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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-12-12
1878. 1878.
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-27
A Scotch C0urtship.

A shy young man of Scotland for
fourteen years had wooed the Iassie of
his heart. One night Jamie, for that
was the young mans name, called to see
Jennie, and there was a terrible look
about his eyes-just as there is some
times when they've made up their
minds to pop the question. And Jamie
came in and sat down by the fire just as
he had done every Tuesday and Friday
night for fourteen years, and he talked
of the weather, and the cattle, and the
crops, and the stock market, | was go
ing to say-but no, they didn't talk
about that. And finally Jamie said:
"Jennie, I've known you for long
time"
Yes JAMIE" said She
" And-Ive thought I'd always like to
know you, Jennie"
Y-e-s-Jamie"
"And so I've bought-a lot-Jennie.
"Y-e-s-J-a-m-i-e
So-that-when-"
Disadvantages"
"We're dead we can lay our bones
together"
The fool had gone and bought lot
in graveyard but Jennie was not dis
couraged. She knew her man we'll
after fourteen years she ought to-and
so she said gently:
Jamie"
eyes, Jennie"
Don't you think 'twould be better
to lay our bones together while we're
yet alive?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-27
The Color of Mars.

Several hypothesis have been adj
yanced to explain the reddish colon
which characterizes the bright parts OF
the planets disk. Mr. Higgins comes
to the conclusion that this popularity is
not due to the planets atmosphere. In
deed, Arago has called attention to the
fact that upon this hypothesis the red
ness should be more decided at the
borders of the planet than in the cen
trail portions, since the luminous rays
traverse a greater thickness of atmos-
phere, and traverse it more obliquely
in the regions near the limb, when the
contrary effect-is observed 1t has also
been remarked that this hypothesis
does not explain why the red tint is not
general. Mr. Lockyer has suggested
that the color may depend upon the
cloudy state Of the planet, and the
spectroscope gives considerable support
to this hypothesis. In 1862 the planet
was clearer of clouds and more ruddy
than in 1864. The explanation of this
is that when Mars is clouded the light
reflected by the clouds undergoes less
absorption than that reflected by the
planet itself The spectroscope indica-
ted this increased absorption on one &C
casion by showing that the reflected sun
light was without large portion of the
blue rays.
Lambert has attempted to explain
the ruddy color of the spots, and their
disappearance or indistinctness during
the Martial winter, by the hypothesis
that the vegetation on the planet is red
instead of green. Hence, in the Martial
summer the surface has a ruddy ap-
pearance, which disappears in winter.
As Mr.. Proctor remarks, if this hypoth-
esis were true, the rapid changes Of col
or which have been noted by many
observers, would indicate the sudden
blooming forth of Martial vegetation
over hundreds of square miles Of the
planets surface Finally,.w have the
hypothesis, first advanced, we believe,
by Herschel-and still accepted as the
best explanation of the phenomenon by
many astronom ers-that the red color
is due to the character of the planets
soil.-Chorles w. Raymond, IN the GALAXY
for October.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-27
A Li0n-Tamer'S Presence of Mind.

| Perhaps the most magnificent act of
heroism ever performed in this vicinity
was witnessed during the performance
of FOrepaugh's circus, at Reno, on
Saturday last. The lion-tamer was
giving an exhibition of his control over
the ferocious brutes under his charge
when suddenly he was observed to turn
pale and tremble. The largest lion of
the six in the cage had displayed I'M
usual sullenness and anger, and now
refused to obey its master With glar-
ing eyes it crouched in the corner, and
evidently meditated a spring. The
trainer recovered his selfpossession in a
moment, and, keeping his eye firmly
fixed upon that of the huge beast, dealt
it terrific blow with his rawhide over
the face. With fierce snarl the lnfuri-
ated lion bounded forward. Catching
one of its open jaws in either hand, the
powerful man held the brute off for a
desperate moment by main strength.
An electric thrill of horror ran through
the crowd which surrounded the cage
IN an instant The beast in the other
dens shrieked and roared in chorus. 1t
is In moment like this that the real
heroic element asserts itself. Without
turning his head in the least, the brave
man firmly whispered, " Pass me small
boy" One was instantly seized and
crowded through the bars. With one
superhuman effort the trainer thrust
the boy into the hot, closing jaws, and
then bounded lightly aside, A snarl, a
few savage crunches, and the beast
turned again for his pray. But the hero
was gone! The door snapped behind
him, and gasping "Saved?" he tainted
in the arms Of the cheering concourse.
A handsome subscription was raised on
the spot and when the audience dis
persed 1t was with tears of emotion in
their eyes. A brave soul had been res
cued from horrible death-another
small boy had been wiped out.-San
Francisco Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-27
A Thoughtful Good Man.

A middle-aged woman has called at
the pOstOffice two or three times daily
for the past week to see if there was any
mail to her address. Her anxiety finally
became so great that she explained that
she was expecting money from her hus-
band, who was offo his annual vaca-
ton. Yesterday morning she was made
glad by receiving a postalcard from
him. She retired to one of the windows
and read aloud to herself:
Dear Wife-Td send you $50 with
this, but you see I'd have to pin it on,
and some one might take it off, put a
counterfeit in its place, and when l got
home you'd be in jail"
She read it over again, and there were
tears in her eyes as she unused: He's
the best man on earth Few husbands
would have been as thoughtful as that.
| don't know good money from bad, and
but for his thoughfulness [ might pass
this very night in jail. [ see now what
narrow escape I've had, and I'll take
the children and go and board with my
brother-in-law for the next two weeks. y
Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-27

up the chances of the next shearing
without a care, and set his face Eng
landward.
Janet was clapping her haver-bread
one morning IN spring, when Roy
opened the door of his own house
place, and suddenly stood before her.
"Guid sakes Master Roy, is it you,
or your ghaist?"
s." 1t is [, Janet"
:" Then you're vera welcome, an no
before you're needed There's auld
Elderslie an Lawyer Bell gaun clean
daft ABBOTT ye-for | telt them you'd
turn up again when We get ret ready
to-"
Janet, you are real glad to see me,
you know you are-why, there are tears
in your eyes, woman p
MAR shame for We to bring them
there, Master Roy-maist breaking nv
heart these three years"
Janet, we will not part again, hope;
where is Alice Elderslie?'
Deed she was here minute since
she'll haze gone to the garden belize"
Roy lost no time in going to look for
her and Janet, watching him through
the open lattice, nodded her head with
great satisfaction at the sight of the
young laird under the apple blossoms,
and sweet Alice Elderslie walking low
ingly beside him.
"He ought to haze said the words he's
saying now three years ago, murmured
Janet, regretfully, but they're better
late than never"
Janet, Janet, Alice has promised to
be my wife,
In time she comes when God sends,
Master Roy but whites men are fam
to dill themselves for the ither ane Do
We ken what has come O. your Mahal ?
She ran away wi clerk i her fayther's
employ, an they took sac much O the
old mans gowd wi them that they maist
ruined him. [ hope we shall ne'er hear
the end O. that marriage; it Gamma be a
guild ane."
In the meantime Janet had sent for
Squire Elderslie and Lawyer Bell, and
Roy was eating dinner with Alice when
they arrived.
My letter, Airlie Did you get my
letter? But that is impossible; it only
left ten days ago"
4 got no letter from you, Bell"
Then you don't know what Elderslie
and [ wrote to you about?'
" AS [ got no letter it is impossible [
should"
Tell him, Elderslie."
"He won't believe me, Bell. Ny
wisdom is all foolishness to him, and
most other people but Lawyer Bells
word is as good for cash as the Bank of
England"
"Then, Airlie, we wrote to tell you
that Elderslie has found an immense
bed of coal, half Of it on his own land
half on yours. 1t is so rich that [ am
sure if you want to buy back the old
earldom of Airlie you may do it in half
a score of years.
Let the earldom go | have now
Alice of Elderslie, that is enough Joy
for any man to bear in one day. Come,
now, and rejoice with us, and then to-
morrow | will talk with you about seams,
and shares, and profits"
" Janet, said Roy, as he bid her good
night, Janet, [ have won the best and
loveliest wife in all the world"
''And a weel-tochered one, too, Mas
ter Roy. I'm not saving that Miss
Alice needed a fortune, but one does
ma harm.
":And am in the right road this time,
Janet"
"Weel, weel, the right road aye,
some gate or ither, a profitable road.
A guild wife is from the Lord, and she
is aye kin to Good Fortune r'-AmeEa
4. Barr.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-27
Strange Cracking of the Earth.
Corpus Christi (Texas) Times.

Mr.. J. t. Quesenberry, who resides
on the Medina, southwest Of the city,
reports strange and unusual cracking
of the earth along the banks Of the
stream. Generally the bed of the Me
dina is filed with a brisk-running cur
rent of water, but the great deficiency
of rain about the head of the stream
this season was followed by its almost
total drying up. A few days ago heavy
rains again made the water to run, and
since that time great cracks, more like
chasms, have opened in places along
both sides of the river, some distance
from the banks, and extend for quite a
distance. These cracks are so wide that
animals have fallen into them and
died. Mr. Quesenberry reports that he
himself observed two dead horses at
one point
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-27
The Value of Mans Opinion of Woman's
Dress

Clarence Cook, on .. Togas and Toggery;" Serb
ner for October.
The truth seems to be, that the tast,
of men in the matter of women's dress
Is often better worth consulting thai
women will ever allow it to be. Some
times when they are very much in love
with man, they will wear what they
think will please him. Tennyson's angry
lover
Saw with half unconscious eye
She wore the colors he approved"
But, as a rule, they make no such con
cessions. But then, | will admit tha
men are very irritating IN their criticism
and most of them do not know wher
to stop. The trades of the medieva
preachers against the dress of the wo
men Of their time are amusing reading
nowadays, and even the upbraidings
of the old Hebrew prophets would be
far less terrible to our ears than they
are if they were not rolled out in such
rich vocabulary. isaiah iii 1924.
Certainly, there is no profanity to-day
in smiling over Latimer's rebuke to the
women of his London for what looked
to him like absurdity in their dress, anC
for the pleasure they took, and the time
and money they wasted, in firing them
selves. But from Isaiah down to Sa
vonarola, what real good did all these
ratings do? No woman ever minded
them for any length of time, or changed
fashion, or gave up an absurdity IL
dress until she was ready to do so o
her own sweet viii.
But for all their dislike of Beetles
women may remember that all theil
stuffs are devised, and all the pattern:
of those stuffs designed, by men thai
almost all the new fashions originate
with men; and that the great Partisan
arblter of their fate is a man, and, fOl
all they despise English taste, an Eng
/ lishman born, and trained to his work
in England. Why not compromise or
the subject, and admit that men anC
women need to work together in this as
in many other things, and that each
needs the others help if good result il
to be attained?
The help of artists, too, is often O
great value, and, if accepted, may leaC
to important revolutions. [ believe the
cOlors that have been so fashionable fol
several yearS-the new shades of green
blue, red, and all the odd intermediate
combinations are directly owing tc
the so-called pre-Raphaelite painters il
England to them and to their scholars
and followers, who first had stuffs dyed
in colors to suit themselves, then per
suaded their wives and sisters to veal
dresses made Of these materials and
devised by themselves, and finally came
to control the manufacture of stuffs that
would take the folds they liked. From
the families of these artists the taste
they had cultivated spread to theil
friends, then overfowed into the artistic
world, and becoming the fashion, was
strong enough to make decided mark
upon trade and manufactures, so tina
nowadays there is scarcely beautiful,
material of the middle age or of the
renaissance time that you cannot get
in England made with all the old per
fections and with all the old beauty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-27

The quickest railroad building on rec
ord is said to have taken place in the
construction of the Philadelphia and
Atlantic City M. line. The distance
is fifty-five miles; the gauge is three and
a half feet; among the excavations
there is one of 10000 cubic yards;
among the embankments, one of 1900
feet long, requiring $4,000 cubic yards
of earth, which was built in week; of
bridges and culverts there are more
than 100. The whole road was con-
structed in sixty-seven days, and in time
for a large summer travel The work
is highly spoken of as a creditable piece
of engineering, and it had the unusual
merit of construction for less than the
estimated cost.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-27

The OSTRICH.-The cry Of the ostrich
SO greatly resembles that of lion as
occasionally to deceive even the ma
tives. 1t is usually heard early in the
morning, and at times also at night.
The strength of the ostrich is enormous.
A single blow from its gigantic feet lit
always strikes forward is sufficient to
PROSTATE, nay, to kill many beasts of
prey, such as the hyena, the wild hog,
the jackal, and others. The ostrich is
exceedingly swift Of foot, under ordi-
nary circumstances outrunning the
feetest horse. "What time she lifteth
up herself on high, she scorneth the
horse and his rider" On special occa-
sions, and for a short distance It's
speed is truly marvellous, perhaps
not less than mile in half a
minute. Its feet appear hardly to
touch the ground, and the length
between each stride is not unfrequently
twelve to fourteen feet. Indeed, if we
are to credit the testimony of Mr.
Adamson, who says he witnessed the
fact in Senegal, such is the rapidity and
even with two men mounted on his
JACK He VIII OutotIlp SH LIISIISii HOISe
in speed. The ostrich, moreover, is
long-winded, if I may use the express
sion; so that it is a work of time to ex-
haust the bird. The food of the ostrich,
in its wild state, consists Of seeds, tops,
and various shrubs and other plants;
but it is often difficult to conceive how
it can manage to live at all, for one not
unfrequently meets with it in regions
apparently destitute of vegetation of
any kind.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-09-27

A HORSE STUNG TO DEATH BY BUNDLE
BEEs.-At a meeting at New Concord
Church, six miles southeast of Boonville,
a horse was hitched too near humble
bees nest. The bees attacked slightly
at first, but as he charged and plunged,
attempting to get away, they peppered
him with 'red-hot shot from all sides,
until the poor beast could stand it no
longer. He uttered shrek after shrek
in his dying agony, and then laid him
self down, yielding up the ghost. The
animal belonged to young man from
Henry county Boonrille No. Eagle