Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-12-29

work on Shakespeare, IdLcly puDuSleQ IN Gar-
is, contains some strange, Incredible passages,
of which the following is a sample:
"There are men, oceans in reality
"These waves, this ebb and flow, this ter
rible 60 and come, this noise Of every gust,
these lights and shadows, these negotiations
belonging to the gulf, this democracy of
clouds in full hurricane, these eagles in the
foam, these wonderful gatherings of stars re-
fecting in one knows not what mysterious
cloud by millions of luminous specks, heads
confused with the innumerabIe, those grand
errant lightnings which seem to watch, these
huge sobs, these monsters glimpsed at, this
roaring, disturbing, these nights Of darkness,
these furies, these frenzies, these tempests,
these rocks, these shipwrecks, these fleets
crushing each other, these human thunders
mixed with Divine thunders, this blood in the
abyss; then these graces, these sWeetnesses,
these teteS, these gay white wells, these fish
ing boats, these songs in the uprOar, these
splendid ports, this smoke of the earth, these
towns in the horizon, this deep blue Of water
and sky, this useful sharpness, this bitter
ness which renders the universe wholesome,
this rough salt without which all would putri-
fly; these augurS and asSuaglngs, this whole
in one, this unexpected in the immutable,
this vast marvel of mOnotOny ineXhaustibly
varied this level after that earthquake, these
bells and these paradlses OF immensely enter
nally agitated, this infinite, this unfathomable,
all this can exist in one spirit, and then this
spirit is called genius; and you have Eschy-
lus, you have Isaiah, you have Juvenal, YOU
have Dante, Michael Angelo, you have
Shakespeare, and looking at these minds is
the same thing as to look at the ocean,"
Why HONEST MEN CHEAT IN HORSE TRADES.
1t has always been a mystery how it happens
that the most honorable men, whose integri-
ty III other matters is beyond reproach, can
not resist taking in even their dearest friend
IN the matter of hOrsehesh. 1t cannot be
that they feel it less culpablc to deal fraudu-
lently Ill this article than they would III the
matter OF house or an estate, or a piece OF
merchandise; there must be therefore, some
difference III kind between the different arti-
cles under negotiation, which goes in the for
mer case to their conscience, and we think
that difference lies in the fact of horses
similarity to man in his humor, tricks, and
vices. The nearest approach to the laxity of
morals with respect to giving a character to
a horse, is that which obtains in giving a
character to servant. If a man parts with
his groom because he has been saucy, or idle
or ill-tempered or obstinate, he by no means
as matter of course, SAYS as much wheI
asked to give his candid opinion respecting
him, by his new master on the contrary, h
charitably takes a part of the blame upOl
himself he will say, "Well, perhaps wa
little hasty myself" or 81 spoke too sharl
to him, knowing his hot temper; POSSIBLE
his next master will be more considerate, ant
they will work well together"
We are convinced that when man get
rid of his horse for some supposed fault, til,
reason of his keeping back his motive for do
ing so arises in many cases from the same
cause /" He bolted with me, it is true, but
was always a careless rider, or he reared ant
nearly did for me, but the bit was too sharp
We make allowances for the horse as we d
for the man, and believe that in new hand
he will do well enough. This is &ifleren
thing from committing a deliberate frau,
which must inevitably entail loss upon th
next possessor-from passing bad money, 70
instance, or from issuing a forged check, o
even from passing off wooden nutmegs O
wooden hams for real and genuine articles
In these latter cases there can be no doub
of fraud; but when we consider how Iargel
the equine race shares with US our good AM
bad qualities-how very similar, in fact, the
are sometimes in their whims and caprices-
there may be permitted very wide margin
as to who shall be debited with the real fault
the horse or his master; and as in this cas-
the master has some interest in doing so, h
literally debts himself with the fault. an,
very often rightly.-LondOn Once Week
Rosa BoNHEUR AND HER PIcrUREs.-Man,
OF you have probably seen an engraving o
the picture called 1.-THE Horse Fair" painte,
nv Erapch ladV PnSo
ry is interesting, as showing what industr,
and plucky determination will do. Her faith
er was poor drawing-master in Paris, an,
apprenticed Rosa, at the age of twelve, t.
learn dress-making; but her health failed
and she LETT business she did not like. Sht
soon commenced to take models of animal
and copy her fathers paintings, hoping som
day to be able to support herself She worket
hard day by dav until her father noticed he,
wonderful progress and gave her course O
instruction. He then sent her to the Louvre
the finest picture gallery lii Paris, to COP,
from the best paintings. Here she used tC
work from morning until night. Soon heI
pictures began to sell for small sum, which
increased her diligence. She was then but
sixteen years old, Having resolved to de-
vote herself to painting animals, and being
too poor to buy models, she Us d to take =
bit OF bread in her pocket, walk cut into the
country, and copy from nature. She would
ais visit the cattle-pens in the city, where ami
mails were kept previous to being slaughtered.
TINS was not pleasant place for Young
lady, but she was too much in earnest to he
stopped by triheS Her reward soon came
When nineteen years old she received sever
al prizes Tor her pictures exhibited in Paris.
and at last took the gold medal for the best
painting. At thirty-two she finished tbo
Horse FAN" which brought her IS 900, and
from that time her fortune was made. She
is now very wealthy, and the best animal
painter in Europe. Remember the secret oF
her success-.She loued her cork and stuck 10 II
WANTED THE OLD KINDA milk-pedler.
finding that his business was not Just what it
should be, resolved to tack about and sell
milk, instead of milk and water, as he had
formerly done, and thus test the soundness of
the old maxim about honesty. a day or two
after he had effected the aforesaid change, he
was told by one of his customers, a matronly
old lady, that he need bring no more milk to
her. In great surprise he asked her the
reason why.
Because" said she, "the article you sold
me yesterday was the queerest stuff | ever
saw. 1t had not stood there two hours when
it had a nasty yellow scum on it. l must
have the real sky-blue article that I have
always been accustomed to have"