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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

For ordinary work horse of average
other grain food, and 10 to Is pounds
of good hay; but, if driven on the road,
2 or 8 pounds of hay, morning and
noon, and s or 10 at night, with the
same quantity of grain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09
NO. 10.
ROCHESTER,. n. Y Ian al 1890

SIRs Acknowledging your favor duly
received, we would say: The best. proof
we can give you that the statements made
by DR.. Henion are entirely true. and
would not have been published unless
strictly so, is the following testimonial
from the best citizens of Rochester, and a
card published by Rev. DIR. Foote, which
you are a liberty to use if you wish.
III. II. WARNER & Co.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-03-09

GENTLEMEN.-Your favor is received, |
The published statement over my sigma |
ture, to which you refer, is true in every |
respect, and I owe my life and present |
health wholly to the power of Warmers |
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. 1t is not |
surprising that people should question |
the statement I made. for my recovery |
was as great marvel to myself, as to my |
physicians and friends.
J. 3. HENIoN, M. d.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20
YeB1or OmdoBe

Vennor, the great weather prophet,
claims 10 be able TO tell all about the
weather in advance, but does not al
ways succeed.
However, that great paper, the Cen
trail Methodist, published at Catletts.
bury, Ky, hits the mark evey time.
This isa large, sixteen-page weekly
paper, put up in Book Form, pasted
and trimmed, and conducted with
naked ability. 1t is emphatically a
religious family journal, giving all inn
portant secular news, is wide awake,
and fully up with the times.
This paper is offered to all new sub.
scribers. from this date until April
lst, 1888, nearly ten months for, One
Dollar. Our readers will do well to
order it.
Any person making a club Of ten
subscribers, will be entitled to the
eleventh copy free. Send for sample
copies, aud make club at once. Ad-
dress as above.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

The juvenile pages around the
Capitol at Washington we're called on
recently 10 contribute out OF their
slender earnings toward the republi.
can campaign fund. II a great party
in any country or in any age ever be.
fore picked pence from the pockets Of
children for political purposes, history
has failed 10 record il. Il seems,
however, that the machine managers
Of the party are determined this year
10 levy political blackmail upon every
one who holds a position under it. A
circular has just been sent 10 every
employe Of the Boston Navy Yard
seven hundred in number--in which
the secretary of the Republican Con
gressional Campaign Committee says (:
"Under the circumstances in which
the country finds itself placed the
committee believes that you will es.
TEEN il both privilege and favor
TO make 10 its fund a contribution
which, il is hoped, may not be less
than -- dollars The day laborer
who received the document from
which the preceding is an extract has
the sum Of eleven dollars set opposite
his name, and in case of others the
scale rises in the ratio of their wages
or salaries. There is a federal law
prohibiting political assessments under
severe penalties, aud our courts have
recently convicted a person charged
with its violation. Cannot Boston
follow up the good work? IL is true
that in the circular in question an at.
tempt is made to evade the law. The
letter is observed, the spirit is broken.
There may he no way of furnishing
the secretary Of the Congressional
Campaign Committee, but even "a
failure Of justice" after an effort TO en-.
force it would be indirectly and in the
end substantial victory.-[N. Y.
Herald.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20
Occgoofjogs in Beaveg2

Does DR.. Talmage realize what will
come of his suggestion that in the
kingdom of heaven the spirits Of men
will continue the occupations that their
bodies followed here2 Such a posi-
bility may seem not unpleasant TO per-
sons who preach sermons and draw
salaries, but the majority ofjust men
made perfect are not in the pulpit line.
Sume of them are selling goods on
credit and undecided as TO who will
next call meeting of his creditors;
others are workingmen striking for
higher wages, or employers hoping
against hope there ever bea time when
strikes will not demoralize well laid
business schemes. Some are trying
10 raise corn and doubling whether the
sun will ever startthe stalks into growth
and other are wondering which will
come along first this Year-the potato
bug or the grasshopper. Quite num-
ber are going 10 the races with
straight tips" and coming back with
out their money A mighty host is
mourning over the high price Of pro-
visions, while in this part of the world
much time is consumed wondering
how many bad bills the Governor will
sign aud how many good ones he will
veto. Ifthis is the sort of thing that
is to go on in heaven sermons about the
other place will cease to be so distaste-
ful as of yoro.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

The strikes are daily looking more
ominous. The iron masters, instead
Of staying in their offices to attend to
their business, have shut up their
works, and spend their time in hold
ing conferences TO discuss the alarm.
ing situation. The laborers have
stopped working, and are organizing
for a possibly protracted abstinence
from labor. Then in some places the
men who belong TO the militia have
left occupations 20 go to drill, and
prepare themselves to suppress any
breach Of the peace by the angry and
Disconnected workmen. IL is an un-
happy and a saddening prospect.
Meanwhile the Republican majority
in Congress. who control the legisla
tion of the Union and the disposition
Of its revenues, are unhesitatingly and
lavishly voting away the peoples
money in extravagant appropriations,
while they threaten the country with
such jobs as are championed and
pushed by Secor Robson and his
hungry following. They have delib.
erately refused TO tighten the burdens
Of taxation by resolving to maintain
the unrivalled atrocities of the inter.
nal revenue system, and by throwing
the question oi revising the tariff out
Of Congress into the hands of a Com.
mission from which we shall never
hear until the next Presidential elec.
tion is gotten through with, and
which, as it looks now, will be practi.
cally apacked jury in opposition to
reform.
A new dispensation is needed f,
whereby the present corrupt and self.
ish rulers shall give way to men who
can give us an honest, economical and
DemOcraticgovernment.-[N = NY. Sun.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20
Sandust

In New York there are about FIVE
hundred vendors OF sawdust, having
a capital Of two hundred thousand dol.
lars invested, and doing a busi-
ness amounting TO 100000 annu.
ally. Forty years ago the mills
were glad TO have the saw-dust carted
away twenty five years ago il could
be bought for fifty cents load but
the price has been increased ill it
brings three dollars and fifty cents
load at the mills. IL is used at the
hotels, eating houses, groceries aud
other business houses. Ii is wet and
spread upon floors 10 make sweeping
cleaner. Plumbers use a great deal
about pipes, and builders to deaden
walls and floors. Soda water men
and packers of glass and small articles
of every kind use it, aud dolls and
some living creatures are stuffed with
it. Washington Market takes two or
three loads a day, and a great deal is
spread on piers, aud tables take many
a load a day. Yellow pine makes the
best sawdust as it is the least dusty,
and has good healthy smell. But
any white wood dust will do. They
make great deal of black walnut
sawdust, but it will not sell, so it is
burned.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

Sylvester Marsh, Of Concord, New
Hampshire, protector and principal
owner Of the White Mountain Rail.
road, refers in the following extract
from a private letter 30 Hon, j. w.
Patterson, 10 his early experience in
the West. II will be read with interest
by all interested in the early history
Of the West.
In speaking Of the rapid growth of
the West, have time 10 mention only
a few facts. left Boston October 2,
1928, for Ohio IL took me seventeen
days 10 reach Ohio, by way Of Buffalo,
which then had but 5000 inhabitants.
The largest vessels on Lake Erie was
sixty tons: now vessels run from Buff
falo Of over 1000 tons. The Erie
Canal was finished 20 Buffalo in 1897.
Then there was no harbOr at Cleve
land, but alterward the sand bar was
removed aud piers built at the expen sc
of the government. Detroit was only
at trading post; the principal business
was buying furs and skins from the
Indians. The government had troops
Mt Fort Gratiot, East end Of Lake
Huron. There were also government
troops at Mackinaw and Chicago. /
went 10 Ohio in company with Nath'l
Pease, whose object was to begin the
packing business in the lake region.
lie only found hogs and cattle enough
during the whole Winter TO make 700
barrels. This was taken 10 Buffalo IN
the Spring, being the first provisions
shipped from the West through the
Erie Canal. We carried out on our
persons about 81, 1000 in Boston bills,
but were unable 10 find cattle and
hogs enough 10 use all the money, and
carried back portion Of il in the
Spring. went from Chicago to Ohio
in the Winter '33 and "a on au Indian
pony. The stopping places were often
thirty miles apart, through Michigan.
Chicago had a garrison of so soldiers,
and 250 or 800 citizens. ! began the
provision business in rather novel
aud primitive way, by hanging my
cattle ON a large Elm tree, near where
the postoilioe and custom house now
stand. following the business until |
had slaughtered 1856 large cattle aud
500 hogs daily. This was progressive
for the times, but in magnitude not to
be compared with what has been done
since left the business in '52. Last
season there were hogs enough slaugh-
tered in Chicago, il placed in a line,
single file, 10 reach 1000 miles. The
principal beef packing is now done in
Kansas and Missouri, five or six hun
dred miles West OF Chicago.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

The one secret of handling bees
without trouble is this A bee filed
with honey will not sting unless you
crowd her TO it. There are two or
three ways to cause them to fill them
selves with honey-by blowing smoke
in at the entrance, or down among the
combs at the top; by cOniiuing them
to the hive aud rapping gently on the
hive with a stick or light hammer, or
by sprinkling the bees and combs with
warm diluted honey or sugar syrup.
A bee filled with honey is much like Il
man who has just eaten good hearty
meal-don't feel very much inclined
to quarrel or fight. .-[Chicago, Jour
nal.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

England, tariff for revenue only
country, pays double and treble the
wages paid in Germany, country
under a strictly protective tariff. No
American protectionist has ever dared
discuss this subject. American pro-
tectionists continue to declare that
protection always gives the work.
man high wages" They know it is
false, but they keep repeating the false.
hood like parrots. : ICourier-J Journal.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

The most unfortunate set of kickers
in Louisville are the sore heads of the
Christian, or rather the Campbellite,
Church, who have recently raised a
grand row because the more enlight-
ened members want to use the regula-
tion organ in their edifces-Mr. j. NJ.
Shreye, for instance-that distinguish.
ed old gentleman is positively opposed
to the use of the organ, though for
what reason, God only knows. Even
the negroes, always ready to initiate
their white brethren, are quarreling
over the organ question, and it is
probable that they will yet have to
settle the dispute with razors. This is
most lamentable situation of affairs,
and necessity demands that something
must he done. Enlightened Christians
recognize the fact that music aud re-
ligion go hand in hand Sunday
Argus.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

A New STYLE Or STREET LETTER
Box. The Postmaster at Philadel
phia has invented new style of letter
box. On the face of the box, at the
bottom, is a notice of the time when
collections are made by the carrier.
Above this notice are the words:
COLLECTIONS from this box reach the
Post Office about" the blank
being filled by the figures of a revolv-
ing disk, which changes each time the
carrier shuts the lid, without any fur
ther effort on his part. The disk is
made to note on it any number of col
lections, and when the carrier of of the
day; who leaves the post Office at mid
night, visits the box, he opens and
shuts the door until he hears the bell
ring, which indicates that the dial is
set for the morning collection.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

BIZ KIND TO THE SIoK,-The only med
ical tonic specially adapted TO enfeebled
inyalids and infants Is Browns Iron Bit
ters II will not iniure the most delicate,
but gives new life and new strength 10 both
mind and body All leading physicians
are now recommending il in preference 10
all other tonics.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

1t is found that gas lamps glazed
with the Siemens glass are not only
proof against breakage in the most
violent storms, but that pebbles
thrown with force against paues wi
rebound harmlessly. 1t is also stated
that the lamps along promenade in
Hamburg were regularly broken eve
ry winter by storms Of sleet, until the
tough glass was employed, whereupon
this destruction was no longer expert
enced. A special quality is also used
for water main pipes, and is claimed
to be stronger than cast iron, imper-
ishable and incorruptible.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

From the dissection Of iifty lions in
Algeria, il was found that the lungs Of
twenty were affected, one-half Of them
were almost gone, showing the preya-
lance Of consumption among them.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

Several small living sea.fish have
been sent by mail on four days Jour
ney. They were packed in damp sea-
weed, and all but one survived the
trip and came out in a good condition.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

A man was arrested and fined for
kneeling and praying aloud in the
streets of Wichita, Kansas, and the
Times declares that he could have
stood up and sworn with impunity.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

About l9O,000.000 pounds of rice
are produced annually on the swampy
river banks of the Southern States.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

The most unhappy Of mortals--
The man who never laughs, and don't
wish to have any body else laugh.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

The London Economist says; "Con-
sidering the commercial position of
Liverpool, the extent of its trade,
and the enterprise of its people, it is
simply astonishing that the practice of
payments by checks which prevails in
other industrial centres is not yet in
general operation there. As business
is at present conducted large sums
have to be passed from hand to hand,
with all the risk, trouble and expense
incidental to so antiquated a mode"
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

When President Arthur was a
school teacher he did not punish the
big bad boys by seating them with the
girls; he placed them on the lowest
bench in the primary department and
made them recite the alphabet with
the little children. BY this sim pie
method he permanently reformed one
very bad school in exactly two hours
by the watch.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

Travellers say that severe wbirl-
winds, capable Of lifting heavy bodies,
often occur on the banks of the Jor-
dan.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

A pair of jeweled garters sold in
New York the other day tor $4,000.
That's pretty high. 1t will take a
pretty tall girl to wear garters that
come as high as that.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

Winston, Va, indulges in "pea.
guessing matches, aud recently Jar
containing 20, 1lS peas was subjected
to 2,709 guesses. james Spears (col.
ored) guessed the exact number and
took the prize.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

Amsley passed himself of as a
bachelor at Fairfield, and was a favor
ite with the girls until they learned
that he had a wife in another Iowa
village. Then they formed a process
sion, with brooms for guns, and march
ed him to the railroad station, where
he was glad TO take a train without
further punishment.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

Chewing gum is sometimes made of
paraffine, and one manufactures thus
consumes 10000 pounds Of the mate
rial annually.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

David Crockett was born at Lime
stone, Tenn, August IL, 1856. He
was put to death by order of Santa
Anna, of Mexico, March 6, 1886.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

The blacksmith often Injuries the
woodwork of a carriage by fitting his
irons when too hot. If the wood
burns ever so little it weakens it, and
if a joint is near the latter is sure to
open. A blacksmith that can not fit
an iron without depending upon its
burning its way down should never be
allowed TO work at the forge.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

The man who is attempting TO re.
vive the passions of the war, in the
vain hope that he may be thereby
elected to a tat office, or, failing in
that. fall back on the Government for
a position, after the manner of the
regular republicans--in word, Rich
ard Tarvin Jacobs meeting with
very poor success. His charges against
the democratic officials of the State,
which he utters knowing them to be
false, and his attempts to capture the
colored vote by misrepresentation
which are nothing if not straight out
lies, are every where met with the
contempt they deserve, save among
the republicans. Having descended
to Il lower political plane than any
Kentucky politician ever did, not ex-
cepting John ID. White, he has failed
in his purposes, and soon there will be
nothing left for him but to find con.
venient hole, crawl in it and die
[Sunday Argus.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

This is the third story about Clara
Belle. The first is that she is a man,
the second that she is a New York
school ma'am. Readers of the Chances
can wade through this little ghost story
and take their choice of the three {;
Her maiden name was Emily Steine-
stel, and she was for several years on
the st. Louis Republican, where she
did German translations and wrote
light reading for the Sunday paper.
She has been married twice, divorced
from her first husband, and is now
the wifeof an ex minister of the gospel.
She is employed in New York publi-
cation house at present, translating
German works. She has lived in
Washington, and did newspaper work
there for the st. Louis Republican.
She is about 33 years old, well formed.
vivacious in conversation, talking as
glibly aud entertainingly as she writes.
She comes from, or near, Belleville,
Illinois, fourteen miles Southeast of
st. Louis. This is the latest. If its a
lie il must be charged TO the Indian
apolis Saturday Repie,o.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

What is the difference between the
Prince of Wales, an orphan, bald
headed old man, and a gorillaY The
first is an heir apparent, the second
has ne'er parent, the third has no
hair apparent, and the fourth has a
hairy parent.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

George Fawcett completed in April
last MS iorty.seventh year of service
in the English Post Office as a rural
messenger. From 1885 to 1912 he
rode between Sedbergh and adjacent
stations, carrying mail in this way
total distance OF 81, miles. From
1912 to 1882 be has walked daily be.
tween Sedbergh and Dent, thus ira.
versing 175, 200 miles. His entire
travel as postman foots up 242, 800
miles, nearly ten times the distance
around the earth, and 1850 miles fur.
ther than from the earth to the moon.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

Climb as high, young man, as a
worthy ambition will let you, but
never despise the ladder which assist
ed you upward. Il Yonkers Gazette.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

The best and safest way 10 increase the
appetite, assist digestion, cause the food
TO assimilate properly, aud the absorbents
10 take up nourishment,' induce full and
regular evacuation, produce easy expector-
,tion and sion decay of The lungs heart
S''o"' nsl - ~, ~ VI ."' lu"s,'
satisfaction in more than a million instances
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

An unsophisticated German was on
a jury at Knoxville, Tenn, trying a
case where a man had been sued for a
doctors bill. Getting an idea into his
head that the jury had the bill to pay,
he bolted, and has not since been seen
near the city.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20
TO THE PUBLIC.

desire TO announce to the people Of Stanford
and vicinity that have purchased the Grocery
and Hard dware stock OF Hale 4 Nunneley, and will
continue the business at the same stand. Their
and wishes to have his friends to remember him
as usual. Trusting by low prices and fair dealing
to retain all the old pa irons of the store, and win
great many more | am, respectfully,
W. T. GREEN.
STANFORD, June 1, 1882.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20

Seventeen millions of dollars are to
be granted by this Congress ostensibly
for the erection of public buildings in
some small towns and villages, but re-
ally to make hives for Republican vo-
ters for the next four or five years,
and twenty-five millions are TO be Civ
en- principally for the improvement
Of pouds-or inlets, AS they are term
ed in parliamentary falkland creeks.
Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-20
White presses.

Clara Belle says: There is going to
be a memorable Summer for washer.
women. White dresses will be acutely
aud epidemically fashionable. Now +,
il may be that the flowing white robes
Of real angels wash themselves auto.
matically in the damp clouds and dry
themselves in the celestial sunlight;
but the muslins, which the wingless,
earth.treading, imitation angels pro.
pose 10 wear during the hot season
will require frequent laundrying. !
shouldn't wonder il some of the washers
ut the resorts retired on fortunes in
the Fall, and become resorters them.
selves by the ensuing season. II isn't
all of the white dresses that will bear
suds, however, and some of the color.
less toilets once soiled will be done for,
being made ofsatin surah with elabo-
rate embroidery, or China crepe with
lace, or silk muslin with finely wrought
figures all over the fabric. These
dainty and delicate things call for
careful treatment on the part Of the
wearers. Will all this white be be.
coming to the majority Of women {?
That is a momentous question. | think
the right answer is yes. In theory,
white is not the thing for any but
clearcomplexloned, rosy, young wo.
men. In fact, nine hundred in
thousand look better in white than in
colors. Next to black, it reduces the
apparent girth of fat women, next to
actual freshness aud youthfulness, it
imparts the peculiar charms of femin.
unity; next to natural sweetness, it
makes the wearer seem hugable. lfa
woman cant be fascinating in white,
then halo and wings wouldn't make
her so. What | am afraid of is that
white clothes will lead to whitened
faces. Chalk is cheap.