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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
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DOMESTIC CONCERNS.


Whole cloves are now used to ex-
terminate the merciless and industrious
moth. 1t is said they are more effectual
as destroying angel than either to-
bacco. camphor or cedar shavings.
Milk porridge. carefully prepared
and almost as thick as a custard, is
delicacy when properly sweetened and
favored, enjoyed alike by invalids and
the robust.
DO not allow your pansies and other
Towering plants to seed, but pluck or
cut the flowers as soon as they are per-
feeted. Seeding exhausts a plant and
lessons the number of flowers.
One of the simplest and most eff
ficient means of fumigating a room is
by dropping vinegar slowly upon very
hot iron shovel; cover from the
kitchen stove will answer very we'll.
Tobacco smoke quickly contain
mates delicate fruit of all kinds. A few
whiffs blown upon box of raspberries
will entirely destroy the flavor of the
fruit and render it unpalatable.
Egg Rolls: Two eggs, well beaten,
one small teacup of milk, one table,
spoonful lard or melted butter, two tea
spoonfuls baking powder, and enough
flour to make stiff as biscuit. Roll out,
cut the desired size, and bake in hot
oven.
Wafer Pudding: Put a cup and a
half of milk to boil, put in cupful OF
butter, stir until melted, mix in half a
pint of flour, let come TO a boil. take off
the fire and set to cool. Beat six eggs
until light, add TO the mixture, and
beat hard Set in a warm place for
thirty minutes. Grease muffin rings,
pour in little of the mixture and bake
in quick oven. Serve hot with sauce.
Ladies' Home journal.
To Wash Dishes ouick,y-Dishpan
nearly full hot water, and white cloth;
spread a large, thick towel over the
table at one side. Wash dishes quickly
and turn upon the fowl to drain. Dry
knives, forks and spoons, wash and wipe
pans etc. Pour out the water, spread
wiping towel over the dishes and leave
them. After awhile you may set them
away if you like, for il the water was
warm and clean, they will be dry and
shining. Budget.
Potato Biscuit: Make biscuit in the
way you prefer-with buttermilk and
soda, cream tar tar and soda, or baking
powder or without any of these, which
is decidedly best if thoroughly beaten,
and add one large cupful mashed pota-
toes (sweet or Irish, seasoned with but
ter. to each quart of flour. Mix well in
the flour, before putting in other ingre-
dents, roll and cut, bake in a quick
oven, and be sure to eat hot. Split with
fork and spread with sweet butter, as
you eat them, and they will almost melt
in your mouth, if properly made.-Good
Housekeeper.
In these days of exorbitant prices
for ice, the following method for pre-
serving it in pitcher will not come
amfss to those who must needs econo-
mize: Fill the pitcher with ice and
water and set it on the center of piece
of paper; then gather the paper up to-
gether at the top and place the ends
tightly together, placing a strong rub
Der band around the coil to hold it
close, so as to exclude the air. A pitch
er of ice-water treated in this manner
has been known to stand over night
with scarcely perceptible melting of
the ice"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
SOME THINGS WE EAT.
Parasites That Are Good Enough III "
Can Only Think So.

Parasites That Are Good Enough III We
Can Only Think SO.
The man who first ate an oyster doubt
less had the thanks of his neighbors for
what must have been TO them an alb
horrent experiment. Fremonts men en-
loved the food found in deserted In
dian hut; but the half-starved creatures
all became sick, when they learned that
the delicious morsel was nothing but
maggots dried. But to-day the same
lessons are being taught Much that
we enjoy-ignorance being bliss-may
make the gourmand start for little
while when he learns what he is eating,
until, as of the oyster, he can say:
What matters SO long as it is good"
In the vicinity of Charleston portions
of the drum fish, PdgOnias chronlis, are
eagerly sought for by the epicure, as
being more gelatinous and toothsome
than any other part, and it is usual
for the generous host to give the
preference of this part to his guest.
DIR. Joseph Leidy has discovered some
years since that this delicious morsel,
was simply huge parasitic worm coiled
into a mass about three inches long and
one inch wide, known as AcaRthOr.
hgnchus reptdns. Recently he was par.
taking of some extremely delicious
stewed terrapins. Numerous eggs were
scattered through the mass, as they APP
peared to be. They were very nice.
Something aroused his suspicion, and
he quietly put some in his handker.
chief. He found it yellOwish bag con-
tanning thirty yellowish-white maggots.
parasites on the turtle, and very much
resembling those of Gastrophitus, the
well-known horse parasite. 1t is some
compensation to know that they were
good" when cooked, If we can only
come to think so. DIR. Leidy remarked.
while detailing his discovery, that
there were parasites in almost all the
creatures we eat Around the roes OF
the herring are often coiled worms; in
black bass or shad. what people may
take for a vessel or a nerve is worm
in clans they often eat a species OF
leech. and in oysters little parasitic
crabs. The tape-worms are introduced
into our systems from rare beef, and
trichin8 from rare pork, though they
are all good enough when properly
cooked, though he said for his own part
he had not yet cultivated a taste foI
any but the little crab parasite. N. Y.
TpIanandant
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07

SIX-MlLE ElSH-LINES.
How They Catch Sturgeon in winnebago
Lake, Wisconsin.


Lake, Wisconsin.
They fish with fish-lines six miles
long in Winnebago Lake, Wisconsin,
and use 10000 hooks on every line.
If they don't haul up 2. ZOO fish every
time they lift line they don't think
they are having very good luck.
And every fish will weigh from 20 to
20 pounds.
That's the way they fish for surgeons
out there. One of these fish-lines will
| reach half way across the lake. 1t is
rope an inch in diameter. 1t is stretched
out into the lake by means of boats,
large buoys being attached toit at inter
walls to keep it on the surface.
The 90, 600 hooks, baited with pieces
Of meat or fish, are lowered TO the bot
tom of the lake by snoods of the proper
/ length. which are fastened to the main
line 1t takes 90 boats, with two men
! in each, to look after the big fish-line.
Each boat has 1000 of the snoods in its
charge. These are tied to the main line
IS inches apart, and to bait all the hooks
once requires not less than 1000 pounds
| Of bait.
| 1t takes the 40 men and 90 boats IL
hours TO set the line for the first time.
After that the fishermen are employed
/ in going over the line, hauling in the
| surgeons that have been caught on the
hooks, and rebaiting where it is neces
sary.
To haul in 7o-pound sturgeon from
I the bot N of the lake is an exciting
piece OF work, hut it requires more
{ eli Ho6 al hos
4 the hook several inches down his throat,
having sucked bait and all down with
out any regard to consequences. There
4 is no danger of losing the fish unless the
/ hook breaks.
| When the fish is hauled to the surface
/ a gaff as big as a meat hook is thrust
| into the side of its head, and the stur-
/ geon is hauled into the boat and knock
| ed in the head with heavy maui Tho
/ hook that captured it is cut out of its
/ throat, rebaited, and thrown back into
/ the lake. The average catch of the stur-
4 geon is one to every 10 hooks.
! When a boat is loaded with all it can
carry of sturgeon, the fishermen row
back to shore. where others take the
fish and dispose of them. The fsher-
men know the particular sections of the
line on which they work by the arrange
ment of the buoys. These are placed %
feet apart, and one in $50 of them is
painted red. The space between the
red buoys contains 1000 hooks.
The sections are numbered and the
boats are numbered. The boats work
the sections as their numbers correspond
with the section numbers.
While the average catch is one stur-
geon to 10 hooks, it is no uncommon
thing for the fishermen to find but one
or two on an entire section of 1000
hooks. The very next section may con-
tain the full average of 100 and perhaps
| more.-N. Y. Sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
PITH AND POINT.

--She-"Yes. dear, I'm afraid cook
wants Judgment" He-"Judgment! She
wants executioni"-Punch.
-"And where's your little brother,
Flossie?' ''0h ives been divorced"
''Divorced?" Yes: mammals got him
and papa's got men. Y. Sun.
what so rare as day in June.
Indeed, every one knows there's thirty
of 'em every year, and they're gen.
orally hot enough to remember, too.
--Citizen-'What do you think of the
proposition to enlist Indians in the
regular army?" Captain Westpoint--
''IndiansP Pom honahl Why, they
cawn't dawnce. IN. Y. Weekly.
Gar of Russia Gust out of bed)-
''What has become of my undershirt?"
Valet-"Please your Majesty, the black
smiths putting fresh rivets in it. "-Bos-
ton Herald.
There are some people who are so
pleasant when they are absent that
one can almost forgive them for being
so unbearable when they are present -
Boston Transcript
Miss Crabtree-'sSee what nice shoes
/ purchased for five dollars" Miss
Giltnan-''Nhy. these I'm wearing cost
ten dollars" Miss C.-''Well, i sup
pose trey charge according to size"
Married Sister-"And, of course,
Laura, you will go TO Rome or Florence
for your honeymoon" Laura-'Oh,
dear, no! / couldn't think of going fur
Their than The Isle of Wight with a man
know little or nothing ofl"-Punch.
--Tom-"Do you suppose she has
spoken to her parents about the engage
nent yet?" Dick-'I know she has
spoken to her father. He met me to-
day and invited me to drink" Tom
s'But he's a temperance man" Dick
''Of course, and he wanted to try me"
Yankee Blade.
The country editor who takes all
his advertis sments out in trade will be
gratified to learn that new pill, just
patented, viii keep man alive whole
week without eating All he wants
now to make him happy is liver strip
that will make one suit of clothes last
seventy years. National Publisher
and Printer.
The little Boston boy walked in and
sat down with a grieved and disappoint-
ed look on his face. ''Why, Osgoodson,"
said his mother, what is the matter?
Have you quarreled with little Elliott
Fields-James?" Il have not, mamma, ="
answered 0sgoodson, wiping his glasses,
thoughtfully, but l can not associate
with person who chews gum"
Uncle Sam-"What's the matter
now?" Frontier Citizen-'I stole farm
from the fellow who was on it, and
drove him off, and now he is coming
back with lot of his relatives to kill
me-" Uncle Sam--"Well, you ought to
be killed" Frontier Citizen-"But the
fellow / stole the land from is an In
dian" Uncle Sam-"O, we'll, I'll order
out the rmy."-Omaha World.
Family Doctor should no longer
conceal the truth from you, sir. You
have only few days to live" Mr..
Levelhead (weakly)-"Then, doctor, |
wish you would buy me ticket to Eu-
rope and have me placed on board a
steamer" but you could not live to
reach Europe" II do not wish to.
want to be buried at sea, so that my
family will be saved the ruinous ex-
| pense of funeral, and have something
/ left to live on. IN. Y. Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
A GOPHER TRAP.

deep which is dug around the land TO
be protected. The ditch must, of course,
be wider than the cans Gophers travel
at night, and, on trying to come into
the Enclosure, tumble into the ditch and
run along until they drop into the cans.
A smoker" or sulphur gun" is some
times used. This is a sort OF rude
pump made of two pieces of stoyepipe,
for forcing the fumes Of sulphur into
the gophers hole. Bisulphide of carbon
is also used. A piece of cotton half the
size of ones fist is saturated with the
liquid and thrust into the burrow as
far as possible, the opening being care
fully stopped. This should be done
when the ground is damp. We are also
told of an ingenious trap for catching
jack rabbits. A piece of ground about
fifteen feet square in locality infested
by rabbits, is surrounded by a board
fence high enough to prevent their
jumping over. On one side a plank
runs from the ground, with an eaay
slope, to the top of the pen, and pro-
jects foot over the Enclosure. Above
the projecting end, and just far enough
in front of it to cause the animal to
reach, lose his balance, and fall into the
pen, is hung some tempting bait. A
little bait is scattered along outside the
pen and along the plank to attract the
rabbits.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY.

fell in love with Phyllis Brown,
She was the incest girl in town.
Her father had a bank account
OF 3 superfiuous amount;
ana so the more / thought OF il
The clearer seemed the benent
That such n union would confer
At least on me-perhaps on her,
For she was pretty. such a nosei
such grace a. curves, such tint OF rosel
Such sylph-like elegance Of pOse'
such sunny eyes Of heavenly blue,
With little eherubs peeping through.
Such golden bangs oh. every sacA
Was the superlatiye OF muehi
And educatedf She could speak
Italian. Spanish, VOlapuk,
French Russian, Swedish. Danish. Dutch,
And every language born Of Babel
To read and speak them she was able.
So learned. pretty-rich besides;
Yes. she would be the gem OF brides
And ]. though poor, had every taste,
The wealth Of Kroisos would have graced;
Sol resolved 70 risk my fate
In winning such an equal mate
At first my chances promised far;
She met me half way everywhere;
Accepted my civilities:
And sometimes made me III az ease
When on parting held her hand
And felt that mute You understand"
Expressed BY Just the faintest squeeze
Il can not think she was a fiirt,
And yet she did il 20 my hurt ,
One day j crossed the Ruhicou:
knew her father would have gone;
! rang her dOOr-bell inly bent
on knowing n she would consent
She sent me down little note,
The coolest that she ever wrote:
:" Excuse me please, from seeing you.
I've some hing else that must do:
I'll see y0I later II We live
I asked the fO0tman n he knew
Why such an answer she should give;
Tue servant shrewdly shook his head;
shes busy. ST., he era Feiy said,
'-DtCS'0ptHq a negafire'"'
Nathan Haskell Dole. in Century.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
WIT AND WISDOM.

Every base occupation makes one
sharp in its practice and dull in every
other.-Sir p. Sidney.
The trouble is the busy men are so
cross, and the loafers are so good
natured. Globe.
The rule of taking a thing without
asking for it. stops with kissing your
girl.-Philadelphi Times.
The homage that man pays to a
handsome woman, a woman has been
known to pay to very mean man.
The average legislature does less
harm in attending baseball game than
in making legislation Baltimore
American.
The nearer in front you get the
more people there are to criticise your
round shoulders and side-hill heels
Milwaukee Journal.
No matter how generous-hearted a
man may be, it never seems to do him
any good to sit down and think how rich
his next-door neighbor is.-Somerville
Journal.
Feeling, sentiment, instinct. not
reason and Judgment, control in de-
termlnln8 marriages. 1uS Hdppy mar
riages are those that make themselves.
Denver Times.
"A man may fatter himself that he
was born to rule, but before he has been
married three months he will have the
supreme satisfaction of seeing his wife
get Richmond Recorder.
-'Of course we must recognize the
fact" said one politician TO the other,
shat honesty is the best policy" Par
ticularly," was the rejoinder, ''when it's
the other fellow that's honest. Wash
ington Post.
There is sense in which it is our
duty to accept things as we find them. We
must accept the Inevitable, but we must
make the best of the inevitable and
press on to victory in spite of it-Cum-
berland Presbyterian.
When you hear of the i'll luck of a
friend, do not go to him to make in
quiries, for it would cause him pain.
Go rather to his best friend who will
gladly tell you all about the misfortunes
of his friend. In this way you avoid
giving trouble by giving pleasure.
ton Journal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
Tie f,,rninn nOint

Tile turning point
in woman's life brings peculiar
weaknesses and ailments. DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription
brings relief and cure. 1t is a
powerful, invigorating, restorative
tonic and nervine. 1t imparts
strength to the whole system IN
general, and to the uterine organs
and appendages in particular.
Rundown" debilitated and deli
cate women need it. It's a legit.-
mate medicine purely vegetable,
perfectly harmless. It's guaranteed
to give satisfaction in every case, or
money refunded. Nothing else does
as much. You only pay for the
good you get. Can you ask more?
As a regulator and promoter of
functional action, at that critical
period of change from girlhood to
womanhood, Favorite Prescrip-
ton" is a perfectly safe remedial
agent, and can produce only good
results. 1t is equally efficacious and
valuable in its effects when taken
for those disorders and derange-
ments incident to that later and
most critical period, known as "Ihe
Change of Life"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
CURIOUS SEPulChER.
The Strange Receptacle on the Top of
Handsome London Residence.

The Strange Receptacle on the Top of Q
Handsome London Residence.
Riding in a cab down Oxford street
London, one can hardly fail to notice q
curious object on the top OF very hand
some residence some few hundred yards
TO the right after passing the Marble
Arch. As seen from the street. it ap
pears to be a framework of glass, some
twelve feet long by six broad and foul
high. Through the glass can plainly
be seen a large oblong box, painted
black. which looks for all the world
like a coffin. This house, although
under ordinary circumstances 1T would
bring an enormous rental, has remained
untenanted for more than a quarter OF
century.
The story goes that the last tenant
who was the owner of the property, wa
an eccentric and very wealthy old getle
maa- When he died. away back in the
sixties, he left a provision in his will
that uhis body should not be buried
but should be placed in a coffin inside
the structure referred to above, which
he had had built during his lifetime
Every Londoner in the vicinity of the
Marble Arch firmly believes that the
old mans bones are 70 this day lying il
the strange glass receptacle on the
house top
The agent for the property, although
lac Processes TO disbelieve the story o.
the old mans odd burial place. says thai
the curious box. whatever 1t may con
tain, will never be removed. ever
though the house stands tenantless til
it crumbles with decay.-St Louis Re
public.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
How to Exterminate Moths.

For moths salt is the best extermi-
nator. The nuns in one of the hospital
converts have tried every thing else
without success, and their experience is
valuable, as they have so much cloth
ing of the sick who go there, and
strangers, who dying there, often leave
quantities of clothing, etc. They had
a room full of feathers, which were sent
there for pillow making. and they were
in despair, as they could not exter-
inmate the moths, until they were aa-
vised to try common salt They
sorinkled it around. and in a week or
ten days they were altogether rid of
the moths. They are never troubled
now. In heavy veltet carpets sweeping
them with salt cleans and keeps them
from moths, as PARTICLES of the salt re-
main in the carpets and corners. Salt
is not hurtful tn any one, and has no
bad smell Enquirer
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
FILLING I'm Nail Holes.

The following method of filling up
nail holes in wood is not only simple,
but said to be effectuaL Take fine saw
dust and mix into thick paste with
glue, pound it into the hole, and when
dry it will make the wood as good as
new. Frank Christian, Jr., in Stove
and Hardware, says he has followed
this plan for thirty years with unvary-
ing success in repairing bellows, which
Is the most severe test known Often
by frequent attachment of new leather
to old bellows frames, the wood be-
comes so perforated that there is no
space to drive the nails, and even If
there was, the remaining holes would
allow the air to escape. Glue and saw
dust paste do the work, while lead,
putty and other remedies often fail.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-07
The steel Age.

In the history of the world, various peri
DDS have been designated as the Golden
Age, the Silver a e, the Bronze Age The
Iron Age, and so on The FIRST was long,
long time ago, the aga of the early poets,
the age in WI ich mar lived in true pastoral
simplicity, the age % demi gods and heroes.
The Bronze Age was the age when man
made his implements OF husbandry and his
weapons for the chase from bronze. The
Iron Age embraces the portion of time
when that most useful of all metals came
into use-and caused a revolution IN the
mechanic arts. The present day may be
fitly characterized as the Age of Steel, it
having largely supplanted iron IN thous-
and ways. Our civilization would be M
possible without it-for our railroads would
not exist without steel. ssThe Burlington
Belongs 10 the present age, its 1000 miles OF
rails being ali steel, and its equipment,
speed, and safety unrivaled- For tickets
BY this route, and any information, address
nearest railroad agent, or write TO w. G.
Kenyon, Gen. Pass. agent, St. Paul, Mimi.