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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-28
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
styles That Are Considered En- Reggie for
Late summer DAYS.

styles That Are Considered En- Reggie for
Late summer Days.
Sweet-pea blossoms, white and color
ed, real and artificial, are the popular
decorative flowers of the moment.
Fine Irish point lace, in pure white
and pale beige tints, is made use of for
bonnets for evening drives, and is also
much used on sailor and garden-party
hats of Neapolitan braid
Among the expensive waistcoats worn
with rich white cloth blazers, are those
of bright yellow faille striped with
diagonal bands of black velvet. red
Victoria silk models sprayed with very
small white flowers, pale-green silk gill
cts shot with gold, and trimmed with fine
gold galloons, and snow-white corded
silk waistcoats in Louis XIV. style with
silver buttons and delicate silver en-
broidery, or with handsome white
enamel buttons with Rhinestone CEN
tiers, the fronts, collar and pocket-iaps
of pure white silk embroidery
A charming toilet, recently worn at a
fashionable garden fete was of white
foulard, with a broad rose-pink stripe
in it, and delicate and beautifully
shaded Towering of pink roses between
the stripes The bodice had shoulder
puffs nd yoke of strawberry silk with
rich lace points over the yoke. A Cor
day collar was trimmed with bands of fine
gold passementerie, and from this col
lar fell light jabot of the costly lace.
A pointed girdle of the gold garniture
finished the bodice at the waist.
A Directoire coat to be worn over
skirts of very expensive black lace, is
made of pale primrose-yellow silk, with
a narrow stripe of butter-yellow satin
in it. This opens over full front of
superb black silk net over plain yellow
satin. At the lower edge of this vest
are bars of black velvet ribbon. There
is also a deft arrangement of net and
velvet ribbon around the neck and at
the edge of the Vandyked sleeves.
Ladies are wearing with their pretty
outing costumes the long chamois
gloves which protect tho arms from
the suns rays, and which can be
washed in light suds and made fresh
and tidy in appearance. The white
CASTLE soap used is put in the water,
and not rubbed directly on the gloves.
Also for strong, serviceable wear are
used the gloves of real Russia leather,
which are sold in tan and other brown
shades, including mahogany. These
gloves are easily recognized by the pc
culiar perfume which is always present
with this particular make of leather,
attributable to a certain kind of oil used
in the tanning process. N. Y. Evening
Post
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-28
PILOT KNOB MINE.


The Famous Mountain of Iron Has Ceased
to BE Productive.
The cele brated Pilot Knob mines have
been worked since 1916, and during the
years intervening to the present time
have produced an almost fabulous
amount of ore. The mines reached
their zenith in 1854, when they pro-
duced 200, 900 tons. This output was
continued for about three years, when
it began rapidly falling off, and two
years ago the Vulcan works, whose
capacity is $4,000 tons per month, were
closed for want of sufficient ore. The
company continued to prospect, how
ever, feeling confident that it would
soon strike another paying vein. The
prospecting failed to develop a vein,
and as last resort the company sunk
another shaft 140 feet deep, the ex-
pense of which was enormous. This
failed also, and the conclusion was
forced upon the company that the
mountain of iron" was exhausted.
Prospecting was continued, however,
but very quietly, until a vein was struck
nearer the surface. This vein was moth
ing like the original vein, however, the
output being only seven cars daily. The
mines were quietly stripped of all the
machinery, and scarcely any of it is TO
be found there at this time.
The furnaces and FORCES were built in
1s49 by the Pilot Knob. Iron Company,
and in 1858 were acquired by Chouteau,
Harrison & Vale. Before the Iron
Mountain railroad was completed to
this point the output had to be carried
over the Ozark mountains to Ste. Gene
We've, Mo. 1t finally came into the
possession of the St Louis Ore and
Steel Company.
The location of the mine is historic
ally interesting, as it was one of the
worst nests of bushwhackers developed
by the war. 1t was at Pilot Knob that
Ulysses S. Grant received his commits
sion as General. 1t was at Pilot Knob
that the United States headquarters for
the Southwest we're established. 10 was
at Pilot Knob that General Hardee sur
rendered in 1861, and it was on this same
spot that the celebrated battle of Pilot
Knob was fought in September of 1864.
And now, like the tales of the war,
the erstwhile famous pilot Knob
Nine" the supposed Golconda, is a
thing of the past, shattered strong
hold ST Iouis Renublic
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-28

the causes just named need never be
expected to make a consistently notable
record. The lasting quality is often i'm
paired by the condition of the feet, and
only those horses that have been either
naturally endowed with perfect feet,
kept in that condition by an intelligent
care, or those whose imperfections HAYS
been remedied by the application Of
scientific principles to the treatment Of
the hoof, have succeeded in achieving
great things. 1t is through the mastery
of the science of the foot that Mr.. Bow
ner has caused many of his famous
horses to improve. The day is coming
when this science will be generally rec
ognized among horsemen everywhere.
DAVID RoBEH6e.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-28
HORTICULTURAL HINTS.

Do NOT let the weeds overrun the gar
den. Do not let the weeds overrun any
thing.
If you wish stocky canes for bearing
fruit next year on your blackherries and
raspberries, pinch back the shoots.
If plants are to be set in summer
great care must be taken. 1t is always
better to set them just before a rain
commences.
If the apples are not picked until they
are dead ripe they are not fit to send to
market. Summer apples should be
picked before getting too ripe.
WHY do not people grow Kohl Rabi
moro? asks correspondent. We do not
know Everybody who has it likes it,,
and it is not difficult to grow
FEED all the useless apples, or apples
that can not be sold at a profit for any
reason, to stock. Horses, cattle, sheep
and hogs will relish them.
IN answer to correspondent who
asks how much summer pruning we
would give a weak growing grape vine,
we would say that we would not sum-
mer prune it at all
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-28
FARM AND GARDEN.
BARN PLAN.
1t should Come Pretty Near Being What
the Average Farmer Wants.

1t should Come Pretty Near Being What
the Average Farmer Wants.
As will be seen by the illustration,
this plan will give good light and ven
tilation and enable us to use the barn
floor for feed-room, and will bring the
slices convenient to both stables. The
two silo pits are each 20 feet square
with depth of "a feet, and when full
will hold over 10, 900 cubic feet of ensi-
lage, or enough to feed forty cows one
and half cubic feet each day for SEQ
DAYS. believe it is conceded that it is
best to feed some dry food with ensiiage,
and that one cubic foot day is enough
for COW, but even il two feet per day
was fed to each of forty cows these
slices would hold enough for $40 days
feed. do not fully show in the draw
ing the arrangement of doors and
windows, as the farmer who builds will
know best where he wants them.
/ should locate the barnyards at the
right. and they can be covered or pro-
tected as desired. IL wheat or other
grain is grown on the farm it can be
stored either in the silo rits-one at
least of which would probably not be in
use at that season-or over the horse
stable where there would be large
space for storage, and the loft above the
COW stable at the end of the barn floor
can be filed with straw.
1t will be seen that this is not base
ment barn. The main barn is 40x60
feet, and each wing is 24xGO. rep
resents the two silo pits, each 20 feet
square b II b and b b b are the box
stalls for cows, or three or four calves can
be wintered in each of them. are the
COW stables, each with stalls for20 cows,
and the manure ditch and walk behind
the COWS and the wide Manager between
them. The feed boxes for grain are
spiked to the partitions between the
cows, and are foot above the floor of
the manager and project half their width
over the manger and half over the stall
floor ID is the barn floor or driveway,
which is also used as feed room. + is
the horse stable made like the COW
stable with a wide manger for both
rows of horses to eat from; it contains
six single stalls, each 5 feet wide in the
clear, and two box stalls each feet
wide inside measure; stables are IL feet
wide from manager back to wall.
have used stable of this width for
i've years. and find it ample. The
manger is five feet wide and its floor, as
we'll as that of the COW manger, should
be about foot higher than that on
which the stock stands. + +, are for
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-28

HENRY CLAWS ISLAND.
Its Name Was sinnyquinon and 1t Made
Him Very Popular.

| Fifty or sixty years ago the journey
| from New York or Washington to Ken
lucky was not made in twenty hours in
a vestibule train with dining-room at
tachment The traveller must take
the numbering twelve passenger coach,
or do as Representatives Congress
often did, go on horseback. In those
days of slow communication and high
postage the receiving of letter from
any distant point was really an event.
| II the letter was of any public interest
it was passed about from neighbor to
neighbor and read and re-read till the
paper was fairly worn out
A Kentucky correspondent says that
when letters were received from Henry
Clay at Washington by any of his consti-
tuents, they were commonly sent to
Lexington to be publicly read from the
courthouse steps, notice of the coming
event having been sent out through the
adjacent counties.
| On one occasion. when the question
of the annexation of Texas was agi-
tating the country, the news was cir
culatod that letter had boon received
from Mr.. Clay calculating the subject.
/ FROM near anu Tar IAc poOplc hOtheu W
the place appointed.
Amid the breathless silence, broken
only by occasional shouts and cheers,
the stentorian voice of the reader de-
livered the clear, incisive sentences.
And this" he read at the end of a
paragraph, this is the sine qua non. p"
And shortly afterward the same Latin
| phrase was repeated
The words were too much for the old
gray-headed listener, an illiterate man,
as President Lincoln would have said,
but not an ignorant man. He had left
his pillow standing in the furrow, and
had come ten miles to hear Mr.. Clay's
opinions; and he wished to understand
what he heard. Sine qua non! That
was something he knew nothing about.
lie turned to neighbor.
what on earth does Mr.. Clay mean
by his Sinnyquinon?' he asked.
flush, you idiotl' answered the 9TH
err man. Don't you know that SHINY
quinon is an island in Passamaquoddy
bay? Mr.. Clay won't give it up to the
British, though they're all after it."
'Good for him. responded the inquir-
ing patriot. Then raising his voice and
waving his tattered old hat, he shouted:
"Hurrah for Henry Clay, that won't
give up to the British Hurrah for Sim
nyquinon! Down with the British! Hur-
rah for Clay!'
With one accord the whole assembly
joined in the cry, until the streets re-
sounded with cheers. They knew not
why they shouted, any more than did
the famous assembly at Ephesus, but
Mr.. Clay and his Sinnyquinon will long
be remembered in Lexington. Youth
| Companion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-28
HE HUMAN BRAIN.
IL Is One of tho Most Vascular systems
in the Body.

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in the Body.
DIR. G. Stanley Hall, in an address
upon Recent Advances in Scientific
Psychology" says: 1t is only recently
that the brain has been at all under
stood. The brain convolutions have
nothing to do with psychology, but we
must go deeper and study the mind
through it's functions. We know lat
the functions of sight, speech and
motion are connected with certain
parts of the brain. The method of ex-
pertinent which found these results has
given way to the morphological method.
Researches have been made by which
we are able to trace certain fibers even
into the cortex, and greater results are
expected. There have been many at
tempts to count the fibers of the brain,
but with unsatisfactory results. 1t is
thought that there are $780, 900 fibers in
a single retina. Attempts to count the
cells show that they exist in hundreds
of millions in the brain. The brain Is
one of the most vascular systems in
the body, and in it, too, the chemical
changes are very rapid. Thus we have
TO do in our studies with an organ that
is most complex. All these studies are
very laborious and require much train.
ing. To many minds all this looks like
materialism, but the scientific studen {
no longer regards the terms idealism
and materialism. 1t is unscientific to
speak of them as finalities or proved.
Mental force, whatever it is, is no more
connected with material forms than Is
electricity.
With regard to function. We are
able to determine the time it takes for
a sensation to pass to the brain and
generate will impulse. Several COM
pick psychic impulses have also been
analysed. We know how long it takes
to make a choice. We also know the
time il takes for the mind to pass from
one object TO another. There are many
practical results that may be worked
ont from these facts. The topic OF
rhythm involves several psychic con-
stants which have been established.
We know not yet just how much
rhythm has done for the race. 1t is a
fundamental characteristic of the
human mind underlying music and
speech. The psycho-physic law has
given many results. AS the stimulus
of pleasure increases in geometrical
ratio, the sensation increases in
arithmetical ratio. II the ratio be
correct, we have a law TO fix the rela-
ton between mind and matter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-28
CONCERNING POETRY.


Judicious Reading OF 1t win Give One
Command OF Language.
A girl said to me few days ago of a
friend of hers: II never in my life
knew anybody who had such flow of
language as she has. She is never at
loss for q word Of comparison or an APP
propriate quotation. How in the world
does she do itP' Well. asked her, and
this is what the good talker said:
when ! was a very little girl my
great delight was TO read and study
poetry. learned poems by heart to re-
cite at school, to say TO my mother and
to delight my brothers with. / have al
ways kept up that habit, and every day,
as / am dressing, 1 have an open book
on my bureau and learn something by
heart even IL it is only a verse of four
lines. have never given drawing-room
recitations, for know should simply
bore people, but have gotten a great
deal of pleasure myself from the habit,
and / believe 1t has done more to give
me good command of words than any
thing else.
If you take bit of advice from me
you will chose to begin on the shorter
poems of Austin Dobsin, of Owen Mere
dith, or dear old Tom Hood or Adelaide
Proctor, and later on, of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning and Rossetti. You
know the last was the poet who so dear
ly loved his wife that he buried with her
the poems which he had written beside
her, and which had never been publish
ed. Many years after his friends insist
ed that these poems should be disinter-
red, and it was found when the coffin
opened that her wonderful blonde hair
had grown to her feet and formed a net
work that glistened like gold thread in
the sun over the bundle of papers. II
you do not care for these poets, take any
other you like, but do not try to do too
much at once. The little by little Is the
very best theory in life if you want to
gain any thing. Home Journal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-28
BARN PLAN.

storing oats and ground feed, the larger
bin being eight by twelve feet, and the
two smaller ones each six by eight feet:
p is passage six feet wide, to enable
us TO run truck from the barn floor
into the nSnger with ensilage or other
feed. GG are the driveways, which are
used as manure sheds, and which have
double doors at each end so the team
can be driven through them.
have not figured on the cost of ma
terial for this building, but from expe-
rience In building barns | should expect
to put this up complete, of first-class
material, for about $4,000, with lumber
worth on an average SIT per NJ and
shingles 81 per Nj. | should floor the
slices and stables with concrete, as it
would cost little if any more than good
two-inch plank, ana would be far
cheaper in the long run. If any one
can show plan by which the feed can
be handled more conveniently than in
this, hope we shall hear from them
Waldo H. Brown, in Country Gentleman.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-28

is Robert Bonner. IL has been a valua-
BILE lesson 10 me TO be present when Mr..
BOnner's horses were shod. and / am
familiar with many of their peculiari-
ties. Maud = has very pure gait and
wears light shoe. Her forward shoes
weight from ten to twelve ounces and
the hind shoes from six 70 eight ounces
She could wear six-Ounce shoe better
than any other il il would resist her
weigh and stay together. Before he
bought Maud :. Mr.. bonner knew that
one Of her hind feet had given her
trouble: but he was not concerned about
il. although those who had been with
her for years said it could not be re-
moved. II was supposed that no doctor
could be found to remove it The
trouble in the foot looked serious. yet
II was almost instantly removed BY Mr.
Bonner himself when the mare came
into his stable.
Twenty-three years ago was in Mon
tresl when heard that Dexter had gone
lame left that city and came TO New
York 70 cure him il possible, bat before
arrived ME. Bonner had cured the great
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-28

The belted r and waists continue in
high favor, and are made in various
ways, the simplest and one of the very
popular forms being the old-fashIoned
model seen in portraits of our grand
mothers, with many rows of fine gaug-
ings both front and back. Many fabrics
arranged in this style are made up with
out Innings; the waist is thus more east
ly and perfectly fitted. and is worn over
a half-low sill. underwaist The dress
maker generally prefers having lining
of batiste or silk sewed in with the
seams 10 strengthen them, but this does
not do very well with wash dresses, as
the two different materials will not
shrink in the same proportion after
being Numbered Another pretty waist
very much used by those who have
slight figures has the top laid in fine
brier-stitched plaits TO represent a
pointed yoke. The sleeves are plated
and stitched to correspond, these plait-
ings inst above the elbow on the full
sleeve, and again at the wrist above the
fiaring cuff.-N. Y. Post
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-28
LAZYLAND.

Three travellers wandered along the strand,
Each with a stai in his feeble hands
And they chauted lows
We are 5000
Ing slOw-o-w-
Ly 10 Lazyland
They re left on eating and drinking, there:
They never do any thing, therei
They never walk,
sud they never talk,
And hey fall asleep without Ninking there
"NObody's in hurry there;
They are nOt permitted 70 worry there;
II is wide, srn place,
And not face
Shows any symptom OF furry, there.
"No bells are ruEg in the morning. there;
They care not at all for adjoining. there;
All sounds are hushed
And a man who rushed
Would be treated with absolute scornins
there
-They do not take any papers therei
No politicians cut capeTs there;
They have no views
And they tell no news.
And they burn no midnight tapers, there.
"No lovers are ever permitted there;
Reformers are not admitted, there;
They argue not
In that peaceful spot,
And their clothes all come ready fitted, there
SElectricity has not been heard Of there,
And steam has been spoken no word Of, there
They stay where they are
And coach or car
They have not so much as third Of. there;
"Oh. This world is a truly crazy land;
"A worrying, hurrying, may land;
We can not stay;
We must md the way
II there q a way-to Lazyiand-"
NIargaret Vandegrift, in Century
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-08-28
THE RUSSIAN ARMY.
IL Has Been Defeated Verv Frequent
hut Never Routed.

1t Has Been Defeated verv Frequently,
hut Never Routed.
1t is a curious fact in connection with
the Russian army that while it has often
met defeat it was never routed; though
beaten and driven from the field, it
never became panic-stricken mob.
This Conference under defeat was due to
its splendid discipline and rigid ODE
dience to orders, which were paramount
TO all other considerations. A Russian
force was moving to the attack of a
position that was impregnable. A SUI
perior officer asked the commander
where he was going. ITO attack the
position in front" he answered. but
it is folly-madness." 81 know 1t, but
have my orders" ''Oh, you have orders;
move on, thenl" the officer coolly said.
This incident takes good deal of
what has always been regarded as ex-
aggeration out of the story that is told
of a Russian army surgeon on his pro-
fessional round. On entering a ward
the officer in charge gives the command,
attention. when each inmate at once
takes the position of a soldier.
Tongues outi' is the next order, fol-
lowed by the instant projection of that
member. The surgeon, accompanied by
an attendant, then proceeds along the
line. examining each tongue and giving
directions as to treatment When the
inspection is over and the medical Off
Ger takes his departure the command
Tongues inn releases the men from
their unpleasant and ludicrous position,
and 'In place, restt" allows the men
to resume their cots. And yet military
writers admit that the soldier who
thinks always gets away with the hui
man machine in battle. Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.