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Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-06-03

A SINGULAR TRAGEDY.-Tho Berlin
1dgc6idH of March 27th, says: "a
high rank officer first shot his demented
wife, aud afterwards committed suicide.
The motives which led to the tragedy
were his absorbing love for his wi g, who
suffered terribly from the combined Of
tects OF dseaso and drugs, and his de-
sire to relieve her from agony and die
with her. The scene of the bloody affair
was at No. o Doollingor street, in Berlin.
The officer is Colouol V. SOdernstern,
chief OF the department Of invalid officers
of tho war department. llo committed
the act about midnight, and in II letter
to his superior officer, Major General
Kogon, ho details tho reason which led
to tho decd. lIo said that his wifo while
insane, took poison, which caused her
the most terrible suffering. She begged
him for more poison. After dreadful
mental struggle he determined to give il
10 her to assuuge her torture. Sho took
it, but not even then did death come to
Hti fGllbIs ilbT huHbllIGe Wuib bHlJ hi-
tensihed. Then, agOnized by tho picture
of her agony, he determined to end her
misery. lie drew his revJ,v ver and shot
her dead. lle would join her, and no
begged his superior officers to bury him
along-ido of his best beloved" The
funeral Of tho Colonel took place ON
March 18th, and was attended ly tho
Berlin military. llo was buried with
the highest military honors. But ut tho
funeral the strange announcement wa5
made that the mau had not kli d his
wife, but only himself. a pO-tmprtem
examination revealed beyond doubt that
she WAS dead when he fred his revolver.
This wa, established by several facts,
one OF which was that the bullet wound
was perfectly round, with no Jagged
edges, and not drop of blood had been
shed, externally or internally"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-06-03

a RuLLET-PRoC JUGGLER KILLED
A mu der case awaiting trial nt the Cud.
dauah sessions ia India, last mouth. was
arcn' ding 10 the lndia papers, expected
To give rise To much legal di-cus-ip"s aS
to whether the circumstances JrllHeh
the charge. A juggler. VINO alleged
that he pu-.cs,rd some Sowrr whlch rem
decd him "bullei pr""i.' invited the
n,isnuat ia rhn ,.,Se tu aim ~ him with II
londod mus&"t assuring him lh1t h"
miohr d., -" without the slightest leal of
prdtA1ue ANY rnn'ul results. The p'i--
op+r accepted ihr kind inNilnti"n, and.
viii = nal'd mn lNt presented Ia hfm
hv h, jupglpr, Immediately sent bull
let through his heud II is urged that
~ the e wa, nu intention on the part "F
the prspnr" to kill the dHc"ased, the
rln Z ot uu d., cnGnat be- mainiaincd.
Tn. ilyplr, wa thoroughly confident
orhis ,wn iuvi,in,lnhiitV, aud several
ofhi- irlntinus, who were to be called as
witnesses t0r the defence, were to prnve
thnI. aphnugh ,rve vi Tunes shot at be-
fore. he va, never hurt. : me few yea 5
neo in England "wizald" Mt one of the
thrat,r, begged one of the audience MS II
favor To fire gun at him. The sprcta
tor Illus invited loadrd the gun with u
rharg,. of shot he had brought with him
fnr the express pa pp-e Of testing cru
cially lh. alleged invuinrrablIty OF the
wizard. The 'esut was painful in the
extreme; the wl1ard's lace was peplsg-
ed with the shot, aud the spectator who
fred the gun wa given into the curndy
%, the police. Both narrowly escaped
dea h -une by the gun, the other by the
gNiuwe.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-06-03

IT is never too late for a mule To serve
his country. An animal OF the klnd'
years old, kicked thief to
death in Georgia, the other night ana
fifteen dollars mas already been subscribed
as sinking fund 10 buy oats.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-06-03

Tue Austin (Nov.) ReVeate says: Tho
season for hauling wood and charcoal be-
ing about to set in, a saloon keeper who
is up 10 the times has invented rev
drink, which he calls " Coalburner's Ec-
stasy and Teamsters' Rejuyenator." One
drink OF this makes a man forget all his
earthly troubles two drinks make him
think that he's a smarter man than
Brigham Young the third causes him
TO fancy himself General Cook on the
waipath against the Sioux; and the
fourth is calculated to land him in tho
august presence of Justice Logan, with
the danger OF $50 worth OF painful
duty staring him in the face.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-06-03
TRINITY COUNTY.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY;
COUgkT EEEsNfS:

District Court Second Monday IN April,
August and December
County COurt-First Monday in anu
ary, March, May, July, September and No
vember
Probate COurt-(Same as County COurt)
l. hOard of SupervisOrs-Firs Monday
fsnruary, May, August and November.
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Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-06-03

THE drunkard not only Injuries and
enfeebles his own nervous system, but
entails mental disease upon his own
family. His children are likely TO DO
nervous, weak, eccentric, and to become
insane under the pressure or agency OF
the ordinary calls of duty
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GGrrRnNC Es Prof |. Y. Dana, Portland.
Me.; ROT W. 81. Greene Long island iedI-
3ui College, brooklyn, ~. y. irol. I. n liraek-
at, .rinceton, ~. }.
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OFFICE. Al his Etesi iCnce, c0rMer
Court and Center Streets, Weaverville. l.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

laugh at it. If the Scotch are not humor-
Gus, it is because Tire Puritan conception
OF the world realizes the solemnity of life,
and scorns all triding with its awful reali-
ties. AS humor is complex, the humor-
lst is the product Of conflicting forces; an
occasional freak of nature, to be valued
only by those who prefer oddly to beauty
"a hundred-limbed Hindoo idol to q
Greek statue. Had Sophocles, or Phidias,
or Raphael, or Dante, or Milton, a sense
OF humor? Do you find humor in Thomas
a hempis, or in the Hebrew prophets? A
loving apologist of the "Biglow Papers,
has tried to defend his client from a fool
lsh charge of profanity by discovering
some touches of humor with the Athanas-
ian Creed. Everything is fair in apollo
getlc writing, as in love and war A pass
ing gieam OF irony may hnge some Scrip
tural denunciations Of idolatrous folly just
enough to excuse an apologist driven to
his wits end for an argument; but there
is not enough to excuse anybody else. The
spirit Of humOr-the hooking goblin who
sits at the elbow of some men to chill en-
thusiasm, to prick all the bubbles of the
ideal with the needle-point of prosaic fact,
to give imagination the lie, like the soul
IN Raleigh's verses, to tell eloQuence that
1t is bombast, and poetry that it is unreal,
belongs to the lower earth. His master or
servant-for the familiar spirit is both
ruler and slave to the wizard-is tethered
to the ground, and can never soar with
out danger Of sudden collapse And
therefore, like other spirits of the earth,
he rules by our baser instincts, and his
rule is but for time How much of all
that passes for humorous is simply pro-
fame, or indecent, or brutal? Half the
humorous stories that pass current in the
world are unfit for publication. The
great humorists, from Radicals to Swift
or Sterne, are no longer quotable in their
naked reality; and as the world becomes
more decorous humOr becomes tongue
tied and obsolete. OF the iests that sur
vlve, half again owe their merit to their
lnhumanity. Look at any of the current
stories of Douglas Jerrold, who passed
for humorist in these later days Every
recorded jest Of his that have seen is
gross incivility made palatable by pun.
The substance of each phrase is, You are
fool; the art consists in so wrapping the
insolence in a play of words that the hear
ers laugh, and the victim is deprived of
sympathy. at was your father, then,
who was not so Handsomely is one of
Ialleyrand's brilliant retorts to man who
spoke OF his mothers beauty. What is
this but to say, I" You are an ugly beast"
and yet to evade the legitimate resent
ment Of the sufferer ?-C0r7ahtU MaqazS,ae.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
The Te-heS .

A WRITER in the Detroit Free Press
says:
Perhaps you don't know them by that
name; well, then, suggest better. They
are the salt of our society, in one sense
girls of good minds, minds that will be
good if they survive the giggling age,
girls OF good families, well dressed, polite
and fine looking, but possessed Of the in
sane idea that they must laugh upon all &C.
caslons, whether there is anything to war
rant It or not, else they are not jolly, gay
girls and lively company. A bevy of them
came into the Public Library the other
day; one had just had an adventure which
was TO be recited; she dropped into chair,
bent over and held her sides and they all
chorused in. They hadn't heard it yet,
but, OF course, it would be awful funny
when it was told.
She was coming up K street when she
stepped on a rotten plank-te, he, he
chorus, tie, he, he, and down she went. Oh
dear, te, he, he, and her foot got tangled
full chorus-te, he, he, he, and a man
came along with horrid check shirt on,
he, he, he-big checks-perfectly horrid
he, he, and helped her up, ha, he, he;
then waving of bodies back and forth
and grand tie, he, Gd Hbgtana, all together.
Now l did not make this up, not bit of
it. They were splendid girls-I speak
slncerely-but what an exhibition l
saw an old gray beard take book he
didn't want and hurry away. Then an
other girl took it up and said her book
was SO comical she just howled over
lt-ha, he, he-they must all read it,
they would laugh so, as if that was
the chief end and aim of a girls exist
ence.
When a man is amused he laughs
with gusto, and then strai CITIZENS his face
till next time, and it has some meaning,
but the perpetual grin or giggle is de-
testable.
At a lecture recently I saw six young
ladies seemingly convulsed with laughter
for five minutes or more at the accidental
dropping of paper of candies over the
floor.
| think can go into social parlor
and select the groups of married ladies
from those of the girls, not by their
faces or their dress, but by the amount of
giggling done; matrimony subdues the
smoker.
Now we are not an old maid with cork
screw curls and vinegar lips, and nose out
of joint, and we do not speak for sullzi-
ness; but we leave it to the Free Press or
any other philosopher if there isn't call
for reform in this branch of young lady
behavior.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
Indians After an Honest Man.

INDIANS may be treacherous, but they
can be just, and they can be honest, and
who shall say how far the dishonesty OF
others has led to their treachery. They
know when they are cheated, as our
Government has found to its cost. An old
trader, who had established himself at
what happened to be a favorable locality
among the Northern Indians, tells good
story Of his first trials With his red Gus
toners Other traders had located in the
same place before, but had not remained
long The Indians, who evidently wanted
goods, and had money and furs, flocked
about the store of the new trader and care
fully examined his goods, but offered to
buy nothing. Finally their chief. with a
large number Of their tribe visited him.
How do, John?' said the chief.
Show me goods. Aha! | take that
blanket for me and that calico for squaw
three otter skins for blanket and one
for calico. Ugh! pay you BIN by-to-
morrow"
He received his goods and left On the
next day he returned with large part of
his band, his blanket we'll stuffed with
skins Of various kinds CHOW, John, |
pay"
And with this he drew an otter skin
from his blanket and laid it on the counter.
Then he drew second, third and a
fourth. A moments hesitation, as though
calculating, and he drew out a fifth skin
"a very rich and rare one, and passed it
over.
THAT'S right, John"
The trader instantly pushed back the
last skin, with
You owe me but four. 1 want only
my just dues"
The chief refused to take it, and they
passed it several times back and forth,
each one asserting that it belonged to the
other. At length the dusky chieftain ap-
peared to be satisfied. He gave the trader
a scrutinizing look, and put the skin back
into the blanket Then he stepped to the
door, and gave a yell and cried out to his
followers:
Come-come and trade with the pale
face, John. He no cheat Indian. His
heart bigp'
Then turning to the trader, he said:
Suppose you take last skin, [ tell my
people no trade with you. We drive off
others; but now you be Indians friend and
we be yours"
Before dark the trader was waist deep in
furs and loaded down with cash. He
found that honesty had commercial value
with these Indians-N. 7. Witness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
A Dog that Plays Ball.

The Rainbow Fire Company's large
white spaniel, Rainey," is probably one
of the most expert dogs at ball-catching
in the country. He is heavy, we'll built
animal, white, shaggy coat, sharp, yellow
eyes, long ears, Intelligent expression,
and passionately fond of lively fun.
Among the animals specialties is ball
catching, day or night. An exhibition
was given recently of his remarkable act
ivity, instinct and EXPERIENCES. A person
stood off twenty yards, threw up ball,
and the dog caught it in his mouth as it
came down. This was repeated a num-
Der OF times with equal success Then
the ball was thrown with force so as to
strike the ground and bound. 1t was
then picked up by the dog in his teeth on
the short bound, and promptly returned
10 the person who threw it.
Chasing hard thrown ball in the night
and finding it in the dark is an accom-
plishment the dog is well up in At
times he is thwarted for several minutes,
but he goes over the ground thoroughly,
and never gives up until he finds the ball.
The ball is then placed on his back. One,
two are counted, and instead of three,
four, six, eight or ten are substituted but
the dog won't jump and catch the ball as
it rolls off his back until the word three
is pronounced. Quick as thought he will
jump around and grab the object firmly
in his teeth Sometimes he will mufr o
ball the same as the best of men playing,
and none are so good but they'll drop
them sometimes. When the dog mis-
judges ball it generally comes down
square on his nose. He never gets tired,
but will keep on playing as long as there's
anybody to keep up the sport with him.
Reading PA Eagle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

Truth don't alter or grow old; two and
two made four when Adam was a bow
andiit amounts to the same to-day.
never have seen an angel vet. and
don't think | want to; [ shouldn't know
how to behave in the presence of one.
The man who can't amuse himself can't
amuse others
Everybody praises a competency, but
everybody in digging in for some more.
tits fearful condition to get into to be
dependent upon others for our pleasures.
Great sensitiveness is not relative evil
dence Of merit; 1t is often the mere result
OF ennui or pride.
Anticipations of the future form the
pleasures of youth, reflections of the past
those of old age.
As long as the molasses holds out YOU
will find flies plenty-thus it is with most
of the friendships of life
The hardest sinner in the whole lot to
convert IS the one who spends one half his
time in SHINING and the other half in re-
pentance.
A golden key will pick almost any lock.
Josh. Billings, IN ". 7. Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
HulnOr.

EVERY humorous sentiment is the en-
bodiment of some special idiosyncrasy, Or
1t would become commonplace. There
have been modest humorists; nay, hu-
morist is invariably modest in one sense,
for it is his cue to laugh at all vanity as at
all incorporated emotion. Conceit i'm
plies that the world is worth taking Sc
riously and ought to take me seriously.
The most rooted conviction of the humor-
ist is that the world is farce-a melan-
choly farce, indeed, for otherwise there
would be no contradiction-but farce
where the sublime must never be separated
from its shadow, the ridiculous. His very
egotism, in short, is itself contradiction.
1t implies the two beliefs that his person
atty is intensely interesting and yet in
tensely absurd. 1t is the egotism of Lamb
or of Montaigne, who ere always dwelling
fondly on their own tastes and associa-
tons and biographical "reminiscences, and
yet quietly railing at that fondness.
Modest vanity, humble self-assertion, dis
play of their own peculiarities as at once
the most absorbing and the most trifing
of all topics OF thought, are of the very
essence of the genuine humorist; and yet
the most logged of political economists
will be offended if you tell him he cannot
relish humor. Hur,or, therefore-the in
ference is surely irresistible-is a morbid
secretion. If women and children do not
appreciate humor, it is because the best
part of creation is the simplest in its tastes.
If Frenchmen have ceased to be humorous
since Rabelais and Montaigne it is be-
cause they are the keenest of Iogicians.
If Germans are not humorous, it is be-
ause they love sentiment too heartily to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
French Economy.

THE French butcher separates the bones
from his steaks, and places them where
they will do the most good. The house
wife orders just enough for each person
and no more, even to the coffee. If
chance visitor drops in, somebody quietly
retires and the extra cup is provided, but
nothing extra by carelessness of intention.
When the pot has boiled, the handful of
charcoal in the little range is extinguishe1,
and waits for another time. No roaring
cook-stoves and red-hot covers all day
long for no purpose but waste. The egg
laid today costs little more than the one
laid last week. Values are nicely esti-
mated, and the smallest surplus is carefully
saved. A thousand little economies are
practiced, and it is respectable to practice
them Cooking Is an economical as well
as a sanitary and gustatory science. A
French cook will make franc go as far
as an American housewife will make
three, and how much further than the
American Bridget, nobody knows. We
should probably be greatly aston isbed
could the computation be made how much
of the financial, recuDerative power of
France is owing to her soups and her
cheap food; better living, after all, than
the heavy bread and greasy failures of our
culinary ignorance. The French mans
or wOman's financial conscience will not
permit waste, or exceeding the income,
no matter how small. The Paris work
man saves something every day out of his
little wages, despite all the city entice-
ments, and by and by is apt to 90 back to
his native village, and purchase his little
plot and live on it contented never poor
enough to be insOlvent. With French
economy, we should not only be richer
than France, but our rapidly accumulat-
ing material resources would help to
build National prosperity and renown
that France with her antecedents and en-
cumbrances can never emulate. The want
of our financial future and our National
honesty is-not more greenbacks, but
more economy (Nass.) Re
publican.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
Jewel RObberies in England.

IF, as most persons suspect, the nu-
merous big jewel robberies from private
houses in London within the last few
months, have been planned and carried
out by the same band of desperadoes, the
reward of $4,000 just offered by the Earl
o Egmont for the apprehension of the
burglars who entered his residence at
Banstead last week is hardly likely to
lead to the result which his Lordship de-
sires. Not one robbery of this class has
been found out since the Countess of Dud-
ley's jewel case was so cleverly conveyed
away at Paddington Station last year
The Earl of Egmont estimates his loss at
$40, 900 to $25 900. The articles cone in
clude twenty rings, half dozen diamond
brooches, eight or nine bracelets Zone pair
set with $50 stOnes), a similar number of
earrings and lockets, with three very val
liable watches. In reading over the list
of this nobleman's losses it will strike
most people that he might at least have
taken a little more care of such costly
trinkets. In this, as in so many other
cases, all that the thieves had to do was to
wait until the family had assembled at
dinner and then to place a ladder at the
bedroom window, skip lightly in and ran
sack drawers and cases for the costly
plumber ready to their hands If our
great families are to retain their Jewels
they must place them, like their money,
in banks Of deposit, or hide them away in
places less accessible than a drawer or
tell-tale jewel case. -Lj0erpool Courier.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
INDUSTRIAL, STATISTICAL AND
TECHNICAL.

IT is said that dry rot may be prevented
in new buildings and stopped in old
ones by filing up the space between the
floor joists with tank-Waste'' from al
kali works.
A FIRM in Treves, Germany, manufac
lures fire blocks of refuse tan, just as it is
taken from the pits. They are said to
equal in tame-heating power the best
stone coal.
The demand for rubber tires for omni
buses and carriages is again revived, and
rubber manufacturers in London and Ber-
lin now offer what is claimed as a strong,
durable and silent tire that will outlast
iron on the heaviest traffic. The sanitary
advantages of using rubber tires are so
great that it is to be hoped this most de-
sirable substitute is really made practical
IT is twenty years since an Englishman
prophesied that should guttapercha be
used for submarine telegraphic purposes,
an animal would be either found or created
with peculiar liking for it. Now the
Popular Science Monthly says that the
creature has been found. It is an insect
about a quarter of an inch long, which
bids fair to make great deal of trouble,
owing to its love for guttapercha.
DURING the exhibition the following are
the official rates which will be charged at
the places named for railroad excursion
tickets to Philadelphia and return, over
the Pam C1rluenia RniIrnod.