The Grange advance., 1874-09-23
WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT.
Miscellany and News.

-Eauman d Morse are building a
Touring mill at Manitowoc, to cot $l5,.
600.
--Montcllo is to have a Steamboat Of
}icr own. W. B. Dodge has purchased
small stern wheel for the river.
MIR. Joseph Vilcs, for thirty years
resident Of the State, died at Elkhorn
recently. lie Was native OF Maine.
--Ozankcc has four Democratic: can.
didatcS for the State Senate.
There will be Teachers Institute
at West Bend, commencing on Oct.
18th, to be 20 onducted by Prof. Parker,
Of GAINESVILLE.
William Abbey, a confiding young
man Of Richland showed his friends the
other day what he could do with
tame rattlcSnakc. The amputation
will probably be below the elbow.
Not much numbering to be done
IN the Wisconsin pincrics this winter;
pine lands are more valuable than logs
at present.
There has been considerable rain
during TIE past week, and pastures arc
improving in condition. Last night,
Sept. 10th, we had a heavy shower
from the northeast: this morning it is
cold enough for ovcrcoats.
Il Buffalo man has seen mon-
.strous snake, 18 feet long, and as large
around as a mans body. That man
must have been drinking snake root
tea diluted with strong whisky.
--Darien, Wis: is running FIRST
class cheese factory, with Il capacity Of
1900 pounds of milk per day, fifteen
presses, with all Of the modern appli-
anccs for manipulating and handling.
including steam heating apparatus.
From the appearance mornings, VIC
should judge business lively there.
The wagons of the Whitewater
factory have been carried into every
State. Territory and Province in North
America, and now they are receiving
orders from Brazil.
There may be scnsibility: without
much taste, but hardly much taste
without sensibility. Taste is, in great
measure, acquired, cultivated, an art
.scnsibility, native endowment. It
may be developed, strengthened, cdu-
Gated, but not acquired. Genius pro-
duces, sensibility admires, taste judges
or decides. Their;action is reciprocal.
lftaste corrccts and restraints the too
ready or too extravagant scnsibility,
the latter, on the other hand, furnishes
the ground and data upon which, after
all, tasts must rely in its DECISIONS
Huren.
There has many a soul gone down
under the arrowy sting Of SANDER that
stood as true to the relations Of all that
is good and ennobling in the attributes of
human nature, as the tribunal that
sealed its doom. There has many a
heart burned out the lamp of vitality
meath the caustic flames Of suspicious
Grundy; and many an individual life
has been warped and distorted, in con.
sequence of taking in for ballast the
unstable element of public opinion;
many home robbed of it's vernal beau
ties by the poisonous breath of calum.
ny, urged on by the winged min.
ions OF society gossip, until not
an inch square Of reputation
is left that is not besmeared with the
secretions of its filthy ulcers.
A lady writing from Saratoga de-
clares that, although there are 10000
visitors at that popular resort, not a
handsome lady is to be seen. Hand
some ladies, she should understand,
are not under the necessity Of visiting
watering. places in order to secure de-
sirabIe proposals.
The present war with the railroad
monopolists has made Of Wisconsin the
battle field where is to be decided the
potency Of power between corporations
and the people. We hope our State
viii b. able to sustain it's position, and
that the inroads made upon the rights
of its citizens may be rebuked through
the enforcement of the Peter law. 1t
is net only our own immediate interests
that are involved, but we have in con.
junction with ours those of our sister
States, as we'll as those Of posterity.
Entrenched as we are behind the bul.
worL of corct;fuA;onol o.o,,:,:.- go.