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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-15
-Hamilton's preparation of Buchu

Hamilton 5 preparation OF Duchu
and Dandelion cures that most distress
ing malady Piles, by increasing the
digestive function of the stomach, and
by securing proper secretion and ex-
erection of bile for the fabrication of the
bowels Thispreeents constipation, and
constipation is the immediate cause OF
Piles-common sense in this treatment
Go to your druggist, and tell him you
want Hamilton's Buchu and Dande,
lion. H. B. Philleo & Go. and Fl. 7
Painter and Co. 5 can tell you all about
the remedy, and sell it to you also.
Installation. At regular meet
inc of Grand Rapids Lodge, No. 81,
I. O. O. F. held at their hall over the
P. O. January 9th, the following off
GERS were installed by J. Stumpf, D.
D. G. NJ. A. Braisted, n. G. F. w.
Burt, V. G. A. Hersleb, r, S. L. Ste
vens P. s. J. Miller. Treas. II. Pigg,
C. George Howes, W. J. Russell. O.
G. NJ. 4. Kinney, J. G. Oscar Tay-
lor r. s. of \. G. John Coats, L. S.
of Y. G. J. w. Cook, r s. of Y. G..
P. G Thomas, L. S. Of Y. G.
The Lodge is now in a healthy and
consequently fourishing condition.
It's membership is now SO, with some
6 or s ell cted, and more coming in
each week. Odd Fellowship now
seems to be a permanent institution in
Grand Rapids and we are glad, for its
ILLUSTRATIONS are all good.
AnImpOrtamt Parsonage Quick
Time on the 6. d. &; IL. Il. r.
On Tuesday the 9th inst DR. Hayes
the Arctic Explorer passed through
our city on the Green Bay and Mime
sofa Railway en- route for Neenah
where he had lecture appointment
for that evening. In order to reach
Neenah the DR.. was obliged to reach
Green Bay in season to connect with
the 6:40 train on G. & n. ". Road
Consultations were had with the officers
of the Central road, as we understand
by kilograms, but as that company was
not prepared to furnish transportation
from Amherst, it deVolyed upon the 6
b. road to put the DR.. through, which
they proceeded to do. The whole dis
lance, SO miles was made in two hours
and 20 minutes The run from Grand
Rapids to New London, 81 miles, was
made in one hour and hoea'y fee min
utes. Engineer Pool holding the throt-
tie of Engine No. 4. From New Lon
don, Engineer Fitzgerald guided the
iron horse making the distance of 80
miles in one hour and one minute
From New London in. the DR.. occu-
pied a caboose ear and we hear it stat
ed that owing to the absence Of springs
and the great speed. the Dr.. faxed
about fearfulIy, but he had been in
Arctic ice, 50 felt equal to the emer-
geney. 1t cost the explorer $40 to
make the trip, this sum having been
agreed upon with Supt. Kenrick who
issued the orders to put the DR.. through.
Considering the fact that the road is
new, the time is hard to beat, and Pool
and Fitzgerald We're the men to entrust
with the great responsibility. The DR..
reached Neenah in season. and lectured
as advertised
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-15

Head LIGHT Oil.-We are now
selling Head Light oil, 1859 fire test
the best manufactured. warranted, at
40 cents a gallon. Headlight oil is
Kerosene Invested of nearly all its
Naphtha so that it is made non-explo-
sive. Head light oil gives purer and
brighter light than Kerosene, aud will
burn longer. Only 40 cents a gallon
at the Wood Co. Drug Store.
II b. PHILLEo & Co.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-15

Notice to Contributors Manu-
script to insure insertion on the first
page must be handed in on Thursday,
or Friday morning early. Other con-
tributions, business notices, advertise
ments, &C., &C., must be handed in
not later than Wednesday morning
following. By observing these regu-
lations, contributors will be better ac-
commodated, and we will be enabled to
issue early Thursday forenoon. If
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BUSINESS NOTICES.


Brass and Copper wanted al the ssrand Rapids
Foundry and Machine Shop.
.r JOHN p4pTrN
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closed therein was another In a delicate
envelope enclosing card-an invita-
ton which said
Mr.. and Mrs. ?. B. Allen
At Home,
Thursday evening, Jan'y Sth, 1874, at
I o'clock. Ceremony at I II o clock,
We looked at the postmark,--itr read
Clyde, n. Y,-eight hundred miles
away, and it already 212 o'clock ?.
NJ. We declare, we couldn't go.
The distance was against US, and 1t
didn t say what the ceremony was to
be, though we mistrusted. We look
further We found very neat card
it read, j. H. Lyon, and a little
one, we mean little card, and 1t read,
Emma B. Allen, Now was our under
standing enlarged. There was to be
a connube The ace Of hearts had cap
tured the best card in the pack. and
o! how whist the king had been about
it. Two hearts now beat as one.
Coz. James we congratulate you,
may your future life be one of unalloy-
ed happiness, and brimful of prospect
ty. May your cup run over, and may
the evening of your life be all aglow
with the reflected splendor of that
mornings dawn whose day shall have
no ending.
And for you, Coz. Emma. may life
be one perpetual summer, with only
feecy clouds whose silver lining may
be observable always. May only roses
bloom along the pathway of lite's pll
grimage and when the portals OF that
other life shall swing back upon then
golden hinges, mayst thou with hin
into whose keeping thou hast glVef
thy heart pass through, and into tina
realm where a Fathers love shall be
stow upon you infinite blessings. Ant
TO thee, twain, we will only say as do
the Prophet of old, 1.-The Lion an(
the Lamb shall lie down together, ant
a little child skall lead them. "
-Arpin is putting fine cornlce up
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Ii. II. Compton,.

RanaWay.-The team belonging to
Mr. George Weller oil Centralia rama
way last Saturday night, starting from
the Cong. Church just as they were
wonted to convey Charley and his sis
home. They took northernly course,
making the fire fly along their route,
leaving the sleigh in delipidated cop-
dition near the Parsonage, Charley
was thrown out near Rablin's board
ing house, fortunately escaping injury.
At late hour in the evening only one
of the horses could be found. The
harness was badly on-buckled.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-15

Quarterly Meeting. The first
quarterly meeting of the methodist
churchsin Grand Rapids, for the pres
ent conference year will be held in the
NJ. E. Church next Saturday and Sun
day.
Services will be as follows Preach
ing Saturday afternoon at 2 IL o clock
also on Sabbath morning at the usual
hour by the Pastor. Love feast at
2 ID P. NJ. Preaching in the evening
by the Presiding Elder Rev. A. J.
Mead of Waupaca. Preaching also
by the Elder Monday evening after
which the Quarterly Conference will
convene.
JESSE Cole.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-15

-Arpin is putting fine cornice up
on bsa new building.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-15

Hymenial. The other day we re-
ceived lctter,-we opened it and en-
closed therein was another in a delicate
envelope enclosing a card-an invita-
ton which said
Mr.. and Mrs. p. 3. Allen
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-04-10
Butler and His Personal Danger.

On the 18th of next November he will
be fifty-six years old. He has never been
sick. His constitution has been like
iron. He has worked for ten years as
few men ever work, even in this busiest
of lands. His favorite saying has been
that when he retired at night, unless he
was asleep in FIVE minutes, he thought
something was the matter. He has en-
joyed absolute, uninterrupted health,
and has reveled in it. But there must be
an end to all things, and especially to
overworked men. Butler has grown
obese, and inferentially, appoplectie.-
His political fights begin to tell on him.
The contests at Worcester have helped
to pull him down. The Simmons fight
set his nerves into a frenzy. His head
was clear, but his blood was hot, and his
face livid at times. He had wound him
self up to fearful pitch of excitement
When the victory was won, and the re-
lapse came, the blood left his face, he be-
came quiet, and seemed to have weaken.
ed perceptibly. His friends on the fool
said he looked fifteen years older. Bu
with his immense interests on his hands
there is no release from the treadmill-
no long hours of relaxation. His affairs
are as inexorable as those of an emperor
Some day his life will go out like thu
light of a hastily -snuffed candle Wash
ington cor. Boston Herald.
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AN EXEMPLARY Young MAN.-The
machinery in the press-room Of the New
York Times is in charge of son of Mr..
George Jones, the principal owner of the
paper. A correspondent relates that this
young man, after thorough education,
chose, at the age of seventeen, to COM
mence with the humblest mechanic the
ladder OF work, though he had wealthy
father, able and willing for him to go
soft-gloyed in whatever path of life de-
sired. At seventeen years of age he put
on blouse, and, dinner-pail in hand,
joined the roughest mechanic in the
Morgan Iron works. In three years and
half, by-manuel labor, and with greasy
hands and grimy face, he worked his
way from piler and filer, through metal
casting, machine-bolting and fitting, by
riveting and joining in the close, nasty
folds of monitors and iron-clads, step by
step, to running engines, constructing
machinery, and finally modelling and de-
signing work for others. He went TO the
Times establishment, labored and prac-
ticed as assistant machinist, learned ey-
cry piece of engine, mold, folder and
press, proved himself of value, and there
he is to-day with a perfect set of ma
chInery under his control, and admins
tering his department with skill and
| svqteun
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Pullman Cars i'm England.

The ordinary saloon railway cars in
use in this country may not possess all
the advantages over the English COM
partment cars which are usually claimed
for them; but there is no question of the
vast superiority of the Pullman palace
and sleeping cars over any railway car
riages that have hitherto been known in
Europe. Recently the Pullman cars
have been introduced into England.
The representatives of the London press
were invited to make an excursion on a
train provided with the American cars,
and the result has been the printing of
columns of enthusiastic eulogy of the
comfort and luxury afforded by the
adoption of this American invention.
The wonder is, not that the English
men have finally discovered the advanta-
ges of palace and sleeping cars, but that
they have SO long clung to the same
model of railway carriage which was in
troduced at the very beginning Of rail-
way travel. There is no more reason
why railway travellers should be de-
prived of the opportunity to sleep and
wash and to enjoy the com fort of moving
about while on board car than there is
why steamboat travellers should be de-
prived of the same luxuries. The Pull
man cars, long delayed as has been their
introduction abroad, are destined to be
universally adopted on foreign railways;
and when the hotel car; with its we'll
supplied and well-served restaurant, is
brought to the knowledge of English
men, they will be compelled to admit,
that so far as railway travelling is con-
cerned, they were in the gall of bitter
ness and the bonds of iniquity before
American inventors took pity on them
and rescued them from the necessity Of
sitting balt-upright in night train, and
the danger of being locked up in a com
partment car with a raving lunatic or /;
designing female.
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Prairie Policemen.

The perils of the men whose profess
sion it is to hunt down and make captive
the denounced of the law are manifold
in any part of the world; but in the
lives Of the police Of our wild Western
prairies, as they may be called; the Sc
cret officers who undertake to track out,
bring to bay, and make prisoners the
outlaws of the savage border; there is a
wonderfully dramatic element of life-in-
hand fatality. Some weeks ago 4 band
of desperadoes boldly stopped and rihed
a passenger train at Gad's Hill in Kan
sas, and amongst the officers put upon
their trail of retreat was Chicago de-
tective, who imprudently went upon his
dangerous mission alone. Gaining some
clew of the outlaws in Kansas City, he
struck out from thence on the perilous
prairie trail, and was seen but once more
alive. \ vagrant wanderer on the banks
of the Missouri saw him fettered cap
tive in the custody Of three sinister
looking horsemen, and thus describes the
tragic scene; "All of the horses were
blanketed, three men had their faces
covered up to the eyes with wooden com
forters, and their hats were drawn down
as if for the purpose of concealing their
identify. Only one of the men spoke,
and he gave all the directions, and led
the bound prisoner upon the fat-boat,
and the party crossed over in strict si-
lence. The prisoner did not appear to
be at all restless, nor did he manifest any
anxiety about his life, which was soon to
be taken from him. 1t was just three
O'Clock in the morning when three men
rode away from the ferry-boat and dis
appeared in the dark gloom of the tim
Der. They rode slowly and silently away
in the direction of Independence. 1t is
not difficult to understand from the ma
ture of wounds on the murdered man
how he was killed. He was shot from
the side, one bullet passing through his
head and one through his neck; third
lodged IN his shoulder. Whether he was
ordered to prepare for his fate, and given
some notice of their intention to kill
him, or whether he was shot suddenly
while riding along, bound helplessly tc
his horse, is a question that only the
three mysterious men know themselves
They killed their victim in the road
about four miles east of Independence
cut the ropes from his legs, and left him
where they killed him, and where he
was found soon after daylight"
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black smoke. All around stood the
wood enters. serious, immovable, wait
ing their eyes fixed upon the opening;
and even although fear made me t1em-
bic from head to foot, could not detaeh
my regard from it.
cit might have been quarter of an
hour that We had waited, and the Doc
tor had begun to grow impatient, when
black object with long, crooked feet
appeared suddenly in the shadow ana
precipitated itself towards the opening.
A general cry came from the wood.
cutters. The fish, chased by the fame,
entered again into its cavern; then, with
out doubt sti6ed by the smoke, she re-
turned to the charge and threw herself
into the midstof the fire. Her long
claws eurled up. She was larger than
my head and of violet red. She look
ed like bladder filled with blood. One
of the wood-cutters, fearing she might
escape from the fire, threw his axe at
her, and aimed so well that her blood
for a moment quenched the fame, but,
soon breaking out again, consumed the
the horrible insect
Such is, Master trantz, the strange
event which destroyed the fine reputa-
tation which the waters Of Spinbronn
formerly possessed. 1 can certify to
you the scrupulous exactitude Of my
recital, but as for giving you an explain
alton of it, that would be impossible
Permit me to say, however, that it does
not seem to me absurd to admit that
some insects, subjected to the elevated
temperature of some thermal waters,
which procure for them the same condi-
tions of existence and development that
the buring climates of Africa and South
American do, may attain to Fabulous
proportions. 1t is this same extreme
heat which viii account to us for the un-
paralleled exuberance of the ante-dilu-
Wan creation.
However it may be, my tutor, judg-
ing that it would be impossible to resus-
citate the fame of the waters of Spin
bronn, sold his house to Haselnoss, and
returned to South America with his ne
gress and his collections I was placed
in school at Strasburg, where I remain
ed till 1909.
'The great political events of the per-
iod absorbing then the attention of Ger
many and of France, the occurrence
which have just related passed com
pletely unnoticed.r
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ParadOxes.


Water THROWN into a red-hot metallic
vessel does not boil, as we should ex-
pect, but quietly gathers itself together,
forming more or less perfect sphere,
and in that condition floats about grace
fully on the hot surface as it slowly
evaporates away. IF at the same time a
very vaporizable substance as liquid
sulphurous acid is thrown in, the water
may actually be nozen in the red-hot
vessel.
Water boiled in glass flask until the
upper part Of the vessel is entirely fill
ed with steam, and then dexterously
corked before air can gain admission and
placed in cold water, recommences to
boil. The boiling is produced by cold
instead Of heat, and the experiment is
known as the ordinary paradox.
If steam from water boiling at 212 de-
grees is passed into a solution Of salt in
water the temperature of the solution
steadily rises, passing 212 degrees, reach
q tiS oOiiiiS Poii' Va tue NoAHtipll, MI
ally the latter also boils at a temperature
as high and even higher than 250 de-
grees. according to its nature. There we
have the extraordinary result of obtain
ing higher temperature, say 220 de-
grees, from lower one, viz: 2l2 degrees.
If there is anything in nature that
possesses a positive character, is it light.
Yet the physicist may so reflect the
light from a given source as to cause il
to destroy itself and produce darkness.
In like manner two sounds may be made
to interfere with each other, and either
produce silence or increased intensity OF
sound, at the will of the operator
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-04-10
The Health OF Farmers.

Farmers have unequaled natural ad-
vantages for health, strength and lon
gevity. The statistics of diseases and
the tables of mortality, however, are
against them. This is due not to their
vocation, but to their misuses of it. No
class, as whole, is probably 50 utterly
reckless of health conditions. So far
as our acquaintance with the habits of
farmers is concerned it has. been
eXtensive-it compels the conclusion, as
a rule, that the dietic habits of farmers
are worse than those of any other Glass
who have the means of choosing for
themselves. Fried dishes several times
a day, with several fried articles at each
of the meals is one of their common
denominations; dried beef, old cheese
and pickles are among the common rel
ishes, while lard and saleratus make
their richer dainties infections and
caustic. We have seen on farmers
table fried pork, fried eggs, fried pota-
toes and fried griddle cakes for break
fast; fried ham, fried hominy, and fried
parsnips for dinner; and fried sausages
and fried doughnuts for supper-aIl the
frying done in lard. No class is so
troubled with canker, erysipelas, tumors,
cancers, and humors as farmers; and the
excessive use of pork, lard, fine flour,
rich eakes-and greasy pastry are enough
to account for it. In dietic habits our
farmers are sadly misled by the agricul-
tural journals, nearly all of which pam
der to their prejudice, and flatters their
morbid appetites by recommending and
commenting swine breeding and pork
eating, while they fiji their kitchen col
umn with receipts for making erich and
palatableP puddings, pies, cakes and 9TH
er complicated dishes. which no stom-
ach ever carried inside human body
could long tolerate without death or
dyspepsia. The essential need of our
farmers is plain, wholesome food, prop
erly cooked. This would give them
much more available strength for work,
relieve them of many of the distresses
and expenses Of sickness, add many
years to their lives, and render old age
"green" and normal, instead of dry and
deerepit, as it is in most of cases under
existing habits.
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The NORTH CAROLINA EARTH
oUAKE.-The North Carolina volcano
has been of some spiritual utility in
shaking up the dry bones in that part of
the vineyard. The Hardshell Baptist
ministers who are stationed in that part
of North Carolina are holding revivals
day and night, and the tarheels and
sand-hillers and snufi-dippers of a
State whose inhabitants in the vicinity
of the volcano have been impervious TO
all appeals for regenerated lives in the
usual form, are not proof against volcan-
ic action. In fact, little earthquake or
volcano seems all that can break up the
hard crust of sins so thicNly formed in
every community Of the land. -,k
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POETRY
THE COMMON LOT
BY JAMES MONTGOMERY

once, in the fight Of ages past,
There lived man, and who was he
Mortal, howe'er thy lot be cast,
That man resembled thee
I-nknown the region of his birth
The land in which he died, unknown;
His name has perished from the earth,
This truth survives him alone:
That joy. and grief, and hope, and fear
Alternate triumphed in his breast;
His bliss and woe-a smile, tear!
Oblivion hides the rest.
The bounding pulse, the languid limb,
The changing spirits rise and fall,
We know that these were felt by him,
For these are felt by all
He suffered-but his pangs are Ger;
Enjoyed-but his delights are fed:
Had friends-his friends are now no more;
And foes-his foes are dead.
He loved-but whom be loved the grave
Hath lost in its unconscious wound;
o, she was fair. but naught could save
Her beauty from the tomb
He saw whate'er thou hast seen;
Encountered all that troubles thee
He was-whatever thou hast been;
He is-what thou shalt be-
The rolling seasons, day and night
Sun, moon and stars, the earth and main,
Erewhile his portion, life and light,
To him exist in vain.
The clouds and sunbeams, o,er. his eye
That once their shades and glory threw,
Have left in yonder silent sky
No vestige where they few.
The annals OF the human race,
Their ruins, since the world began,
OF him afford no other trace
Than this-there lived man.
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There is kind of unexpectedness
about absent-minded people which is
exceedingly pleasing. We may be per
mitted to mention here the recent per-
formance Of a country clergymen of this
State who has a habit of forgetting
things during his sermons, and, after
seating himself, Suddenly rising 10 utter
them, with the preliminary remark:
"By the way" He had got half through
an eloquent prayer when he hesitated,
forgot what he was doing, and bestowed
himself upon the clerical sofa without
closing. But in moment his memory
returned, he jumped mp, and pointing
his finger at his rather surprised congre-
CATION, solemnly observed, "Oh, by the
way-Amenw
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-04-10

A Curious Casa curious case,
involving the rights Of an American cit
izen, Is on trial in Chickasaw county,
Iowa. One Hosea Bullard, wealthy
farmer Of Winnesheik county, burned
a straw pile in the fall Of 1872. After
the stack had been consumed, the body
Of Norwegian was found in the ashes.
It was supposed that he lay down TO
sleep, and so was burned. An attempt
was made to indict Billiard for murder,
but that failing, the heirs Of the Nor
wegian now come forward and ask S10,-
600 damages. As the worthy Eccles
would remark. at 'ees ard II man
can't burn his own straw-stack without
being charged with murder"