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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
THE TUMBLER.
At One Time IL Referred to Glasses With
Round Bottoms.

Round Bottoms.
The English language is remarkable
tor the number of its words which
have been completely changed in their
significance since they first came into
use.
Sometimes a comparatively short time
suifices to set word adrift from its
original and true meaning and to cause
people to forget what it's real signifi-
canoe is.
This is illustrated in our word ''tum-
bier" meaning drinking glass which
sits squarely down upor the table
without foot" as in the case of a
goblet.
What a ''tumbler" really is may be
inferred from a gentleman's diary
written in lso3-an extract which, by
the way, throws a powerful light upon
the social customs of that day, as well
as upon the origin of familiar word.
The entry in the diary is as follows:
"Hal new friend to dinner. Tried
my new tumbling- glasses. Very sue
ressful; all got drunk early"
These tumbling glasses, so-called
tumblers ''for short, were made with a
round or pointed bottom, so that they
could not be set down when they con-
tanned liquids without falling over and
splitting. They were made as sort of
a joke and to conduce to rapid drink
ing.
A generation sufficed to see the
change wrought in the use of this word
and the complete disappearance of the
original signiiicance.-Bos Globe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

Splendid Cookies: Two cups #
sugar, one cup of butter, one cup of
sweet milk, a spoon of vanilla flavor
ing and one spoon of soda. Flour to
roll out thin. No baking powder is re-
CURED, and the cookies never fail.
Pickle for Beef: Rub the beef well
with salt and saltpetre Let il stand
over night. Make brine of salt and
water strong enough to float an egg;
add cloves, whole pepper, mace, and a
pound of brown sugar; boil, skim, and
pour hot over the meat in winter, but
cold in summer. -Housekeeper.
Vegetable Soup: Chop finely a
small quantity of all the vegetables
you have except beets. Boil them
half an hour in two quarts of water,
then add a pint of canned tomatoes
and boil fifteen minutes. Strain and
rub lightly through sieve, add half a
teacupful of sweet cream, teaspoon
full of sugar, pepper and salt to taste.
Serve with dice of bread cut in small
squares, triangles, etc, and even
Drowned in the oven.-Ohio Farmer.
Roast Goose: Get young goose,
stuff it with forcemeat, lay few strips
of bacon across it, put little boiling
water in the pan and bake in mod
crate oven, basting frequently. Care
must be taken to have it thoroughly
cooked. A goose is usually stuffed
with sage and onions, the onions being
boiled, chopped fine and seasoned with
sage, salt and pepper. The giblets of
the goose are to be simmered for an
hour or two and the liquor added to
the gravy. Good Housekeeping.
Baked Indian Pudding: Two quarts
of milk, heaping teacup of Indian
meal, half cup of white flour, two
eggs, cup of molasses, heaping tea
spoonful of salt, half a teaspoonful Of
ginger and the same of cinnamon, and
a large tablespoonful of butter to mix
it; boil three pints of the milk. Have
ready beaten together all the other in
gradients Except the eggs in the re-
naming pint of milk. Pour the hot
milk over them; add the butter, and.
when cool, the eggs well beaten.-Bos-
ton Budget.
Brown Bread: Three teacupfuls of
sour milk, one of molasses, one of corn
meal, three of graham flour, one tea
spoonful soda, "a scant tablespoonful
salt. Mix and pour into three WE'LL
buttered molds. Set in a steamer over
boiling water, cover closely and steam
four hours Remove to a moderate
oven for fifteen or twenty minutes to
dry the top Tin cans which have con-
tanned tomatoes, peaches, etc, with the
top melted off, make nice molds for
steaming the bread in. and are other
wise useful. Orange Judd Farmer
Fish Rechauffe: After pike, cod,
skate, turbot, sole or any other white
fish has been dressed, pick it from the
bones into small bits; add to a pound
of fish, or in proportion, he If a pint of
cream, one tablespoonful each of mus
tard, anchovy essence, ketchup and
Harvey sauce, little flour, salt, pep
per and butter. Make il hot in sauce
pan, then put it into the dish in
which it is to be served. strew crumbs
of bread over it, and haste it with but
ter till moist, and brown with sala-
mander. or in a Dutch oven Il wall
of mashed potatoes round the dish is
an improvement.-llo
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
Weather Prophets.

The inhabitants of Rothesay, a
charming watering place on the Island
Of Butte. are never at loss to foretell
the weather. On the opposite shore of
Argyllshire there lies Loeb Striven,
which can easily be seen from Rothesay
bay. Now, whenever it is about to
rain this lock fills up with mist to such
an extent that it is scarcely visible to
any person looking across the strait.
Or this account it is locally known as
the Rothesay weather-glass. The people
of Lucerne find Mount Pilatus, a hill
close to the town, very useful in this
respect If Pilatus wears his cap.
which is a wreath of cloud streaming
from the top of the mountain, the
weather will be fine: but If he wear his
sword, which is wreath of cloud
around the middle (the peak being free
from cloud, it viii be wet-N. Y.
jour -.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
PROF. LINTNER ON LARVAE.
An Extract from the Annual Report of
New York's State Entomologist.

An Extract from the Annual Report of
New York's State Entomologist.
The larval stage of many insects is
apparently one of incessant feeding.
1t may be doubted of some if they ever
sleep, or even indulge in rest unless
disturbed while feeding or during their
moulting periods, when time is de-
manded for the changes required in the
casting off skin distend to it's utmost
capacity, and the formation and as
sumption of new one capable
of further extension. Their vCTacious-
ness and rapid growth may be shown
in the statement of two facts. GER
tain fesh-feeding larva will consume
in twenty-four hours two hundred
times its original weight-a parallel to
which, in the human race, would be
an infant consuming in the first day of
its exis tence one Thousand aud five
hundred pounds of nutriment. There
are vegeta BILE feeders-caterpillar
which, during their progress to ma
turity, within thirty days, increase in
size ten thousand times. To equal this
remarkable growth. at Ibis maturity a
man would have TO weigh no less than
forty tons. In view Of such statements.
need we wonder that the insect world
Is SO destructiee. and so potent a pow
er for harm?-N. y. Post.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
A FRONTIER RANCH.
Pioneer Punchers Take Their Stand ON
the Outposts of Civilization.

In 1882 an American cowboy (which
was Jack accompanied by two COM
panions, penetrated south from Ari-
iona, and as he looked from the noun
tains over the fair plain of Bavicora,
he said: II will take this" The
Apaches were on every hand; the coun-
try was terrorized to the gates of
Chihuahua. The stout heart of the
pioneer was not disturbed, and he made
his word good. BY purchase he ac-
quired the plain. and so much more
that you could not ride round it in two
weeks. He moved in with his hardy
punch~rs, and fixed up Bavicora so it
would be habitable. He chased the
Indians off his ranch whenever he ''cut
their sign" After awhile the Mexican
vaquaros from below overcame their ter
ror, when they saw the American
hold his own with the Apache devils,
and Sy twos and threes and half-dozens
they came up to take service, and now
there are two hundred who lean on
Jack and call him patron. They work
for him, and they follow him on the
Apache trail, knowing he will never
run away, believing in his beneficence,
and trusting to his courage.
sat on a mud bank and worked away
at a sketch of the yellow sunlit walls
of the mud ranch, with the great plain
running away like the ocean in a violet
streak under the blue line of the Pena
Blanca. In the rear rises curious
broken formation of hills like millions
of ruins of Rhine castles The wolves
howl by night, and the Apache is ex-
pected to come at any instant The
old criada or servingwoman who makes
the beds saw her husband killed at
the front door, and every man who
goes out of the patio has large as
sortment of the most improved artil-
lery on his person. Old carts with
heavy wooden wheels like millstones
stand about. Brown people with big
straw hats and gay serapes lean lazily
against the gray walls. Little pigs
carry an the contest with nature, game
chickens strut, and clumsy puppies
tumble over each other in joyful play;
burros stand about sleepily, only in
dicating life by suggestive movements
of their great ears, while at intervals a
pony, bearing its 1.-the rider, steps from
tie gate, and breaking into an easy
and graceful lope, goes away into the
vast of land.-Frederic Remington. in
Harper's Magazine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
HOM-DE-DO.

SAY -how-de-do," an say ''gOOd-by."
Meet an shake. an then pass by:
Amt much difference 'twixt the two,
Say ''goOd-by'' or .hOw-de-dO-'
, How-de-dO'' with chilly heart,
Amt much difference meet OF part;
Jes' a look, an jes bow.
Sometimes only ies, a how"
Amt much difference which they say,
How-de-dO- or roth"r way.
Meet a friend-yer g ssr his hand,
An les stand, an staal, an stand
Glad yer met. an haze .er part,
Kinder trembly in the heart
NeighbOrs. lived on Moody Hin,'
he was Tom an you was '-Bili,
Kinder stop an look an say;
p HoW-de do" and then good day"
Been away from home spell,
Swing the gate hack, stand an. vel,
Kinder don't know what Ter do.
heart humps like twas Dustin through
said ''good-by' year afOre-
Betsy's stsndin' in the door
said ''good-by. but 'E0w-ee-d0"
Seems the strangesf o. the twO
Brace right up an waltz right in.
Shake the tremble from yer chin,
Betsy's waitin' there fCr you.
Waltz right IN wfth-"How de-dO"
walter VI. HazeItine, in Housekeeper.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
NETTLE-HEMP THREAD.
An Article That VIII Rival Silk Invento'
by Japanese.


by Japanese.
Another success scored by the Japa-
nese in the province of industry is re-
corded in that country's press. 1t con-
sists in the production of fine thread
from nettle hemp. The patent is said
to have been obtained by Itagaki Ho-
kotaro, son of Count Itagaki, but the
technical method was elaborated chiefly
by Miyazaki Saburo, of the Hokkaido
hemp factory.
The reputation acquired by certain
French silk manufacturer in connec-
ton with thread of this kind turned
the attention of Mr. Itagalxi to the
subject. After trials extending over
a period of several years Mr.. Itagaki
succeeded in obtaining thread
about the size of ''No. 4O.' He was
however, dissatisfied with that result,
and continuing his experiments, at
length succeeded in obtaining threads
of the fineness of mo. 100. fineness
never previously obtained, even in
France The nettle hemp is silk,
equally fine, and not at all inferior in
point of lustei, so that it is expected to
prove formids BILE rival of the noble
article"
This nettle hemp, from the bark of
which the thread is produced, grows
abundantly in wild state in Japan,
especially in Hokkaido, so that the
country has great advantage over Eu-
rope, where the plant must be special
ly cultivated Francisco Chroni-
.Ia
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25

The small evergreen tree from which
cloves are taken was originally ma
tive of the Spice islands. but it is now
cultivated in warm climates in all parts
of the world. The Glove of commerce
is the unopened flower OF the tree.
They are quite small, but grow in
large clusters along the branches.
After gathering the buds are smoked
by wood fire and dried in the sun.
Both the taste and smell of the cloves
depend on the quantity of oil they con-
tain. Sometimes the oil is separated
from the cloves before they are sold,
and the odor and taste are in conse-
quence much weakened. If you desire
TO know something of the form of the
bud in the natural state soak few
cloves for a short time in hot water.
The petals of the flower will soften and
readily unroll. Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
DUCK CALLERS.
The Mistake Commonly Made by Hunters
Ignorant of Their Significance.

Ine MISTAKE commonly Maue by hunters
Ignorant of Their Significance.
Most hunters make serious mistakes
when they use duck-callers. Very few
are familiar with or understand the
significance of the different notes that
come from the Threats of the game
they are endeavoring to deceive with
their mechanical devices. The manu-
facturer of the best known duck
caller, who has made long study of
the birds in order to tune
his gay deceives by their calls,
says that he never sounds his
caller when Turing ducks except in
low quack, quack. quack, IN imitation
of the female, with four or five Sec
onds' space between each of the three
calls; then he waits for "a minute or
two and repeats the three quacks
again. These notes denote content
ment and freedom from any
thing calculated 20 disturb, and
are sure to bring in any duck
that is flying about The brakes
sometimes give vent to their feelings in
loud and ringing 4uIclSs when sur
rounded by a umber of females in
good feeding quarters, and also early
in the morn rang. The great mistake
made by most hunters in using the
callers is in sounding the alarm notes
instead of those above described. The
quick. loud quack of the brakes usually
means danger. This is noted when a
drake is suddenly flushed. He always
gives loud warning cry as he rises,
and all other ducks within hearing
heed il and make quick their depar-
ture. The duck caller is very useful
and helpful when one understands it,
but to keep it squawlking all the time,
as some hunters do, without knowing
just what each note means, causes il to
become a nuisance and drives all the
ducks in terror to remote points. Rod
and Gun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
white Is the Rage.

Ultra-fashionaSle women are wear
ing pure white. II isn't sensible
fancy-but is eff ective. house gowns
are white, wrappers are white, and the
opera cape of the hour as made of
white broadcloth. 1t is a three-quar-
ter length garment, and falls in three
graduated capes. Each cape is lined
with white moire silk and edged with
3 narrow band of ermine A Medici
collar of the fur completes the rap.
Another evidence that white is -iuch
in favor is shown in tho way it appears
on the winter hats. Felt brims are
finished with row of white lace.
White lace rosettes are perched in the
most unexpected places, and on steady
going hats of somber coloring, too
White pearl beads are also twisted
round crowns of dress hats. White
kid slippers, with the toes embroidered
in pink, pale blue green, or jet, are
also seen.-Chicsgo Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
Fishing Dogs.

At a certain point all the men and
dogs came to a halt. Half the dogs
and men then moved further along the
waters edge about two hundred yards.
At concerted signal the dogs were
started from their respective points,
and swan straight out seaward in sin.
gle file in two columns. At a wild,
sharp cry from all the Anus the right
column wheeled eft and the left coll
umn wheeled right, until the head OF
each column met. Then at another
signal all of them swan in line toward
the shore. advancing more and more in
crescentic formation. As they neared
the shore, increasing numbers of fish
appeared in the shallow water, fright
ened forward by the splashing of the
advancing column of dogs, which, as
soon as their feet touched bottom,
bounced upon the fishes as quick as a
flash. The dogs promptly brought the
fish which they had seized to their
masters, who cut off the heads and gave
each dog the head which belonged to
him as his share of the catch. The dog
which caught nothing got nothing.
believe this dog drill of the Anus is en-
tirely unique. with TraDs-Siberi.
an Savapes
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
LANGUAGE MADE BY WOMEN.
Their Influence Much Greater Than Is
Ordinarily Thought.

Ordinarily Thought.
The influence of woman on the Ian
guage of ca a generation is much
greater than that of men, says Max
Muller in Science of Language.
We very properly call our language
In Germany our mother tongue, with
all its peculiariUes, faults. idioms, ac-
cents. Cicero said;
ut makes a great difference whom
we hear at home every day and with
whom we speak as boys, and how our
fathers, our tutors and our mothers
speak. We read the letters of Cornelia.
the mother of the Gracchi, and it is
clear from them that her sons were
brought up not in the lap. but. SO to say,
In the very breath and speech of their
mother"
But this is not all Dante ascribes
the frs attempts at using the vulgar
tongue in Italy for literary compost
tons to he silent influence of ladies
who did not understand the Latin Ian
guage.
Now { his vulgar Italian, before IL
became tho literary language of Italy,
held very much the same position there
as the so-called Pralrit dialects in In
dia; and these Prakrit dialects first as
sumed a literary position in the Sans
knit plays where female characters,
both high and low, ere introduced as
Prakrit, instead of the Sanskrit EN-
ployed by kings, noblemen and priests.
Here, then, we see the language of
women, or, IL not of women exclusive
ly, a. all events of women and domes-
tic servants, gradually entering into
the literary idiom, and in later times
even supplanting II altogether; for it
is from the Prakrit, and not from the
literary Sansl1rit, that the modern
vernaculars of India branched off in
course of time.
Through a thousand smaller chan
nels the idioms of women everywhere
find admission into the domestic con-
versation of the whole family and into
the public speeches of their assem-
blies. The greater the ascendency of
the female element In society the
greater the influence of their language
on the language of a family or elars
a village or q town.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
CURIOUS MATTERS.
Some of tho Inscriptions Found on Chi
nese Coins.

nese Coins
The inscriptions on Chinese coins,
like those on their tapestries, porce-
lains and other artistic productions,
are always quaint, curious, and char
acteristic. A gold coin issued by the
Chinese government during the reign
of WI Tsung had upon its face the in
scription True virtue current money"
A bronze piece issued during the sew
enteenth century by Chwang Leih I'll
bears the words: Highest purity, cur
rency money" The coin issued by
Tsung from 1851 to 1862 bore the words,
prevailing prosperity" the larger,
also, Large money" and on the re-
verse ''Value 100 times" meaning that
their value was one hundred cash.
A bronze piece issued during the
same period bears the words: always
bright" Another piece of the same
reign has upon its face: Pre-
vailing prosperity, heavy money"
The brass cash of the present en-
peror of China bears the words. Bright
beginning, current money" and on The
reverse, Treasury weight, one mace"
and the name of the mint at which it
was coined. The Korean coinage,
which resembles the Chinese cash in
many particulars in its inscriptions,
bears the inscriptions, Always peace
full, current money" and on the
reverse, ''All four" which means that
the coin should be good in all four di-
rections of the country. Another set
of coins issued at the same mint in
Seoul, Korea, is inscribed, Great
East" one of the names given to
Korea, as the great country east of
China. Another word of character up
on coin indicates gate" which prob
ably means that the coin is to go out
for circulation among the people.
Still another coin bears the words:
Great gate value of one hundred.
In Japan the coins bear various in
scriptions, some after the manner of
Chinese coins. Some of the older ones,
which were coined two or three CEN
turtles ago, bear the words: For
Heavenly protection" and upon the
reverse, Current money."-Collector
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25

by local applications, as they cannot reach
thediseased portion of theear. There is only
one way to cure Deafn ess, and that is bycon-
stitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by
an inflaned condition of the mucous lining
of the Eustachian Tube When this tube
gets infamed you have rum bling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when II is entirely
closed Deafness is the result, and unless the
inflammation can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ter
are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but
an inflamed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co, Toledo, o.
q Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills, 25 cents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25

The western Indians belief in a
Great Spirit is written over the map of
the northwest. Manitoba is one record,
and Lakes Michigan and Huron have
many names that commemorate the
pietv or superstition of the Indians. A
considerable space in the northern part
of Lake Michigan is called Manitou,
and here are North and South Manitou
islands. A considerable island in Lake
Huron is the Great ManitOu. Colorado
also has its Manitou. and 1t occurs.
doubtless. elsewhere in the west
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25

The American revolutionists OF
I7T6 were opposed by 29.l66 men
brought by the British government in
Hesse. BrunsN .Sx and Auspach. Tor
these men the king paid IS. 1871 900, or
about ElT5 per man. OF the whole
number of mercenaries, II. s4S persisted
IN the war.
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Florida. Tropical birds.

When a distinguished naturalist Wis
tied the far southern islands of Flor
ida he found them frequented by doves
Of the most exquisitely rosy plumage
and voices deliciously sweet. 1t has
since been discovered that the Thou
sand islands on the southern gulf coast
of Florida abound in tropical birds of
rarely beautiful plumage, and It is
part of scheme entertained by some
New Workers who recently went to
southern Florida to visit these i~iands
and shoot these gorgeous birds for com
mercial purposes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25
Little Frances was receiving a lie

Little Frances was receiving a les
Son in arithmetic. Frances, said
mamma, If you had fifteen pears to
divide, and there were five little girls
In the room, how many pears would
zach little girl get?" THAT would de-
pend ON how hungry l was, mamma, p"
replied the small mathematician
Harper's Bazaar.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-25

To the absurd notion that tyrannizes many
minds. that violent drastic purgatives will
cure YOU of costiveness. In reality they
only aggravate your ailment. For this OBJ
stinate trouble as for biliousness and dys.
persia. Hostetters Stomach Bitters is an all
sufficient specific II is an efficient safe
guard against malaria, and cures rheuma-
tism, inaction of the kidneys and nervous