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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09
A PSYCHOLOGICAL ODDITY.
a Lady Who Could Not Eat in walter
GEaIley's Presence.
st. Louis Republican

Speaking of mind reading and mag
netism, a few days ago a gentleman
recently returned from q European
trip related an occurrence wherein
there surely seems to be something
more than q mere whimsicality or cap
rice. A lady well known in Boston is
given as authority for the story, the
incident having happened to herself.
She, some time after the murder of
Jennie Cramer in New Haven, was
stopping at a Boston hotel, and being
among the recent arrivals was placed
at q table devoted to those guests of the
hostelry. She was seated at d table
directly opposite quite fne-lookipg
man, who seemed perfectly gentleman
ly and polite.
Upon sitting down to the table the
first day she found she could not eat
any thing, and her appetite always fail
ed her whenever she sat down to the
table with this man opposite her. For
several days in succession, when sit
ting at the table, she felt sick, weak and
oppressed with fear, and was at loss to
explain the singular coincidence. After
thinking the matter over for some time
she found that she always ate heartily
on the few occasions that the polite
gentleman did not sit at the table with
her. She spoke to the waiter, desiring
another table, and explaining confiden-
TALLY the reasons for which she asked
the change. In accordance with her
request she was placed at another table,
and ever afterward ate very heartily,
and with none of the sense of oppress-
iveness which formerly came over her
at the other table. She went away for
some time, and came back TO the same
hotel. The waiter recognized her, and
mentioned the fact connected with
the change Of eating places. She had
almost forgotten the affair, and wonder
ed why the waiter called the matter up
again. He asked her if she knew the
gentleman who had exercised over her
such peculiar influence. She stated
that she had not the faintest idea of
the mans character, knowing only
that she instinctivelY shrank from MIN.
The waiter then informed her that her
companion at the table was none other
than the celebrated Walter Malley.
who, with his brother was accused of
the murder of Jennie Cramer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09
NO. 45.

pires, commanding in men, material
and money tenfold resources ! These
considerations tell all ronnd. Even
Germany has no stomach for a new
contest when she remembered that
even the ransom she wrenched from
France has melted in her Golfers as if
1t were fairy gold. But we see in the
great Empire of the North duplicate
causes for caution and quiesence. She
Is not rich enough to incur lighhtly
new national debt, and discomfort at
home parafyzes her policy abroad. Nj
hlllsm, with its uplifted dagger, hangs
over her. Panslavism would, and some
will, push her on to a series of crusades
like which were carried out by the prin-
cess and people in the middle ages.
Yet 1t Is certain that nation with so
much to do at home has no legitimate
business abroad. Russia is huge es-
tate, undeveloped to this hour because
Its rulers have always dreamed more
of extending than of improving it. The
dream is shared by fifty millions of
homogeneous race, who have thirty
more over whom they exert supreme
control. Nevertheless, the new Gar,
crowned amid the applause of millions,
might usefully turn over new leaf,
and distinguish himself in history as a
Romanoff, who, unlike all his ances-
tors, gave Russia breathing time and
ress. If he can do so he will be per
sonally more potent than his ancestors,
who only embodied the prevailing ma
t1onal ideas of extended southern en-
pire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09
The Foes Of Russia.
What the Gar might dc for His En-
pire-A Battle Of Giants.
London Telegraph.

Thus Nihilism, scetched not kill
3D." and Panslavism still living, are the
two disturbing elements at home which
keep Russia quiet abroad. The one is
organized regicide, the other would
push the empire down the precipice Of
q long and terrible war. A conflict be-
tween the German powers ;and Russia
would be war of giants. Inventors
have sometimes said that if they could
make war very deadly they could vastly
promote peace. No new device has
tended that way, but one deterrent has
been deloped. Modern conflicts are
costly beyond all precedent. 1t was
said of old in the Peninsular that it
took the weight of an enemy fred Off
in bullets before he was killed. But
the expense Of destruction is the great
feature of our own day. It is possible
that from first to last our army In Egypt
did not slay 1000 natives; if so, each
man killed will probably cost us two
or three thousand pounds. The war
of little more than year in France
imposed on the nation a debt equal to
what we piled up in the thirteen years
contest with Napoleon. Russian finan-
ces suffered severely from the strain of
the war of 1877. What would be the
cost of contest with two great EN-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09
Chicago RyarRet.

CHcAao, Nov. 6.-Flour-Quiet and un-
changed. Wheat-Inastive and lower; regular
92% for seller November; 944 for seller Decem-
ber,92A for seller the year; 94X995 for seller
January; l.OO4 for seller May; Ne. 2 Chicago
spring, OK for seller cash; rest same as reg
ular. No. Chicago spring, 811k No. red
winter, 50 for seller cash; 951@96 for seller
November; No. winter, 91d; rejected 63 Corn
Demand active, prices advanced; 73Z for seller
cash; 68A @6SX for seller November; 62X @63
for seller December; 62I for seller the year,
SAX @55 for seller January; 55X csc for seller
May rejected, 6S. Oats-Quiet; 34A@34H for
seller cash. 81 for seller November; 33% for
seller December, the year, and January; 35%
for seller May; rejected, 3l@314. Rye
Steady; 56H. Barley-Higher; 80. Flax Seed
Dull; l15A@1.16. Pork-Lower; 2O.5O@
2l.OO for seller cash; 192ogl9.22H for seller
November; 18.5O@1S.52H for seller December
and the year; 1S.52h@1S.55 for seller Janu-
ary; 1S.5591S.57H for seller February; 1SSO@
1885 for seller May. Lard-Lower: 11.470l1. so
for seller cash; 11.27K@1.9O for seller No
vemberi 11.12h@ Ills for seller December, the
year and January; u.15911.171 for seller
Febraary; 11.S2H@11.35 for seller May. Bulk
Meats--In fair demand; shoulders $50;
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09

1t was enough to stock half the farms
IN the State. His, choice breeds of
swine and sheep, neat cattle and horses
amply repay days inspection. His
blllard-house, standing little detatch-
ed from his main residence, in mu-
scum of itself. The tables are of the
best quality, surrounded by antique
furniture, and the walls are hung with
medisval armor Sud tiger skins brought
from Africa by DIR. Chaillu. Mr.. Dona
is an expert in Billiards and has some
times beaten the best professional,
The residence is Old Dutch, built
more than century ago. 1t has been
enlarged and modernized in some parts
for comforts sake and enriched with
the spoils of many a transatlantic Jour-
ney. The taste and wealth lavished on
the parlor, diniug-room and halls in the
way of paintings, statuary and other ar
tistic decoration, have produced I'M
lque effect. 1t is pretty generally known
that Mr.. Dana is an epicure-a gentle
man who makes dining fine art-and
there are few more delicate or richer
tables IN the vicinity cf this city than
the spread before the master of Dosoris.
He pays his cook $4,000 a year, am
told, a sum exceeding that paid to the
great French cook, Trompette, who
drives through the streets of Paris in a
coach as splendid as that of Louis XIV.
l have heard Mr.. Dana's name coupled
with those of Sam Ward and Sam
Barlow, as one Of the most &C.
complished diners in town, and
certain it is that those who
have stretched their legs under his
mahogany and partaken of the viands
there served, know something of what
the word Lucullus means. His wine
cellar is a marvel, and contains some
ylntages that are never sold, but are
made only for presents for royal or
noble personages.
Mr.. Dana's family consists of his
wife, his son Paul, and three daugh-
ters. Of the latter, one is married,
one widow, and one unmarried. Mrs.
Dana is a woman of scholarly tastes,
delicacy and fine sensibilities- these
qualities, in short, which are COM
pressed into the word Culture" Paul
is predestined to be his fathers sue
cessor. He is now 80 or 90, tall and
strong; he writes, now and then, some
thing for paper, and, while without
his fathers genius for journalism, he
possesses that strong sense and good
literary judgment which sometimes
serve as well as the more shining quail
ties. He is from Harvard. of course
[ understand that twenty of The SUMS
staff are Harvard graduates.-BoSton
Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09
Properties Of NitrO-GlycerIne.

1t has sweet aromatic, pnpgent
taste, and possesses the very peculiar
property of curing an extremely vio-
lent headache when placed upon the
tongue, or any other portion of the
skin particularly upon the wrist. 1t
has long been employed by home
opathic practitioners as a remedy in
certain kinds of headaches. In those
who work much with it the tendency
to headache is generally overcome,
though not always. 1t freezes at about
40 degrees, Fahrenheit, becoming a
white, half-crystalized mass, which
must be melted by the application of
water at a temperature of about 100
degrees Fahrenheit. IF perfectly pure,
that is, if the washing has been so
complete as to remove all traces of the
acid-it can be kept for an indefinite
period of time; and, while many cases
Of spontaneous decomposition have oc-
CURED in impure specimens, there has
never been known such an instance
where the proper care has been given
to all the details of the manufacture
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09
CRIME.

JOSEPH PARISH, one of the most dan
gerous confidence men in the west has
been captured in indianapolis.
"DAGo PETE" au Italian fruit-vender
of New Orleans. incpired by jealousy,
killed his Quadroon mistress and her
mother With razor.
JOHN BLACK, well-known merchant of
Pekin, ILL.,, is said TO be defaulter for $15,-
0U and to have sailed for Germany two
weeks ago.
FRANK JAMES does not bear up well in
confinement, and is looking pale and i'll.
Three indictments are standing against
him. but it is uncertain when he will be
tried.
CITIz ENG of Texas, having walked into
the nets set by swindling marriage in
surance associations, are holding indig
nation meetings to denounce those who
have profted by the frauds.
Four thousand decks of Mexican monte
cards were seized at Laredo by customs Of
fcers. These cards were being smuggled
through to Galveston, where they were
worth 300 a pack.
AN alleged swindling concern doing
business at Montreal under the name of
the Empire Implement company has
come to grief. The farmer was the par
ticular object of the company's atten-
tions.
In a public school at Leavenworth,
Kan, w. 6. Ross, acting as monitor"
tried to report a boy of II years by
the name of Winters, for whispering. Be-
fore his intention could be fathomed the
latter rushed upon the smaller boy an d
plunged knife into his side, infictinQ
mortal wound.
burg, Missouri, for the murder of Wood
Hite was acquitted by the jury after for
ty-one hours balloting. He walked over
to the telegraph Office and sent the news
to Governor Crittenden and the chief of
police of Kansas City.
FRANK CLIFFORD and George Bates. con-
fined in the Washington county Jail, Yer
mont, for attempted burglary of the
Mortified Savings bank, picked the lock
to the tier of cells, removed a block Of
granite from the ceiling, got into the
Office, cut their way through brick wall,
and escaped. Both are professionals. and
were implicated in jobs in Chicago and
Canada
THE appearance of eight men, alleged
to have been masked, on the track of the
Chicago and Alton railroad near the scene
of the Blue Cut train-robberv is supposed
to indicate that plan had been concoct-
ed to perpetuate another robbery: but,
as the men took to the woods on the ap-
proach of the train, the railroad men be-
lieved they were local tyros in train-rob-
bing, whose courage failed them at the
critical moment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09
An Independent BOniface.

Joe Beefs hotel is unique. 1t is a
big four-story stone building on the
river front of Montreal, and It's custo-
mers are chiefly boatmen. On the
first floor is bar-room, decorated with
human skulls (the proprietor says they
are the heads of his relatives) and on
one end of the counter, for free
lunch, always lies huge piece of raw
beef, with a knife for hacking off
pieces. The second floor is cheap
restaurant, and above are lodging
rooms at ten cents night. There is
also a concert hall. But the strangest
feature of the concern is a row of cells
in the cellar, where Joe locks up his
guests when they become boisterously
drunk. II won't have any policemen
around my place." he said to a Boston
Herald correspondent; "I'm my own
police, judge and jury, and l keeps
my own jail" His followers submit
to his system, because they escape the
fines that would be imposed if they
fell into the hands of the police.-Troy
Times
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

FIRE at Hull, Ont, opposite Ottawa,
destroyed property valued at 100000.
,. FIVE business places at Shreveport, La,
valued at S103, 900. were swept away by
FIRE Tuesday.
l.. M. VANCE, prominent farmer
Franklin county, Ark, was accidentally
killed by a runaway team Thursday.
WIN. PoRCUTEAU, superintendent OF the
Gunnell Mine at Central City. Col, was
attacked by a huge bear and frightfuily
mangled.
AFIRK in the stock-yards Tuesday at
Lexington, Kentucky, destroyed twenty
five short-horn cattle.
q THE death by apoplexY of Rear Ad-
miral Chas. ii. Poor is announced in
dispatch from Washington. He entered
the navy in Is 27.
JOSEPH BUHM, yourg Detroit man.
got drunk while out hunting and acci-
dentalIy discharged his gun, the load en-
tering his breast. He lived an hour.
Two little children of Curtis Lamp
man, living near Troupsburgh, n. Y,
were burned to death during the bsence
of their parents from the house, early
Tuesday morning.
THE storm in Scott county, Iowa, Mon
day afternoon, was more destructive than
fret reports indicated, the damage being
variously estimated from $4,000 to $780,
600. On Lake Michigan some loss was
inflicted upon shipping,
BY loaded coal-ear breaking loose and
running with great speed down an in
clined plane at a mine near Williamsport,
Pa, three men who were on the car were
killed and two seriously injured.
THE Lake Shore fast train from Chi
cago, while passing through Cleveland
early Sunday morning, killed John
Gibbs, an employe of the Whipple manu-
featuring company, who was walking on
the track.
TIE Park theater in New York, where
Mrs. Langtry was to have made her
American debut, was destroyed by fire
Tuesday afternoon. The loss is $780, 900.
Mrs. Lanstry's costumes tor The Unequal
Match were burned. Three attaches of
the theater were severely injured. The
hre IS supposed to have been caused py an
explosion of gas
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09
GRAND RAPIDS, WIS. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1882

any reciprocity treaty with the United
States.
The Swiss Federal Council denies that
there are any anarchist committees in that
country.
An ordinance is before the German
bundesrath prohibiting the importation of
American pork or sausage.
The Mexican government is consider
ing the adyisability of adopting leading
features of the Q nited States postal gys-
tenn.
AN English officer will command the
expedition against the False Prophet in
the Soudan.
CoCCAPLLER, the agitator elected to
the Italian cham Der of deputies, was I'M
til recently circus rider, and bears bad
character.
The neglect of the czar of Russia TO
officially congratulate the king of Servia
upon his recent escape from assassination
indicates lack Of cordiality between the
two governments.
ARABI PAsHA has requested that De
Lesseps be summoned as witness on his
trial.
ARABI PAsHA asserts that since the in
ment has been materially changed for The
better.
By the collapse Of the floor at Hanlay,
Eng, on which was congregated the Sal
vation Army, many members were seri-
ously injured.
ENL!sTMENTs at Cairo Tor the expe6i-
ton against the False Prophet are pre-
gressIng satisfactorily, and many Ger
man and amnestied off GERS have rendered
their services.
HERR BRBEL, the German socialist. has
commenced to serve a term OF three
months in prison at Lsipsic, for using the
press to express his sentiments in regard
to the government.
Coal owners of West Lancashire ad-
vanced miners wages 10 per can't. Tni
action practically ends the dispute in
Lancashire. Coal owners of South York
shire offer coliiers an advance Of 5 per
cent. TO avert a strike.
TROOPS occupy all the strategic points
in Lyons, prepared to act at the first ap-
pearance of trouble. If any more explo-
sions occur, the city will be placed under
martial law. A quantity of dynamite has
been seized by the police.
THE newspaper or gan of the socialists
10 France publishes the programme of
the party, which falls little short of the
scheme pr0mul gated by Jack Cade. 1t
aims at the destruction of property rights
and the redistribution of wealth.
In the debate on the rules of procedure
in the British parliament, the premier
denied that the cloture was intended to
interfere with the right of free speech.
Mr.. Gladstone said that the procedure
rules would not be made the subject of
an appeal to the constit ueneies. A divi-
sion will be taken u9on the question of
the Cloture
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09
GENERAL NOTES,

WORK upon the Tehuantepec railroad
will be begun at once.
BISHOP TALBOT, of the Episcopal do
cese of Indiana, has decided, in view of
his poor health, to resign his Office.
Snow was general along the line of the
n Nortkern Pacific railroad in Dakota nd
Montana, Tuesday.
A HOME for aged ministers is talked of
by the New Jersey Baptist association.
hTHERE was no truth in the report that
Vanderbilt has acquired the Boston,
Hoosac Tunnel and western railroad.
The city government of Milwaukee is
adopting vigorous measures for the sup
preston of dance houses, which have be-
come very numerous of late years.
+. The London Telegraph states Count
DeLesseps has completed grand scheme
which will result in shortening by three
days the time for the passage of yessels
through the Suez canal.
THE negroes of Rhode Island assembled
at Newport recently and resolved to give
their political support to whoever showed
the most regard for their rights and feel
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09
An Editor and his Home.
The SuInptuous style in which Char
les A Dana Lives


Have you ever been to Dosoris
Island Probably not. Have you ever
seen Dosoris Island? Possibly you may
have got distant glimpse of it while
steaming up Long Island Sound on a
Fail River boat. 1t is a lovely island,
some two miles in circumference, near
Glen Cove, on the starboard bow as you
sail eastward. It is the summer home
of Charles A. Dana, editor and chief
proprietor of The Sun, and every day
during the warm months he journeys
to the city, twenty miles off, and back
on steamboat in private apartments
elegantly fitted up for exclusive use.
His residence IS an antique mansion,
rambling and roomy, on an eminence
crowning the the island and over
looking grounds laid out with a
consumate mastery of the arts of
forestry, orchardry, vineyard and
Horticulture. There are acres of vine
festoonery, yielding harvests of the
richest grapes that can be grown along
this isothermal line. Fruit is cultivat.
ed in abundance. There are mushroom
caves, where the pale fungi grow deep
in the earth, approached only by lad
ders and seeing no other light than
torches. doubt if anybody else in the
country has anything like 1t; and, in
deed, it is said there are few mushroom
caves even in France that equal these
for the variety and excellence of the
product.
There are on Mr.. Dana's place more
than 100 species of pines. The needle
bearing trees seem to be his favorites.
He has Japanese pines, pines from the
Caucasus, the Andes and the Hima-
layas, India and Africa pines. Besides
these there are singular exotics from
al pal is of the world. He is an expert
in landscape gardening, and pronounc-
ed by Prof. G. S. Sargent, of Harvard,
one of the most accomplished horti-
culturist in America.
On this romantic isle OF Monte
Christie, the commingling of the old
trees that shaded the Indians and Dutch
with the foliage resulting from modern
selection and cultivation makes beau
tiful display. Mr.. Dona Is also chicken
farcier and pigeon cultivator. Among
fowls the Brahma is his favorite. and
newspaper have not forgotten what
tremendous number Of them were
stolen from his coops one night last
year. forgot whether it was 800 or
5000 or 5000, 900, but remember that
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09

NEW YORK has developed crank
named ]. B. Newbrough who seems
destined to succeed the late lamented
Charles ]. Guiteau as Gods man. He
claims to have written, by the aid OF
inspiration and a type writer, quarto
volume of 800 pages which he calls
"Oakspe, New Bible in the Words OF
Jehovah and His Angel Ambassadors.
He declares that as soon as his task
was completed he began to receive
from many and unknown sources
money wherswith to pay for publish
ing the book, until he had $4,000.
Three thousand copies of his Bible
have been printed. 1t is earnestly to
be hoped t1at Mr.. Newbrough is far
from a desire for consulate and a
leaning toward the work of removing
presidents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09
Without a Chin.

Recently two boys went hunting near
Petoskey, and one ofithem named Dun
bar, 19 years of age met with dread
full accident. The gun was accidentally
discharged, the charge taking effect in
his face and completely carrying away
his lower jaw, there being but one tooth
left, leaving the tongue hanging down,
and those who saw it say it was most
horrible sight. His chin was found twenty
yards away. The doctor picked out
the loose pieces of bone, and he in
forms US that he picked out of the
flesh q whole handful of broken pieces
and twenty shot. The doctor also pre-
pared an artificial lip to support his
tongue, and strange as it may seem,
the young man is getting along finely
and will undoubtedly recover. .-Ion5a,
Mich, Sentinel
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-09

The United States ranks first of the
nations of the earth in the number oi
postofices, having 1899 Offices, the
next highest being IA, $40 in Great Brit
ain. Switzerland leads in respect to
number of offices for each inhabitant,
with one Office for every 993 inhabit-
ants, the United States having one office
for every 1,167 inhabitants. France
and Germany have by far the largest
number of letter-boxc5 for the recep-
ton Of correspondence. Great Britain
conveyed the largest number of letters
last yea, 1,176, ,423, 900, the United
States ranking second, with SAT ,820, ,029
letters. The United States appears,
however, to have conveyed nearly
double as many postal cards and news
papers as were sent in any foreign
country. The United States has the
largest number of miles of railway
transportation, 95, ,939, ,491 miles. With
respect to gross postal revenues, those
of Germany aggregated 100, ,229, ,319
francs, the United States 176,453, ,627
francs, and Great Britain 168,335, ,765
francs.