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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

endeavors to change, as much as possible,
her ordinary appearance. 1t is the Office
OF Colin" to name the shadows as they
! pass, her mistakes, of course, being re-
ceived with shouts of laughter. For each
correct guess "Colin" may exact for
felt.
Another parlor game of Colin NaiILard
is played as follows:
The company form circle with GO
lin" IN the midst, her eyes having been
| carefully bandaged. "Coiin" walks around
the circle and sits down on the knee of
one OF her companions. If Colin"
guesses correctly on whose lap she is seat
ed, the detected person must pay forfeit
and take " Colin's'' place. The principal
amusement IN this play arises from the
stratagems by which the PLAYERS deceive
Colin" in respect to their identity.
The old English games of Blind Mans
Buff, associated with the halls of the
Barons, the mistletoe and the yule log are
well known.
England was merry England whsn
Old Christmas brought his sports again.
A Christmas gambol oft would cheer
poor mans heart through half the year,
Blind Mans Buff in England is game
of the Christmas HOLIDAYS, which last
from Christmas eve to Twelfth Night.
Some of the varieties of the English game
are quite amusing; among them the Blind
Mans Wand.
In this play the blind man carries
cane, which he points in every direction.
The person whom he happens to touch
must do three things at the command of
the blind man, and fron his manner of
doing these things the blind man tries
TO guess who the person is. If he guess
rlghtIy he may exact forfeit, or require
the detected person to take his place.
Another game of Blind Mans Buff is
played by arranging the PLAYERS around
the sides of the room, few feet apart.
Eacn player IN turn must speak the name
OF the blind man, who must start from the
center OF the room, and, guided by the
sound, endeavor to 90 directly to the per-
son whose voice he has heard. The
speaker must not change his position, and
II caught must pay a forfeit.
A really good game is almost certain to
outlive the national customs of the age
in which it had its origin. The rude
gladiatOrial contests are things of the far
past; but the children of to-day play
Tag" and Hide and Seek' as in the
best days of Greece and Rome.
The old Highlander's game of "Golf''
is known in our cities under the name of
Shining; and Blind Mans Buff is as pop
ular to-day as when Colin Maillard's
deeds were celebrated in the fair prov
inces of France and "merrie Normandy"
or in the gay succession of festive hOli-
days in the old halls of the English bar
ons.-St. Nicholas for Nag.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
Good and Bad Apples.

One day Roberts father saw him play
ing with some boys who were rude and
unmannerly. He had observed for some
time change for the worse in his son
and now he knew the cause. He was
very sorry, but he said nothing to Robert
at the time. In the evening he brought
from the garden six beautiful, rosy
checked apples, put them on plate and
presented them to Robert. He was much
pleased at his fathers kindness and
thanked him. "You must lay them
aside for few days that they may be-
come mellow" said the father. And
Robert cheerfully placed the plate with
the apples in his mothers store-roOm.
Just as he was putting them aside his
father laid on the plate a seventh apple,
which was quite rotten, and desired him
to allow it to remain there.
But, father" said Robert, " the rotten
apple will spoil all the others"
Do you think so? Why should not
the fresh apples rather make the rotten
one fresh? p said his father And with
these words he shut the door of the
room.
Eight days afterward he asked his son
to open the door and take out the apples.
But what sight presented itself! The
six apples which had been so round and
rosy checked were now quite rotten and
spread bad smell through the room.
"Oh, papa" cried Rob, "did not tell
you that the rotten apple would spoil the
good ones? Yet you did not listen TO
me-"
"My boy" said his father, "have l not
told you often that the company of bad
children will make you bad9 Yetyou do
not listen to me. See in the condition of
the apples that which will happen to you
if you keep company with wicked boys"
Robert did not forget the lesson. When
any of his former playfellOws asked him
to Join in their sports he thought of the
rotten apples and kept himself apartfrom
them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
An AerOnautic Experiment.

Two French aerOnauts have recently
made an interesting experiment in aerial
navigation. The balloon "EtCile Pol
aire" was sent up to ascertain if the res
piration of highly OXygeniZed air would
mitigate the suffOcating effects of high
levels, and thus enable the aeronaut to
venture beyond attitudes already reached.
This experiment was suggested by the
French physicist De FOnvielle, and was
made by the balloOnists Sivel and CrOce-
Spinelli, in an airship constructed for
the purpose. The lastnamed aerOnaut,
when he had reached height of sixteen
thousand four hundred feet, was nearly
suffocated; but upon using the oxygen
ized-air respiratOr he soon recovered.
The temperatures encountered, even at
this comparatively moderate level, were
very low At twentyfour thousand six
hundred feet elevation the spectrOscOpic
observations showed none Of the lines
which indicate the presence of aqueous
vapOr, and the solar rays were nearly
invisible. When not using the respiratOr
the skies appeared to the observers quite
dark, but when freely respiring the OK
ygeniZed air the blue color Of the heav-
ems was restored
In ascending the summit of one Of the
Anu6dn peaks f1uLnDOlut Was ONeICoIuc
by the aerial tenuity little over 10000
feet; but in the Thibetan Himalayas the
German brothers Schlagintweit slept all
night 1920 feet above the sea, and
afterward scaled the peak Of the hi Gam
in, 1000 feet higher. The effect of height
is felt on most men at 10000 feet or less,
but varies with their physical condition
and with the circumstances Of altitude to
which they have been accustomed. In
the recent experiment, while the pulse at
the ground was beating eighty-siX min
ute, at sixteen thousand feet the number
of beats rose to one hundred and forty;
but on bringing the oXygenized-air res
pirator into requisitiOn the number fell to
one hundred and twenty. This fact would
show that those who will venture their
lives on the problematical and perilous
air voyage would do well to supply their
balloons with an apparatus for genera
ting pure oxygen, to be respired if neces-
sary. III. de Fonvielle's experiment has
demonstrated nothing further Mr..
Glashier, the English balloonist, it is
claimed, went ten thousand feet higher
than the recent voyagers, and did not
need oxygeniZed air or experience any
very serious suffocatiOn till nearing
thirty-twO thousand feet above the sea-
The results of late ballOoning afford,
therefore, little or no encouragement 20
its votaries, and the perils so far nave
heavily overcome any benefits present OF
prospective which science can reap lfOn
these Icarian ventures.-N. Y. Her0Ed-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

promise of a brilliant career. But the
faint of insanity was in his blood, and
took the direction that has been indicated
His madness was his own destruction.
As for me, although it is not within the
bounus of probability that I will ever
again meet with even remotely similar
adventure, l have ever since made it a
point to scrutinize critically the faces of
travellers who tend to sociability or com
municativeness. Do you wonder at it?-
n. 7. Graphic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

DANIEL PRATT now comes to the sur
face to say that no man can strike haru,
er blow by splitting on his hands nrst, anu
that if is a useless custom which he would
like to see abolished.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

"A lady in the country was unwise
enough to fit out her boy of five with fish
ing tackle. Soon she heard shout from
the baTn-yard, and found one of her very
uest hens had swallowed the hook and
vas fast winding up the line in her crop.
OF course she was greatly troubled, but
Ill the comfort she got from the young
mother, | guess she'll stop when she gets
to the pole"
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30
THE ENGLISH POSTAL SYSTEM.

From the London Times, Of December 2,
politely sent to our Office, we read state
ment which may cause surprise, but which'
nevertheless is, in its simple truth, con-
demnation Of the manag ement Of postal
affairs in this country. After stating that the
estimated receipts and expenditures, notwith-
standing a repeal Of many duties falls short
but goo Of the last years budget, the
Times says: 1.-THE Post Office receipt is, in
deed, almost overwhelming in its afiuence. -
The collected revenues from this source up to
Nov. %, 1873, was e2,G1O,OOO, and for an
equivalent period up to last Saturday, it was
Go, $4,000.
The management Of the postal affairs in
Great Britain is source of revenue, while in
the United States it is source Of great def
cheney. It might be well to look into the
management Of the Post Office Of our cousin
over the ocean.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30
THE CENTENNIAL FARCE.

The Louisiana State Board of Managers OF
the Centennial Exhibition of 1876 met yes
terdav for the first time, and elected H. Bon
zano, President and Louis Kersten, Secretary,
The office of the board is ut No. 2 Clinton
street, near the Custom-House. This board
is appointed by Kellogg and is, therefore, no
more representative of Louisiana than Kellogg
himself. The conduct of the board may be
watched with some curiosity, but it is quite
certain that Louisianians will take no part in
the matter.
There could be no more mournful farce
than this Centennial must inevitably prove,
and if single Louisianian attend it he
should 60 in deep mourning, and not as the
representative of State in the Union, but of
military satrapy, the very existence of
which is evidence incontestible that the form
of government established when the fathers
adopted the Declaration of Independence is
o sad and lamentable failure.
It is impossible that this Government can
continue to exist in its present condition
with one-half the States free and sovereign,
and with the other half mere dependencies,
governed, not by the people, but by the anto-
crat at Washington.
The idea of Louisiana being represented at
the Centennial is SO grotesque and absurd
that we marvel much Mr.. Bonzano could be
prevailed upon to go where he will not only
cut sorry figure himself, but render his
State ridiculous.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30
A JOLLY TINE.

The boys of Pelican Hook and Ladder Co.
No. were out last night on raid for fun,
and money can be safely bet that when the
Pelican crowd sails for fun that fun is had.
In the fore part of the evening regular
meeting Of the company was held, at which
the following named officers were elected to
serve for the ensuing year: President, Hon.
Leon Bertoi; Vice President, F. Gueringer
Foreman. o. G. Sullivan; First Assistant, P.
H. Ford; Second Assistant, A. L. beaumont;
Secretary, Geo. H. Dunbar; Treasurer, s. +.
Labranche; Warden, J. P. Machecs.
Just previous to the adjournment pro-
ceeding not down on the general order OF
business took place, being the presentation to
the company of handsome gray horse.
It was determined that the nag should be
christened in style, and right away. Ar
rangements were Immediately made and the
ceremony performed, the name bestowed
being that of the donor, P. n. Benachi, and
then, as above set forth, the boys sailed out.
There was grand parade around town,
and a good time generally was had A num-
Der of the friends of the company were called
upon, and among them the BULLETIN. Ap-
probation of the serenade and the enthu-
siastic cheers is expressed.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30
PUBLIC OPINION.

Public opinion is power in this age. 1t is
the most potent engine to carry conviction TO
all politicians Of the tendency OF events which
must influence them in their course OF action.
The telegraph, railroad, steam, and the press
concentrate at all points the conclusion OF
public opinion on all topics Of daily interest
It is generally correct, never wholly wrong,
and as thought is now so rapidly transmitted
from all quarters to every place, it becomes
concentrated in each and every locality, and
this thought, this sentiment and this state
ment flowing from SO many independent
minds, and always in the same channel, be-
comes what is called public opinion.
Whenever we read that the great body of the
people act in unison upon any given topic,
we at once become convinced that the con-
clusion arrived at is correct. Here, for in
stance, is New Orleans, and the daily occur
rences are made known by the local press, and
by the correspondence of the independent
and political papers published at all the great
centers of the Union. We give our version,
from the best sources Of information, Of what
happens here. Others, unconnected with us,
jot down their impressions, and the telegraph
and steam convey them to other points.
When we compare in other papers the
version given to any event here with our
own, and when we see and read that our own
version nearly corresponds with other state
ments, published in every other important
place, then we become satisfied that many
others, wholly impartial, see the event in the
same light as we do. Public opinion is then
fixed-is certain-it becomes a fact, and then
the adage that vor popul; is cor Del, shines
out in all its truth and in all its power.
Our repeated statements, founded upon
original documents and returns that the Re-
turning Board in defrauding our people out
of their rights, concurred in by SO many in
dependent minds as evinced by many in
dependent presses, must be absolutely correct
n general, in particulars and in details. It
is impossible for us, through our daily issues,
to have deceived the great body of the people,
to have imposed our convictions, if untrue,
as actual convictions of other minds and Of
other presses.
We could not form wrong public opinion.
Our opinion, sustained as it is everywhere,
forms public opinion, which, as we said, is
generally correct, and never wholly in the
wrong With these comments we ask the
readers Of our humble sheet to read and pom.
der we'll over the numerous extracts taken
from the press of the country.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30
CARNIVAL NOTES.

The following letter has been placed at ou1
disposal by the Lord High Chamberlain OF
his Majesty the King Of the Carnival, from
which will it be perceived that the loyal sub
jects who visit Mobile will be received in a
princely manner:
To the Honorable Lord Bathurst, Chamber lain
to his Most Blessed Majesty Rex:
Warned by "rumours many" of the advent
of your sovereign masters hosts on the eve of
the coming year, "Ye Ancient Cow" well
comes the expected guests with tender Of hos
FATALITIES in honor and fealty.
Devils Own Son, Scribe.
Done at the "Den,"
Mobile, Dec. 20, 1874,
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

FULTON MARKET BEEF AND M1NcE MEAT
Messrs G. H. Lawrence & Co., 80 and Al
Tchoupitoulas street, have in store large
supply of Chamberlain, Roe 4 Co.'S Fulton
Market beef, and fifty crates of pound tins
Of mince meat, for sale at the lowest market
price. The trade would do we'll to note this.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

wv. Wilder, leader of the Gad's Hill and
Malvern coach robbers, was captured day
or two since in the Indian Nation, and is now
in jail at Fort Smith. He acknowledged bar
barous cruelties practiced upon Walter Gray
son, of the Creek Nation, and his wife, after
which he says he robbed them OF 49,, 600.
He says Reid, another stage robber. who was
was with him in the Gads Hill and Hot
Spring robberies.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

A Liverpool firm of shipowners have dis
patched steamer from Glasgow for Rio JAN
GIRO. to load with coffee for Baltimore, and at
the latter port seek cargo for Liverpool
The Baltimore Sun says the owners think the
coffee trade Of Baltimore would support q
line OF steamers with Rio, and if the expert
ment proves remunerative other steamers
will follow the Ithuriel.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

We return thanks to the young ladies Of
the Institut St. Louis, for an invitation to
attend their literary exercises to take place
this evening. We will certainly be there
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30
The New York correspondent OF the Phila-

The New York correspondent OF the Phila-
delphia Ledger, of the 25th inst, says:
Members OF the Cotton Exchange are said
to have received dispatches from New Or
leans to-day, Of a character to renew the ap
prehensions that were awhile ago expressed,
as to the renewal of serious trouble there,
growing out of the recent election issues.
The precise contents of these dispatches are
not divulged, but they are said to point to
disturbances on New Years Day. 1t is worth
mentioning these reports as matter OF news,
because on a former occasion, it will be re-
membered, they were but too fully verified.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

Ear from the Madding Crowd" Thomas
Hardy's new novel, has been highly spoken
of by English critics. The London Spectator,
in reviewing the opening chapters, which
appeared anonymously, said: If it is not
written by George Eliot, then there is a new
light among novelists. 1t is a high intellec-
tual treat" For sale only at Eyrich's, $50
Canal street.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

What has become Of the Boothby investiga-
ton? Will our School Board let the public
know how the affair now stands? Considera-
bic time has already passed, and as yet moth
ing satisfactory has been given to those most
deeply interested. The young ladies' Of our
city are entitled to and must receive the pro-
lection they deserve
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

The fact that our small nickel and copper
coinage is very scarce in California, was re-
Gently explained by a statement that large
quantities of three and five cent pieces are
annually melted down for the purpose of
manufacturing trunk nails.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

The Vice President presided over the Senate
till the passage Of the finance bill, which is to
save the country and the Republican party,
and then he "gin out all at onct." The bold,
bad Carpenter is again in that position. which
is separated from the Presidency by only two
frail intervening lives.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

The circulation OF Gladstones pamphlet on
the TMc,n DEGREES has already reached one
hundred thousand. 1t is for sale in this city
by Il. G. Eyrich $50 Canal street. Price soc.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

James Gordon Bennett paid forfeit $500 in
his $1,000 pigeon match against NJ. Carroll
Livingston. Bennett mas sailed for Europe.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

Among other pranks played at the New
York Brokers Board on Christmas eve was
the surrep.itious introduction Of colored
gentleman on the platform in variegated cos
tune, as their distinguished visitor, the King
Of the Sandwich Islands. The fraud was not
discovered by majority Of the members un-
til his mock highness essayed to make a
speech and to remove his false imperial, when
il was discovered that he was only the janitor
Of the lower floor
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

Seventy years ago the heaviest naval gun
was 32-pounder, weighing two tons and a
half, and ten pounds Of powder was a charge.
A gun now in process Of construction at
Woolwich, England, twenty six feet and nine
inches in length, will weigh 81 tons. throw a
prcjectile of COO pounds weight, and require
2lO pounds of powder to load it.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30
We clip the following from the New Orleans

We clip the following from the New Orleans
Republican of yesterday morning:
Ex-Gov. WAEMoTH IN Prison. Sun.
day fully 500 gentlemen visited the Parish
Prison to call on ex-Gov. Warmoth. Among
the visitors were many prominent residents,
such as McEnery, Penn, Wilt, Austin. Ogles-
BY, Badger, Kennard and others. Without a
dissenting voice these callers expressed be-
lief that, under the circumstances attending
the tragedy, the Governor could not have
acted otherwise than he did: still all deeply
regretted the loss of Mr.. Byerly. The Gov
ernor WIS not well yesterday, having fever
and suffering from pains in his back and
shoulders. the result Of his fall on Canal
street. He is impatient under prison life,
although his mind is constantly kept busy in
attending to visitors. He has secured the
services of Messrs w. ". Howe and Judge
A. Walker in case he shall be compelled to
stand trial. His trouble has already made a
marked change in his face.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

The polite and attentive purser OF the
steamship Frankfurt has our thanks for late
London papers.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

Gov. Dix has refused to pardon Stokes.
The application for pardon was made on the
ground that reckoning the term of imprison-
went before conviction his term Of sentence
would expire on the 9Th of January, 1875.
His term actually expires in October, 1877
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

Lord Lytton, son of the author OF my
Novel," and himself known to literature
under the nom de plume Of Owen Meredith,
has been appointed British Minister to Por-
tugal, an ornamental position worth $4,000
n year.
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

A deputation from France recently waited
on Queen Victoria and presented her with
four volumes of addresses from towns in
France and various comnlunes, expressive of
gratitude to the English people for services
rendered to the sick and wounded during the
war of lS7O-71,
The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-30

Academy of Music to-day-toy gift matinee
10, 900 toys given away.