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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1879-07-31

FEMININE DEVICES A CENTURY AGO Il, is
MOTTO be supposed for a moment that la.
dhs OF tie present day resort to artificial
meaos ct Increasing that orli6.is lyYsIincss
Which, When unad1rned IS adorned the most.
ih.if great grand mothers, however, thought
OH ;reotly, aud 50 cumercui had female ts.i,
loallOrs become century ago, that il was
deemed necessary to iotroduce an act into tn
EoRllsh parliament 10 ITO, which provides S.
follows:
All women of whatever age, raok, rroFe.,
sIon, or degree, whether they be maids or vic
oWs, that shall. from aud after this act, i'm pose
upon or betrsy into matImoDy spy of his ma.
lesty nsle subjects by paints, scents, c .snetic
Washes artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool
iron stays. hoops. high hetlad shoes, or bolster,
ed hips, shall lncur the penalty Of the law now
10 tcrcs agalest wichcrsfs AID misdemeanors
and the marriage upon CONVICTION, shaIl stard
null and void"
CRUEL DEVICE "A Dew devic, FIR the BIZ
dsVIlnent Of lovers was operated successfully
oy hesrtless young man % tho local train
yesterday. A couple sat 10 the seat before him
Ine lady wasynuug aud modest and The swain
wore very large caff'. Ooe arm Was thrown
c'relessl9 along tho back of the seat and upon
this he evil minded person behind rubbed some
phosphorus. The sfsciiouate performances of
that cuff when the train was rushing through
the kindly dsrkness IF the tuuuels, were be-
held by all the unteeling and suickering oc,u
pants OF the car, whose cruel enjoyment was no,
little decreased by the dcmuro ADD uuco1-
cerncd appearance Of the lovers each time the
tram bounded again into light Virginia,
(Ntv.) Chronicle.
MA al.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10
Handy TO Have in the House.

There are some men who are consid-
cred desirable as husbands, and others
who are quoted IS hardly worth the
hou ;e-room they occupy or the proven
der they consume. Or the latter kind
was the little man concerning whom his
wife dreamed that she went to a country
fair where husbands were exposed for
sale. On his begging her to tell what
she found the price to be of such as
himself, she replied, after some hesita
ton, that she saw similar article of
husbands put up in punches of a dozen
and offered at shilling bunch. Such
a husband is indeed proftless posses
sion. A shrewd woman in New York
found herself the wife of this kind of
piece of goods. He was idle and shift
less and of SO little financial experience
that even in those rare instances In
which he succeeded in earning any
money he was unable to keep it long
enough to bring it home. Instead of
supporting his wife, he was a burden on
her and an expense to her. So, to avoid
the otherwise inevitable journey to the
poor-house, she was compelled to work
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10
md to support the whole impecunious

and to support the whole impecunious
family.
But there is a lining of silver to even
the most Ieaden cloud, and this strug-
CLING woman happily discovered that
her man had one talent which she
might turn to profitable account. He
could carve at dinner parties, and this
was the only thing be could do. In do
ing this he was q browning success. He
had no more skill at making contracts
than at bringing money home. So the
thrifty housewife concluded not to turn
him adrlft to starYe, as she had feared
would be necessary, but to keep him at
home and rent him out as opportunity
offered. From time to time she sought
out all the people she could lind who,
being about to give entertainments,
might need the services of a skilled
manipulation of the carving knife.
Explaining to these people the peculiar
condition of her domestic affairs, she
would hire her husband out for fixed
sum, stlpulatlng that the money should
be paid to herself, and not to him. An
interesting and novel style of lawsuit
now arises from a mistake in the pay
ment. The husband had earned seven
dollars for carving at the dinner party
of a nabob. The nabob thoughtIessly
paid him the money, and he as Thought
lessl y spent it before he reached home
Thereupon the wife undertook to col
lect from the nabob the stipulated sum,
baslng her claim on the fact that as the
poor man was sort of nobody pay
ment to him was no payment at all.
The nabob resisted the endeavor to col
iect second seYen-dollar fee from him,
alleging that he had paid the person
who did the work. and that if that i'm
provldent individual had nothing 10
show for 1t, the misfortune should Just
ly fall on the poor fellow himself. The
wife successfully resisted this argument
by showing that she was the contracting
party, and that she had hired her hus-
band out just as livery stable keeper
would hire out horse, in which latter
case it would be manifestly improper
and insufficient to claim that payment
consisted in handing the money to the
animal. The woman retires triumph
antly from court. happy in the peace
full possession of a bit of property from
which, when rented out, she can draw
substantial income.
1t is not lawful in this country to ex-
pose n husband for sale, but the fact is
now established that one may be kept
for hire. The lesson is one which will
carry comfort to many an embarrassed
girl who, having Numbered into mar
riage, finds that she has on her hand
a lazy and lounging person who is of no
particular use. If she can discover
even one talent, and turn that to &C
count, she may set the otherwise I'M
profitable fellow to work by renting him
out to do the only thing he understands.
Thus is hope in store for many a sor-
rowing woman, and thus may aff1uence
await the thrift of the wife who is shrew-
ed enough to utilize shiftless and bur-
densome Observation-Disclosures Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10
CONSUMPTION CuIpd.

An old physician, retired from practice, having
had placed In his hands by an East India mission
cry the formula of simple vegetable remedy,
for the speedy and permanent cure for cousump-
ton, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma, and all throat
and lung affections, also positive and radical
cure for nervous debility and all nervous GEN.
plants, after having tested its wonderful curative
powers In thousands of cases, has felt it his duty
to make it known to his suffering fellows Actu-
ated by this motive, and desire to relieve human
suffering, will send, free of charge, to all who
desire it, this recipe, with full directions for pre-
pairing and using, in German, French, Or En.lish.
Sent by mail by addressing with stamp, naming
this paper, W. W. Sherar, lac Powers Block
Rochester N z.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10
THE DOORSTEP.

The conference meeting through at last,
We boys around the Yestry waited,
To see the girls come fitting past,
Like snow birds willing I o be mated.
Not drawer he that leaps q wall
BY level mnsket flashes litten,
Than who stepped before them all,
Who longed TO see me get the mitten
But no-she blushed and took my arm;
We let the old folks take the highway,
And started toward the Maple Farm,
Along a kind Of lovers byway.
I can't remember what we said
Twas nothing worth song or story,
Yet that rude path by which we sped
Seemed all transformed in glory.
The snow was crisp beneath our feet
The moon was full, the fields were cleaning I;
By hood and tippet sheltered sweet,
Her face with youth and health was beaming
The little hand outside her muff-
On. sculptor, if you could but mould J.
80 slightly touched my jacket cuff,
Tokeep 1t warm had to hold it.
To have her with me-there alone
Twas love and fear and triumph blended.
At last we reached the fOot-worn stone
Where the delicious journey ended:
The old folks, too. were almost home:
Her dimpled hand the latches fingered;
We heard the voices nearer come,
Yet on the doorstep still we fingered.
She shook her ringlets from her hood,
And with 'thank you Charles, /" dissembled,
But yet | knew she understood
With what darling wish trembled
A cloud passed kindly overhead;
'fhe moon was kindly peeping through il.
Yet hid its face. as if IL said.
Come, now or never, do it! do It'll"
My lips till then had only known
the kiss of mother aud OF sister,
But somehow, full upon her own
Sweet, rosy, darling mouth l kissed her,
Perhaps twas boyish love yet still,
Oh, listless woman, weary lover,
To feel once more that fresh wild thrill
I'd giYe-buJ who can live youth over?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10

The whole number of state convicts
IN the whole United States, employed
In mechanical industries, is 1876. ont
of a state prison population OF 90. 1877.
says the Trenton State Gazette, and thew
earn on the average forty cents per day.
At g per day, the average price for la
Dor outside of prisons, these men would
earn IS, ~, $40. The products of the
mechanical industries of the United
States amount to over So, 100000 900 an
nually. The total product of the state
prisons of the United States, taking la
Dor at s. day, cannot be over $50, 00O,-
OOO per annum; not great burden on
the industries of nation producing
over s5,000,000,0O0 worth of goods an
nually.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10
Faceti4 for Females.

Wells will soon be considered as an
injury to the vyes-of inquisitive gen
tlemen.
Ladies now work at embroidery and
crochet while attending morning lee
lures.
A stocking with yellow snake coiled
around the upper part. is the latest
snake story.
Embroidered cotton is substituted for
the thin muslin frills placed at the lower
edges of trains.
Pretty Princess Beatrice is in love
with a young nobleman who is not even
the eldest son and heir.
In Sutton, Massachusetts, is Mary
Jane Wadleigh, who fondies 100 cats.
She says she needs a-mews-ment.
The "fshwife " tunic, turned up in
front end caught back so as to form a
drapery behind, is still very popular.
Sorosis is going up higher and higher
in the fashionable world. The upper
story Of Delmonico's noted saloon has
been hired for the Gashing club.
Garibaldi's daughter-in-law has been
compelled to take to the stage. She is
now acting in pantomime at the Surry
Theatre, London. Surry to hear it.
At a recent "kettle drum" in New
York, a beautiful ornament decorating
the tea table, was kettle made entirely
of flowers, and represented as if emit
ting steam.
Woman suffrage is about to be tried
in Dakota, and if that plucky territory
doesn't suffer by it, other localities will
propably follow suit, and give the gal
liant girls chance.
According to etiquette in Michigan a
bride can be married "without gloves"
But that's nothing. In some parts of
the cracker" country up in Georgia,
they can be married without shoes.
\ lady of the temperance persuasion
stopped a peddler and asked him if he
ever drank. He imm ediateIy dropped
his pack, "Vell, I shust lieve drink
NIT you as any odder MANS" he re-
marked.
A lady asked the Judge what she
would say in court if she were asked
her age? The blunt jurist replied, "Say,
madam, what | believe would be the
truth, that you are not yet come to the
years of discretion"
The following advertisement appear
ed in the London Times "Wanted: A
lady thoroughly competent to nurse a
poodle dog. Wages one pound week"
The most curious part of the matter
was, there were lots of applicants.
AT dinner recently given by a
French artist, be cruelty caused stuff
ed mouse to be hidden in each napkin
given to lady guest. When the nap
kins were gracefully unfolded, there
We're leaps, yells and walls, but We cast
a wall over the mice-rable scene.
The old-time Egyptian women carried
small bags of perfume on their persons
and wore beads made of scented woods.
We don't know if they Wore such high
cented dresses, though as the present
generation. If they did it must have
been dollarous for Mr.. Ptolemy and Mr..
Pharaoh.
Mrs. Foltz, San Francisco's female
lawyer, is a bright, fair-haired. rosy,
cheerful. matronly woman. She says:
81 originated from the cradle. the wash
tub, the sewing-machine and the cook
stove. I have educated myself, and am
trying to earn living for myself and
my little ones"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10

The territory in dispute between Chill
and Bolivia is seventy miles wide, and
reaching from the ocean to the Andes.
1t is rich in nitrate deposits, and sew
eral years ago the two countries made
treaty, under which it was agreed that
the nitrate works at Antafogasta and
other points in Bolivia, which are main
iy owned by Chilians and worked on
CHILEAN capital and account, should be
exempt for twenty-five years from all
but municipal taxation This treaty
obligation was respected until few
months ago, when Bolivia laid an ex-
port duty on all nitrates sent from the
country. The ground of this act was
that the treaty with Chill had been made
by revolutionary government, whose
acts could not be acknowledged as valid
by the existing and lawful government
Of Bolivia. The owners of the nitrate
works refused to pay the tax and were
arrested, and hence the trouble. Peru's
inclination to help Bolivia is a selfish
one, as Peru desires the control of the
nitrate trade of the coast.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10
Everything Goes Wrong

In the bodily mechanism when the liver gets on
of order. Constipation, dyspepsia, contamina-
ton of the blood imperfect assimilation, are GER
tain to ensue. But it is easy to prevent these
consequences, and remove their cause, by a
course Of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which
stimulates the hillary organ and regulates its ac-
ton. The direct result is disappearance of the
pains beneath the ribs and through the shoulder
blade. the nausea. headaches, yellowness of the
skin furTed look of the tongue, and sour odor of
the breath, which characterize liver complaint.
Sound digestion and regular habit of body are
blessings also secured by the use of this cele
brated restorative OF health, which fmpart de-
gree of Vigor to the body which is its best guar
rantee of safety from maarial epidemics. Nerve
weakness and ertensioD are relieved By II, and
it improves both appetite and sleep.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10
a Wise Deacon.

=" Deacon Wilder, I want you to tell
me how you kept yourself and family
so well the past season, when all the
rest OF us have been sick SO much, and
have had the doctors running to us so
long,"
Bro. Taylor, the answer is very easy.
l used Hop Bitters in time and kert my
family well and saved large doctor bills.
Three dollars worth of it kept us all well
and able to work all the time, and l will
warrant it has cost you and most of the
neighbors one to two hundred dollars
apiece to keep sick the same time. l
guess you'll take my medicine hereaf-
ter" See other column.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10
An Extreme Test.

Arthur Gilman tells the following of
an old lady at Concord: "Have you
given electricity trial for your COM
plant madam" asked the munster, as
he took tea with the old lady. "Elec-
trlcitvl" said she. "Well, yes, Ireckon
it has. l was struck by lightning last
summer and hove out the window, but it
didn't seem to do me no sort of good
Boston Traveller.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10
A British Disease.

The most marked peculiarly that will impress
the American traveller when he walks the streets
of London for the first time, is the great number
of excessively fat people whom he everywhere
meets. He at first suppOses these people to be-
long TO the nobility, on the same principle that he
would pronounce them aldermen or bankers If
seen in Boston or New York. In brief he Iabors
under the popular, though mistaken, i'm
preston that obesity is invariably the COM
Dlned result of lazinesS and high living: while in
reality II Is constitutional disease. Until very
recently there was no known remedy for this I'M
comfortable disease, and its victims were obliged
to submit to the vexation and not infrequcnt NOR
uhcatlon that 1t occasions. Allan's Anti-Fat is
the only remedy for this disease, and removes the
abnormal condition by purely natural means
Ask YOUR druggist for IT,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10

FISK university, at Nashville, ac-
knowledges the receipt from the Rev.
W. FL. Wilcox of $4,000. This sum is
but small fraction of the munifcent
gift to the cause of christian education
IN this country by Mrs. DanielP. Stone.
of Maiden, Mass, the amount donated
aggregating $l,000,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10

NV JERSEY clergymen marry couples
at their peril since, as the State law
stands, minister is liable to a fine
$500 for marrying a female under
eighteen years to a male under 81 years,
though the parties may have affidavit
that they are of full age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10

AT every great worlds exhibition for
twelve years Mason & Hamlin Organs
have been awarded the gold medal or
other highest honor. This year at the
Paris Exposition they have been fount
worthy of the gold metal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-10

A BUTTE county, California, miner
recently picked up a nugget OF gold
worth $3.50.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1879-09-04
Jordan Creek and vicinity.

live do not get rain soon, there will be great
discount on late crops The ground is so dry that
blowing cannot be done, and the buckwheat crop
will not he worth harvesting. But if it rains every
thing will change for the better.
The McCrum threshers are at the stacks of Mike
Langan.
We understand that Mr.. Levi b. Smith and family
will move from here to Atchson to engage in the no
tel business.
Mis- Mabel Curtis is sick, at the present writing.
Little Joe Franklin is out here from Doniphan un-
der an attack of biliousness.
We would call the attention of our Road Oversecr
to the condition of the road running east from the
Jordan Creek bridge, the residence of John Cur
tbs, Sr. IL is very steep and siding road, very
stony. and in q very bad condition generally, and is
very unsafe for heavy loaded teams to pass over it,
Now would be good time to repair it, and many of
the people idle, and the road will have to be
worked with pick and shovel. The sooner repaired.
the better to protect the safety of teams and pre-
vent other accidents that may occur by reason of
travel over the present condition of the road.
Mr. j. D. Willett was in this vicinity recently look
ing up a school. Mr.. Wilet holds a Grade 1 GER
tifcate and hope he will succeed in securing for
himself good school.
The Pleasant Ridge school will open up for a six
months term, October lst But the Board has not
decided, rs yet, as to who will teach the school.
Joseph Britain has returned home from his western
trip and reports cattle herling q success. Mr. r. A.
Brown has sold some cattle of his large herd for
parties who had entrusted the same to his care
young man in this vicinity complained to us
about q certain young man receiving letter FROM
the Donphan postoice, that had been sent there to
his address, and exhibited the for the benefit
of the public, without any consent from him what
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1879-09-04
THIS Is WHY

You keep your house insured, because
it may burn, and you don't know when.
You want to be safe. DOyOu know tchen
disease will attack yourself or childi To
be safe, and save life and Doctors bills,
keep OH hand Browns EXTRACT BLACK.
BERRY AND GINGER, a safe, pleasant, and
reliable remedy for Diarrhea, Dysentery,
Cholera, and all diseases of the stomach
and bowels. Physicians and Druggists
everywhere endorse it. Ask your Drug
gist about its merits, he keeps it.
Why shake, when EUREKA AGUE PILLS
vii cure you! When taken in connec-
ton with Browns VEGETABLE LIVER
PILLS, they never fail to cure, and you
suffer none of the bad effects that result
from dosing with Quinine.
All of Browns Family Medicines for
sale by c. b. Bickford & Co. and ID. G.
Sinclair, Troy; Aug. Miller and w. w.
Carter, Wathena.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1879-09-04

SAN wooD-Nr Wood addressei . small but re-
spectacle crowd at the Court House, Tuesday even
ing He ID smart, and well posted, and has the fac
ulty Of illustrating and making clear his propositions
he said many good things and true ones, and some
Of his arguments were unanswerable; but as a whole,
the speech amounted to the usual stock in trade Of
the acknowledgements of labor legislating
for capital and dire ruin staring the country in the
face, the only escape from which is through Green
backisn. There has been wrong legislation. and
many wrong things done by the party in power. All
parties will fall into errors, and they sometimes
practically unavoidable But party will deliber-
atey egate for the direct purpose of depressing la
bor The finances and business. of the country are
gradually being righted and in good time will be on
satisfactory basis This end cannot be forced by
the means proposed by the Greenbackers.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1879-09-04

These items came last week, after the paper ha'
gone to press-]
The infant 90. of Mr. Millef, of Union Township
died last Friday or Saturday.
Mr.. Joseph Hobbs lost twoayear old son, last Sun
day. Words are powerless to express the bitte1
grief of the parents and the heartfelt sympathy Of
| friends.
We are called upon to chronicle one of the most
miraculous escapes from death ever known here Mr.
John Hines, while working in the edge of Brown
County, aid Oh straw stack. pitch fork had been
set against the stack, with the tines down. and Mr..
H. slid right upon it. 1t made wound to the depth
of seven or eight inches in his stomach and chest
He was living, ut latest accounts, and with good
prospect for recovery.
A deplorable case of petty thieving occurred last
Sunday, in which two young boys were the actors.
They were brought before the civil authorities and
sentenced to thirty days Imprisonment in the County
jail 1t is to be hoped that may be beneficial to the
boys. well rs warning to the other youth of the
vicinity.
Our fall and winter term of school is to be taught
by Mr.. d. l. Carpenter in the advanced, and Miss
Lon. Clonch in the primary grade.
Mr.. E. N. Push will teach again his old school at
Prairie Ridge.
Since the Institute has closed, and lot of male
schoolmarms are turned loose our hitherto peacea-
BILE and Arcadian community has changed. Doors
are carefully locked, merchants have taken in the
articles in front Of the stores the City Marshal has
got him large lantern while our junior Justice of
the Peace grins horribly CHASTITY smile, and studies
up on criminal law.
Mr. Patrick Maher met with a serious accident,
this past week. lie was standing in front of now
err when the horses started and his foot was caught
in the guard, and the sickle made several movements
before the machine could be stopped. He was then
pulled out and it was found that the back part of
the foot had been cut in to the ankle bone, which
was splintered. He is under the care of Drs Arch
er, Blakely and Leigh and doing well.
The militia company is getting along we'll Drills
are held often, and considerable progress made but
when Joe Ward imagncs he is to charge, and Joe
Sykes goes to trampng time, the rest of the organ
ization take to shed roofs backots and other places
Of safety.
Prof. McCartys future residence in the County, as
one Of the faculty of Highland University is the
cause of universal pleasure Not only do school |
teachers who wish further normal training and 9th
er students rejoice at it, but it is pleasing to his old
comrades in arms, who know him not only as an |
able teacher and perfect gentleman but brave SOL
lier. K,xs,s