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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-09-25
THE TRAIN-MAN'S LOT.
According to "a Railroad Surgeon 1t Is Not
an Enviable One.

According to "a Railroad Surgeon 1t Is Not
an Enviable One.
''No. from all have seen OF railroad
employees" said railroad surgeon, II
can not say that railroading is, general
ly speaking, a very healthy occupa ton.
One might naturally suppose that be-
cause railroad men are so much in the
open air they would be strangers to dis
ease, but such is not the case. / am
not speaking now of the yard men or of
the track men. Except that they are
more liable to get run over or crushed
between the cars or be subjected to &C
cident of one kind or another there is
nothing in their mode of life that makes
their lot different from that of the
ordinary outdoor laborer. 1t is of the
train-men--the engineers and fremen
1r brakemcn-of whom | speak
particularly, and my practice among
them has tar ght me that their occupa-
tiOn is particularly trying on the nerv-
Gus system. and is one which any body
desiring a peaceful and happy old age
should avoid. The strain on them does
not begin to make it elf felt for several
years after they enter upon their work,
would experience no ill effects from
their mode OF life. Any man, though,
who has any respect for his nervous
system will not keep at the work longer
than ten years, at least without taking
long and frequent rests. Ten years
steady work at railroading is enough to
make the most robust constitution feel
exhausted. After that train-men are
subject TO fits of weariness and LASH
tude, which, If not relieved by a long
rest are likely to become chronic,
and the victim will speedily de-
velop into constant sufferer. for whom
there is no cure on this side the grave.
Their ailments are mostly of nervous
description, but, OF course, disease will
develop itself differently in differ
ent constitutions AMI Compartments
Locomotive engineers are very prone TO
insanity. After long and constant
service they are subject to hailucina-
tions and alterations that are proba-
bly, due 70 sort of cerebral irritation
consequent on the constant strain to
which their duties subject them. The
same cause results in the loss Of the
power of hearing and of sight in
many OF them The exposure TO
which they are subjected also
makes them very liable to rheuma-
tism and pneumonia, and others
are seized with violent pains in the
limbs. and others again with muscular
seeplessness. Engineers have frequent-
ly shown themselves to be perfect he
roes in the face of danger and death.
They have often stood at their post
when by doing so they must have known
that escape for them was impossible,
and vet the peculiar mental state
which is developed from long continu-
ance at that particular employment is
one which results in exec sive nervous
ness and morbid sensations of fear
ANY man who wants TO live long and
happily had better choose some other
occupation than that Of trainman."--
Chicago Evening Post
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HE EASI

THE New York Central railway strike
has been declared off.
/ CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made on tho 18th as follows: New
/ JERSEY, Fourth district, Samuel Fowler
/ Dem.). Pennsylvania, First district,
/ II. II. bingham 0lep.); second, Charles
+ O'Neil tRep.); Fourth. J. f. Reyburn
/ tRepl; Fifth, a. c. Harmon (Rep1:
/ Seventh. T. y. Hallowell tRepl. New
| Hampshire. Second district, o. c. Moore
| (Rep.l.
/ The Massachusetts Republicans have
renominated Governor j. q A. Brack-
I EFT and observation-disclosures William
/ II. Halle
/ THE firm of Gardner, Chase & Co,
/ bankers and brokers, of Boston, has
failed for $4,000, 900.
! The population of Connecticut is 745,-
/ Sol. an increase of 123. 161.
GUsTAVE Koch. an artist. and Emile
/ Bossi. an actress, killed themselves in
/ New York because the mother of the
actress had opposed her marriage with
Koch
THE Massachusetts, Democrats have
nominated William E Russell for Gov
ernOr
THE Republicans in the First New
/ Hampshire district have nominated ID. A.
TaggarJ for Congress, and re-nominated
James buchanan in the Second district
of New Jersey.
The official election returns from
Maine give Burleigh, the Republican
candidate for Governor, a plurality of
1870. The nexc House will stand 10
Republicans to ~ Democrats.
ON the 18th Mrs. Rachel StillwaggOn.
of Flushing. L. l., attained her 1O5th
year.
CHARLES MILLER has declined the
Prohibition nomination for Governor of
Pennsylvania.
CoNNECIICUT Republicans have nomi-
mated Samuel +. Merwin, of New Haven,
for Governor.
The death of Dion BOucicault, the
playwright and actor, occurred IN New
York at the age of O. years.
The death OF Robert Dunbar, the IN
ventOr OF grain elevator machinery. &C.
Cured at Buffalo, \. Y, aged rs years.
The following Congressional nominal
tions were made on the 18th: New York,
Second district. J. NJ. Jones PRO. };
Third. F. e Smith (Pro.); Fourth, A.
l. Martin pro-.
On the Reading road an express train
was thrown down an embankment at
ShoemaSersville, Pa. and fifty persons
were reported killed and thirty-fve in
jured.
AT Philadelphia Belle Hamlin and
Justina. dri~on by their owner, c. L.
Ilamlin, broke the double-team trotting
record. The mile was made in 2:I55<;
best previous record, 2:15A.
IN the railway accident at Shoe
makersville, Pa, twenty-one persons
lost their lives and thirty-two we're in
jured-
WHILE preaching. Rev. G.. I. Cain,
pastor of the Presbyterian church at
Albion, =. Y, dropped dead in his pull
pit from heart disease.
The three men who attempted to
wreck trains on the New York Central
rail way near albany, y. v, Thomas l..
Cain. Arthur l:uett and John Reid, have
made a full confession.
THs Republicans of the Sixth New
Jersey district have nominated +. NJ.
COndit for Congress.
a BRONZE statue of Horace Greeley at
the entrance OF the business Office of
the New York tribune was unvailed by
his daughter Gabrielle.
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WEST AND souTR.

ON the 18th Congressional nomina-
tions were made as follows: Georgia,
First district. NJ. :. Doyle (Repl. In
diana. FIRST District, J. ;. Wright
(Dem ,; Fifth. J. a. Dunbar rep. j;
Thirteenth. III. X. Wilson (Rep.). Mich
igan. Second district j. \ German
DEM; Fourth -. ii. Cunningham
(Pro.): Sixth, d. &. Scout DEM. Ohio.
Eighth district. Charles Foster rep. j;
Eleventh. J. NJ. Paitison (Dem.). Mary
land. Second district, H. Stump dem. y;
Third. II. w Rusk tDem.); Fourth, l.
Raynes (Dem.). Iississippi. Fourth
district, Clark Lewis (Dem.). Texas.
Fifth district J. ". Bailey dem. }.
Illinois. Seventeenth district. Edward
ROessler IF. NJ. b. Al. Wisconsin. Sec
Ond district, ID c Van Brunt dem. }.
Nebraska. Third district, q. W. E. Dor
sey Rep.
FOURTEEN passengers were injured,
two fatally, in a wrecE on the St Louis,
Iron Mountain & Southern road at
Golden. Ark.
AT Normal. Ill, Mr.. and Mrs. John
W. Gee were found desa in their house,
having been asphyxiaied by gas that
escaped from a gasoline stove.
OK the Louisville. New Orleans &
Texas road a passenger train vas
wrecked by miscreanTs at Vicksburg,
Miss. and the engineer and fireman
were killed.
The Congressional nominations on
the 18th were: Ohio, Fist district b.
StOrer tDem.l; Second, John A. Cald-
we'll (Rep.) renominated Iowa, Fourth
district J. H. Sweeney Rep renomi-
mated Missouri. Eighth district p.
oMalley Dem }: J. J. 0Neill dem ,.
Indiana, seventh district, J. J. W. Bill
ingsley tRep.l. Tennessee. Sixth dis
tEict, J. E. Washington .Dem.l; samuel
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D'ARTAGNAN'S PARIS.
1t Was Very Quaint and Unlike the l'aris Of
To-Day.


To-Day.
Old Paris is vastly interesting and
easy to visit, too; DArtagnan would
have stared at its modern map and
would hardly have found the city OF
l64S upon it; for of the los or so ofruled
squares; which barely include the me-
trOpolis of to-day, a dozen cover the
town of the Muskee tiers, the walls of
which upon the right bank of the
Seine cut straight across the garden of
the Tuileries, sliced off corner of the
present Palais Royal Gardens, ran
northeast to the bouleyards, then
really what tn cir name signifies-forti-
fled ramparts-and followed them tc
the Bastile.
Even during the youth of the muska-
teers these walls had grown elastic, and
sieges of great cities were out of fashion.
Henry III. had lowered the walls, and
RicheI;eu preached them to make way
for the Palais Cardinal, which his last
will changed into the Palais Royal and
the property OF the King.
The bourgeois life had flowed over
the ramparts long since. or struggled
out through the fortified gates into the
fat bourgs, but it is mainly within their
antique limits that the old houses are
found to-day, by hundreds, from the
Bastile to the Louvre. and from the
Boulevard St Denis to St German des
Pres; they ara easily recognizable, for
they thrust themselves out at the glrdle
like the gentlemen and ladies who wore
the waded gowns and doublets of 1921.
--Scribner's Magazine.
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mo MANS LAND"
The Original Strip of Territory Entitled
to 1hat Name.

The Original Strip of Territory Entitled
to hat Name.
When one speaks of mo Mans Land
we generally presume that he refers to
that little neck of land in Indian Terri
tory, lying between Colorado and Kan
sas on the north and Texas on the south.
But such is not always the case. The
original mo Mans Land" is a little
tongue of land extending a few miles
south of the Mason and Dixon line, be-
tween the States of Maryland and Della
ware. Every now and then somebody
starts the story that this tract is, prop
erly speaking, part of no State, literal
ly out of the jurisdiction of the
United States; that it is one of
the leftover pieces of the whole coun-
try, wherein no one owns the
ground upon which he lives. On the
maps the ground is credited to Pennsyl-
vania. but according to those same au-
thorities, the claim is a shadowy one.
This triangular bit of territory was
marked off in curious way. The
eastern boundary of Maryland was
early determined, but the southern
boundary of Pennsylvania was long
matter of dispute. Finally Mason and
Dixon began their work at the eastern
boundary of Maryland, and proceeded
westward, while the northern boundary
of Delaware was declared to be a semi
circle, whose center was New Castle. In
surveying the semi-circle it was found
that the circumference did not touch
the boundary of Maryland at its june
ton with the Pennsylvania line, thus
giving rise to this triangular bit of land,
which has been discarded by the three
States and only allowed to attach itself
to Pennsylvania for judicial purposes
St Louis Republic.
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CHRISTOPHER WAR.
fourteen Thousand Men Are Fighting the
Plague i'm Algeria.

fourteen Thousand Men Are Fighting the
Plague in Algeria.
Immense swarms of grasshoppers have
invaded parts of the country of Algeria
and are spelling lots of things. Two
thousand soldiers, aided by ~. 900
Arabs, have been employed to fight the
pest Tie roadways present the APP
pearance of a battlefield, and extraOr-
binary efforts are being made to rid the
surrounding country of this insect enc
my.
This is not the first time that this
plague has devastated Algeria. In 1915
the harvests of almost the entire coun-
try were destroyed by grasshoppers.
From 1747 to 1749 these insects DESC
lated Algeria, extending their rayages
even TO parts of Europe.
Millions on millions of the dead
bodies Of these insects are covering at
present the great roadway leading from
Mascara TO Mostaganim and filling the
springs and rivers. The task of killing
these masses OF grasshoDpers is no
small ono. Imagine a district of one
hundred miles in circumference, which
not long ago was covered with wheat,
tobacco, and fig and olive trees, but
now is SO densely covered with grass
hoppers that not a single green branch
or leaf can be seen. For three years a
distinguished Partisan naturalist. NJ.
kurkcl, has been studying how to ex-
terminate these creatures. The best
plan seems to be that of stamping the
moving, quivering heaps with the bare
feet ShOyels and other Sharp instru-
ments are used, but it has been noticed
that tho elastic layers of grasshoppers
tend to rebound after pressure and only
the layers on top are crushed. Large
fires have also been lighted, but the
dense smoke arising from the flames is
only partly effective in preventing the
descent of these all-deyouring swarms-
-Iondon Letter
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RUSSIAN JOURNALISM.
Its Freedom Crushed, 1t Has Almes
Ceased to Have an Existence.

Its Freedom Crushed, 1t Has Almost
Ceased to Have an Existence.
Within a very recent period-that is,
among the more or less liberal period
Of from 1860 to 1SS0--the Russian Jour
nalistic press was conducted by an
able band of editors, who, more or less
:egardless of consequences, made it
their business to denounce abuses to
attack ministers and to expose corrup-
lion in all the departments of the
State. In spite of the censorship and
all it's machinery; in spite of the sur
reliance exercised by the late Count
IOlstoi over the whole production of
russian opinion and thought; in spite
If his constant desire TO stifie
all manifestations of liberal pub
ic opinion and to Undue others
with his own ideas; in spite of
all the hindrances and obstacles of
which an account has been given, the
newspaper press in Russia during the
period just mentioned exercised very
great influence, which was perfectly in
dependent of the government, whose
acts is judged and criticised in the teeth
of all the endeavors which woro made
% thwart and hamper its action. Far
from its being dependent upon the gov
eminent, the latter often saw its hand
'orced by the newspaper press, which it
was supposed to rulo despotically.
1t must surety be deemed to have
been greatly to the credit of this gall
ant band of editors that, hampered
and worried by all sorts of vexatious
regulations as they were, they sue
,eeded in assisting their country so
much in the task of reorganiza-
ton and reform. This race of ed
itors, however, has now COM
pletely disappeared. Katkoff was
the last of the race, and it is scarcely
probable that Russia will see another
EDITOR so gifted as he was who will have
such powerful support in the highest
quarters. During the last six or seven
years there has been most marked de-
terioration in the tone of the newspaper
press. Even the official press has not
escaped this deterioration. The two
offici.l organs, the Rooski Invalide and
the Official Journal, which used to pub
fish leading articles, have both decayed
into mere gazettes. In word, the
degradation of the Russian press is COM
plete, and. as a consequence, the Rus
sian censor has, generally speaking,
comparatively easy time of it.-Black-
woods Magazine.
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Reen Wasting Time.

Il hope Mary" he said, gently, "the
suddenness and intensity of my love will
not come upon you like shock. Posi-
bly." he continued, still more gently,
and taking her hand with respectful
tenderness, you are not prepared for
this avowaL The language of passion
may be new to you. Am the first man.
my dear, timid liS5le girl, to address you
in this wav?"
No, Horace" she replied: II have
never spoken of my pass IIfe because
there are portions of it full of pain and
sadness. But was beloved once by as
good man as the sun ever shOne upon.
lie is dead now. but during the short
rear of our married life"
.'You are a widow, then. Mary?"
s.Yes, Horace, why, Horace, dearr'
For the young man had strained her
70 his heart with force that took her
breath away. He had been wasting
valuable time.-Chicago Tribune.
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THE PEOPLE OF CAPRI.
They Are Very Confiding and Given &
Look on LIES Bright Side.


They Are Very Confiding and Given to
Look on LIES Bright Side.
The Sapresc, as the people of Capri
are called, arc simple, very confiding.
grateful for kindness, easily amused,
and given to look on the bright side of
life. They are industrious. and have a
keen eye to the main chance" They
are not poor, comparatively speaking,
and there are no thieves. by thieves
mean robbers on large scale. The
pc asants who have no gardens will steal
few vegetables from their richer
neighbors when they can get the
chance, and servants will add Soda
or two to the price of every article
they get for the padrone. On the other
hand, houses may be left open day and
night without fear, and money in
unlocked drawers is perfectly safe. 1t
is argued that the difficulty there would
be in conveying stolen goods secretly
and speedily off the island explains the
scarcity of thieves, but a reason for
good behavior may also be found,
think, in the absence of that squalid
misery which is a chief incentive to
crime
The Caprese are religious-which does
not prevent them from swindling
forestieri as much as possible. Protest
ants were made to be fleeced," urge the
priests. Their religious ideas, as is
natural with so practical people, take
worry practical form. If the fishermen
attend mass regularly, SAINT Antonio,
patron saint of fishermen. will be so
pleased that he will beg the good God
to send them a fine harvest of fish The
masses, therefore, are always addressed
to large and devout congregation
And so ii is in all their dealings with
tho higher powers So much devo-
ton ana money spent in wax candles,
professions and fire-works-for which
the saints appear to have peculiar
partiality-so much worldly prosperity.
The motive seems low. but a any rate
the people believe profoundly in the
gods above-their devotion is real, ana
there is no pretense at faith for the
sake of appearances. They believe also
that the recitation of a certain number
of ayes and paternosters will help TO
heal wounds and sores, aches and pains,
Of every description. The altar of the
Madonna is surrounded by little waxen
effgies of arms, legs, hearts and so
forth, showing how potent are her
pleadings with the Trinity for the
waxon arms, etc, correspondent to fleshy
members which have been healed by
means of her intercessions. -Cornhill
MAGAZINE.
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TIE funeral of Dion Boucicault, the
actor. dramatist and playwright took
place in the church of the Transfigura-
tion, THE Little Church Around the
Corner" New York. on the ed. The
attendance was very large.
A PLOT to blow up the penitentiary
at Frank tort, Ky, was discovered on
the 22d. A man named Campbell, an
eX-conyict. was seen lurking abo 1T the
place. His satchcl was searched and
found to contain dynamite cartridges.
DURING tho month of August, 1890.
there landed at Castle Garden, New
York, 37,3s7 immigrants.
There was no quorum of the lower
house of Congress on the 22d. Only
two Democrats were in their seats and
there were not enough Republicans in
the city to make out the qsorum. The
rumpus is over the Langston-Venable
con tested case from Virginia.
Ar Washington, ID. c., the first case
under the new lottery law occurred on
the 2lst. The Sunday Chronicle paper
Of limited circulation contained an adj
vertisement of the Louisiana lottery
and consequently was not received by
the post Office officials.
ALL of the engineers and fremen en-
ployed by the new switching associa-
ton at the stock yards at Chicago struck
on the 22d. They claim that two of the
men were scabs and that they could not
work with them.
| A EEAR-END collision occurred on the
/ Wabash road at St. Louis on the 22d.
Charles w. Howard. engineer of the
Denver express of st. Louis, was killed
instantly. and J. :. Croslan, his fireman
/ badly hurt. Fourteen others were
slightly injured.
AMONG the bills passed by the q. S.
Senate on the 2ed. was one to create a
So b-port Of entry and delivery at Neehe,
y. u. 4.
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that even the most cold blooded and caiculat
ing villains sometimes make a new cigar case
was left upon the ground the name uponwhich
r. C. Benwell'-led in the first place to the
Identification of the body
Benwell was young Engllshmaa, son OF
Colonel Benwell Of her Maiesty's army The
young man came to Canada i'm the steamer
Britannia, sailing from Liverpool Feb s. His
object in coming cut was to investigate a prof.
ect which had been submitted by one j. Regin-
aid Burchell, to establish a partnership in a
stock-farm near Niagara Falls, Of which
Hurchell claimed 10 be the nNvnnr RnrchelI
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FROM WASHINGTON.

II ITS report to the Secretary of the
Interior the Utah commission says that
the practice of polgyamy is rather on
the increase than the decrease. and that
the doctrine is taught in all the Hor-
mon churches.
II the United States the business
failures during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 100. against 1913 the
preceding week and 203 the correspond
ing week last year.
The President has signed the river
and harbor ana ant.-lottery bills.
THE exchanges at the leading clear
ing-hOuses in the United States during
the week ended on the goth aggregated
l,595 969, 62S, against Sl,l7l, 6lO,922 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of 1889 the decrease
amounted to 2I5
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Is the PIevna General AIIvss

LONDON, Sept % The Daily Tele-
graph says the report that Osman Pasha,
the fighting General of Plevna, was
drowned in the wreck of the Turkish
man-of-w war Ertzogroul is incorrect I'D
that the Osman Pasha on board the az
fated vessel was Vice-Admiral in the
Turkish navy. The official report OF
the loss of the Ertzogroul says ST. per-
sons were drowned and sixty-six saved.
Mrs. Fannie Mcmillan, divorced wife
of Fay Templeton's manager, and rel
alive of Governor Campbell, of Ohio,
committed suicide at bloomington, H.,
by taking morphine
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and that he was seen returning from it Alone
Burehell declares his innocence, and had
lawyers and detectives engaged to confutc
and confound his advorsarics. What the
character OF his defense will be is not known
10 a certainty but it is supposed that they will
try to show that the body bore evidences of a
violent struggle while Burchen did not when
seen soon after, and they will try to convince
the jury that detectives, having committed
themselves to the declaration that Burchell
was guilty, are devoting their work in attacking
his life and not to the business OF finding out
the murderer
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THE new steel safe in the Office Of the
Wellington Hotel a. Chicago was IN
locked and opened recently by blind
kolded man who had never 50 much as
seen the interior Of the hotel before. 1t
was a miracle ~ mind-reading per
formed by Paul Alexander tombstone,
the young Minneapolis gentleman
whose feats for some time past have
been q marvel unaeoounted for by scien-
tfic men. The feat accomplished was
considered more difficult taan driving
through the sire is biindfOlded and fiud-
Ing 4 name in hotel register. Both
have now been successfully performed
ky Mr.. JOhastone in Chicago
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An automatic Photographic machine
has been invented in England The
patron, after placing penny IN the slot.
takes his stand in front 81 the lens and
adjusts his position by small looking
glass placed above it. lie leans against
a post few feet in front Of the camera.
and in about five seconds the ringing of
a bell announces the completion Of his
sitting, while forty seconds subsequent
ly his photograph Is delivered to him
by the machine, requiring only half a
minutes exposure TO the sun or "a lighted
match 10 dry or finish it. An additional
half-penny placed in the slot produces a
frame for the photo.