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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
DRESSED POULTRY.
The Experience of Woman Who Does
Her Own Selling.


Her Own Selling.
In walking through the marke IS
about year ago noticed some dressed
poultry and inquired the price, and the
answer was ''fifteen cents pound, and
the thought came forcibly to my mind
truly there's profit in raising poultry
but who makes the profit? Not the
producer nor the consumer, but the one
who buys and sells | had raised
chickens for the market great many
years, always selling them to poultry
buyers as soon as the broilers were
marketable. | made up my mind then
that what poultry / sold after this
would be sold direct to the consumer.
and have found by experience that is
the best way to dispose of poultry for
any one living near a city market or
small town. There are always great
many people who would buy their
poultry every week, especially If
nicely dressed according to agree
ment Every farmers wife who be-
lieves in equality for all and wants
her own pocket-book, to spend the
money as she sees fit, should
look into these matters, and instead
of disposing of poultry to the first
buyer who comes along, go into the
towns and solicit orders for dressed
poultry, selecting a breed like
the Plymouth Rock or Brahma, or
any breed that has yellow flesh and
legs; then sort them after dressing,
putting all the young males into one
basket and all the dressed pullets in
another, and all year-old fowls of equal
size and weight by themselves
A woman who can drive to the city or
village once week can readily dispose
of all she can raise, and buy all her
neighbor's chickens, and when dressed
and delivered make quite nice profit
Help can be procured in almost any
place to dress poultry for five cents
head. The chickens that are offered for
sale, generally. pass through two diff
ferent hands after leaving the farmers
yard; the buyer must have profit,
likewise the seller The farmers wife
with very little effort can dispense with
these two and have the profit herself
Mrs. John Gaillard, in Ohio Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
WoooChuCKING.

Ihave chased fug lus wOOdehuel1s OverIaany
But .. WAYS vanished in round
= been woodworking raany
Upon my soul
J. uever bagged my woOdchuek for be a.
ways found mis- hole.
But its fun to go woodchu King when a fellow
is a boy,
When ali muscular exertion is exhilarating JOY.
Though you can't get near the woodcnuck sos
20 touch him with pole.
And the evaueseeut rascal always slides into
his hole.
How chased the painting fugitive and raised
the battle cry.
With vision right before me Of chunk of
woodchuez pie;
With vision right before me OF tins culinary
sJal
Did leach 70 grab my woodehuck-and he van
ished IN his hole
And / often go woOdchuckine--I have chased
him here and there
That lanz fugacious woodchuet, like a long
streak through the air;
For the projects have followed a. I neared
the eager goal.
HE made themselves invisible, and vanished
ia their hole
Ihaye chased my hot ambitions through the
meadow, white With flowers
Chased them through tbs clover blossoms,
chased them throag ne orchard bowers
Chased them through tts Old scrub pastures,
I'LL with weariress d soul.
I ~ last have secl them vanish. like wood
chuck il ! : DIE
But there's fun in chasing woodchuclss; and I'll
chase the vision stiIl,
II 20 leads me through the dark pine woods,
ami up the stony in.
There's glorious expectation, that still fingers
IN my soul.
That some dav III catch that woodchuck ere
lie slides into his hole.
5 ". Foss. in Yankee Blads.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01

Go below and lie down, captain,
said Collie, ''your head must be rafting
like a locker of shot in gale"
The captain looked surprised.
who reefed the jib?' he asked.
Il did" said Collie, humoring her
neatly with the helm.
The captain watched him do it Then
he went below and stretched himself on
Collie's favorite locker.
That mans the best amateur sailor l
ever saw" he said.
The women looked at one another and
heaved long signs of relief.
THAI useless thing appears to be
some govd after all, said Mrs. Bisbee
to Ethel
"IIumr' said Ethel
Collie sailed the Clover back to her
anchorage off the hotel after the squall.
They all went ashore, and he immedi-
a.ely retired TO his room and was seen
no more until the next day. About
noon he was discovered in the steamer
chair with an unusually formidable
German novel They surrounded him
and began to thank him for bringing
them in safely. He didn't seem to pay
much attention to them. just kept
listening for something down the road.
Presently the hotel stage came rafting
up from the station.
Here she is" said Mrs. Bisbee,
reckoning the girls, and they all de-
serted their preserver 10 see the beauti-
full heiress. She was beautiful. There
was no mistaking that The girls
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
CLEOPATRA'S COINS.
Her Portraits on Them show Her at
Different STAGES of Life.

Her Portraits on Them Show Her at
Different Stages of Life.
The snake chosen by Sarah Bernhard
to serve as her eXecutioner is of the
"blind-worm" species, and is known in
France as an orvet. 1t is pretty Great
ure which may be often found on the
tops of old walls summing itself. The
back is dark green with metallic hues
that are in certain lights iridescent
Sarah's snake is called by her Iris.
Cleopatra being now a good deal be-
fore the public as a topic of theatrical
interest, the Egyptian coins struck in
her reign which are in the numismatic
department of the National Library
are gently run upon there. They show
her when she was, respectively, wife
and when Queen regant One sees her
at all ages, from her early teens 10
almost the close of her reign. Cleopatra,
on these coins and medals, is far nearer
to Sarah Bernhardt than to Mrs.
Langtry She is almost spare in figure
when young, and at all times 1.-THE.
The neck remained young to the last.
Had she lived to eighty she might have
looked little like Prince Napoleon,
the mouth and chin having Mother
Hubbard tendency to meet The full,
luscious lips, resembling those of
SomaH woman, do not miti-
gate much the hardness of the
physiognomy. 1t is a strange coun-
tenance and one easy to read. The
forehead bulges out at the eyebrows.
Its prominence here gives it similar ir-
regularity, producing the effect almost
of a smaller head growing up out of
larger one. Jove was represented by
Greek sculptors with such forehead,
but on a more massive scale. The eye
is greatly in shadow and almost sim
lister, it having the expression of a
snakes when a bird is to be charmed.
The acquiline curve of the nose is at
once strong and delicate, AMI the nos
tril is well open and finely curved.
Taken with the lips it gives an i'm
preston of a woman prone to sensual
joys, cynical, fond OF "a cruel joke and
contemptuous. Her firmly nodded and
advancing chin shows volition. She was
willful to the last degree, and not to be
turned from any purpose. The hair is
dressed in the Greek manner and twist
ed up in small knot on the nape of the
neck. She is bad and bewitching. All
the men she fascinated saw through her.
but were too intoxicated by her charms
to break away from her. She wore
royal diadem, which is represented on
some of the coins. Paris Cor. London
Truth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
Liquor in the Legs.

1t is generally supposed that intoxi-
eating drink gets into the head. This
is a mistake; it is TO the legs that the
fumes of the liquor fly. Such is the i'm
portant physiological discovery that has
been made by Henry Bull. described as
"a bald-headed carpenter" who, being
brought upat Marlborough street police
court recenSly, explained that he had
taken 100 much ''Old Bass" but that in
stead of its going into his body it had
got into his legs The magistrate recog-
nized the value of this discovery by i'm
posing "a small fine" Mr.. Bulls the
DRY was, oddly enough, confirmed in the
same court on the same day, for Anne
Lavoy, "a good-looking young woman, !"
having been likewise found in doubt
full condition, laid the blame on her
legs The fact is, she had been in the
hospital for a bad knee, and they had
given her such powerful lotion that
she could not use it without taking a
drop of strong drink-of course inter
nally. AS the case appeared to require
medical investigation, she was sent back
to the hospital. Certainly, one of the
questions % the day would seem to be,
what shall we do with our legs?"--
London Telegraph.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
WATERING HORSES.
The Water Should BE Pure and Supplied
at Regular intervals.


at Regular Intervals.
There are few farmers who will find it
always convenient to follow what is
known as the best rules for watering
horses. Yet in many cases change
could readily made with benefit.
1t is an established fact that horse
should not have water just after eating.
Allowing an interval to eat a hearty
meal and then to take good drink of
water is to waste more or less of the
food, and the consequence is that the
animal fails to derive the benefit that it
should.
The taking OF the water after eating
has tendency to wash the food out of
the stomach and into the intestines be-
fore it is thoroughly digested; in conse-
quence it is largely lost.
If the horse is watered too much be-
fore eating the water lowers the tenn
perature of the stomach, so digestion
could not begin until the proper tenn
perature is again secured.
While in either case no seemingly
particular damage will be done, yet 1T
tends to create disorder in the 81 stem
that sooner or later may develop into
disease.
The proper way of watering a horse
is at least from half to three-quarters
of an hour before feeding and two hours
after eating.
This gives the stomach time to raise
the temperature to its normal condi-
ton, if watered before eating, and time
for the food to digest after, and better
health will be maintained
On the farm this plan would in many
cases DE inconvenient, yet in others an
improvement in the plan followed could
be made with very little trouble.
Horses should be watered regularly.
The water should be pure and fresh
and supplied at such times as will Sc
cure the best results.-N. j. Shepherd,
in National Horse Breeder.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
FEATHERED TAKERS.
birds Other Than the Parrot Who Iml
tate the Human Voice.

tate the Human Voice.
There is a marked distinction be-
gween the call notes of birds which are
hereditary and inyariable and the song,
which is an accomplishment the result
Of effort and practice, even in those
kinds which sing when free and wild.
Most people who have reared young
thrush or blackbird will have noticed
that as soon as the wild birds begin to
sing in early spring the tame bird imi-
tates and reproduces by degrees the
same notes. The song of our canaries,
which in their own country is so poor
that they have been said not TO
sing at all, has been learned en-
lively from the goldfnches and
linnets who have shared their
cages, though the vocal organs
which the canars had bat did not use,
ags so superior 20 those of rs teachers
that it has now learned to outsing them
both. Among birds, as well as men,
there are non-progressive races which
are indifferent to "self-improvement"
and never try to learn song of their
own, much less initiate the voices of
other birds or of men. But the desire
to gain new rsotes is very much more
common than most people imagine, and
we believe there are at least twenty
kinds which are able to reproduce even
the complex forms of articulate human
speech. Aristotle mentions an Indian
parrot which could talk, and when it
drank wine was somewhat improper"
habits and language which it had
picked up no doubt from Phenician
sailors.
But the most accomplished talker of
Indian birds is the nynah, handsome
piuple-black bird with short tail,
orange beak and legs aud bright yell
low ear-flaps, which run round to the
back of its head like broad collar. 1t
is bold lively bird. with mellow
song and whistle of its own. Its power
of reproducing human speech is wonder
full, and it exhibits the greatest anxiety
that the tones shall be correct, repeat
ing them softly to itself with its head
or one side, and then shouting out the
words. In the insect house at the Zoo
there IS fine old mynah, who was
''dep slted" in 1883. While visitor is
examining the Indian moths coming
out of their cocoons he may hear be-
hind him a thoughtful cough. and
then "Hulloal" shouted with startling
suddenness. 1t is the mynah, anx-
ious to be friendly and to begin a con-
versation. The Hindoo traders in the
bazaars avail themselves of the mynah's
services in curious way. They teach
it TO pronounce the holy name of Rama,
and while its masters thoughts are on
earthly things intent the bird COM
pounds for the neglect by shouting in
cessantly the name Of the god and texts
in honor of his power. If the poet
Ovid's Indian parrot finds its way. as
he hoped, to the paradise of birds
1t must surely meet the mynahs there
also.
Another bird, which talks better than
most, and whistles better than any, is
the Piping Crow 1t is lively black
and-white bird, as large as rock, but
far more elegant in form. Several
specimens inhabit the Geological Gar
dens, but the best is in the western avn
airy, where he whistles "Merrily
Danced the Quaker" in tones like
lute-Ihe SPECTATOR
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
DAIRY AND CREAMERY.

A COW, or other animal that is too fat
is not fit for breeding purposes. Nor is
one that is too poor
"a DIRTY COW rarely gives clean
milk" says an exchange. No, and a
dirty mixer never miil1s clean milk.
GIVE the boy calf ard let MIN own
the COW. Boys calf and fathers COW is
one of the discouraging features of a
boys life on the farm.
WE suppose that everybody knows
that good hay is better than poor hay.
The COW knows it anyhow, hut she is no
more interested in the matter than her
owner is.
THE country store keeper is a great
advocate of cleanliness in the dairy.
Indeed every body is who consumes but
ter But the country store-keeper Is
lust as loud in his demand for cleanli-
ness as anybody else and when he is
through preaching cleanliness, he will
set a tub of butter next to the kerosene
barrel.
OK the question of the proper temper
ature in setting milk, Prof. Henry re-
ports: 'MiIk set at forty degrees for
eleven hours threw up all but a. 100 of
one per cent, while milk at forty-fye
degrees left 81 per cent. of butter in
the skim-milk. Setting atfifty degrees
as compared with forty-five degrees
showed a loss from IS to ten per cent.
and fifty five degrees shows that the
range of loss is from 1876 to thirty per
cent over that set at forty-five de-
grees."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01

was lively sea on, but he went to sleep
like a rocked infant He certainly was
the most torpid man that ever lived.
Never mind said Mrs. Blsbee one
morning. Miss Silvcrs is coming here
next week. Perhaps she'll wake him
up"
''You don't mean Matte Silvers, do
you?" exclaimed Gertie Greer.
YES, ] DO"
''Oh. DEAR
And Gertie's mouth went down at The
corners.
"WhaFs the matter with Matte Sill
verse inqull Il Ethel BEis ct
oh. nothing " answered Gertie. de-
jectedly; ''only was alta place where she
was once"
well. what Of ita~ demanded Sybi
Vane. that tall, white girl, you remem-
Der
Well" sighed Gertie. every man
in the house dropped right down At her
feet
oh. my, is she 50 very WONDERFUL
asked Ethel
oh. nothing much, replied Gertie;
'.just the most beautiful woman ever
saw, and with two little millions in her
own right"
There was a painful silence, and all
tho young women looked glum. Gertie
was not girl 70 be sneezed at and she
used her mirror. Her detection was
Ominous. The girls gazed anxiously at
Mrs. Bisbee.
Il don't want 20 be disagreeable. +"
she said. smoothly, "but I'm afraid it's
true"
What's her ssyls21 asked Sybil.
Brown" replied Ms Bisbee, SEN
tentiousIy
'RrOwn9"
''Nes; burnt sienna Burnt sienna
hair and eyes. dusky-p;nk cheeks, dusky-
crimson lips. silk plush ccmplexion-all
Cream and coaX-and tive millions from
her uncle, said Harold Beavei, who had
just come up
There was a general biting Of lips.
Haven't seen her for three years, :"
he continued. and :"
'Ah, Perhaps she has fadedF' ex-
claimed Ethel
The dusky browns don't fade much,
said Harold
NO said Mrs Risbee, Il saw her in
box at the Metropolitan last winter,
and she vas -sdian-"
Why, she doeSn's belong in New
York" Sybil said.
No, BALTIMORE responded Harold.
II don't see what she wants to come
away M here tor, asUmblsd Ethel.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01


groaned inwardly She came airily up
the steps, her brown eyes afame with
expectation. She caught sight of Der
Alte Chaperon lying in his steamer
chair. She ran right to him, threw both
arms around his neck ana publicly
kissed him on the lips.
Collie. dear.'' she said, rassionately.
But dear old fellow. you look real
done up and | expected to find you so
much better"
Better? lie must have been sick,
then. when he came down.
well, sweetheart" he replied,
laughing, Il have been mending slow
ly but surely till yesterday, when l had
to do little work aboard boat and"
Aboard a boat Now, dear, do you
know the doctor said you were not to
exert yourself, and when you sail a boat
you always"
but we got caught in a squall. and
the captain-well, perhaps these young
ladies will explain. Let me introduce
you all to my fiancee."
And then the whole crew of them
figuratively got right down on their
knees and worshiped Der Alte Chap
eron.
1t isn't much of a story, is it? But
then it has a moral. Two. may be-
w. j. Henderson, in n. Y. Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
GROWTH OF THE BR AIN.
Interesting Facts Concerning the skulls
of Great Thinkers.

of Great Thinkers.
In the inferior races the head ceases
to grow after twenty years of age. In
the superior races the head of the intel
ligent and educated man increases in
volume until thirty-five, forty and fifty
five years. The skull has reached its
maximum development when the bones
composing itare welded together so as to
render the sutures invisible. Once the
sutures are soliditied, the further growth
of the brain is impossible, which is said
to explain the insurmountable difficulty
experienced in trying to teach illiterate
adults. The qualification varies accord
ing to the investigating activity of the
brain. 1t takes place between the ages
of twenty-five and twenty-five years in
the task-worker, between twenty-eight
and thirty-sve in the middle class man.
ual professions, and after thirty-hve in
educated persons who prac tice intellect
ual professions. Recent experiments in
the female colleges of Russia, SAYS the
Chicago News, prove that woman's head,
though naturally smaller than mans, is
susceptible to similar development under
educational treatment The skulls of
great thinkers grow throughout life.
The frontal sutuTes Of Pascal. Rousseau
and others who lived to a ripe old age
were found open. Comparison of the
individual skulls of different races dis
closes the singular and important fact
that in the inferior beings the solidif-
cation of the sutures begins in the
frontal, or intellectual, region of the
brain, and terminates in the occipital,
or animal. In the case of the civilized
man, on the contrary, the solidiicatiou,
beginning much later in life. starts in
the occipital, passes TO the parietal
bone, and thence 70 the frontal, thus
giving till the last moment tho fullest
scope to the superior functions
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01

did not have much To say. He used to
lie about the hotel veranda ID a big
steamer chair and real no. els- He
wore a yachting suit and capaand a silk
shirt He did not look lit salt, be-
cause the skin OF his face was as white
and as smooth as a baby'S 50 they
laughed al him for wearing a yachting
suit. All the other fellows wore them
because il was yachting port upon the
sound, and pretty much every one vent
in for sailing, which was about al!
there was to do at the place. Collie
went sailing once or twice when some
generous fellow took pity on him and
invited him. Then the women laughed
at him more, and in strange German
called him Der Ate ChaperOn-the
old ChaperOn-becauss he always went
down into the cabin, stretched himself
on locker and fell asleep. They said
he was afraid the spray would spoil his
complexion
Collie didn't seem to know that he
was being laughed at IL ne did know
a. he did not mind it lie never said
any thing. but went on reading novels.
German novels, too: and he read them
Ia LAt OF AAAaA II WIS UtN1E AA- ~
ating. What business had a man at q
gay. active summer resort TO wear nauti-
cal toggery, have skin like a queens
baby and read German novels? Once
some one said 20 him:
Come and play game of billiards"
Thank you, he replied. ''lt's lit
tie too much for me. you know"
He certainly was a fOOl-and lazy
one. too. They tried him on several
things. but he lay in the steamer chair
and read German And there were at
least six beautiful girls in the hotel.
And every one OF them had been pIqued
into trying 70 interest him. But he
Just staid in the stcamerchai and read
German, or went to sleep in the cabin
of the yacht
lie didn't get seasick. They remem-
bered that, after he was gone, as one of
his good qualities. They had him out
one day when it blew fresh and there
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01

On small island in the middle os
the South Pacific lives a planter, the
only white man on the island-which il
full of brown-skinned folks-who cuts
and dries the meat OF cocoanut, which
he sells TO trading vessels. When ant
stranger stops at his island. he gives
him of the best that the island affordA
he will get up great concerts and dances
of the islanders; above all, he will take
them out to see his pet, which is, per-
haps, the largest and oldest animal that
was ever petite by any man. This pet
is a sperm whale nearly seventy feet
long. lie came through the narrow en-
trance into the little harbor which ia
walled in by coral reef, when quite
small, and remained until he mad grown
so large that he could not get out if he
wanted to. The great creature comes
up to be fed when the planter blows his
horn, and after his meal of a barrel of
chopped meat or fish. performs some
wondrous and amusing tricks, appar-
emily knowing what is expected of him.
Minneapolis Tribune.