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Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-28

: The other day an intelligent COM
positor SHE'D q lath out of the HaWk-eye
news-room window, neatly impinging
it against the waist-band of a respecta-
BILE citizen and doubling him up with
neatness and dispatch. And when the
respectable citizen came grooming and
limping up stairs to tile
his complaint, she editor calmly and
s~oothingly assured him that it was on
ly a typographical arrer.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-28
'Efnma Ffaberfy. at MfIwaukee was

-Emma Haberly, at Milwaukee was
fatally burned on the 9Th. Her clothes
caught fire from an o~ver-heated stove,
andls a out upon the street envel7
opeds in flames. tTHpt~ ssh .
. Three syoung ladies, two Misses
iCampbell,y d Miss Choate, and one man,
James Gregory,were drowned in a mill
pond, 10 miles from Olmstead, Ky,
the othertnight,, while going TO a ball,
4 Willie a 13-year-old daughter Of
Louis Groesbeck was playing with a
pistol in Hanatramck, Mich, she point
ed it playfully at her. right side, and
said she would shoot herself. She did,
and the wound, win probably prove
fatal. t'H8Ff 2Ais ''* -
Thomas Hays went to the woods,
near PeIla, Iowa, to hunt turkeys. In
the woods were q couple of boys, also
hunting turkeys Discovering what
they believed were some birds, they
blazed away, and pretty severely pep-
pered Mr.. Hays. His injuries, fortu-
nately, were not fatal. Is sssw as
Il William link, a boy employed in
John G. loves wood-engraving estab-
lishment, at Buffalo, N. Y, was shot
through the head and killed by the dis
charge of a pistol in the hands of a
William HI. Horner, who,
not knowing the pistol was loaded, was
illustrating what he had seen at the
Academy of Music.
-JamesiSimpson, q farmer living in
Ringgold County, Iowa, went out to
hunt a few days ago, and when but a
short distance from his house the re-
port of his gun was heard, and the cry,
tsI'm shot!" The family went quickly
to him, but he was dead, having been
shot through the heart. He was one of
the most respected citizens of the
county. -~.-s--. ..r5.
A few days since Mrs. Thomas
Graham, living les Glenwood, Iowa,
went to a neighbours on an errand, and
left two children in the house. Soon
after she left the dress of the youngest
took fire from the stove. The eldest,
about fiveyears old, with great presence
of mind, quenched the fire, as she sup
posed, and started to call her mother.
The sister followed, the air famed the
smothered fire. to a flame, and before
the mother reached her her clothes
We're burned off and her body crisped,
causing death in few hours.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-28
Foreign Notes.

One of the leading features of the
Paris Exposition will be the great light
house, manufactured by Gail. 1t is to
be 420 feet high, and after the EXPOSE.
ton will be removed to Plymouth,
England, for permanent erection.
The Princess Frederick has been
the faithful companion of her father,
ex-King George of Hanover, ever since
he sought refuge with his ally, the En-
peror If Austria. Tall, and of blonde
hair and complexion, she is said to be
unquestionably more beautifulthan any
other European princess.
The famous Charles Pittsfeld es-
tate in England is at last to be dis
tributed among the heirs. The tesla
tor died in 1740, and the first decision
was not reached by the courts till 1898.
Originally amounting to $50, 900, the
property, between the increased value
of London real estate and compound
interest, is now said to be worth nearly
$1,000, 900, though there is probably
some exaggeration here.
Mr.. Henry Chaplin, man of wealth,
member of Parliament, and owner of
the horse Hermit, who won the Derby
in 1867, was Tilted almost at tee church
door by Lady Florence Paget, who ran
away and married the Marquis of Hast
ings. Now Mr.. Chaplin, at sc, has just
been married to another Florence, Is
years younger than the first, and the
eldest daughter of the Duke of Suther-
land.
Ostrich farming is carried on with
fhn hnpt 1,nnnnn Of 4hA (Nn~- IS N1>I
Hope. Choice birds are worth $3.50
each. They feed on grass like cattle,
and require very little car Usually
they are tolerably docile, but at the
breeding easOn they become irritable,
and will often attack a person who ven-
lures too near them. Each bird yields
from $3.50 to 5000 worth of feathers per
year. Those from the female are gray,
and those from the male black, except
a single white plume which grows un-
der each wing, and which is the most
valuable of all. -
M. Vivier, the Frenchman who has
made it the business of his life to worry
the Custom-house Inspectors of all Eu-
ropean countries, has returned to
France. His wont formerly was to
pack a huge trunk full of trouser straps,
ssqQch as are worn with CATERS, using
Hydraulic pressure, if it were necessa-
ry, to cram five bushels into a three
hushel space; then to lure the Inspect
or to open it as a suspicious package,
when naturally the contents were over
set, and the whole force of the Custom
house was occupied for hours in putting
them back. A powerful Jack-in-the-
box was another device of his that was
very successful.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-28

At the recent meeting OF che Metho-
dist Episcopal Hymn Book Commitsee,
the hymn book was gone over, q the
| question OF the retention of each hymn
voted upon. A rule was adopted re-
curing the votes of two-thlrds OF inc
committee to reject any hymn Oh the
| old collection.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-28
Haps and Mishapa.

"A boy Is years old, son of H. P.
otreeter, an old citizen of Topeka, Kan,
was suddenly killed on the 18th, while
coupling cars.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-12-28
APPEARANCE OF THE CITADEL.

The citadel is about LOO feet long
and forms an irregular triangle; it is
situated on a small but steep hill, be-
tween two ~water-courses, and at the
foot of two mountains of about 1000
feet high each. Within the ground
rises from all sides towards the center
in the form of terraces, supported
equally on all sides by the Cyclopean
walls. [ found there three cisterns and
I descended into the largest, but got
out in a hurry, as it was full of poison
Gus serpents. The great gate. of which
I have already spoken, is situated on
the northwest side, at the right extrem-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-03

BANCROFT, the historian, is seventy.six.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-03
Snow From the Mountains,

STRANGERS sojourning in this city dur
ing the winter are surprised to see the air
full Of snow when the sky is clear in every
direction. They seem to witness the phe,
nomenon of snow falling from the blue of
the heavens. They presently discover that
the mysterious fall Of snow comes from
the peak of Noun Davidson, which rises
high above the town on the west. The
prevailing winds are from the west, and
these, when they are above the strength of
breeze, catch up the snow on the top
and sides Of the mountain, and waiting it
along presently allow it to sift down over
the town. Last night, although but a
moderate breeze was abroad, there were
times when for an hour the air was filled
with fine particles of snow, which foated
about so airily that they were easily mis-
taken for little needles of frost. When a
heavy gale is blowing after a recent fall
of snow this sowing of the fakes is seen
on grand scale. Great whirlwinds form
and are playing about in the eddy under
the lee OF the mountain, and the snow
gathered and carried aloft is presently
hurled down upon the town and whirled
through the streets in binding showers
Thus at times when the sky is perfectly
clear more snow may be seen in the town
than is often seen to fall directly from the
clouds even during the heaviestof storms.
When snow is both falling from the
heavens and blowing from the mountains
it is then that we have wild and uncom-
Portable weather; it is then that you can
reach out into the air and pick up snow
by the handful as it is passing by. These
falls of snow might be called aerial
avalanches. 3 Virginia (Neu.) Enterprise.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-03
By q Smile.

Mr.. MOODY narrated a story told him
by a London clergyman who succeeded in
winning whole family to Christ by
"smile." The acquaintance began by
his bowling to the children sitting in the
window on Sabbath mornings as he was
going to the church, which resulted in the
conversion Of the parents and five chill
dren. If we would do good We must go
through the world with smiling face, lit
up with the light of heaven, with heart
full of love and countenance full Of Joy.
He did not like to see people wearing a
long face, and always talking about
duty" Suppose he should say to his
mother, whom he visited in Mortified
every year: " Mother you are getting old
now: you were always very kind to me
and it is my duty to come and see you"
She would have right to say: If you
only come because it is aduty you needn't
come at all" And suppose hesaid to his
wife: q feel it to be my duty to make
you presen','' would she no. very prop
erly say f" You can keep your present.?
People said sometimes: 4 wonder how
il Is that some men do so much work"
A great many men were working for God
because they do It from sense OF duty, Sc
that il is hard and burdensome. Mea
wore out more by carrying great burdens
than by work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-03
IncOnsiGerateness.

HERE are people, kind and even self
denying IN great things, who. constantly
spoil pleasure or disturb the tranquility
OF our serener hours through the defect of
lnconsiderateness. They will, to save the
trouble OF letter, address telegram an
nouncing the merest trife about them
selves to some household which they
know to be hanging on the tenter hooks
OF suspense on a question of the deepest
personal concern, careless that the mes
sage will be received with trembling
hands as the tidings of death or ruin. If
there happens at picnic to be a girl par
tlcularly afraid OF lightning the inconsid-
crate man of the party draws the
attention of the company to every
black cloud, is sure that it is com
ing their way and means mischief.
Ilmidity attracts this quality like mag
net. When nervous elderly lady trusts
herself to the dangers of an open carriage
the inconsiderate man will hint at the I'M
certain temper of the horse, throw doubt
1ul glances over the harness or inspect a
screw loose in the carriage which NAV
make things awkward at the descent of
the next steep bill, where more than one
accident has happened within his knowl
edge. And whatever he is on land, he is
worse on the water, where the terrors of
timidity reach their climax-terrors which
it seems his deliberate object to enhance
by every word and action, only that
we know how blindness to the feelings
Of others gives an aptitude in the art of
lnfusing uneasiness not to be matched bv
design. A satirist of the old French court
observes On this point: " 1t would seem
on first thoughts that part of the pleasure
or Princes was to inconvenience other
people; but it is not 50. Princes are like
other men they think of themselves, fol-
low their taste, their passions, their con
venienCe." It needs no malice of inten
ton to bring about consequences that
might have malice for their contriver. 1t
IS said that Queen Charlotte used to let
Mrs. Siddons stand reading to her till she
was ready to drop. She did not know
what It was to stand, when she preferred
sitting down. Consideration needs to be
cultivated, and personal experience of the
inconvenience to which others are sub
ject is the great teacher on this point
Hence it is that rich people are very in
considefate in money matters They put
people to expense without realizing the
embarrassment they cause. They know
that they themselves are. careless of
money, which seems to them liberality,
but it bores them 20 have to remember
that this open handedness is not within
the compass of limited means; they can
not entertain the idea that to some peo-
pie a small sum is like their life blood
London Saturday Re05eW.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-03
Seeing q Man." and Its Results.

Nor many months ago, in India, gen
tleman and wife having taken passage for
England went on board with their bag
gage. Presently the husband discovered
that there was time for him to go ashore
and see man. He went, he saw, he was
conquered; and when it occurred to him
that it was time to go aboard again he
hailed boatman and ere long found him
self on board a large passen ger-ship. It
was night. A sleepy steward inquired
the number of his cabin, which he CHANGED
to remember, as also that his was the up
per berth; SO he contrived to Chamber into
it without disturbing his wife, IS he sup
posed, who slept beneath. But when
dawn broke, and the ship was well on her
way, feminine voice was heard Shrek
ing, IN tone of terror: "Steward, stew
ard! there's man in my cabin" The
wretched man was aroused, and the situa-
ton explained to him. He had mistaken
the ship. They were under weigh for
Australia, and his unhappy wife was
steaming away to England under a firm
WI 'ASs4Oa tAot uc udu UecQ IOODeu anu
murdered by rufians who frequent the
quays. When he at length arrived in
Australia he could not even there re-
Eeve her mind, az the cable connecting
that country with Europe was not COM
pleted-it having, in fact, only now been
working little more than year-so that
about four months passed before she heard
anything of him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-03
Never Man Spake Like This Man."

NEVER was truth made so vital as when
1t fell from the lips of Jesus. 1t was no
novelty in Jesus to call God His Father.
The word had been used before often
enough. But the world, by all its wis
dom, had not learned to know God as its
Father. Now, little children, by the side
OF their small cribs, say in infantile trust:
"Our Father. who art in heaven" and
the martyr at the stake cries out in assured
faith: :" Father, into Thy hands | COM
mend my spirit" Jesus, because He was
vitality conscious of the Fathers love, has
made mankind also conscious of it. "To
them who believe IN Him, to them gave
He power to become the sons of God" 1t
was no novelty when Jesus taught men
to overcome evil with good, to bless those
who cursed them, help those who perse-
cuted them, love those who hated them.
The thing had been said before but now it
was done. Now il was said and done so
llvlngly that it was not a mere far-off ideal
but commonplace fact, an actual eveLt
N human life, a safe rule to go by. To
tell of future life was no novelty. The
Egyptians taught future life in all its
minusest details. Nearly every ancient
nation believed in immortality. And vet
it is true that life and Immortality were
brought to light by the Gospel" Before they
were vague possibilities, dim coniectures.
But he who believes in Jesus has eternal
life abiding in him. Faith In immortal
hppnmaa a of fho tay 81
soul, as it was part of the texture of the
soul Of Jesus Himself. He was the I'M
mortality, the resurrection, the eternal
life. He did not prove it by elaborate but
unconvincing arguments, as Socrates in
the Phado nobly argued for it, expectant
of death, amid the laurels and myrtles of
an Athenian summer day. But Jesus was
full of that immortal life which dispels all
images of decay, and puts death at an i'm
possible distance. These vital truths are
the deepest, and also the highest They
have character of the infinite about
them. Who has not noticed this in read
ing the words of Jesuss No commentary
ever eXhausts their meaning The words
grow more luminous, their meaning deep
ems while | am thinking about them
That is why Paul speaks of the breadth
and length and depth and height of the
love of Christ, the knowledge of which
"passeth knowledge" That which is
vital is inexhausible We eat and drink
and come again, and the banquet is stlll
spread, new, every morning, with daily
bread for the soul-Jomes Freeman
CIarks
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-03
Breathing Through the Nose.

HERE are various reasons for cOnsid-
ering the nose the natural outlet of the
lungs, and hence various advantages to
be derived from breathing through the
nose. 'I
l. If we breathe through the nose we
will be enabled often to detect the pres
ence of noxious odors in the air we
breathe, and so be warned Of danger in
time to prevent it.
9. The internal nose is studded with
hairs, which, in some degree al least, pre-
vent the ingress of noxious matters with
the air we breathe. Dust is strained
out; and it is confidently asserted by
persons who have tested the matter that
nliasms are prevented from entering the
blood if one breathes only through the
nose. Some persons have lived in mala-
rious districts, slept on the banks Of ma
larious rivers, etc, for years, and yet
have escaped all the forms of fevers
which usually followed d residence in the
country, who have ascribed their exemp-
ton solely to settled habit OF breathing
only through the nose.
3. By breathing through the nose little
If any air passes into the lungs until it
has come in contact with the membranes
Of the nose. which are supposed to pos
sess some power OF neutraIning mala-
rious and even contagious poisons
4. By drawing our breath only through
the nose the air is warmed by contact with
the membranes before breaches the lungs,
and so infammations and concessions of
those organs are avoided. al
Per contra, the habit, so common, of
breathing through the mouth has many
disadvantages. In this way a great vol
ume OF ar is quickly taken in, loaded
with dust, malarious or contagious impu-
rites, etc, OF which we are utterly uncon-
scious until the blood has been poisoned
and serious and perhaps fatal disease been
inaugurated The cold air being taken
in, in great volume and with great rapid
ty, chills the lungs, whereas if b-eathed
through the nose it would be warmed be-
tore reaching the lungs. ... ar.
iHe naDu o. DItaLnIpg through the
mouth is caused largely by weakness Of
the respiratory muscles, and one excellent
method Of strengthening those muscles is
TO breathe through the nose. It is certain
" as wise a plan as sucking air through
silver tube, so often recommended
Then breathe through the nose, as natnre
indicates, if you would have good health
: Robert WaIte2, IN Science Of Heath.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-03
Philosophy Of Manners.

IT'S q rule of manners to avoid exao-
geration. A lady loses as soon as she
admires too easily and too much. In man
or woman, the face and the person lose
power when they are on the strain to ex-
press admiration. A man makes his in
feriors his superiors by hest. Why need
you, who are not gossip, talk as a Cos
sip, and tell eagerly what the nelghbors or
the journals say State your opinion
without apology. The attitude is the main
point, assuring your companion that, come
good news or come bad, you remain in
good heart and good mind, which is the
best news you can possibly communicate.
Self-conuol is the rule. You have in YOU
there noisy, sensual savage, which YOU
are to keep down and turn all your siren 9Th
to beauty. For example, what seneschsl
and detective is laughter! 1t seems to re-
quire several generations of education to
train squeaking or shouting habit out
OF man, Sometimes, when in almost all
expressions the Choctaw and the slave
have been worked out of him, a coarse
nature still betrays itself in his contempti-
BILE squeals ofjoy. The great gain is not
to shine, not to conquer your companion
then you learn nothing but conceit-but
to find companion who knows what YOU
do not; to tilt with him and be over
thrown, horse and foot, with utter de
struction of your logic and learning.
There is defeat that is useful Then
you can see the real and the counterfeit.
and Will never accept the counterfeit
again. You will adopt the art of war that
has defeated you. You will ride to battle
horsed on the very logic which you found
Irresistible. You will accept the fertile
truth, instead Of the solemn customary lie.
When people come to see US, we foolishly
prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But
things said for conversation are chalk
eggs, Don't say things. What you are
stands over you the while, and thunders
so that cannot hear what you say to the
contrary. s lady OF my acquaintance
said: Il don't care so much for what they
say as | do for what makes them say it..
The law Of the table is beauty-a respect
to the common soul of all the guests.
Everything is unreasonable which is pri-
vate to two or three or any portion of the
company. Tact never violates for a mo-
ment this law; never intrudes the orders
OF the house, the vices of the absent or
tariff of expenses, or professional priva-
cles; as we say, we never talk shop"
before company. Lovers abstain from
caresses, and haters from insults, while
they sit in one parlor with common
friends. Would we codify the laws that
should reign in households, and whose
daily transgression annoys and mortifes
us and degrades our household life-we
must learn to adorn every day with sacri-
fees. Good manners are made up of petty
sacrifices. -Ra(ph Waldo Emerson.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-03
A Giitterinx Mystery.

WHAT becomes of the precious
metals?'' asks an Eastern journal, and
then proceeds to consider the question,
and succeeds in throwing much doubt
upon it, or, rather, leaving it in Just as
much doubt as before The question
What becomes Of all the pins ?" has
been ottener asked, perhaps, and has been
answered with about the same illumina.
ton. Ferd Ever, many years ago, in
this city, was hugely amused at CUES
ton asked in the Sacramento Union.
namely: Where does all the water go?'
10 which interrogation the questioner
proceeded, with the philosophical sobriety
OF an owl, to reply through a column arti-
t-cIe, when it might have been answered
N two words-the ocean. But it is not so
easy to answer satisfactorily the question
as to what becomes of the precious metals.
That vast amount has been extracted
from the earth-accOrding to an English
writer, who, of course, must depend to a
great degree upon guess-work, not less
than So, 900, 000, 900 since the days of
Noah, in gold and silver-there can be no
doubt. Of this amount he thinks that
81, 200, 600 900 have been produced since
the discovery of America. The Christian
world IS credited with having had So 900,
900, most of which has been disposed
OF by shipwrecks, gliding, fire and vari-
Gus other ways, as effectuaIIy, we might
suggest, as many Of our citizens have dis
posed of theirs by investing in stocks. He
thinks this loss proceeds at the rate of
5000, 900 annually, while the production
ne puts at $40, 900, which is IN
doubtedly too low One-half of the bal
ance, $3.50, 600, 900 he thinks Is held in
the form of plate and ornaments. Of the
balance of the three millions in the anti
Christian world, wastes and losses omit
ted, ne thinks that over a thousand bill
ions have been hidden in Asiatic lands IN
different ages of the world, and he con
tinues that it is well known that thou
sand millions were thus hidden in India
and China in the six years succeeding
1851 that is during the time when whole
sale murder and slaughter and wholesale
robbery and despoiation was the business
Of the natives and their enemies. One
would think that China must be carpeted
with gold leaf paved with silver dollars,
glittering with the precious metals, did
he think only Of the vast sums sent there
for hundreds of years past, little or none
OF which ever comes back. But some
how those metals have fate here as they
have elsewhere-they disappear. Like
many other commodities, they serve their
purpose and disappear. What became of
all the gold with which Solomon covered
his grand temple? What became of all
the Spanish spoils in South America and
in Mexico? One might ask such ques-
tons fore er and be no wiser therefor.
Gold and silver serve their purpose and
disappear, as to the hu man race, aud old
boots and all other material things, and
there is none so wise as can tell US &C