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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

HOMEOPATHIC Medicines as rule,
are not amenable to the chemical tests
and analyses used in testing drugs gen
orally Their reliability therefore de-
ponds solely on the character and repu-
tation as to probity Of those preparing
and putting them up. 1t is therefore
of paramount Importance that the
public satisfy themselves that the
homeopathic medicines they buy are
obtained from a house of recognized
standing and reliability. Boericke &
TafePs homeopathic Pharmacy is es-
tablished since 1885. Send for their
descriptive price current of family and
Of Veterinary Medicine cases and books
to So Clark st, Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06
ANICE GORGE IN NEW JERSEY.
4 Natural Ice House in which the
Thermometer Stands 3S ali sum

mer.
Newton n. j. correspondence to the Philadel-
phia Times.
Within an hours drive from this
town may be witnessed one of the
strangest sights in this country-a per-
petual ice gorge. This gorge exists at
the foot Of Blue Mountains, back of
Swattswood Lake and Vaudeville, and
Is but few miles west Of n ewton. The
gorge is several hundred yards in ex-
tent, from ten to thirty feet deep, with
numerous caves and clefts in the rock
where theice lies. The main gorge is
located but short distance from the
mountain, and toe shade at that spot Is
very dense, the sun apparently never
penetrating it. The entire b tom of
the gorge is covered with thick, clear
ice, and the crevices and caves are fill
ed with it. That it is a natural ice
house there can be no doubt; hundreds
Of tons might be taken out without ap-
preciably decreasing the quantity.
Much of this great mass has doubtless
lain there for years, the ice gradually
melting on top, and being added to
each year. The thermometer, which
during the recent drought and "hot
spell" registered 1O3o in Newton,
marked just SO Q at the same time at
the bottom of the gorge-too cold for a
person to remain there any length of
time. A few feet from one end of the
gorge a spring of the most delicious
water bubbles up through the ice. 1t
tastes slightly of iron, and is very salts
| flying to the thirst. This water stands
at "a . about as cold as one could
comfortably drink it.
Samuel Thompson who owns the
farm on which this natural curiosity
has been found, said when asked about
the gorge by a reporter: "Why, yes, I
s'pOse it Is rather remarkable, though
we never set no store by it 'cept when
We wanted ice. The neighbors all goes
there when they wants ice, and faint
necessary for t. build any ice houses
round here. Early in tn spring tn
gorge is filled clean to the top with clear
ice, but long in the summer it gets
melted down, but then they's alters tons
and tons ice thar an they hez been
since [ kin remember. Ye see, tn wa.
ter runs down often tn mountain inter
that holler during tn fall, and as they
amt much outlet 1t jest stays thar and
freezes. [ s'pose some O tn ice in that
thar cave has been thar forever. The
water in the spring, though, is mighty
good tastin', an my wife sets great store
by it, cause she says It's powerful good
fer rheumatic. We hev kn0wed bout
! the gorge fer years, but ez I reckoneC
they was plenty Jest like it round the
country 7 nnUor sold IooI1oL bO,1+ Al, ~
thing. Yes, they hez been good
many people round here t. see til
spring this summer, but mostly city
chaps that was boardin' over t Newton
an come out Jest t see tn sight" Mr.
Thompson has been offered large sums
of money by ente1prising capitalists 70,
the gorge, but declines to SELL as he il
wealthy, and thinks the property i
worth 'jest'' as much to him as it wouiC
be to some one else.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06
A Missing Letter.

Five years ago, says an exchange, a
maiden fair, whose home was at a little
town near Macon, Ga, aDxiously await
ed an important letter from her absent
lover. Days passed YEARLY. The sigh
ing lass haunted the postoffice, but the
postmaster's face always wore that look
of exasperating quietude common to
those from whom expected things new
er come. The maiden thought that her
heart would break, for she realized at
last that her LIVER was faithless. The
scene shifts. 1t is September, 1881. In
Macon dwells the same lady, but she is
now happy wife, with two children.
She has forgotten the faithless one Of
her days of woe. She therefore is sur
prised when from the town of her youth
comes a letter bearing as a superscr1pt-
ion to her maiden name that derived
from her husband An accompanying
note from the postmaster explains that
In tearing away some of the boards of
a letter case the missive was found.
The envelope is postmarked 1876"
The lady spanks the baby to keep it
quiet while she eagerly devours the
contents. Heavens | 1t is from John,
who proposes in glowing words and begs
for kind reply. The lady's husband
also enjoyed the letter, and out Of Gu
rlosity communicated with relatives of
the former lover. 1t was learned that
he is a happy Chicago pork-packer,
with wife and three sons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

connection with Swift's curious antici-
patton. that he placed Honyhnhms
Land near the great island continent of
Australia. It appears in the map of
the first edition of 'Gulliver' as due
south Of Nuvst's Land, in about thirty
eight degrees south latitude, and one
hundred and ffty-fve degrees east
longitude. Now, Ceylon is but fifty
five degrees west of this locality, though
above, as New Guinea is just below, the
equator. The Yahoos could not have
been been better accommodated.-AH
The Year Round.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06
Garfield,s FaYOrite Hymn.

President Gartield's favorite poet,
says Cleveland paper, was Tennyson,
and the poem he loved best was ''In
Memoriam." The following familiar
stanzas from this poem, which he
quoted in an address on the death oil
Lincoln, and which were more than
once applied to himself, efter his &C
cession to the presidency, have new
and melancholy interest and signifi-
canoe now. He was, indeed
a. some divineiy-gifted man
" hose life in low estate began.
And on simple village green;
Who breaks his births invidious bar,
And grasps the skirts of happy chance,
And breasts the blows of circumstance
And grapples with his evil star;
Who makes by force hiss merit known,
And lives to clutch the golden keys,
To mold a mighty states DEGREES,
And shape the whisper of the throne.
And, moving up from high to higher,
Becomes on fortunes browning slope
The pillar of peoples hope,
The centre of worlds desire
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06
WHAT is THE GAIN

What is the gain
If ore should run noble race,
And at the last, with weary pace,
Win to the goal, and find his years
A harvest field of waste and tears
Rich with dead hopes and bitter dust,
And strife and sheer and careless pain,
What is the gain
What is the gain?
When, having reached a sunlit height,
Through barren sweeps of gloomful night,
Hoping to see beyond the crest
Fair lands Of beauty and of rest,
There lies before, stretched far away
Unto the confines of the day,
A desolate and shadeless plain,
What IS the gain
What is the gain
To sail for months Of cold and toll
Across wide seas, where winds recoil,
Only to gather strength and roar
A louder challenge than before,
Aud find, when through fogs thick and dun
The rocky coast at last Is won,
No haven from the storm-yeXed main,
What is the gain?
What is the gain
The race is won, we see the light,
We conquer where the storn-winds fight;
We show the way to those who wait
With faint hearts by the walls Of fate
Our banner futters in the van
Of battles fought fer thought and man.
And ignorance and darkness wane.
This is the gain.
Thomas s. Coliel'.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

An ex-consul of Great Britain, says
the Brooklyn Eagle, related that Mr..
Charles Townsend, Sedalia, Mo-, was
cured of rheumatism of the worst kind
by St. Jacobs Oll.-IndianapoRs lind
Sentinel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

"When I have prepared remarka-
bly, good sermon" said Rev. Mr.. Gush-
well, sit generally happens that have
very small congregation TO listen to
it." "What memory you have !" ex-
claimed Fogg, in tones ofastonishment;
chow long ago was it that you prepared
that did you say?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06
There is no HannIer Man

in Rochester than Mr.. VIM. H. Armstrong With
a countenance beaming with satisfaction he re-
marked, recently, blessings upon the proprietor
of Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. 1t
saved me.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06
IN A NUT SHELL.

Brakeman-''The train is now about
to enter the state of Missouri. Gentle
men who have not provided them
selves with carbines will pass forward
to the locomotive and crawl into the
tender"
The utterly utter" kind of talk has
infected the street gamins, one ofwhom,
after picking up more than usually
fragrant cigar-stump, exclaimed to his
friend: Jack, this is quite too posi-
lively bully"
At recent provincial school-board
examination one boy stated that ga e."
was one ef the plaques of Egypt" and
another that ''the ark in which Moses
hid himself was pitched inside and out
to keep the crocodiles out"
Even unto copiety: "What a splen-
did speaker Elder Longphiz is" re-
marked Mrs Pringle, Don't you think
he is a very pious man, Mr.. Fogg %
Eyes" replied Fogg; every pious-co-
pious, in fact"
The Marquis of Galljet, Gambetta' s
friend, has as many lives as cat. He
was blown to pic 1es in Pueblo, Mexico,
but somehow or other they have been
gotten together and he is the Marquis
of Gallijet.
Bolt the door! Put up the shutters,
Let the front be closed and barred;
We'er ostensibly at Long Branch,
But we'll camp in the back yard
San Francisco is in the throes of an
operate earthquake. The esthetic
youths who could not tell soprano
from contralto are gushing over the
ripping melodies of Signora Sullivan
OR the silver toned notes of Signora
Raffertio.-Sdcrdu1e1ato Bee.
The train-robbers have opened the
fall season in Arkansas by robbing a
train near Hope. AS the robbers wore
masks, and could not be identified
several prominent members of the
legislature have come out in cards de-
claring their ability to prove satisfac
tory qlbis.
Three aged sisters have died IN Con.
necticut within less than a month
They were Mrs. Russell Wooster, died
at Ansonia, Sept. II, aged IS; Mrs
Erastus Downs, died at Southbury, the
week previous, aged IS. and Mrs. Olive
Tuttle, died at North Haven, August
%, aged 80.
Governor Foster, of Ohio, SAYS that
Gen. Garfield never had time enough
to do his work. He never had an idle
hour. The governor visited the presi
dent On the evening before he was shot
and found him more like the old Gar
field than he had been since his nom
ination-as cheerful and buoyant as 6
school-boy.
There is not much romance in the
life of coal miner, yet Pittsburg
paper writes long account of daugh
ter of duke being the wife of Con
nelsville miner, and of another Goa
miner who was once one of the wealth
lest merchants of Pittsburg.
Mary Anderson says it is because she
is afraid of sharks that she refrains
from entering the surf. In this con
nection it is worthy of note that eve,
since Mary has lived in her lavende
colored cottage by the sea the shark
have all come up to New York harbor
A melancholy fact: A tombstone il
a graveyard not far from Washington
Hollow reads.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

rs this my train?" asked traveller
at the Grand Central depot of a lounger.
II don't know" was the reply; 81 see
it's got the name of some railroad COM
pany on the side, and expect it belongs
to them. Have you lost a train any
Where?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

I'll In OhE1t1hl II Il 60. U. IOOV
GENTs-I have been very low, and have tried
everything to no advantage. I heard your Hop
Bitters recommended by so many, l concluded to
give them a trial. / did, and now am around
and constantly improving, and am nearly as
strong as ever. w. H. WELLER.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

The sultan is described as growing
morbid in his fears for his personal
safety. He drove out twice the other
day to a mosque, and on each occasion
the route was changed at the last mo-
ment. He seems disposed to become
hermit. He no longer invites foreign
diplomats to the palace, and audiences
are obtained with great difficulty. The
Spanish ambassador had to wait forty
days for an interview, and General
Wallace more than a month.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

eyes, sir" said Mr. Gallagher, cit was
funny enough to make a donkey laugh.
| laughed till | cried"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

From the prices that some physi-
clans charge one can readily ina CINE
that high heels are fashionable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

If you are bilious, take DIR. Pieree's Pleasant
Purgative Pellets" the original Little Liver
Pills" Of all druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

Dr. R. Y. PIERCE, Buffalo, n. Y: Dear Sir =
have advised many ladies to try your "Favorite
Prescription " and never see it fail to do more
than you advertise,
Yours truly, Mrs. A. NJ. RANKIN,
al Bates Street Indianapolis, Ind.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

If you judge Of Browns character
by the umbrella he carries, you will
form a very poor opinion of Smith, for
t is Smiths umbrella.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

DR.. GREENS OXYGENATED Buffers IS the best rem
edy for Dyspepsia BiiouSnesS, Malaria, Indigestion
disorders and diseases of the Stomach Blood, Kidneys
Liver, Skin, etc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

Mrs. Bayard Taylor is about to erect
at Longwood, to her lamented hus-
bands memory, monument IN the
shape of a circular Greek altar. 1t Is
to bear on the top a lamp with fame,
and on the round a bronze bas-relief
portrait.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

Young, middle aged, or old men, suffering from
nervous debility and kindred weaknesses, should
send two stamps for large treatise giving success
full treatment. WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, n, Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

LETS strip the light fantastic toe,
said the chiropodist to his patient.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

The lady who uses her husbands
meerschaum pipe to drive tack nails
with is no gentleman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

ARE you bald? CARBoLINE, a deodorized ex-
tract of petroleum, the only cure for badness,
has been improved, so that it is now the most de-
ightful dressing in the world. The only real
natural hair restorer ever produced.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

These familiar words recall to the farmer
and others interested, the unfortunate neces-
sity of sometimes getting rid of Stock that
is not otherwise salable on account of blem-
ishes or imperfections. To improve upon
this method, by showing how to restore your
Stock to first-class condition, is the plan
herewith presented. The signal benefit of
the Great German Remedy to mankind very
reasonably induced its application to the
suf1erings and ailments of the dumb crea-
ton, beginning with the Horse. People who
tried it were more than surprised by its re-
suits, as attested in the speedy and perma-
nent cure of their Stock, and they gladly
announced their experience by word of
mouth and by the public press, until to-day
FARMERS and DEALERS, SToCKMEN AND
BREEDERS, the COUNTRY OVER, are using ST.
JACOBS OIL with delight, satisfaction and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

We advise our friends, especially the
ladies, to look through James Morgan's
Dry Goods House, $50 and 388 East
Water ST., Milwaukee. He has the best
assorted stock of first class Dress
Goods, Silks, Dolmans, Flannels, Blan-
kets, etc, in the northwest, and his
prices are always the lowest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

OIh Z L > w no
lose their
Stock by a
miserable eff
fort at econ
onny. There
are OthRrs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06
Hcnry,s CaThoIic saIve.

The best Salye for Cuts, Bruises Sores, Ulcers, Sail
Rheum letter, Chapped Hands, Chilbains, Corns and
all kinds of Skin Eruptions Freckles and Pinpes Buy
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

The Hon. Solomon Sphinx, formerly
secretary OF state for Dakota Territory,
and afterwards delegate therefrom to
congress, died recently at Yankton.
He was in his 51st wear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06
LYON ~ HEALY. Chicago, Hi,
OLIVER DITS0N & CO.. Boston.
lay the Axe
to the Root

If you would destroy the can
kering worm. For any exter-
nal pain, sore, wound or lame
ness Of man or beast, use only
MEXICAN MUSTANG LINZ
MENT. 1t penetrates ali mus
Gle and flesh to the very bOne>
expelling all Inflammation,
soreness and pain, and healing
the diseased part as no other
Liniment ever did or can. SO
saith the experience of two
generations Of sufferers, and
so will you say when you have
tried the s. Mustang"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

you are now one" said the minister
to the happy pair he had just Joined
together IN a knot that they could never
undo. Which one?" asked the bride.
You will have to settle that for your
selves" said the clergyman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

A suicide by hanging dies of his own
free will and a cord.-Harford Tim
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

What is more nasty than running sores, ulcers,
pimples, boils, scrofula, erysipelas etc? Now
"Lindsey's Blood Searcher' cures them all.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06
TO HE SOLID Ar AUCTION.

DURNo's CATARRH SNUFF cures all affections of th
mucous membrane of the head
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06
Here lies q little niger,
If he'd lived a little longer
He had been q little bigger.

One of the Indian chiefs now in
Washington winked at the drug clerk
when calling for soda water the other
day. Such little evidences as this
should nvince the most skeptical that
our missiona, y work among red men is
not without some marked results. Ma
tive instinct never taught the chieftan
this civilized trick.
The editor of the Boston Globe COM
plains of a gold famine. His case is
indeed peculiarly hard. He is the only
editor, SO far as is known, who has ever
suffered from a gold famine. Cyrus
w. Field should start a subscription to
meet this remarkable and distressing
CASE Virginia Chronicle.
When a German has got drenched,
he says: II am wet to my very skin. :"
The Frenchman seems to hate drench-
ing still more, for he says: II am wet
to my very bones" The Spaniard goes
still further: II am wet to my very
marrow" But the Arab beats them
all: Il am wet to my very entrails."
1t is announced that Mr.. J. Stanley
Brown, President Garfelds private sec
rotary, will be succeeded by Mr.. J. G.
Reed, who was Mr.. Arthur's private
secretary in the New York collectors
Office, and also while vice president.
Mr.. Brown will, however, continue to
be attached to the clerical force of the
White House.
In publishing the acts Of the Missis-
sippi legislature recently, the laws got
slightly mixed with parts of an anti
Baptist book that was being set up by
the same printer. The following was
the result: "Be it enacted by the senate
and the house of representative of the
state of Mississippi that bap means to
put under the water and fzo means to
take out.
A certain bishop took occasion to re-
buke one of his clergy for fox-hunting
MY lord" answered the clergyman,
"a man must nave some relaxation,
but [ assure you never go to balls"
"Oh p said the bishop, 81 see you al
lude to my presence to the ducness'
party; but I never entered the same
room as the dancers" MY lord, re-
sponded the clergyman, 'my horse
and I are getting long in years; we are
never in the same field as the hounds"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

- OA bs L II -
mis- t AXE of
thinking that
anything is
good enough
for q Horse
ic non1n hu
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

DIR. Morris LIVER PILLS are the best Vegetable
CGthartiC REGULATORS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

-sv->. Wounds and Calls w.
5S52fNA of all kinds, Poll Caa
TA Evil, Sp1int, Swell vyN9
.e=4AsSS=G4. ings, Tumors, Fistu- ,ssSssA-a.&=>
la, Lameness, Stiffness, Cramps of the Mus
Gle, Acute and Chronic Founder, Mango,
Collie, Sore Throat, Distemper, and many
other Diseases, especially Foot-Kot in
Sheep, ST. JACOBS OIL affords instant relic, relief
PamnhIets containing full directions for
home treatment of diseases OF domestic
animals, sent upon application, by
Cd A, voaELER q CO., Baltimore, Nd.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-06

who humanely regard the welfare of their
faithful dumb creatures, and provide for
their comfort with good food and shelter,
of ST. JACOBS OIL,-the safest and speediest
relief for Diseases of Horses and Stock ever
discovered. Whenever there appears any
evidence whatsoever of disease or injury
among Animals, they should have the best
possible treatment, as it never pays to de-
fer attention to Stock. Inasmuch, then, as it
is the part of common prudence to use the
every Stable, Farm and Stock-yard should
be abundantly supplied with ST. JACOBS
OIL, which is used and recommended by
the best Horsemen in the country as an ar
ticle which will relieve more promptly and
certainly the ailments of and Injuries to
Stock than any other remedy known. For
ell lnrf,