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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
LOCOMOTIVE CEMETERY.
What Is Done with Engines After Their
Term of Usefulness Is Ended.


Near the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul shops, at West Milwaukee, there
is a cemetery where WORKOUT loco
motives complete the metamorphosis
which they, no less than the men who
made them, inevitable undergo. Lately
lot of old engines from all parts of the
st. Paul system have been brought to
Milwaukee to be broken up and con-
verted into scrap-iron, and now some
fifty OF them stand on the side-track
west Of the shops They form line
more than a quarter of mile long, and
there is something picturesque about
their rusty dilapidation. Almost every
style of locomotive is represented, from
the old-time wood-burner, with it's
bullying smoke-stack and comparatively
clumsy mechanism, to the more
modern coal-burning engine that
has been set aside, not because it is
worn out, but because it is too light for
the sort of work a locomotive has to do
nowadays Some of those light engines
have been sold to small roads in various
parts of the country. Many of the loco
motives have been very nearly reduced
TO scrap-iron as the result of collisions,
and have been taken to the shops merely
to have the process completed. One of
them has had its boiler pushed back
ward through the cab, its pilot knocked
off, the working parts of the engine dis
membered, and the smoke-stack hangs
over with melancholy lop, like the
head of an expiring fowl. Even the
number disappeared in the general col
lapse, and the old iron steed has lost its
identity. One of the most antiquated-
appearing engines at the shops is one
that was lately brought up from Sa-
vannah, where it was used for
transfer purposes. Its smoke-stack
has an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS appearance,
and the whole locomotive bulges on all
sides in a most preposterous manner.
Its boiler is low and its cab is high, and
the engine cylinders stick out beyond
the dwarfed drive-wheels in way that
gives the old engine a very mumpy APP
pearsnce. Compared with the huge,
powerful locomotives now in use, it is
an absurd-looking old concern.
Many of these iron hulks have an in
teresting history; some of them have
been great travellers in their time, and
have traversed almost every part of
the United States. As for the number of
miles that have been run by these fifty
retired locomotives, it would, if com
puted, amount to something colossal in
figures. Each locomotive in use now
travels from $1,000 to 10000 miles a
year. and in 1889 the 7s3 locomotives in
service on the st. Paul road travelled an
aggregate distance of 10, 7sO,603 miles
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

For sore or cankered throat take
equal parts of powdered borax and sui
phur, and blow them into the throat
certain relief. The sulphur alone is
good. Household.
in gardens conveniently located, il
will pay to water regularly each oven
ing. This serves double purpose, pro-
noting the growth of the plants and
also making the worms less active and
more disposed TO disease.
Strawberry pie may be made by
baking she'll of nice pastry in quick
oven. While hot, glaze with white of
egg and return to the oven for min
ate. When cold fill with large, sweet
strawberries, and give them generous
covering of whipped cream which has
been previously sweetened. Serve at
once. Rural New Yorker.
-Barbecued Ham: Slice cold boiled
sorned or smoked ham. Fry in its own
Fat, remove the slices to another dish,
and keep hot while you add to the fat
in the pan teaspooonful of white
sugar, three dashes of black pepper, a
teaspoonful (scant) of made mustard,
and three tablespoonsful of vinegar.
Boil up once, and pour over the ham,
Harpers Bazaar.
Pineapple Pic: Mix two cupfuls of
6nely-chopped pineapple, two table
spoonfuls of fine cracker crumbs, a cup
full OF sugar, a small half-cupful of
water and three well-beaten eggs; cook
| tpit tpr nd CT
froth the white of two eggs and add to
the top while the pie is hot; allow the
eggs to become firm, but not Drowned,
in the oven.-Boston Herald.
Roast Lamb: Wash it well, sprinkle
il with salt and pepper, dredge it with
-four and put it into the pan with half a
cup of boiling water. Make gravy of
the drippings. 1t requires about two
hours to roast the hind quarter, and an
hour and half for the fore quarter.
Serve the roast with mint sauce made
as follows: Chop bunch of green mint
very fine, add teacupful of sugar and
one of sharp vinegar. Stir it up and
send it to the table in sauce boat
Western Rural.
Butter Cups: Boil hard twelve fresh
eggs. Peel, cut in half and remove the
( yelks. Cut off the tip of each piece.
Set them in pretty baking dish.
Rub the yel1s smooth with one heaping
tablespoon of butter, teaspoonful of
mustard, salt, pepper, teacupful each of
| dnely-minced cold fowl and old ham;
tiny bit of onion (salt spoonful), two
tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, gravy
to moisten it. Mix thoroughly, roll into
balls size of egg yelk, and put one in
each half of egg. Pour over the whole
teacup o. chicken gravy, put pits of
butter in and sprinkle lightly with
cracker dust. Bake for about fifteen
minutes or until nicely Drowned. Serve
with cold meats.-Ladies' Home Jour
/ MI
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
CYCLING AND HEALTH.
The Bow-LeGged wheelmsn and Some of
His Other Dangers.

The Bow-Legged Wheelman and Some of
His Other Dangers.
DIR. i. w. Richardson, in the Ascle-
piad, points out that unless certain es-
sential conditions are observed cycling
is inevitably injurious to health.
He thinks that it is alwas best to de-
lay the commencement of cycling until
the body is closely approaching to its
maturity. Even adult cyclists who are
too much in the saddle almost invari-
ably acquire what may be called the cy-
clist's figure, which is not graceful
and is not indicative OF the full possess
sion of perfectly-balanced bodily pow
ers Hence | should not recommend
cycling as pastime of the schools, and
| should not favor it as an exercise,
even during holiday times from school,
except in the most moderate degree.
The systematic pursuit of cycling should
never be fully commenced until the rid
er has arrived at maturity-that is to
say, until the age of twenty-one years
has been attained.
The effect of cycling on the upper ex-
tremity of the arm and forearm is to
slightly bend the limb. the deformity
taking place in the armbone and in the
fingers, and to bring about an unnatur-
al curve of the shoulders. On the
lower limbs cycling tells as markedly
as it does on the spine, and, as the
lower limbs perform the greater part of
the work, they usually feel the effects
of it most distinctly. Riding brings
nut and exaggerates any deformity,
however slight. The pelvis of the
rider, now practically part of the ma
chine, is fixed to it, and is almost as
rigid as itself In this position of
things the thigh bone is placed under
unusual strain. The large muscles in
the fore part of the thigh are employed
extending or lifting up the leg at great
disadvantage of leverage. What the
strain is on these muscles every young
cyclist knows to his cost, and it is not
until they get kind of extranatural
power that riding is easy. The pres
sure upon the thigh bone causes bow
leggedness.
We still maintain a base error in the
machine, by having it so constructed
that the pelvis of the rider becomes
fixed part of the machine. This is we'll
shown when the cyclist has to meet a
hill. In climbing, we push the machine
or drag it. We want two entire changes
in construction of the machine, one by
which we can bring the whole weight of
the body into the propulsion; the other
by which we can call forth all that mus
cular power which is used with such eff
feet in walking and running, but is lost
in cycling. If these two objects were
attained, and there is not the slightest
reason why they should not be attained
climbing would be just as easy on the
machine as it is off it; while the degree
of speed that would be rendered appli-
cable would at least, be doubled; that is
to say. if now in ordinary riding the
four miles an hour of the pedestrian is
changed into eight, it would then, with
the same amount of exertion, be turned
into sixteen; while the twenty miles an
hour of the fastest rider would be turned
into forty, if that were safe pace to
travel-St James Gazette.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03

The next day Miss Folliotts sister ar
ribbed from New York to spend a few
days in the country. Hetty herself con-
Quoted her 10 her room and showed her
the delicious view across the mountain
crests.
80 you've got the young editor here"
said Miss Georgina Folliott
What editor?" said Hetty.
''Of the Weekly Leader, you know"
said Miss Georgina-
''NO," said Hetty. her heart beginning
to thump nervously at the mere idea.
But you have, though" nodded the
newcomer. IL saw him smoking a
pipe under the big chestnut-tree, as
they carried my trunk upstairs"
That was Mr.. Allaire,'' said Hetty,
blushing very red indeed
well, said Miss Georgina, adjusting
her cUrls. land that is the editor of the
Weekly LEADER,
Hetty stood still. in blank amaze
ment.
"Didn't you know it?" said Miss Fol-
lott
rs it really true?" said Hetty.
''Of course it is, said Miss Folliott
And Hetty ran away to hide her burn
ing bushes in the cool, little dell be-
hind the house, where the spring bub-
bled up among the tall green ferns
There, little later, Hugh Allaire
found her.
Crying. Hetty?" he said. NY little
love, what is the natter"
you have deceived me-" said Hetty.
Never" said Hugh.
'YOu didn't tell me that you were the
editor Of-of-" faltered Hetty.
you never asked me. retOrted Hugh.
And il was you who sent me the
checks for those stories?' sObbed Hetty.
''Of course it was" said he. why
shouldn't I?'
Il never should have had courage to
read them to you if | had thought you
were an editori" cried Hetty.
Il knew that" said Mr.. Allaire. II
kept the dreadful truth to myself Do
you think. Hetty darling. it would be
such terrible thing to be an editors
wife?''
Hetty looked up, laughing through
her tears
Il don't know said she; but l
think | shall try it"
She was married when October painted
/ all the leaves with scarlet and Love
/ Under the Lindens" became reality in
her own bright life. But she doesn't
write for the paper any more. She says
she hasn't time.-Amy Randolph, in n.
V LEDGER
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
GOING IN SWIMMING.
,ne of Mr.. Howells' "Reminiscences of Life
In Boys Town.

In Boys Town.
A wonder what sign the boys who
read this have for challenging or in
viting one another to go in swimming.
The boys in the Boys Town used to
make the motion of swimming with both
arms; or they held up the fore finger
and middle finger in the form of swal-
low tail; they did this when it was neees-
sary to be secret about it, as in school,
and when they did not want the whole
crowd of boys 10 come along; and often
when they just pretended that they did
not want some one TO know. They
really had to be secret at times, for
some of the boys were not allowed
to go in at all; others were for
hidden to 60 in more than once
or twice a day; and as they all had
to 60 in at least three or four times a
day, some sort of sign had to be used
that was understood among themselves
alone. Since this is true history,
had better own that they nearly all, at
one time or other, must have told lies
about it either before or after the fact,
some habitually, some only in great ex-
tremity. Here and there boy, like my
boys elder brother, would not tell lies
at all, even about going in swimming;
but by far the greater number bowed to
their hard fate, and told them. They
promised that they would not go in, and
then they said that they had not been
in; but fate, for which they had made
this sacrifice, was apt to betray them.
Either they got their shirts on wrong
side out in dressing, or else, while they
were in, some enemy came upon them
and tied their shirts. There are few
cruelties which public opinion in the
boys world condemns, but | am glad to
remember, 10 their honor, that there
were not many in that Boys Town who
would tie shirts, and | hope that
there is not boy now living who would
do il. As the crime is probably ex-
tinct, | will say tfat in those wicked
days, If you were such miscreant and
there was some boy you hated, you
stole up and tied the hardest kind of a
knot in one arm or both arms of his
shirt. Then, il the evil one put it in
your heart. you soaked the knot in water
and pounded it with a stone.
l am glad to know that in the days
when he was thoughtless and senseless
enough, my boy never was guilty of
any meanness. 1t was his brother, /
suppose, who taught him to abhor it;
and perhaps it was his own suffering
from it in part; for he. too, sometimes
shed bitter tears over such knot, as |
have seen hapless little wretches do,
tearing a, il with their nails and gnaw-
ing at il with their teeth, knowing that
the time was passing when they could
hope to hide the fact that they had
been swimming, and foreseeing no
remedy but TO cut off the sleeve above
the knot, or else put on their clothes
without the shirt and trust to untying
the knot when it got dry.-William
Dean Howells, in Harper's Young Peo-
nj
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
THE DUELIST BOUGHT OFF.


How the Honor of "A Scrupulous French
man Was Satisfied.
The French craze for dueling reached
during the time of the restoration its
most extravagant development. Nine.
de Bassonville gives a striking example
of this frenzy in her memoirs. The
royal body-guard at that time was COM
posed for the most part of arrogant aris-
tocrats, and was by no means favorite
corps. The popular wit lost no oppor
tunity of ridiculing the objects of its
antipathy. One evening at ball in
the opera-house the Viscount Siran-
der, an officer of the guard, was talk
ing with a friend, when suddenly an
unknown man came up and boxed the
Viscount's ears. The result was natur-
ally tremendous sensation.
The stranger craved pardon at once
and said he had made a mistake in the
person, but the apology was not consid-
cred sufficient TO prevent a duel. The
aggressor was an American, and on the
field of cembat he received a sword
thrust through the arm. The Viscount
was still dissatisfied and a fortnight
later he again challenged his adver-
sary, who, in the meantime. had re-
covered from his injury, and this time
gave him a dangerous wound in the
breast. The Yankee recovered a Sec
ond time and promptly took ship for his
home in Louisiana.
In the meantime the local papers of
the French capital teemed with iests
and sarcasms. 1t was said that the peo-
pie who were killed in duels by the Off
GERS of the body guard always turned up
afterward in excellent health, etc, etc.
This determined Sirandier to follow his
opponent to Louisiana. In New Orleans
he presented himself before his foe and
declared, with great frankness, that he
must kill him. The SoutheTner asked
if the nobleman's hatred was not yet
satisfied
II don't hate you at all, my dear sir, !"
replied the Frenchman, politely, but
owe it to my military position to take
your life
''Then resign" promptly suggested
the Louisianaian.
But / have no property"
"Ohl is that where the trouble lies?"
said the American, overjoyed. Then
have a way to help us both. have a
pretty daughter; marry her and I'll give
you / ,OGO, 900 francs as dowry."
The Viscount found the lady charm
ing, fell in love with her and married a
fortune, which permitted him to give
up his military career and spare the life
of his father-in-laW. -Exchanpe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
CATCHING TROUT BACKWARD.
How Fisherman FILLED His Basket with
Speckted Beauties.

Did / ever catch trout backward? OF
course / did, and as an honest fisher
man, who never buys his ''creels" at the
market nor lies about his catches, fear
that ] should do so again in the same
circumstances.
/ had been fishing all day with in
different success, had taken numerous
tumbles, and was wet from the sole of
feet to the nape of my neck; my flask
was empty and my fish-basket so nearly
so that it was no fun at all to return TO
the hotel and suffer the sings and ar
rows of my fellow boarders.
In the dusk of the evening | halted
by a wayside tavern, with a large drink
ing fountain in front, AMI happening TO
look into it l saw several fine fat,
speckled trout-beauties they were
half Founders and Founders, and just
enough to fill my creel to the bursting
point.
How did they get there? Could it be
that they had come down through the
spout from the spring when they were
fry. or had Providence put them there
for my especial comfort? / looked at
them carefully to see that they were
not branded with the name of any body,
and when | found that they were not ]
turned my back upon the trough and
fell into an distracted mood, wondering
how | could catch them. Insensibly to
myself, of course, my line with baited
hook attached fell into the fountain.
Suddenly | felt terrific Juggling and
wrenching as if some one was trying to
take my pole away from me. 1 seized
it valiantly, and the next l knew a fine
fat trout lay gasping and somersaulting
on the highway. | looked around to see
that no one was looking and hastily
transferred the beauty TO my basket,
and in a moment or two | was off in an
otherEfit of abstraction with my back
to the fountain.
That night | had the boarders gre en-
with envy, and when | had paid for all
the wine that was necessary to restore
them to a normal color my vacation
purse was pretty nearly depleted. Mar
ket fishing, even at dollar pound, is
not the most expensive kind in this hard
world.
did hear that the landlord at GER
tain wayside inn INDUCED in a terrific
swearing bee next morning, and said
something about city thieves and black
guards. Why, wonder?
But can bear witness TO the fact that
trout may be taken backward-not the
trout, but the fisherman-as well as
frontward, if that is any satisfaction to
KNOWN. Y. Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
FEED TROUGH.
Az Excellent Device for Feeding Chic

Az Excellent Device for Feeding Chicks.
1t pays to have good, dry, comfort
able house for young chickens, whether
they are kept in breeders or under hens.
No brooder that stands outside in all
sorts of weather will keep little chicks
steadily warm and comfortable, though
a good one will do it, when placed in a
weather-proof building. Small chicks,
under the care of hens. do well enough
in common coops, set outside during
dry, warm weather; but week of cold,
stormy weather invariably Injuries and
stunts them to greater or less extent.
They can not sit on wet ground or on a
wet floor, even under warm hen, night
after night, and remain healthy. Cheap,
make-shift coops can, by being placed
in a building or under a good shed, be
made TO answer the purpose of protect
ing a hen and her brood from cold, but
they are far inferior To well-mSSe,
fioored, vermin-proof coops. A really
good outdoor coop should have tight
floor, sides and roof, so that rain or snow
can not beat into it; be well-lighted,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
THE KAFFIR'S DIAMOND.
An African story Which Reads Fairly
Well in America.

An African story W hteh lie tds fatriF
Well in America.
There's the most beautiful diamond
have ever seen during an experience
of thirty years with the sparkling
gems. said veteran diamond mer-
chant TO a Philadelphia man. as he held
up a stone that seemed bathed in fire.
That stone has tragic history" con-
tinued the jeweler. 1T comes from the
DE Beers mines in South Africa. and
was discovered by a Kaffir employed by
the company. His practiced eve saw
that the gem was a marvellous one for
beauty of color. and a desire to steal it
oyercame him. tie did steal il, and to
conceal the diamond-for the Kafiirs
work almost naked in the diamond
mines-he cut a hole in his flesh under
the arm. But the wound did not heal,
and the observant eye of the oyerseer
detected what was the matter. A few
DAYS afterward he charged the Kafir
with having stolen diamond, but the
man denied it
when the foreman reached for his
sore arm the thief made dash and ran
toward the outskirts of the kraaI like a
deer. The foreman followed him, but
the fieet-footed kaffir outstripped him.
He knew that a severe punishment
awaited him il captured, and CEN
tered all his efforts on escaping with
the stone, the value of which would
have made him rich for life. But the
foreman was equal TO the emergency,
and shot the kaffir through the back
just as he was gaining the bush. His
body was dragged back into the krasl.
his arm was cut open and this gem was
taken from the incision. Jewellers
Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-07-03
FAMILY CARES.
Little Mabel Speaks.

Ny cares are quite as many as
The flowers on my gown.
And Oft have 10 sigh that things
Are more than upside down.
Whenever attempt TO knit
Belinda's airy sacque.
learn that Bertha's playing on
The parlor railroad track.
Now Alice who's precious pet,
Blue-eyed and sweetly fair,
With roses on her china cheeks
And sunbeams in her hair
Good gracious. she Is in the rain
Upon the kitchen stOOp.
And Just as like as not tonight
She'll suffer with the croupi
And then have a cunning Jap,
In broidered gown and shOOn.
With half closed. dreamy, laughing eyes,
And face Just like the moon;
And now, 10 shatter my repOse
And give my nerves a shock.
He's clambered 20 the msntel piece
And perched upon the clock
When Arabel is bright and clean
The precious little bud
i ind Lueretia in the yard
Asoaking in the mud.
And when Maud's hat Is shining ney
In ribbon and in rose,
From Arabelia's button shoes
Peep out ten tiny toes.
That's why my life Is full Of care
That should be bright and gay
I have so much 10 wOrry DER
haven't time 70 play.
But IL / had a dozen dolls,
Like Evelyn BartOO,
] can not tell you What in the
aide world I'd ever do.
-Harper's Bazar.