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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
HE WORLDS DIAMONDS.
PecuIiaritie, of the Industry, the suppl
and Demand.

PecuIiarities of the Industry, the supply
and Demand.
The worlds stock of diamonds has
increased enormously in the last fifteen
years. In 1876 the output of the African
mines was about 800. 900 karats; last
year it was over 4, 600, 900. and the great
trust which controls all the principal
mines asserts that it has 16, 200, 00O
karats in sight at the present time.
Meantime the demand for diamonds has
greatly increased, and they are higher
to-day-partly because of the crust, but
also because of the increased demand
than they were a year ago.
In one respect the diamond industry
is different from almost all others. Its
product-that is, of gems-is never con-
sumed. OF gold and silver a much
larger amount than most people would
believe is literally consumed in the
arts past recovery, but diamond once
cut goes into the worlds great stock
and is liable to come upon the market
at any time. Hence the worlds an
nual taking of diamonds, which APP
pears to be steadily increasing, even at
advancing prices, is an index OF how
much of its surplus eai nings it can af-
ford to expend yearly in this particular
form of luxury.
The romance of diamond mining Is
all gone. IL IS now a matter of exca-
waiting vast beds of blue clay by ma
chinery, washing it and sitting out the
diamonds, which, after being roughly
sorted for size, are sold in bulk by
weight. The men who do the actual
work are mere laborers, and their pay
is small Iron
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
rHE FAST


II a wreck ON the Western New York
& Pennsylvania railroad near Watson
vile, Pa, twenty-one passengers were
injured.
GENERAL Il. F. BUTLER said during
criminal trial in the United States Dis
trict Court at Boston on the ed that
it was his last case in the courts, and
that hereafter his business would be
confined to Office practice.
FRANKLIN W. Hull and Ellis G. Bard.
who embezzled $4,000 from the Lin
coin National Bank of Lincoln, Pa.
were sentenced to five years imprison-
ment each.
DIR. WILLIAM X. HARPER. professor of
scientific languages at Yale College, has
decided to accept the presidency of the
Chicago University.
Mrs. JOHN SULLIVAN, of Orange, y.
J., on Noven Der 10 gave birth to
strong. healthy baby. ON the cath inst
She gave birth to a second child. also
strong and healthy. Physicians sale
such a case was never before heard of.
Is Pennsylvania the law prohibiting
the sale of Oleomargarine has been de
clared unconstitutional
JUDGE HALL declared, at East Lyme
Conn. that ''paster' put ON a blank
space on a ticket made the ballot illega.
under the State law. If sustained the
decision would invalidate $500 Prohibi-
ton ballots and elect Morris Dem
Governor.
AT Dover. y. H., Isaac b. Sawtelle
was found guilty of the murder of his
brother, and was sentenced to be
hanged the first Tuesday in January
1892.
IL New York an unknown woman
aged about 60 years fell on sidewalk
and her long hat-pin was driven into
her brain, causing almost instant death
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, Il conspiracy to
flood the United States with counter
felt silver dollars was unearthed by the
arrest Of nineteen Italians employed t.
pass tine coins.
WHILE ont hunting John Friclx, of
Johnstown. Pa, accidentally shot and
killed his 5-year-old son.
The labor commissioner of Maine
SAYS that there are 1910 abandoned
farms in the State.
AT their home in Rochester. y. Y.
Mrs. John Dietrich and three children
were burned to death. Her husband
and one son escaped
II the East a blizzard prevailed on
the 26th and New York City was buried
in snow. Street-cars, elevated railways
and ferry-boats were delayed. The
coast was swept by a strong gale. and
at Narragansett Pier two schooners
went ashore and three men were
drowned. In Buffalo, y. v, the Their
momcter registered 10 degrees below
zero. and at Lyndonville, Vt, the mer-
curry sunk to 80 below zero.
II runaway accident George III.
Green and wife, of South Coventry,
Conn, were killed.
Is a powder-house at Lake Hopat-
cong. y. j.. an explosion killed Mahlon
Sperry and John X johnson.
The death of George Hull, who about
twenty years ago found" the Cardiff
giant on his farm at Cardiff, n. ", oc-
Cured at Binghamton, y. Y.
TIE Henry VI. Stanley. the first of
the Newfoundland frozen herring fleet.
arrived At Gloucester, Mass, with AGO.
600 pounds of fish.
GENERAL JAMES ". STOKES died in
New York City at the age OF &c years.
and Franklin Chase. who was a United
States Consul for thirty-seven years.
died at the age of - years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
LATER.
INDIAN TREACHERY.
Results in Terrible Fight Between Sol
diers and Zig FO0t's Band.

Results in a Terrible Fight Between Sol
diers and Zig FOOt's Band.
WOUNDED KNEE CREEK, ). d., Dec.
29.-Indian treachery resulted in an
awful slaughter Of soldiers and red
skins here to-day. Big Foot and his
band had returned from the Bad Lands
and had surrendered. There were $50
war-like bucks, heavily armed, facing
the cavalry that they met last in 1876
on the Little Big Horn. Big Foot adj
vanced from his side and Maj. White
side from the boys in blue.
Big Foot started in for long talk on
how weary he was of running around,
and said he wanted to open his heart to
the chief of the soldiers. Whiteside
was there, however, for business, not
talk, and said that he must surrender
or fight. Like a magic up went flag
of truce and Big Foot surrendered his
band of over one hundred and fifty war
riors and $50 women and children.
The prisoners were marched over to
the old camp on Wounded Knee. The
/ battalion surrounded the Indian camp
and kept vigilant guard over them dur
ing the night. Early this morning Col.
FOrsythe ordered all the Indians to
come forward away from the tents.
They came and sat in half-circles un-
til counted. The dismounted troops
were then thrown around them, Com
pany X. Capt. Wallace. and Company
Is. Capt. Varnum. The order was then
given to twenty Indians to 60 and get
/ their guns. Upon returning il was
seen that only two guns were had and
a detachment Cd once began to search
/ the village. resulting in thirty-eight
guns being found.
As this task was about completed. the
Indians. surrounded by Companies X
and b. began TO move. All of a sudden
they threw their hands to the ground
and began firing rapidly at the troops
not twenty feet away. The troops were
at a great disadvantage. fearing shoot
/ ing of their own comrades. The Indian
men, women and children then ran to
the south, the battery firing rapidly as
| they ran.
Some of the mounted troops were af-
ter them, shooting them down on every
side. The engagement lasted fully an
hour and half. To the south many
took refuge in a ravine. from which il
was difficult to dislodge them. 1t Is es-
timated that the soldiers killed and
wounded number about fifty. Just now
I ii is impossible to state the exact num-
! Der of dead Indians. Many more than
/ fifty. however, killed outright. The
soldiers are shooting the Indians down
wherever found, no quarter b. inc given
by any one.
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pretfv We'll eEasoned.

A man who lives on Brush street sent
a small boy to a neigh boring saloon after
a quart of amber liquid. The small boy
on returning sat the pail on the side
porch and called to the man 70 announce
the arrival of the beverage. The latter
was inside the house and did not
respond Immediately A tramp, Of the
most pronounced tyye, saw the small
boy deposit the beer on the porch, went
In and was in the full enjoyment Of the
foamy when the owner emerged from
the house.
What do you mean by drinking my
beer?1 shouted he.
The tramp lowered the growler from
his cavernous mouth, blew the froth
from his unkempt muEtache, and, with
surprised look, replied:
Beer! Excuse mel sir, / thought 1t
was water"
The man who had spaid for the beer
tainted, and the tramp went joyfully on
his way.-Detroit Free Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
pITH ANol POINT.

"A woman may mott be able to find b
pocket, but she newell has it filed vii
letters she has forgotten to mail-E
mira Gazette.
Worldly pleasures seem to be abou
equally divided afteF all. Dogs ha,
their DAYS and catf their nights
brakes Magazine.
Teacher Tommy, you may explain
the difference between wages and sal
ary." Tommy-''Thd man that draws a
salary has TO spend nd ostof it for clothes
or lose his job. indianapolis Journal.
i'm Church. He ri should think
that Dudley would he careful not to
drop his voice in singing" She-''Why
sop lie Because II is so CT acled now
that it would not { Ike much to break
it"-Lowell Citizen.
Preventing Its Spread-
"Ain't yer going Or school, Jim?"
Jirmie-'Naw, we gbt the scullet fever
at our house, and de doctor SEE / can't
60 ter school. I'm doing to der dime
museum dis aft 20 long."-Boston
Herald.
MY wife is getting to be too ex-
trayagant." crowded Dodgers Hero
she has gone and spent e3 for new
bonnet, when she knew | had ac-
cepted an invitation 70 go driving with
Pudgers and it would cost me at least
-. "-Newcastle Chrpnicle.
Woman in Businbss -Brown-'srou
were a nice time getting that book"
Mrs Brown-"I had to ride across
town" Brown GLOW was that?r
Mrs Brown heard of a place where
] could get it two cents cheaper
Harper's Bazaar
He Knew.-'A man paid So for a
barrel of apples. He sold half of them
for 8. SO. and the rest decayed on his
hands How much did he lose?" asked
the teacher. He didn't lose nothin',"
brawlod out farmers boy in the class
ale worked EN- up into cider. Chi
cago Tribune.
When loon sees any thing bright
"a red scarf, or looking glass, or a
lantern at night-he swi ms toward it
and wants it. lie could not do any
thing with it if he had {. only to spoil
/ it-but he wants it all the same Tho
family exists in great variety. aquatic
and terrestrial, literary and political.
secular and religious. -Chicago Interior.
"A Benedict's Opinion.-Yabsloy-
"Prof Potterby is little the most
absent-minded man ever heard of He
actually met his own wife down town
the other day, and didn't know her at
all" Wickwire-''I don't know wheth-
er that was observation-disclosures or not
A woman looks heap different down
I town from what she does at home. -
/ indianapolis Journal.
Thirteen years ago a Boston man
/ lost a trunk on a railroad entering Chi
cage. The officials asked for a week TO
hunt it up, and then they wanted a
month and year. The loser didn't
want to seem captious about it, and no
kept still and let the good work go on,
and the other day he received pair of
socks. collar and the lid of his long
lost trunk, together with note stating
that there were no charges FOR storage.
Detroit Free Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
EnpEIGN INTELLIGENCE

IN London MIS-. Nellie Pearcey was
hanged for the murder of Mrs. Hogg
and the latter's infant child on October
"a last She confessed her guilt.
WHILE en- route to London from Cal
eutta the Hamburg ship Libussa col
lided with the British ship Talookolar,
and the captain, twenty-five of the crew
and ten passengers OF the Talookolar
were lost.
IL the Kilkenny district Sir John Pope
IIennessy, the McCarthyite candidate
for Parliament, defeated Vincent Scully,
Mr. Parnells candidate, by a majority
If LII.
IL Peru an insurrection was sup
pressed at cost of forty lives.
NEAR Woo-lIoo, China, the steamer
shanghai was destroyed by fire, and
several European officers and sixty ma
tives were burned TO death.
THIRTY or forty persons were drowned
at Warwick, Eng, 10y the breaking OF
the ice on the river Avon upon which
they were skating.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
DRUNKEN TURKEYS.
Queer Thanksgiving Custom Formerly
Observed in Central New York.

Queer Thanksgiving Custom Formerly
Observed in Central New York.
The opening ceremony of the festivi-
les connected with Thanksgiving Day
n part of Central New York used %
De, and perhaps still is. making drunk
he turkey that was TO be the most i'm
oortant feature of the holiday feast
When the bird that was to occupy the
place of honor on the table had been
selected it was taken to one corner of
he farm-yard and cup of brandy was
placed before it The turkey would
rink this eagerly, and would then give
frst-class exhibition Of being on
tear" of the funniest kind lie would
,taggeringly strut up and down, his
wings trailing on the ground. At one
lime he would seem to look ex-
sremely wise, and then would ap-
hilarious aspect of his condition.
IN the meantime the other fowls would
look on with gravity and wonder at tile
curious capcrs of their companion as re
toddled arr und, sometimes gravely
swinging his head from side to side and
Sometimes lifting it high in the air
All the me.z 5ers of the family, and
the relatives and friends who had come
70 spend Thanksgiving with it, would
gather in the yard and enjoy the sight.
Finally, when the poor fellow was ex-
nausted ind overcome with drowsiness,
he was killed.
The good housewives imagined that
Ii increased the flavor of the turkey
fifty per cent. to kill 1t while it was
drunk Families that would not allow
a drop of liquor to be brought into their
houses at any other time, except as
medicine. would not think it wrong to
make their Thanksgiving turkey drunk.
Perhaps it was thought that the bird
would feel less worried over its fate il
the headsman's Ratchet was put TO ii
while il was in a state of blissful igno
N V Trfhuua
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01

There is in New York SItv 2 married
man whose wife was reared in luxury
and always enjoyed wealth till four
years ago. when, through. unforeseen
circumstances, he lost his all and fell
into poverty, but not into the dumps.
He gave up his mansion. took quarters
in a tenement, and got hard work at
low wages. She took to the kitchen and
did the cookery Of the household; she
took TO the tub and did the washing for
the family; she took to the broom and
did the sweeping and cleaning Of the
apartments. He is still at hard LABOR
on low wages, and ,he is yet at work in
her household. His muscles have been
developed till his strength is doubled,
and h r nervous system has been invig-
GRATED so that she has forgotten the
megrims by which she was once ah3ict-
ed The twain has enjoyed life better
l., their -four years ofimpecuniosity than
they had ever enjoysd it in all their
ysaIs of fortune.--N. Y. San
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
GERMAN CITES.

Population of the Principal Municipalities
of the Empire as Shown by the Official
Census.
BERLIN, Dec. 29-The official census
of Germany which was recently com
pleted gives Berlin a population of
1,574,4 s5. being an increase of 259,0
in five years. The city containing the
next highest number of persons is
Hamburg, with population of 57o,-
534 This is an increase of 99,534
since 1885. Hamburg which with the
city of Altoona has 7l5, 40 inhabitants,
has added 81 per cent. to the population
within the last five years. Leipsic,
which las 353, 272 inhabitants, had only
159, 500 in 1885. This is the greatest in
crease in any city, being 50 per cent
Munich has 344. sos inhabitants, Breslau
S34, 7l0, Cologne 2S2.537, Dresden 276,-
os5, Magdeburg ,J71 and Frankfort
on the Main 179, $50.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-01-01
A Dangerous Cargo.

A cargo of limo is dangerous one.
When fire, as it frequently does, catches
in spite of the greatest precautions
against the admission of any water into
the hold, it is almost impossible to ex-
tinguish it. The only method that ever
avails is to stop u every crack in the
vessel with soap so that no air can
reach the lime. Sometimes this stops
the fire. They have been known to
burn for several months. When yes
sells cargo is thus afire it is instant
death to go inside of her. Some time
ago the lime in a schooner of Mon
hogan caught afire, and she was sealed
dp As tightly as possible. The captain
and his two sons were the crew. One
day the latter went to sleep on the
deck, and their father, imprudently
entered the cabin, shutting the door
after him. lie sank down lifeless on
the stairs. The boys awolIe, missing
their father. and suppo,ing he had
fallen overheard, sailed the schooner
home, unconscious that they were bear
ing his dead body with them.
This excluding the air from vessel
to stop the fire suggests the method
employed to free a vessel from rats A
fire is built in the cabin, and also IL the
hold. from some infiammable material
Then ali air is excluded, and "a the
fires use up the oxygen, drawing il from
the remote parts of the hold, the rats
leave their holes and follow the precious
life-giving gas to the fires which gseed-
ilv devour it for their own existence
and when they go out the poor rats are
found dead around the stoves. -Portland
A
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A DARING OPERATION.
French Surgeons Attempt to Clean a Mans
Heart and Kill the Patient

French Surgeons Attempt to Clean Mans
Heart and XIII the Patient
American surgeons have the credit of
being among the most daring in their
experiments. but they do not beat the
French. What DO yog, think of an at
tempt TO clean man'1rheart? This il
what was attempted a short time since
mere an France. This is true story l
am telling you-no invention. Two
surgeons actually set to work to cut open
2 mans chest for the purpose of getting
at and cleaning his heart.
Joseph Dayenne. an upholster, had
been suffering for many years from
fatty degeneration of the heart The
poor man knew that he had not long to
live, yet he was only forty-eight years
OF age, and saw no reason why he should
die vet Moreover the doctors told him
they thought they might possibly cure
him. They persuaded him that at least
he would be doing an invaluable service
to science, and that he was bound TO die
soon at any rate if nothing was done,
whereas this might prove the means of
curing thousands of sufferers beside
himself
And so" the story is grayely told in
French medical journal from which !
translate. poor NJ. Davenne consented
to place himself under their hands"
Then comes a lot of technical descrip-
/ ton of the operation, which was per-
/ formed under water while the patient
was in a condition of anasthesia. /
won't give all these scientific words, it
is quite unnecessary to tell in scientific
language how the cuticle was removed.
the pectoral muscles carefully dissected
| from the ribs, the cartilaginous june
tions of the ribs and sternum discon-
nected, and the heaving lungs in their
delicate, shining, covering membranes
exposed to view.
Up to this point the patient still lived.
The heart, however, had not yet been
reached. However. to the two French
surgeons this was a mere detail which
their knives would speedily overcome.
| They did overcome this mere detail very
rapidly. In less than a minute more
one of them had NJ. Davenne's heart in
his hand, and was busily engaged scrap
ing from its surface the adipose deposit
with which it was covered, and which
so impeded its proper action.
Hold on a momentv' exclaimed the
surgeon, ''the man is dead!"
And so he was Dead as the door nail
which Dickens has made proverbial.
How they could have expected any
thing else is not recorded. They mad,
however, taken the precaution to have
NJ. Davenne sign. seal and deliver a pa
per to the effect that the operation was
performed entirely at his own risk, and
that no person but himself was to be
held in any way whatever responsible
for his death, should it occur.
The surgeons had the assurance to
send to the medical journal full report
of the case and of the operation; no one
has, as yet, called them TO account for
their foolhardiness, and they do not say
what they certified as the cause of the
! mans death. N. Y. World.
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AMERICAN FORESTS.
The Rapid Rate at Which the United
states is Being stripped of Trees.

The Rapid Rate at Which the United
states is Being stripped of Trees.
At a recent meeting in Berlin of the
Geographical Society, Chief Forest
Master Kessler called attention to the
exJravagant waste of timber in the
United States. Among other interest
ing details Mr.. Kessler spoke of the
tremendous destruction of forests in the
United States during recent decades of
years. Quoting from the tenth census,
he stated that in 1850 the p. res saw
mills then in operation converted $780,,
OOo 600 worth OF raw timber stock into
various kinds % lumber, and he as
serted that at the same rate there would
be no good-sized timber left in forty
years. He spoke of the enormous waste
of wood through forest fires, which
are the result. for the most
part, of carelessnsss or a desire
to clear land for cultivation,
and declared that the planting of new
forests, which has of late years received
some attention in the Eastern States,
can not begin to Offset the waste of for
ests. He said that there is every reason
to fear that America will soon be coun-
try impoverished for tree property. Mr.,
Kessler made the striking comparison
that, while the United States had but
II per cent of its area covered by for
ests, the empire of Germany has % per
cent of it's entire area so covered. Mr.
Kessler said that the reckless destruc-
ton of forest trees in America and the
Indifference manifested by Americans
in the restoration OF forests is menace,
not alone to the wealth of the Nation,
but threatens serious deterioration both
to climatic conditions and the fertility
of the soil.-Scientific American.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
WISCONSIN SCHOOLS.
Biennial Statement of the superint ~ade

Biennial Statement of the Superint ~ldent
of Instruction.
State Superintendent of Public In
struction Thayer has made his bien-
NAL report. According to this
report the per cent. of the whole
number of children IN the State
between the ages o. and 20 who were
enrolled in public schools was SOL. The
number of children in the State he
tween the ages of and 20 was
last census 592, 755. Those betwes
ages of and IA numbered 294. D.
There are in the State GAO school
houses with seating capacity of AZ
BOB The number of teachers employed
in public schools is II, 037, of whom only
2,3SS are males. The cost per child of
the schools in the State last year. based
upon the enrolment of those between
the ages of and 90, was as follows: In
the large cities, Sl4.47; outside the large
cities, s10.O5. The normal schools cost
the State in the 1890 fiscal year Sill, 141.
The State University cost Sl74,361. The
grand total of the cost of education in
all public institutions of learning in the
State was 81 2JS. 463.