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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-02
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

AN explosion of gunpOwder on the oath
st Brest, Russian Poland, killed eleven per-
sons and injured thirty.
AT Victoria, b c., the discovery was
made on the 24th OF powerful Chinese so
ciety whose object was to murder at $500
head
SIxTY-FIvE men lost Their lives by a recent
explosion in the Wellington QB c. coal
mine OF these twenty-six were white men
and thirty-nine Chinese
ALEXANDER BEAToS, a prominent resident
of BouIandere. n. &. lost his house by fire
on the 25th, and bis wife and grandchild
were burned to death.
THE Legislature of Ontario convened on
the 25th at Toronto.
THROUGHOUT Canada heavy snow-storms
prevailed on the 26th, completely blockad-
ing railways
TENANTS of Donegal, Ireland. on the 26th
resolved to resist the payment of rents, and
were arming and threatening to destroy all
bridges in the country.
Oh the 27th the French merchant steamer
Suez was run into off the mouth of the
Tagus by German steamer and went down
in a few minutes, nineteen of the officers
and crew being drowned
ToNQUN advices of the 9th say that
eighteen French soldiers had been shot for
desertfon.
TwENTX-EIGHT persons lost their lives by
the recent loss of the bark Lizzie Perry OF
the coast of Barbados
CHOLERA returns on the Goth from Chill
were: Valparaiso. 40 cases and 80 deaths;
Santiago, 81 cases and Is deaths
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-02
PoMeRoYs PHILOSOPHY.
Practical Lessons for Those IL Search O
Happiness and Content

Practical Lessons for Those IL Search of
Happiness and Content.
Destroy ignorance and let progress
sion progress.
The greatest fool of all is he who
fools himself
Every utterance creates some kind
of an impression.
Drop your bad habits and they can
not lower you.
Those who go for berries should not
retreat from briars.
The man who does not provide for
his family is not its head.
Every time you help a lazy person
you rob yourself and your family.
Less argument aud more work viii
make any person better off
Genius beckOns n man, and if he at
templs 10 climb, will help him.
How few are those who really UNDER
stand what the mind is good for.
He who does not engage in the
ouarrels of others will have few of his
own
PRAYERS without work and a note
without signature are alike in value.
The sooner you cut loose from one
who deceives you the better off you
will be.
The world was never so full of OPP
portunities for young men of good
thoughts as now.
The more willing you are TO let
others enjoy their own think the clearer
will be yours.
The sooner you begin training your
own mind. the sooner you will have
mind to train.
Those who can not readily UNDER
stand sense are generally the most OPP
posed to nonsense.
You will learn more from reading
good books and papers than by talk
ing about your neighbOrs.
Young man, cultivate your gifts.
rather than the mouth Of a bottle, and
You will succeed better.
Happiness has no time to stay long
with those who interfere with the pri-
vate affairs of others
Taking interest from the poor. and
taking interest in the poor are invest
ing for different results. -PonlerOy's
AdUunce Thought
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-02
BACTERIA IN ICE.
The Latest Scare Promui gated by Me-
York's Scientific Men.

The Latest Scare Promulgated by New
NorA's Scientific Men.
Determined to save the human race
from rs many evils as possible. but not
always very certain what is or is not
an evil. one Of our esteemed coniem-
poraries is making things hot for The
bacterimo even in his froz n home, the
crystal cake of North river ice; and it
postulaics rs a great truth the state
ment that the ice we use is full of
bacteria. some of which arc deadly.
So we may say the woods are fall of
crows, some Of which arc white; or
the rivc< is full Of fishes some of
which are cells; or the world is full of
seeds. some of which are poisonous.
There is no doubt that some seeds are
poisonous. One handful of the
seeds of hat wayside weed
the dCstVrd S'rGmoHiUm would keep an
undertaken busy all winter. and sin
Gle quaker button would clean out 4
| Fourth warI lod ging- house. But sup
pose because some seeds are poisonous
man should abjurg The use of ali seeds.
His lovely dish of rice is made If
seeds; his Vienna roll is but a bakeI
paste made of crushed seeds; his pork
and beais. his buckwheal cakes, his
corn brcal-how can he have any Of
them. and not eat seeds. IL would not
be wise 10 allure all seeds because
some seeds are deadly, and it is fool
ish To tire .uble in the presence of every
bacierium because some of the family
are bad 1t IS by no means
certain that the lively bacteria
are not more of help than "a
h.nlranca 10 man in his little life.
We can not live without air. aud the
baeterium may be one of its necessary
elements. We can not 1--we without
water. and we swallow millions of
bacteria in every drink, and it may be
that they give it the taste we like.
There is not tissue Of your body that
the bacierium does not inhabit-and
probably he considers ms his own. He
may feel sentiWea I of patriotism to-
ward us. Who can say that our vital
functions are OF the mere eToluiions
of squadrons of bacteria? Perhaps the
great problem Of cerebra ion NAV yet
resolve itself into the mere squirmings
Of bacteria in the brain. let rs think
kindly of The bae;erium while we are
vet in doubt.-M T. Mail anil E1-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-02
PITH AND POINT.


The course of true love runs over
corduroy road. Donae,iy CIPHER
Many a homely. unattractive girl
gets husband on account of her pa
value.-Lye.
Men are too much inclined to ae-
cept a pretty woman at her face value.
-Te1rs Sifliags.
II often cut my oldest aequaint-
anes." said the buzz saw. as 1t took of
a mill hands finger
The adage. 1t takes a thief to
catch thief. is not highly compli-
mcntary 10 the detective. Pack.
We've known several women &c
be ouispoken. bat we're still looking
for one that's been outtalked -DHlutb
Photographer.
If the hairs of every mans head
are numbered we presume those or the
back of the Uranium ar1 back num-
bers - Rochester POST Express.
We can be guided by usefulness
and happiness only by those who have
themselves found the road; never by
lhose who have missed it, and made n
wreck # their own lives.
'Doasyour mother wear felt Slip
pcrs?" asked an old lady of little
boy where she was visiting. Yes.
ma am. she do I've felt en-" an
swercd the small boy. significantly.
The idea of using axle grease on
Tread seems niteily repulsivo 10 some
people unit. they have tasted The
fresh country butter III at some of
the Western groceries. -Hejrasba
Safe Journal.
Persons nowadays receive their
friends with open arms. The primi-
tive animals received theirs with open
jaws. because they had originally re-
carried all other beings either rs enc
mics ar articles of diet
Father (who has given his coz
senO-'I hope. young man, That yoa
know the value of the prize you will
get in my daughter" Young Man
"Well-er-no. sir; don't know the
exact value but rs near rs can find
ont it, in the neighborhood Of So.
COO"
Second Husband Ito wife) II
was at the cemetery to-day, my dear
and found your former husbands
grave in very bad condition" Wife
II suppose it is Second Husband
Yes. the inscription Gone. but
not forgotten is nearly overgrown
with grass. ~ y san.
Mrs. Honeydove d ar mo, l can t
see what can keep Charlie out so latel
Here it is eleven o clock Hos n regu-
lar slave TO his business. Mrs, Twice
married Qilyingly) That's what l
thought of my first husband. dear; but
the second knows it's always best TO
get home by dinner time.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-02
THE ICE PALACE


long made TO represent ice and snow
The largest o; the four floats ia which rode
tho Keeper OF the Great Seal had large Po-
lar bears in front and u high, square-topped
canopy over the main seat lcicles hung
from the sides of the float TIE color of
the de of the vehicle was blue and north
ern lights were represented upon the curv-
ing front and inside of the canopy The
float was drawn by four white horses
The float bearing the Lord High Cham
cellor WIS drawn by two horses,
tand EN-, and was similar to the pre-
ceding one. The third float, bearing
the Lord High Chamberlain, had in front
representations OF large fish, whose tails
curved backward to form the front OF the
vehicle. The other float, in which rode the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. was drawn by
four horses abreast. Two immense seals
reared til emseives in the front A canopy
over the main seat was made by the back
rolling up and over like scroll. Near,y
fifty snow-shoe aud toboggan clubs fol-
lowed. and over 2. 900 persons were in the
line. The music of bands lent inspiration.
Upon the arriy al at the carnival grounds
the various toboggan, snow-shoe and other
clubs marched into position about the
stand and surrounded the central figures
The speeches made were brief President
George Thompson made brief address of
welcome; Mayor Smithlpresentedt the golden
keys of the palace to the Ice King who re-
pied with as much warmth as he could,
after which the procession passed in re-
view before his Majesty and the carnival
of 1883 was under way.
The street. illumination, in which many
thousand colored lights are used, began last
night. and proved, as always most Eeauti-
fCl sight A large number of visitors
from neighboring cities, as wei as
many from the East arrived during
the day. There is every prospect of settled
hne weather, and for the ten days to come
the fun win be kept mp with an ever-vary-
ing programme OF night and day pageants,
winter sports aud games, industrial pa
rades fireworks etc
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-02
HIS REIGN BEGINS.


Bnreaiis Rex Received with High Honors
ON His Entrance to ST. I'auI-Hs TAKES
Possession of the City and Mount, HIS
Throne In the Ice Palace.
ST PAUL. MIMI, Jan. 2D.-Breezy. sun
shiny weather and a crowd OF 5000 peo-
pie assisted at the entrance OF Borealis Rex
yesterday afternoon As the procession
started from the Seven Corners the crowd
assembled there gave hearty cheer. and
this WIS carried along the line,
growing louder at every stop. The float
that carried the Ice King led the royal
retinue 1t was about eighteen feet long
and of light green and white colols TO rep
resent cakes of ice end snow Upon the
front, lying down, was a Rocky Mountain
goat, while in the rear was an antelope.
Over Borealis was a largo canopy,
twelve feet high, rising TO a point
in the middle, and bordered with
q fringe of icicles. lcicles hung from
the vehicles IN different places With tho
King rode two Polar bear cubs. and on the
ground alongside walked a guard of Polar
bears, and bear walked at
the head Of each horse Tie
float was drawn by six white horses, all
In white harnesses and with blue robes
Following the Kings float came four
o hers, carrying the members of his Males
tvs court These We're about sixteen feet
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-02
DAKOTA.


An engine boiler on the Milwaukee road
exploded at Egau the other afternoon, in
stantly killing Robert Stewart the fireman,
and badly bruislng the engineer and an
other man
There seems TO be great unanimity
among Dakota people concerning the deep
snow being a fav rab.e indication of
bountiful harvest the coming season
Neal McKeague's widow, eighteen years
old, stylishly dressed and evidently not
broken hearted, although bride of but
few months. rec ;ntly swore out warrant
at Devils Lake against H-lerman, the 81 W
or of her husband, and after hearing the
testimony the Judge dismissed the case.
saying the shooting was done in self-de-
fense
The latest scheme of Dakota ranchman
is to apply heavy coat OF paint to his cat
tie as protection against the storms
Two passenger trains from Minneapolis
that had been blockaded. reached Millbank.
the other morning, the first from the East
In eleven days The con iuctor reported
drifts as high as the telegraph pc eS
snow-shovelers get from 81. 20 to S175
at Huron, and they have no difficulty in
getting a steady joh
Farmers report q very large number OF
Sioux Falls deaf mute school has an at
tendance of forty.
Miss vath, near Aberdeen, who saved the
young man who was lost on the prairie and
nearly frozen to death. has received from
him a purse of 800. and many presents
from his mother
Arlington sportsmen are shipping large
numbers of jack-rabbits east They are
said to be doing much damage to fruit trees
in many localities
1t ispredicted that $3.50. 600 will be spent
in prospecting for coal in the vicinity OF
Mitchell the approaching season
While cutting ice in the Jim river, near
Huron, Ed W. Hines caught catfish weigh
ing fifteen pounds
The late storm Knocked out the electric
lights in Rapid City, and the people OF that
burg had TO return 10 the use OF kerosene
and tallow candles
An old blind man, Abel Allen. OF Miner
County. was recently taken TO Sioux Falls
by the sheriff Of that county He was
found in Oregon. where his daughter has
held him prisoner since October The old
man has considerable property and gets
Govern nent pension OF S72 a month. To
get possession of his moDsy his daughter
kidnapped him and ran him on TO the PACING
coast
John Boiler. who died few days ago at
Jackson, was Known to be over one hun
bred yezrs old
The Black Hills gypsum deposits are pro
nounced equal 70 those OF Nova scoua-
which are the purest yet discovered Inc
manufacture Of plaster Of paris has begun
already at four poiaiA
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-02-02
FROM WASHINGTON.

TsE death OF YlscOuns das Nogueiras,
Portuguese Minister at Washington for ten
years occurred on the oath
The total internal revenue collections
for the first six months of the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1SSS We're $50. 443, COS.
being an increase of g., $40 1O4 over the
collections during the corresponding period
of the previous fiscal year
REPUBLICANS of the District OF Columbia
met on the 24th and owing to n quarrel,
two sets OF delegates were chosen to attend
the National convention, one favOring Mr.
Bla. and the other Mr. sherman
TIE Senate on the oath received q COM
municatiOn from the Commissioner OF In
ternal Revenue showing that the amount
of revenue collected on liquors since the
present system of internal revenue taxa
ton weRt into effect on September 1,
1862. down TO June B. 1887. was 81 ,34S,-
62G. O99
IN December last %. 32l immigrants ar
rived in this country, against p, IFS in
December, 1856. During the year 1887
immigration to this country amounted to
500. PSI. against $50 63I in 1856.
For the twelve months ended December
81, 1887, the total value OF the imports of
merchandise were Sos. 3O7, 81, against
1868, 429, IS9 for the same time in 1856
were S715, 500, 953 and $7l3. 40I, 024 re-
specify ely.
FoR the year 1887 the balance Of trade
with the world was in favor OF the United
States to the amount of So, 5l3, 647.
THERE were 26S business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 9th, against 276 the previous seven
days
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 2Sth aggregated 1861, :
SCI 1888, against S9l7, 954, 37S the pre-
vious week AS compared with the cor
responding week of 1887 the decrease
amounted to Is. 5 per cent
A MOVEMENT was on the 2Sth said to tie
on foot IN Congress to suppress lotteries OF
all kinds and to pass bill prohibiting
newspapers containing lottery advertise
ments from circulating through the mails.
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The News Condensed.
EmpOtan, intelligence From All Parts
FIFTIETH CONGRESS-.

TUESDAY, Jan "a Bills were intro
duced in the Senate to amend the pen
sion laws; to change the time OF meet
ing OF the long session OF Congress to the
hrst Monday in October, and OF the short
session TO the second Monday in Novem-
Der; 70 provide that publications OF
the second class may be transmitted
subscribers who live in another
county, but received their mail in the
county in which the publication is issued.
and for the admission of Montana as State
In the House a bill was introduced author
izing the President to discontinue any Gus
toms district where the revenues are not
equal to the expenses
WEDNESDAY,. Jan 25-In the Senate the
Deficiency Appropriation bill was passed
and the bill 70 pension ex-soldiers and sail
ors who are incapacitated for manual labor,
and provide pensions for dependent rela-
tives Of deceased soldiers. was favOrably re-
ported In the House a bill was reported
to amend the internal revenue laws and
a memorial was presented from settlers
on the pubiic-lsnds strip praying for
the organization OF the Territory of
Cimarron- The resolution for an inquiry
into the names, number and extent of tn
corporations engaged in manufacturing or
of life and known as trusts or pools
was adopted A Joint resolution was intro
duced intended to secure the extraditlon OF
all classes Of criminals who take refuge in
Canada
THURSDAY. Jan 20. Bills were passed
in the Senate granting pension OF e. 600
a year TO the widows OF General John
A Logan and General Frank p. Blair, and
raising the maximum pension for deaf
ness from Sl3 10 $50 month Petitions
were presented asking for retaliatOry legis-
lation against France and Germany for ex-
Guiding American meat, and against the adj
mission OF Utah as a State with pOlygamy.
A bill was introduced 20 regulate commerce
carried on by .legraph Adjourned 10 the
Both In the House bills were passed pro-
wiling for the sale of the New York Indian
lands in Kansas; appropriating $lT5. 600
for the repair OF the United States war
steamship Hartford, and regulating practice
in cases removed from State to Federal
cOurts
FRIDAY, Jan 27-The Senate was not in
session. In the House the delayed De-
fic.eucy bill of last year was passed A
bill was introduced TO withdraw from dis
pOsal the unsurveyed public lands embrac-
ing natural forests, and all public lands re-
turned by the public surveys as timber
lands. and providing for the appointment
of Commissioner OF Forests and four as
sistants The Indiana contested election
case was disposed Of by the Committee on
Elections by declaring the seat vacant on
the ground that White Rspl, the sitting
member. is ineligible, while Lowrey
tDem), the contestant, did not have a ma
jority Of the votes casa Adjourned to the
QOth
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MINNESOTA.

The ST. Paul Pioneer Press is to put up an
eeven-story building at Robert and Fourth
streets
During the year 1887 the State expended
s., 500, 900 for school lands and buildings
August Kreuitz, farmer living near
Cambridge. Isanti County. fell By the way
side recently while intoxicated and froze to
death
1t is understood that the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St Paul railroad is to erect
hotel at Excelsior, on Lake Minnetonka,
that viii eclipse anything In the way OF a
summer-resort hotel on the lake.
A st Paul man who has a well stocked
fish pond has tanned a big trout so that it
comes at his call, eats from his hand, and
shows its delight by jumping out of the
water and turning in the air with very
plain manifestations of Joy
Frank Crauber, who worked on the
tower of the ico palace at 81 Paul, slipped
the other day and fell over one hundred
feet TO the ground, receiving fatal injuries
He had been dancing on the wall and had
been cautioned, but paid no attention TO
the warning
The St Paul and Duluth round-house at
Duluth was burned recently. and six en-
gines We're damaged Loss. S30.0 600
for $500, 900 damages by the Horn Silver
NJ ming Company 1t is alleged that that
amount of money was lost through Ryan's
carelessness while acting as one of the
company's Sectors
The States wealth Is now stated to be
1904 800 600, an increase of 81 l6. O40, 226
since 1854
The house of August Wintross, near Her
jamestown, vas burned the other night
The family barely escaped in their night
clothes and were compelled to walk a dis
lance through tie snow barefoot TO a neigh
boris All were badly frozen
A passenger train on the Manitoba road
WIS thrown from the truck by 4 broken
rail near Morris recently, and Benjamin
Prentice, the express messenger, was killed
In hotel off e at Crookston a few days
ago Miss Eva Frnton, of the Richard Foote
Dramatic Company, horsewhipped Man
ager Crenshaw, of the Fargo Opera House,
alleging as a reason that the manager had
attempted to smirch her character.
It is s i'd the Standard Oil Company will
erect oil docks at Duluth The docks are to
cost about $3.50, 600, and to be completed
this year This move presages the estab-
lishment of line of tank steamers for car
rying oil from Pennsylvania to the West,
Duluth to be made the general Western
headquarters of the company.
The late storm has had serious effect on
the lumber cut, and it is estimated by some
that the cut viii be at least one third less
than usual All of the numbering firms of
the northern part OF the State are at least
four weeks behind in their annual cut The
snow lies over three feet deep on the level
throughout the whole numbering portion.
IL is so deep that the marshes and lakes are
kept from freezing The logging expenses
for the year will be one-fourth greater than
usual