Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-06-03
II. B. PHILLEO, Editor
Our Free Lunch.

Il -Inere is no SIN OF wrong IN hu-
man nature, or in human life, but the
love Of the Christ has shown its power
to uproot, subdue, and overthrow.
Evils in the Journey oflife, are like
the hills which alarm travellers upon
their road they both appear great at
q distance, but when we approach them
we find that they are far less insur-
mountable than we had conceived.
An angry word, spoken to a friend,
IS like the poison tipped arrow which
savages sometimes use in war. You
may extract the arrow, but its virus
will work in the blood; you may recall
the word, bat its memory will forever
remain, regret if not sting.
1t is with ridicule as with COM
passion, We do not like to be the soli-
tary objects of either and whether
we are laughed at or pitied, we have
no objection to sharers, and fancy we
can lessen the weight by dividing the
load.
In one of his last letters to War
burton, when he became fully con-
scious that the ''end' was fast APP
preaching, Pope made use of the
following language, which for genuine
pathos, and as the expression of manly
resignation, has seldom been equaled
Il own the late enroachment upon my
constitution makes me willing to see
the end of all future care about me or
my works. [ would rest for the one
in full resignation of my being to be
disposed of by the Father of All Mercy;
and for the other (though indeed
trife, yet a trihe may be some exam
ple) | would commit them to the can
dor of sensible judge (meaning
/ Warburton) rather than to the malice
Of every short sighted and maleyolent
critic. or inadvertant and censorious
reader. And no hand can set them in
so good light &c.
When the first passenger railway
was in process of construction in Eng =
land, torty-six years ago, ominous fore
bodings were freely expressed by scien-
tifc men. The birds would be killed;
the fields and towns would be set on
fire and it was shown that passengers
could not breathe when travelling at
such rapid rates. The Quarterly Re
viev said that railway travelling was
about as safe as being fred out of a
rocket Sir A. Carlisle said the ''clash
Of reverberating sounds would COM
bine to produce an idea of destruction
and thrill of annihilation." Others
declared that the jar and rattling
would cause diseases of the nerves and
the braiu.
The statistics of European railways
have brought out some very curious
facts. They show that the risk of
person losing his life in rail car is
less than being struck by lightning, or
being hanged; and that passenger
shooting along at the rate of seventy
two miles an hour-a speed which
their express trains make-is ore Sc
cure from bodily injury than pedeS-
trian in a crowded city, or gentleman
driving his carriage on country road.
French statistics show that stage-coach
riding is fifty times as dangerous as
travelling by rail. No OF er mode of
travelling is so safe as that by rail; in
fact, it is little safer than staying at
home and going about ones regular
business. In Prussia it requires the
transportation of twenty-five million
persons before one is killed, and four
million before one is injured On the
stage-coaches In France, one passenger
in 355, 463 is killed and one In 29,S71
is injured.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams, Jun,
Railroad Commissioner Of Massachu-
setts, has recently brought out some
statistics of railroad travelling in that
State which are quite as favorable.
He says person may travel eight hum
dred miles a day for seventy years be-
fore he would, On the doctrine Of
chances, receive an injury by rail-
road accident. Twenty-Five million
persons may travel each fifteen miles
before one of them is killed And yet
people, when they are about to make a
journey by railroad, take out an acci-
dent policy! They had better take
out policy when they intend to stay
at home There is more danger of be-
ing murdered in ones bed in Massa-
chusetts, than travelling on a railroad,
day and night, the whole time. In
1873, the railroads transported forty
million passengers, and did not kill one.
In Boston, the same year, five persons
were killed by falling down stairs, and
seven from falling out of windows.
Few persons in the respectable walks
of life trouble themselves about the
likelihood of their being hanged; yet
an Englishman's risk of dying by the
halter IS six times as great as his be-
ing killed on a railroad and if the
element of his own carelessness be
excluded, it is one hundred and thirty
times as great. OIL.