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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27
Quick Time by Carrier Pigeons.

A recent flight of carrier pigeons was
the most successful the Fox River
Homing club ever held. Ninety-five
birds were released at Atlanta, H., a
distance of 3Os miles, at a. IN. The
first to arrive at Green Bay was bird
belonging to J. NJ. Francens, which
reached its loft at l2:5G p. IN.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27
Three Bows Drowned.

Harry Eldred, Clay Willard and
Charles Cowie, aged Is, 20 and 81 re-
spectively, were drowned by the tip.
ping of a sailboat on st. Louis bay at
West Superior. win Pinkham, who was
also in the party, escaped by clinging
to the boat until help arrived. All OF
those drowned belonged to prominent
families
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27
Like Fnther. Like som.

Deacon Denman MIR. Jones, I'm
sorry to tell you that | saw your boy
fishing last Sabbath.
Mr. Burnap-Confound the rascal! ]
thought it was strange l couldn't find
my fishing rod. Judge.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

Impresario engaging singer)-We
will treat you with every considera
ton. madam, and assure you you viii
have no one to quarrel with.
Prima Donna with decision)-Theu
l just won't take the engagement.-
Chicago Record.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27
Al Amendment.

Gashag- Well, you see | am nomi-
mated Don't you remember said be-
fore the convention met it would be
Gasbag or nobody?
Unsuccessful Rival-Yes. remember;
but your prediction was little off. II
is Gasbag and nobody.-N. Y. Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27
TO Catch EN- Eoth Ways.

Authorize got a great scheme to
make fortune. I'm going to write a
book on the financial question.
His Friend-Well?
Author-And then I'm going to write
a reply refuting it.-Chicago Record
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L have room
Backward, as 10 a golden store,
They looked 60 valiant hearts OF yore
Whose might the peoples cause up-bore
AID forward. in the skies above,
They sas heavenly banner move
Whose virtue they we're hound - prove.
Fer them she GalIIean taught
7ha truth with ueW deliverance fraught,
And meath His marty flag they fought
Now. as our World stands al loss.
With al it. treasures. all Is drOss
To match the riches % the Cross,
So. pomp OF flags and marches gay
And martial musts- and array
Are all too poor 20 praise this day.
How should We thank for boon 50 hight
How keep above the things that de
Our holy gift OF Lib.rtyf
With duteous heart revere th5 Past.
Its dos trine ard its deeds hold fist.
But know. they should be 0yer-pass d
The harvest that rs OU-S . -eap
With blood % horses sown so deep,
A bloOdless vigilance shall keep
Build uObler temples. and enshriue
On the heart : altar. pure and fine,
The Brotherhood that IS divine
For our defense throughout the land
The school Wfth open door shall stand,
With truth and love in high cOmmau1
From Us. who meet with one intent,
On due cOmmemOration bent,
he this fair greeting worldwide ser
'.Sot for Us only did befau
The COOL we conquered, hear Us call
Our freedom and our God FOR all"
Julia Ward Howe. in y l. Independent
0-gN
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

Bobby Dumble-iIey! This is great
fun. isn't il?
Willie Nimple - Should say so.
faint ten o'clock yet, and I've got
three burns.
Bobby Dumble-Pooh! that's nothin'.
The doctor says maybe I'll lose my
little finger!-Golden Days.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

Briggs see you are calling on the
daughter of the head of your firm now.
Griggs-Yes; she is the only girl /
know of whose father has to work
nights. Brooklyn Life.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

A MAN may do very well with a very little
knowledge, and scarce be found out, in
mixed company; everybody is so much
more ready TO produce his own than TO
call for display of your acquisitions
Lamb.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

''FELT slippers" advertised in the shoe
stores, are thought to be those felt by boys
in their rude young days.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27
Arithmetic.

Mamma Suppose you have four
apple-dumplings. Willie. and you eat
three. then what do you hayef
Willies- Nightmare. Harper's Round
Table
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''MA, that little baby across the street
hasn't any teeth" ''Of course not Tommy.
You didn't have any when you were that
small" ''But that baby's pa is a Dentist
Life.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

PIso's Cure for Consumption is an A No.
| Asthma medicine.-W. X. WILLIAMS, An
tioch, Ills, April IL, 1894.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

"CHARLEY," she asked, as they sat looking
at the game, chow many balls make BATE
He looked long and suspiciously stheT, then
averted his face and slipped into it another
cloye.-Cincinnat Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

14-INCH Steel Beam Plow, warranted,
BOSS; Double Farm Harness, 1885; Barb
Wire, sl.g7 per hundred lbs; Nails, sl.37
per key. Write US. The Estes & Wood Co,
St. Paul. MINI.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

The summer girls will wear pulled sleeves
that will rise again when Rugged fiat
Atchison Globe.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

"FAME," said Uncle Eben, sam err good
deal laik any udder kim oh advertiser.
Tain no use ter a man onless he had de
right him OBJ goods ter back itup Wild
Washington Star.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

NoTHING so completely robs confinement
of the pain and suffering attending it as the
use of Mothers Friend" Sold by druggists.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

Mrs. MUsHLEr-''John has got the hypno-
tism." Mrs Gushley-'What kind of dis
ease is thaJf' Mrs. Mushley-"Why, you
know, rheumatism In the hip."-Boston
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

Wholesale Prices 10 Farmers. Send for
Samples. The Estes & Wood Co., st. Paul,
MINI
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27
Halls Catarrh euro

A POLITICIAN can see no more of the pub
lie good than he can see from the public
criJ.-Ram's Horn.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

; II f says /
shan't sPen d
one cent for
crackers ner
torpydoes, ner
60 down TO see
the p'rade ner
any Of the boys.
She says I've
got To stay hum
and keep still
thu Fourth.
The prospect
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

in sea water comprises one-thirtieth Of
its weight
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27

A PEssINIsT is a man with near-sighted
soul.-N. y. Press.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-06-27
MOTHERS
TAKES CHILDBIRTH EASY

and a permanent caTe in DR.. Pierce S
Favorite Prescription. Taken during
r,roorranc,. the @ Prescrintinu %
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n UR FATHERS met in grief and
III gloom,
o. And as the Tyrant spoke their
doom
y They answered: Freedom shall
have room
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-10
BLOOMERS WILL NOT PREyAIra

"Bloomers may, perhaps, be worn by
a certain class of women cyclists, but
they will not prevail" says Mrs. Alice
Nash, a well known wheelwoman of
Minneapolis. "They are for the most
part ungainly in appearance" continu.
ed Mrs. Nash, "and for that reason, as
well as for the question of their strict
propriety, they will not come into uni.
versal use. The ideal costume is that
which combines the convenience Of the
boomer with the modesty of the skirt,
and this, I think, will be the future
aim of dress reformers."
Mrs. Nash has put her ideas intn
practice. and has contrived q costume
whoch combines blooomers and skirt.
Several Minneapolis women have
adopted 1t, and wear it not only for BIZ
cycling, but also for skating and other
outdoor sports. The costume consists
of short skirt, to the hem Of which,
beneath, is attached a short pair of
boomers extending just below the
knee. The attachment Of the bloom.
ers to the skirt prevents the latter from
fords perfect freedom Of limb. Leg
gings are worn over the stockings.
The costume is put on like an ordinary
pair of mems trousers, is made of tweed
or similar strong material, and is fash
toned with side pockets. Waists and
Jackets Of the prevailing styles may bd
worn and the same of the hat. That
worn by Mrs. Nash has the shape of q
fried egg, but is very neat and dainty
withaL
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ELLEN OSBORN'S LETTER.
A Foreglimpse of the Horse Show and the
Football Games
VELVET FUR AND BRooADE.
Bediamond Danes, Gay Capes and
Wraps, Theatre Gowns and
Other Fancies of the Wan
ing Year.

Copyright 1885, by Bachelor. johnson Bachelor.
New York, Nov. 9.-There is a chill
suggestion in the air that is almost of
THANKSGIVING.
The Marlborough-Vande we'd
ding is already history, a nine-days'
wonder, one third of whose life is al
ready spent; and in the windows one
sees the football colors, and that, again,
reminds one of the festival of thanks
as she is thanked" in the strangely I'M
New Englandish nation we have come
to be. 1t is our carnival time.
TITS amusing, or interesting, or sad,
If you will, to see how instantly, after
the great wedding, the shopkeepers be-
gan to tempt the feminine partisans Of
Princeton with bizarre and wasp-like
arrangements in yellow and black, and
those of Yale with gowns of good hon.
est blue with appropriate trimmings.
Let us suppose that each one of three
thousand young students has five fe-
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BIGGEST DIAMOND.
Looks Like q Chunk of Coal and is
Worth About $4,000.

Looks Like Chunk Of Coal and is
Worth About $4,000.
The largest known diamond was re-
Gently found in Brazil. Though so
large. the stone is by no means as val
liable as many smaller ones, being a
"black diamond and unsuited for use
as a gem. Says the Engineering and
Mining Journal:
"The diamond in question weighs
310O carats, and Is, therefore, as we
have said above by far the largest ever
known. The great Jagersfontein dia-
mand, which was found in South Afri-
ca about two years ago and which was
said to be the largest known to be in
existence up to that time, weighed
about $40 carats.
1.-The stone mentioned was found in
the carbon district, the old diamond
field of Brazil. 1t is of the class known
as black diamonds or commercially
as carbon, which are used in diamond
drills and for similar purposes, their
color not adapting them to ornament.
1.-THE original finder is, we believe,
not known. At the present time the
stone is in the hands of the jewelry
firm of Kahn & Co. of Paris, and the
Brazilian government is negotiating
for it's purchase for the National Muse
UNI.
The value is placed by ex-
perts at between $4,000 and 10000.
The price paid for it by the present
owners is somewhat uncertain, one &C.
count putting it at $4,000, while an
other says that they paid SIS. Sd. eng
lish) per carat, which would make the
price nearly 4O,OOO,Or not far from its
probable maximum value. There is
little doubt that it will eventually be
placed in the Brazilian Museum, as no
private firm could afford to pay the
amount asked by it's present holders,
or which would be likely to be asked
by any commercial house into whose
hands it might pass
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nent has seen. Look at the great Wo-
mans Temple, the Rookery, the In
surance Exchange, the Phoenix and
! the rest of them.
Eyes, know they are black and for
bidding with soft coal smoke, but con-
slider their adaptation to their purpose
and their perfect proportioning. New
York has nothing to compare with
them. The Rookery is marvellous re-
Nuisance structure. the Temple is Elem
sance structure, the Temple is Flem-
ish; he was master of all styles and the
city is full of monuments to his talent.
Architects from all over the country
may well come to Chicago to study the
work of a man who died in his pfime."
''Are you to publish in Chicagd?"
mo, that would make local, a men,
orial volume. What l have written is
the biography of man who deserves
broader recognition as great archi-
tect."
"And your own work, your future?"
Il have done some short stories of
late, and l may try Il longer one, if l
of expression. But do not believe my
forte is fiction. l am doing signed
column for the Times-Herald, but l
look to verse as my metier.'
Where can one find poetic inspira-
ton in Smokey Chicago?"
The little lady laughed. "You don't
know the lake, that's plain. 1t has as
many moods as woman. / believe it's
feminine. You should see the wonder
full colors of the water and the clouds
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that hang over it, purple, streaked with
green In sunshine it's all play and
in storm it's more boisterous than the
sea. l could write an epic or a
book of idylls on Lake Michigan"
And when will it APPEAR"
Il don't know, but some day, some
where"
What do you read?'
''Kipling. He is head and shoulders
above any man living. But have no
right to such empathic opinions. My
eyes were bad for so long that l really
know little of the new writers; it takes
such while to catch up" and again
there came that quick bright look as
of a child at it's lessons. my greatest
treasures are my letters from Steven
son; l know of nothing more charming
in literature. l am looking forward
to the publication of his correspond
ence. Then the world will know more
of the man than it yet has known. I
read Ispen. too. don't see how people
can call him provincial genius. To
me he comprehends the universe.
And Maeterlinck. 1t is good to fin.
there are men who can think, who are
studying out for us this puzzling
worlds problems.
But one does not have to go far
from home to find writers. Eastern
ers who think that Chicago is all pork
and beef should have look through
with the Procession" by Henry B..
Fuller. Then they will know Chicago
splendid, vigorous, warm-blooded; q
young conquering city, with cool
head half trained and a great heart
half awakened Then they will know
too, a great artist. who is not finical in
with large bold lines and flashing Wig
orous color.
Eyes, l am glad to be a Westerner
to live where the chance is best of unit
ing old world grace with new world
force and freedom
What are Chicago women doing?"
what are they not doing? The
chief editorial writer ON the Times
Herald is Mrs. Margaret Sullivan. In
the newspaper world, in business. in
philanthrophy, in their literary clubs
women are at work here, where they
play at work in the East to get into
society. Chicago is blessed because it
hasn't any 400.'
And then there came bustling home
from school troop of children-Mss
Monroe's nephews and nieces,-and
the way along Dearborn avenue SEEM
ed shorter and the sun softer as
wondered what this bit of a Chicago
woman will give us in the future of its
largeness, its strength, it's power and
its thrill-tO stow away in our libra
ries.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEATON.
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n promenade or twenty PAGES. And
this year there will be like galaXies.
If l We're a stranger visiting New
York, I'd come in Horse Show week
The city is at its best now, all the
good theatrical attractions are in
town, the sweIls have returned from
green fields to the new worlds picca-
diliy and
But 1 wouldn't take box and be-
come part of the show, unless | had
twelve nice new dresses-one for each
afternoon and evening of the week
And / haven't them; and the week
begins Monday.
] suppose we shall see at the show
some of those wonderful wraps which
combine jet and embroidery and fur
in such amazing fashions. If woman
is so ablaze with diamonds that four
OF her stalwart male relatives have
to walk each side of her and before
and behind-and such a sight saw
smiled at in '94-she will not wear her
wrap very much, but she will have it.
Perhaps it will be a clinging affair
Of velvet, with sleeves immensely full,
not to compress the bediamonded garb
below, with cuffs and a high collar
Of black thibet or fox, and a band of
fur down the front. And there may
be tabs and frogs and cabochons of
Jet applique, or jet and silver, down the
front and up the back in most I'M
military profusion.
Or, far more likely, it will be flimsy
shoulder cape Of velvet dark green
with black fur and a touch of white
somewhere about it, and with lines of
eequins and ruche of feathers; OF a
cape of pink velvet combined with
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THE AGE OF LOVE.
Curious Correspondence on This Cues
ton in London Papers.

Curious Correspondence on This Cues
ton in London Papers.
The cage of Love" correspondence in
the Daily Telegraph is eliciting some
odd statements and amusing glimpses
of individual character and views.
"Ladies in the bloom of their wrink-
les" is one of the funniest definitions of
elderly sirens who have proved irresist-
ible, and, according to one of the wri-
ters, we must include Helen of Troy
amongst these aged charmers.
Helen, says the pitiless one, was 80
when she ran off with Paris.
Cleopatra, we all know, was old
enough for Shakespeare to write Of her
that "age" could not wither her when
she fascinated an amorous Antony Of
nearly three-score and ten.
But more amusing still is the letter of
a "young lady" who has had more
adulation and attention" than falls to
the lot of most of her sex, and conse-
quently has had considerable expe-
rience in love at all ages"
This lady, who at II was engaged to
ga noble, good man of 49, declares that
at no age has she found the love Of man
$50 profound, true and lasting as from
35 to 40"
But, alas! this wise reflection seems
to have come too late, for she broke Off
the engagement for some trivial cause,
and he, true to his promise never to get
over rejection, died within three years
of an undermined constitution-and a
slight cold!-Nady Pictorial.
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upon them all have some bearing upon
the exploits of heroes of the revolu-
ton or. the war of 1912. One of the
most striking of these Is the "Perry
Pitcher" made by disloyal English
man, surely, which represents Perry's
great victory and bears the inscription:
Eve have met the enemy and they are
ours"
A very old platter represents the
landing of Lafayette. This is one Of the
pieces belonging to 1t are very rare.
Representations of Washington and
Franklin are also very much in demand,
Both Mrs. Washington and Mrs. Frank
lin were passionately fond of pretty
china, and their famous husbands hu-
mored them judiciously. AS result
Of their indulgence we have a lot Of
historical china which Is at high pre-
MUM among collectors.
The whole Of the Washington china
and glassware was valued in the own
er's will at $780, but what a fortune it
would bring, now that the pieces have
become rare, aside from their histori-
cal interest.
A real Lady Washington plate,
with the names Of the original thirteen
states, is worth 500 or more.
University plates, made with repre-
sensations of the Harvard college
buildings, and DR.. Syntax plates are
also very desirable pieces for a collec-
ton.
All are becoming scarcer every year,
and it behOoves those whose grand
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LINCOLN THE TRUEST AMERI.
CAN TYPE

The extraordinary personality of
Abraham Lincoln is undoubtedly the
best apotheOsis yet presented of un-
adulterated Americanism. In him the
native stock was free from the foreign
influences and suggestions which at
fected, more or less, the people Of the
East. His origin was of the humblest
sort, and yet he presented most salient
ly in his character the naturalness, no.
bility and aspiring energy of the ma
ton. He made the most of himself by
virtue of unusual abilities, yet the key.
note Of their influence and force was 8
noble simplicity and far-sighted indie
pendence In him the quintessence Of
the Americanism of 80 years ago was
summed up and eXpressed.-Robert
Grant, in November Scribners.
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home can be. Warm color strikes YOU
the minute the door is opened-such a
CHEEKY note after the sombreness of a
Chicago autumn. Walls of dull gold
hold the light and the Strong-hearted.
ness of the sun all day. The wood
WORK is olive, the carpet a duller olive
Rugs and cushions of crimson and
gold make the place oriental in it's sug-
gestions of far Eastern richness, but
leave it altogether Western in it's COST
ness and hearthstone feeling. The
piano of dark oak and mahogany to fit
in with the color harmonizes with the
room. There are pastels on the walls
and rare old etchingS. In the corners
there are bits of statuary.-a Venus de
Milo and a strong, stately, modern wo-
man figure, from the Agricultural
Building from the Worlds Fair Curl
GUS bric-a-brac is everywhere, but these
things are forgotten when there slips
into the room and hides in a big chair.
almost as part of it, slender little
woman,-almoSt too slender to carry
such heavy crown of brown hair.
Miss Monroe has not been before the
public very long. and a good part of it
knowG less of her than it will by and by.
With its low wide forehead. it's clear
dark eyes and mobile features. her
face is capable of an infinite play of
expression. In repose she has the look
of a girl in her teens. When interested
in talk she is woman, clever. cult
waited, ambitious, yet shy of letting her
ambitions be seen. She will not take
the world by storm like a Western cy-
clone, but her verses will come to it
quietly, silently, and by their sweet
ness, their saneness, their understand
ing OF human emotions, will find their
place in literature.
Miss Monroe is Chicago girl, born
and brought up in the windy city. She
was educated in the convent at George
town, from which Mrs. Potter Palmer
came also, with other women promi-
nent at the Worlds Fair. Her first
work was for Chicago newspapers and
was written from New York city.
"Lettors on music. art and the drama,
she calls those beginnings in journal
ism. When the great auditorium in
Chicago was opened, she was asked to
write the dedicatory poem, and it was
the verses read on that occasion that
led to her selection as the writer of the
Columbian Ode.
All this sounds like fair winds and
sunny weather for a swift and smooth
launching on any sort of career; but
overWork brought on nervous prostra-
ton. and there We're years when no
work was possible. Even now the girl
poet looks fragile and too delicate for
the work she has set herself, though
she is busy in her study every morning
and insists that the trouble has quite
lifted, except little occasional weak
ness of the eyes.
''The most solid work I've done of
late" she says, looking very small and
very young as she leans forward in her
bright blouse and dark gown, sis a bio
graphy of my brother-in-law, John
WellhOrn Root, the first architect of
the Worlds Fair. He died in 1891
when he was only Al years old; but 1
believe he has given to Chicago the
finest contributions to art in the way
Of business buildings that this cont