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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
Granite Railways.

A French engineer has proposed to es-
tablls tramways with granite tracks in
lieu of rails in Finisterre. He is of opin-
ion that this system is far preferable TO
the ordinary railroads. There already OK
lists vast network of what are in truth
tramways with granite rails, worked by
horse traction, in Northern Italy. In the
streets of the principal towns, and some
times on the roads, tracks of granite are
laid in the highways. The surface of
these tracks being fiat and perfectly
smooth, the wheels of the vehicles glide
over them with the least possible friction.
The conductor of each vehicle takes care
so to guide it that the wheels always re
main on the granite. The author of the
project maintains that there is nothing TO
prevent the granite lines from being USED
by carriages driven by steam power, in
like manner as though drawn by horses.
At the same time it is not proposed to
adopt the train system on granite tracks
each carriage will be provided with its
own steam power, will move by itself, and
be guided by means of a mechanism
specially devised for the purpose.-.Pall
MGy TIzette
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07


cannot acquire any higher class of truths.
because he has no general notion that
higher classes exist. He has never con-
ceived the idea that another continent eX-
lists en- the other side of the globe
All scientific investigators, and ali our
best farmers understand well the need
there is OF more definite and exact knowl-
edge-more in quantity and better in
quality. We know of no way of adj
vancing agricultural knowledge, of max
ing agricultural truth plain, sure and
practicable, but by and through carefully
conducted experiments made by thousands
of live, determined farmers ON their own
farms. The world of farmers must not
wait for agricultural colleges or Oranges
or clubs; they must individually search
for tTuth-observe and experiment, cal
culate and demonstrate. They viii then
know exactly what knowledge Is useful
for them.
Some one may eXclaim-" What non-
sense to expect that every farmer shall be-
come an investigator" Is it not greater
nonsense to pretend that he cannot de-
termine for himself the value of existing
knowledge as applied to his circum-
stances, or that he cannot strike out new
paths for himself with all the aids at his
command which the present day affords :?
Detroit Tribune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
Care of Hands.

The farmer, says the Detroit Tribune, is
obliged to use his hands in very rough
manner sometimes, and at night he be-
comes painfully sensible of it. A glOved
hand can do but little in most farming
operations; consequently they (the hands,
become hard, rough, dirty, cracked and
callOused. Some farmers are very indif-
ferent about the appearance or condition
of the hands, and they take more pains
with the limbs and feet of their horses.
We find the following directions for
the care of the hands in the New York
Tribune, which will be found very use
full now during the COOL damp weather of
spring:
After your days work is done procure
some hot water, just as hot as you can
hold your hand in for moment at time
Get some soap, strong and cleansing, most
any kind of frst-quality bar-soap will do
Soap and soak your hand until the skin
dirt is out and your hands feel soft and
pliable. Use coarse Indian meal if the
callouses require it; then have ready some
pure glycerine, that you can buy of any
apothecary that you can trust. It will
cost from forty to sixty cents per pound.
according to location; and mind, just
here, don't be put off with any lotions y
for sore hands; don't take any of the
" camphorated glycerine," nor take any
Of the trash in bottles, for it is half alcohol
or some foreign substance to cheaper the
cost, and is injurious to the cuticle. Rub
the pure glycerine into your hands, Just as
much as they will absorb in a quarter of
an hour. Hold by warm stove, and you
have accomplished the object. 1t never
fails to give clear, white, smooth hands,
equal to those which have none but pro-
fessional duties to attend to- After fol-
lowing this up for few times, and hav-
ing healed the chaps completely, you may
be able to accomplish all that is required
by an application only once week, or, it
may be, even longer time may elapse :;
but one essential point must be insisted
upon, viz, be sure to get the pure, IN
adulterated glycerine, and be put off with
no other, as | was for two years, on the
plea that common glycerine smelt badly
and was filthy, which, on the contrary, is
not at all offensive in its crude state. One
beautiful result, aside from its healing and
whitening properties. will be the warmth
which it gives to the hands not experienced
under any other mode. Follow these d.
rectiOns and there is no fail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
Disraeli'S First Speech.

On the 18th of December, 1887, just af-
ter O'Conneu had delivered most pow
erful speech upon the Irish Elections Pc
titions, and when the House was in
state OF great excitement, young man
OF singular appearance, dressed, as the
tradition is, very profusely and elabo-
rately, with his well-arranged ringlets
clustering over brow as pale as death,
his eyes fixed on the ground, rose and
asked the indulgence which was usually
granted to those who spoke for the first
time. He would, he said, SHOW himself
worthy of such indulgence by not abusing
it. He began by haunting O'Connell He
then directed two or three taunts at the
Wings, who had made certain very i'm
proper limitations at clubs or elsewhere,
just at that time "when the bell of our
cathedral announced the death of our
monarch" He made some daring asser-
tions, which were received with laughter
and cries of " Obi ohr' from the Minis
terial benches. At an allusion to 90 men
of moderate opinions and a temperate
tone of mind" there was still more laugh
ter, as it was considered that the charac-
ter referred to was quite the reverse of
that of the speaker The young man en-
treated the House to give him five min
House became indulgent for moment;
but shouts of laughter were again heard
as MIR. Disraeli went on to explain that he
stood there virtually, though not formal
ly, as the representative of a considera-
bic number of members of Parliament
the new members. "Then why
laugh? ~ he asked; "why not let
me enjoy this distinction at least for
one night? 90 When, however, he
spoke of the disagreement between tthe
noble Tityrus of the Treasury Bench and
the Daphne of Liskeard," and mentioned
Lord John Russell as waving in his hand
the keys of st. Peter, the voice of the
young orator was crowned in the merri-
ment of the House. The laughter was
renewed more loudly, as he calculated
with despair" Now, Mr.. Speaker, see
the philosophical prejudice of mani"
Presently he said pathetically-'' l would
certainly gladly hear cheer, even though
it came from the lips of political oppo-
nent." No cheer, however, followed, and
he then added am not at all sur
prised at the reception have experienced.
| have begun several times many things
and | have often succeeded at last. |
will sit down now, but the time will come
when you will listen to mei' He sat
down, and Lord Stanley, on behalf of the
opposition, replied to O'ConneIl; for it
was thought O'Connell's speech had not
been answered. Several explanations of
this failure have been attempted. 1t has
been thought by some that this maiden
speech was in the bombastic style of Mr..
Disraeli's novels, but the speech was not
specially bombastic. The House was vet
strange to the characteristics and manner
isIns Ct the young orator. & silly threal
made by him to crush O'Connell, one of
the most formidable men of the time, was
remembered. Moreover, the House was
not prepared to applaud young
who INDUCED himself in the use of such
personalities.-E. s. Ndday, IN Scri6ner
for jane.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
Certain knowledge.

In such complicated business as farm
ing, where so much depends on the exact
knowledge of the farmer himself, it is
necessary that he should be constant in
vestigator and eXperimenter 1t is true
that a man to be a successful investigator
wants to know to a certainty what it is
that he seeks to determine. He must
have sort of general idea, and he wants
to demonstrate the facts on which his gen.
eral notion is founded A thoughtful man
catches glimpses of great truths by their
connection with other things which he
deals with every day, and these lead him
on if he is not careless to let them slip
from his sight. Experiments are only in
quiries which are addressed to Nature,
and when one begins an experiment or a
series of them, he is merely having an
earnest conversation and discussion with
Nature, to clear up the doubts and haze
which envelop a great subject. Plato
says, " WhosOever asketh knows that for
which he seeketh in a general notion, or
else how shall he know when he hath
found it?' When this rotion is clear and
distinct, the inquiry will be direct and
the object more readily reached. A
chance suggestion or observation Often
leads to some of The most important dis
coveries and useful results. How great
need, then, for us TO be close observers OF
what transplres around US in our daily
work. WHAT farmer most of all things
needs are facts, certainly and fully made
plain to i'm. and which ne may be able
to use whenever occasion gives him the
opportunity; and it is the class of rare
truths which help him most. Any dumb
head who knows enough to get between
the plow-handles in order to hold the i'm
plement, has quite smattering OF the
commonest facts in the business; but he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07

"Will you place that chair before the
table and help me to it? am complete
" unnerved. Seven hours in that safe
nearly killed me-"
The chair was placed as ordered-the
man who had spoken assisted me to it..
I took paper and pen, and while those
four stalwart, desperate men stood gazing
upon me 1 wrote the following:
For valuable services, | pay these
four men flor the soul of me l could not
write geDtlemen) the sum of fifteen hun
dred dollars. They rescued me from a
most horrible death, for which, in addition
to this sum, they have my most heartfelt
thanks"
''Take that paper, sir, and if anything
should occur, come to me-"
Thus was | saved, but it was many
weeks before / recovered from that night
of horror.-James Rees, in Hartford Times
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
COnsumptIOn CurefY.

An old Physician, retired from active prac-
tice, having had placed in his hands by an
East India Missionary the formula of a SIM
pie Vegetable Remedy, for the speedy and
permanent Cure of Consumption, Bronchitis,
Catarrh, Asthma. and all Throat and Lung
Affections, also positive and Radical Cure
for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Com
plants, after having thoroughly tested its
wonderful curative powers in thousands of
cases, fe' Is it his duty to make it known to
his suffering fellows. Actuated by this mo-
tive, and conscientious desire to telicve hu-
man suffering, he will send Gree of charge)
to all who desire it, this recipe, with fullidi-
rections for preparing and successfully using.
Sent by return mail by addressing, with
stamp, naming this paper, DIR. w. c. Stevens,
l26 Powers Block, Rochester, n. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
FOR THE OLD 30 Us.

Once we wondered that the cadence
Of our grandsires song,
Floating through the old mans memory,
Echoed there SO long.
We have wondered that our mother,
After set of sun
Softly singing, wept IN silence
When the strain was done.
Marveled we that when our father
Joined our blind-man's-buff
He forgot to say at bedtime,
Come, we've played enough.
Men must slowly cease to marvel;
Slowly came the truth
That the snatch our grandslre muttered
Was song of youth;
That our mother wept when singing,
In the twilight dim,
at the sudden recollection
OF girlhood hymn.
And our noisy sport with father
Now full well we know
Twas famous game with children
Fifty years ago.
Tears of manhood man abhorreth,
Holds them half sin;
Yet the hush-song of our mother
AS she tucked us in
Thaws the frost-lockcd fountain quickly
Into bursting tears,
When it breaks like sudden sunlight
Through the mist of years.
Oh, the childhood of our natu1e!
Let it come again,
Let it wake once more the laughter
In the hearts of men!
o, that distant, distant landscape,
ShrouGed and unseen
World from world forever parted,
With a song betweeni
Let that song by graybeards muttered
Rise in chorus now!
Garlands twisted by the children
Grace furrowed brow.
Let the statescraft of the forehead
Fling its scepter down,
Better wrea his of smiles than wrinkles
Or Il civic crown.
Let us live our boy-games over;
Sing we ballads old;
Call it back-that prime of childhood
Happy age of gold.
-.Brainerd ThraH, IN Christian Union.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07

my DEAR" said MIR. s., to his bloom
your Improvement in cakes, biscuit, bread,
rolls, every kind of pastry in short" "Oh!"
said the wife, "Pve solved the secret by using
the greatest thing in the market for baking
-DooLEY's YEAST POWDER. Henceforth Pll
use no other"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07

RUFUS BLANCHARD, 1872 Clark street, Chi
cago, has just published Map of the North
western States, size 3Sx50 inches. 1t shows
Counties, Towns and Railroads as plain as
the letter press of Family Bible, and is the
best Business Map we have yet seen. Can
vassers would do well to secure the agency
of it, by addressing Mr.. Blanchard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
Constipation.

Persons suffering with this painful condi-
tion of the digestive organs will experience
permanent relief by the use of DR.. r. A.
Wilson's Pills. They have been thoroughly
tested in this and other diseases. B. L.
Fahnestock & Co., proprietors, Pittsburgh.
Sold by Dealers generally.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
rheumatism Quickly Cured.

DURANG's RHEUMATIC REMEDY, the great
Internal Medicine, will positively cure any
case of rheumatism on the face of the earth,
no matt + of how long standing. Price 81 a
bottle: six bottles, IS. Sold by all druggists
Send for circular to HELPHENsTINE & BENT
LEY. Druggists. Washington, d. G.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
Mothers, Mothers, Mothers.

Don't fail to procure Mrs. WNsLow's SoorH-
ING SYRUP for all diseases of teething in chill
dren. 1t relieves the child from pain, cures wind
collie, regulates tue bowels, and, by giving relief
and health to the child gives rest to the mother.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
Simmons Liver Regulator.
A Magnificent Tribute

Ole Bull had made every arrangement for his de
partpre to Norway: America had received him well.
violin. Wherever he had been, the musical talent of
Te and had their highest eneop
successes with feeling of regret that he must leave
concert had been planned for s HIM.
and the Everett Rooms in New York were thronged
genus and bid him farewell MUSICIANS i whose G a ns
had flooded the land and crossed the water clustered
music filled the rooms: 1t was grand tribute to The
old mans success In ife and one which he for
around him in his native land.
o and T 0erure to
A Annie A. Watson, niece OF Mr. J. Jay Watson, had
dience in amazement as the grand old opera lod-
ed the rooms 1t seemed if fresh inspiration touched
cord the strains of the piano. enr hing the efforts
of the great artist and expounding the music
Writing to friend END about the concert Mr. Watson
fS ESQ d tH qTertae was he nsaea 9ad decided
making-the beautiful tone and wonderful equality
and afthongh the Everett Rooms are exceedingly de-
cien in their construction. in point of musical acous
that the most delicate passages executed upon the
instrument perfectly distinct in every part of the
piano has been my fav0rite Ole Bun remarked short
time since while examining the equalized scale. that
of many failures in constructing pianos by the
inual drawing OF many thousand pounds weight upon
from given part causes the pianos made upon ordi-
nary prlnclpIes 10 pecome co9paraEey Worthiess IN
of the equalZng scale renders it actually impoSsi
bltv for the pianos to become strained warped il
any way comparisons always odious,' but do
not hesitate to say that the Mathl shek pianos
doubleday the most reliable instruments made. Expe.
rience has taught that persons purchasing pianos
should ak themselves the question, before selecting
one Where can we purchase instruments that viii
sound well after ten years USE? Planes may have a
charm when we first hear them, but in few months
they will begin TO show their weak points, and, in a
couple of years at the farthest, become ike the
tinkling of cracked cow-bel thana musical instru-
firmly believe that MathuShek will
last lifetime and the day is not far distant when
this instrument will take the lead of every other
In USE"
The increased sale of these pianos and the constant
demand have compelled Messrs. PELToN IL PoMR ROY,
the Chicago Agents, to move into larger and more
commodiOus warerOoms at No $50 State street, where
all classes of instruments of the celebrated Mathushek
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
50 Browns Bronchial TrOches.,s

Coughs and colds are often overlooked.
A continuance for any length of time causes
irritation of the Lungs or some Chronic
Throat Disease. "Broac'e's bronchial Iroches"
are an effcctual COUCH REMEDY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
w1LHorr's ASTI-PER1op1c OR FEVER AND

WITHOUT 8 ANTI-f ERIODIC OR EVER AND
AGUE ToNIC.-This invaluable and standard
family medicine is now household word
and maintains its reputation unimpaired.
1t is Endorsed by the medical profession, and
prescribed daily in the Charity Hospital and
other Hospitals in New Orleans. Wilhoft's
Tonic is thus highly recommended by the
leading medical men of the country, and is
worthy of such Endorsement. G. r. FINLAY
& Co., Proprietors, New Orleans.
FOE SALE BY ALL DRuGGISTS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07

DIR. HOLLAND wants to know % Who
can tell what baby thinks 90 Well, what
would DR.. Holland think himself if he
had to wear clothes a mile too long for
him, and have his back stuck so full of
pins that there wasn't room on it for half
a square inch of prickly heat s-BurEtng-
ton Haaok-Eye.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07

READER, respond at once to the generous
offer of Kendall 81 Co., Boston. See adv.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07

HoFMANN'S HOP PILLS for Fever and Ague
They cure at once and are preventive.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
Sail and Awning Maker, asouth Market ST.

Each package contains DR.. Sanford's Improved In
hang Tube, with full directions for use in all cases.
Price 800 per package For sale by all Wholesale
and retail druggists throughout the United States.
WEEKS POTTER, General Agents and Wholesale
Druggists, Boston.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
BALSAM AND PINE,
TWO I'M ONE,

Thus combined we have two grand medical agents
In each of which performs its function and united
ly produce more cures than any Imminent, lotion.
wash, plaster before compounded in the his
tory OF medicine. Try one. PRICE, Is CENTS.
Sold by all druggists and sent receipt of cents
for one, SIPS for six, g. Is for twelve carefully
wrapped, and warranted, by WEEKS s. POTTER,
Proprietors. Boston Mass,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07

When | came to my senses was sur
rounded by four ferce-looking men-one
was bathing my head, while another was
holding me in his arms What could it
mean? | was saved. But how, and by
whom?
They were burglars who came for the
purpose of plumber. They told me so !;
and, instead of money, they found what
they took to be a corpse. They stood
-whispered-seemed to hesitate how
to act. The safe was opened; the owner
was there at their mercy. Weak as was.
l at once discovered the cause OF their hes.
itation.
you came" said, ''to rob me instead
of which you saved my life. The amount
of money which you would have OBJ
tanned is no inconsiderable sum; it is
there; there in that second drawer from
the right. Take it-divide it between
yourselves, and, with it, take my thanks.
You see l am very weak-the excitement
caused by my incarceration"
One of the men approached me and
said:
1--WE are robbers; we are in your power.
for we are not murderers. We came for
money, but
| interrupted him.
&c No hesitation, sir; it is yours-my
free gift-take it
He then Joined his companions, con-
suited awhile, then came to me, aud said ::
Suppose, sir, that we were detected |?
Our entrance may have been Observed
the money found upon us-the condition
OF this safe-thus, you see, upon such ev-
ldence we would be convicted at once"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-01-26

81, T,nsa IN AN uSpERdaoUED Reservoir,
Enst Of the Santa Claru river, on tne SS,Sa. 10
Rancho. are probably the largest numoss %
artesian wells in California. we peiiess 9
that In no single instance has there oesn ~. =
failure to secure good aow oil water y, "nel :
= well has been bored. Nearly OIL, ana
there are in the neighborhood OF hity OF OF
then, have been struck withia a depth OF
one hundred and seventY-fye feet. Under
meath that whole section there appears to
he a vast lake or reservoir, to secure the clear
and pure waters Of which it Is only neces-
sary to pierce through the crust OF rich
soil, Near the coast the water flows Win
great force, and the wells are very strong.
Further up the. valley the current grows
gradually less. AT the lighthouse on Hue.
meme Point the water rises to heigh. OF
about twenty-five feet and Is conducted 10
the second story OF the buildings With ease.
While visiting this lighthouse some time
since we had our attention called to the TACT
that the tides affect the force OF the no" OF
the we'll at that place. The water rises ana
fulls some four feet with the tide, although
it remains perfectly pure and fresh.-pefr
turd Free Press.