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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-03-27
ERnM WASHINGTON

THE President on the 18th sent 5000
and Attorney -General Miller 500 to aid
the families of firemen who persisted by
the recent indianapolis fire.
DURING the first eight months of the
fiscal year ending June so, 1889, the to-
tai internal revenue collections we're
$50. s22. oil, being an increase of So, 49,
500 as compared with the collections
during the corresponding period of the
last fiscal year.
From every part Of the country reports
on the 2lst represented trade as fairly
satisfactory.
II the United States there were 200
business failures during the seven days
ended on the 2Ist. against 2O9 the
previous seven days. The total of fail
ures in the United States January l 70
date is 8, l67, against 3, 3SS in 1889
II his March report on the 21st to the
Agricultural Department Statistician
Dodge says the impoverished condition
of American farmers is due to overpro-
duction-
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 22d aggregated ST.
O45. 81, $50. against 81. 49,, 645, 7iS the pre-
vious week. As compared with the cor.
responding week of 1859 the increase
amounted 10 O.3
on the evening of the esd General
Robert Cumming Schenck. Congressman,
soldier and diplomat died in Washing
ton of pneumonia, in his slst year
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ANOTHER MATTER.
a Good Story Told of Couple of Coz
New England spinsters.

a Good Story Told of Couple of Good
New England spinsters.
IL has been often enough said that the
appearance of things depends largely
upon the point of view from which one
looks at them, and plenty Of illustra-
lions of this have been furnished at one
time and another. One that has in IL a
spice of drollery is story told OF some
nice old ladies-a story which shows
other phases of human nature as well as
the tendency to see every thing accord
ing TO ones own prejudices-
Miss Prudence and Miss Patience
were pair of charming elderly maiden
sisters. who lived with their father and
mother on one of those fine old New
England places of which so few are still
left in the possession of the original
families. The affairs of the establish
ment were largely carried on through
one of those faithful hired men" who
were half servant and half friend, and
who have now pretty nearly disap-
peared in the march of civilization.
William. genuine Yankee, felt his
own Importance, and was somewhat
brusque in speech. He had lived with
the family so long that 1t had ceased TO
enter his mind that they could get on
without him, and as a natural conse-
quence of his own appreciation of him
self he was often less respectful than
might have been deemed desirable for a
man in his position.
SISTER" Miss Prudence said to Miss
Patience one day, 81 really think we
shall have to get rid OF William. He is
so very disrespectful that there is no
living with him."
II don't think he is disrespectful, "
Patience answered. AT least, / haven't
heard any thing out of the way"
"Why, sister, you know that he
speaks of father as the old man and
mother as tho old woman"
''Well." Patience urged, defensively,
''father is an old man, and mother is an
old woman"
1T isn't for him to be noticing it II
they are," Prudence persisted. at
doesn't sound we'll"
'Oh, it is nonsense being so particu-
lar!" Patience reioined ''We can't
spare William just for trifie like that. >
YES" Patience said, ''but that isn't
the worst of it. You don't know the
way in which he speaks of us"
Elbow does he speak of us?" demanded
Patience, with sudden change of man.
ner.
HE calls u.s." Prudence said. solemn
ly. bringing the words out with awful
slowless, ''he calls US, you and me, sis
ter, the old maidsi"
''He doesn't darei" cried Patience, evil
IDENTIFY losing the virtue for which she
was christened.
"He does, sister. That is the way in
which he speaks of US, | assure you"
Then he must certainly go!" the
other declared. When he speaks OF
father and mother as old it is one thing,
but when he dares to call us old. and old
maids, too, that is very different thing,
and / will speak to William myself in
the morning, and tell him we shall not
want him on the place any longer. The
insolent fellow!"-Youth's Companion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-03-27
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

THE Manitoba Legislature on the 10th
passed the schools act abolishing the
right of the Roman Catholics TO have
separate schools and obliging all classes
of the community to patronize the ma
tional secular schools.
Or the 10Th the Emperor of Germany
appointed General Won Caprivi, Com
mander Of the Tenth Army Corps Chan
cellor, to succeed Prince Bismarck.
THERE were 100000 idle men through
out Great Britain on the 10Th owing to
the strike at Lancashire.
A PORTUGUESE customs official and his
escort of 500 natives were recently
massacred near Lake Nyasse, in East
Africa.
THE strike OF English coal miners
ended on the Goth in a complete surren-
der by the employers.
PRoCLAMATIoNs were issued by King
Malieto on the 2lst excluding HawaiianS
and Chinese from the Samoan islands
C. GORDON. the fve-mile champion
skater of 1859, won the ten-mile anna
teur skating championship of Canada
in 39:42 on the 21st at Montreal. The
time is sos below the American record
HAVANA advices of the 2ist state
that the Cuban sugar crop will show an
| increase of 10 per cent. as compared
with the previous one.
By the laundering of the British
steamer Ethel Gwendoline off the coast
of Scotland on the ed seven sailors
were drowned.
/ THE British steamer Virent was
abandoned at sea recently after the
mate and fourteen of her crew had been
/ lost.
a DYNAMITE explosion was caused a.
/ Huacho, Peru, by lightning on the 22t
and five men were killed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-03-27

Let the person whose name you wish
20 know inform you in which OF the up
right columns the first letter of name is
contained. II it be found but in one
column, it is the top letter; if it occurs
in more than one column it is found by
adding the alphabetical numbers of the
top letters of these columns and the sum
will be the number of the letter sought.
BY taking one letter at time, in this
way, the whole name can be ascer-
tanned. For example, take the word
Jane. is found in the two columns
beginning with Il and ii, which are the
second and eighth letters down the al
phabet; their sum is ten. and the tenth
letter down the alphabet is j, the letter
sought The next letter, A, appears in
but one column, where it stands at the
ton. n is seen in the columns headed
with Il, d and NJ, these are the second,
fourth and eighth letters of the alpha
bet. which, added, give the fourteenth,
or n, and so on. The use of this table
will excite no little curiosity among
those unacquainted with the foregoing.
Dies Moines ia Register.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

By fire in the Germania mine at
Hurley. Wis, on the 10Th, five miners
were burned to death. The property
loss was over SO. 200.
On the 18th Miss Jessie White, love-
" girl of 20 years. shot herself in Joliet,
Ill. dying instantly. She had been
troubled during the last three years by
an anonymous writer's threatening her
and otherwise annoying her.
NEAR Gainesville. Tex, meteor
weighing several hundred pounds fell
on the 18Th. 1t had the appearance of a
gigantic flint rock.
AT Brookfeld. Ind. Thomas Vande-
veer's saw-mill was blown up by dyna-
mite and completely wrecked on the
18th. The perPetrator was unknown.
FoUE companies Of United States
troops began patrolling the Cherokee
strip in Indian Territory on the 10th to
keep out the boomers
BY a collision on the Northwestern
road at Layalle. Wis. on the 18th five
passengers were seriously injured
AT Grenada. Miss. NJ. ]. Chatham
fwhite) was hanged on the 10Th for the
murder Of John Tillman (colorCd July
10 last
The death Of Ezekiel Sullivan. vet
eran OF the Mexican war, occurred at
Columbus, Ind, or the 18th, aged 1903
years.
On the 10th James 5. Kennedy. Jr.,
for eight years foreign money-order
clerk in the san Francisco post-office,
was arrested for embezzling $40, 600.
on the Goth a general raid against
the sellers o. liquors in Indian Territory
was commenced by United states Mar
shall Walker.
AT Minneapolis on the 10th the Min
nes9ta encampment. q. A. r.. elected
I James Compton, Of Fergus Falls, De-
partment Commander.
I FIRE DESTROYED two blocks of build
I ings in la Villa. a suburb OF Jackson
Vile. Fla, on the Goth Loss, S125, 900.
The dairy barn OF Asa Clothier. to-
rether with twelve head Of fine cows,
was destroyed by fire on the goth a. De
catur III.
I believers in man named George
Jacob Schweinfurth. who claims 20 be
\ Christ re-incarnatei. assembled on the
Goth near Rockford, Ill, for te-. days
meeting.
An Indian az the Standing Rock IN.
d. agency named Horn Cloud, killed
| squaw named Julia on the Goth because
she would not live with him, shot dead
her father, known as Irish Mike, and
| then took his own life.
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Do Your Eyes Trouble You?

Heterophoria, or weakness of some
one or more of the ocular muscles, is
very often a complication Of some error
of refraction, and even though a person
may wear the correct glass, this loss Of
equilibrium between the various mus
cles Of the eye may be the cause Of much
discomfort and distress, because where
the ocular muscles are not perfectly
balanced there is a continual strain upon
the weaker muscles in order 70 do its
work. and this alone will cause very
many headaches, neuralgias and nerv-
Gus symptoms generally. The optician
is unable to detect or remedy this con-
dition, which we believe can be and
should be corrected, in the large major
ity of cases. by the systematic exercise
of the weakened muscle with prisms,
instead of by the operation of cutting
the muscles, which we believe 20 be far
too frequently done by oculists; the
normal balance of the ocular muscles is.
to be sure. more quickly obtained by
cutting the strong muscle than it is by
the more slow process of strengthening
the weak muscle, but il has been the
writer's experience that the latter proc
ess has been the most permanent and
satisfactory n tha end.-Medicxl
Giassies.
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The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
1EY-EIRsr CONGRESS.

TIT
WEDNESDAY,, March 19.-In the Sem
ate Vice-President Morton occupied
the chair. Mr.. Voorhees, spoke on his
resolution as to the cause OF agricultural
depression, and Messrs Evarts and Call
spoke in favor of the Blair educational
bill. A bill to increase tho pension OF
a soldier of the war of lSl2-Isaac n.
DAILY. 9S years old-from SIS to $50 a
month was passed. In the House the
Maryland contested case of Mudd
against Compton was discussed, but no
action was taken. The report of the
committee on the worlds fair was pre-
scented.
THURSDAY, March 20.-The Blair edu-
cational bill was defeated in the Senate
by a vote of 81 to 81. Bills were
introduced TO provide new artificial
limbs for disabled soldiers every three
years instead of every five years; ex-
tending the Jurisdiction of circuit and
district courts to the great lakes and
connecting water. In the House bill
was introduced granting pensions to
persons who supported dependent faith
ers and mothers, and who. under exist
ing laws, would have been entitled to
pensions. The bill for a public build
ing at Burlington, Ia, was passed. BY
a vote of $50 to las Syndey E. Mudd
(Rep.) was declared the lawfully elected
Representative from the Fifth Mary
land district, thereby unseating Barnes
Compton.
FRIDAY, March 81. - In the Senate
the bill TO declare unlawful trusts
and combinations in restraint OF trade
and production was discussed. In the
House the pension appropriation bill
was passed; also the bill for the retire
ment of General Fremont with the rank
of Major-General, and appropriating
S25, 600 for the use of the people driven
from their homes by the floods now pre-
vailing in Arkansas. Mississippi and
Louisiana The Conger bill defining
and taxing compound lard was reported
favOrably. At the evening session
fifteen private pension bills were passed.
SATURDAY. March 22.-Senator Blair
reintroduced in the Senate his educa-
tional bill. modified so that the APP
preparation demanded is $50, 600, 900. A
bill appropriating 5000, 900 for a pub
lie building at Ashland, Wis, was re-
ported favorably. In the House a bill
was passed repeating the timber-culture
act, and petitions were presented against
the imposition of duty upon hides, op-
posing a tax on compound lard, and
| against material change in the immigra-
/ ton and naturalization laws.
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THE CONGO FREE STATE.
A Commonwealth in Which Every Civilized
NatiOn Il TnfereStei.

A Commonwealth in Which Every Civilized
Nation Is Interested.
The development of Central Africa
during the past dozen or score of years
has been wonderful. Individual effort
strongly supplemented by the co-opera-
ton of enterprising societies must be
given the credit for large part Of this
work; the nations of Europe came in
after much of the pioneering had been
accomplished. One of the earliest of
the European rulers to grasp the possi-
bilities of the Dark Continent was King
Leopold of Belgium. The International
African Association was first formed in
1876 at the suggestion of King Leopold,
who personally contributed funds TO sus-
tain it's work, and who served
as it's first president SANKEY'S
return in 1879 from the Congo
Valley gave new interest to the sub
ject of the development of Central
Africa, and when Stanley came back in
1854 he suggested the formation of a
''free state" from the recently discov-
cred territory. and an appeal was made
by the International African Associa-
ton to the Powers that the new state be
recognized. The United States prompt
ly responded, and other nations fol-
lowed. Then an international confer
ence was called by Prince Bismarck, to
meet at Berlin November IS, 1884, to
fix the boundaries of the Congo Free
State, and to adopt laws for the regula-
ton of trade. Within the bounds OF
the Free State there was to be perfect
free trade granted to all nations; slavery
was to be antagonized and suppressed,
and Christian missions encouraged.
The Congo Free State had cOnstitu-
ton devised for it by Prof. Aim,
and since his decease the work
was completed by Colonel Stranch
and Sir Travers Twiss- 1t is in
British colonial administration. at the
head of the State is a Governor and
under him are Deputy Governors presid-
ing over the different districts. The
central government is at Brussels, and
consists of the heads of the several de-
partments with the King of the Bel
gians as chief. The Legislature of Bel
GUM voted to place the sovereignty of
the Congo Free State under King Leo
pold individually, the Belgian Govern
ment and Belgium as a nation having
no power or responsibility in relation TO
the Free State. 1t should be added that
Stanley's services to Christianity in
opening up the way to missionaries are
very great. He has done in recent years
what no other man has done. The
worlds debt to Livingstone can not be
estimated; but Stanley's labors have
been of different character and during
/ a different period. Africa viii continue
/ TO be more and more the center of inter
/ est among the civilized nations of the
/ world.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
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LEARNING a LANGUAGE.
a Vocabulary of Ninety Words Answers
for Ordinary Use.

for Ordinary Use.
How annoying it is not TO be able to
understand language. With the scanty
Spanish at my command / am able to
ask for and get whatever ! want, but in
conversation can only obscurely guess
the speakers meaning by word caught
here and there, generally at the end Of
a sentence. If only they would speak
slowly. and use the shortest sentences
and simplest words! Yet it is a de-
cided advantage TO be able to speak the
language of the country, if only lit
tie; for the people always suppose that
you understand and know more than
you really do, and this is a material
benefit One can learn with ease, and
in very short time, all that is absS-
lutely necessary to make ones way
through foreign land Here are few
hints:
Take frsta lesson or two in pronuncia-
ton from a competent teacher; then
master about a dozen verbs-the auxil-
iaries, Of colrse-and several other ir-
regular verbs should be acquired with
perfect fexibility. Among the most use
full of the latter are, in French, pouUoir,
EOutoH anu Nttfs III oIdHAous put
querer and ir. Then the numerals should
be learned, and SO thoroughly as to be
able quickly to count a hundred back
ward. After all, these amount to only
two dozen words. Next follow half a
dozen propositions and half dozen ad-
verbs of time and place. And lastly.
brief vocabularies of nouns, those to use
in travelling (perhaps a dozen). at the
hotel Ia score), and in inquiring ones
way about town Ia dozen).
Altogether, / believe that a vocabulary
of ninety words, carefully selected,
would answer every pressing need. OF
course, in order to be thoroughly com
Portable. one should carry with him a
pocket dictionary. 1t is far better 20
procure this than any Of the converse
ton manuals offered at the bookstores
as royal roads 70 the acquisition OF Ian
guage. These are not to be recommend
ed; their vocabularies contain words that
one would never need, and omit some of
the most necessary; their ''conversa-
tons" are highly grammatical, stilted
and unnaturaL-Boston Traveller.
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FULL OF FUN.

-Tramp-"Could you give me lit
lie TO eat. madam" Madam-''oh,
how lucky The cooking club has just
gone, and you can eat all" But the
tramp had fed. IN. Y. Sun.
Above Suspicion.-"See here, John
Asterkin, your nose is as red as a beet.
| believe you've been drinking"
Don't sphose / drink-ic through m
noshe. do you?"-Binghampton Repub-
lican.
-Wickwire-"What board do you pay
at your new placer" Yabsley-"Three
dollars a week" Wickwire - "You
must get rather simple fare for that low
price," Yabsley-''O. no. It's quite
,omplicated-mostly hash, you know"
-Terre Haute Express.
Teacher ito new scholar) What is
your name. sonny?" Boy-"Gunn-
give me your full name" John @.
Gum" What is the G for?" Get
yer" what do you mean by that?"
well, all the boys call me Johnny Get
ger Gum, anyhow."-Texas Siftings.
Clothing Salesman-"Wen. how dc
you like this PATTERN" Customer
Cant you give me something a little
luieter? You see, ! frequently come
hOme after midnight, and it is a matter
Of some Importance to me not TO wake
lp my wife. "-Burlington Free Press.
Mrs. We're de Vere-'Don't you think
that this about sectarian schools is quite
iutile?" Mrs. Malaprop-"Indeed do.
Boys and girls went TO school together
when was q child, and il is all non
sense to say that they can't do Il same
thing Boston Post.
The rev Mrs. Brimley las the car
ciage leaves the housel-''Whad yo' set
lin on de fio' for, Claudie?" Mr.. Brim-
ley-"I doan' objec' L d. ole custom OBJ
aingin' shoes at d. bride. but seen dat
Iow-down Briggs coon a-pryin' son,'pn
offn' he's mules foot jess fore we
'tahted. Judge.
How to Decide.-'I am devoted to
phrenology, and | love the study and
pursuit of literature. and am puzzled as
to which | should make my life work,
said the student My dear boy" re-
turned the professor. ''why don't you
toss cent and decide the matter that
way? Heads, phrenology; tales, let
sers."-Harper's Bazaar.
Mr.. Garrick-'Glad to see you, old
man You're just in time to help me out
Of difficulty. We're starting a new
amateur dramatic club, and call our
selves the .Roscians' We also want a
short motto. which will be printed with
the rame on all programmes. Some
thing terse. you know. and Shorthand
well-sort of half apologetic, you know.
Now what would you suggest?" Mr..
--''Something Shorthand aprro-
pirate and pologetic-um-let me see
how would Don't Shoot suit your
Boston Beacon.
well, mum, must be afther LAWN
yez," announced the cook. what do
you mean? Why are you going?" asked
ner astonished mistress. II am going
20 be married next week" was the re-
ply. But, surely, Bridget you will
not leave me SO suddenly. You must
ask him to wait for few days. ''0h,
couldn't, num-" why not, pray?"
Sure. mum, I'd loike to oblige you, but
don't feel well enough acquainted with
1im TO ask such a thing London Tit
Bits
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
LIVING A DOUBLE LIFE.

Arrest of Citizen of Ashland Who Has
Two Families.
Herman Kruschke. who has hitherto
held an honorable position in Ashland.
where he has considerable property,
was recently arrested on the charge Of
bigamy, the complainant being resi-
dent of Appleton. Kruschke, who is of
Polish birth. is about sixty years old
and has wife and family in Ashland.
The complainant alleges that Kruschke
married her thirty-six years ago; that
she bore him six children and lived
with him until fifteen years ago, when,
she alleges, he deserted her and has
been trying to get divorce ever since.
Kruschke resisted the officers who served
the warrant of arrest and had to be
taken to Jail by force.
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THE AGE OF TREES.
II Can BE Told by Counting the Rings of IA
Cross Section of the Trunk.


From an article by Prof. +. w. Put
nam, on prehistoric Remains in the
Ohio Valley" in the Century, we quote
the following: ''Of late years several
writer's have brought forward many
arguments showing anew. what every
archaologist of experience knows, that
many of the mounds in the country were
made by the historic tribes. This has
been dwelt upon TO such an extent as to
make common the belief that all the
mounds and earthworks are of recent
origin. Some writer's even go so far as
20 imply that tree growth can not bs re-
lied upon, and state that the rings of
growth do not represent annual rings.
AS l am firmly convinced that
many OF the mounds and earth
works in the Ohio Valley exam
med by DIR. Metz and myself are far
older than the forest growth in Ohio can
possibly indicate, itters little about
the age OF the trees growing over such
mounds. However, as such a forest
growth gives us the minimum age of
these ancient works, it is important to
know what reliance can be placed on the
rings. In his report for 1857, Prof. Ii.
Z. Fernow, chief of the Division of For
estry in the United States Department
Of Agriculture, discusses the formation
Of the annual ring, when speaking of
tree growth. In letter recently re-
ceived from him, in which he points out
the probable cause of error in counting
the rings of prairie-grown trees, he
states that he considers any body and
every body an incompetent observer of
tree growth who would declare that, in
the temperate zones, the annual ring is
not the rule, its omission or duplication
the exception
Having received repeated assurance
to this effect from other botanists. re-
Gently again asked the question of Prof.
c. s Sargent, director of the Arnold
Arboretum, from whom / received the
following reply: Il have never seen
any thing to change my belief that in
trees growing outside OF the tropics each
layer of growth represents the growth
Of one year, and as far as | have been
able to verify statements to the con-
trary, which have appeared of late
years, am unable to place any credence
in any of them. The following SEN
tence, quoted from the last edition of
Prof Grays structural Botany"
covers the case: Each layer being the
product of only years growth the age
of an exogenous tree may in general be
correctly estimated by counting the
rings Of cross section Of the trunk" l
believe, therefore, that you are perfect
ly safe in thinking that DIR. Cutters
tree is something over four hundred and
fifty years DID,