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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
WHAT ABOUT The eIRts9
Even Those ssIth Good Incomes Are Put
ting Their Time to Value.

ting Their Time to Value.
Very much has been said on the sub
iect of girls with independent incomes
1r well-to-do parents going into bust
ness or taking NJ any means of liveli-
hood, and severe and, it would seem,
very unjust criticisms have been in
1ulged i'm.
IL is claimed by working woman and
their champions that for a girl with q
good home or al income to go into
business or take remunerative work 20
do is unjust to those who are depend
ant on their own exertions for q living
Just where the Justice of such criticism
comes in it would be difficult for any
philosopher to decide. No one thinks
il strange, indeed il is quite the prut'er
thing, when a boy on =. before arriv-
ing at maturity goes out into the world
"a earn his living. However wealthy
his father may be seems to make no
difference; indeed, under such circum-
stances, industry and application to
business are looked upon as all the
more praiseworthy, but, for some mys-
terious rrason the girl is not allowed
this privilege.
This appears to he but another of the
relics of barbarism which unfortunate
" cling like barnacles TO the ship of
progress.
Everybody has a right TO earn liv-
ing. or any portion of it, by whatever
honorable occupation he may see fit to
take up Whether il be a man or a
woman matters not.
Some years ago when the subject of
women coming into business first be-
came generally agitated, the idea was
frowned upon on the ground that II
women took up business pursuits men
would be crowded out OF the positions
they had 80 long occupied.
But while croakers croaketland pessi-
mists were sure that chaos would come
very soon. women went straight on in
the pursuit of the various vocations
which they had chosen. and nothing
serious came of il.
IL would be "a rather laughable affair
were anyone to make that objection
nowadays, and the cry that well-to-do
girls should not work lest somebody
else suffer will some day be accounted
quite as absurd as the same cry applied
To young men of fortune.
There is plenty of work in the world
for both boys and girls.-N. Y. Ledger.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
Matter without weight.

A German paper says that cook
who had burned a fve-pound joint of
veal. to avoid a scolding threw the
spoiled meat away and told her mis-
tress that the eat had eaten it. I'm
deed" said the lady; I'VE viii see
about that. and she took the cat, put
it on the kitchen scales and found that
il weighed precisely FIVE pounds.
There. kathrine," she said. Il sup
pose that is five pounds OF meat, but
please tell me where is the eat?"-
Youths Companion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

Single Man ito himself)-I am sure
that darling little angel loves me. She
takes me into her confidence and tells
me all her troubles
Same Man (some years later)-Con-
sarn it all, From morning till night
and night till morning, when I'm at
home. hear nothing but tales about
the servants. the butcher, the butler,
the baker. the candlestiek-maker, and
all the rest of 'em.-N. y. Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
prnnortion Of the sere..

Over the whole world the proportion
of the sexes is about equal but in scpa-
rate parts of the world it varies greatly.
For instance, in this country there are
ninety-eight women to every one hun
dred men; in Europe there are rather
more than one hundred women to e
hundred men. Canada has ninety-f e
women to one hundred men. In a.
civilized countries the men are .
lieved largely to outnumber the
women. this on account of the fact that
more men are needed to carry on the
wars in which such people are con-
stantly engaged and because of the
rougher ways of living .-Waverly
Magazine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
Tn. MagicIan.s Res, Quality.

One letter asks: do YOU know the
methods by which your husband per
forms all his illusions and could you
do the same things?" | know fully, to
the most remote detail, how Mr.. Herr
mann effects his stage results, and am
the only person in the world cognizant
of some of his inventions, because he
could not trust them to ordinary as
sistants. Yet, although ! have been
acting as his other self upon
the stage ever since our mar
riage, | could not perform the
bulk of his tricks ! lack the prac-
tice acquired only by lifetime's labor,
and | lack the confidence of the ma
gician, which must be born in one, and
can never be acquired. ! verify be-
lieve that If ] were to attempt the
simple ra bbit trick. after the thousands
of times | have seen il done, ] would
scream, both from fright and the fear
that the audience were detecting my
imposition as Bunny leaped from space
into the hat. ! am.convinced that self
confidence. more than any other quail
ity. is the first requisite of a magician.
Few people can really appreciate what
imposition upon human eredulity
means Mrs. Hermann, in Lippin-
colts
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

According to an estimate made by
its treasurer. Mr.. William Farnam,
Yale university has gained within q
period of three years rev buildings
costing upward % si.225, 100. The new
Vanderbilt dOrinitory, which is esti-
mated at s400, 600, will, il is said. cost
probably $500, 900. The dormitory will
be splendidly fitted up. Two other
dormitories. White hall and Berkeley
hall, are being erected, and ultimately
there is to be still another dormitory
extending from Berkeley hall to WaD
street, and thus closing in the new
campus on the western side with -
unbrolxen row of dormitories Ia the
same architectural style.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

With the agreeab BILE tonic. Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters. We viii fOreshadow the results
for you. They are gam In ylgor, flesh and
appetite: ability Il digest thoroughly ana
disappearance OF bilious symptoms; regu-
larity Of the bowels. Malaria. rheumatism
and kidney trouble are removed by this
grand restorative of he llth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
THE LETTERS j AND W.
History of Two Important Members of the
English Alphabet.


It is a fact not so well known but
that it may be said TO be curious that
the letters ! and " are modern addi-
tions to our alphabet. The use of the
j may be said to have become general
during the time of the commonwealth.
say between 1919 and 1858. From 1880
to 1916 its use is exceedingly rare, and
| have never yet seen a book printed
prior to 1925 in which 1t appeared IN
the century Immediately preceding tile
seventeenth il became the fashion to
tail the last when Roman numerals
were used, as in this example: viii. of
s, or xii. in place of 70. This fashion
still fingers, but only in physicians
prescriptions. | believe. Where the
French use the J it has the power of $
as we use it in the vision" What ma
ton was the first to use it as new let
ter is an interesting but perhaps unan-
swera Bile query.
In a like manner the printers and
language makers in the latter part of
the sixteenth century began to recog-
nize the fact That there was a sound in
spoken English which was without "a
representative in the shape of an alpha
betical sign or character, as In the first
sound In the word wet" Prior to
that time lit had always been spelled
as wet" the having the long sound
of IL or two us together. In order to
convey an idea of the new sound they
began TO spell such words as "wet,
weather" web" etc, with two us
as the of that date was typical Y
the three words mentioned looked like
this: wet weather" web"
After awhile the type founders rec
ognized the fact that the double u had
come TO stay, so they Joined the two
VS. together and made the character so
well known as w. | have one book in
which three forms of the W are given.
The first is the old double tvv), the
next is one in which the last stroke of
the crosses the first stroke of the sec
ond and the third is the common W as
used to-day Cincinnati Times-Star.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
RnraI nisadrantare..

Mamma-Essie, we have fallen into
the bad habit, you and I, of sitting up
late o nights The little queen of
Holland is just your age and she is
sent to bed regularly at eight o'clock.
Essie-Is she2
Mamma-She is.
Essie-Well. am glad am not the
queen of Holland. Judge.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

The ticket agent and telegraph
operator at one of the stations on the
Adirondack railway has an uncon-
querable horror of travel in any way
save on foot. He fears that horses
will bolt and that engines will jump
the track, aud the perils of naviga-
ton nothing would induce him TO en-
counter. When business calls him 70
Saratcga-so far the limit Of his jour
neyings since birth-he bids his family
a solemn farewell, and rejoices greatly
on a safe return. He is a well-read,
thoroughly sensible man, but, try as
he will. he can not overcome his dread
of all forms of rapid transit
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
Reuare East Winds.

There is a malicious sort o. sfrivel-
ing process which attends upon the
east wind, and is sufficiently familiar
70 everyone who has often encoun-
tered this menace TO man and beast.
II takes the color from the rosiest
cheeks; it seems to blight the bloom and
pucker the features; and to says, as
- Quiip to his poor wife: ''I'm glad
your little nose is pinehed and redH
Those who care for their personal APP
pearance should not brave this wind;
or, if they must, they should have its
devastating properties in mind and try
to counteract them as far as possible
by articles of She toilet. -PhiIx lphia
Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
A sudden prpsrtnre.

Nitherby-Didn't your new cook
leave rather suddenly?
Plankington-Yes. She got mixed in
her dates She had policeman aud a
burglar call on her the same evening.
Life.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
- Origin of u.lcyop Days.

The term ''Halcyon Days" was orig
inally applied by the ancients to the
seven days which follow the shortest
day in the year. Alcyone. or Halcyone.
daughter of Aeolu>. married Ceyx, who
was drowned as he was going ia con-
suit the oracle The gods appraised
Alcyone in 4 dream of her husbands
fate. and when she found on the fol-
lowing day his body washed on the
sea shore she threw herself into the
sea. To reward their spiritual affec-
ton the gods changed them into haley
ons or kingfishers. and. according 10
poets. deereed that the sea should re-
main calm while these birds built their
nests upon IL. According to Pliny the
halcyons. only showed themselves at
the setting Of the Pleiades and toward
the winter solstice, and even then they
were but rarely seen They made their
nests, according 10 the same authority.
during the seven days Immediately pre-
ceding the winter Solstice and laid
their eggs during the seven days that
followed. The phrase "Halcyon DAYS
has now come 20 signify times of peace
and tranquility. -Detroit Free Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

THE general willingness to give
advice" said the man with cold, is
something astonishing. And yet il
isn't the abundance that worries me so
much as the variety. Washington
star.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

A SORE Throat or Cough, IL suffered TO
progress often results IN an incurable
throat or lung trouble. "BroTn's BT0nehtat
TrOches'' give instant relief. Price % cts.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

THE life of the Georgia editor is sad one.
We run out of wood and had 10 cook our
vittles in the sun, aud it's been amin
steady for three weeks -Billville Banner.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

JAGsoN says many a mans reputation
wouldn't know his character by sight.-El-
mira Gazette.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
Rracs Tin Your Svstem

WHILE the experienced bicycle rider es-
capes without any falls, the beginner, as
rule, doesn't get of so easily
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

ACToRs, Vocalists, Public Speakers praise
Ha.e's Honey Of Horehound aud Tar.
Fixes Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

The discovery of what is true and
the practice OF that which Is good are
the two most important objects of
philosophy.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

WHERE wit hath any mixture of raillery il
is but calling it banter, and the work =
dnpa
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

J. c. SIMPSON, Marques. W. Va, says:
"Hall's Caiarrh Cure cured me Of very
bad case of catarTh." Druggists sell it, 75c.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

BFECHAM's PILLS are a wonderful medicine
for anv bilious or nervous disorder, such as
suck headache, etc. Price, p cents a box
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

BETWEEN TUE AcTs.-"Well, what do you
think Of itr' ssOh, it's about as broad as II
Is long."-Life's Calendar.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
Long-Fels want.

81 wish"
''What do you wish?
AZ wish somebody would invent o
pen that would fall write side up -.
Truth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

-Visitor-''Is your son taking a very
thorough course in college?" Fond
Mother-"Indeed he is The poor fell
low Is really too conscientious This is
his fourth year in the freshman class,
and they tell me there is a great deal
that he can learn vet.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

The man who declares that he will forgive
but can never forget has never tried TO mali
his wife's letiers.-Elmi q Gazette
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16

John, what lovely placei If we could
only manage 10 raise the rent" Mr.. Hun
ter Howes-"Oh, I've no doubt the landlord
would see 10 that in a couple OF months. -
Broolxivn Life
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-16
wnMEN IN SOCIETY

THERE are always some rare bargains at
the meat market.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-26
1t Was Dead Economy.

An excursion from Birmingham to
Montgomery was run the other day.
says the Birmingham (Ala.) Age
Herald. A negro man appeared at
the ticket Office in the depot and
purchased a ticket for himself. Then
he said to the ticket agent:
BOSS, l want mother round trim
'scursion ticket for a corpse"
The agent opened his eyes in as
constituent. An excursion ticket for
corpse was something new to him.
even with his varied experience.
The negro explained: "You see,
boss, my brudder died yesterday and
l want ter take de corpse down to
Montgomery and let de family view
De mains, and den bring 'em back to
Birmingham and bury 'em. Dis will
be heap cheaper den fur de family
to cum up here"
The agent saw at once that this
was great stroke of economy and
enterprise on the part of the negro.
There were probably a dozen mem
bers OF the family, and tickets for
them TO Birmingham and board while
there would be quite expensive. The
corpse could get the benefit of excur.
sion rates to Montgomery and would
pay no board while there. Thus the
negro subserved the ends Of economy
and preserved the respect for the grief
OF the family at the same time.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-26
An AmphibiOus Boa t.

A new Canadian invention for use
in the lumber districts is coming into
general use in Northern Ontario. 1t
is called steam varying tug. It
propels itself on land as well as on
water, and is used by lumbermen
whose operations are carried on
among small lakes connected by
streams of uncertain navigation.
The vessel has proved not only a
success. but great boon to the lum-
Der trade. Six of these unique crafts
have been built by the inventors dur
ing the past season, four completed
at their yard in Ottawa, and two
shipped, ready to be put together at
their destination in the Nipissing
district.
They are built in scow shape, with
steel-shod runners for moving over
land; are thirty-seven feet long, ten
feet beam, decked all over, and have
sleeping-room for four men in the
bow; the bottom and up the how is
covered with steel boiler plate. An
engine twenty-five horse power fur
nishes steam for ten hours work, with
three quarters Of cord OF wood.
In the water it moves six miles an
hour forward or backward, as re.
quired, propelled by side wheels.
On land it Is propelled by having
cable drum on which is coiled five
eighths of a mile of steel wire cable.
which is fastened with pulleys to a
tree or some object in front, the boat
moving as the wire is coiled up. The
boiler is hung on an axle in the cen,
ter, and screw arranged on the front
enables the flremen to tip it forward
or back, and keep it level going up or
down hill.
1t will move over an elevation of
one foot in three on land, and draws
about twenty-eight inches in the
water.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-26
The Line Was David's.

The late Henry de Mile, who COL
Elaborated with David Belasco in a
number Of plays, used to tell this
story at the Lambs Club:
II once had an opportunity. in a
play Dave and had written, to make
use OF the third verse Of Psalm xciv.:
Lord, how long shall the wicked,
how long shall the wicked Triumph
THE actor who had this to speak
came to me at rehearsal one day and
objected to the line. which he said
he considered very weak. He con-
cluded his objections by asking II l
was stuck on the line. l said l
rather liked the line, but had no per-
sonal interest In it, as in this in
stance was only an adapter, the
line being David'S
'David's, ch?' exclaimed the actor;
that's just what thought. Any one
could spot that for some of Dave Be-
lasco's bad English.'"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-26
TOllin0 a knell.

The traveller through some of the
more remote rural regions of Maine
occasionally hears what most men Of
three score and ten remember as a
familiar sound in their young days
the tolling Of church bell on the
death of denizen of the neighbor-
hood, the strokes numbering the
years of the PERSONS life
There is something particularly
solemn about the use of the bell, so
long neglected in the more popular
communities; and to the writer no
funeral service ever brought the fact
of death home with the same pathos,
as listening to the unexpected sound
Of 1.-THE death bell," startling the
community into hush, broken for a
few minutes only by the low. whis-
pered query: "Why, who can that
be?" Then, as the tolling went On,
the count was kept carefully to help
solve the mystery.
The tolling began usually very soon
after the breath had left the body,
and before the news had spread
through other channels. II very
aged person. the count would require
q considerable time, while all would
sit very still, and listen for the
strokes Lewiston Journal
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-26
Salt and SawdusA

Bees, like all other creatures, reI,sn
salt and should have it placed before
them occasionally in a diluted form.
l found the bees gathered by hun.
dreds on the bridge where the sheep
were sailed. Some rover must have
found the.spot by accident and then
Informed the colony Of his discovery,
.or there were no flowers near the
spot to attract them. To give bees
access to salt just sprinkle some on
the sawdust in front of the hive.
The rain will dilute it properly and
the sawdust will retain it for them.
Bees are annoyed and hindered in
their work BY the grass growing up
before the entrance Of the hive. To
prevent this put bushel of sawdust
before each hive, spread out evenly
and just level with the entrance.
This furnishes them with a fine
parade ground, and good foothold
for alighting and starting.-National
StOCknan.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-26
HerOism on the Stage.

III you knew what agony ballet
girls suffer on account of their feet
you would wonder how they are able
to smile at an audience in the way
they do" continued the doctor. '!The
premieres, II they appear twice the
anne evening, invariably have Chi
ropodist back Of the scenes to attend
to them between acts Its peculiar,
but ballet girls get corns under their
toenails. This, of course, would pre-
vent them from dancing, but we have
way Of treating such things. We
split the toenail down the center and
place cotton between this and the
corn. This has to he dressed after
each dance. l have seen a premiere
danseuse come of the stage smiling
and tall down in a faint as soon as
she was out of sight of the audience,
all caused by the pain in her feet"-
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-26
They Stole a Locomotive,

1.-THE most successful, and, at the
same time, most unique civil service
examination l know of occurred dur
ing the war;" said T. c. De Land, OF
the Examining Board at the Treasury,
toa Washington Post man. THE
Confederacy was very much in need
of q railway locomotive in order to
operate their supply system. 1t was
In 1854 and they had not the means
to buy an engine, so the invarlable
alternative arOse-steal one. A band
OF one hundred men was selected
from Lees army and placed under
the command Of q big six-foot-four
Georgian, who had been foreman of
q stone quarry and was more or less
skilled in the use of derricks, etc.
He took his men up into Maryland
and they tore up a section of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railway tracks,
tagged the next train and with moth
ing on earth save plenty of rope,
those one hundred men carried the
locomotive flfty.two miles over hills,
across streams through boys and
woods, until they struck a line the
COnfederacy had built Then they
ran the engine down 70 Virginia.
When the President of the Baltimore
4 Ohio heard of the feat he couldn't
believe it. He went out and person.
ally inspected the scene; went over
the route and declared it the most
wonderful feat Of engineering ever
accomplished. After the war he dele
gated man to find the leader of the
band. He was lacated in Georgia.
Mr. Garrett sent for him and on the
strength of that single feat made him
roadmaster Of his entire system of
railroads. ANY man that can pick
up an engine with fishing-lines and
carry it over mountain has passed
his examination with me-" said he.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-26

taps Of theloopel Spread out nat 10
Is GOOD -si3ed, neat-lo0king cover for
your bundle to and from the laun.
dresA who lhould wash it regularly
and use it for cover to bring homo
the clean dothes. Gathered up by
the four lodps and hung on one hook,
it is q bag hat does not get smelly"
Still more important perhaps, it is
one that yot can put things In with
out requiring one hand to hold it
open. Andyou need never put your
hand into i To ind anything or
empty it Lift it from the hook aud let
it rest on the floor, when it will
spread open Of itself, and reveal all
its contents at q glance.
Two Of these bags one to hang up
when the laundress takes the weeks
washing in the other, will make you
feel very rich indeed. They will cost
about 30 cents and can be made in
less than an hour.-Philadelphia
Record.