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The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20
The Anti-AGonopolist.

days. the speed being faster than the mails
are carried by the same route This un-
common cargo is going to Italy and the
South of France, and could have reached
its destination quicker and at less cost by
the way Of the Suez Canal, but it has been
found useles to ship them that way because
the southern climate matches the eggs The
silk worms are put upon long sheets of card
board in China, and are left until each board
is covered with eggs, which are about the
size of mustard seed. The eggs stick to the
card, which, interlald with sheets of paper,
are packed in wooden boxes, lightly closed.
and wrapped in canvass and mating. In
this shipment there were SAT cases, contain
ing over 100000 cards. When the eggs
reach their destination they will be stored
in vaults, secure against warmth, until the
mulberry trees on which they feed have
grown their foliage. Less than a century
ago nearly the whole route across the Amer
lean continent was considered an impene-
trable wilderness.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20
VARIABILITY OF INSTINCTS.

Though the instincts Of animals appear
and disappear in such seasonable correspon-
deuce with their own wants and the wants
of their offspring as to be standing sub
ieet of wonder, they have By no means the
fixed and unalterable character by which
some would dinguish them from the higher
faculties of the human race. They vary in
the individuals as does their physical struc-
ture. Animals can learn what they did not
know By instinct and forget the instructive
knowledge which they never learned. while
their instincts will often accommodate them
selves TO considerable changes in the order
Of external events Everybody knows it to
be a common practice to hatch ducks eggs
under the common hen, though in such cas-
Is the hen has TO Sit week longer than on
her own eggs. tried an experiment TO as
certain how far the time of sitting could be
intersered with in the opposite direction.
Two hens became brsody on the same day
and set them on dummies. On the third
day put two chicks day old TO one Of the
hens: she pecked at them once or twice:
seemed rather idgesy. then took to them,
called them to her and entered on all the
cares of . mother. The other hen was sim
ilariy nied. but with . very aifferen, result
She pecked at the chickens viciously. and
both that day and the next stubbornly re-
fused to have anything TO do with them
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20
RAW COTTON AS A DRESSING FOF
WOUNDS.

Surgeons in Europe and America are now
using raw cotton as a dressing for wounds,
and with excellent effect. A layer of cotton
spread over a wound or over the surface ex-
posed by amputation, protects the parts
thoroughly, filters the air, and prevents the
access Of floating germs, whether poisono Gus
or not. 1t is important that the cotton be
fresh and of good quality; and if it is TO
be used in a hospital, it should not be pre-
viously exposed TO the air Of that hospital;
moreover, dressing should never be re-
newed in the foul air Of ward In time Of
war and on the battlefield, the cotton would
prevent much suffering. '.In civil prac-
tice. . remarked Dir. Van Buren,, lit prom
ises to be usefnl principally in the large
hospitals of great cities. where pyamia and
erysipelas are always liable TO become en-
demic, in preventing the poisoning Of open
wounds by those diseases, and also ihIs en-
aiding surgeons 10 save limbs which might
otherwise require amputation-' The cot
ton above described is that manufactured in
the form of wadding.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20
PERIODICAL VARIATION OF THE SUM-;
HEAT

Mr. Blanford has published in the Jour
nal Of the Asiatic Society Of Bengal dis
cussion ofthe results Of six years observa-
tons of Solar Radiation made with the black
bulb in Udcuo at eleven stations in Bengal,
for the six years 1869 to 1894. The re-
suits, as the author says, ..agree in showing
very decided variation Of heat; a variation
which, in the epoch Of its maximum approx
matively, its rapid rise before that maxi
mum and slower decline after it, agrees
with the VARIATION curve Of the solar spots. =
In Mr.. Blanford's words. 1T IS needless to
point out that vast train Of inquiry is
opened up by the fact, once established, that
the solar heat undergces periodical varia-
ton
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20
right to tell you; wish l had. Who'll take

it!'
Il will! will" exclaimed half dozen,
eager to be the bearer of the news.
The message was entrusted to one of the
feetest-footed boys Of tn e village, who sped
over the mile which lay between the Office
an 1Farmer Aliens like greyhound
Heres something for YOU" he painted,
as he burst into the b ouse without knock
ing
The farmer took it mechanically, without
thong ht that it concerned those whom he
already looked upon as in heaven. Break
ing the SEAL he opened the folded paper
and glanced at it contents Then, with
a fervent ''ThanK God." he fell upon his
knees, and the feeling SO long pent up found
vent in tears Of thanKfulness
The message was a brief one. 1t ran:
Fredericton, N. B., April 10.
John Allen: Your wife and children were
picked up at light this morning, on a shin
gle raft, three miles above the city. ALI
safe. Answer.
Swift as were the feet of the messenger,
they had hard WORK to keep pace with John
Aliens on the return The news spread
like wildfire, and within half an hour every
body in Woodstock knew the contents of
the dispatch.
Little more need be said. Farmer Allen
followed the message he sent without the
loss Of an hour. That was Sunday morn
ing, and it was Thursday night before the
parted household again met beneath the
roof whose few hours desolation made it
yet the more sacred and precious to all.
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impending i'll, precedes many diseases long
before the victim is aware of his condition
These dreams sometimes take the forms of
waking fancies, double consciousness, and
what is called mystic memory.
The states Of physical prostration known
as coma somdolentum and coma vigil exhib-
it in their largest extent, the poetic CAP
acities Of the mind The impressions.
dreams, and illusions in these conditions are
such as no healthy mind could conceive
The patient seems to live in charmed
world, amid spectral beings and airy peo-
pie, changing lights, luminous lights, and
appalling shadows. Mrs. Hemans declar-
ed on her death bed that no pen could des-
cribe or Imagination conceive the visions
that passed before her mind.
In certain forms Of physical prostration
the mind seems to the patient; to be capa-
BILE Of unusual freedom; to be in and out of
the body at the same time; to be able to make
| impressions at distance, and to have a
knowledge of itself AMI of events trauspir-
ing around it quite beyond the usual range
OF the faculties. In Analysing these SEEM
ing powers it is imposs;bleto separate the
imaginary from what may be real, and to
determine the exact limit Of mental action.
In 1888 Johann Schwerzeger, after long
illness. fell into a comatose state from which
he never recovered He said that he had
seen in vison his whole life pass before
him; even events which before his sickness
he seemed to have quite forge item. He
further stated that he thought that he was
about to enter state Of rest and happiness
when he was recalled to the world; and he
was sorry to have come back, but that he
should remain here but two days. His
death fulfilled the prediction.
Perhaps the most remarkable of all phen-
omena Of this nature is a certain power
few patients have seemed to posses of with
drawing from sensation" of becoming at
will insensible to pain, and If producing
resemblance of death. Colonel Townsend,
an Engishman, who die at the end Of the
last century, had in his last sickness an ex-
traordinary power Of apparently dying and
returning to life again. Il found his pulse
sink gradually" wrote DR.. Cheyne, his med
ical attendant, $50 that / conld not feel it
by the most exact or nice touch. DR.. Ray
mond could not detect the least motion of
| the heart, nor DR.. Shrine the least soil Of
the breath upon the bright mirror held to
the mouth. We began to fear that he was
actually dead. He then began to breathe
softly" The Colonel tried this experiment
number Of times during his illness, and
was able to render himself insensible at will.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20
SCIENCE
SUBSTITUTES FOR COAL.

According to writer in the Revue In
dustrielle, the world need not be uneasy IN
prospect of the consumption of all its coal,
for explosives will take the place OF coal,
and supply all the mechanical power re-
quirel by future generations. A Little more
than pound of dynamite, when exploded,
would lift from the ground and project a
weight of one hundred and sixty thousand
kilogrammes. A kilogramme OF nitro-gly-
cerine exploded in closed chamber devel-
ops theoretical pressure OF two hundred
and forty-1hree thousand atmospheres.
The heat developed is in proportion: and we
are assured that I'm a single litre OF. nitro
glycerine there is stored up five thousand
five hundred horse power working continu-
ously for ten hours
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20

A PERllOUS VOYAGE.

Those familiar with the lumber regions.
OF only of the United States, but Of Cana
a, know that the great streams which noat
c huge laits Of timber down TO the vari-
sports and mills along thei- course anu
Ten made seryiaceble for other purposes.
ometimes the lumberman OF shipg!e-maker
axes his family with him TO the scene OF
his winters labors. and in the spring, when
the seasons work is ended, places them,
women and childrer-sometmes a round
dozen-on raft of logs and shingles, and,
keeping close TO the shore floats down ten.
twenty, or thirty miles TO his home. The
hunter. who has for weeks hunted and trap
ped in the vast forests along these streams,
binds his package of fur together. makes
himself conveys nce by flashing half doz-
en- legs firmly together. and accompishes
his tourney of hundred or more miles IN
twenty-four hours
As a general thing there is little risk in
such Journey II the weather is fair and
the river clear Of floating lumber there Is
hardly more danger than there would be IN
making the distance behind pair of farm
horses in a country wagon. People. how
ever. if they live IN constant contact with
danger grow careless in time, aud offer
risk thtir lives and these OF others wher'
there is no apparent, necessity.
And so it happened in the instance | an
about o relate.
John Allen was a weli-tc-do farmer o
Woodstock. on the st. Johns River, ant
besides tie income derived from his Ian,
and dairy, he owned, in connection with hi
son. a tract OF wild timber some dozen mile
up the river. Beginning 10 turn its advan
tages TO account in small way. the tw'
had erected small shiugle mill nevr tn
shore and kept a half dozen men At worl
during the winter. The result the hrst yea
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20
POETRY.
THE STRANGERS GRAVE.

He sleeps within nameless grave,
Where Springs luxuriant blossoms wave.
For Summers reign is nigh.
The solitude around his tomb
Is beautiful as Eden's bloom
Ere beauty learned to die.
Her fairest and most fragrant flowers
Kind May in brightest profusion showers
Upon that lovely spot,
Where the sick heart and weary head
Rest in their last dark, narrow bed,
Forgetting and forgot
No dropping mourners kneel beside
That lonely grave at eventide.
And bathe it with their tears;
But oft the balmy dews of night
Lave it with pity, when the light
OF kindling stars appears.
No loved ones breathe the holy prayer,
But natures incense fills the air
And seeks the distant sky.
Her artless hymn the song-bird sings;
The dreamy hum OF insect wings
Are prayers that never die.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20
STRANGE MENTAL FACULTIES IN DIS.
EASE.

In an article bearing this heading, by
Hezekiah Butterworth, may be found some
curious and interesting data in connection
with the mental mysteries associated with
peculiar states of disease. Among these
are certain engagements Of the perceptive
faculties, and singular power which the
mind seems to possess Of acting Independent
ly Of its organs.
The writer quotes the case of . lady suf-
fering from extreme nervous debility. She
was in constant fear Of insanity Her rea
son did NO, seem to be impaired, but she
could think Of two things NJ the same time.
When she slept ii was in succession Of vivid
dreams that destroyed all impression Of
somnolence She had vivid impressions Of
what happened to her children away from
home She took no pleasure in this strange
increase of mental power, and often wished
that she were deal.
The faculty OF memory - often the nrs'
to be affected by disease When disease in.
creases the power Of this faculty the patient
is not unfrequently regarded as possessing
more than human wisdom. DR.. Steinbech
mentions the case Of clergyman who, being
summoned TO administer the sacrament Il
an illterate peasant, found the patio Mt pray
| ing aloud in Greek and Hebrew. The cast
Was deemed well-nigh miraculous. After
the peasants death it MAS found that ne VA
accustomed in youth TO hear the parish
minister pray in those languages, and i
was inferred that he must have been repeat
| ing remembered words without understand
| ing their meaning
| A late number of the London Nedico
chriurgical Review, in an article on spop
lexy. speaks Of vivid dreams - . common
warning in the first and often recognizes
stages Of insanity, heart disease, and phth
| Isle, and one that il would be wen TO bette
understand ard heed Vivid dreaming
which "a some eases seems to be menfa
iIluninatisn, ard II osherss prophecy .
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20

The idea Of the devil was originated by
the Persians, who made him to typify hum
ger. That what makes men say, II Am
| hungry as the DEVIL let's have half doz-
en- raw
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20

A tombstone in the Yazoo, Miss, cemetery
bears the following inscription:
"Here lies inferred Priscilla Bird.
Who sang on earth till sixty-two;
Now up on high, above the sky,
No doubt she sings like sixty, too
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20

The Harvard Advocate relates the follow
ing incident Of the German recitation room.
Students translation: 'Waltze ich mich
schaftlos auf dem ager-I waltzed sleepiIy
of fon lager" Wild amazement Of instruc-
tor and a, ripping smile tbroughthe class.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20

~ hat are you after, my dear?' said a
Grandmother to little boy, who was sliding
along the room and casting furtive glances
At q gentleman who was paying visit. II
am trying. grandma, to steal papa hat out
Of the room without letting the gentleman
see il: he wants him to think he's out"
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20

A colored preacher; remarked: when
God made de frst man He set him up agin
de fence to-dry." "who made de fence"
interrupted an eager listener. 'Put dat
man OUT exclaimed the colored preacher;
"such questions as dai'd destroy all the
theology in the world
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20

Napoleon was, one day, searching for
book in the library at Malmaison. and 1t
last discovered it on shelf somewhat above
his reach. Marshal Money, who WAS pre-
sent-one Of the faIlest men in the army
stepped forward. saying: Permit me, sir;
m higher than your majesty" ''You are
Ion ger, marshal" said the emperor, with .
frown.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20

While the jury was being selected in
horse-stealing case, the other day, the prisc-
ner insisted on bis counsel objeciing 10 one
Of the jurors. "Bus," argued the counsel
with his client, .'tbat man used to steal
horses himself. He's ell right: he's our
friend THAT may be-" whispered the
prisoner, shut his head 10 shaped ike the
d-n seoundrel stole the mare from, and
Who got ne into al this trouble in the first
pAee.- 'sEevef mind his head, his heart
i III right, /" ~ ~ Whispered reply.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20

A Mormon youth, who had removed from
Iowa to Utah. and whom traveller found
tending sheep, said. Il came from Iowsy
two years ago. Father told rs all along the
road that We were coming TO Zion. Well,
this is the cussedest old Zion eve /. went to
see. I'd rather have foot Of ground in
Ioway than al these here mountings Of the
Lord, and guess the Lord would, too, II
he had ever seen Ioway.'
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20

A clergyman al Kansas City said if there
was any one within hearing Of his voice
who would try TO put step TO Sunday dog
fighting he'd like to have 'em rise up. A
small boy and old woman rose mp.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20
SUNSET ON THE BEARCAMP.
JOHN G. WHITTIER.

A gold fringe On the purpling hem
Ut hills the river runs,
As down its long, green valley falls
The last OF Summers suns.
Along its tawny gravel-bed
roadflowing, swift and still,
AS if its IL eadow levels felt
The hurry OF the rill,
Noiseless between its banks Of green
From curve to curve it slips;
The drowsy maple-shadows rest
Like fingers on its lips.
A waif from Carroll widest hills,
Unstoried and unknown;
The ursine legend OF Its lame
Prowls Oh It's banks alone.
Yet flowers as fair its slopes adorn
As ever YarrOw knew,
Or, under rainy Irish Skies,
BY Sponsors Mulla grew;
And through the gaps OF leaning trees
Its mountain cradle shows;
The gold against the amethyst,
The green against the rose.
Touched by light that has no name,
A glory never sung,
Alott on Sky and mountain wall
Are God S great pictures hung.
How changed the SUBMITS vast and old
No longer granite proved,
They melt i'll rosy mist; the rock Il:
Is softer than the cloud
The valley holds its breath; no Leaf
OF all its elms is twirled;
The silence Of eternity
Seems falling OH the world.
The pause before the breaking seals
OF mystery is this;
Yun miracl,- play OF night and day
Makes dumb its witnesses.
What unseen altar CROWDS the hills
That reach up, stair on starr
What eyes look through, what white wings fal
These purple walls OF air.
What presence from the heavenly nights
TO those Of earth stoops down!
Not vainly Hellas dreamed of'gods
On Ida's snowy CROWN
Slow fades the vision OF the sky
The golden water pales,
And over all the valley-land
A gray winged vapor sails,
20 the common way OF ALL
The sunset fires will burn,
The flowers will blow, the rivers flow
When no more return.
No whisper from the mountain pine
Nor lansing stream shall tell
The stranger, treading where tread,
OF him who loved them Well.
But beauty seen is never lost,
|. Gods colors all are fast;
The glory OF this sunset heaven
Into my soul has passed
A sense Of gladness unconhned
TO mortal date or CLINE;
AS the soul liveth, it shall live
Beyond the years OF time.
Beside the mystic asphc dels
Shall bloom the home born flowers,
And rev horizons flush and glow
With sunset hues OF ours.
Farewell these smiling hills must wear
Too soon their wintry trown,
And snow -cold winds from Oft them shak
The naples red leaves down
But | shall see a summer sun
Still setting broad and low;
The mountain slopes shall blush ana oloon
The golden water flow.
A lovers claim is mine on all
see to have and hold =
The rose light of perpetual hills,
And sunsets never cold
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20

speaking Of inference" said Judge
Lord, a Boston, when we see crowd ut
the Charleston Navy yard, we infer, not
that there is going 10 be war, but an cleo
ton
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mike, have you settled that affair with
Lewis YETI "Yes, he kicked me off the
stoop last week, and since that he has stop
ped bothering me-
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-01-20

How did queen Elizabeth take her pills.
Answer. ln-side-her lin cider.)
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An Irish doctor lately sent his bill to
lady as follows: ITO curing your husband
till he died.
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W1T AND HuM0R.

l. DONNELLY. Jr.. Editor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-06-01
MIR. M. Q. w a n II H n
SELLS THE
HARTFORD WOVEN WIRE MAT
State of WiSconsin-In Circuit Court of Wood
County.
Gerard B. Allen, Plaintiff, against Henry Reed,

State of WiSconSin-In Circuit Court of Wood
County.
Gerard B. Allen, Plaintiff, against Henry Reed,
Defendant.
ny VIRTUE of an aIias execution issued out
ASof and under the seal Of the Circuit Court
Tor the County of Wood to NE directed and de-
lYered, dated the 18th day of May 1916, against
the property of said defendant Henry Reed, for
the want OF goods and chattleS whereof TO levy
sand writ, have this day levied upon and shall
expose for sale and sell at public Auction to
the highest bidder for cash at the front door Of
the Court House in the city of Grand Rapids,
County OF Wood and state of Wisconsin, on
Friday the 3nth day of June 1876 ut one o'clock
In the afternoon, all rhe right. title and interest
OF May 1867 or has since acquired IN and TO the
following described lands, real estate and the
appurtenauces thereto viz:
The east halt of the north east quarter and
the south west quarter OF the north east quarter,
and the south half of the north west quarter
and the north east quarter of the north west
quarter, and the west half of the south west
quarter and the north east quarter of the south
west quarter of Section . and the north east
| quarter and the south half OF the south west
quarter, and the north half of the south east
quarter. and the south east quarter Of the south
east quarter, of section 6. in township % north,
range east, and the south half of the south
east quarter, and the north west quarter of tho
south east quarter, and the south east quarter
/ OF the south west quarter, and the south half
/ OF the north east quarter, and the north east
quarter Of the south east quarter OF Section 50,
quarter, and the south east quarter of the south
east quarter of section 81, township II north, of
range east, and the west halt Of the north east
quarter and the north west quarter Of section /,
township % north. of range ) east, and the
south east quarter and the south west quarter
and the north west quarter of the north east
quarter, and the south east quarter of the north
west quarter of section Is. and the north half of
the south east quarter, and the north west
quarter OF the north east quSirter, and the north
west quarter OF the north west quarter and the
south east quarter OF the south east quarter OF
section ., township 24 north, OF range east,
ind the north halt of the north east quarter and
the south east quarter Of the south east quarter,
and the south east quarter of the south west
quarter of section II, and the north half of tho
north east quarter, and the north east quarter
Of the south east quarter of section ,. town %
north OF range east. and the south west quar-
ter of the south west quarter of section }6. town
y north, of range east, all in the County of
Wood and State Of Wisconsin.
Dated May 4th, A. ID. 1876.
f. =. CASE,
Mayl1w7t Sheriff of Wood Co., Wis.
JAMES Q. RAYMOND,
Plaintiff : Attorney.