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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12
Habits Of Carrier Pigeons
Utica Herald

Frank J. PeGters, the carrier pigeon
fancier Of Troy, was in town yesterday
with a number of birds, for the purpose
of putting them to trial flights. In com
pany with Judge Willard he sent nine of
them off on the Mohawk River bridge
at the foot of Genesee street. The
birds took flight handsomely, some
rising until lost to sight and all striking
bee line for Troy Mr.. Peeters and
Mr. Richardson, of Green Island, sew
eral days ago let two 90 in this city on
a trial match. The day was hazy and
the birds failed to get the proper direc-
ton. The consequence was they re
turned eventually to the CITY. One
was found on Fayctte street, and died
soon after from exhaustion. The other
was found near Bagg's Hotel. and was
injured while being captured, being
mistaken for wild pigeon, and also died
Inasmuch as the flying OF pigeons
through this latitude is likely to con
tinue, it may be we'll for all to note the
following characteristics Of carrier birds,
SO that they may not be unfortunately
mistaken for those Of other specimens.
The carrier pigeon is always of a uni
form color, never notified. There are
broad white circles around its eyes,
which are haWk-lke in clearness. The
nose from the head proper to the beak
is unusually broad. Carrier pigeons also
bear the names Of their owners on
their wings, but the other characteristics
mentioned should enable all to tell them
at a distance ana thus do them no harm.
The trial flights yesterday were preIm-
mary to a match which Mr.. Peeters ex-
poets to start from this city next week
He says if the weather Is not hazy any
match or the distance Of a hundred
miles should be successful. Misty OF
rainy weather does not obstIuct a birds
vision so mubh as hazy weather, when
it is almost always nonplussed. He
thinks that the faculty possessed by the
birds to find its way back to It's native
cot is due almost entirely to It's men,
DRY Of places. Young birds are trained
by taking them farther and farther
away from home until they have
finally, as it were, premorized long
distance. Birds that have once reached
Troy successfully from Utica can the
next time be taken to Syracuse. IF on
rising from the latter place they can
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12


see Utica then their fight to
Troy Is probable. It they cannot
see Utica, or some other place they
remember, they circle round
Syracuse, and if they still fail to re
cognize any landmarke, eventually re-
turn to that city, bewildered, and often
exhausted. At such times they fall a
prey to evitdisposed persons, and per-
maps often to well-meaning people, who
think they are bagging some game by
capturing them. As the best of pigeons
are apt to go astray. any one finding
them can do no greater favor to the
owner than by sending them to him i'm
mediately, c. 0. D., according to the
address on their wings. If every one
made it point to do this an impetus
would he given to 4 praiseworthv sport
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12

PROFESSOR EDISON, while in Virginia
City, New, stepped into a telegraph Of
flee, and q local paper describes him as
" the WOrst-dressed man in the room by
all odds. An old black hat, a cheap
shirt with the stud-hOles in the bosom
unoccupied, two-bit necktie several
months old, coarse pants and vest, and
a mOuse-cOiOred linen buster completed
his attire One of The office-boys asked
him to put his name in an autograph
album. lie wrote line that looked
like print and fixed his name at the
bottom. Everybody admired the
marvellous pennanship, which was en-
phatically new style. The letters were
awkWardly made, taken singly, but
when grouped in a line all looked ex-
actly alike, as if engraved on copper
plate. You couldn't take thirty words
a minute and print like that, said one.
l can take forty, was the reply. The
fastest operator present took one end Of
the wire, and Edison, sitting at the re-
ceiVer, picked up sheet Of paper and
said, Let the message come He sat
there three minutes and took $50 words
with apparent ease, doing better than
he had promised. The dispatch was
written in that faultless hand that graced
the autograph album"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12
Drunken Stuff.

How many children and women are
slowly and surely dying, or rather
being killed, by excessive doctoring, or
the daily use of some drug or drunken
stuff called medicine, that no one
knows what it is made of, who can
easily be cured and saved by Hop Bit
tiers, made of Hops, Buchu, Mandrake,
Dandellon, &c, which is so pure, sim
pie and harmless that the most frail
woman, weakest invalid or smallest
child can trust in them. VIII you he
saved by them? See other column.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12

A NEVADA newspaper tells how a
Piute squaw shoots: ''She will throw
herself on her back. clap both feet to
the bow, draw the arrow with both
hands, and, letting drive, send It clean
through the body Of the deer"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12

An artist now goes about London
whose piano Is drawn by pony. He
sits down and does his Rubinstein, and
so forth, before an admiring crowd
His locks are long and uncombed, and
his eyes roll.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12

MATTERS have improved somewhat at
Saratoga, but there is no Disgusting the
fact that the popularizing of SO many
seaside resorts near New York has hurt
that watering-place materially.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12

The ADvAETAGE.-The advantages in
buying D. b. DeLand & Co.'S Best
Chemical SaLeTatuS are numerous.
Among them are uniform and perfect
goods, that make extra bread, biscuit or
pastry, of all kinds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12
! Delicate 0DnYati0p.

4 few weeks ago a patient was ad-
mitted to the Samaritan hospital, Lon
don, with what was believed to be q
calculus of the right kidney. The staff
of the hospital was unanimously of that
opinion. Certainly the history of the
case, and repeated examinations Of the
organ through the abdominal walls,
pointed to calculus. The pain and sui
fering were such as to make an opera
ton desirable. The patient wished it
performed. Mr.. Thornton. Mr. Wells
being present, did it. He cut cautiously
and slowly down upon the kidney from
behind. On reaching the organ, this
was found to be enormously enlarged,
projecting some distance below the
crest Of the ilium. When incised, a
pint or two Of urine dashed out. Mr..
Thornton then carried his finger, and
subsequently q long probe, into the kid
ney through the opening, but failed to
find any stone. The cyst if it was one,
was well syringed with antiseptics, a
drainage tube inserted, large portion
of the integument8 brought together by
satures. and the patient placed in bed
[ watched the case with much interest.
Nothing occurred to excite the slightest
apprehension. The patient said the old
gragging weight and pain were gone.
Her temperature never rose to 1908:
and so far, indeed, as her several synp-
toms went, she did not seem disturbed
by the Operati0n.-Cor. Of The Courier
JOuYnnI
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12
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may be restored TO sound health if such thing he
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12

Gen. Lew Wallace, of Indiana,
has been appointed governor of
New Mexico, vice Axtel, suspended.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12
Mary HARD TIMES OFFER

OF IUU rcSpOnSlDIe aUVeTtiScTS IN The Herald WANT
ing Agents. Scores Of rare offers to beginners and
o-ners out of employment.
EVERY a WAKE should at one c place himself in
WIDE agent direct communication with az
firms everywhere who want gents, DY sending his
permanent address FOR insertion in the only
Agents Directory published IN the world. AGENTS
WANTED, Circulars terms &c, and q bcautiful
lVX4 engraving, sample card and particulars Of
Agents. Directory, and one copy only Of the
stamp. Nothing free. Agents PUB. CO., III San
som st. Philada., Pa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12

Lose BRANCH bellies wear their finger
nails long and pointed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12
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SAFETY.


EENHESE TWO PICTURES ILLUSTRATE THE
Z danger of using common kerosene lamps, and
the absolute safety secured with the celebrated
Self Distinguishing NCB-E rPIOSire Lamp.
Persons shouldn't risk the lives of their children
by using any other. IL saves life and prevents &C
cIdent to person and property.
Ask your dealer for it. Circulars free. Liberal
discount to the trade. Address,
HARRIS & SMITH,
Manufacturers. GAINESVILLE Wis
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-09-12

A brjcEIayer was one day brought TO
the Edinyurgh Infrmary. severely in
jurcd by a fall from a housctop. The
medical man In attendance asked the
sufferer at what time the accident oc-
CURED. {" At two o'clock" was the re-
ply. On being asked now he came to
fix the hoursO accurately, he answered.:
" Because 1 saw the people at dinner
through Il window as l was coming
down"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-01-03
MISCELLANEOUS,

The Duke OF Manchester is to succeed
the Earl of Dufferin as Governor General OF
Canada.
The French Government has requested
Don Carlos TO leave France, and he has
complied with the request.
, The Paris MORiteHr announces that Japan
has renowned all commercial treaties with
foreign nations and resumed its right to
levy customs duties at pleasure.
An almost incredible instance of mans in
humanity to man is revealed in a statement
officially made by Lieut.. Walton, Assistant
Inspector of the Life-saving Service on the
North Carolina Coast. tits in substance, that
ono Evan O'Neill, a fisherman of Nag's Head,
discovered the Inflated Huron coming on the
shore at 1870 a. m, the morning the disaster
occurred, and saw her signals Of distress
and even heard the piteous greans and
screams Of those on board. The keeper of
the iife-saving station lived only two and
half miles away, and 0'Neill had good boat
and could easily have carried him thenews
Of the disaster, probably in time to have ef-
fected the saving of the lives of most Of those
on board. Instead Of doing so, however, he
coolly went home and ate his breakfast and did
not return TO the wreck untilafteF sunrise 1t
any, additional comment is needed to ex-
plain this inhuman conduct, it may be found
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-01-03
A Relic Over Two Thousand Years Old.

This morning we were shown very
peculiar gold coin, the property of Col
G. Carroll Hicks, of New York, which
coin was presented to him-by Mr.. Bel
KNAPP, the President of the San Antonio
Street Railroad Company. Mr. Bel
knap's father was present at some exca +.
vations that were made on the site of
the ancient city of Thebes, during
which this coin, among other things,
was unearthed, so there can be no doubt
as to the genuineness of the coin. 1t is
not much larger than dime, pure gold,
more oval than round, being an irregu-
lar circumference, and very thick for the
size, being as thick, if not thicker
through, than an American quarter It
is also slightly concaye on one side. The
coin had never been much in circula-
ton, as the image and superscription
are perfectly clear, as if fresh from the
stamp. On one side is the profile of
Phillip of Macedon, the father of Alex
ander the Great. On the reverse of the
coin is a two7horse chariot, driven by a
charioteer, and underneath an inscrip-
ton that was Greek to US. The chariot
and horses are wonderfully clear cut.
Phillip reigned, if our memory serves
US, 400 years before Christ.--Sa,s Ar1to-
mo (IeIGs) Cypress. ~ 81
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-01-03
The Minnesota Mania for Large Farms.

A Winona (Minn.) letter to the Chi
cago Times says: Two things have done
wonders for this State during the last
half of the closing year. First, the well
established fact that Minnesota harvest
ed forty million bushels of No. wheat,
and, second, the grasshOpperS have all
disappeared, no one knows where.
These two facts seem to be working
great changes in the entire State. Vast
quantities of wild land have been bought.
The frontier has been alive with land
hunters. The places where land is sold
have done a land-oflice business, and
even the cold weather and bad travelling
seem to produce no abatement in the
land fever. Large tracts of land which
have been surveyed and in market these
many years without a buyer or home
stead pre-emptor, have suddenly come
to be sought after by men who propose
to become grangers in dead earnest
Our railroads have been crowded with
passengers in search of Minnesota wheat
land There is a kind of mania for
large farms. Scarcely any buy less than
a section GAO acres). Many are buy
ing five, ten, or even twenty thousand
acres. Many are preparing to open
wheat farms, and to sow largely the
coming spring. The grand success of
the great Dalrymple wheat farm, which
is so large as to require 43 reapers with
self-binding attachment, has con-
WINGED many capitalists that wheat
can be raised so as to pay heavy in
terest on the money invested; at least
they are tempted to buy immense guam
titles of these lands and try the expert
ment. They may find that few can do
what Dalrymple has done. A very
small amount of money buys 4 large
farm. There is no expense of fencing,
for no stock of any kind is allowed to
run at large. The breaking and seed
will cost less than IS per acre. The
seed alone will cost twice as much as
the land. Many hope in a single crop
to get back all the money they pay out
and have the land TO boot. Wnona
County is furnishing a score or more of
men who will make the experiment the
coming season. A few years will tell
whether they viii he land rich or land
poor. If they do not 60 and personally
superintend their great farm they may
fail to make the experiment profitable.
It is often said that no man can succeed
in farming with his plow-haudles four
or five miles long. How it viii be
when the plow-handles are four or five
hundred miles long we shall see if we
live long enough. 1t is quite sure that
a crop of wheat will rarely fail in the
State of Minnesota if it is properly put
in and cared for.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-01-03
Foreign Notes.

The Prince Imperial recently found
himself at the British Museum sitting
between two Communists who were
reading French novels. All were exiles.
DIR. Schlemann has brought the
whole OF his Hissarlik collection to Lon
don, and is at present engaged in ar
ranging it for exhibition in the South
Kensington Museum.
The Italian Government has decid-
ed to return to the Royal family of the
late Kingdom of Naples their estates,
which were seized at the time that the
country was absorbed into that of Italy.
-Dufaure, the French Premier, is
over four-score and in feeble health, and
is esteemed by all who know him for
his unblemished life, although he has
been always mixed up more or less in
politics. hl A
According to Paris correspondent,
Meissonier, the painter, is ashort, stout,
knoek-kneed man, with a long gray
beard and whiskers. Gerome is thin
and tall, with iron-gray hair and bright
eyes.
Mr.. billiards. reception by the En-
peror of Brazil was of a very friendly
character. The American Minister made
a pretty long speech on the desirability
of more intimate political and CONNER
eial relations between the two countries.
H The Fine Arts Department of the
City of Paris has under consideration q
plan for placing in the great avenues of
the city busts of all the historians who
have illustrated in their works the life
of the capital, and in the squares will
be erected statues Of notabilities whose
career has been connected with it. 9 fl'
"A fascinating young American lady
recently married a Frenchman with a
title. After getting all her money away
from her he ran away with her maid.
She is now supporting herself by keep
ing laundry in London, managing her
business admirably, and employing be-
tween seventy and eighty women.
The Countess Aberdeen, on her late
bridal trip, was robbed Of $50, 900 worth
of iewelry. The whole was taken in
broad daylight, from her dressing-room
at Hasstead-p place, and, as usual, one
BOX, containing a $40, 600 necklace, was
overlooked. The peculiar part Of this
story is that the Conntess's maid let out
the story, which no one would have
otherwise suspected, as paste limitations
were immediately made III Paris OF the
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-01-03
TIE EASTERN WAR.

Drifting ice has torn away the bridgesat
stored for the present. On the eth the Ser
vians, after eight hours severe fighting, CAP
tured Atpalanka, the Turks losing many
killed and prisoners. Erzeroun is
almost invested and the bombardment
of the town is imminent. The recent
cold weather and severe snow storms have
caused great distress and loss of life around
Bucharest. Russian Army Headquarters
are shortly to be transferred from Bogot to
Selvi. The Roumanians will not cross the
Balkans, but will do garrison duty and CO.
operate with the Servians against Widdin.
The Turkish transport steamer Messina,
with 700 troops on board, has been captured
by the Russian steamer Husband and taken
to Sebastopol. H'
Intelligence Of the 2Sth is as follows
Operations of the Russian army at Rustchuk
are suspended by the snow, which is over
two feet deep. Many animals and few
soldiers have persisted. The transport service
is interrupted and the Quartermaster's De-
partment has declared that it can not supply
food for the cavalry. Best authorities con-
cur IN the opinion that the bridges across the
Danube must go in a few days, and If the
winter is Of ordinary rigor field operations
will be impossible.
The Servians have captured Prot. The
garrison of Nisch, it is said, is inclined to
surrender, and negotiations have been open
ed for equalization. As the Russians are
approaching Sophia, the inhabitants have
been ordered to leave, The Russians have
suspended concentration of troops around
Erzeroum on account of snow.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-01-03
ITEMS or INTEREST.
Personal and literary.

Mrs. Brooks, the artist in butter,
has opened studio in Cincinnati.
4 -Far5eon, the novelist, constructs his
novels with the type writer.
Miss. Braddon's novels are persist
emily ignored by the London Times,
which allows no mention of her name in
its columns.
Alexander II. Stephens viii contrib
ute-to the mex. number of the ,Aildntic
Monthly an article ON the Electoral
Commission.
novelist7of IL years of age, Flor
ence Mabel HART, will make her first
appearance in literature in story,
''Nettie Cruiekshanks, to be issued by
George p. Putnam's Sons.
-Houghton & Co. have purchased
the good will and subscription list of
the Gdlgty.l That magazine, eeasing
to appear as an independent periodical,
will henceforth be merged in the allan
&c Aonthlygei e ~ii.f la -9ga
Kate Field corrects Jennie June's
story that she was obliged to live abroad
because she was not appreciated at
home. Kate says also q" The best
friends have in the world are Ameri-
can men: and if have not married
one, it is because I love too many of
Them ii most fuEanT ,igu
The editor of !Scribner'S Magaz inc,
has been victimized by literary thief
In the January number of the magazine
appears an illustrated poem credited to
II. S. Kellogg. II appears that Kellogg
stole the poem from Sidney Dobell, an
English poet, and recovered pay for it
from the Scribners. M .n
Mark Twain's success ON the plat
form is said to be much greater since he
did away with his manuscript. From
the written lecture he came down to CO.
piOus notes; from these to little card
with printed heads, which he put in his
waistcoat pocket. He dispensed with
this by substituting a few marks on the
backs of his finger nails, and then he
went it alone. -.
Colonel w. B. Slaughter, an old
man, and a native Virginian, who is
said to have known Lafayette, Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams,
jackson, Van Buren,, Calhoun, Web
ster, Clay, and other distinguished per-
sons of the past generation, is about to
publish book giving his "reminiscences
of these men.
The passage in Prof, Longfellow's
poem of "Keramos " abiding to Japan
has been translated into the language
OF that Empire, and copy of present
ed to the poet. 1t will be. an appropri-
ate counterpart, in his library, of the
''Psalm of Life, (which hangs there
translated into the Chinese language.
i'm his late Hartford lecture, Mr.
Howells told the romance of Gibbons
life. While young man he loved a
young Swiss girl, but had so little spirit
that he obeyed when his father told him
not to marry her. "He lived TO see her
become the wife of Neckar-the great
Prime Minister of Louis XVI-and the
mother of Nine De Stael. Gibbon
spent his time while in France in hang
ing around the house of his former love,
and admiring the happiness he had
lacked the manliness to achieve for HIM
SELF