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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-22
TREATMENT FOR HOGS.
Saltpeter the Main Remedy for Most Dis
eases of Swine.

eases of Swine.
Saltpeter thins the blood and allays
fever. Spirits of turpentiue is healing
to the lungs and fatal to typhoid symp-
toms. A teaspoonful of saltpeter and
the same quantity If spirits Of turpen-
tine in each barrel of swill is a good
thing for well hogs In district where
there is any liability to hog plague. If
any symptoms of sickness occur in
crease the dose to pint of saltpeter
and half a tea-cup of turpentine to each
barrel of swill, and if it does not stop
at that give all they can be made to
take in their swill One year, while
feeding over a hundred shotes, they
were taken with cholera, or hog plague.
| say hog plague because the disease
did not always assume the same form.
Hogs will generally purge in the last
stages of almost any fatal disease, so
purging and vomiting is not always
the beginning, but frequently the
ending, or last stages of the
disease, In nearly all cases |
find fever The blood thickens and
sometimes the hogs are costive. They
almost always cough more or less, ac-
cording to the severity of the disease.
They frequently have blind staggers,
will turn round and round, run against
buildings or fences, and sometimes
travel in every direction as far as the
limits of the pasture will allow, until
within few minutes of death. Some
times they have quick, irregular
breathing like a horse with the
thumps. Again, their eyes will pro-
tude. An internal examination gen.
orally shows the lungs and midriff, to-
gether with the whole lining of the
chest, seriously affected. The whole
alimentary canal is affected something
as the human being Is affected with
typhoid fever. ! experimental long
time before | came to the following
conclusion as to remedies:
A have given 2-quart pailful Of
saltpeter in rich swill to 100 sick
shotes, and it benefited them at once.
If the hog gets so sick he will not
drink the swill, let two men hold him
on his back and, forcing his mouth
open with a stick, put half a teacupful
of pine tar, mixed with a heaped Ia
blespoor full of pulverized saltpeter
down the animals throat. Then make
a tablespoonful of turpentine follow it
and anoint the neck and chest Of the
patient with teacupful more of the
the same fluid. / have cured hogs
worth $50 apiece. Sometimes the
treatment has to be repeated the sec
ond time. Three men can dose 100
hogs in two or three hours, so it is
not great job. ID. Griswold, in
Farm and Home.
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Few persons have any conception Of the
magnitude of the interests covered by The
above title, and very few even among the
railway fraternity are aware of how fully
this vast syster- occupies the field IN which
1t IS located; but If you will take map and
trace out, first, the New York Central &
Hudson River; second, the Boston &
Albany; third, the Lake Shore & Mich
igan Southern; fourth. the Michigan
Central: fifth. the Cleveland, Cinuin-
natl, Chicago a. St Louis formerly the
"Bee Line" and "Big Four'') railroads,
YOU will be impressed with the wonderful
foresight of the men who designed and ex-
ecuted the plan TO operate under a uniform
policy, and practically common control, a
system of railways that should furnish unsur-
passed transportation facilities to the great
commercial empire outlined above, and
trip over this grand aggregation sill
convince the most skeptical that the Van
derbt System of Railways, of which
the New York Central g. Hudson River
Railroad is the main stem, traverses
the very heart of the business por-
ton of this continent, touching, either di-
rectly or through its immediate connec-
tons, all the important commercial centers
of the country, and offering TO health, pleas
ure and business travel facilities that are
not equalled by any similar institution in
the world
An edition of one hundred Thousand copies
Of very neat little pamphlet bearing the
title at the head of this article has Just been
issued by the American Bank Note Com
pany Of New York. which contains much
interesting information concerning this
great system.
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Revival of an Old Trick.

I'm securing this country for good
horses" said a well-dressed man who
drove up to q Bucks County farmer the
other day. "Have you any 70 sellP"
The farmer brought his best, a big
sorrel with a good eye and full of spirit.
The stranger knew horses, and, after a
deal of parleying. $3.50 was fixed as the
price. and he paid SO to bind the bar
gain, promising to return in a week to
consummate the purchase. Two or
three days afterward another stranger
reached the farm.
Il want to find horse to match one
in my stables in New York, he said
A look over the stable caused the
stranger to fix upon the sorreL That's
Just the horse" he said.
Another man has bargained for
him" replied the farmer. III give
you $3.50, added the visitor Cant be
done. well, I'll come back in day
or so, and if you have not sold him ]
will take him."
Next day the. first visitor returned
and, after haggling a good deal, con-
sented to take $25 for his bargain. The
farmer is still waiting for the man who
wants to match horse in New York.
-Philadelphia Record
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SLOTS AND SLIDES.
Automatic Chewing Gum, Hymn Book
and Weighing Machines.

'Gol darn it, neaow,n was the ex.
clamation of a wrathy rural, as he stood
gaping at an automatic chewing-gum
machine with the familiar slot
Them things, mister" turning TO q
bystander, ARE mighty onsartin in
their workings. 1t amt bad kind o
game for them as gets the nickels, but
how about the fellow as chucks in his
last cent and don't git his gum?"
slot" machines are making their
appearances everywhere and in the
most curious places. Hotels, stores.
news-stands, ferries, restaurants are
supplied with all sorts of devices on
tho slot principle, and selling a
varied description of merchandise.
Most of these machines are kept in
good order, being regularly inspected
by the proprietors who place them.
But they frequently don't work." as
in the case of the New Hampshire
friend. It's often n game of per
haps;" if it works, you get your pur.
chase; if it doesn't, you don't Still,
there are thousands who drop in their
nickels and mako no complaint, even
if the slot is slovenly. 1t is said that
there's a knack in it, and that the
thisg can be worked to Il charm if you
know how.
The candy slot is in high favor.
Scores of girls drop in their coins and
giggle as the resplendcnt packages roll
out, The next In favor is the chew:
ing-gurn slot, and largely patronizcd
by girls. Then there is the fountain
perfume slot, worked with a penny,
which gives out wee jet OF cologne.
This unique contrivance doesn't always
work, but it sometimes gives a scent
for a cent.
Weighing slot machines, with their
clock faces, are said to be irregular in
action, and customer weighing often
would be puzzled to know just what
his weight was by these wonderful
machines.
A candy-motto slot was working adj
mirably the other day as two young
people stood spooning in front of it,
dropping their nickles and laughing
over the prophecies and sentiments In
which the chunks of candy were
wrapped. They must have spent at
least one dollar on the game before
they extracted enough sweetness, and
as they walked of, sucking their fin
gers and repeating the soft nonsense
to each other, an observer might be
inclined to say: 'God bless that slot. ?"
The latest automatic novelty, which
has become quite a craze in England,
is the box placed convenient in
churches and chapels for the purpose
of providing folks with hymn-books.
The box is a small wooden affair with
a slide lid. On the lid there is this
inscription:
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WONDERS OF NATURE.
Plants Protected by Their JuIces-Hat
aFt Snail

OF the snail
When a drop of the juice of sorrel,
garlic. saxifrage or nasturtion is put
upon the tegument of a snail. the ami
NAL manifests pain and exudes abund-
ance of its mucous secretion; yet it is
not thus affected by a drop of water.
When snails avoid plants marked BY
such juices, we have a right to regard
the plants as defended by a chemical
armor. The offensive substance may
also be important TO the nutrition oil
the plant. but that is not the question
we are dealing with here. Many plants
are evidently lacking in this means Of
defense; for, of some plants, all the ami
mails experimental upon have beer
found to p sfer fresh to dead parts
Others . never touched by them
whether living or dead. Hence We
may conce We that an infinite variety
may exist Ii the degrees of chemical
armoring between total absence OF pro
lection and complete protection.
Plants containing pereeptible tannir
are disagreeable to nearly all animals.
Only swine will eat acorns as if they
regard them as food. Other animal:
reject them, except when they can not
get any thing else. Leguminous plants
containing tannin in weak proportion:
are eaten by horses and cattle, but
snails are not fond of them. But the
garden snail, which lets fresh clover
alone, will eat it freely after the tannin
has been extracted with alcohol. =
Henry de Varigny, in Popular Science
Monthly.
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Place one penny in the box and OBJ
tain the use OF hymn-book.

II is quite a scientific arrangement
and works easily. When the penny is
placed in the box 1t acts on a spring
which throws open the slide lid, dis
closing the hymn-book. The penny
drops down a secret slit in the lid and
Is hidden from view and secured from
removal 1t seems almost like a re.
lection on the worshippers, for the au-
tomato beauty OF the workmanship is
that the door or lid can not be shut
until the verger himself takes the coin
out, when the hvmn-book is replaced
and the door is fastened. There is
also an indicator inside the box which
shows how many coins have been put
in. so that even the verger has to be
honest
What the future of the 's!ot" and
slide" may be. who can tell? Per-
haps when pneumatic tubes become as
popular as telephones. and are at
tached to our houses and stores. shop
ping will be done by developments Of
the slot and slide
drop dollar in the slot and re-
ceive your groceries for the day" may
some day be as common as ice cards.
An English Church has already or
dered FIVE hundred automatic slide
hymn-book boxes for its free seats.
Who will be the man to start pneu-
matte slot CT slide delivery company
Boston Globe.
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THE MILK TRADE.
Why 1t Should BE Fostered by FaruScrs-
Waste I'm Butter Making.

The price for butter from small dali
ries frequently is Is cents pound for
first-class article. If we figure the
cost of packages and salt only, il leaves
barely II cents a pound. Any intelli-
gent dairyman will tell you that 16
quarts of milk from the general aver
age of cows is a low estimate for a
pound of butter. Some high-bred
cows might possibly, with best care,
give a record Of a pound of butter from
s quarts of milk. Then. again, one
will find that it will take "a quarts for
a pound of butter for every one of
quarts. To sum the matter up: milk
for butter (when the latter sells for Is
cents a pound) is worth less than
cent a quart In small villages, or this
country, where. in great many
cases, one COW is kept, and this
for the purpose of milk only for home
use, it would pay far better to
sell what could be spared for 2
cents a quart and buy butter to use in
the family. Some are charging the
many cases even ) cents per quart, for
milk at home. This is at the rate of
from so cents to 80 cents for pound
of butter, if the milk were used for
that purpose. At , cents a quart, the
seller would make living profit, even
if only part were sold and the rest
used for butter. But at ? cents milk
would become a staple article of food
for young and old, and those who kept
but one COW would meet with ready
demand, which would be far better
than placing the price so high that
milk becomes a luxury. What a pity
that those unable to keep COW
through lack of accommodations arc
Obliged TO go without one OF the best
articles of food known. and from the
cause in a great many cases of the in
justice of others. and, withal. to the
consequent loss to seller, as we'll as to
buvcr.-N Y. Tribune.
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So confident are the manufacturers of thai
world-famed remedy, DR.. Pierce's Colder
Medical Discovery, that II will do all that
they represent, in the cure of liver, blood
and lung diseases, that, after witnessing it
thousands of cures for many years past
they now feel warranted in selling il Gas
they ars doing, through druggists) under g
positive guarantee Of its giving satisfaction
In every case, or money paid for 1T will be
refunded No medicine Of ordinary merit
could be sold under such severe conditions
with profit to its prUprietors. and no other
medicine for the diseases Tor which it is
recommended was ever before sold under q
guarantee of a cure or no pay. In all blood
taiRts and impurities of whatever name OF
nature, II is most positive in its curative eff
fects. Pimples, blotches, eruptions and al
skin and scalp diseases are radically cured
by this wonderful medicine. ScrOfulous
diseases may affect the glands, causing
swelllngs or tumOrs: the bones, causing
'fever-sores, - "white swellingsn or hip
Joint disease e. or the tissues of the lungs,
causing pulmonary Consumption No mat
ter in which one of its myriad FORMS il crops
ont, or manlfests itself, Golden Medical
Discovery VIII cureitit used perseveringly
and in time.
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FOR GUM cHEwERs.
How the sticky stun is Made in an Ind
III auapoIis Factory.


Down in the extreme southeastern
part of the city is chewing gum fac
tory. This enterprise is a growing in.
dustry, adjusting itself to a growing
habit in this community. 1t is as nat
ural nowadays for Hoosier, at least
in the Hoosier capital, to ask for or Of
fer a piece of gum. as it was for an old
time Hoosier TO request or companion
ably offer ''chaw of terbaccer.m
Every body chews. Doctors, law
yers, merchants, that picturesque ag-
gregation. the city council, and the en-
tire baseball nine. When the habit
Of chewing gum was confined to ''gig-
Cling school girls it was an object OF
ridicule. When the girls fathers be-
gan chewing they formulated ingenious
excuses for it. Now every body chews
and nothing is said. Any one bringing
UP the old-time objections is either ig-
hored, laughed at or looked upon with
interest as a relic OF antiquity.
This chewing gum factory is not a
pretentious place. One would be like
ly to pass it by many times without
knowing that process of wide interest
was going on inside. The interior is
much like that of "a confectionery
shop, and the working is the same.
The proceedings start in large kettle
fitted into the top of a stove. Here
the ''chicie" is boiled. This is the
gummy sap of a tropical tree, which
is caught much as maple sap is taken
from trees in the North. 1t is dried
by the sun into brown lumpy sub.
stance. This is the part of the gum
that is most steadfast. 1t is what re.
mains when all the attractive but
tickle sweetnesses have departed. II
is also the part which after an hour
or two gives ones jaws a blase feel
ing that is quite rebelious to the ur-
gent demands of hungry stomach.
An ample amount of sugar and flavor
ing is added to this substance, and
when cool it is kneaded and other.
wise treated like bread. 1t is laid
on one of those large smooth
stones common to confectioners'
shops and printing offices. Here
it is smoothed thin by a
large polished iron roller. and
made still smoother by wide double
roller press. Over the large sheet is
then rolled rod on which circular
knives are arranged at intervals equal
to the length of the future stick Of
gum. These quickly cut the gum into
long strips. The strips are passed
through another roller press, whose
width is equal to their width.
In one of the rollers are grooves al
regular intervals, which are fitted into
the roller above. BY these the strips
are compressed at a distance equal to
the width of stick of gum. 1t is
thus easy to break the sirius into
sticks. This is done by young ladies.
who wrap them in small printed labels,
stretch a small band of rubber about
five of them, and place the packages
in neat boxes holding one hundred
| sticks each, such as are seen in the
drug stores. Five favors of the gum
are made-licorice, mint, pineapple,
winter-green and sarsaparilla- The
industry, like every other indianapolis
enterprise, is thrifty indianapolis
| News.
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His Opinion Infallible.

Or. Bolus Cat consultations Well.
gentlemen. my opinion is that the pa
tient can not live a week.
DIR. Sawbones. DIR. Squills. DIR. DC
ciput and DIR. Pancreas coincide.
DIR. Single Ga recent acces sion 70
the local medical talent) Gentlemen.
/ beg leave to differ. The patient will
recover. His ailment is imaginary.
There is nothing really the matter
with him.
DIR. Bolus (arrogantly)-You GER
tainly do not expect to convince Us OF
the correctness of your opinion. sir,
DIR. Shingle-No, sir. probably not.
Yet you viii pardon me for saying that
was a pension agent for twenty years
before became a doctor, and -
DIR. Bolus with deep conviction)--
Gentlemen. il he can't see any disease
in the patient it isn't there.
LDr. Sawbones. DR.. Squills. DIR. Dc
ciput and DIR. Pancreas again coin
eide Chicago Tribune
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GETTING UP EARLY.
Advice That wiIt Please Persons Fond OF
Their Morning Nap.

Their Morning Nap.
All this talk about early rising is
moonshine. The habit of turning out
of bed in the middle of the night suits
some people; let them enjoy it. But it
is only folly to lay down a general rule
upon the subject.
Some men are fit for nothing all day
after they have risen early every morn
ing. Their energies are deadened,
their imaginations are heavy, their
spirits are depressed.i
1t is said you can work so well in the
morning. Some people can, but others
can work best at night; others, again,
in the afternoon. Long trial and ex-
pertinent form the only conclusive tests
upon these points.
As for getting up early because Prof.
All-Gammor mas written letters to the
papers proving the necessity of it, let
no one be goose enough TO do it.
We all know the model man aged
eighty: II invariably arise at five; l
work three hours, take a light break
namely, a cracker and a pinch OF
salt; work five hours more; never
smoke, never drink any thing but
ba ely water, eat no dinner. and 90 to
bed at six in the evening""
If any body finds that donkeyfied
sort of life suits him, by all means let
him continue it. But few people
would care to live to eighty on these
terms. If man can not get all with
cred and crumpled up on easier condi-
tions than those, it is almost as well
that he should depart before he is a
nuisance to himself and bore to
every body else
SchOol-bovs. and young people gen.
orally. ought TO get up early, for it :
found that nine-tenths of then can
stand it. and it does them good.
But let no one torture himself with
the thought that he could have been
twice rs good a man as be is If he had
risen every morning at daylight. The
habit would kill half of US in less than
five years. Medical Classics.
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ished to receive letter from firm of
eminent solicitors informing him that
some individual had made over to him,
Internationally, the sum of esq, 900
with this simple restriction, he must
give his word Of honor not to make
any attempt to discover the donor.
This, of course, the Baronet accept
ed. 1t meant May and happiness to
him. and he fervently blessed his good
friend, whoever he might be.
Not long after arrangements were
made for the union of two persons in
Gods holy bonds of matrimony. You
may guess whom.
Jack Villiers was. Of course. to be
best man; but about a week before the
important ceremony was TO take place
he wrote saying he could not be pres
ent, as he was ordered back to Bur-
nah Immediately; but would slip down
on the following day just to say good
bye"
Next day, as arranged, Villiers came
and stayed only few hours, having to
return by the night mail. Before leav-
ing. he congratulated May. expressed
the usual wishes of much happiness,
and at the same time begged flower
from her as n slight remembrance Of
some very pleasant weeks at Marine
Hail. Then he was gone, and neither
Sir Percy nor his lady-love ever saw
the face of Jack Villiers again"
Two years passed, and one day Sir
Percy, who was now one of the hap
piest of the happy few, was going
through his daily papers when he sud-
denly calculated.
dear boys poor, poor fellow! List
en-, Mayl"
On the 10th ult, in a skirmish
with decoits at Mundyungah, Colonel
Villiers, V. c., - Lancers, was killed
whilst attempting the rescue of a
wounded trooper.
And so persisted the man who quiet
ly and strenuously, but in vain, loved
May CORVALLIS, and who. for her
sake, gave up wealth, thought of
home, and hope of happiness.
The papers did not tell that, as one
of his brother officers was looking
through his belongings. he came across
cigar-case with faded flower inside
il; and knowing that Villiers was not
2 man to keep a flower just for its own
sake. placed it on his breast, and thus
he was carried by his bronzed troop
ers, who shed many quiet. manly tears
as they laid him in the ground, thou
sands of miles from his country. from
the face and form he loved so secretly
and yet so well, and there let rest for
eternity all that was left of a man
whom they feared but yet loved
VIII. Ii. BlOunt, in Leeds Mercury.
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GOWNS FOR BUSY WOMEN.
The Loose Blouse and Straight Skirt Seer
to BE the Fayorftas.

The Loose Blouse and Straight skirt Seem
to BE the FavOrites.
The business women of New York
are actively discussing the style of
dress best suited to self-supporting
women. With competition in every
line daily growing keener they find
that they can not afford to be ham
pered by their clothes. The woman
who makes success in any occupation
is not the woman who is a bundle of
nerves. An unyielding bodice which
prevents full deep breathing, the high
dog" collar which is heating IN sum-
mer and which rasps the neck all the
year round, the absence or inaccessi-
bility OF the pocket in which to carry
the articles which business life re-
quires are sources of annoyance and
nervous irritation. II is not long since
one Of the largest working girls so
cieties of the city adopted the blouse
and straight gathered skirt as
club dress for members. Mrs. Jen-
ness Miller, the successful dress re-
former, has among her costumes an
office-dress for business women, the
principal features of which are a full
Fedora vest front OF surah silk with
short jacket of fine wool. and straight,
undraped skirt laid in wide box-plaits
in front and gathered on TO the waist
behind. Another dress is a modifica-
ton of the Directoire gown, with seven
pockets, almost as many as are owned
by that LUCKY creature, the boy, with
his first pautaloOns. Four of these
pockets are inserted in the vest, one
for the watch. one for a pencil, two for
car tickets and small change. Under
one of the panels on the righs side is a
long pocket for the purse and hand
kerchief Two pockets for memoran-
dum-book and card-case are tucked
away among the rear draperies. When
the owner has another dress made she
proposes to add an eighth pocket on
the left side for keys and miscellaneous
belongings. Think of such Injuries.
We women who have no pockets at all.
but carry umbrella. handkerchief,
three bundles and a baby in one hand,
while you hold up your skirts. open
doors and pay fares with the other
n. \. Mail and Express.