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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-05-31

Mrs. c. 6. Knowles has returned
fTcm a visit To Red Wing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-05-31

Mrs. Patrick, of Baldwin. visited
friends in the city Saturday and sun
day.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-05-31

Rev. A. f. Berle, of New Richmond,
stopped in town Monday night.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
A BucketfuI of TarantuaaS.
From the San Francisco Examiner.

From the San Francisco Examiner
Talking about centipedes, tarantulas,
and all the poisonous bugs and reptiles
that infest the Southern deserts" said
Harry Carmello of Pomona at. the Grand
yesterday, II never did see SO many
things of this sort as did late one even
ing just east of Pomona, in Los Angeles
County, last August. It eatanything I
ever read about. [ and three or four
Others were coming from Silyerton
Greek, where we had been fishing We
were passing over the sandy plains
where small vineyards here and there
dotted the surface Suddenly, as we
drove along, one Of the boys, uttered an
exclamation of surprise, and let his gun
go at something. Then he leaped out,
and crack went his gun again, as though
straight into the ground. Again he
shot, and to our exclamations-of surprise
for we could not divine what he was
shooting at-said:
Why, there Don't you see
Tarantulas.'
"'And sure enough, there they were,
thick and fast upon the ground, crawl
army of them were loose and: devastat-
ing the country. Now this sounds to
you like a fish story, but it is true.
That section was just swarna5ng with
these poisonous reptiles. Every one
ofus began firing. We shot and shot,
and must have killed. scores of them.
Then by deity using some sticks we
had we got about sixty of them into
bucket. Fight You just ought to
have seen them. Atfrst they wouldn't
fight. We put two Or three together
and tried to egg them on. No go. They
seemed slow about beginning to use the
poison on each other. Then we put in
some more and began stirning them UP
with stick. You ought to- nave seen
them launch into each other. The
more we put in the more they fought
until when we had put in the three
score | have told you about, and had
the bucket half full, we had just with
ing mass of poison. Sting and fighs
My land, how they did do it, though.
They kept it up for quite a long time,
until we got tired of watching them.
The little ones died the soonest, and
sank to the bottom, amidst mass of
blood, while the old and big ones staid
on top.
cat length two old bull tara1atulas
held the field. ALI else had sunk down.
These were two veritable Napoleons.
Fight You ought to have. seen
the blood fly now. Such awful and vim
dictive shrusts and such merciless bellig-
erents I shall never see againl if [ live
1000 years The battle lasted about five
minutes more, and then they went
down almost together. Which, was the
stronger, more enduring. or gamier, it
would be hard to say. WheA they got
through we just had buckeaful of dead
spiders. That was al"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
PEOPLE I'VE READ OF.
SULLIVAN is twenty-eight years old.

SULLIVAN is twenty eight years old.
SEAMAN has made $25, 900 so far this
season.
Mrs. HENRY WARD BEECHER does not
wear mourning.
ROBERT GARRETT and party are in Yo-
kohama, Japan.
CELIA LOGAN is spending the winter at
Alexandria, Va.
PRENTICE MILFORD is in Boston. wrap
ped up in metaphysics.
RICHARD HENRY SToDDARD's head is
gray, his face rosy red.
JOSIE MANSFIELD, Fisk's and Stokes old
fame, is at Baden Baden.
DIR. E. E. HALE has gone to Washing
ton for fortnight's absence.
DENIS KEARNBY is In Washington to
look after Chinese legislation.
GRAND DUKE ALEXIS has been pro-
NOTED to the rank OF Admiral.
RUDOLPH ARoNsoN is securing Europe
in search of another tErminie.''
GEoBGE TICKNoR CURTIS is engaged in
trying to get Utah into the Union.
BooTH says that the strain of acting
sometimes becomes almost intOlerable.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON is engaged on,
two novels i'll his retreat on the Saranac
River.
Miss ANNIE ROBE, the actress, is about
to become Mrs. Griswold, of New York,
with $4,000 a year.
MUNKACSY's ''Last Moments of Mo-
zart," owned by Gen. Alger, of Michi-
gan, is now on exhibition in New York.
SENATOR SrANFoRD's gift of $4,000, 900
to establish the university in California
is one of the largest of the kind known
to history.
KING HUMBERT is, a keen sportsman
and largely patronizes the genuine En-
gllsh fox hunting that has been intro
duced in Italy.
Mrs. ELIZABETH, CADY STANTON will
return to the United States the latter
part of March, and will thereafter make
her home at Omaha.
JOHN M. THURsTON succeeds A. J.
Poppleton as chief attorney of the Union
Pacific Railway Company at Omaha.
The salary is $4,000 ayear.
j. G.. WHITAKER; the coloFed cadet,
who had his ears slit at West Point, is
pract1clng law at Sumter, S. c., and
was orator of the day at the emancipa-
ton celebration there recently.
THERE is a colored citizen named J. T.
Shufton in Orlando, Ga, who is a gradu-
ate of Howard University in both liter
airy and law branches. After graduating
he was admitted to practice in the
United States circuit court and the SUI
prerne court Of the District of Columbia
He is also graduate in medicine.
WILKIE COLLINS lives in pleasant,
substantial house in Portman Square,
London. He suffers much from nervous
prostration and govt in the eyes, but in
spite of his physicians orders, Will per-
sist in writing. He uses small note pa
per-: stamped with his address, and bear
ing in one corner his initials in black,
skillfally interlaced with a quill.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
From Smiles Anecdotes.


| am indebted for the following .anec--
dote to Mr.. Nasmyth, who is not only ai
great inventor and scientist, but; an ex--
traordinary repertory Of anecdotes. 1t
relates to. DR.. Adam, late rector of the
High School Of Edinburgh, the author of
Roman Antiquities" and other works.
DR.. Adam, in the intervals of his labors
as. teacher, was accustomed to spend
many hours in the shop of his friend
BOoge,. the famous cutler, sometimes
grinding knives and scissors, at other
times driving the wheel. One day two
English gentlemen attending the uni
versity called upon Booge (for he, Was an
excellent Greek and Latin scholar(, in
order that he might construe for them
some passage in Greek which they could
not understand. On looking at 1t Booge
found, that the passage clicked" him;
but, being wag, he said to the students,
"Oh, it's quite simple My laboring
man at the wheel yonder will translate
it for you. John 20 calling to the old
man, 'come here moment, will your
The apparent iaborer came forward,
when Booge shoWsd him the passage i'll
Greek which the students wished to
have translated. The old man put on
his spectacles, examined the passage
and proceeded to give a learned exposi-
ton, in the course of which be cited sew
eral scholastic authors in support of his
views as to its proper translation. Having
done so, he returned to. the cutters
wheel. Of caurse tbs, students We're
amazed at the learning OF the laboriag
man. They said they had heard much
of the erudition of the Edinburgh trades
men, but what they had listened to was
beyond anything they could have iaag-
med. Those who had the good fortune
to see the admirable collection ofpor-
traits by Rseburn at the Winter Exhibi-
bition of the Royal Academy, few
years ago. would notice an excellent por-
trait of Dr. Adam. with the intelligent,
kindly and humorous expression OF his
venerable countenanee. DR.. Adam died
at his post in his classroom at the High
School in his 80th year. His dissolution
was foreshadowed by an imagined dark
ness, during which he said to his pupils:
"Boys, it's getting quite dark You had
better go home" He then fell back in
his chair and ceased to breathe. Thus
passed away one of the most learned
and amiable men Of his time.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
FOR THE FARMER.
We Build the Ladder.

Heaven Is not reached at single bound;
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies
And We mount to the summit round by round.
/ count this thing to be grandly true
That noble deed is a step toward God
Lifting the soul from the common Sod
To purer air and a grander view
We rise by things that are under our feet;
By what we have mastered of good and gain:
By the pride deposed and the passion slain,
And the vanquished ills that we hourly meet
We hope, we aspire, we reso We we trust
When the morning calls us to life aud light:
But our hearts grow weary, and ere the night
Our lives are trailing the sordid dust.
We hope, we aspire, we resolve, we pray,
And we think tina mount the air on wings
Beyond the recall of sensual things,
While our feet still cling to the heavy clay
Wings for the angels, but feet for the men
We may borrow the wings to find the way.
We may hope. and resolve, and aspire, and
pray;
But our feet must rise, or we fall again.
only in dreams is ladder thrown
From the weary earth to the sapphire wallis
But the dreams depart and the vision falls
And the sleeper wakes on his pillow of stone.
Heaven Is not reached at single bound
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lOwly earth to the vau!ted Skies
And we mount to the summit round by round
-TDr. ]. G. Holland,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
Managing Straw Stacks

Straw is much more highly esteemed
than it used to be, though chemical
analysis shows that its nutritive value is
low. There are two reasons for this. The
uses of straw in various manufacturers
have created demand, and TINS i'm
creased it's price above its value for feed
ing alone. The second is that feeders
have learned by the use of straw to safe
jy feed cottOn-seed meal, making the ex-
cess of nutrition in one balance it's def
cheney in the other, and thus make a
cheaper combined food than can be had
in anything where bulk and nutrition
are naturally equalized so as to make
good God without preparation. 1t re-
quires skill 10 use straw in this way, but.
as in other eases the know how to do
it, is 50 we'll paid that it leaves room
for some increase in value for the neces-
sary material. Where cotton-seed meal
is abundant and cheap it may have the
effect OF making straw for feeding with
it nearly as valuable as good hav.
though IN Itself the straw may alone be
so poor as not to sustain animal life. and
thus be worth alone nothing or less.
Even for farmers who have no way of
selling straw to advantage, there should
be greater care than generally exists in
putting it in well-made stacks and using
it with economy. Baled straw can be
and is carried long distances by rail, and
If straw is well kept there is pretty sure
some time in the year to be market
for 1T. In well-made stack cut down in
sections there is little loss in winter. and
it is much more convenient for selling
than to increase the entire stack. When
straw is frozen in solid chunks, as it is
apt to be by the latter method, it is not
even in good condition to use as bed
ding. 1t will pay to give enough care to
preserving straw to have it always in
good order to handle easily.
Some excellent farmers make good use
of straw as protection against cold in
covering sheds where stock is kept.
One Of the best modes of doing this is
to make a platform set on posts six feet
high out of the ground, ana build the
stack over this, leaving one side open
for the animals to 60 in and out. It is
as warm as basement barn, and COM
inexpensive. In a well-made
stack the water will run down the sides,
leaving the interior dry. Animals run
ming in this protected enclosure will
keep it comfortable during the coolest
weather. If the posts are made of
durable wood such structure will last
many years, only needing its annual
covering OF straw, to be in spring trod-
den down into the manure bean
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
Remarkable Feat Of a Horse.
From the Albany Journal


DR.. J. S. Beaudery, OF Bath, has a
spirited young horse that has number
OF times since his purchase two or three
months ago annoyed bis owner by run
ming away The animal has frequently
taken fright at the cars and done con-
siderable damage, and on more than one
occasion jeopardized the life. of the
driver. About 10 o'clock this morning,
while attached to cutter and
standing unguarded on Broadway, Bath,
the fiery little black was startled in
some unknown manner and in its fright
dashed dashed down the street at q
furious pace, to the CONSERVATION of Pc
destrians and teamsters who were IN the
road, until the railroad crossing was
reached, where it turned abruptly to the
right.
A number of railroad men at this
point made desperate efforts to cut short
the wild career of the animal but only
succeeded in causing it to circle round
over the tracks three or four times.
Becoming more frightened each moment
at the shouts and maneuvres of the
well-meaning men, the horse suddenly
turned and sprang rapidly for the APP
proach to the middle bridge. Taking
the passenger walk, which most forum
ately WAS clear of pedestrians, 1t ran the
length CT the approach. :,
Upon reaching the bridge proper 1t
performed the miraculous feat of pass
ing over the railroad ties for some little
distance. Growing weary of this, 1t
slackened It's pace and took to the plank
walk between the two tracks, arriving al
the union depot in the most matter-of-
fact manner, with high head and
dilated nostrils, without receiving Sc
much as scratch.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01

bones. There are snowballs as hard as
door-knobs which caress your neck at
unexpected moments; there is concealed
ice which enables you to fall the dig
lance of block, there are slush
and rills of water, and woe
and WEAKNESS. Snow is elusive
and insinuating. It can work itself into
your rooms through cracks under doors
and by windows. Is takes a ghoulish
glee in dampening your garments It
piles up where it is least wanted and
shuns the places where it would be well
come If poems must be written about
snow, they should be dirgeS in sad ar
ray Snow, on the hale old earth is like
white hair on The head Of a strong man.
1t has no business there. 1t is the flu
neral note that brings discord to the
wedding anthem.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
Shoefng.

1t is generally the owners fault when
young horse makes trouble the first
time he is shod. If colts are handled
rightly from the time they are foaled
there will be no trouble in picking up
their feet and working with them. as
long as is necessary to put the shoes on
at least. The blacksmith shop is gener-
ally place that is calculated to scare
and excite an old and gentle horse, and
it is not to be wondered at young horses
feel shy and scary when ushered into
such place. When frightened by their
surroundings and the unnatural con-
dition of standing on three legs while
the other is held up by some burly fell
low who is ready to yell at them at the
top OF his voice, it is no wonder that
young horses will sometimes become
vicious and troublesome. If you want
to avoid all the danger of spo1ling
your best bred and most valuable
young horses, don't neglect to handle
their feet often, and have them become
used to it before they are obliged to go
through the trying ordeal in a place
where they will do we'll to keep their
wits without any extra ordeal to go
through.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
Changing Poultry.

Thoroughbred poultry may be, and
indeed must be. inbred to certain ex-
tent. But even with this good breeders
are careful so far as possible to select
different families SO that cock and hens
shall not be nearly related to each other.
But in most farmers hands this highly
bred poultry is crossed and mixed with
other breeds, and thus becomes mon
grel, combining bad qualities of both
sides. The only way to prevent this is
by resolutely killing off the ROSTERS
every TALL, and supplying their places
with cocks of thorough breed of some
kind. 1t is generally best to keep OH in
the same strain as the crossing was be-
gun, making the chicks three-quarters
or seven-eighths full blood, which for
practicai use will be as good as thorough
breds, except for breeding
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
The Best Food for Eggs,

Grind together mixture composed
in the proportion of 30 pounds of corn
to 10 pounds of oats, 10 pounds of barley
and Is pounds Of wheat bran or shorts.
Scald this thoroughly at night, and feed
it in the morning as soft iced. At noon
give steamed clover rowen (second
growth clover and raw vegetables.
Three times week add to the soft food
II per cent. Of its bulk in the shape of
ground beef scraps or fish. In the aft
ernoon feed corn and oats, or corn and
wheat, or corn and barley. Have plenty
of sea shells, pounded oyster shells,
lime, gravel, ETC., at hand, This meth
Cd of feeding secures for me more eggs
than any other system, and when it is
faithfully followed up, expensive and
stimulating egg foods will not be re-
quired.-[I. K. Felch.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
THE OLD LIFEBOAT.
BY EDWARD ABRAM VALENTINE.
I he old lifeboat.


I he old lifeboat,
With its work of mercy done
Lett 0 csumbe away on the shore,
TO the heaping sand and the soothing roar
Ut the waves that nod on the CLASSY floor;
Lett 10 naIch in the summer sun
To bacsen and rot, for its course is rum
The old nfeboat,
That used to float
Over the silver waves remote.
The old 1ifeboatl
How it stood in service days
Clad in white with star on its Prov
(But the star has set on its old side noWl
Ard the coils of rope at the shapely bow;
Sturdy oars that were steady in place,
Al cry of alarm ever ready 10 raise.
The old lifeboat
We OFT would note
Far on the sea like sunny mote.
The old lifeboat
By the lighthouse shadow long,
Salt winds whispering now through its cracks
Murmur over and over remembered facts
OF the purple calm and the tempest racks,
Sinking the ships, and booming strong,
The summons to save and the anxious throng
Round tn old lifeboat,
Pushed off to float
Over the lashing waves remote.
The old lifeboat
BY the shore and shifting tide
There the dreamer will often delay,
And the lovers lean at the close OF day,
And the seaman pause, and the children play.
Is it Tor naught that it should abide
What matter it then though it be denied
The old iifebOat
Again to float
Over the silver waves remote
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
How $3.50 Became 81, 500, 900.
From the Boston Globe

The Rev. Ell Fay, who has offered 10
enGow woman's college at Worcester
with $500, 900, was formerly a Unitarian
pastor at Leominster, and is now a
resident of California. The story OF his
wealth sounds like fable. He left the
East many years ago ON account of his
wiie's ill-health and travelled IN the
West. In Colorado he met a friend and
intrusted to him small sum of money,
said to be $3.50, for investment. After a
time he went to Los Angeles and, it is
stated, realized SOS, 900 from his Colora-
do investment. He invested this money
in real estate in Southern California, and.
is now said to he worth ST. 500. 900.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
Little Johnny's Composition.
From the Philadelphia Item.

A pupil in one of the public schools of
this city complied recently in the follow
ing manner with request to write.
composition ON the subject of physlo,,
logical lecture to which the school had
just listened: ''The human body Is
made up of the head, throax, and the
abdomen. The head contains the
brains, when there is any. The throax
contains the heart and lungs. The alb
domen contains the bowels, OF which
there are five, A, E, I, O, U, and some
times w and Y"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
Snow Poetry.
From the Lincoln (Neh.) Journal.

From the Lincoln (Neh) Journal.
All poetry is reprehensible, but par
ticularly SO is that of SNOW, and half the
bards in existence write rhymes about
snow. There is nothing joyous or in
spring about wilderness of snowbanks.
There are pangs of rheumatism, twinges
of toothache, rasping coughs, aching
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01
From the New York World

The statutory area of New Orleans is
$50 square miles; that of Philadelphia is
l29 square miles. New Orleans occupies
about forty square miles; Philadelphia
over a hundred. SO, probably, Justice
will be done by holding that Philadel-
phia is the largest city in the United
States in point of area. AS to
the five cities of the United States, Phil
adelphia will lead again; New York
comes next with forty-one square miles;
New Orleans third, with forty; Chicago
fourth, with thirty six, and Brooklyn
fifth, with twenty-five square miles.
The five cities of the world covering the
greatest area would seem to be Phila-
delphia, 129; London, 11S; New York,
Al; Chicago, So square miles. Paris
covers only about 80 square miles.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01

There is not much weather in winter
when work in the orchard is possible.
Occasionally, however, day can be
given for pruning, and in the meantime
farmers will do we'll to study the habits
of different varieties and learn what
kind of pruning is best. Every expert
enced fruit-grower knows that the same
treatment is not needed for the Russell
as for the Northern Spy apple. Some
varieties of pears, as the Seckel, when
grown as a standard, will need very lit
tie pruning except a slight thinning out
in the middle. Others require to be
cut at all the leading branches every
year, or they will soon tower far above
convenient reach. Some Of our strong
growing varieties of grapes need to have
more wood left on than would be advis-
able for a Delaware or CataWba. In
many places grape pruning is left alto
gether to Germans, who have learned
this business in their native land. The
vinegroWer who thus resigns his favorite
vines to other hands needs also to in
terpose caution as regards some of
them. German methods of vineyard
pruning reduce each grape vine to a
short stem not over three or four feet
high, with two to five or six buds on
the upper end, from which next years
foliage and fruit are to be grown. Our
native grapes will not endure such close
cutting. They must have more room or
if not the vine will become unhealthy,
and mildew, rot or phylloxera will de-
stroy either fruit or vine or both.
Ice Houses.
A building to hold and preserve ice,
either on a large or small scale, is
cheap and plain structure. When one
fully comprehends the principles and
requisites to save ice, it becomes very
simple matter A building ten or twelve
feet square and ten feet high, built of
rough, cheap boards, and the roof can
be OF boards if made steep SO as to shed
water rapidly, will save ice enough for
large family on farm. On the ground
there must be good drainage, SO that the
water from melting ice will not stand,
but run off rapidly. Sawdust one foot
thick bottom sides and top, with good,
free ventilation at top by windows
in the gables SO fixed that the
rain will not blow in. That is about
all there is required for an ice house.
There is more danger in having the saw
dust too thick than too thin. If too
thick and damp, it will ferment and
heat, and melt the ice. After the ice
house is filled, which should be done
with blocks of ice as near square as
they can be conveniently sawn, and
packed closely, it should be watched to
see that the Ice is not thawing in some
quarter away from the sawdust, and
thus let the air in and r,elt the ice. If
the ice does melt away from the saw
dust, the dust must be filed in and
crammed down so as to be certain of
filling the crevice to the bottom. II not
protected on the south and west by
shade trees during hot weather it viii
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-02-01

be necessary to stand up loose boards on
those two sides, to protect it from the
heat of the sun Iowa Register.