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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
CITY HAS NET FOR FISHES
Supplies Food for Zoo Birds and
Specimens for the Public
Aquarium.

Visitors to Bronx park walking
along the east side OF the Bronx river
not far from the subway entrance have
been interested in circular net that
was placed in the stream few days
ago. 1t was put. there, reports the
New York Sun, for the double pur-
pose of supplying fish dinners to the
birds of the zoo and specimens for
the aquarium at the Battery.
A row of stakes near the bank leads
out to the net, which is funnel shaped
with the large end inshore. The fish
coming to the bank to feed enter the
mouth and naturally swim back into
deep water, but they find the net mar
rowing, and when they slide through
the small hole in the end of the fun
mel they are trapped within larger
net of the same style. The net is
about Is feet long and four feet wide
at the mouth.
Carp and suckers weighing from a
quarter of a pound to three pounds
have been taken in this way for the
benefit of the zoo eagles, cranes and
vultures. The keepers say that the
birds appreciate this fresh fish.
All the pickerel and bass captured
are sent to the aquarium to be ex-
hibited, or in emergency to be fed to
their fellows. A few cells and mud
turtles wander into the net.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04

FIG. LICE HOUSE AND COOL ROOM.
large enough for a moderate family,
as an ice house of that size will hold
about 20 loads or tons of ice.
The main point is the division be-
tween the ice house and the room be-
low it. This must be perfectly air.
tight, and a moderately good conduc-
tor of heat. The floor may be laid in
the following manner:
Beams of sufficient strength are laid
across and the ends well bedded in ce-
ment. A floor of zinc sheets is then
laid upon the beams, the sheets being
closely nailed to the beams upon
strips of rubber sheeting, to make the
joints water and air tight The beams
should be dressed smoothly. The zinc
sheets are bent, as shown in the illus
tration Gig. %. This is for the pur-
pose of causing the moisture, which
will condense upon the under side of
this ceiling, to flow downward to the
lower angle, where it will drip. The
drip is caught in the little cutters of
zinc shown in the figure, attached to
the ceiling, and is carried off by
proper drain. ~
ABOVE the zinc ceiling, thin layer
of dry, fresh sawdust should be laid
smoothly, and floor of matched pine
boards should be laid upon that, and
thoroughly coated with melted pitch.
This floor should slope little to one
corner, so as to draw the waste water
from the ice there, and an S trap
drain should be laid from that to
carry off the water into the drain
above mentioned. The usual layer of
sawdust is laid upon this floor to pre-
vent too rapid conveyance of heat
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
Couldn't Find It.

The neighbors having dropped in in
formally upon the Suthrons during the
evening, Mrs. Suthron suggests that if
her husband will gather some mint from
the mint bed in the garden she will mix
for them genuine Kentucky julep. Mr..
Suthron, who has INDUCED in a matter
of seven or eight genuine Kentucky
juleps prior to the arrival of the guests,
goes willingly in search of the desired
garnishment for the drink. He re-
mains in the garden quite awhile, and
finally the others go out to ascertain
what causes the delay.
''Why don't you bring the mint in,
dear?" his wife calls.
From somewhere in the darkness
comes the testy response:
"Jane, I've eaten my way twice
around this lot. I've chewed geranium
leaves, grass, catnip. tulips, onions, sage
and burdock, but blamed if can find a
sprig of mint anywhere! "-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
BUTTER FROM ONE COW.
The Best Method Of Handling the
Milk and the Cream-Handy
Milk Can.

To the inquiry of correspondent as
to butter making with one COW the
Rural New Yorker replies as follows:
We use two one-gallon carrying pals,
such as dairymen use, in which tin
ner had inserted a tube at the bottom
of each one-half inch and flaring to
three-Quarters on outside, the tube be-
ing enc inch in length and fitted Sc
curely with corks. The covers had
three holes punched in them for ven
tilation. The whole cost of these small
creamers was not over 20 cents. If
there is a rim at the bottom of pail,
holes may be punched in them to help
in the cooling, but they are not really
essential. The diagram shows the
creamer. A candy pail or tub deep
enough to hold water to come up as
high as the milk in can, and plenty
of ordinary we'll water, is all that is
needed to set the milk for cream rails
ing. Well water at As degrees is suffi-
cient to raise the cream in II hours;
but il one has ice it will save the
changing of water at each milking
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
JAGUAR AND ALLIGATOR.
Supposed to Be the Only Animal That
Knows How to Attack the
Saurian.

The most interesting thing about
crocodiles and alligators, declares the
author of "The Romance of the Animal
World is the way they get their food.
This they do mostly, and by preference,
in the water; but they have also
habit of lying in wait upon the mud OF
river banks until some animal ap-
proaches sufficiently near to be within
their reach.
Lying sunk in the mud, and of the
color of mud themselves, they may
well be mistaken for log. A wild pig
or some other animal fond of roofing
in the mud, sees the long, shapeless
object, but is not disturbed by 1t as
he roots happily among the reed beds.
He looks up suddenly to findfthat the
log has moved One end of it, the long
est, thinnest end, the tail, is gliding
away in a curve; but like an arrow
loosed, it flies back and meets the body
of the pig with tremendous sideways
blow and the poor pig falls in heap.
! With a sudden, swift rush the alliga-
tor is upon him, and selling the body
by the skin, which it holds puckered
up between it's front teeth, it shakes
it furiously, as terrier would rat,
and then half drags, half pushes it be-
fore it as it crawls through the mud
to the waters edge.
There is only one wild animal, says
| the author, that will purposely attack
an alligator, anad mat is the jaguar
of South America. The jaguar springs
on the back of the alligator and with
all his might tears at the roots of the
reptiles tail. This, possibly, els with
| the idea of paralyzing that member
and thus rendering it incapable of
rendering those mighty sweeps from
side to side which are more to be
feared than even the great armed jaws.
| The fear of both these weapons may
deter the Jaguar from clawing the
throat of the saurian, for were he TO be
shaken off in the latter struggles, he
would be more exposed to either than
| if he fell farther back.
Instances of the jaguar's success in
destroying the alligator are given by
various observers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
GINSENG IN MAINE.
DISCOVERY OF A PATCH WORTH
A SMALL FORTUNE.
Student of University Law School
in Bangor, Maine, Finds a
Mysterious Source of
Riches.

II rich vein of gold-bearing quartz
had been discovered on the side of
Whitney's mountain the rush of for
tune seekers would not have been
greater than it has been to Sarsaparilla
gully during the last few weeks, ow-
ing to the finding of ginseng in great
quantities in the gravelly soil on the
gully banks, says a recent Newburg
! (Me.) report.
The pioneer in the business is John
M. Thurlough, a student at the Uni
verslty of Maine law school, in Ban
gor. Last year it was noticed that
| he joined in none of the Saturday
games played by the students.
The reason Thurlough assigned for
absenting himself every Saturday was
that he wanted to go to his home in
Fairfield and pass the Sabbath with
his parents, though it was noticed that
he never left his boarding place on
veloped the fact that he was buying
expensive sets of law books and filling
his room with costly furniture.
Finally, when he bought a $500
piano and had it installed in his room,
the gossips learned the secret of his
sudden access to riches and most OF
the country had something to talk
about for year to come. The expla-
nation made by young Thurlough was
very simple.
He had an aunt living in Newburg,
and one day when he was calling on
her the family went to Sarsaparilla gull
ley TO dig roots for the usual spring
bitters. The fame of the roots of
Sarsaparilla gulley had gone through
the county years before.
BY sprouting whole corn and then
drying it, and grinding the grain and
mixing it with sarsaparilla root and
spruce brush and checkerberry leaves
and sugar. and then adding yeast and
letting the compound ferment, the resi-
dents were able to reach a condition
of absolute health
AS. young Thurlough helped to dig
the health-giving roots he noticed they
were bigger and more pulpy than or
binary sarsaparilla, and with view
Of identifying the species to which the
plants belonged, he took samples to
Prof. Munson at Orono, who at once
decided they were ginseng roots. Sub
sequent proceedings were easy.
Having a good working knowledge
of the law, young Thurlough bonded
the land lying on either side of the
gully and spent all of his spare time dig
ging and preparing the ginseng root,
for which there was quick sale at
$3.50 a pound. BY remaining silent
concerning his source of revenue, the
law student cleared up about $4,000
last year, and sold his provisional
lease to a Boston company for $4,000
in cash.
Itisasserted that the company has dug
and sold ginseng roots valued at $1S,-
900 the past season, and now that the
affair is no longer a secret, hundreds
of eager people are hunting Dixmont
and Newburg hills in the hope OF
finding another ginseng plantation.
Many acres of pasture and woodland
have been dug over, but with unsatis-
factory results.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04

floor in jiffy, and shot out of the
back door A worse looking hobo
never saw. He had on an old pair
of stogy boots, pair of trousers, a
vest twice too large for him, an old
fashioned long-tailed coat, and the
worst looking old plug hat one could
imagine. Had he been paid $1,000 a
week to do 1.-The hobo" on the vaude-
vile stage, he couldn't have beaten it.
At least two years after when I ques-
toned him as to what he did on that
dreadful occasion he said that he knew
of farmer living several miles out of
Adrian, who was formerly from his
town, and by evening of that day he
had arrived at this farmers house.
He made a clean breast of the affair
and worked hard for tt farmer six
months at SIG per month to get on his
feet again.
He wound up his career in a Chicago
charity hospital where he died with
tuberculosis and was buried in the
pauper's field.
sale jewelry business in Chicago, an
elderly man, who appeared like a la
borer, began calling at my store He
always made inquiries for old gold
spectacle frames.
Having sold him several lots I be-
gan to wonder what he was doing with
so many old gold frames. He couldn t
possibly sell them to dealers and were
he to offer a secondhand frame to a
customer, as a retailer, he could hard
ly expect to interest him.
| finally asked him and he ex-
planned to me, although he said he
had never told anyone before, not
even his wife or bis children.
He had been working his graft for
Is years. In the meantime his children
had been well educated.
His family. neighbors and friends
supposed that all these years he was a
United States detective. and after
hearing the wonderful experiences he
related of numerous hair-breadth es-
capes in capturing moonshiners, coun-
terfeiters and other law breakers they
regarded him as man of extraordin-
airy ability.
Frequently he would leave home.
after providing his family with every
comfort of life, and remain away two
and three months without writing a
word.
He had been arrested over so times
during the Is years. had been dis
charged IA times without a fine; had
been fined two or three dollars and
costs about 30 times; was fined $40 and
S25 and costs on two charges, and had
been sentenced to ten days in jail on
enc occasion and SO days on another
This was his graft. In selecting old
gold frames he picked out those of the
lightest weight for as he always pur-
chased them by weight the lighter
the frames the less they cost him. He
never took the precaution to clean
them up, preferring that they have the
appearance of having been worn for
some time. He then went to lens
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
Can't Do Without It.

ct seems to me- said Mrs. Oldcastle,
"that DR.. Goodman lays rather too
much stress on the idea that we should
divorce ourselves from anthropomorph-
ism. 1t may be all right to preach what
he does in a general way, but the an
thropomorphic sentiment is still very
dear to great many people"
II know ii, replied her hostess as she
toyed with the diamond-studded paper
cutter. There's a woman lives right
on this street that goes to the drug store
and gets it on the quiet nearly every
day. Chicago Record-Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
POINTS FOR oRdHARDIsTs.

High. well-drained land is suitable
for cherries.
Do not leave rubbish about the roots
of trees whose bark is still smooth and
tender. The rubbish IS harbor for
mice.
Young trees are staining in or near
grass should be protected from mice
by wrappers, otherwise the loss may
be very heavy.
Do not pile manure close around tree
trunks. It makes a fine harbor for
mice; later they will gnaw the bark
and kill the tree.
We recently saw a traction engine in
a peach orchard pulling out old trees.
They were cut off at the crotch-a
chain fastened to the top, and the en-
CINE walked off with them as man
would pull up tomato vine!
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04

from below to the ice above. Small
double windows should be used in the
cool chamber below, to prevent access
of heat from the outside, and they
should be fitted alright. Ventilation
should be provided for by means of
o. wooden pipe with slide, by which
the opening can be regulated. BY
carefully regulating the ventilation,
the air may be kept dry and sweet;
If too much outside air is given, the
chamber will become damp and
moldy
We add another design, on the
yame general principles, says the
Country Gentleman, but more in de-
tail, furnished by New Jersey cor"
respondent from a building in sue
cessful operation.
The drainage of the ice is carried
off BY a series of V-shaped tin or iron
troughs which run between the joists,
all of which carry the water to one
point, where it is conveyed outside by
a trap pipe. These troughs reach over
TO the center of the top Of the joists,
and are soldered together, so that no
water will drip on the floor below.
The ice does not rest directly on the
ioists: but there is bed of oak lath,
about 1hx3 inches, laid across the
joists, about four or five inches apart,
on which the ice is laid. Another
cold chamber can be had by making a
cellar under the one shown, with
lattice floor between them. It would
be necessary to finish the sides and
bottom of this cellar in the most COM
plete manner, as above described. At
the entrance to the storeroom there
must be a vestibule, either inside or
outside, as space or circumstances
may direct If outside, the walls
should be thick and the door very
heavy The doors, both inside and out
side, should be fitted with rubber, so
as to close perfectly tight, and both
doors must never be opened at the
same time. This vestibule should be
large enough to contain fair wagon
load of goods, SO that If you are re-
ceiving a load of stuff, you are not
required to stop until all is ID the
yestibule and ready to store. This
house only needs filing once a year.
The temperature will range from "a
degrees in winter to SO degrees IN
summer, and will preserve fruit per-
fectly from season to season. The
opening for putting in the ice, shown
lust under the pulley in the cut Gig.
Al has two doors, with space be-
tween-each door foot thick. The
window in the cold room has three
sets of sash, we'll packed or cemented.
The walls are 13 inches thick, lined
with II inches of sawdust. Thirtq-
six inches of sawdust are put on the
floor over the ice. The building shown
is rs feet square, inside measure, and
% feet from floor of cold room to cell
ing over the Ice. The ice room is IL
fest high, and the cold room nine feet.
pillars are required under the center
Of the ice.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04

good mixer and profitable to have
around, they remained silent.
One bartender declared that he kept
account of the amount he had raked off
in one evening, when dozen or more
of the FOUNDERS of the city were
buying drinks at his bar, and it
amounted to over ten dollars within
a space of three hours, and not a soul
suspicioned thing wrong.
The next morning after the barroom
ARRAY, / had long talk with my old
neighbor, and wormed from him con-
fession of his methods.
The next time | saw him was at
Adrian, Mich.
AS | came out of the dining-room
met him in company with the Toledo
baseball team, who were to play the
Adrians there that day. He had been
at Toledo for some time, and had only
recently come to Adrian.
That afternoon the hotel clerk said
to me:
"Say, Johnston, that friend of yours
is in trouble"
"How so?"
"Well," said the clerk, cit seems
that through some misrepresentation
he procured credit for suit of clothes
in Toledo before he came here, and
when the Toledo baseball team found
him here one of the members wired the
Toledo tailors of his whereabouts, and
they arrived only few moments ago,
and he and they are upstairs in his
room.
81 understand that they have brought
with them an old suit of clothes (the
worst they could fird), which they are
going to force him to take in exchange
for the fine suit he beat them out of. .
The clerk had no sooner finished his
explanation than the CRATER appeared
at the head of the stairs, and mounting
the banister, slid down to the office
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04

dancer; he sang and played the piano
and was in short just such a chap as
would win the admiration of the up
to-date young folk
None of his acquaintances, old or
new, could ever furnish the slightest
information as to his means of sup
port. No one ever heard of his being
in any trouble, or of his having caused
anyone else trouble.
When asked what he was doing he
answered: II walk nights to keep
from sleeping, and sleep days to keep
from eating" and with no further ar
gument he managed to change the sub
ject.
His stay in any particular town did
not exceed two months, during which
time he was, as a rule. the lion" OF
society. AS a round dancer, he had
few equals. When "out with the boys"
he could execute a jig or clog dance
superior to the average professional
andswas an a!l-around entertainer.
One time l happened to run across
him at Jackson, Mich. While sitting
in the hotel office | heard loud talking
in the barroom, and a moment later a
rough and tumble fight was in
progress.
The first person l saw was this man
standing with his back to the bar, and
two young men standing in front of
him. both executing blows upon his
already battered countenance. Observ-
ing that the poor fellow was ready to
collapse, l quickly interfered, and soon
had him out of reach, after which
I returned to the barroom. Several
men told the cause of the rumpus.
This. it seems, was his second visit
to jackson. On his previous stay the
''boys" thought they had gotten on to
his graft and now they were sure they
were right, the result of which was a
sound thrashing.
He was always on hand when any
one was treating at the bar, and never
failed to be one of the party, when the
bows of the town were out for a
slime"
When some man ordered the drinks
he instantly began telling some inter-
esting story or singing a song, in the
the amount of currency the man laid
down with which to pay his bill
When the bartender brought the
change and laid it on the counter this
CRATER instantly raked it off and re-
sumed his antics thus detracting the
attention of the man who had done
the treating In many instances the
latter would notice what had occurred,
but inasmuch as he had perhaps only
recently met the distinguished looking
parsonage. rather than cause him the
slightest humiliation. and believing it
a mistake. he said nothing about it.
During his first stay in Jackson he
was fairly lionized by the best young
people there. and had successfully
played his graft for four or five weeks
before any of the boys had dropped
on to his game. After they began to
discuss the matter several of the bar
tenders admitted that they had OBJ
served his methods. but as he was a
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
More Than a Chair.

When Prof. Eliot. of Harvard, was
touring on the Pacific coast, he visited
the University of Washington, at Seat
tie. Prof. o. B. Johnson was at that
time one of the leading lights Of the col
qege. and President Eliot became much
interested in him. During the course OF
: conversation the eastern president
asked the western man what chair he
held. We'll" said Prof Johnson. y am
professor of biology, but I also give
instructions in meteorology, botany.
PHYSIOLOGY, chemistry, entomology and
a few others Il should say that you
occupied a whole settee, not chair,
replied Hargard's chief.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
It Was All Over.

"No more will l hear his footsteps
on yonder walk as the clock strikes
the hour of eight"
Gracious, Jeanette!"
"And the old parlor light will never
burn low for him again"
'You don't mean it?''
81 do, and furthermore, he will never
sit on this sofa three nights a week
and call me pet names as he has been
doing for the past two years"
ST am astonished."
"And tonight / am going to burn all
the old love letters in my trunk
"B-but why are you going to dis
card him?"
Discard him. Why, you goose, l
am going to marry him!'-Columbus
Dispatch.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
Al Big Eater.

She was a new COW, and bless your
heart. how she could eat, and every
thing seemed to taste SO good to her!
Could YOU ask for a better sign, pro-
vided. she didn't put her food into
fat2 Ever see a teal good COW that
wasn't a good feeder? We want more
of the big eaters Rural New Yorker.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
Eorei

Here is a little golf story from the
time of King James l. Prince Henry
was about to drive off from the tee
and asked his tutor to stand out of the
way. The tutor did not hear, and an
attendant called out: Beware that
you hit not Master Newton" Prince
Henry drew back his hand, but OBJ
served regretfully: HAD l done so
had but paid my debts
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
Seemed to Know.

What" asked the tall-browed pro-
fessor, 'are the principal by-products
of the steel Industry"
Carnegie libraries, promptly an
wered the student from an interior
village Chicago Daily News.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
The Chugs.

"Josia,'' asked Mrs Chugwater, chow
do they work these voting machines? ?"
''They use one of the cranks that
are always hanging around the polling
place." explained Mr.. Chugwater. with
some irritation-Chicago Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-01-04
Fig a

which the surface slopes Cor may be
made to slope) in all directions, so as
to prevent danger of moisture from
want of drainage. A stone or brick
wall is built around this and laid in
hydraulic cement. The floor is ce-
mented. A frame or other building
is built upon this basement to contain
the ice. Twelve feet square will be