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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-26
.ITH AND POINT.

--She-"Refore | answer ] want 10
ask yen one question Suitor finn.
patientlyl-"Yes, yes-it's on straight.
Puck.
-A-"What prompted You to ask
Miss Giddey to be your wife," b
think Miss Giddey herself prompted
me more than anybody else"
lis the editor in?'' Yes, sir;
think they run him in last night" Il
mean, is he in here?' 10. sir, he's IL
I debt. Atlanta Constitution.
did you ever 20 to Bins. the
tailor?" "Yes. Got two suits from
him. One dress rsuit. One law suit.
Very expensive men. boston Home
Journal.
-Kate-''No. Hattie does not attend
any church; she says she is her own re-
/ ligion." IIarry-''That is a religion
/ that should like to embrace. boston
/ Transcript
Mrs. Wickwive- What made you
wink at the clerk when You We're buy
ing our soda water?" Mr.. Wiekwire-
/ 80, that was the sign of a secret order. "
/ Indianapolis journal.
-Maude- one thing Belle
can say about her fiancec. lie belongs
20 well-known family" Grace-''In-
7 deed? What IS his name?" Maude-
"Smith. buffalo Courier.
--Tommy--"N henan body is ashamed
they get red, don't they?1 Mrs. YerGcr
--"Yes, Tommy" Tommy-"Then why
does papa always get ashamed only
with his nose. "-Texas Siftings.
--Clara-'.You must have refused
Harry Sparker last night" Maude-
''How did yen know" Giara-''IIe
/ told me this morning he had just had
a narrow escape. N. y. Herald.
Judge Duffy-"What is your age?''
/ (Female witness hesitatesl Judge
/ Duffy-"Don't hesitate in answering
/ the question. The longer you hesitate
the older you'll be. Texas Siftings.
-'rse done glib up my place. waitin'
| in de hotel" he said. .'Whuifoh?''
"Dey done sisted on my eatin' mush-
I rooms befoh de gaes'es ter show dey
I want toadstools. '-Washington Star.
-She--'I've had grave doubts of the
/ janitor's being perfectly sane" He
"Why?" She-"For three mornings
I now he has turned on enough steam 10
make the rooms perfectly comfortable. "
Athletic Wife-''What a poor
| spirited creature you are! | wish you
/ would be either man or mousse
! Meek Husband-'I wish | were a
mouse-Td brighten you out of your
wits
/ Used To It.--"Didn't the way they
robbed you in Chicago shock you?"
SAID Skidmore 10 his friend Shopper.
mot at ALL replied Shopper. II am
accustomed to attend church fairs. -
Chicago Tribune.
"A Conservative Estimate of Him
self Reginald" said the young
mans father, you couldn't earn your
salt" ''Oh, yes, / could, fathah," he
replied complacently, and after some
/ thought he added, but | might have
to fall back on you fob the peppah. -
Washington star
--"The dear little thing has it's
/ papa's eyes, hasn't it?8 said one of the
/ admirers of a siX-weeks-old baby.
( "Yes." added another, land its mann
mas hair" at has its Uncle Fred's
nose" said third. Yes" Joined in
the happy papa, ''and it's going to
/ have its Uncle Freds name. in the hove
1 that by-and-by it will get its Uncle
/ Fred's money. "-IIarper's Bazaar.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-26
SAYINGS AND oolNos.

at TELL my boy" said father, that
don't care what calling he takes up,
but that he does want to be able TO do
whatever he undertakes to do better,
if possible, than anybody else"
THE profit Of books. says a wise
man, ''is according to the sensibility
OF the reader. The profoundest
thought or passion sleeps as in mine,
until an equal mind and heart finds and
publishes it."
THE secret of keeping young Mr..
Jules non declares 10 be intellectual
work. md in proof OF this theory points
20 the TACT that the members of the
French institute are largely hearty and
healthy oetogenarians.
IT is said of 'Sojer" Flynn that his
first appearance as presiding officer
was at meeting called to arrange for
a Fourth of July celebration, and that
he put the question thus: ''An youse
that's exposed to the Fourth of July
pIaze say ave yes or no"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-26
NEAR MOUNT ETNA.
The Weather in the Vicinity OF SiciIy's
Great Volcano.

The Weather In the tctnify or Stetiy's
Great Volcano.
The very rain is strange; it is charged
with obscure personality; it is the
habitation of new presence, a storm
genius that | have never known: IT
born of Etna, whence all things he
have being and draw nourishment. :
is not rain. but the rain-eloud. spread
out over the valleys, the precipices, the
sounding beaches. the ocean-plain; it
is not storm, but a season. 1t does
not rise with the moist Hyades. or ride
with cloudy Orion in the Mediterranean
night; it does not pass like Atlantic
tempests on great world-currents; it
remains. Its home is upon Etna; hence
ii comes and thither it returns; it gath
ers and disperses. lightens and dark
ems blows and is silent and though il
suffer the clear north wind, or the
west, to divide its wells with Heaven.
again it draws the folds together about
its abode 1t obeys only Etna. who
sends it forth; then with clouds and
thick darkness the mountain hides its
face: it is the Sicilian winter.
But Etna does not withdraw continu-
OuSiV rom It's cnlitlfeu even iu tnlS sea
son. On the third day, at farthest.
was told it would bring back the sun:
and was not deceived. Two days it
was closely wrapped in impenetrable
gray: but the third morning, as |
threw open my easement and stepped
ont upon the terrace. ! saw it. like my
native winter, expanding its broad
TANKS under the double radiance of
dazzling clouds spreading from its ex-
treme summit far out and upward, and
of the snow-fields whose long fair
drifts shone far down the sides Viii
lagos and groves were visible, cloth
ing all the lower zone, and between
Law the plain. IL seemed near in that
air, but ii is twelve miles away. From
the sea-dipping base TO the white cone
the slope measures more than twenty
miles. and as many more conduct the
eve downward to the western fringe
a vast bulk; yet one does not think of
its size as he gazes. SO large tract the
eve takes in, but no more realizes than
It does the distance of the stars
George f. Woodbury., in Century
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SOCIETY's WAYS.

RfNGLETs for women and whiskers
for men are announced as among the
fashionable possibilities of London's
near future.
THE stovepipe hat is shaking on its
pedestal. 1t began TO disappear in the
circles of British business. The great
heat in London has worked reyolu-
ton.
FASHIONS may come, and fashions
NAV go. but the diamond Juror abates
not The sparkling little stone holds
it's fascination as of yore, and main
tains its high value.
INAustrian society it is the custom to
take partner for only one round of a
dance. BY this means ladies and gen
tlemen change partners five or six
times in a single dance.
To BE photographed while you doze
in a corner of your pew at church is
one of the latest terrors. The kodak
has made its way into the pulpit. An
Irish clergyman the other Sunday dur
ing the service took snap shot of his
congregation.
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ABOUT HANDWRITING.
The Similarity shown by Members of
Particular Glasses.

Particular Glasses.
Tho changes in fashionable hand-
writing during the past ten years have
been marked. Young girls of to-day
write in large and usually firm eharac-
tiers, while surprising number of
young men. not trained To clerlzliness,
and struggling between several rec
oenized standards of a & eod masculine
handwriting, produce letters of
slngularlv childish style of penman-
ship. But leaving out these conditions
of youth and transition, with their
more or less fascinating suggestions of
equal change in the intellectual FASH
ions of young men and maidens, there
is an inexhaustible interest in the study
of mature handwl iting, from the point
of view of the subtle clairvoyant in
terviewer of other peoples minds and
methods.
For example. most literary men
nowadays write small hand. The
phrase literary men is very sweeping
in this connection. and is by no means
limited TO the producers of pure liter
allure in this country. In that case
there would be next to nothing to say,
especially If the literature produced
was restricted to that genuinely inn
bued with style. Literary men in this
sense means also all men who have
the power and also a most surprising
knacll in returning to others of the
craft their own ambitious produc-
tions.
1t is true that the typewriter has
clicked its way into this domain of let
ters. also, but there are still writers of
letters in the land; still those who dip
pen in ink and set hand unto paper.
And it is curious how much alike these
conservators of thought write. A Bos-
ton gentleman cursorily engaged in
the pursuit of literature although
chiefly occupied, fortunately, with
remunerative professionals author
ity for the statement that
eleven literary men connected
with eleven of the leading
periodicals of the country write re-
markably alike. The eleven envelopes
in which they inclosed short personal
letters of encouragement, with one of
his most travelled manuscripts, certain
~ offe1 striking documentary evidence
OF the similarity of handwriting in an
arduous branch of an important pro-
fession.
In other occupations this adaptation
of individuality TO what may be called
class proclivities in handwriting IS often
equally striking. Take letters from a
given number of bankers. and (even at
presently they would show a physical
likeness in their pages which would be
fully as entertaining rs those in like
number of letters from actors or
preachers, artists or lawyers. To be
sure. the tpyewriting machine inter
feres with the strict study of individu-
ality in all professions nowadays, but
the pen is much mightier when it
comes to those personal revelations,
which are apparently about all that
the pen is left in the world for these
days of the omnipresent typewriter
Boston Transcript
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pond. and ! could re. as plainly as
ever saw auytbiu. in my life. the long
ripping wake that dec- always leaves
behind {; when IL i swimming in still
water
The >hoctl of amazcment with which
] bcheil this Sudden and unexpected
sight fur moment rendered me inca
pablo If action Not a hound was
auy,, here 10 bc heard There had
been no >piashing sound. such As
deer usually makes when il takes TO
water. Furthermore, Il was bur a mir-
ute ago that iay eyes had been wan
dc-ing up and down the shore. and
over the water between the point where
the deer FIRST came in sight and the
shore. 80 that X seemed hartly possible
for any object. even the smallest. 70
have escaped me. Yet there was back.
all at once. swimming leisurely past
M watch ound out into the pond.
After the first shock of surprise. IL
did not take me long To recover my
senses and leap down 10 where my boat
was drawn up on the rocky shelf.
Noisele>siy laying my rifle in the bot
tom of the boat with single vigorous
push sent the light. eanOe-shaped
craft gliding FAR out from the rock,
leaping in myself with knee on each
gunwaie. a. / gave the push Ther /
slid down 70 the middle seat. pie Sed
MP the oars. swung the boat around,
and looked over my shoulder to get the
bearings Of the deer'S head. Yes,
there il was, looking with its branchsd
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-26

4 sensible woman. talking about
economy in dress. says that the wear
Of clothes depends largely ON the treat
ment we give them. Directly stitch
gives away. mend IL at once, Il posi-
bic. See that all walking dresses are
made short enough 10 escape the
ground at the back: nothing looks
worse than a frayed out skirt or petit
coat Renew the braid whenever il
becomes worn; the coat is trifling, but
makes a skirt neat even when well-
worn. Neatncss is the first requisite
for good dressing. Even if you are
Obliged to wear shabby gowns, they
are respectable so long as they are
kept in perfect repair, and their shah
biness Is much mitigated If the wearer
adds clean collar and cuffs.-N. i.
World
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-26
Reds In the Russian Empire.

Not until recently have the inhab-
itants of Russia known the use of beds
excepting in the case of the luxurious
patricians who were able to purchase
them. The peasants slept on the large
bake ovens to be found in nearly every
house, while the soldiers were provided
with a sort of cot without bedding.
The middle classes and the students,
on the other hand, contented them
selves with wrapping blanket about
them and lying down near rather prim-
overlooking stoves Not long ago beds
were introduced into the boarding.
schools which abound in that empire,
and now the use of beds has become
rather general. As is usual in this alb
solute monarchy. the introduction of
these articles of comfort had to be
brought about by special edict from
the car of al, the Russians, and as a
matter 81 course the serviie schoolboys
and others. who have been allowed TO
use them by royal behest. naturally
look upon his highness as a great ben
efactor They might wen do SO. for
never before have the babies even
known the existence of cradles, cribs
r cots.-House Furnishing Review.
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job Wasn't in 1t.

sit is a great consolation at times, :"
said the first sad-looking man slowly;
lit is a great consolation. l say, to
read about the affiictious Of other men
Misery loves company. and when one
reads what others have endured IL
makes his own lot seem better.
The second iserable-looking man
shook his head.
you haven't tried it." said the first.
Il have tried it. returned the sec
ond.
We'll, you didn't get the right kind
of literature, then. OF course you feel
sorry for the people in history who had
their heads cut off, but that doesn't IF
feet your case. You want to read about
Job"
Il have read of all his sufferings-"
"And didn't that make your own bur.
dens feel lighter by comparison
Not bit. lie never had hay fever
Chicago Post.
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horns, as ! have heard an old guide say,
like floating tree" / had not the
slightest doubt that should overhaul
the buck inside Of five minutes al the
longest, and so began to row brisSly,
hut without any particular effort, in
order that my nerves might be steady
when the time came 10 draw a bead on
that magnificent head. Ny light boat
cut through the water like knife, and
felt - confident ! was gaining rapid
il on the game that | did not again
look over my shoulder for a minute or
more.
When I did so. however. what was
mr. astonishment and CONSERVATION 10
lind that, instead Of my gaining on the
deer. the deer had slightly, though per-
ceptibly, gained upon me. began im-
mediately 10 take the deep. surging
stroke which old deer hunters and
guides use when they wish to drive
these light Adirondack boats through
the water at their highest speed. |
could feel the boat fairly lift OHt of
water at every stroke. in about thir-
Is seconds / again looked over my
shoulder The relative distance be-
tween myself and the deer seemed to
remain about the same Certainly l
had gained nothing.
This will never do / muttered.
and nerved myself for a fresh and
greater effort The slender oars bent
like ashen bows. and the boat now
seemed to leap half its length out of
water. ! pulled for couple of min
utes with all my strength, and then
snatched look ahead. There was
change in the appearance of the deer.
/ II seemed To- have awakened 10 the
/ fact that It was being pursued, and
now not only its head and neck but its
( shoulders also were thrown high out of
/ water IS il strained every muscle in
/ the effort to escape ! bent TO the oars
again with redOubled energy. and the
strange race swept on. The perspira-
| ton began to run down my face in
streams: my arms felt as If they were
/ turned TO lead. and my heart throbbed
( painfully.
/ The next time looked over my
/ shoulder ! was thunderstruck to see
I that the deer had gained upon me more
than forty yards, I dropped my oars in
despair and sat watching it, but stran-
/ ger still. though the deer kept swim
ming on as before. the distance between
n seemed neither to increase nor les
sen Long after my boat had lost all
its Roadway, / was unable to see that
the antlered head was any farther
away than before.
At length. in a dazed kind OF way, I
picked mp my rifle and began 10 fire.
The bullets rained all around the swim
ming deer Some of them, from the ap-
pearance of the jets Of water which
tney threw up, must, | thought, have
passed directly through it. I fired
the seventeen shots in my magazine,
and then shot a number of times sing
Is. slipping the shell directly into the
barrel While was still firing. a cloud
came over tle sun. and a slight breeze
began to ripple the water As If by
magic. the deer's head disappeared.
rOwed Ia the spot where | had seen it
last. stood mp in the boat, and looked
around me on every side Not an OBJ
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-26
rIirting Prevents Marriage.

II is through Irritation. which has
advanced to something like a fine art,
that many martigeable Young folks
lose their chance i'm life. Filtration de
stroves confidence between the persons
VINO indulge i'm it; il prevents the
natural growth of mutual esteem; il is
not a thing Of good faith. 1t is an or.
rOr 10 suppose that lovemaking and
Irritation are identical; they are. in
truth. antithetical Lovemaking is
tender and ennohiing, while Irritation
is cruel. foolish and demeaning. The
one is To prelude the welded happiness:
the other is inimical 10 it. Young men
and women should exercise their
reason while on the lookout for suita-
BILE life partners: yet many of them
give encouragement TO flirterS. silly
fiirters. who are taken mp or thrown
off. with results that are often griey-
Gus, indeed. Peoples Journal.
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DIDN'T WANT MORE TROUBLE.
He Served Five Years for Murder AN His
Apology Was Accepted.

Apology Was Accepted.
The row did not attract gener; at
tention in the restaurant until thu big
man with the red face threw off his
coat, slammed his hat on the tables
and shouted:
"If you're toOlIin' for trouble. you
bet We can get it right here, an recB-
on can hand it to We about as fast as
We can take it away
"But I'm not looking for trouble, .
protested the small man. rather feebly.
II don't want any trouble. ! never
"Well, then. We don't want to be
maxim no breaks at me-" persisted the
big man, walking around the table and
Shaking his fist at the other. FER I'll
give We trouble an lots of it.
but don't want any, -
1.-The - you don't! I've got good
notion to give it to We fer luck"
"AIy dear sir. insisted the little man.
mildly. II certainly never meant TO
give any offense. In fact. am always
very careful not to become engaged in
any controversy. I"
1t was evident that he was becoming
somewhat excited himself now.
81 make it q study to avoid getting
into any sort of difficulty, and so
would You If YOU were in my place
I've served five years in prison for kill
ing a man in Wisconsin, and don't
want any more of it--truiy ] don't"
And he looked mp beseechingly at his
would-be antagonist. who seemed to
regard him in new light. and agreed
to accept the apology Detroit
Tribune
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August.
Flower

"Ihave been afflicted with bilious
ness and constipation for fifteen years
and first one and then another prep
aration was suggested to me and
tried, but to no purpose. A friend
recommended August Flower and
words cannot describe the admira-
ton in which hold it. 1t has given
me a new lease OF life, which before
was a burden. Its good qualities
aud wonderful merits should bemade
known to everyone suffering with
dyspepsia and biliousness. +" JESSE
BARKER, Printer, Humboldt, Kas. "a
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ject was visible upon the surface o. the
water. Even IL had killed the buck.
II would have sunk, as deer are lin the
blue" in the later part of October. and
the long hair Of their winter coat buoys
them mp So that thev Goat like ducks.
began TO row toward the shore.
hoping to run across the mysterious
buck again. All at once the sun reap
pcarcd, the surface Of the water stilled
and my heart ieaped into my throat as
I saw the antlered head drawing near
the shore. which was now less than a
hundred yards from where | sat.
slipped three or four cartridges into
my magazine. and. carefully marking
the point toward which the deer was
swimming. pulled for it with all my
might. I hoped 10 Ice near enough,
when the buck raised his entire body
ont of the water. to get in two or TIRES
quick shots. And in this | was not
disappointed. Swinging my boat
around y hen within about forty wards
of shore. / saw the big buck emerging
on strip of beach He stood there for
n moment, a darl; and clear~cut against
the woods "a cameo. | took careful
aim and fired once. twice. three times.
At the last shot the buck made leap
into the woods and was gone.
] rowed to the little strip of beach
where ! had seen him standing. The
sand was 81 light and smooth that a
squirrel would have left the imprint of
his foot there. But not track could
find on any part of the beach. Nor was
the earth displaced or the bushes dis
turbed where the deer seemed to have
made mis- leap into the woods.
returned 10 the boat and sat think
ing over my strange experience until
heard three guns from camp-the even
ing signal for return. As rowed into
the little bay where tlfe other boats
We're drawn up, the boys all shouted in
chorus:
Hello. What were you shooting st?''
And I responded. confidently; "A
sunpl-f-r
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Mrs leila Nuttall hasat last solved
the enigma Of the Mexican calendar
which Non humboldt and many other
great scientists have worked at i'm vain.
Mrs. Nuttall's conclusions have been
accepted as final by srcheologists and
astronomers and an elaborate work will
soon be published by her. Mrs Nuttar
first made her discovery known by
reading brief resume of her work be-
fore the Anthropological congress az
Chicago. Years 81 work and the closest
study of mind trained in mathemat-
les and astronomy, and stored with his
tory and archaeology. were needed TO
unravel this mystery of the calendar
stone.
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DREAmLANO.

90, fer The shore ~ DreamIaad
TLs place % high delight,
"a evening wherrg, or slctpv ferry,
We're rowed b. tre hoatlaLu Night
ia Toy she JOY 81 DrcsmiauI-
Though TIE ocean 90 sleep s. ailc.
Wei - landed seou. by the light %. Tie as.-..-
On The shorc az I1e other side.
tiu- for she peace Of Dr.siullani.
There are fairies hv the score
And suv ft-ryer. anu -arruW never.
In that lroa. aua n -~tlc shore
Ha' far a., grand osd Drcamiand.
tul ho for che sea - Steep
TIE hign-horA lad. ana the low born Id
Row nlcrriiy over tGe deep
Ho' Tor the warfirgIs Greenland.
%u matter how hari life seems
rtlrn beck. . years. and depart. - tears!
Prom she beauf lui Land - Dreams
Annie g. HUest.s- IN y. \. Independent