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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-30
INCIDENTS IN A SLEEPER.
The Naughty Maiden at One End, Z
Pnnr blind Mrn Al The Other

The Naughty Maiden at One End, the
Poor Blind Man at the Other.
1t takes all kinds of people to ill a
sleeping car. Fortunately so, for 9TH
erwise what would relieve the tedium
of the steady. monotonous. onward
rush of the train day and nights?
She was handsomely gowned, and
looked as vigorous as If brought up on
lawn tennis and rowing matches. Her
companion was in appearance twin.
"Poahtah,' she said to the slim little
darby. Il shall want constant stten-
ton. i like the window changed fire.
quent1y. And, Poahtah, you must walk
by every few minutes and see il we
need anything"
It lacked some minutes for the time
for the train to start At the other end
of the car sat a man with his eyes COW
cred From the likeness. evidently the
girl with him was his sister She held
his right hand in both hers, and with
his left he clutched her shoulder as II
he could not let her go. The terror in
his face, and the pity and love and
grief in hers, would have made your
heart stand still If you had seen the
two. Finally she was Obliged to leave.
but first she spoke few words to the
conductor, and then went to lady sit
ting near, and this is what she said 10
her:
Madam, my brother has had an APP
popleptic stroke, and it has left him
suddenly and totally blind. He is going
to a specialist in Pennsylvania, and
goes alone"
Then, reading the thought of the
woman she was speaking to:
Eyes, il must be. Ii takes every cent
we can get 10 send him as il is. He must
go alone. l must let him take this jour
ney alone in his misery. VIII you speak
to him now and then?"
The porter hurried her out the car.
The blind man was by no means a
weak-minded looking man. On the
contrary he had a strong face, as had
the girl But as the train started he
was sobbing like baby. He said af-
terward, when made happy as possible
by the attentions of passengers and car
employees, that it was perfect desOlation
that came upon him when he found
himself left alone in the new, strange
world of darkness that had overtaken
him so suddenly. Weak and newly
blind. and spending the last few dol
lars his family could get together. A
long, lonely journey before him and
little hope at the end!
You were in luck that day, slim little
darby porter. what with the goodly fee
you got in the front of the ear, and the
treasure in Heaven you laid up through
your tender services to the sad man in
the rear end.-Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-30
Good Breeding.

The essence of good breeding is sim
plicity-not the simplicity of the peas
ant, although that is good in its way.
but the simplicity of the really civilized
man who has arrived at kind of arti-
fetal naturalness. The natural man
has been fifty described as "a noisy,
sensual savage" Civilization teaches
him to be quiet, to mind his own bust
ness. TO refrain from offending or dis
gushing his neighbors, to respect him
self. to stand on his own basis. Now,
if the essence of good breeding is sim
plicity il may be said that the essence
of vulgarity Is a want OF simplicity.
To be vulgar is to be unquiet, to have
no taste of ones own, to be in con-
tinual disturbance on account of ones
neighbor. either by way of trucking
TO him, which is the manner of the
snob, or of hating him, which is the
vice of the radical, or of competing
with him, which is the weakness of
the parvenu. To be vulgar is to adopt
other peoples language, to use their
cant phrases. TO copy the infections of
their voices. TO espouse their ideas-in
fine, to think and 90 and say, not
what cores naturally to one. but what
is imposed to be considered proper by
other people Thus, 10 be vulgar Is to
lack simplicity. -Atlsntie Monthly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-30
SCIENCE IN PRISON.
The Experiments and Discovery Made by
Werner Won Siemens In His Cell.

The Experiments and Discovery Made by
Werner Won Siemens in His Cell.
While Siemens was stationed in
1910, at Wittenberg, he became inter
ested in the discovery, then recently
made by jacob. of the precipitation of
metallic copper from the sulphate by
means of the galvanic current. He re-
peated the experiments successfully
and applied the process-so far as his
means would permit-to other metals
His studies were interrupted by his
arrest and imprisonment for connec-
ton as second with a duel between
two of his brother officers Not relish
ing the idea of spending an indefinite
period in idleness, he managed on his
way to the citadel to make arrange
ments to have the materials required
in his electroplating researches SNUG
gled in to him. lie set up a small lab
oratorv in his cell and made himself
contented there. Recollecting, from
experiments he had made in the Da-
guerrean process, that hypOsulphite of
soda would dissolve the insoluble salts
of gold and silver, he applied the prin-
ciple to electrolysis with astonishing
success; and he believes, he says, that
it was one of the greatest joys of his
life when a newly silvered teaspoon
which he had immersed at the zinc
pole of a Daniel cell into cup filed
with a hyposulphite gold solution
while the copper pole was connected
with a louis d or as an anode, was
converted in few minutes into a
gilded spoon of the most beautiful,
purest golden luster" Galvano-plating
was then new in Germany, and his dis
covery made much talk. A jeweler of
Madgeburg, visiting him in prison to
examine into its merits, he sold him
the right to use it for forty louis, and
thus obtained means for continuing
his experiments. He counted upon en-
loving still several months of captivity,
and the unmolested prosecution of his
researches, when the unwelcome mes
sage came to him of a royal pardon,
and he was obliged to leave the citadel
at once, without house or other spot in
which to set up his apparatus He
asked leave from the commandment to
stay little longer, but was denied,
accused of being ungrateful for the
royal clemency, and was hurried out
of his quarters at midnight. Popular
Science Monthly.
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FlREsIOE FRAGMENTS.

A little alcohol will do wonders in
Frightening glass. Turpentine is ex-
.ellent for washing sinks which have
become dull and dirty.
Chicken and Peas.-Simmer jointed
chicken with one quart of peas, one
dessert-spoonful of butter, one onion,
pepper, salt. parsley and one-half pint
of gravy. When gravy is nearly gone,
add one teaspoonful of braided -four;
shake up well and serve. Good House
keeping.
Baked Yellow Squash. Pare the
the pieces and cook in boiling water
until they may be pierced by fork
Drain through colander, mash finely,
season with salt. pepper and plenty of
butter. Put into baking-dish and
bake in hot oven for about twenty
minutes-Ladies' Home Journal.
Baked Mutton Chops. "A nice way
to cook mutton and tomatoes is to place
the chops in a baking pan with one
tomato and one small green pepper
laid on each. Add a small cup of water
and salt to taste. Put in oven and
bake till the meat is tender basting
frequently. -Detroit Free Press.
Cold Dreamed Tapioca. two
tablespoonfuls of tapioca in water,
drain, and add one quart of milk, one
cupful of sugar, yolks of three eggs,
well beaten. Cook in double boiler,
stirring all the time. When cool. add
the whites of three eggs beaten to a
stiff froth, and set in an ice box over
night.
Baked Farina. a quart of
milk into a double boiler, add a few
pieces of stick cinnamon. When the
milk boils take out the cinnamon and
add a teaspoonful of salt and stir in
very gradually four tablespoonfuls of
! dry farina; beat out the Jumps and stir
1t often during the first ten minutes;
let it boil half an hour or more. stir
ring it frequently When done put ii
into dish add a piece of butter and
set il in the oven to brown. This makes
a very nice dish for ea.-Boston Budget.
-Stewed Wild Duck.-Joint the duck
after parboiling, and pepper, salt and
flour them. Have butter ready in
frying pan and cook a light brown.
/ Put them into a saucepan and cover
with gravy made of the giblets, neck
and some pieces of lean veal. Add
more salt aud pepper, if needed, and
little fnely-chopped parsley; cover
closely and boil gently until tender.
| Take out the duck, strain the gravy.
put in half cupful of cream or rich
| milk, thicl1en with Drowned flour, and
add tho juice of half lemon, beaten
in SO gradually as not to curdle the
| cream; boil up and pour over the duck.
\ -HouselIeeper.
| Fruit Cake. One cup butter, two
cups sugar, beat together to a cream.
| Add five well beaten eggs and stir
well. One cup molasses, one and one.
half pound raisins, one and one-hall
/ pound currauts, onefourth pound cit.
! ron, one tablespoon each of cinnamon.
( nutmeg and cloves. Roll the fruit,
which should be dry, with five cups OF
flour before putting with the other in
| gradients. Line cake tins with well
oiled paper and bake in two or three
| cakes for two hours or longer, taking
great care that it does not scorch.
Take from tins without removing
! paper and cover tightly in stone jar
Should not be cut for at least two
months and will keep for year. Re
| quires no milk, baking powder or soda
Farm, Field and Fireside.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-30
WOES OF ICELAND.
The Little Arctic Islands Worst Enemy
is the Weather.

The Little Arctic Islands Worst Enemy
is the Weather.
The accounts which have been
spread concerning that most distress
full island in the Arctic seas give us
little reason to hope that anything can
be done to remedy the woes of Iceland
essentially. Like most of the remain
der of the world, that remote little
country has enjoyed this year an al
most unprecedented wealth of sunlight
and heat The brief Icelandic summer
can have rare beauty of its own, and
that of 1898 has been enchanting.
Steady drought in June, rains in July,
and warm dry weather again in Au-
gust, brought on the hay to great adj
vantage. Almost everywhere along the
coasts the fisheries have been excel
lently successful 1t is plain, there
fore, that, for once, Iceland has had
chance from the weather, which has OF
late years been its most cruel enemy.
If succession of good seasons like
the present had occurred a dozen years
ago. Iceland might have been saved.
But especially since the political agi-
tations of 1885, which disturbed and
discouraged the population, things have
been going materially from bad to
worse. We are occasionally called upon
to listen to ieremiads about Icelandic
starvation from those whose sentiment
for the Icelanders is more active than
their information is exact, and the En-
glish public has become suspicious of
cries of Wolf" But the prese mt sea-
son, with its excellent weather and
1.
any reaction against the draining away
of the people. This summer no fewer
than 600 persons emigrated to Amer
lea, bringing the population below that
limit of 20, 600 to which it had already
dwindled. The island now contains,
il is believed, fewer inhabitants than
it did in 1870. before the temporary
rise in Icelandic prosperity. The emil
grants are largely of the farm laborer
class, and there is a growing complaint
that portions of the country are going
out of cultivation because there is no
one to work on the land.
The great geyser has been very slug
gish this year. and il is believed that
weather which is excellent for crops
acts in a deplora BILE way upon this class
of phenomena tits by her extraordi-
nary sights, and by the visitors drawn
to see them, that Iceland must hope to
live.-London Saturday Review.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.


-Jagson says il is lucky man who
can discriminate between barber
shop and a hack stand.-Elmira Ca
zette.
Bank was once the bench which
money changers set out in the market
place of Venice, on which to display
their piles of change.
You call that saddle horse?''
swell, it's this way, the brute's worth
nothing and I'm saddled with it,
Rider and Driver.
The malleability of gold is so great
that sheet of foil, il is said, can be
beaten as thin as the slice of ham in a
railway sandwich. Bits
-Johnny-"Paw why did the Arabs
fold their tents and steal away?" Papa
They were some other fellows
tents. Cleveland Plain Dealer
--Marmaduke-'Ma go out to play
now?'' Mamma-''What. with those
holes in your boots?" Marmaduke-
NO; with the bulldog next door"
MIR. Flathouse-"How long will it
take to break the new girl imp" Mrs.
Flathouse-''At the rate of six dishes a
day, about three weeks. IN. Y. Her
aid.
20, / am so happy said Johnnie.
because ] am gong TO the Sunday
school picnic.'' And | am so miser.
able" said the turkey gobbler, ''be-
cause l am going too. '-Harper's
Young People.
Fuller, Hall and Clark are all
rivals. CLARK is looking happy Has
he gained ground?' "Yes-that is, he
has just persuaded the girl TO marry
Hall. Washington.
-He-"But don't you think you
could learn to love me?' She-"It
might serve, like Greek and Latin al
the college. not for use, but as a
mental exercise. I'll think of it,
Boston Transcript
Young Splurger used to be quite
a hand at drawing before he went 70
college" ''He is yet ''What does
he draw on most, architectural plans?''
Nope; on his father Buffalo Courier.
"A Model Wife.-"O, yes! Mrs. Gar
dineer is certainly the most devoted
wife | ever saw ''Why, what does
she do?" ''She listens to everything
her husband says and laughs at his
jokes"
Too Cruel.-'I can ( be your sister,
because | am a sister to so many
brothers now. but can be your aunty,
she said, as she gently dropped him.
make it a grandmother, he an
swered grimly, and she spurned him
from her forever.-Detroit Free Press.
do you take the daily paper?''
asked the newly installed janitor of
the apartment house. no" replied
the lady to whom he was talking, 1--WE
subscribe for it, but the people in the
next fat take Washington Star.
did you ever" said one preacher
to another, ''stand at the door after
your sermon and listen to what the
people said about it as they passed
out?" Replied he: II did once''-a
pause and a sigh-"but I'll never do il
AGAIN.
-"What is the idea in calling a con.
sultation of physicians?' so, that's
when the doctor who originally took
the case can't think of any more ex-
cuses to give the family. detroit
Tribune.
Hungry Higgins-''Madam, useter
have as good home as anybody till
misfortune overlook me-" Mrs. Potts
Indeed? And what was the nature
of the trouble?" Hungry Higgins
"My father-in-law lost his job. In
diananOlis Journal
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-30
NO WONDER.
This Man Would Msks Any Woman Weary
of Life.

A big, red-faeed, jolly-loolSing wo-
man got into Niagara street car yes
terday afternoon. She was followed
by man with gray hair and close
cropped gray mustache and dyspeptic
expression.
They sat on the sunny side of the
car The man relapsed into gloomy
silence. The woman looked around
the car and tried to be cheerful
Kind of hot, she observed.
"NhatP" growled the man.
"Kind of hot
"Where?'
Here"
'Well, guess you can stand it"
The woman took the mans sourness
as if she was used to it. After the car
had gone a block she said:
what pretty flowers
'What?" growled the man.
81 said what pretty flowers
''Where?'
AT that house we passed.
We'll, what of it?''
Five minutes later she said Isn't
that nice baby?'
WHAT"
"Isn't that nice baby?"
"Where?'
There" pointing to beautiful lit
tie boy on the opposite side the of car.
Looks like fool"
The car turned down Pearl street
and the chimes of 81, Paurs were ring
ing.
That's nice music, said the woman.
''What?''
That's nice music"
"Which?'
''Why, those chimes"
sounds like a lot of cow-bells."
Do you wonder that wives sometimes
do not love, honor and obey?-Buffaic
Express
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-30
FEW WORDS ON Innings.
just What to Buy to Have Your Dresses
Hang Like a Poem.

Your dress win never ''wobble' ii
you have il made on a silk lining. Yes,
il is expensive; il adds at the very low.
est calculation five dollars to the cost,
but is that so very much to pay for
grace of motion and the poetry of
dress? Fabrics are remarkably cheap.
The fifty-cent mixtures, stripes, fan
nels, fiannelettes, diagonals and prints
are bewildering. Eight yards will
make pretty frock: there's four dol
lars and two dollars for findings. Now,
instead of velvet sleeves, galoon rib
bons, lace frills and passementerie,
why not substitute five dollars worth
of silk for the skirt? Line the waist
and sleeves with grass linen or sateen
and you will get lots of satisfaction out
of that eleven-dollar dress. Wash silks
may be bought for fifty cents yard.
They are light weight, dainty and dur
able, but not as good as the taffeta or
old-fashioned ''oil boiled and summer
silks. that respond 10 every movement
and slide away, even in iangle Of
understands.
the next best thing is glossy linen
lining and one good silk pettieoat,
which can be worn with every dress
and with care viii last half year
THE leading lady" that criterion of
taste. viii always sacrifice material
and trimming for silk lining. II she
can afford only thirty-two-cent ba-
tiste or a thirty-cent tennis flannel
she will have ii made on silk. And the
effectP Better and m ore artistic than
crepon over cambric.-N. Y. Post
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FOREIGN GOSSIP

ALL gold and silver manufactured in
Great Britain must be hall-marked.
IN the reign of Louis XVI. the hats
of the ladies were two feet high and
four wide.
THE highest church steeple in the
world is tibet of the cathedral OF Ant
werp. 476 feet.
On an average nine persons are SEN
fenced to penal servitude for life every
year in English courts.
MANY old houses in Holland have a
special door which Is never opened
save on two occasions, when there is a
marriage or death In the family.
The bride and groom enter by this
door; it is then nailed or barred up
until death occurs, when it is opened
and the body removed by this exit
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-11-30
A DISCONTINUED GRANGER.
He Was UnIucky Even D. the Raising of
His Children


His Children.
gentleman who was rusticating in
the northern part of New Hampshire
took tramp among the hills one day
recently. In passing hillside farm
he saw an aged granger hoeing very
stony potato field near his house. and
the gentleman stopped to converse
with bim-
Your potatoes seem to be doing
well he started in.
30. reckon L II hev few pertaters.
rejoined the farmer dryly, as he stopped
hoeing the rocks off the vines and
glanced at the stranger curiously from
under the wide brim of his weather.
beaten straw hat.
''other crops good?'
20, the crops is jest toler'ble as
usual, s'pose," replied the farmer in
differently, as he came up to the rail
fence dragging his hoe after him. But
I'll tell you jest how tits, Squire, he
continued confidentially. I'm the
most unfortunit ole critter in Coos
County"
Farming don't pay very well up
here. | SUPPOSE
PAY Nothin' pays me. Squire. but
I did expect leetle or suthen from
my crop of young uns."
Children turned out bad, eh?''
''Jes so. stranger. The hull on 'em
has been dead loss to me. Dan'l-I
named him for Dan'l Webster an give
him a good eddication-he's a boss
doctor; practiced on my old mare, an
she died. Zelxe went inter what they
call the green goods misunderstanding
a grocery store, s'pose-but he busted
up, an he writes me that he's now
workin' in a place called Sing Sing;
says he's got good stiddy job. but the
pay amt good. and he's alters wantin'
to borrer a dollar from me. Sam an
Iii went ter brakin' on the railroad,
an / had ter pay the funeral expenses
of both of 'em. Maria Ann got married
to drummer at the county fair last
fall, an went up in a balloon, but
they came down safe. an hev ben
honeymoonin' with me an the old wo-
nan ever since. Lily, my youngest.
amt with her keep, an she's a-teasin'
me to buy her a bysuckle-me. who
hain't laid eyes on a fve-dollar bill
8 aCANt bAtC ~ NCAA v SbA dhEtA III
the most unfortunit old critter with
my young uns that ever lived he
yrOaned.
"You certainly have had bad luck
with your children"
II should say l had. Now. there's
Bill DurlSee up ter COlebrook. he's had
the greatest luck with his. They sup
ports him in good style, an Bill hain't
done stroke o work fur five years
"All smart and steady, eh?"
That's where you miss it, Squire;
they amt any on um taken that way"
How is it they get along SO well,
them"
They are all freaks, an have all got
good stiddy jobs she year round. Sal
weighs bout ton. Mirandy's got ire
mendous long hair, an his oldest boy
was born without legs. An here be
without even a mammoth hog or two
headed cali" sighed the aged farmer,
as he went back to his hoeing. Boston
Journal.
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FIVE minutes to come out and show him
self. Otherwise he should find II neces-
sary TO invade the office and blow the
roof of young Greene's head.
have seen angry men before, but
the saints defend me from such another
sight. The old mountain mans face
was the color of putty. but his eyes
were blazing, and every fiber of his be-
ing shook with suppressed wrath
I was mute, and could do nothing
save carry my paralyzing intelligence
upstairs. He Is a regular fire eater.
Johnny, Gives you just five minutes to
get down, His own life is OF no conse-
quenee. bat he must and will take
yours" Upon hearing which the young
man had a total collapse, and on his
knees begged and prayed me to pacify
the man waiting for him below.
Ny mind was made up that nothing
shcrt of blood would wind up the affair,
and I had no desire 20 see again. much
less try 10 conciliate the wrath of the
old mOuntaineer.
But my frequent passing TO and fro.
and the excitement of the fresh young
man. had attracted the attention of
the night manager, who had just come
on duty. He volunteered to go down
and have look at the fire eater, and
reported: HE is the toughest of his
gang. ! know him by sight. Dead
shot, Grown -.p with .he country. Its
customs are his laws. He will have
your blood. Greene if he has to travel
a thousand miles TO get il, And there
is no jury out here that will convict
him ii he kills you"
don't know which was more terri
BILE 10 witness. the deep wrath of the
mOuntaineer or the covering fright of
the young man Tie chung 10 us and
implOred US to go down and get terms
of capitulatiOn; and as last argument
babe rs tell the old fellow that he had
a mother and sister.
We thought him of no use to either
relative. but his craven cowardice
awaken "a a sort of contemptuous pity
that urged US on our errand of mercy.
W. collected a few of the night clerks.
explained matters 70 them, and went
down to the old man in a body
Now" said the night manager, put
ting on bold front, II know you, and
| know what you are here for. But L
am boss, and viii not allow a fight in
the operating-room.
IAN right" said the man, quietly;
iii wait here for him, il he stays
above till he's ninety"
Have go at him, Lake." whispered
win Kerner, aside. IF ycu can't get
Greene off none of us can"
Above, the fresh young man from the
east was trying to give flavor to his
case bv rolling on the floor in mis ry
and uttering frequent groans indicative
of his last hour. The mountain man
listened and his eyes blazed with scorn
when | went up to him.
Come, now, stranger" l began,
family enough, I'VE know the young
man gave you great deal of talk, but
ii was only in fun, and he has not lived