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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25
CUT FLOWERS GIVEN FREE.
The White House and congressman
Are Supplied from the Public
Greenhouses.

Cut flowers are supplied gratuitous-
Iv to congressman and their families
from the greenhouses and gardens at
tached to the public institutions in
Washington and if not the most profit
able they are among the most desirable
peruuisites of official position. The
greenhouses from which the flowers in
question come are maintained prin-
cipally to supply the city parks with
the plants which make them such
feature of the city's beauty through
out the greater part of the year. In
the cutting of the flowers in these
greenhouses, much of which is done
for the improvement of the plants, the
white house supply of flowers is aug
mented After the white house is
supplied the hospitals and other pub
lie institutions receive flowers. Many
other worthy causes also share in the
distribution. Families of members of
the cabinet, the supreme count and
legislative members come next. This
custom which has prevailed for years
of distributing cut flowers is still fol-
lowed, says a Washington exchange.
IeSlUeS bHe III Una = Z VI
the superintendent of public buildings
and grounds and the white house con-
servatory other gardens are those of
the agricultural department and the
botanic gardens. The latter are under
the direction of the senate committee
on library. The gardens of the depart
ment of agriculture are devoted largely
to the growing of plants other than
floral. The flowers from the white
house conservatories are used for
daily decorations of the executive man
sion, and it is for state functions and
all other ordinary occasions that the
supply of the park greenhouses is
drawn upon. Through this source of
supply not an inconsiderable amount
| that would otherwise have to be spent
for flowers is saved The value of
flowers for many state dinners runs
well up into the hundreds, and some
times even thousands, of dollars. The
floral decorations for the Prince Henry
| dinner, which were most elaborate,
would have cost $4,000 if purchased in
the flower market. AS it was, the real
expenditure in the floral decorations
was only a few hundred.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25

the like there must have been!
Upon the upper corner was the pal
ace of A. I. Stewart, the merchant
prince. for years the finest in America
ITnon it the old merchant had lavished
his wealth and ingenuity. 1t was the
dream of his old age, an unexpected
streak of poetry in his arid heart. He
had secret passages built into it.
Workmen from Italy were imported to
do the wood carving. Processes were
invented to give it absolutely unique
effects. Then the owner died, as many
men do after building their castles for
all time. Presently it was found that
Mrs. Stewart was poorer than men
thought, and the house was turned
over to the Manhattan club, represent
ing the respecta bic element of the To-
cal democracy opposed to Tammany.
When Cookers carnival of loot began,
the Manhattan club shrunk in impor-
tance, while the democratic club grew
suddenly great under his eye. The
marble mansion was neither wanted
for club nor fitted for a house,
because of the turmoil of the street
outside.
So the wreckers got it! For few
months they were tearing it away;
now upon its site is rising the new
building of the Century Realty com
pany. Think what richness for the
wrecker among those great mirrors,
those matchless carvings: what wealth
of material, even, in the three feet
thick walls. built for eternity, but las +
ing less than one generation!
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25
NOTES OF THE MODES.
Fresh FRncies That Are at Present
in Favor with Up-tO-DRte
DroSaerA.

Two rows of medium sized fancy
buttons deck the front of many tailor
mades..
White mohair, white crepe, white
wolfe, yelling, or challie is the proper
material for costumes for cool days
out of town.
There is to be possible revival in
fashions favor of grandmother's
shawl Of 30 years ago, only in a modi-
fed, dainty, modern form.
A red leather mobile" coat with
cap to match and black velvet collar
and cuffs is strikingly Mephisto-
phelean, but too outre to be popular.
The prevalence of the shawl collar
as a garniture for summer gown is
taken as an indication Of leaning to-
ward cape trimmed jackets this fall.
French waists which have buttons
and buttonholes have at the top on
the button side another buttonhole
running lengthwise of the waist, in
stead of across, this to be used for
stud if one prefers to use one for the
upper place instead of the button.
An all white pique gown for small
girl recently shown was trimmed with
Irish lace. The material was a fine
square dotted pique made with three
box plaits. Between them Irish lace
was set in. A ruffie extended around
the low cut neck Of the frock, and was
edged with the lace. The sleeves
reached to below the elbow and were
trimmed with an insertion of the
lace, and the ruffle was trimmed with
it. There was a sash ribbon at the
waist, and more Of the lace trimmed
the skirt The gown was worn with
fancy white woke.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25

the summer place. Somewhere-if
possible near the 'ancestraP' home
must be a princely domain, counting
its acres by the hundred or thousand.
There must be a house more costly
by far than the city house or even that
at Newport There must be automobile
tracks, paddocks, horse barns huge
and all the appliances of scientific
farming.
Thus the Stokes "Shadowbrook" at
Lenox, with it's 800 acres and it's so
rooms. Thus Whitney's 6,000-acre es-
tate on October mountain 1T the same
place, his three townships in the Adj
rondacks, his two homes on Long Is
land. Thus Levi p. Morton's "EllersHe"
on the Hudson-though on Fifth ave.
nue. Mr.. Morton lives in house IS feet
wide.
The Vanderbi1ts, who have reason
for it, have no pride of ancestry. Nc
one of them has home on Staten Is
land, where the great founder of their
line worked as a ferryman, or in New
Brunswick, where earlier he was born,
The Twomblys have place in Flor
ham," near Morristown, n. J.. that cost
over a million. Dr. Seward Webb's
place in Sherburne, VT, has become an
issue in politics. Does he really live
there, or in New York?
Upon the answer may depend some
gubernatorial and senatorial prob
lens. OWEN LANGDON
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Australia supplies sos, 900 worth
of wool year.
In South Australia there exists lam
guage test for intending immigrants.
Unless a man can speak or write Eng
lish he is not permitted to land.
In the Canaries the banana is never
cut with a knife, because the fruit
when cut through exhibits what is re-
garded as a representation OF the cruz
cifixion.
Experiments in Dublin recently dem
onstrated to the satisfaction of the eN-
perimenters that bacteria could be car
ried great distance by the wind, de-
spite a heavy rainfall.
Chicago originated the system of
steel frames and the use of isolated
foundations which made possible 20
story building, and revolutionized
American commercial architecture.
In signing his name to the plans
and specifications of the worlds fair
art palace in ST. Louis, which will cost
$945, 900, the contractor had to sign his
name 2,400 times. 1t was hard days
work.
1t is reported that an oil spring of
good quality has been discovered in
the southeastern district of South Aus
tralia. The spring is near the lakes
at the mouth of the Murray river. The
existence of petroleum in this desert
region has been known for years. The
oil exudes from the banks of Lake
Coorong, and also from the more
southern coast line. The quantity of
the supply and the purity of the oil
are not yet determined.
According to reports made by the
government biologists of Victoria and
Queensland, there are no less than g.
900 square miles of coal-bearing coun-
try in the eastern states of Australia.
The probable quantity of coal avail
able (after deducting one-third for
loss), in seams ranging from two to
seventeen feet in thickness. is not less
than 240, 44S, O53 900 tons. In Victoria
there are beds Of tertiary coal over
200 feet thick, and extensive seams OF
oil-bearing shale exist in New South
Wales and Tasmania.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25

a bit expensive when one has to pay
for damages" Then he tremulous-
Nv cot up on the back seat, and
maintained the attitude of a pam
Their about to spring. Every now
and then. when something seemed
likely to happen, he was out of the
cart and anXiously awaiting results
from a safe position in the, road. 1
never saw a man leave cart so
quickly; it made me nervous.
whats the reason of this extreme
activity?" | asked, as we dashed
swiftly yet erraticauy along. The
Rapid Woman'S driving was like unto
that of Jehu, the son of Nimshi, in
the matter of speed, and we had
one or two narrow escapes, especi-
ally when a tinker's donkey began
Drawing, and the leader faced round
to explain to his mistress that the
noise got on his nerves. When she
dexterously flicked him on the nose,
he consented to resume his former
position, and he went along more
rapidly than ever, until we came to
a narrow lane, with forbidding, over
hanging banks. The Rapid Wom-
an turned to her husband: rs this
where [ had my last accident ?" No,
nv DEAR" he replied, meekly. the
last but one" Before we had gone
another hundred yards, it was the
last but two; but the Rapid Woman
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25

enough it looked like his birthplace
when he had swept away the houses
for several miles. 1t was on this pre-
serve that Mr.. Roosevelt recently
killed a wild boar when he was in the
state. Few of the Corbin blood can
now enjoy it's sweep and beauty His
dauobter is the wife of a foreign mo-
bleman. The rest are scattered.
This process is going on all the
while. Frank Jones has become fab
uiously rich building telephone lines
in Brazil. He buys Bear Top Noun
tain. near Hartford, Conn, his old
home, and plans a baronial estate.
Richard Montgomery wins money on
Wall street, and goes to Richfeld
Springs, n. Y, and lays out $50 acres,
his fathers old farm and several 9TH
ers, into a private park.
The eastern states are not so big
that this sort of thing does not make
an impression. The estate mania is
the biggest ''bull" factor on farm prop
erty in the east. A few game preserves
the size of Whitney's in the Adiron-
dacks would exhaust the state of
Rhode Island.
And how the game thrive under the
new fashion! Deer are more plenty
than they have been for 20 years. The
other day W. C. Whitney gave As moose
to the state of New York, simply to
turn wild in the woods. 1t is forbidden
to kill them; they will multiply until
they are fairly common. There. are
bears; wolves are not so scarce as they
were.
John D. Rockefeller has never been
conspicuous as maker OF great coun-
try estates. True, his lands at larry
town are some thousand acres, but it
is difficult to increase them, because
the region is fairly well built up and
purchases must either crook about
like a shoestring or cost inOrdinately
But Rockefeller has now become an
Adirondack lord. The purchase of the
Lake Mecham hotel, with 10000 acres
of forest land, makes him prominent
as a ''preserve" owner. The Lake
Meacham was the most beautiful re-
sort in the woods, though smaller than
Paul Smiths. But hotel keepers can
not bid against oil kings for things
that oil kings want.
Long Island is most rapidly filling
up with landed estates. The type of
the land that is wanted" there is a
rolling hill or ''knob" where a great
house can be built and command a wide
view, if possible, of the water; then at
its foot an expanse of fiat land that
works up nicely into trim fields, pad
docks, race tracks. A combination
like this, which may have been little
valued even five years ago, will sell
now for $3.50 an acre, even if far from
the water.
Imagine the prizes sometimes drawn
in the, shiftings of fashion! Water
front land in Larchmont is worth
900 an acre. At an equal distance
from New York on Long Island from
81 900 to $4,000 an acre. An hour far.
Their out, and you can get water front
for $40 an acre.
Is the latter a good investment
That depends. 1t is safer than buying
stocks son a margin" in Wall street.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25

[1MA 6O the DOEU Oh LOI6uCO
y MARQUEE and Delagoa Bay,
AMNK aud now, according to the
s&z news dispatches, they are
likely to secure this i'm
portant strategic and commercial
point by purchase of the en-
tire Portuguese possessions in East
Africa. 1t is asserted that this
acquisition will be announced at the
next meeting of parliament. 1t is also
reported that Germany is to have
portion of the Portuguese possessions
in accordance with a secret convention
with Great Britain as reward for
German neutrality during the Boer
war. In the light of the fact that Del
agoa bay is admittedly the key to Brit
ish South Africa, the peculiar eager
ness of his majesty's government to
possess it is easily appreciated.
Delagoa bay is not only one of the
best natural harbors in all Africa, but
it is the only practicable seaport with
in reasonable reach from Pretoria. In
possession of it the English may easily
clinch their claim to being the supreme
power in South Africa; without it they
are more or less at the mercy of for
eign nations. Delagoa bay lies at the
southern extremity of the Portuguese
territory of Mozambique. 1t is nearly
70 miles in length north and south and
from 16 to 25 miles in width. Nearly
all South African ports are more or
less spoiled by the presence of huge
sand bars at slight depths below the
waters surface; but in Delagoa bay
there is sufficient depth of water over
the bars to allow the passage of smaller
boats, while navigable channels of con-
siderable width for the largest yes
sells are well known to the government
pilots. The inner harbor, from the bay
to the mouth of the English river, on
the left bank of which is located the
town of Lorenzo Marques, is an i'm
posing stretch of water. The whole
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25

~ - ingly remarked a cele-
@zAsIIM brated physician to a
fAWAlz patient who had an
H noyed him by suddenly
Iy getting well, you
are such a rapid woman" For the
first time in his life, he realized that
it is rapid age-an age which pro-
duces the 'Rapid Woman" At the
moment, he did not relish the discov-
cry. Then, he reflected that the
Rapid Woman would probably do
more harm than good, and felt com
forted
In this humdrum world, which does
not properly value the charm Of the
unexpected, the Rapid Woman has
not altogether received her due
need of appreciation. A man once
said, in his brutal manly way, that
there was no such thing as bad wine.
All wine was good, but some kinds
were better than others. Similarly,
in spite Of modern fiction, there is
no such thing as a really bad woman.
Some are better than others;" and
that is the merciful difference. If
all women were reduced to a level
of dull, Unconditional goodness, the
Amelia Sedleys of the twentieth cen
fury would fill the asylums with men
whom their monotonous placidity
had driven to such doom; the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25
What Ping-Pong Is Like.

"Ping-pong," said the lady in the
golfng skirt, sis just like golf"
ct is just like tennis" declared the
lady in the linen suit.
you're both wrong" observed the
heavyset gentleman who was wiping
his brow and breathing with evident
effort. Its just like hard work.
Indianapolis News.
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the house number
so-and-so; brown
stone, three-s tor-
les, 189 by go. 1t
completes a plot
on which I've been
figuring to put up
a big building. l
want it out of the
way. W h a It's i t
worth? I've never
been in side it."
"Ought t o b e
worth about $500,
but if you want
an exact figure
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a r e buildin
fall in turn into
the hands of the
wreckers of 1850,
p e r h a p S ?-the
m o S t S t artling
change is coming
over the country
p | a C e S o f t h e
wealthy. Time was
when a GOTTA ge"
at Newport was
sufficient. T h i S
t h e f a shionable
must still have,
INIT II iS merely
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Doctor. a mans nose is
ground to powder, smashed fiat,
pushed to one side, it's all one to this
doctor. He removes the wreckage,
picks out the pieces that are too small
to use, and studies the former con-
tour of the nose from photograph:
Then into the cavities left by
crumbling bone and flesh he puts paraf-
fin filling which assumes the proper
flesh. When the nose heals the shape
is as it was before, and the paraffin
gives the wearer no trouble.
The nose expert has never advertised
or otherwise won the disfavOr of his
confreres; his methods have been ia
vorably received and his practice
profitable. Almost anyone can spare
money sooner than get along without
nose.
My other friend doing well in an odd
trade is a ''wrecker." Not one who
lures ships upon the rocks, nor rail
road operator of the Jay Gould type,
but a house wrecker, who buys houses
subject to removal and uses up the old
material. Of course there have al
ways been wreckeYs. But the digging
of the subway has caused the tearing
down of hundreds of houses. The new
East river bridge has driven 10000
people from their homes to make way
for the approaches; and all over the
town old private and commercial struc-
lures are being torn down to make
room for ''sky-scrapers." Big for
tunes are being made by wreckers who
have capital and boldness enough to ex-
pand their business rapidly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25
Graham Cream Tonst.

Cut Graham bread into rather thick
slices. then, using a cake-cutter, into
rounds; toast brown, butter nicely,
and arrange on a hot platter. Bring
sufficient cream or very rich milk just
to a boil; add pinch Of salt, a dash of
white pepper, pour over toast ana
serve without delay.-Ladies' World
New York.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25
one Great DiRerence

"What's the principal difference be-
tween the wise man and the fool?
There's no enc so wise that he isn't a
fool sometime, IS thera?'
s'No; but the wise man knows when
he makes a fool of himself, and the fool
doesn't. Chicago Post.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25

got the e S t a t e
fever. He stock
ed a 1,000-a c + e
farm on Long Is
land with buffalo
and other things.
That wasn't big
e n o u g h, so on
Croydon NJ o II n
tain, n. H., where
he was born, he
laid out a 5000
a C r e reserva ton
and put there buff
faloes, moose and
wild bOarS LITTLE
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nnin~ NJ Harm

One day Willie, aged five, was crying,
and his mamma said:
'Willie, you are getting your face
all dirty from crying" and Willie re-
piled:
"Well, it wasn't clean when start
d."-Philadelphia Record.
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been first and last!
Upon it's lower
corner with Fifth
avenue stood the
home of William
Astor. When the
browns stone man
sion was RACED to
make way for the
Astoria end of the
w a | d orf-Astoria
hotel, what loot of
mantels, mirrors,
woodwork, built
in sidebOardS and
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25
A Man of the Present.

81 suppose you would like to send
your name down to posterity as one
of the leaders of your time"
NO answered Senator Sorghum.
I'm not worrying over what poster
ity thinks of me. Posterity hasn't
any vote in my district. Washing
TON Star
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OF Woolng IL. l.
have just met two
such.
One is a boyish
looking doctor,
not yet 80, yet he
has just refused
an offered $500
fee for taking a
trip to Bar Har-
Dor. He could not
afford to leave his
New York practice.
His speciality Is
making noses. lie
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25
Hint for p. O. Department.

Scribbler-I don't mind paying letter
postage on the articles that l send to
the magazines. but l think when the
manuscripts are returned to me they
ought TO come cheaper.
Friend-Certainly. The editors
should be allowed to label them sec
ond-class matter.-N. Y. Weekly.
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Inst the Reverse

''He looks as prosperous as a trust
promoter, Is that his line?''
.sOh, no; quite the contrary"
sWhat do you mean by that?"
HE doesn't promote trust; he limits
it. He's the credit man of a big whole
sale house. brooklyn Eagle.
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Peculiar Vacations Which Bring
Financial Success i'm New York -

The house cost more than a million
dollars great sum in those days.
Now it's wreckage; and you may be
sure that every piece of it is utilized.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25

Money In Tearing Down Houses.
A rich man came the other day to my
wrecking friend and said: "I've bought
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25

Success sometimes lies in wait for
the oung man with an original method
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25
The wrecknge of a City.

Think of what the wreckage of a
street like Thirty-fourth must have
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25
Country and City Homes.

Vast as are the city mansions which
Clark, Carnegie, Schwab and others
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-09-25
Rears. Moose. wild Bears. Deer.

When Austin Corbin became presi-
dent of the Long Island railroad he
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HE English have long covet-
ed the port of Lorenzo
MARQUEE and Delagoa Bay,
and now. according to the
news dispatches, they are