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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15
Arab Auguries.
The Scotsman.

The Bedouins take auguries from
birds. A single raven in ones path is
q very bad token, but two are extreme
ly lucky. They say Akhdharegn Falan
zein-two green Ii. e., black ones a fair
omen. The Bedoins have many other
about animals. The SUI
perstition as to flesh of the rock badger,
which Palmer noted in the peninsula of
Sinai, is unknown here; but there is a
similar idea about the number of mon
keys which frequent Mount Kara.
These, it is said, were once men, who
came to visit the prophet. He set be-
fore them milk and water, directing them
to drink the former and perform their
ablutiOns with the latter. The perverse
visitors drank the water and washed
with the milk, and were transformed to
monkeys for their disobedience. AS
they were once men their flesh is not
eaten. This legend is closely akin to
what one reads in the fabulous history
of early Arab about Nasnas and the
Wabar in the great sandy desert. Both
these words are monkey names. quite
current in the present day, though not
recognized by the lexicons. The latter
is an ape, the former a monkey with a
tail Except in this monkey story [
could find no trace of the superstitiOus
of the flesh Of any animal.
But some kinds of flesh have a magi-
cal virtue attached to them. A man
who suffers in any member of his body
seeks a cure by eating the correspond
ing part of hyena. The hyena is also
eaten in the neighborhood of Suez, for
a friend of mine who shot one near the
wells of Moses was requested by the
Bedouins to give them a leg. A SINH
lar virtue attaches to the flesh Of the
gemsbok (Wudheyhy), rare species of
antelope, found far in the interior.
When eaten, it draws an OBSTINATE bull
let from a wound
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15
LATEST EVENTS.

FAVORABLE weather prevails in Ireland,
and the potato crop promises to be enor-
nous.
JUDGE Porter has left Washington, TO
open his gubernatorial campaign in Indi-
ana.
TIE track of the Des Moines and Min
nesota railroad has been widened to the
standard gauge
CAPT. BoGARDUs has won the third
pigeon-shooting match with George
Rimell, champion of England.
SECRETARY ScHURz says a sufficient mil
itary force will be employed to protect In
dian Territory from parties of prospectors
and immigrants.
SOME members of the cabinet incline to
the belief that the vessel which has been
overhauling American ships in Cuban
waters is Il pirate.
IT is estimated that the loss to farmers
by the breaking of the Sny levee was
100000 on corn, 100000 on wheat, and
100000 on buildings, fences, etc.
THE new board of managers of the Ma
tional Soldiers home met at Boston, and
elected Gen. w. B. Franklin, of Connecti-
cut, president.
RAILROAD earnings continue to be very
large. The gross receipts of thirty-three
roads for June show an increase of 81, ,0S5, )
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15
A HEROIC BOY.
How n Twelve Year-OId Lad saved
His Sister from the Flames

On the top floor of five story brick
tenement house No. 964 Third avenue
reside the families of Henry Seib and
jeremiah Morrissey. At s o'clock yes
terday morning fire broke out in the
apartments of the Morrissey family,
which rapidly spread, and the adjoining
rooms were soon in flames. The Sell
family managed to make their escape
without much difficulty, rushing peIl
NELL down stairs. Their neighbors
speedily joined them, and also gained
the street. In the haste and confusion a
baby belonging to Mrs. Morrissey was
left on the floor ofthe kitchen and the
strange commission was not discovered
until several minutes after the family
had left the building. Meanwhile the
fire had gained headway and the kitch-
en- was filled with smoke and flame
which poured in dense volumes from
the half open doorway.
Oswald Morrissey, the twelve-year-
old brother of the imperiIed babe, rush
ed up stairs, entered the room and seIz-
ing the child in his arms ran back with
it to the street. His clothing had caught
fire, however and after he had been
rolled in blanket it was found that he
was badly burned about the arms and
legs, but the babe was uninjured. Os-
wald was attended by a physician who
dressed his wounds. The damage done
to the building and contents amounts
to $500.
A pot of wax was set on fire, by acci,
dent on the third floor of the tenement
house No. 247 East Fifty-fifth street yes
terday. Mathels Thiel, who was attend
ing the pot, threw it into the hallway in
her fright and set fire to the house. Il
was damaged $50.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

364 over those for the corresponding month
last year.
WILLIAM WARD, young negro murder
er, who is TO be hanged next month, was
babtized in the St. Louis Jail, on the 18th
inst.
TWENTY-FIVE per cent of the force now
employed in the government printing Of
flee will be dismissed on Aug. l, owing to
the small appropriation by congress.
THE Ravens Den Spring property in
Lawrence county, Arkansas, has been sold
to eastern capitalists for S10G,0OO The
new proprietors will Immediately COM
ence valuable improvements.
THE census returns give Toledo popula-
tion of 81, ,635, being gain of %, 600 in ten
years. And vet the Toledo people are not
happy. They claim that there are 5000
more of them in the city.
A ST. PAUL negro fell off a building, a
distance of thirty feet, to the pavement,
striking squarely on his head lie will be
around all right in day or two.
IT is stated quite generally that Gen.
Hancock will resign his position as
Maj General before he publishes his let
ter of acceptance.
PAUL A. CHADBoURNE, on account of
private business interests, has tandered his
resignation of the presidency of Williams
college, to take effect at the end oft the next
college year.
\ PHILADELPHIA dispatch of the 18th
inst. says the Hon. Joseph r. Chandler
died, aged SS He was editor of the United
States Gazette for many years, and a mem
Der of of congress from 1S49 to 1850
TIE wife of De La Matyr, the Green
back Congressman, has been visiting
among old friends of Elgin, ILL.,, recently
Her first husband, Jas. Sylla, Esq, was
formerly principal of the Elgin Academy.
ATTORNEY GENERAL DEvENs holds that
the action of the president in reappoint-
ing John +. Hartranft collector of the port
of Philadelphia, Notwithstanding the ad-
iOurnment of the senate without acting on
his previous nomination, was in all re-
spects regular and lawful.
Two South Carolina colonels-Cash of
Chesterfield and Shannon of Camden =
fought duel, the latter receiving fatal
anti-dueling association was formed few
weeks ago, many of the best citizens tax
ing part in the movement.
GREAT BRITAIN is apparently deter
mined to suppress by all means in its
power the slave traffic in the Turkish
dominions. On the 9th inst, fugitive
slave who fed to the british embassy at
Constantinople was received and accorded
protection there.
ABOUT three hundred men under the
leadership of Capt. Payne have crossed
into Indian Territory from Kansas without
molestation. The same party undertook to
enter the territory last spring but were
forced to retreat by the troops. Payne
courts arrest, as he wishes to determine in
the courts whether he acts in violation of
any laM
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15
KILLED BY THE HEAT.
Almost Unprecedent Mortality Among
Children i'm the City of New York
The Hot spell i'm the East.
ew ork Herald.

The relentless heat continues not
merely to spread universal discomfort,
but to vastly increase the death list,
both in the city and suburbs. In the
crowded tenement districts its ravages
are, of course, most felt, but not always
by the seaside is there q resource from
the suffering which it entails. Strong
persons, who for a short time would be
able to bear readily enough an abnor-
NAL temperature, are gradually ener-
waited by a continuance of tOrrid days
and sultry and oppressive nights, while
children and delicate persons rapidly
succumb to the strain upon their vital
powers. Yesterdays death list, as re-
ported at the Bureau of Vital statistics,
was almost unprecedented, the victims
being mostly children. In Brooklyn
the number of deaths for the week end
ing the 26th instant was 414, being an
increase of 1S7 over the mortality in the
previous week. OF this increase 139
were children, whose deaths are set
down to cholera infantum.
Even at Long Branch the heat yes
terday was intense. On the pier the
thermometer registered at one time 90
degrees, while in the village the mer-
curry reached an altitude of SO degrees
At Perth Amboy, n. J., it also ran up
to 80 degrees, while at Red Rank, n. j.,
it reached 100 degrees and South Am
boy 102 degrees in the shade.
There We're recorded yesterday in the
Bureau of Vital statistics 212 deaths,
the greater part of which were from
summer diseases. There were sixteen
deaths by sunstroke.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO. July l3.-Flour- Quiet; firm. Wheat
Unsettled and generally lower; No. 2 red win
ter, 96; No. 2, Chicago Spring, 9499424, for
cash; "a for July; 9O9a a9O2i for August; S8QSS1s
for September; No. Chicago spring S2(Q So;
rejected, 6la67. Corn Unsettled and generally
lower and irregular; 3jas G351k for cash; 30 d a
3j't for August 35aa for September; rejected
337s. Oats-Active; firm and higher; 2515 for
cash. 22'5 for August and September. Rye
Steady and in fair demand; No 2 spring, G3 Z
Barley-Steady and unchanged, so for cash.
Pork-Stronger and higher, Sl375@1 @14.OO for
cash. July, HOG 14.1212; 14.121& for August;
l4.02l4 a l4.05 for seer September Lard
Fairly active and a shade higher; 6,S21a a 6.85
for cash; 6.S596.871 for August; 6.9Oa6.921a
for September. The "Drovers" Journal" reports:
Hogs-Receipts, 2j,OO0; shipments, $500; Opened
slow and run steady and stronger; mixed packing,
4.30G4.je; choice heavy, 4.60@4.75; light, 43O
G4.j0. Cattle-Reeeipts, , 800; shipments, 5000;
steady; common to good, 4.2O64.2j; Texans,
3OO@3.40; native, butcher, slow; grass fed Tex
ans, full supply, 3.4O chiefly 2.7Og2 29O; corn fed
western 3.75@ 4.2O. Sheep-ReceptS, 700; firm
and active; lambs, go sheep, $50. London cable,
cattle dull Z cent lower sheep firm; best Isl =
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

THE mother superior of the founding
asylum, at Avondale, near Cincinnati,
has been arrested for Withholding in
formation from Il census enumerator.
Her reason for so doing is that the in
mates of the asylum include quite 4
number of women who have recently
been, or are expecting to be, confined,
and their presence in the institution
she holds to be matter that in no way
concerns the outside world. 1t was to
escape its gaze and talk that they sought
the institution, and hemother superior
feels in conscience bound to shield them
from the slightest publicity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

Tom TAYLOR the dramatist, is suffer-
ing from the excruciating pains of "sup-
pressed gout" Suppressed gout is that
kind where the man who has it is afraid
to spell out his language in print, and
SO has the type foundry make several
lengths of dashes to accommodate the
style of his oratory Salicylic of soda
will cure most of his rhetorical gout;
and ifyou are afflicted, restrict your
self to broiled steaks, chops and fish,
with a little wheat bread and plenty of
Vichy water. Take no sugar, potatoes,
wine or beer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15
CABLEGkAMS,

REPORTS have reached Naryn that the
Chinese have forcibly enrolled 5000 Kash-
garians to repair roads.
\ VIENNA dispatch reports that Greek
officers on leave of absence. and now in
Russia, have been recalled
A DISPATCH from Constantinople reports
a rupture of the relations between the
porte and Montenegro.
TIE report in regard to the assassination
OF Hassan Pasha, Governor of Novi-Bazar,
is confirmed. 1t was doubtless an act OF
private vengeance.
THE annual report of the local govern
ment board states that although there has
been exceptional distress in Ireland, no
case of death from starvation has occurred.
THE general reports of the crops in
France are highly satisfactory for quantity.
In some cases the probable yield of wheat
is considered deficient, but barley promises
eXcellently.
4 DISPATCH from St. Petersburg saws.
Russia does not intend to separate herself
from the other powers regarding steps
that may be necessary to give effect to the
decision of the Berlin conference.
THE earthquake at the Island of St.
George, one of the Azores group, resulted
in the formation of another Island, 600
yards distant, and about $4,000 square
yards in extent.
INTELLIGENCE has been received at St.
Petersburg, that the explorer, Col Pre-
iovalski and party are prisoners in the
hands of Chinese A Russian caravan has
been pillaged on the Chinese frontier and
two merchants killed.
\ DISPATCH from Tashkend reports that
Gen. Kaufman left that place on the 22d
Of May to inspect the troops at Demireet-
schensk, and was to go thence to Kuldja.
He has already appointed his staff for the
impending campaign against the Chinese.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

AN authority on horsemanship says
that it is folly for a lady to put herself
into stays SO tight that her figure is not
flexible while she is on horseback. A
stuffed doll, he says, should never be
put on 4 horse, nor any woman who is
not so loosely dressed that she can lace
her own boots and put up her own
back hair. While the lady is on horse
back the circulation other blood should
neNer be imneded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

PorATo flour, or the dried pulp of the
potato, is attaining great importance in
the arts 1t is stated that in Lancashire,
England, 600 tons Oft is sold annually
and it brings ''at present in Liverpool
double rs much in the market as wheat
flour Its used for sizing and other
manufacturing purposes, and when pre-
cipitated with acid is turned into starch.
When calcined it is employed rs Il
dressing for silk.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

SEVERAL English society journals are
discussing 'governesses.' The governess
when she is zone of the family" where
there are young gentlemen, is accused
of having unnatural reserve" She
may become valuable because she may
name the magazines that are to be
taken the style of the children's clothes,
even the manner of making the salad
for lunch; but she will find that the
more she becomes zone of the family
the more. she will be that one of the
Ialhily upon whom everything falls.
lhe goVemess may attend to the chill
dren under her care; and there her
duties cease. Her home is the school
room, where she dimes rs the children
do. If the parents send bread and milk
10 the children the governess must take
the same. If the parents during the
evening ask the governess to sing for
them she should remain in the school
room. with the bread and milk. The
moment she undertakes anything but
the care of the children she is lost. The
only rule for a governess is: Rise with
the children, 90 with the children, teacf
the children and when the children are
IN bed sit in your own room while you
eat blt of sausage bought from the
sroceryman and write letter to youl
lover.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

IT is believed Texas will show nearly
100000 population, this year, against
100000 in 1870; and yet Texas has no
large cities. Dallas, with her suburbs,
shows up in round numbers 10000 peo-
pie; Houston 1900, San Antonio 49,
900, Galveston $4,000. These are the
leading cities of the state, all others
falling far below them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

TIE wreck OF the steamer Seawanha-
Ka lies precisely where placed by the
heroic action Of Capt. Smith. The di-
rectors Of the steamboat company, with
commendable promptness, secured a
substitute for the boat on the route;
hut upon the principle of Getting the
dead bury their dead" they have man
ged to avoid the task of rescuing the
bodies Of the passengers from the
urncl,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

A MORTGAGE for 100000, executed
by the trustees of st. Patrick's cathe-
dral, New York, to the Seamen's Bank
for savings upon the block occupied by
the new cathedral, was recorded last
week in place of two other mortgages
for 100000 held by the Emigrant In
dustrial Saving bank, which were cam
celed. The rate of interest is reduced
from 6 to ) per cent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15
milwaukee Market.

MILWAUKEE, July -Flour-Quiet. Wheat
Opened firm and lower; closed quiet; No. 1,
hard, nominal not named; No. 2, 9624; July,
9624; Aug, 932l; September, 9O1s; No. 3, So;
No. f. IS; rejected, nominal Con-A shade
tirmer; fair demand; No. 2, 3jls. Oats-Scarce
and higher; No. 3 251a. Rye-Tigher; No. l,
II. Barey-Higher No. 2, d.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

A Boston business man, impressed
by the Narragansett disaster, offers to
teach, without charge, Il class of boys
from the public schools to swim.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15
A Great EnteFDriSe

The Hop Bitters Manufacturing Company If one
of Rochester's greatest business enterprises
These Hop kitters have reached a sale beyond all
precedent, having from their intrinsic value found
their way into almost every household IN the
and d.-GFdphic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

Mr.. GEORGE ". CHILDs gave Il very
substantial picnic and excursion the
other day to 700 PhiIadeIphia newsboys.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

The German government has forbid
den the sale of ''The Political Comedy
Of Europe" by Daniel Johnson. 1t is
also forbidden in France.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15
VOL XIII.
ANNOTATIONS.

At the table you are not required to
thank the one who waits on you.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

For many years an old colored WON
an in Richmond, Va, has been going to
the depot every day to meet the incom-
ing trains, expecting. as she says, let
ter containing twenty-five dollars. 1t
the washerwoman for Yankee soldier
and he went away, declaring that he
would return and pay the bill, which
amounted to twenty-five dollars. He
never came, but the old woman goes
every day to the train and inquiries il
there is a letter for her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

Ex-Secretary Bristow has arrived a
Saratoga with his wife and daughter
and Mrs. Jewell, of Hartford.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

WHEN clam is roasted it opens its
mouth like Talmage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-15

TENNYsoS and his son Hallam have
left the Isle of Wight for Venice. They
will visit the Italian lakes and return
through Switzerland. When Tennyson
reaches England he will go to Surrey
Hills.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-07-29

Of your money -but my Maggiep' here
he stopped, and the fame of delight and
desire burned in his cheeks and eyes. He
grew suddenly young and strong under
the gaze Of poor MI. McGraw.
Maggie sat at the window, as she had
promised. Oh, the bitterness Of that mo-
ment to one, the happiness to the other !!
One moment Mr.. McGraw saw her: as he
had left her pale, calm, subdued, and pa
tient; the next, acrimson glow had leaped
to her face, then left it palers than before /;
suddenly it disappeared, and Mr.. McGraw
thought It had fallen away somewhat in
2 faint; but presently it shone on the
breast OF the sailor, so radient and beau
tiful that it dazzled poor MI. McGraw.
aWhy, you did know me-" said Mar
tin, tears bursting out of his burning
eyes. "By thunder, in a dollar, MI.
McGraw!'' In
Sand, Master Shallow, I owe you a
thousand pounds" quoted Mr.. McGraw,
with bitter grin. . @
What more can be said? The wedding
took place 9 little later on, after the
lawsuit had been decided in favor of Mr..
McGraw. Maggie's wedding trip was
across the sea, but not in steamer. It
was in twig little vesel, which Mr..
McGraw gave as a wedding present, at
the express request Of the bride.
"Martin wouldn't give up the sea-"
she said.
"And you wouldn't give up Martin2"
said Mr.. McGraw.
Why, no. sir, not for the world" said
the foolish girl.
So poor Mr.. McGraw took passage
alone.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-07-29
THEN.AND NOW.

By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
Tread at the centenary Of the American Acad-
envy of Arts and Science.
Dear ancient school-boy! Nature taught to
them
The simple lesson of the star and the flower.
Showed them strange sights; how on sin
Admire the marvels of Creative Power!
Twin apples grew, one sweet, the other sour.
How from the hilltop where our eyes behold
In every rank the plumed and hammered
maize
Range it's long columns in the days of old
The 1--we volcano shot it's angry blaze 4
Dead since the showers Of Noah's watery
days. s s*T ~
How, when the lightning split the mighty rock,
The spreading fury Of the sheft was spent;
How the young scion Joined the alien stock,
And when and where the homeless sparrows
To pass the winter Of their discomfort.
scant were the cleaning in those days Of
dearth; .s- 10 sr.5s
No Culver yet had clothed the fossil bones
Thatslumbered, waiting for their second birth;
No Lyell read the legend Of he stones;
Science stin pointed to her empty thrones.
Dreaming orbs to eyes of earth unknown, l
Herschil locked Heavenward in the star
light pale; A.@ -@.-1 d
Lost in those awful depths he trod alone.
Laplace stood mute before the lifted veil; !.
While home-bred Humboldt trimmed his
roy-ship's sail. a,a
No mortal feet those loftier nights had gained
Whence the wide realms of nature we decry:
In vain their eyes our longing fathers strained
TO scan with wondering gaze the SUBMITS
high ~
That far beneath their children's footpaths
lie. f .-5A @t&. s6EEL i-T&i .1zl
Smile at their first small ventures as we may,
The school-boy's copy shapes the scholars
Thei. grateful memory fills our heart to-day;
Brave, hopeful, wise, this bower Of peace
they planned, r.
While wars dread plowshsre SCARED the
suffering land. .a-., d @-+." s@.t
Child of our children's children vet unborn,
When on this yellow page you turn your
Where the brief record Of this May-day morn
In phrase antique and faded letters lies,
T How vague, how pale our fitting ghosts will
iAso' f~..f ..eI a4G ,.as@G 'z.-
Yet in our veins the blood ran warm and red
For us the fields were green, the skies were
blue, IRE "slt 3 .t-Ea IaaE ~
Though from our dust the spirit long had fed
We lived, we loved, we toied, We dreamed
like you, ..- -..s
Smiled at our sires and thou ght how much
we knew. ~ S-3.--5..:
Oh might our spirits for one hour return,
When the next century rounds It's hundreth
ring, -t 5@ s. ,r
All the strange secrets It shall teach to
learn .-aj .--E~a g., salrgasr $3.50
To hear the large truths it's years shall! bring
Its wiser sages talk, It's sweeter u1instrelf
sinpi - @..'ff' -. ---.r., . +