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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-12-04
ropF,cN INrEiiIcENcF-

COUNT julius KARoLRL. a well-known
Hungarian statesman, died at Buda
Pesth of cancer of the tongue. He
concealed his malady until nearly the
last moment
THE Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
nullihed the Newfoundland bait law.
and declared that all fees collected
from American and Canadian vessels
must be refunded.
By boiler explosion at St. Johns,
\. F., six men were killed and others
fatally injured.
On the 25th the British Parliament
assembled and the Queens speech was
read. Before the opening of the ses-
sion the Irish members met in caucus
and formally acknowledged Mr.. Parnell
as their leader
By the wrecking of the British
steamer Westbourne in the Black sea
six of her crew were drowned and
twelve died from exposure.
In collision the British ship Sud
bourn. Captain McGie. from Hamburg
for RangOon, was sunk of Dungeness,
and eleven Of her crew were drowned.
OFF Often. Norway. forty boats of a
fishing fleet were sunk in a gale and 100
damaged and twenty-eight fsherme n
lost their lives.
The banking firm OF Oostendorp, at
Antwerp, failed. with liabilities of ST..
500, 600.
CANADA's trade report shows that its
exports to the United States for the
fiscal year were S4O.5 22. $40. and its i'm
ports from the same country $50, 99l, 9T3.
A MANIFESTO was issued by Mr.. Par
nell declining to voluntarily withdraw
from the leadership of the Irish Par.
liamentary party, and appealing to the
people OF Ireland to stain him in the
attitude he had taken.
IN Germany during tho recent heavy
frosts five homeless persons were
frozen to death in Berlin and tho neigh
borhood.
In reply to Mr.. ParnclPs manifesto
Mr.. Gladstone denies the assertions OF
the latter regarding tho retention oil
Irish members in Parliament, and with
respect to proposals alleged to have
been made 20 him (ParnelD during his
visit to Hawa rden last November. Mr..
Gladstone's lettor is temperate in tone,
but condemns The rish loader tor
breaking confidence with him.
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rural hacker; and as Jimmy" Hont fy-
ing by. covering his first quarter. i
heard the young brother cry:
go it, Jimmyl Go-o-o-o IT. Don't
forget Bessie, now! Go-o-o-o itr'
The allusion to Bessie" made a GER
tain proportion of the crowd laugh; but
think there was general sympathy for
Jimmy. Even the grand stand took the
cry, and the ladies waved their parasols
and pipep a musical go it, Jimmyr
Perhaps it was the mention of Bessie"
that ELECTED the latter. Some little
sweetheart, perhaps, who had sent her
rustic hero and lover to battle with
whisper-''go, it, Jimmy--for my sakel"
/ watched the favorite Browns face
as he went by for the third lap 1t was
set and determined, and as he entered
the third quarter he settled down TO
faster pace. Jimmy was still leading,
but at Browns present gait he would be
overtaken. Was Jimmy's strength fail
ing him?
Hes gainin' on you. JIM" cried the
young brother, as the boy came up for
the last lap. And indeed Brown was.
Twenty-ten--fve yards-but-
Ye gods on high olympus! Smile
you now, and Apollo, strike your Tyre!
He is running like the giant Utgord's
dwarf! And his rival is running, brave
ly, determinedly.
feel sudden, indehnable, but very
strong regard for Jim. Perhaps in
fancy see the boy practicing in the
evening when the chores are done
with no better path, may be, than the
one that skirts the highway by the gate.
Practicing with golden visions of vic
tory before him; Of bringing home to
his mother tall emblazoned cup or a
shining medal; and of the Joy and girl
ish pride Of that little rural Bessia
am awakened from this reverie, tina,
has lasted scarcely ten seconds, BY d
great shout The whole grand stand
has risen to it's feet The men are
cheering, the girls CRYING ''hurrah"
and tossing their handkerchiefs. The
band is playing a beautiful rhythmical
galop; and amidst all this Jim Green
rushes down the path and carries the
tape with him, fifty yards ahead of
Brownl
There is commotion at the entrance
gate. An emissary from The Office al
that point comes down and pipes out:
There's an old coon from wayback
in high waters out there that says his
names Green, Josh Green, b'gosh! An
he wants young gaffer named Jim
Green what's in here. Fer he's goin'
most everlastingly to whale Mister Jim
fer takin' the boss an rig an breakin'
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the shafts all to little bits, b'goshl
That's what he says" And after ex-
pectorating carefully upon the long in
dividual's boot, the emissary turned
gravely on his heel and returned to his
post
A committee went down TO the gate
and led In Green, Senior. We gently
explained to him that his err!ng Off
spring had won lasting laurels, and
done it in excellent time, and somehow
we wooed the old gentleman into good
humor
/ learned from the small brother, who
was flushed with pride, that Bessie
was a bed-ridden. crippled sister, who
never went out nowhere. Perhaps
this disclosure deprived me of some Of
the romance / had woven into my as
sumed history of Jim; but it made OF
the latter for me a moral as we'll as a
physical hero.
Some one gave Jim's father cigar
and programme, and he stayed
right along to see his boy win
two more races. And when the day
was over We saw the old man drive of
beside his two sons, behind the old
white horse. pleased as Punch, and
sucking at the butt OF his cigar.-C. G.
Rodgerson, in Detroit Free Press.
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MEsT AND sourA

AT Heborn. Ind. burglars robbed the
safe of Bryant DOwd Il Co of SIC, O00,
then set the building on fire, and that
and seven other buildings were de-
strOyed
II the streets Of Milwaukee William
Clarke. president Of the Sheboygan
Electric Light * Power Company. was
robbed OF SO, 500 in cash.
FIRE destroyed the Chebovgan Lum-
Der COmpany's docks at Cheboygan,
Mich. causing a loss of S2O0, 900.
ARTHUR HARoLD's home at Seattle,
Wash. was burned. and his wife and
two little children persisted in the
flames
The firm OF Thomas H. Allen & Co. Of
Memphis. Tenn. one of the oldest and
most extensive cotton commission con-
Germs in IA South. failed fc- SIS Goa
THE death 81 James Milton Smith.
ex-governor 0! Georgia anu suige Of
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WATCHING THE OTHERS.
n Western Congress He's QUE
Exnerlenee ut "A ElnneE Party.

n Western Congressman He's QuPer
Experience at "a Dinner Party.
Obviously tne hest thing to do when
ono is in doubt about any thing at a din
ner party is to watch the others. But
there are so many strange fixings-
new ones, at all events-to be found at
tho tables of the rich in these days
that the inexperienced may we'll be ex-
cused feeling puzzled occasionally. A
true story is told of a Western Con-
gresham from an agricultural district,
who found himself a guest, not long
ago, at dinner given by Cabinet Of
ficer from his State.
lie discovered a miniature silver hay
fork at the side of his plate. the like
nesses OF which he saw the other PEG
pie uso for their oysters. He did tbs
same, and was so far all right, helpiGg
himself to salt with very small gold
spade provided for the purpose. 1t re-
minded him of the tools he had en-
ployed many time to dig potatoes
with, save for the metal OF potatocs
themselves, mashed, he was PRESENT. '
helped to a portion and he found this,
his fellow guests utilized an instru
ment, the like of which he was also
supplied with. to push the vegetable
upon their forks.
subsequently he learned that the in
strument was called 'pusher, but at
the time il seemed to him nothing
more nor less than a diminutive hoe,
in the exact shape OF which it was I'M
deniably constructed.
But there was one utensil that made
him extremely nervous, inasmuch as
he could not imagine for what purpose
II was intended, and he was carefully
guarding himself against possible
fdur pas. For course after course he
watched his fellow guests TO see when
they would bring the curious tool into
play. 1t was not, however, until the
asparagus came on that he saw an
eminent diplomat who sat opposite
pick up the silver hay rake from beside
his plate and employ 1t to convey the
vegetable to his mouth.
"Wellr' calculated the Congressman
under his breath. so tha.'s what the
thing - forl But why in bla4cs. ii
we're goin' into farming for the dinne'
table, don't we have threshing ma
cnine to make the beefsteak tender,
end a moving machine to clear of the
crum bs. Washington Star.
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LATER.

THE Fitty-hrst Congress reassembled
at noon on the LIST, and after short ses-
sions both Senate and House took re-
coss in order to enable the joint COM
mittee to notify the President of their
readiness TO receive his message. On
reassembling the message was read
In the Senate Messrs. Carey and War
rem. of the new State o. Wyoming,
took the oath of Office as Senators. In
the House bills were introduced for the
free coinage of silver and providing
that no person now on the pension rolls,
or who may be placed on them, shall
receive less than Sc month. The PEN
sion bill lsl35, O99, 1851 was reported.
BY the capsizing of boat at Evans
Vile, Ind, five negroes we're drowned.
ELIAS MILLER who murdered his sis
ter-in-law, Mrs. Emma johnson, on
January 10 last near Marysville, was
hanged on the LIST in the penitentiary at
Columbus o.
Two sQUAw men living on Bad river,
in South Dakota, were lynched by a
vigilance committee for cattle stealing.
THE statement Of the public debt is
sued on the LIST showed the total debt
TO be 81. 549, 29G, 1876; cash in the Treasury,
S675, 500. 1856; debt less cash in Treasury,
Ss7S, 435, 939. Increase during November,
So. Is ',sl9. Decrease since June 80. 1890,
S24, O32. COG.
SIX persons were poisoned at Green
wood. Ind. by eating head cheese that
had been made in brass kettle. and
two would die.
THOMAS C. JONES was inaugurated
Governor of Alabama on the LIST to sue
coed Thomas Seay.
The second annual convention of the
National Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial Union commenced on the LIST at
Ocala, Fla.
INDIANS in the vicinity OF Pouca, L.
T., have begun ghost-daIcing, and APP
pear in war paint and very insOlent
liz the contest for the worlds billiard
championship and a purse Of $1,000 at
New York Jacob Schaefer, of Chicago.
defeated George +. Slosson, of New
York, By score OF 500 to 609.
IN the shoe shops at Rochester, \. Y.
., 600 persons we're locked out
SECRETARY OF TuE TREASURY WIN
DON in his report OF the operations OF
his department for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1890, says the total rec ipts
were si63 POS. 0sO and the total expendi-
lures SS5s 6ls 5s4. The revenues for
the present fiscal year were estimated
at Si06 600. 600 and the expenditures at
1854. 600. 600. leaving a surplus OF $50 :
900, 600 The estimates for the year
1922 were: Receipts. sSTs, 900, 900; ex-
penditures, 1851, So, goo.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
RICH WISCONSIN.
The Taxable Property of tbs state Is p
at e579.S39,542.

The Taxable Property of tbs state Is Put
at s579.s39.54e.
According &c the abstract OF assess-
ment filed in the Secretary of ct ke's
Office, the following exhibit is made:
There are in the State 43S245 horses. valued
al sl7 405 s93; s22 cattle. yaluei Of SIS 3i9
Ire; 6,9S5 mules, valued at sl9Q IA; sl7, l25
sl,ep. valued at 81. if7 ESQ., 663 T5i swine valued
81 A.5i2, $50; 252 $50 wagons sleighs. etc. val
aed at Is Isl. go; B. 043 watches. valued at
el.oSC.724 The value of the bank stock in the
State is sil 05l. 759. The merchants and man
ufacturers' stock is valued NJ S3o.5os, 9sl.
The value Of notes. mortgages accounts, ETC.,
assessed Is IS az, $40. All other personal prop
erty in the State is assessed at s25 $751; 1853. The
total value OF all personal property is sll2,3l,-
56S; the total acreage OF land owned in fee sim
pie in the State 81 372 il6 acres and it is valued
~ s267.s44.3 29. The value OF city and village
lots is tle9 6S3.645. The total assessed value OF
the personal property 10 the State as shown
above is Si2, SIS, and OF the real estate,
s4o7. ia making the total valuation Of tax
able property In the State s579, $50. $40.
The Secretary OF State has also made an alb
strsct Of the marriages. births and deaths re-
corded in the past two years In 1889 the nsm-
Der OF marriages recorded was a. 7l0 OF births.
AID; OF deaths. g91s In 1883 the number OF
marriages recorded was 1918; OF births, "a 90S;
OF deaths, 1910.
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A PECULIAR REPTILE.
Origin and Life History of the Queer
Horse-Hair Snake.

Origin and Lie History OF the Queer
Horse-Hair Snake.
The horse-hair snake is a common
source of error. The creature that is
usually called by that name originates
and has life history as follows: A
small fiesh-colored mite is in the water.
i changes to a purplish lead color and
comes to the top of the water, where ii
sports for time, and, when looking
across water on still evening. especial
ly If looking toward the setting sun,
one can see masses of these tiny crea-
lures that look like smoke on the water.
When they reach this stage of develop
ment they leave the water and get out
on the leaves and grass. Here, as OPP
portunity offers, they attach themselves
TO the feet of large insects-especially
OF grasshoppers. katydids, etc. The
legs of these insects being hollow, they
crawl up them, where they grow till
they fill up the legs and sometimes the
cavities of the bodies of these large in
sects. This accounts for the fat, clumsy
condition of many of these insects.
After a rain, in which the insects
drown, the full-fedged horse-hair snake
comes forth to delight the small boy
and to interest the student of nature,
after which they lay eggs in the water,
il it does not dry up too soon. and curl
around them for time. and about the
time the eggs hatch into the little flesh
colored mites first described. the snakes
die st. Louis Globe Democrat.
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Rothsehild sentenced TO Death.

A strange story comes from Bjelina In
Bosnia. A rumor is current among the
peasants OF the district that Baron
Albert Rothschild has been sentenced
to death, and that his execution will
shortly take place unless he succeeds
In finding substitute prepared to suffer
death on the scaffold for a consideration
OF one million forms. The authorities
at Bjelina have for several weeks past
been pestered by applicants prepared to
have their heads cut off for the bench.
of the Austin Croesus 1t appears. how
ever, that the applicants have formed a
syndicate, among whom the million was
TO be divided, and that lots were drawn
for tho victim. The authorities have
experienced some difficulty in attempt
ing to convince the candidates for death
that the rumor Is without foundation -
Pail Nall Gasetse.
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material remained unused 10 cut the
cost down to $3.50.
The barn rests on cedar posts, with
the first story feet o inches in the
clear; all space above this being used
for hay loft Two pieces of sxS's are
spiked across the building. near the
plates. to hold the center together. On
the rafters, in line over the upper
window, are lxG-inch collar beams. In
the floor is Sx3-foot opening, for pass
ing the hay down into alley near the
east door. The exterior view of barn
shows the west side, and the south end.
The openings in grain bins are fitted
with sliding boards inside the stud
dings, so as to be put in or removed at
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Genius looks to the cause of life; it
proceeds from within outward. whilst
talent goes from without inward.
Talent finds its models and methods
and ends in society, exists for exhi-
bition, and goes TO the soul only for
power to work; genius is its own end,
and draws it's means and the style Of its
architecture from within, going abroad
only for audience and spectators, as we
adapt our voice and phrase to the dis
lance and character of the ear we speak
to. All your learning OF all literature
would never enable you to anticipate
one of its thoughts or expressions, and
yet each is natural and familiar "a
household words Ralph Waldo EN-
erson.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
A GOOD BARN.

1t Can he ruIit For Three Hundred Dol
lars or Less.
John A. oberg, York County. Neb +,
writes: a have often noticed plans OF
barns and other buildings in Orange
Judd Farmer, but they have ELL been
very large and expensive. herewith
furnish plan tsee illustrations) fo- a
small barn-one which will do for an
s0-acre farm, or even larger place.
The plan was drafted by me for neigh
Dor of mine; and, although improve
ments might be made in several places
about the building. / send it as erected.
The bill of lumber and hardware cost
S340; paint, IS; work, $50; total, s295.
When the building was finished, enough
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HORTICULTURAL HINTS

WHEN the grapes are full ripe and the
weather is clear and dry is the time to
pick grapes
Do NOT forget TO project the young
trees from mice and rabbits. Bank up
about them; smear with blood or use
other protection
SPEAKISG of hardy varieties, they d.
not amount to pinch Of snuff. That
is. We mean to say that it is the very
last quality that should be inquired
for. We want varieties that are pro-
life, and OF good quality. We can pro
tsct them easily enough
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THE motto adopted by the Daughters
OF the American Revolution. of which
organization Mrs Harrison is president,
is Amor Patriae''-''love Of country"
the insignia either a tea pot OF spinning
wheel; and the figure OF a maid of 1915
as the device uTOn the badge. The
associations aim Is TO perpetuats the
record OF the historical deeds of the
women of the revolution.
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Fell Seventy Feet.

George Doak fell from the top of
the smokestack on Leyk's planning
mill at Kewaunee and was killed.
Doak was an old sailor. For the last
few years he had been tarring smoke
stacks for a living. Last year he fell
from stack the distance of eighty-six
feet, and came out with only broken
leg. This time he fell seventy feet,
striking on his head on the roof of the
engine-house, with the result stated.
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THE Boston Journal SAYS there are
causes which so far to explain the non
entertaining character of the average
young man 10 the average young per
son OF the opposite sex One is that he
is too much engrossed in himself and
the things which interest him. The
young man who goes into the society Of
cultivated young women and has moth
ing better 10 offer than baseball talk
Or "reminiscences Of college scrapes
will make h,nself entertaining. If at
all. OF " by n king himself ridiculous.
The average yong man Is in danger Of
being left behind, intellectually. by the
average young woman.
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THREE young soldiers near Warsaw.
Russia, returned from a dehauch with
blood on their clothes and the state
mont that the7 had beaten some one
they did not know. At the same time
n sergeant in their regiment was found
murdered, and the three soldiers we're
tried. convicted and shot within twenty
four hours. The next day another
soldier surrendered a. the murderer
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A TORONTO man while examining an
DID musket, which he did not know was
paded, touched a lighted match TO
the nipple" The gun went of and the
shock threw the man 70 the floor. When
picked up be was dead. and il was said
that his death was due to fright
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THE Southern law papers tell story
OF cOlOred justice of the peace in Mis-
sissippi who was very careful TO enter
on mis- docket every item of public husi-
ness that cam, before him. lie did not
have any ordinary cases to decide last
year, and the only entry on the blank
forms sent TO him to fill out was this:
plaintiff. Bill Jones; defendant, Silvia
johnson; officer, justice OF the peace;
Judgment, married; costs paid by plain
Till: satisfaction by both parties"
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A MAN from WoonsOcket, obliged TO
visit Boston on business. timed his trip
so as to be able 10 hear Mark Twain
lecture at fremont Temple BY some
misunderstanding he mistook the day,
ard happened in on one of Mr. Joseph
Cooks lectures. He listened TO the
lOng discourse without discovering his
mistake. thinking all the time that
the lecturer was the famous humorist
On his return 70 NOOnsocket his fam
lily questioned him as TO the lecture.
WAS it funny?" he was asked Wall,
slowly replied he traveller. lit was
funny. but it warn't so desperate
funnv"
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New Use for q nroomstIck.

Miss Rosa Damp, the young lady who
pounded Prof. Fehlandt of the Third
ward school in Ashland with broom
stick, has become quite heroine. 1t
was claimed by Miss Damp's friends
that Mr.. Fehlandt ordered her father,
the janitor of the school-house. to lift
his hat to him tFehlandt) and that it
was in this way that the alteration
commenced. She had been presented
with diamond ring bearing the follow
ing inscription: presented to Miss Rosa
Damp in commemoration of her heroic
defense of the rights of lady, by her
many friends"
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Owing to the prevalence of hog
cholera in Southern Wisconsin packers
find it difficult to find supplies for
Strengthening, and an early suspension
of the business was looked for. The
disease had broken out in Monroe,
Darlington, Shullsburg and other local
tiles, and entire droves wero succumb.
ing to its ravages.
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THERE are more public holidays in
Honolulu than in any other citv in the
world Among the days observed arc
Queen Victoria's birthday. Coronation
lay. all the French and Portuguese hOl-
days, the American Thanksgiving day
and the Chinese New Year
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NATURE seems 70 be doing its best to
keep down the population of the world
BY its deStructiveness in Oriental conn-
tries Some months ago the Yellow
river. swollen BY heavy rainfall. spread
over the country, submerging over 5000
square miles. Ten thousand persons
were drowned and 5000 soon died Of
starvation II is estimated that $780,
OOO more will have TO depend upon ch p
ity until the next wheat harvest in
Nav. 1891. a storm sweptover the Chi
nese sea. causing the loss OF over a thou
sand lives. Many thousands died from
the cholera epidemic in China, Japan
Corea aud alOng the Cochin.China coast
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GROUND PLAN OF ABOVE.

pleasure. All studs are 2x6-inch, Ii
feet; floors are of ship-lap, and the out
side of drop siding. Doors are made Of
flooring. and they and the windows are
neatly cased with dressed material.
The price of lumber here is $50 per
thousand on an average. Where lumber
is cheaper. as in Illinois. this same
barn might be constructed for $500 or
less. The bin Of material is as follows: