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What is q Mirage.

Recently the papers have given no.
tices of wonderful mirages that have
been seen upon the coasts of Europe,
and it is not strange that some of my
young friends should ask about them.
The name mirage, is a French one,
meaning ito loom up" It should be
pronounced mee-razh, as near as the
pronunciation can be written. In some
countries a mirage is very rare; in
others it is almost of daily occurrence.
Before try to tell you what causes
mirage, must first describe how they
look. Sometimes places very far dis
tant appear to be close at hand and
seen in the air; at sea, ships known to
be many miles distant are seen as if
suspended in the air. In travelling
across the continent have seen many
. mirage. In the distance would APP
pear beautiful sheet of water, with
headlands, islands, and sometimes
fort could be plainly seen, and even
ships. As to water, the illusion was so
perfect that it was difficult to believe
that it was not real. In the early days
Of travel to California by trains of
wagons overland, many Of the parties
suffered greatly, and some were en-
tirely lost, by pushing out for what
the stories told of this mistake.
This is not easy to explain. unless
you know something about light.
Most of the you have noticed that when
you place an oar or pole in the clear
water of pond or a river it seems to
be bent. II you look across hot stove
the objects on the other side appear to
be curiously distorted and out of place.
Rays of light passing from denser
medium to lighter one are bent out
Of straight course. Thus, when they
pass from an oar or pole in the water,
they are bent and the object appears to
be crooked. When they pass from
common air through much lighter,
out of their shape. Now all the mir
ages have seen have been where the
soil became very hot from the sun; this
hot soil heated the air just above it.
There was layer of hot air close to the
earth and just above, the other air was
not heated. Objects seen at a distance
through these two kinds of air were
singularly distorted, and, like things
seen across the hot air of stove. much
out of shape. In this state of the all a
barren, sandy tract looks like water,
and clumps of bushes are distorted to
look like trees. Wherever a mirage
has been examined the appearance has
been found to be caused by difference
in the density of the air, whether from
contact with heated earth, or seen at
sea, with heated water Mirage is a
very interesting phenomenon TO see
once or twice, but when it occurs day
after day, one soon tires of its unnatu-
raj appearance and prefers tolook upon
a landscape that is real..-American
| lA0rtculturist.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-08

ness when the war broke out. Pre-
vious to his business life he had been .
professor of mathematics in Southern
college-an institution in which Gen.
Grant once endeavored to secure po-
sition. Gen. Sherman did not have
popular confidence in the same meas
ure that he had the confidence of some
military leaders in the early days Of the
war. In fact, he was regarded as a
crank-and he was and is in sense
cranky. But his crankiness was OF that
peculiar kind that constitutes military
genius. He forsaw the need Of large
army to repress the rebellion. and his
suggestion that more than 200, 900 men
would be needed for service in the
Southwest earned him reputation as
crazy man. A few months time
indicated his judgment and his repu-
tation as lunatic was exchanged for
that of one Of the abiest OF generals.
As practical leader in the field, and
also as military theorist and disciplin-
arian, Gen. Sherman takes high rank.
He has never shown political ambition,
and has invariably discouraged the use
of his name as a candidate for the
Presidency. He retires from the army
with the esteem and the affection of the
rank and file; with a worldwide repu-
tation as a daring and brilliant gen.
eral; with the veneration of the Amer
lean people, who owe it to him in large
measures that the Union arms were
successful when they were, and that
Americas reputation for brilliant
military movements is high among the
nations. He is hero who retires with
honors earned by personal merit. and
not bestowed simply as reward for
length of service.
The new commander, Gen. Sheridan.
is essentially a fighting man. He first
attracted the attention of Gen. Grant
by the fury and persistence of some of
his charges in the battles around Chat
tanooga. His whole record during the
war was that of a tireless fighter and
the final success of the Union army was
due to the cooperation of Grant, Sher-
man and Sheridan. Sheridan's achieve
ments in the Shenandoah Valley were
highly important in driving Lees army
out of Richmond. As the Southerner's
say: You all didn't whip us-Sheri-
dan destroyed the crops of the Valley
and we had to quit" Gen. Sheridan
does not impress one as man of Gull
ture-hc appears to be less refined than
Gen. Sherman--but he has vigorous
intellect and exceptional good sense.
Like most good generals he is a poor
politician and his service as political
general at New Orleans is the least
satisfactory of his services. The army
is at present comparatively unimpor-
tant part of orr national life and it is so
Immediately under the control of the
War Department that it doesn't matter
much who is the ranking general. But
the country will have every confidence
thatif the emergency arises when an
efficient commander and competent Or
ganizer is needed, it will find both in
Gen. Sheridan.
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Anecdotes for Young People.


Lord Byron, when only 10 yearsold.
was sent by his parents to the Isle me)
of Man to spend Michaaimas (mik-el-
mas) with maiden aunt who was a
great fa-vor-ite of ais. This good WON.
an had adopted little girl, the daugh.
ter of a poor Manx fisherman, whom
she treated as if she were her own
child.
Mary-this was the name of the little
girl-had blue eyes and curly hair. Al
though was very pretty and was always
dressed in elegant gowns she was not
vain of her beauty.
This little girl, who was only 9 years
of age, knew the Thirty-Nine Articles
by heart and could recite whole pages
from the Pilgrims Progress.
Byron's aunt called Mary in from the
garden where the industrious child
was won't to spend her leisure time
watering her roses, of which she was
very fond.
Come in, Mary, I have stranger
here. l want You to make his ac-quaint-
ance."
Mary came running in, holding in
her hand a sweet-smelling flower.
Mary. this is my nephew, who has
come to stay with us. Shake hands
with him and give him kiss"
Mary approached and held up her
rosy lips to the little stranger, but he
turned away and hid himself behind his
aunt's chair.
Thus it was that Byron at the early
age of 10 years showed that re-pug.
nance to the softer sex which char-ac-
ter-ized him throughout life.
BENEDICT ARNOLD.
When Benedict Arnold was quite a
lad he was induced by some wicked
companions to enter an orchard and
steal apples.
The farmer who owned the orchard,
hearing the barking of the watch dogs,
reused his hired man and went into
the orchard, when he came upon young
Arnold, who was escaping with his hat
full of apples.
"You young rogue, where are your
fellows? Tell me. or I'll have you
whipped at the carts tail"
Farmer Hobson, they have made
their escape"
Their names, then"
"That 1 will never TELL" spoke the
boy:
IF you tell me their names not a
hair of your head shall be touched,
but if you refuse, tomorrow you will
be whipped
Never, if they fay me-"
Come, now, my little man, here is .
bright new guinea which you may keep
if you but tell me their names and you
may go free," said the farmer, taking q
golden guinea from his purse and hand
ing it to the culprit.
Farmer Hobson, I own a guinea is
great sum to a boy of my age; but,
sir, / would not betray my playmates
for all the gold in New England; I'd
die rather than be traitor"
The good farmer was so moved by
this youthful act of Fidelity that he
placed the guinea in the hand of the
brave boy. "Take that; you are the
stuff of which heroes are made, your
country will yet be proud of such a
son."
Children, history tells you how lit
orally was fulfilled the prophecy OF
Farmer Hobson. York World.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-08
Sunshiny Husbands.

We read so much about the obliga-
ton laid upon the wife to be perpetu-
al sunbeam in the house that word to
husbands on the same topic may not be
amiss.
A cheerful atmosphere is important
to happy home life. 1t is very hard
for children to be good when they are
exposed to an incessant hail-storm of
fault-finding from their parents. 1t is
very difficult for wife to maintain a
calm and acknowledgements demeanor
when her husband is critical, cynical or
sullen. and takes all her tender efforts
with indifferent appreciation.
/ know full well the air of lpolte
amazement or amiable incredulity with
which men receive the statement of n
woman's opinion that, in the home
partnership, wife and not husband pulls
the laboring oar. Still, it is true that
let mans business be ever so engross-
ing, ever so wearisome, ever so labor
ious, the mere fact that he goes to it
in the morning, and returns from it at
night. sets him above his wife in ease
and comfort For him the slavery Of
routine has it's intervals and its breaks.
He gets breath of the world outside;
he has change of scene daily; he sees
people and hears them talk, and his
home is distinctly his refuge aud
shelter
Let wife and mother love her home
and her children with the most abso-
lutte, answering devotion, and serve
them with the most unseltish fidelity,
there are, nevertheless, times when she
is very weary.
She knows, better than anyone else,
the steps and the stitches. the same
things done over and over, and the
pettiness of the trials that come to nur-
sery and Kitchen. They are so insight
ficant that she is ashamed to talk about
them. and fear she sometimes forgets
to tell her Savior how hard they press
her, and so. bearing her cross all alone,
its weight becomes crushing.
A sunshiny husband makes merry
beautiful home, worth having, worth
working in and for. If the man is
breezy, CHEEKY, considerable and SYM
pathetic, his wife sings in her heart
over her pudding and her mending
basket, counts the hours till he returns
at night, and renews her youth in the
security she feels of his appreciation
and admiration.
You may think 1t weak or childish il
you please, but 1t is the admired wife.
the wife who hears words of praise and
receives smiles OF commentator, who
is capable, discreet and executive. /
have seen timid. meek, self-disturbing
little body fairly bloom into strong,
self-reliant womanhood under the tonic
and the cordial of championship of
husband who really went out OF his way
to find occasions for showing her how
fully he trusted her judgment, and how
tenderly he deferred to her opinion.
In home life there should be no jar,
no striving for place. no insisting on
preroganves, or DIVISION OF interests.
The husband and wife are each the
complement of the other. And it is
just as much his duty to be cheerful.
as it is hers to be patient; his right 20
bring JOY into the door. as il is hers to
sweep and garnish the pleasant in
terror. A family where the daily walk
of the father makes life a festival is
filed with something like heavenly
benediction. Mrs. Margaret Sangstcr.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-08
Southern Scheol.ma,arms.

Southern girls are teaching now all
over the land, and that is good sign.
Before the war we used to get all our
teachers from New England. But then
they didn't teach very long, for our
young men and widowers married them,
and they made good wives and good
mothers. and they raised up good reb-
els They don't come now, and our
girls have monopolixed the business
Atlanta. Constifafion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-08
Bad Eggs Pat to Use.

There are four firms in Philadelphia,
it is said, that make a business of col
lecting from grocers and marketmen
the eggs upon whose flavor and fra
GRANGE age or too tropical weather has
wrought sad rayages. These are OPEN
ed and graded. Those hopelessly cor
rupt are sent 20 tanneries for polishing
purposes. Those that are merely too
emphatic IN tone for culinary purposes
are separated, The whites from the
yolks, the latter being used by morocco
manufacturers, and the former-so SAYS
INSCRIPTIONS report--by confectioners.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-08

President Arthur writes very mer-
itorious and common sense Thanks
giving proclamation. 1t is not too long
or too ilowery for business men and
laboring closses to read and will meet
with their hearty approval. A gentle
man in Massachusetts, Governor Of the
Commonwealth. was very grateful last
year in his Thanksgiving proclama-
ton for the many blessings he had en-
joyed, but 1T present, with the prospect
of his retirement to private life this fall
before him. il is hardly probable
his efforts to make his profound thank
fitness known will be so apparent
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-08
Dreams and Lotteries.

At the French lottery Office it used to
DE custom to keep separate register
of the lucky numbers which had been
suggested by dreams, they were so nu-
merous and so remarkable. Never did
q day pass without adding to the won
derful record, and faith in dreams grew
in consequence even more rapidly than
the list did in the register. 1t was so in
England while the lotteries existed, and
is so abroad where they still exist.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-08
What NAY 4 Young LADY pe.

She may stand on the curb
With pretty red fan,
And hirt till she's tired
With q nobby young man.
This is naughty.
She may clean up the house.
Or bake nice pie,
And sing to the baby
when the Clouds Roll BY
This is rough.
She can stand at the gate
In the moons pale light;
She may kiss him just once
As she says "Good night"
This Is nice.
She may dirt till she's old,
She may work till shes dead,
She may live an old maid,
Or be wooed, won and wed,
This is true.
: Washington Capital.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-08

Harmony in the Democratic pr y in
New York is complete. In fact 1t is a
little bit too much harmony for the
good of the party. A rousing Demo-
cratic victory means that Governor
Cleveland will walk to the front as a
Presidential candidate. If as it looks
now the victory should be Republican
one. it will make the call louder and
more emphatic for the ''old ticket
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-08

The general aspect OF that curious
region ia Western Dakota known as the
Bad Lands. is that of country of hills
and plains that has been thoroughly
burnt to ciuder from top to bottom,
and far under the bottom.
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AR the Eagle Drug Store you
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--STArEs: Some wild.eyed cores
pondent Of the New York Times in
giving his paper summary Of polit'
ical opinions in this state, says OF
the Democrats. "The party boss il
supposed to be looking towards But
ler." 1t is supposed that we have
number of party bosses in this
state; but who Is this "boss" who is
looking towards Ben Butler as a
Democratic candidate for the Presi-
dency? Let US have bis name and
the Democracy of Louisiana will
shave of his political ears so close
to bis head that he will pass for an
escaped panper from the Tewksbury
Asylum, whose acoustic appenda'
ges have been tanned for ehoe leath'
err.
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our statement and trust our readers
will appreciate the same. Would
that others not a thousand miles from
here would do as we have.
WE are once more compelled 10
chronicle another murder in Rapides.
This time the deed was committed on
MooreIand plantation, and the party
charged with the committing Of the
deed is colored and named WIN.
Brooks. In this instance a poor,
helpless woman was the vic'im.
Brooks shot and instantly killed her.
He was captured and is now in Jail.
You may call it what you like;
an open air concert, psalm singing
society, jubilee choristers or what,
the vocal music of these local celeb
rites is grand, and would put to
blush the efforts Of either Tournie,
Nicolini, Patti or Ni|lson. The rem,
iition on Monday, of "1ennie, Ny
Own True Loved One" was soul
stirring to say thr least, and was lis
tened to and app'auded by ali pres.
ent. The gentlemen composing the
trio were Messrs. F., B. and P. And
they're immense.
SEE the advertisement Of Mr.. A.
FTeymap, offering'for sale two Gul.
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|>aeving the advantage Of being fed in
any part of it, instead OF the old
way -at the ends, and on open beat
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added TO tho feeder by which the
amount fet Hay be lessencd or in
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improvements 100 numerous to men
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June lst, 1883. !
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BASE BALL.-The much talked o
and eagerly looked for game of Base
Ball between the two crack clubs o
Rapi!es and Ascension Parishes
1.-THE Eolans representing the latte
locality, whilst nu home team dix
their best for Alexsndria) came #
on Sunday last at DOnaldsonvi.le
and was witnessed by large GROVE
on the Nolan grounds, there bein!
quite a number of our home peopl
there at the time. The ease will
which the Nolans defeated the Rap
ides team was almost wonderful, AM
to say the least was rather unexpect
Ell. The curve pitching of Tearney
was too much for the Rapides team
nearly every one ofthem dying at tn
home base on strikes. But tire
rms were accredited them willis
their opponents made Is. Only flv
innings were played. The Nolan
are expected t, battle here agai'
vita our hogs when it Is hoped
closer and more interesting gam
will be PLAYED. The umpiring Of
local player from Donaldsonviile wa
satisfactory. and proved feature o
the game. Our boys took their dc
feat rather hard for the reason tina
they 30 easily defeated the Nolan
when here in October last.
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"A FRENCH paper gives some in
formation about the submarine ca.
hles Of the world. Nearly all the
lines under the sea have been made
by English workmen, bought with
English money, and laid down by
English engineers. The capital OF
the three companies reaching from
London to the countries Of the east
represents more than $1,000 miles Of
submarine cables. The English
companies own $4,000 miles, agains,
10, 900 miles owned by others of the
cables between Europe and America
Not more than tenth Of the $4,000
miles Of cable connecting Europe
and Brazil With the West India Is.
lands is owned outslde Of Great Bri
tain.
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DIED:

AT his residence in this, Tuesday. july
l7tlf, 1883, JAMES CUMMINGS, aged
80 years.
AT San Antonio, Texas, on the 10th
inst. MRs. JOSEPHINE c. BEN
NETT, the only sister of W. F. Black
man, of this place.
On Bayou Rapides, in this Parrish,
Thursday july 18th. 1883. Mrs. FLO.
RENEE N. SHUEY, aged % years,
! month and Is days, wife Of G.. w.
Shney.