF another funny coCe ever Oh the
west side. The wife CT weelthy men
came home one night with her raven
locks wrapped up in q newspaper, which
she carried under her arm. Al tie table
the servant girl "piped off" her mistress
ana was stricken with the malady. Next
day the girl climbed into barber's chair
and paid forty cents for Tammany Hall
hair cut Then she was proud. She
waltzed into her basement abode with q
reckless hurrah and got dinner with
masculine dash. When the mistress be-
held her clipped servant she flew into
jealous passion, and, just to wound the
door girls heart, donned her bureau
drawer switches and pompadours, and in
this headgear she may be seen almost
any day looking daggers at the humble
barber shop across the street. It's sad,
though, when red.headed girl catches
the fever. This young lady is all right
with long sunset tresses; but with them
off the back Of her head looks like
brindle doorstep rug. Then, besides. if
freclles have been hiding around her
neck and ears they are bound to come out
and cause comment.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
LOOKING INTO THE BOOKS.
Exports Preparing a History OF Expenses
Incurred in Floating Each National
Loan.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The appoint.
ment by the Secretary of the Treasury of
board of Treasury experts to prepare a
detailed history Ct all expenditures for
interest, premiums, discounts, and ex-
penses incurred in connection with each
national loan from 1886 TO June 80, 1885,
is said to mean great deal more than is
seen by the bare announcement. 1t is
believed that the word Expenses" in the
Treasury books covers a good many
rather dubious matters and q great deal
of richness. Gen. Rcsecrans, Registrar
ofthe Treasury, when questioned to-day,
said.
Fifteen or sixteen years ago alleged
discrepancies of the public debt induced
the Senate to appoint committee to in
vestigate the matter. Thi, committee
started an inquiry which occupied three
years. They found that the discrepancies
were due to imperfect book keeping al
most entirely. The committee stated
this fact, and showed that this defective
bookkeeping had made difference Of
$4,000, 600, and was wrong to that ex-
tent. They then went into the tedious
work Of yerification, and accounted for
items amounting to $4,000, ,000.. The
work of verifying the remaining &c.,
100000 has been tedious one, hut it has
finally been accomplished, and we have
lately been able TO make complete histo-
ry and specification for all the items. ex-
cept 5000, 900, and the elements of this
are well known, but the proportions nev-
er can be known. All this work has
made it possible to make complete his
tory of the public debt from the founda-
tion of the Government to date. The
work OF the Board that has Just been ap-
pointed is to make an equally full and
itemized account of every portion Of the
debt. Having got a history Of the princi-
pal of the public debt, we now propose
to look after the interest with equal care.
The public debt in 1891 was $65, 900. 900.
At the breaking out of the war of 1912 it
was $45 ZOO, 600. 1t was increased in that
struggle to $170000,0Oo. In 1915 this
debt was gradually reduced until in 1885,
it was only $4,000. This was the lowest
point in our whole history. 1t increased
TO s1O,0OO,0 900 in 1888, was reduced to
$4,000, 900 in 1882 and varied from that
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
THE SENATE'S SEAL.
AN W Design to the Interest OF Horaldry
and of Decency.

AN W Design to the Interest OF Horaldry
and OF Decency.
Senator ingalls, expects soon to offer
his report in the United States Senate on
the new official seal ordered for that body
before the extra session of the Senate ad-
iourned last spring. He has selected
from among many designs one prepared
by Droka, of Philadelphia, which has on
it liberty cap, the motto of the United
States and some vegetables indigenous to
America, all grouped in strict conformity
to the laws of heraldry, with the legend:
Senate of the United States" The
present seal, which Senator Frye describ-
ed last spring as having nothing on it
but three women very scantily clothed"
was designed by r. P. Lamphier, Jr., az
engraver in Washington, D. c., in 1881.
At that time Mr.. Wagner, of York, an
engraver on wood, wrote of it in Letter
TO Mr.. Stebler, who made the press and
counter seal, which letter Is now in DOS
SCSSlOu VI bll. pitDltl y SUI. uc seal OI
the Senate is not what it ought to be for
the money it cost. The figures are very
awkward, especially the middle one,
which appears to be falling over The
drapery is very stiff and too scant pat
tern of it," As q matter Of fact the CEN
tral figure has no drapery> Of any kind.
No one has ever yet discovered what
these figures are intended to typify or
what relevancy they have to the United
States Senate or its proceedings. at the
feet of the central figure is July 4th,
1916" and on a scroll at her right; Con
stitution, March 4th, 1885," but these in
scriptions cannot be discerned on any
impression made within fifteen years
from the old seal. but are plainly legible
on the original proof impression in the
possession OF Mr. Edward Stebler, Jr., in
Baltimore, who has large collection of
seals made by his father for the various
departments at Washington and for many
of the State governments and courts and
all the original correspondence relating
thereto. A Senator's wife, who in the
autumn saw an impression of the old seal
of the Senate for the first time, said: Il
do not see why the Senate must have wo-
men on its seal, but il it must have them
on the new one we will see to it that they
have enough clothes on them
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
Milk for Coffee,

That there is an appr.ciable difference
between raw and boiled milk may be
proved by taking equal quantities of each
(the boiled samples having been allowed
to cool down, adding them to equal
quantities of the same infusion of coffee,
then critically testing the mixtures. The
difference is sufficient to have long since
established the practice among al! skillful
cooks of scrupulously Using boiled milk
for making coffee. have tried o similar
experiment on tea, and find that in this
case cold milk is preferable. Why this
should be, why boiled milk should be
better for coffee and cold milk fo- tea, 7
cannot tell Z any of my readers have
not done so already, let them try similar
experiments With condensed milk, an6
have no doubt that the verdict Of the me-
jority viii be hat ]. IS passsole in coffee,
but very Objectionable II tea. This is
milk that has been very much cooked.
The chief deh-sble alternate Effected By
the boiling Of milk ID lie colgrlsticn of
the small quantity .cf Glruuon whick It
contains. This TiGss - i. occcmes Golidi-
fed, which ferris I. SCUM Or tpe surface.
which may be .iit36 by : 5poon Gzd
eaten, as 1t is perfectly wholesome and
very nutritious.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
Strange Explosion in a Coffin.

GREENEvILLE, s. C.-In 1875 James
A. Watson, whose family then lived in
Yorkville, lost a child, age four, by
death. AT that time Watson was in Bal.
timore teaching in commercial college,
and he could not conveniently leave his
business to attend the funeral Temper
ary burial was given the body. Yester
day Mr.. Watson went into the cemetery
to remove the body. The coffin was
raised from the grave, and, desiring to
look upon the face of the child the faith.
er had the lid removed. As the under
taker was lifting it from the coffin loud
explosion occurred, shattering the glass
panel into numberless fragments. Several
pieces struck Mr.. Watson in the face,
cutting him severely. One piece struck
the bridge of his nose, cutting entirely
through it. The explosion was equal to
that of dynamite cartridge, and was no
ticed by peIsons more than GU arter of q
mile distant The face of the child wa s
in an excellent state of preservation, as
were also its burial clothes, and wreath
of flowers on its breast seemed to be near
ly as fresh as when buried twelve and q
half years ago
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
A HUNGRY HORDE.
Besieglng the New Postmaster at Nash
Rn HT,.A

Besieglng the New Postmaster at Nash
ville-Rcpublicans Must Go.
NASHVILLE, TENN, January 4-Dur-
ing General B, T. Cheatham's brief two
months service as Postmaster Of Nash.
vile there has been an unprecedented
rush of applicants for the forty.two posi-
tions within his gift, and he has so far
removed twelve Republican clerks to give
positions to hungry Democrats who have
been longing for public pap for the past
twenty years. To appease this morbid
appetite, the heads of the remaining
thirty of the old corps will be decapitated
within the shortest space of time possible
that the Postmaster may get over the
worry OF the continued daily reception of
innumerable and incorrigible candidates,
OF whom no less than three hundred to
each office have put in claims. Most of
the clerks removed have been in their re-
spectivc Offices for years, though all have
undergone monthly examinations, and
were on the 9th Of December last put to
the test with large and competent score
of percentages. The Nashville office h-.
never been considered as coming under
the civil service act. Republican clerks
have never expected anything else but
general sweep, and have taken the matter
as foregone conclusion, and with no
particular desire to serve under Demo
cratic Administration any longer than
their places can be filed, believing, as
many have expressed themselves, that
Tennessee would go Republican at the
next Gubernatorial and legislative cleo
ton, and that there would be change in
the government within the next four
wears
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
SNOW FLAKES.

Balancing upon the air
Floating, falling everywhere,
Doubtful if you drop at all
So reluctant do you fall.
Feathers loosed from angels wings,
Downy, plp~ 1T you come,
Chasing, r ..g, whirling on,
Zephyr-like. so still and dumb.
Dancing on in impish glee,
Thickly fallin2;.nliag ms so wee,
Fashioned likern distant star
Shining on you from afar.
Tiny flakelets piling high,
Filling every track and crease.
Drifting, sitting, flying on
In pale, unbier1sshed fleece.
Rivaling the sculptor's skill,
Rearing monuments so still,
Every ugly pile mound,
Graceful carvings all around.
Clothing all the woods and fields
With raiment fieecy white;
Showing, blowing, tumbling on,
Fairy blossoms of the light.
Bright and airy, frail and free,
Why come sailing down to me?
Upward take your way awain,
Where like thee, all free from stain,
We would fancy spirits reign.
But unchanged your course will bt
Ever as the ages go,
Driving, strIying, chasing on,
Glad, we welcome back the snow.
lime Alma
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
H0RDES AFTER OFFICE.
THOUSANDS WHO WANT THE
SOFT PLACES.
More Women Than Hen in The Army OF
Applicants-EdOrts 10 Check the
Scramble.

WASHINGTON, Dec, 81. 31.--Commissioner
Eaton has Just made report relative to
applicants from the Civil Service records.
from which we make the following ex.
tracts
"On November the records of the
| Commission showed the following facts as
to applicants; The District oi Columbia
is entitled to only four appointments out
OF 1000; it had 2S5 applicants seeking
examination, being more than any public
interest requires to be examined in the
next FIVE years. Maryland, which is en-
titled to nineteen appointments out of
1,OOC, had 2S4 applicants on the records
more than twice the number from the six
New England States with New Jersey
ard Delaware added. Virginia, which is
entitled to thirty appointments out Of
LOCO had 2G1, applicants, or more than
twice as many as all those from Texas
and all the other States bordering on the
Gulf OF Mexico, with those from South
Carolina added. Delaware, which is en-
titled 20 three appointments out of 900,
lad more applicants than Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Florida and Vermont com.
bined.
"BCt there are other States not so near
Washington from which the excess is
considerable. Pennsylvania which is
entitled TO eightysix appointments out Of
l,OOC, had 2JS applicants, or thirty nine
more thar New York which is entitled
to lOS appointments out of 1000. Ohio
which IS entitled to sixty-four appoint.
ments out of 1000 had 232 applicants on
the records, being almost twice as MANY
rs there are from the States Of Michigan.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri
and Kansas. Indiana, which is entitled
to forty appointments of 1000, had 1872
applicants on the records, which exceeds
all those from the six States last named.
West Virginia and Kentucky are the next
States from which the applicants most
tend to an excess.
"lt is especially worthy Of notice that
the excess of female applicants is much
greater than that of males. More than
one-half of the applicants from the Dis.
trict of Columbia, and also of those from
Maryland are females There are 81 fe-
male applicants from Virginia, rs from
Pennsylvania, and IA from Ohio. But
as six times as many males as females are
requested by the Departments for ap-
pointment and the Commission has no
authority whatever on the subject, such
facts may well be considered by persons
who are in the habit of advising an ex-
cessive number Of women to attend the
examination, and Of complaining because
no places can be found for them.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14

The Court Of Aldbama Claims, com
pleted its final lists of awards in the war
premium cases, signed them, and made
formal delivery of them to the Secretary
of State, who is required by law to certi-
fly them to the Secretary. of the Treasury
for payment pro rata The exact amount
found due was $10,705, 371.43. The in
terest added raises the amount to over
5000, 900, but this has only b9en cal
culated in order to comply with the strict
letter of the law; nobody expects to get
a cent of interest, and not much more
than 80 per cent. of the principal. The
total expenses. of the court will amount
to about 100000. This includes over
$50, 900 for printing, etc, made obliga-
tory by the law, and like amount for
the services of special counsel in ali parts
of the world where testimony has had to
be taken. The expenses Of the previous
Court of Alabama Claims, which had
only one class of claims to deal with
those covered blythe Geneva award-and
the aggregate of whose business was less
than one fourth of that of the present
court, were $254, 900.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
Life in a Snowflake. .

Some imaginative and wonderfully
learned German scholars tell us that ev-
cry snowflake is inhabited by happy little
beings, who begin their existence, hold
their revels live long lives of happiness
and delight die and are buried, all during
the descent of The snowflake from the
world Of clouds 10 the solid land. These
scholars also tell us that every square
foot Of air possesses from twelve to fifteen
million Of more or less perfect little be-
ings, and that at every ordinary breath
we destroy million, more or less, of
these happy lives. The sigh of healthy
lover is supposed to swallow up about
fourteen million. They insist that the
dust, which will, as all know, accumulate
in the most secure and secret places, is
merely the remains of millions and bill
lions OF these little beings who have died
OF old age. All this, of course, is mere
guess-wOrk. But | do know that the snow
In some parts of the world is thickly in
habited. have seen new snow in Idaho
black with little insects. People there
call them snowfeas. They are as lively
as possible, and will darken your foot
prints, walk as fast as you may. They
are found only on the high mountains,
and only in very fresh and very deep
snow. They, of course, do not annoy
you in any way, They are infinitely
smaller than the ordinary flea, but they
are not a whit less lively in their locomo-
tion.-lSt. Nicholas.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14

When the disease that proved fatal to
General Grant was attributed to cigar
smoking, great many smokers applied
that revelation to their own individual
cases, and either stopped smoking alto
gether or cut down their cigar ratlons to
moderate scale. This way of looking
at examples may be repeated now,
though in the direction of dress this
time, since it has been given out that the
immediate active cause of Mr.. Hendricks
sudden death was a change of clothing
from the ordinary heavy garments of
winter to the lighter and thinner garb
known as evening dress" and the ex.
posure and fatigue incident to an evening
party while so clad, he being in physi-
cally enfeeblcd condition. These cir
cumstances may cause all thinking men
to be wary about the thin evening dress
in the winter time. The truth is-let it
be gently spoken-the evening dress for
men is survival of the un-fittest. Four
out OF FIVE Of all sensible and frank men
will, if duly questioned, say it is vexa-
ton, if not d nuisance-being to tight and
hot for summer, and too light and unsafe
in winter. It ought to go off, to join the
cigars that have gone out.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
Nearly Halfa Million Interest in Three
MOnths-Other Notes

Nearly Hall n Million Interest in Three
MOnths-Other Notes.
For the year ending Dec. 10, 1885, the
large amount of $3.50, 1888. 80 was paid as
interest on the State debt This amount
so paid is to be attributed to the fact that
in addition to current interest it embraces
the amount of back interest which has
not been heretofore paid but which must
be paid when the bonds are funded.
OF the treasury certificates, issued in
lieu of the Torbett issue of the old State
bank, were redeemed for taxes aud other
dues, 1896, ,230 up to Dec. 49, 1885.
Since Jan. of this year $l32 900 has
been paid as interest on bonds. The
coupons are rapidly coming in, and will
continue to be paid as presented.
Bonds amounting to $50, 900 were
funded, nearly all Of which were of what
are known as railroad bonds.
The secretary of State has granted
charter for Shelby Springs academy, an
educational institution situated in Stewart
county.
State Superintendent Paine states
that the school population of the year
1885 exceeds that of the preceding year
by S,341.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14

shown adecrease as compared with the
corresponding months last year. The to.
tai number landed at this port since the
ISL OF Janaary, including the arrivals of
tuesday, is 2oO, 745. For the correspond
Ing period last year the arrivals number.
ca 3l9, 435, The class of immigrants
landed is much better than in former
years, and the Commissioners have been
compelled to send back only very few
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14

frmed by the Senate will take especial
interest in decision of the Supreme
Court reached last week. 1t declares
that such officers are liable to trial by
court martial for Irregularities although
the office may be in its nature a civil one.
The trial of Paymaster- General Smith,
of the Navy, was therefore ordered to
proceed. Another decision of public in.
terest declares that military companies
not organized under the laws of the State
or Nation may be dissolved by the State
auth thnritieu
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
Minister Keiley Becomes a New York
Lawyer.

Anthony NJ. Kelley Of Virginia, ex'
United States Minister to Austria, was
yesterday admitted by the General Term
of the Supreme Court to practise in the
several courts of this State. Mr.. Kelley
standing as a member of the bar of Vir-
ginia was certified to by the Clerk of the
Supreme Court of that State, and ex-
Chief Justice DAILY of the Court of Com
mon Pleas vouched for his good
character
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
Good for Deserving Young Men.

A New York philanthropist proposes
to organize land company which shall
furnish homes for deserving young men
in small cottages costing $4,000 apiece.
By novel plan, in case the tenant dies
after the close of year, the property will
be decided to his wife as a home. The
company will not lose, because its plan is
the insuring OF the young mans life for
the amount of the mortgage on the prop
erty, and if he dies his wife takes the
property and the company the insurance.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
OUR FoRTIFICATIoNs AND
NAVY.

We Can Make Our Own Guns and Build
the Thirty War Vessels in Ten Years.
WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-The House
Committee on Ordinance will have its re-
port ready by tomorrow. Mr.. Hewitt
has written the greater part of it. 1t
will say that all re heavy guns needed
for our fortifcations can be made in this
country, and thai guns of sixteen-inch
calibre can soon be turned out here in
any number required.
As to the proposed feet of thirty war
vessels, the committee finds that ten years
will be required for their construction
and equipment The first vesse! cannot
be completed ii. less than three years,
and the second IN five, but after that the
rest can be pushed rapidly. Many of
the tools require 7 will have TO be pur-
chased in Euroffi The report is said to
favor the Leagle Z)land Navy Yard as
the best place for brIlling the vessels.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14
THE sensation along The East Tenn,

The sensation along the East Tennes.
see, Virginia & Georgia line again is that
Jay Gould has "gobbled up" the system
and that, by an amalgamatioa with his
western system, he has effected the great
est railroad combination on the continent.
The proofs are not conclusive that it is
true, though the signs are that way. 1t
would, indeed, be g grand scoop in a
business point of view, and, so far as we
can see, many much worse things might
happen to the East Tennessee line
Nashrille Tribune.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-01-14

PA, does the sausage come out of
his hole on Candlemas day and look
around for its shadow, so as to make an
early spring. Ma says it does" What
are you talking aboutY" says the papa TO
the little boy. "lt is the ground hog that
comes out of its hole. not the sausage"
well, amt sausage ground hogI"