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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30
EXPENSIVE MEDICINES.
The Cost of Special Drugs Employed I
Special Treatment.


Special Treatment.
Some medicines are very expensive
At recent exhibition of the American
Public Health Association in Brooklyn
one manufacturing chemist, E. Merck,
exhibited case of bottles. about
enough to fill an ordinary barrel, the
total value of which was over $50, 600.
The most costly drug in the case was
labeled ''IIom atropine hydrobromate
cryst." 1t was all in one bottle, con-
tanning six pounds, and was valued at
S12, 600, or at the rate of -, 100 pound.
This drug is an alkaloid, artifically pre-
pared from atrophine. Its effects are
similar to those of atrophine, but not
so lasting. 1t is preparation of BELLA
dona, and is chiefly used in treatment
of the eyes, and always in minute
quantities. 1t expands the pupils of the
eye.
This substance is striking illrstra-
ton of the application of chemistry to
well known medicines. The physician
does not deal so much with substances in
their crude form as with the quintes-
sences or active principles. BY this
means all superfuous matter is removed
and only that part which is needed to
be used in the healing art is given to
the patient. Fhus,- not only have the
roots, herbs, flowers, seeds, banks,
Juices. ores and earths of ancient medi-
cines been forced to give up their essen
tial and active parts to the retort or
crucible of the chemist and to reappear
freed from dross or inert matter, re-
duced in quantity and vastly magnified
in intensity of action, but entirely new
combinations of elements have been
devised by chemical science and formed
by chemical art; and wholly new
and previously unthought of modes Of
action in the human organism have been
achieved by some of these new forma-
tions. AS the healing art has become
specialized, and no one physician claims
to be able to treat all ailments, so the
use of special drugs for special treat
ment has become necessary, so that it is
difficult to find even a druggist who is
familiar with every one of the drugs now
in the market. The United States Phar-
macopoeia is huge book, with the con-
tents of which but few are thoroughly
familiar. Yet to get list of drugs in
actual use it will be necessary to study
also the German Pharmacopeia and the
British Pharmacopeia. In the exhibit
ton referred to one house showed $50
articles only out of 1000 produced in the
laboratories.-N. Y. Sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30
Ruins of q CITY in the Sea.

A city at the bottom of the sea was
seen toward the end of November, near
Trepton, on the shores of the Baltic.
For a week or ten days powerful wind
had been blowing from the south and on
the day the wonderful sight was wit
messed, it amounted to little less than
a hurricane. The waters were pushed
away from the shore in great mountains,
uncovering portion of the ground usu-
ally hidden from sight by the waters. 1t
was at this time that the ruins of the city
of Regamuende, once flourishing COM
mercial center, but swallowed up by the
Baltic between five and six centuries
ago, was revealed to the startled watch
ers in the light house near the shore
The unusual spectacle was enjoyed for
only short time, when the storm abated
and the waves returned. and again hid
from view what had once been the abode
Of busy men and women.-St. Louis Re-
public.
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vANpERsILT,s FIRST BOAT.
Some Good Stories of the Founder of the
Family of nIillionsires.


Family of Millionsires.
The reading given recently by Mrs.
Coventry Waddell at her Stuyvesant
Square home served to bring out many
interesting new anecdotes of Commo-
dore Vanderbilt. Mrs. Waddell's friend
ship with the founder of the Vanderbilt
family was lifelong and her recollec-
tions of the great money-getter are of
nature to cast strong light upon his
personality. The following story Illus
trative of his energy and push in early
youth was told.
1t is well-known fact that for years
Commodore Vanderbilt sailed a ''per-
iauger" and in it took daily cargo of
green groceries to the New York mar
ket. The shrewd way in which he be-
came skipper of his first craft is thor
oughly characteristic. 1t seems that at
the age of sixteen Nelly" had devel-
oped strong affection for rowing, sail
ing and other water sports. An old
Staten Island fisherman had sail-boat
which he offered to sell for 500, and.
NELLY" thought that if he could only
become the owner of this particular boat
he would indeed be happy. He hadn't
the money, however, and as last re-
source, applied to his mother.
Nelly" she said, ''you see that
eight-acre lot out there" pointing to an
unpromising-lookin stony field.
NELLY" said he did. "Well, If you
will pillow, harrow and seed that lot you
shall have the $780," "Neilly" induced
several boys of the neighborhood by
promises of jolly excursions, to turn in
and help him. In a week they had the
job done, and the 500 was paid over.
NELLY" then beat the owner of the
boat down to sos, and purchased the
craft at that price. The Commodore to
the end of his days never ceased to re-
greet that on his first sail he broke hole
in the boats bottom that it cost S. to re-
pair.
Mrs. Waddell once remarked to the
Commodore, II dare say, many wealthy
NEWCOMERS would be happy if they
had pockets in their shrouds, in which
t>ey could carry to the next world the
wealth they accumulate in this"
"Ah, no." replied Mr.. Vanderbilt. eff
shrouds had pockets the strife and tur-
four-fold."
At one time, while living on Staten
Island, the Commodore had an exasper-
atingly balky horse. He never could be
sure that the brute wouldn't stop in the
middle of the road, and he often walked
in preference to taking chances with
the animal. One day be. started out and
had driven only about hAf mile when
the beast came to dead halt. An en-
energetic belaboring, backing and saw
ing had no effect and the Commodore
turned around and went home. He got
a bag of lump sugar and again started
out, leading the horse and feeding him
a lump of sugar every few steps. This
BE continued until the place where the
horse baked was passed, after which he
got in and had no difficulty in driving to
his journeys end. In telling the story
to Mrs. Waddell, he said: 81 have tried
the same course of procedure with WON
en- and it has always proved effective. -
n. Y. Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30

In both India and Egypt it is women
who collect the fuel for tho family.
They do this by going along the road
and gathering up the droppings, which
they take home and dry for fre-wood.
Their wages are very small where they
work by the day, and neither men nor
women get more than enough to keep an
American laborer in cigars. Farm
laborers in India get from six to eight
cents day, and masons receive about
ten cents day. In my tour around the
world found no place where the people
were so poor as in India, and nowhere
else in the world will you find food so
scarce that the people look like living
skeletons, and regulate the amount they
eat according to the amount necessary
to sustain life. In Japan and Burmah
and in Korea the people are poor, but
their poverty is nothing like this. In
Egypt they are ground to death with
taxation, but their stomachs are not
stinted to such degree that they can
barely keep alive. There are no signs
of suffering in the faces and limbs of
the people of Palestine and Turkey, and
the only place where starvation is con-
tinually staring the man in the face is
in certain districts of India.-F. G. Car
penter, in National Tribune.
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pITH AND POINT.

"A man is great when the trifiing in
cidents o. his life are noticed.
An unruly stomach is not to be tanned
by lectures. Table Talk.
Success depends quite as much on
adaptability as ability.
How ridiculous are the mistakes OF
others; how perfectly excusable our
own.
The poorer man is, the more apt
he is to refuse the pennies you give him
in change.
When mans temper gets the best
of him, it reveals the worst of him.
Altoona Tribune.
"A miser grows rich by seeming poor;
an extravagant man grows poor by SEEM
ing rich. --Shenstone.
-Unceasing and relentless watching
over ourselves is the price of success in
the higher aims of life.
There is not enough justice in the
world to prevent the right from occa-
sionally getting ft.-Binghamton
Leader.
BE courageous and undetermined;
our own hearts and not other mems
opinions of us, form our true honor.
1t is cold, clammy thing to say, but
those people who treat friendship the
same way as any other selfishness get
most out of it.-Atchison Globe.
The world forgets million men
where it immortalizes one. Fame is a
fine thing, but it's harder to get than a
prize in the lottery.-Texas Siftings.
1t is the man who orders room on
the top floor who takes up the most room
in writing his name on the hotel regis
ter.
The sympathies of people are always
with the unfortunate, because the people
know they are so liable to be unfortu-
nate themselves.
1T is said flat ''pien are the archi-
tects of their own fortunes" This ex-
plains why so many of them fail, for but
few get beyond the nave.-Philadelphi
Press.
If some people would stop worrying
about the past and worry little about
the future they would improve their
chances Of success. Detroit Free Press.
What an unmarried woman doesn't
know about bringing up children could
be written on the back of postage
stamp, but it would ruin the stamp.-N.
Y. Commercial.
With the most of us, the man who
believes as we do is not only right, but
strong, able and successful; our SYM
pathies are so strongly with him that we
take it for granted he is carrying every
thing before him.-United Presbyterian.
In removing friction, in calming ir-
ritation, in promoting sympathy, in in
clining the hearts of others towards, in
stead of against him, the speaker of
kind words exerts force much greater
than he conceives of. Results that
could never be accomplished by harsh
compulsion or an iron will often flow
easily and pleasantly under the in
MIGRATING influence of kind words
Once A Week.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30
LATE AT CHURCH.

We attended the meeting together and sat
in the principal row,
Where people Of state and position come,
mainly their riches to show
Her cheeks were fair and a. glowing as cos
metic plasters could be;
And her lips dropped incense delightful, as
they parted in speaking TO me
The masters and servants Of fashion fled
into the door pews around,
While others climbed into the galleries or
were seated down nearer the ground,
The service was half way completed and
hush had fallen DER all
As still as the silence that gathers, at the
side Of the funeral pail;
When in through one Of the dOOrways. that
down to the affairs side led.
Came pale aud nervous old woman. with a
heavy and unbr0ken tread.
All eyes for a moment we're wrested from
the voice that so eIoquently burned
And down on the blushing old lady with
contempt and anger we're turned.
wv eyes with the rest were upon her, but my
heart rose up 10 relate
Why the poor old soul was respondent and
the cause 81 her being late
at the board in the Kitchen she labored, the
supper's confusion 10 clear.
While the household we're of in their car
rage 10 bask in the worshipful sphere.
The maid az my side leaned toward me, dis
closing her true heart OF stone;
She said with contenptuous bearing, in a
despiteful. sharp undcrtone.
"Just look at the foolish old mortal, that
nervous and dirty old bag,
Coming in at this hour-how disgustingi-in
a dress that Is scarcely rag"
Did she say any more. 1 can't tell you 90
more did l hear-fOr my mind
Wandered OF from that circle OF critics.
away from those lips 80 unkind.
And beautiful vision 1 witnessed at the
throne of eternal grace
Where The poor. the humble the weary. with
tn angels are equal IN place
She noted the change. and she asked me as
hOmeward We bent on our way
The reason my thoughts were so distant end
why I'd 50 little 10 say.
NV manhood awakened to tell her, but pity
bid me furbear.
And her vision changed to a fancy by re-
marks unburdened with care.
To-day in the street when I meet her, 1
speak with respect a before,
But 1 see i'm her smiles and her actions the
shrine of true woman no more.
The reason is simple and ample why 40 grim
and Indifferent be.
That dear old wOman's the mother of a
friend that i dearer than she
And / know in that land of the blessed,
where SORROW and grief are unknown,
When that dear old soul shall be summoned
TO appear at the heavenly throne,
The angels will welcome its coming with a
JOY knOwn only above,
For anguish Of earth is OF Heaven, license
of eternal love
Phil Hoffman. in Chicago Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30

AT the Government printing Office
in Washington few days agoone of the
pretty young women employed there
suddenly suspe nded toy rat before the
face of another employee. The latter
was so badly frightened that she faint
ed. Her fainting was followed by
spasms. Realizing the serious conse-
quences of her playfulness, the joker in
turn became frightened, and, taken sud
denly i'll, FASTENED to the toilet-room
where she, too, tainted and afterward
had hemorrhages. For awhile it was
feared that both women would die, but
they we're soon well enough 20 be .c-
moved to their homes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30
DRY FODDER ENSILAoE.

What an Iowa Farmer Thinks of tt
After Five Years Trial He Prefers 1t
to Green.
have had five years experience with
green ensilage, and four years with
corn cut and shocked in the milk, and
after standing a month run through the
cutter, ears and all, into the silo, and L
must say / like the dry fodder best
There is less labor in handling
and sure thing in keeping. |
found my wooden silo, at the end
of three years use with green en-
silage, was rotten and in need of re-
pairs, and lost by mold and rot from
ten to twenty-five per cent, a loss |
could i'll afford, but since using dry en-
silage have not lost pound.
l find that / can put as many stalks of
dry corn through as of green, as it ele-
Yates much easier. / have used five
different cutters, and not one of them
will do half as much as the manufact-
urers claim for them. | have no par
ticular praise for any make, only that
the Tornado cuts the most uniform of
any. | tried cooking corn after c. S.
RS direction after leaving it long
enough to see how it would keep. /
hauled it out on the pasture and found
it rotten on the bottom. mo more,
please"
/ have tried every kind of corn that
is recommended. but find the small yell
low dent the best 1t gives better
yield of grain to stalk of any, and does
not grow so tall, making it much easier
TO handle. l use low-wheel wagons to
haul on, with racks twenty feet long.
One man can load without getting OF
the wagon. Country Gentleman.
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MAKE HOME BRIGHT.
why DIR. Talmage Favors Indoor Sports
and Recreations.


and Recreations.
| commend to you among indoor
sports and recreations, parlor games and
amusements. We might make our
homes a hundred-fold more attractive
than they are. You will never keep
your boy away from outside dissipation
until ayou make your domestic circle
brighter than amy other place he can
find. Do not sit glum and with half
condemnatory look amid the sportful-
ness or your children. You were once
young yourself. DO not put on a sort of
supernatural gravity, as though you
never like sportfulness. You liked it
just as your shildren do. Some of you
we're full of mischief you have
never indicated to your children
never got up in the morning until you
were pulled out of bed. Do not stand
before your children pretending to be
specimens of immaculate goodness. Do
not, because your eyesight is dim and
your ankles are stiff. frown upon the
sp5rtiuIness which shows itself in the
first luster Of the eye and in the bound
ing foot of robust health. Do not sit
with the rheumatism wondering how
the children can go on so. Thank God
that they are so light of spirit, that
their laughter is so free, that their
spirits are so radiant Troubles come
soon enough TO them, and heart-breaks
and desolations and bereavement will
come soon enough. DO not try to FORE
stall it Do not try to anticipate it.
When the clouds come on the skies it is
tiEe enough to get out the reef-tackle.
DIR Talmage.
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Prettr Pictures in Sand.

Parisians nave lately been entertained
by a remarkable artist, who displays
wonderful skill in her peculiar form Of
painting. With plates Of various col
ored sand before her, she takes the sand
in her right hand and causes 1t to fall in
beautiful designs upon table. A bunch
of grapes is pictured with violet sand, a
leaf with green sand, the stalk with
brown sand. and relief and shadows by
other sands; when the work is brushed
away a bouquet of roses and other OBJ
jects are represented with the same dex-
terity and Pittsburgh Dis
patch
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30

The New York Central & Hudson River
Railroad is today recognized by the travel
ing public, and also quite generally by its
competitors, as being in many respects the
representative Trunk Line leading from
the Atlantic seaboard. The merit of this
distinction rests largely upon unsurpassed
natural advantages, supplemented by a
liberal and progressive policy.
1t is the aim of the CentraPs management
to provide for the patrons of this line the
best service attainable. and 10 this end all
the resources of this great company are in
diligently directed. splendid roadway,
admirable train service, and magnificent
equipment, are features which place the
New York Central in the foremost rank
among the railroads of the United States
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30

ONE of the most interesting features
of the turkey business is the way tur
keys ase put on the market. The farmer
who dallies in this branch of the bucolit
profession is blessed with one article
which he does not have to cart dozer
or more miles to town and hawk around
from door to door.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30

agricultural boiler is used. but any pat.
tern of wood-stove will do as well, il
nothing is wanted beyond warming the
drinking-water. The tank is made OF
pine planks. The drum and pipe under
water in the tank are OF galvanized iron,
with the joints soldered 10 make them
water-tight. The rest of The pipe and
elbows are common iron stove-pipe. The
pipe which rises from the tank should
run into chimney or through metal.
lie thimble in the roof. A quick fire o.
straw, corn-cobs or light wood viii
warm the water sufficiently. American
Agriculturist.
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"A well-known insurance company
has declined to pay policy on the life
of one of the victims of the Johnstown
flood. whose body was discovered in the
Conemsagh river two weeks afterward,
on the ground that his family did not
give the ten days notice required by the
contract.
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Consumption surely Cured.

To THE EDIToR:-Please inform your
readers that have a positive remedy FOR
the above named disease By its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. shall be glad to send
two bottles of my remedy FREE to any of
your readers who have consumption if they
viii send me their express and post Office
address Respectfully, Il. A. SLocUsi. NJ c.,
Isl Pearl street. New York.
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WHEN flock of hens do not pay, the
hest plan is to pick out the ones thai
a.s laying and sell of the others. 1t is
scroetimes the case that there are toe
many of them together. A few hem
wei kept will produce more eggs, pro
postionately, than larger number.
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few If any of the implements for the
care of trees here illustrated, and he
may get along very well without if he
uses common pruning saw, knife, ETC.,
properly. Yet the possession of perfect
tools affords not Little satisfaction to
the user, and it often facilitates the
work wonderfully. The implements
here shown are such as are in use by
German orchardists. Fig. is a pruning
saw fastened to handle; Figs. 2 and 8
are tree primers, similar to the ones we
have in use in America; Fig. is a sort
of hook and chisel combined, to be fast
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30
FARM AND GARDEN.
TOOLS FOR the ORCHARD.
The Successful Fruit-Grower should Hays
livery One of These.

1ne Sstccessiui frult-GroWer Shoulu Have
Every One of These.
All the tools needed and used by our
old settlers were an axe and an augur,
and with them they would construct
houses and repair sleighs, wagons and
implements, and this probably much
better than they could have done
it with a full set of carpenters
and wagon-maker's tools, if such
were suddenly given to them. To do
the best work requires not only the
proper tools, but also skill in their use.
The average orchardist probably has
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combined Kettle and Tank-Heater.

The experience of many leading dairy
men has proved that it is highly adj
vantageous to take the chill from the
drinking-water for dairy cows during
the winter months. Many appliances
have been devised. and some of them
patented, for simply warming the water
in tanks. The arrangement illustrated
herewith was devised by Alexander
Wilson, Fayette County, Ia, who has
it in practical use. 1t is net patented,
and may be made by any farmer, with
the aid Of tinsmith. An ordinary
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-30

Such is the fatal progress OF consumption.
How often is repeated the old, old story.
Yet not half so often as it was before the
knowledge came TO mankind that there was
a discovery in medical science by which the
dread disease could be arrested in its early
stages and the patient restored to health.
This wonderful remedy, is DR.. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery.
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CATARKH.
Catarrhal Deafness-Hay Fever-A Ne
Home Treatment.

TfDIHt ITtHIHItHts
Sufferers are not generally aware thai
these diseases are contagious, or that they
are due to the presence of living parasites
in the lining membrane of the nose ana
eustachian tubes. Microscopic research,
however, has proved this to be fact, and
the result of this discovery is that simple
remedy has been formulated whereby
Catarrh. Hay Fever and Catarrhal Deafness
are permanently cured in from one 10 three
simple applications made at home by the
patient once in two weeks.
N B.-This treatment is not snuff or an
ointment; both nave been discarded by
reputable physie ANS as injurious. A pamph-
let explaining this new treatment is sent on
receipt of three cents in stamps to pay
postage by A. III. Dixon & Son, cor. of John
and King Street, Toronto, Canada--Chris-
tan AduOcate.
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"'BRowS's BRONCHIAL TRocHEs' are ex-
cellent for the relief of Hoarseness or Sore
Throat. They are exceedingly effective. -
Christian World, London, Eng.
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a great number
in u S Q. f ig S.
Z and 8 represent
stiff brushes for
b ru S h G the
bodies of tree s
after the b a r k
has been scraped
off. The one is
fastened to t h o
end of a long
handle, and cal
culated to be
u 5 e d high up