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The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-12-20

The debate on the Morgan
Nicaragua Canal bill in the Senate,
as far as it has gone, has brought
out two things very clearly,
general friendship towards the
construction of canal, and bitter
enmity towards the Maritime
Canal Co., on the part OF some
Senators. Several amendments
have been proposed, among the
most important of which is one by
Senator Berry, which he stated
Senator Morgan would accept, to
strike out the bond clause and
appropriate the money directly for
the construction of the canal, linn
iting it's cost to $115, 100000 and
one by Senator Rawlins, that the
construction of the canal should
not be commenced until this
government had secured the right
to fortify the canal and to close it
to any nation with which we
might be engaged in war.
Don't cough when we can cure
you with our cough cure
Barnard & Clough.
5 The Omaha announces the
following Holiday rates. To all
points on the Omaha and its con-
}nection at one and one third fare
for the round trip, within a dis
tance of 200 miles. On sale Dec.
}24-25-26 and 31st 1898 and Jan. LIST
and End 1899. All tickets good
returning Jan. 4th 1899.
5 F. P. AINswoRTH, Agent.
; Our restorative hair tonic is a
wonder worker.-Barnards 4
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-12-20

We're right in it, in
Gloves and Mitts; a Step
a head in Quality and a
Step behind in Price.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-12-20

Don't cough when we can cure
you with our cough cure
Barnard & Clough.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-12-20

Our restorative hair tonic is a
wonder overwhelmingly &
Clough.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-12-20

Miss Melguard of Baldwin was
the guest of Ter sister, Miss Vera,
of the Normal last week.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-12-20

Prof. Strassman leaves next
week for Ellsworth.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-12-20

Get your Xmas perfume at
Barnard & Clough's.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-12-20

Pres. Parker and wife ate their
Thanksgiving dinner at Los
Angeles, Cal. The table was
surrounded, it is said, by twenty
eight River Falls people.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-12-20

Mrs. E. C. Davies and daughter,
Miss Jennie, leaves tomorrow
morning for Chicago where they
will spend the holidays.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28
Strength of Limb In Man and Woman.

According to the last report of the
doings of the anthropomctric labora-
tory, London, the following interesting
data were established concerning the
relative strength and length Of limbs Ill
man and woman-viz: In man, Ill oO9
cases out of 100, the right arm was
stronger than the left; III 1G.4 cases the
arms were each of equal strength; final
ly, in 32.7 cases out of 100, the left
arm was the stronger. Thus it seems,
contrary to the general understanding
of this subject, that out of every ten
men there are mere than three whose
right arm is not SO strong as the left
The data show, however, that the pro-
portion is better distributed i'll women
that is, out of 100 only 1863 possessed
more strength in the right arm, and
24.5, or near one-fourth, have more
strength in the left Dynamometric ex-
periments have likewise proved that i'll
women the upper limbs possess the
same strength much oftener than III
men, since out of 100 there We're rs. q
that gave the same results in the two
arms. AS regards the respective length
of the limbs, it seems that i'll most cases
the right arm and the left leg are the
longer, the following proportions being
noted at the laboratory i'll measuring 30
skeletons of adults, men and women: Ii
90 cases the left leg and the right arm
were the longer, i'll 6 cases it was, Oh
the contrary, the right leg and the LETT
arm, and III 4 cases only the limbs OF
the right side were longer than those OF
tha left
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28
THE SHIPS RUDDER.
Its Two Parts and the Difference In tho
Strain Tint Comes Upon Them.


The rudder of wooden ship is COM
posed of the stalk and the backing,
which are so joined together as to form
in effect a single piece. The complete
rudder is coppered, to protect it from
worms, and then, besides being practi-
cally all in one piece, it has that ap-
pearanco also.
The stalk is the part to which are at
tached the pintles or pivots, by which
the rudder is suspended and held in
place, these going through eyes set in
the ships sternpost. The stalk runs up
through the stern Of the ship, and to
its head is bolted cap to which are at
tached the ropes by means of which the
rudder is controlled. The backing is the
blade part of the rudder.
BY far the greater strain comes on
the stalk, and the greatest strain of all
comes OH the head of tho stalk, the
rudder head, where it is held. The
stalk is made of the wood most likely
TO stand the strain, carefully selected,
sound, we'll seasoned oak, while the
backing is made of spruce or hard pine.
The stalk is of single, solid, massive
piece, stout us an oak tree and indeed
of the dimensions of small oak,
something that Il man can pin his faith
to, if ho can have faith in any wood,
while the backing or blade is, like
many modern wooden masts, built up.
1t would be difficult if not impossible
to find trees that would yield planks
big enough for the purpose in single
piece, and the built up backing, made
of pieces of selected wood, can easily be
made of ample strength to Withstand
any strain that will be brought upon 1t.
AS to the stalk, stout and solid as the
oak may be, the head may be twisted
by the force of tremendous blow from
wave upon the rudder, or, under the
repeated strains of long use, the head
may split, and SO make the stalk use
less. Then the rudder is taken out and
fitted with new stalk. a suitable stick
is selected and worked down to the
proper size and form, and very probably
the old backing is attached to it. The
life of a rudder stalk would probably
be ~ to II years. The backing might
last as long as the ship.-New York
SIM
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28
VALUE OF LONDON.
striking Estimate of the Market Prices of
Famous Public Buildings.


A striking article which appeared in
London recently, describing the mar
ket'' value of London, has a timely sug-
gestiveness in connection with the bat
tie between public and private interests
over Copley square, says the Boston
Transcript. London's greatest treasures
are known by name to all, and London
is so far away that the valuation put
upon them will not stir other emotions
than precisely those which it is the pur-
pose of the statistician to arouse. Mall
sion House, which cost G70, 900 to build,
says the writer, is now valued at fully
ten times that figure. The Royal Elk
change, as building of bricks and NOR
tar, is worth e200, 900, but land in that
neighborhood has recently sold at the
rate of $40, 600, 900 an acre, so that e.
900, 600 is probably not an excessive
valuation for the exchange.
Eight bridges over the Thames cost
Go, 900, 900 to build, but are now worth
much more than that while the tunnels
underneath are worth other millions,
and the embnnl1ment is worth probably
double the 1000, 900 which it cost to
make. If ST. Pauls We're private prop
erty, you might induce the owner to
sell it for el0, 900, 600, but the lil1eli-
hood is very remote. Those tattered
banners which you have seen so often
would arouse pretty keen bidding at
the sales Westminster abbey is difficult
to value But the sales give US some
idea of what historic treasures are worth
in the market, and should not be sur
prised if the abbcy-put up Ill lots
realized ESQ, 600. 900.
The British museum, which anybody
can sec for nothing, could not be bought
ND by all the millionaires i'll America.
If it were absolutely empty, it would
be worth 81, 500, 600, and it is full OF
priceless treasures. The National gal
lery is worth millions. 1t cost, with
tho new Tate gallery section. $3.50, 600
to build and has one picture which cost
e14 an inch The Nelson column,
close b., l.; worth .s5D000, and the
statre of King George III. a little way
down Pail Hall. cost Gl.0o0. The al
bert Hall and Royal aquarium are both
worth about e250, 009, bat IL Ciysi.l
palace cost more than three times TIE
value of both Of these. Earl Court, the
great show rival!ne the palace, has n!il-
lions worth of treasures. and even
when it is craply thc ~ acres of gardens
and buildings are warth $500, 600. In
aginc buying the Tower, the Holborn
viaduct, tie miles of sewers, walks and
pavcments. the various markets, OF
which four-wiiicil are for cattlc-ac-
tuallv cost $40, Geo, 600 between them.
Think of the hospitals and schools and
churches and fancy the market value OF
the parks cut into city lots. The en-
frances alone of Hyde park are said to
have cost nearly 81, 800, 600. Does the
statement made by the English writer
seem extravaganza, that all the coined
money in the world today would not
adequately represent the value of what
the poor can see and use i'll London?
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28
The Medium Was Right.

MIR. Grcyille WAS persuaded when he
was over 90 years of age to attend a
spiritualistic seance. Foster, the pre-
siding medium, was in great form, and
the revelations were astounding. Gre
vile sat silent, and his aged, wizened
face was emotionless as mask. Sud.
denly the medium grew excited and
said to the old gentleman:
GA female form is bending over you.
Oh, the extraordinary likenessl'
Greyille sighed.
"She lifts her hands to bless you. -
Greville sighed again.
cit is your mother. y
"Ah, poor thingr' said Greville. II
am glad. -
"sho smiles. She says all is we'll
with her"
Groville sighed again aud said, II
am delighted
''Sho says she VIII see you soon. You
are old, anl you must inset her before
lyns
Taen Crcville quietly observed !:
That's very true. I'm going to take
ca with her this evening ("
Tableau London Graphic.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28
ALONG THE UPPER NILE.

The Fierce Scramble Among European
Nations For This Territory.
Mr.. R. Dorsey Mohun, formerly
United States agent in the Kongo Free
State, writes an article for The Century
on 1.-The Scramble For the Upper Nile. !"
Mr.. Mohun, after describing the expe-
ditions seeking to reach the upper Nile,
says:
Many will ask, Why this feverish
haste to occupy this wretched country
in the heart of Africa?
Reasons are many, and most of them
are sound. First and foremost, the
power which holds the southern coun-
tries through which the upper Nile and
its tributaries flow has the fate of low
or Egypt in her hands. 1t has been stat
ed many times that it would be quite
feasible to divert the course of some Of
these rivers, thus decreasing the annual
rise, which means everything to the
agriculturist Of lower Egypt. Without
her agriculture there would be no fu-
ture for the country, and unless the
river overflowed its banks annually and
made it's deposit of rich soil from hun
dreds of miles south the situation would
be absolutely desperate.
Secondly, the districts of Darfur and
BARREL Ghazal are rich in gum rubber
aud ostrich feathers, and certain
amount of gold has been found.
81 IL
plants, and great stores of ivory are
said to he held by native chiefs, only
waiting for traders who will deal hon
estly with them. The two districts Of
Dar-Senaar and Darrell Fungi are more
or less agricultural countries, and be-
fore the fall of Khartum Greek planters
had been successful there Therefore,
from an agricultural point Of view, the
country is valuable.
Thirdly. the finest soldiers in the
Egyptian army, commonly called the
Sudanese, come from these southern
provinces. These men are in demand as
soldiers not only in Egypt, but on the
east and west coasts Of Africa. The
black battalions of the Egyptian army
are composed of Sudanese and are reck-
oned among the best soldiers to be
found anywhere.
Who will be successful in this scram-
BILE for the upper Nile? l say, most en-
phatically. England, although France
seems to have temporary advantage i'll
the occupation of Fashoda. This occu-
patton England cannot and will not
permit to remain permanent, and. fol-
lowing up the numerous protests made
by Lord Rosebery's government, the
present government must, in order that
the prestige of England may be un-
dimmed, give notice to France to leave
Fashoda and return to her west coast
hinterland.
From the point of view of commerce
and progress, it would be preteruole for
this vast territory to To under the ill.,
direct control of England. Her posses
sions are never incumhered with la 20
numbers of military and civil oi.:,l-is,
and she does everything in her power
to foster and develop trade Oh strict
lines of Partially to none. With L--3-
land at the head of affairs in this Le-
nighted country there can be no doubt
but it will develop its resources in
comparatively short time, although
there has been no samblalce OF autaor-
ity of government there III Ii years.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28
HAUNTED BY A NUMBER
Figures Scrubbed by a schoolboy Finally
BrOurht Fortune.

Figures Scrubbed by n Schoolboy Finally
Brought Fortune.
"My brother William, who died few
years ago" said Colonel Andrew Free
man the other night, from his boy
hood days had curious habit of scrib
bling Oh every piece of blank paper he
picked up.
"When he was first able to form fig
ures with pen or pencil, he would
trace the meaningless number 10, 17l'
on everything that had blank space OF
sufficient size. On the whitewashed
walls of the little old red schoolhouse
down in my home county in the Penny
rifle that boy wrote 10, ia ten thou
sand times or more.
"On the fly leaf of his textbooks, on
the margins of the newspapers my IA
Their was subscriber for, on the en-
velopes and on the unused bits Of papers
in all of the letters that came to our
house he traced those figures Ill every
idle moment without being able to tell
why he did so. My father gave the lad
some pretty severe thrashingsand count
less reprimands for INDUCING in the
senseless habit, but Will never stopped
it for day.
"When was 81 and Will was %, l
told him one day that was going to
play the numbers he was so devoted to
in the Louisiana lottery and if | drew
anything l would divide up with him.
1 had been throwing away dollar IN
the gift enterprise for five or six years
and had never drawn cent. l didn t
get the number l wanted that month,
but the next month got two tenth
tickets, number 10, ia, and struck the
$40, 900 capital prize. Will got one-half
of the cash, and till the day of his
death, eight years ago, never quit talk
ing about the luck his hobby brought
me. 1t was the most remarkable incl
dent in my life and the most notable
occurrence in the history of our FAM
ily. "-Louisville Post.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28
She Was Very Beautiful.

Pedestrians on Sixth avenue the other
day were startled to see common look
ing man crossing the street with beau
tiful young woman in his arms The
fair creature was faultlessly dressed
though hatless, and did not seem to OBJ
ject to her mode of conveyance i'll the
least, for her arm was around the man s
neck and her golden head rested against
his. The curious in the crowd rushed
up to get nearer view of the strange
sight. But when within few feet Of
the pair they turned abruptly, with a
smile, half Of disappointment, half Of
satisfaction, at the solution Of the mys-
terry. The beautiful young lady was a
lay figure belonging to one of the de-
partment stores in the neighborhood.-
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28
MAKE THE MEN MARKET,
Woman Writer'S Bold Suggestion to
Help Weary Wives.

A Woman Writer'S Bold suggestion Go
Help Weary Wives.
There are few things that exhaust a
woman more than days shopping.
The average man looks upon woman S
purchasing day" as one of pleasure,
but when he accompanies her On one of
these shopping expeditions he goes
home, after his patience has been all ex-
hausted, with different belief. He
learns, too, that a woman can endure
vexations and appointments with
much more equanimity than he can,
and he mentally VOWS never to do 1t
again.
The number of miles traversed is
really what tires one, and it is little
wonder that the woman who does the
shopping for herself and her entire fam
ily, as we'll as the marketing AID the
bargaining with the "butcher and bak-
er and candlestick maker" should feel
the need of rest for her tired nerves
The man of the house should always
do the marketing IL the old days,
when the butler was not the stately
parsonage he is now, women were new
er troubled with the worries of house
hold purchasing, for the head of the
house did the entire buying, and
"James'' carried the parcels aud was
not ashamed to do it.
No mother who has the care Of little
children should give the precious morn
ing hours to anything else but the
nursery, nor should she 1t. butchers
and grocers' boys call for ana deliver
orders, because there is sure to be dis
satisfaction if she does. Some wealthy
families allow their chef to rake charce
of the household, and he collects large
percentage from the tradesnen, which.
of course, is added to the monthly bill
Reputable storekeepers will not do "a
kind of business, however, and tba rs !.
patronage" is controlled entirely =
few men. On the whole, it l.;
more satisfactory fer the man ii rae
house to do the marketing. He will : i
the best meat, have his orders rroniJ :
attended to and save about 20 per cen'
in the transaction, as we'll as the heal .
of his wife. Chicago Times-Herald
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28
Geological Deductions.

Geology was once defined by Lcrt
Salisbury as "tho science CT the VIII
might have been" Some America
biologists prefer to regard it as the sci
ence of the what may be. Pictures be
often been drawn of tie destruction +
Toronto and tie devastation Of scat!
Ontario and Quebec by Il food -
when the great lakes ARE eiATtied
to the continual recession of Mia
falls.
Professor G.. K. Gilbert now tells T.
that long before this disaster is cue :,
aeara will have b. u destroyed II otbe~
processes Some = changes Cf l.
are bow taking p.ace over the We
lake region. The eastern Quilt will
closed and the lak9s draiE' d by q
charging from tie southern end of La
Michigan into the basin of the Missis
sippi The change in the river system
will begin in ahcut 900 years Tina.
The evidence addnccl by Professor Gil
bert in support Of this prophecy is Of
great interest, although only bis pre-
'iminarr renort has YET reen published.
a TicI,lish Question.
G. NJ. writes to The Journal: "Should
you say, 7 made him cough s., or /
made him cough up $50 -
This is ticklish question Unfor-
tunately the slang dictionaries, even
Farmer and Henlcy's, do not know the
slang phrase. Nor is there any allusion
to it in the great Oxford dictionary.
Three centuries ago there was a phrase
"to cough (any ono) daw, fool, nome"
meaning "to make fool OF, (" also TO
prove oneself fool. - but this cough"
may have been the obsolete verb cough"
or "coif," to purchase, acquire, get.
And five centuries ago "to cough" also
meant to utter, Z" to disclose, 81 as in
this sentence. "To make her confess the
things testified against her, and also to
cough out the rest"
We do not find anywhere allusion to
this modern slang We ourselves regard
cough up" as the proper expression,
and we use it when we are moving in
tho first and gilded circles
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28
Tic pic. of L;hsrty.

The white leaded cid darby approach
ed che Of the northern congressman at
the foot of the capitol steps, removed
his hat and said: lie cain Eli de way
FUN Nottoway county, cap'n. 10 see
whut yo, Elm do FIR ne. raid So, 700
fur my liberty, Ell ain heerd nuthin
fun de promises o de gubberment. +"
"You mean to say, uncle, that You
bought your liberty" the congressman
asked i. surprise, thinking to humor
the old man.
cts fac, cap'n, en- twenty seben
hundred wuz de price.
II thought eternal vigilance was the
price of liberty, uncle:''
Scratching his head for an under
standing, the ex-slaye replied doubt
fully, "Waal, cap'n, dat mout be Gle
case wild de white folks, but de pooh
niger has ter pay cash. Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28
For Symmetry.

Lord Selkirk had formal garden
an Italian garden, as it is called-and
his gardener was very proud of it.
One day, says The Golden Penny,
Lord Selkirk found boy shut up in the
summer house at the end of the terrace
at St. Mary's Isle and was informed by
his gardener that it was for stealing
apples. On reaching the other end OF
the terrace, where there was another
summer house, Selkirk beheld the gar
dener's son looking dolefully out Of the
window.
"Eh, John, what's this? Has your
toy been stealing too?"
INA, ma, my lord, was the answer.
II just put him in for semetry. F."
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28
Fire worship.rs and Kerosene.

a knowledge of the existence Of Pc
troleum at Baku is SO ancient that we
find there the ruins of q temple to Zero
aster. The worship OF tire---so easy to
obtain that it was only necessary to
prod the soil with stick and set fire to
the vapor that issued out of twas
continued until so recent time as 20
years ago, when several Parsee priests
were i'll Baku for the purpose of wor-
Shipping that which we of this iconoclas-
tic time buy i'll the corner groceries to
fill our lamps. Julian Ralph in Har-
per's Magazine.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28
THE DANGER OF BEAUTY.

I never read the papers without feeling so
content =
chat both my eyes arc twisted and my nose Is
slightly benz.
TIN clad nv mouth is ont of line and that my
And if had e.wealth of hair l don't know
what I'd do
"tiny foot" or lilly hand would I'LL me
with dismay,
And if hid Il slender waist I'd sicken IN
day,
For have noticed from tho first, as strange rs
il may seem,
The girl who gets the worst of it Is "loveiy
as dream.
Tho papers never tell about woman being
shot,
Or manglcd By trolley car, or married to a
Or forced at point of pistol her last fifty cents
TO lose.
But that her eyes are 'limpid" and her boots
are number twos.
So can live in sweet content, without the
slightest fear
That trouble or calamity will ever hover near.
And when see my mistit face it's some rehcf
to know
That I'll outlivo the beauties by a hundred
900 Brooklyn Life.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28

\ chiE,a made of is bronze tubes s.z-
ranged in two parallel rows and strus'h
BY hammers working from keyboard
has been set up il the town hall of Le-
rollois. iserrat, bear P&ris. The tubes
.,.r- in lcneth from AZ to 8 feet, and
:, :,aic.,t fs5in 81 to iGO pounds