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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27
Failure of the Postal Note.

Already the wall has gone up from
Washington that the postal note must
90. Here is the routine they must 90
through: After they have been paid they
are made up into bundles and sent to
the money order division. There they
have to be counted to see if the number
corresponds with the statement which
they accompany. Then they must be
examined to see whether the amounts
for which they were issued correspond
with the statement. They then go as
vouchers to the sixth auditor, who
stores them in great boxes for reference
in the future, if needed. To do all
this work requires a special corps of
clerks, but, as the clerks are not
allowed, it falls on the already over
taxed clerks in the division. The postal
note certainly has not accomplished
what was intended for it, and it is
doubtful if it will become a permanent
institution. - Chicago Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27
Hymn Tinkering.

Mr.. Jones was getting up a grand
musical performance by his choir on an
anthem he had composed to the words
of one of Watts Psalms. The first
verse ends with the splendid words:
o, may my heart in tune be found,
Like David's harp of solemn sound.
Jones came to DR.. Hatfield to get his
approval of change of these lines so
as to read:
o, may my heart be tuned within,
Like David's sacred violin.
We can see the cute and sunny smile
of the Doctor as he heard the new
version. But he said he could improve
even that, and he wrote to the amaze
ment of Jones:
O, may my heart go diddle, diddle,
Like unto David's sacred fiddle.
Jones sung the song according to
Watts. -NeaO York Observer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27

Portable winter quarters. The poor
fellow was much pleased at the inter
est taken in his case by the ''Melican"
man, and was very profuse in his
thanks for their kind services. Hold
ing up his hands, the fingers of which
are dropping off one by one, and point
ing to his feet the toes of which have
disappeared, he said, with grave
smile: You see; bimeby Chinaman all
gone"
Condolences invariably form one of
the newspaper topics of the London
silly season." and CSnon Venerables
makes public through the Times one
which he considers as wonderful as any
OF which he has heard. Forty years
ago he was riding with party of
friends from Palestrina to Frascati.
when he dropped his eye-glass. They
were about giving up a long search
when one of them remarked that the
glass ought to reveal itself by its re-
Election of the sunlight, and to illus
trate this he threw coin into the air.
A sharp click was heard and there Law
the coin on the eye-glass.
A Washington letter saws the men,
bers of the Chinese Legation are very
fond of being out of doors. They ride
and walk continually, but their great
est pleasure seems to be to take a drive
through the Soldiers Home in an open
carriage. They are always laughing
and chatting, apparently well satisfied
with their life in Washington. They
are also very fond of the theater, usu-
ally making up party among them
selves about once a week. They rare
~ occupy a box, and usually select
seats in the fourth or fifth row of the
orchestra. That they are the observed
of all observers wherever they go does
not appear to disturb them in the
slightest degree.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27
What Humboldt did for Science.

1t has been remarked that by science
the French understand only natural
science, by WISSe1SchGtt the Germans
only mental science. Goethe's scien-
tific efforts, in consequence of their
semi-8sthetic character, their desultOri-
ness, and the bitter hostility he showed
to all associated research, could not
change the case If it is now different,
and the state recognizes the full impor-
lance of science, it is, of course, i'm
mediately the result of the technical
triumphs science has achieved. But
the turn for the better we ascribe orig
inally to the Cosmos-lectures, which,
for the first time in Germany, led Gull
tivated German audience to imagine
that there was something else in the
world than beUeS-Zettres and music, than
the ''Morgenblatt" and Henrietta Sonn-
tag. And although Humboldt himself,
as we have already said, did not rise to
the very apex of science, it was, never
theless, this less exalted height at which
he stopped that permitted him to make
himself comprehensive to the ordinary
children of men.
While, indeed, he was not as sublime
as Newton or Laplace, while he did not
mirror one side of the world in absolute
perfection like Gauss, he was able to
make an entrance among the multitude
for the truths discovered by those arch
angels of science. While he shared
with them the universal human feeling
for the beautiful in sublime things, he
was melted to project picture of Ma
ture,n at the risk that it would not
give back the measure of the depth, and
that no frame could enclose the infnity
of the object. Having once come out
from Keynes pathological school, and
still, when sixty years old, with the
college portfolios under his arm, tax
ing his place in our audience-rooms
among Boeckh's students, he was the
man to lay the bridge between the old
and the new time, between the philo-
logical-historical, esthetic-speculative
Germany, as the turn of the century
saw it, and the mathematico-scienti
technical, inductive Germany of ou1
days.. Alcrder con Hun16oEdt," bz
Emil dat BOis-Rcyn1ond, IN Popuza7
Science Monthly for December.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27
A Morning Paper.

Sometimes a man throws his morn
ing paper down on the seat and leaves
the car. Each man that has no paper
wants it, and each man would grab it,
if alone and unObserved. The one who
appears to be looking out of a window
in an opposite direction is the man who
sees that paper more distinctly than
anyone else And he being the man
who seems less interested in it is really
the man who wants it the most AS
soon as that paper is thrown down it
becomes an object of interest. The
man who never buys OF reads a paper
wants it, and wants it badly. The
man sitting next to it looks straight
ahead, and doesn't seem to know ANY,
thing about it. But he is just CULVER
ing with excitement. He is wrought
up to the highest pitch, and is prepared
to grab for that paper just as soon as
the man on the other side of it makes
a similar attempt. Just at this period
a man sitting opposite the paper gives
it a sharp excited look, as though he
has seen his name printed wrong.
Then he gives another sharp look, and
his eyes snap with excitement, and he
reaches over and picks it up to see if
he is right. You can tell by the way
he handles it that he never paid for it;
and he gradually gets it up in front OF
his face, and turns it at intervals, and
is as much at home with it as if it was
his own. And the other men look at
him sourly, and silently condemn him
as being largely porcine in his nature.
p7yoL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27
A Bit of Romance from Vermont.

Last summer some Burlington, Vt,
people were visiting in western town,
and there formed the acquaintance of
a furniture dealer, who had recently
buried his second wife. They joked
him a little about his future matrimo-
NAL prospects, and he candidly admit
ted that he would like to marry again,
and asked them if they knew an eligi-
BILE lady. Subsequently he looked at
their photograph album, in which was
the picture of an unmarried lady of
Burlington which took the widower's
fancy, and he was told her name. The
Burlington people thought no more of
it, but after their return home were
surprised to learn that the western
gentleman had opened correspond
ence with the lady alluded to. The
course of true love ran smoothly, the
western widower came to Burlington
last week, saw his ladylove for the first
time, and the marriage took place on
Tuesday, the happy couple starting at
once for the west.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27
n Fan Song.

Fan me to rest, for sleep-time sweet is coming
And, oh! so tired ], and oh! so restless.
The grateful opiate of your sereneful smiling
Only can charm me into thoughts distress
less.
Fan me, love, fan me, love, daylight is dead,
love
Dead its dark sorrow, dead its wild jest;
Into the land of Old bygOnes It's fed, love:
Fan NE to rest!
Love- do you hear the last lone bird-bOrn solo
Drifting this-way-ward from the grim great
bcecheS?
Render it Ger to me, and singit lOw-lOw-
Low as a lisp Of wind DER dark wood
reaches.
Fan me, love, fan me, love, gone is the days
love
Gone its weird hatreds-yet I'm distressed!
Tomorrow I've got fifteen dollars to raise,
love:
F-f-fan me TO rest!
Edward Wicks, in Puck.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27
An Anecdote of Peter Cooper.

The head of the Woman's Art School
of Cooper Institute writes of Peter Coop
er, in the December Century: Zone day
he stood watching the portrait class,
who, to the number of thirty pupils or
more, were drawing Hkenesses of the
same model from different positions.
One scholar made the face in profile;
another had it turned little into the
shadow; a third saw more of the full
face: while others worked still further
into or away from the light. He had
stood observing the scene for a few
minutes, when he said, Such sight
as this should be a lesson in charity,
when we perceive how the same person
may be so different, according to the
way he is looked at by various people. "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27
Spider Life Wonders.

In lecture at the Lowell Institute,
Professor Wood dealt with the phenom-
ena of spider life. The female is larger
and much fiercer than the male, who
while paying his addresses is in con-
slant peril, frequently losing some of
his LEGS. In one tribe the female is
1900 times as large as the male. The
spiders thread is made up of innumer-
able small threads or fibers, one of
these threads being estimated to be one
two millionth of a hair in thickness.
Three kinds of threads are spun: One
of great strength for the radiating or
spoke lines of the web. The cross
lines, or what sailor might call the
ratlines, are finer and are tenacious,
that is, they have upon them little
specks or globules Of very sticky gum.
These specks are put on with even in
terspaces. They are set quite thickly
along the line, and are what, in the
first instance, catch and hold the legs
or wings of the fly. Once caught in
this fashion the prey is held secure by
threads flung over it somewhat in the
manner of a Iasso. The third kind of
silk is that which the spider throws out
in mass or flood, by which it sudden
ly envelops any prey OF which it is
somewhat afraid, as, for example, a
wasp. A scientific experimental once
drew out from the body of single
spider 3, 480 yards of thread or spider
silk-a length little short of three
miles. Silk may be woven of spider
thread, and it is more glossy and bril-
liant than that of the silk worm, being
of a golden color. An enthusiastic
entomoIogist secured enough of it for
the weaving of a suit of clothes for
Louis XIV.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27

Edison, the inventor, testified the
other day in the New York suit against
the British Electric Light Company
concerning the alleged possible dan
gers to life and property from their
wires. He was exceedingly cautious
and guarded in his replies, and his tes-
timony did not bear very hard against
the company. In effect, while he sus-
tanned the theory that heavy currents
on wires suspended in the air may be
dangerous, he conceded that in prac-
tice, under good management, such &C
cidents are likely to be quite rare.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27

Speaking of the origin of some names
in Oregon, the Oregonia7a says of
Grants Pass: when Grant was a
lieutenant he was camped there with a
party of soldiers, and they got to
playing euchre for 81 on the corner.
The game stood three to three.
Grant picked up his cards and had the
right bower, ace and king. He con-
Guided to pass, thinking he could
euchre his opponent. burly miner.
The result was that he lost his dollar,
and the place was called Grant S
Pass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27

When Kansas was first settled it was
feared that the timber would soon dis.
appear. Statistics now show that it Is
yearly increasing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27

A man in Brooklyn ''remodels'' noses
for $25.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-27
MONTANA.

"A Glowing Account of the Territory
from Gen. James S. Brisbin.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-12

-"Say, Mr.. Editor, III tell you
my experience with Judge Morgan
exclaimed Mr.. Baker, the owner of the
omnibus, last evening. "When he
came here, last summer, he tried to
stand my driver off. but the driver
wouldn't have it, and made him pay.
During the day Judge Morgan hunted
the up, and was very indignant be-
cause he had been made to pay. He
showed me that he had Union Pacific
Railway passes in his pocket, but I
told him that he must pay. At night,
when he went out, he refused to pay.
Now, Mr.. Bews, one of the hotel pro-
prietors, will tell you that this is true.
because he heard every word of it. A
Judge ought not to go about the
country cumming his way over stage
lines"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-12
Purify the Blood Now:
ture store.

1t is not claimed that BROWNS
SARSAPARILLA and Dandelion.
with lodide of Potassium, will cure
every disease, but it has been proven
in thousand cases that no other REM
edy can compare with it in curing
Scrofula, Tumors, Kidney Diseases
Ulcers, rheumatism, Cancers, Dys
pepsia, Fever Sores, Syphiiitic
Diseases, Boils, Constipation, Erysip-
elias, Sick Headache, Salt Kheum.
Why is Browns Sarsaparlla best for
curing these diseases? Because it
purifies the blood, corrects the inaction
of the Liver and kidneys, and cures
constipation and dyspepsia by giving
tone to the stomach so that all food is
readily digested. Use only the best
medicines. DIR. Brock, Bellevue, a..
Rupert, HALEY and l. /. Lewis &
Son, ketchun sell Browns Sarsa-
parilla.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-12
Judge Morgan will probably not
be re-appointed-. Thank Heaven,
for that!
AT least half a dozen prom

At least half a dozen promi-
nent citizens of this city have, since
last evening, informed the editor Of
the TINES that they Endorsed his re
marks regarding Judge Morgan to the
extent of having refused to sign the
endorsement" when presented to
them. Others who signed it, say that
they did not know of any reflections
on the TIMES or its editor in the paper.
1t is therefore evident that Texas
Angel-for as he circulated the paper
he is to blame for tit is evident that
when he sent that letter to Judge Nor.
gan, he knew that he was sending q
falsehood to him.
But even if it had been true, the
half dozen or so of signers of that let.
ter who resil in Haley should be the
last persons in the world to take sides
against the editor of the TINES.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-12
Holiday Goods at ArnOld's, the Jeweler.

Holiday Goods ut ArnOld's, the JeWeler.
The undersigned begs leave to in
form the people Of Wood River that
he has just received lot of jewelry,
including ladies' and gentlemen's
gold and silver watches of all the
standard makes, ladies' sets, brooches,
pins, ear-drops, bracelets, necklaces,
slide guards, lockets, rings, gentle
mems watch chains, scarf pins, rings,
sleeve buttons, collar buttons, lockets,
etc.; also, large assortment of Seth
Thomas's clocks-the best in the
market; full line Of silverware, in
Guiding quadruple-plated casters,
butter disnes, spoonholders, card
stands, cake baskets, ice pitchers, etc. ;
also, Rogers's spoons, knives, and
forks.
Any article Of jewelry wan,ed by a
customer will, if not in my store, Lc
ordered, aud only small charge made
for commission.
J. ARNOLD,
Matchmaker and Jewelcr,
Next door to E. A. Whites furni-
ture store. dll
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-12
'rRDASURER'S NOTICE.

The following warrants drawn on the current
expense and redemption fund will be paid on pre-
sentation:
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-12
st. Mary's Academy.

The Salt Lake City Tribune of Fri
day last had the following interesting
account: "Quite a large AL Hence,
an unusual PROPORTION being gentle
men, assembled at the Academy last
evening to listen to the rendition of a
very interesting musical programme
by the pupils. The entertainment
opened with Mcndelssohn's Grand
March, rendered in pleasing manner
by the Misses Brooksbank and Gull
nan. During the march the young
ladies and little girls, to the number of
200, entered, and the vocal class then
rendered the "Star Spansled Banner"
in most acceptable manner, several
well-trained, rich voices being rartic-
ularly noticeable. Miss Shurtif, in
her piano selection entitled "lnstru.
mental National" exhibited delcacv
of touch that ranks her as "a musician
of more than ordinary promise. ere
membrance," tableau in which the
Misses Mueller, Morer, Farlin, Drcggs,
Burke, ShurthG, Lamb, Clements,
keeney, Monahan, Reeves, Matthews,
Higgins, Paul and Florida took part,
accompanied on the guitars by the
Misses Stoddarl, Mcintyre, Young,
Harris, Pinkham, McNamoe, Culiinan,
Newton, higgins and Nelson, was a
most finished performance and re-
Elected great credit on all the partrci.
pants.
The instrumental "Calph OF Bag,
dad rendered by Misses Gui~its and
a. and NJ. Kcencv, received mer
tied applause, and the harp solo by
Miss Shurtliif showed the performer
equal to the difficulties of that time
honoreri instrument. The Juniors and
Ninims did admirably, the happy
crowd with the joyful, intelligent faces
telling Of home and school training in
lie right direction. "Crownirg the
Queen" by Misses Benedict, Payne,
lsiepen, Booth, and Roy, and the in
strumental selection by the three little
Warren sisters were we'll done.
Geandmother's Arm Chair" sung by
the Junio's and ,compsnied on BANGS
by Misses a. and NJ. keeney and X.
Guiwits, produced a pleasing effect
The vocal solo 'Le .Iortorclie, "hv Miss
Stoddard; the overture BY Misses
Childs and Shurtl,iT; the "Spanish
Harmonies," Oh the guitar by Misses
S:oddard and Mcintyre, Harris aud
Young; the vocal duet, "I.'Amicisis, +"
BY the Misses Burke and Mcintyre;
the Instrumental solo by Miss Clilds,
and the "National Chorus" by the
general vocal class, all reflected great
credit on the teachers and able corps
of trainers tina, this school employs"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-12-12
NEW TODAY.
NOTICE..

WHEREAs W. A. stanton did last summer, jump
the Lost Charm Mining Claim. nsur the mouth Of
Deer Creek, In Mineral Hill Miung Dis
tri,t. Alturas county, and Territory of Idahe, and
WHEREAS. This property, (which was renamed
the Annie mine by the said stanonl has since been
levied on. and IL advertised for sale by the Sheriff;
This is to notify all parties CO nccrned THAI ". A.
stanton has no right whatever TO the said Lost
Charm Mining Claim.
JACOB ARTFR,
L. L. ROBINSON,
MORRISON.
HALEY. Idaho. December l.. 1852 set
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-05-30
School Tn SteeS.

The good people Of Richmond have natu-
rally been eXasperated at the fate OF their
School Board, and especially do they re-
sent the appointment by the Governor OF
one Of his own servants as commission
er. Inc machinery OF auminls-
tration is not prescribed by the Code. but
we know as a matter of detail that the
commissioners OF a School Board visit the
public institutions under their care; that
they grant permits to enter the schools ;
and especially do the commissioners come
in contact with persons who are applicants
for positions as teachers. The field opened
here is one in which the lady teachers of
Richmond will soon have to appear, and
then il will be found that the "Code" is
one thing and the routine OF administra-
ton by the Board another Norfolk Land
mark
A prominent lawyer OF this city who
was for years upon our City School Board
says that anybody who will read in the
Code the duties of school trustees, and will
then recolect that in the counties these
trustees are scattered far and wide, must
see that the duties are individual and per-
sonal as well as corporate. Here, for eX'
amrle, is the Governors messenger, the
negro PAUL. Suppose lady wishes to b'
elected teacher, or a gentleman wishes
20 be elected principal. Will he or sh'
not have to call upon this same negro PAU
and ask for his vote, OF else lose it? o
course there is no help for it.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-05-30
Tho NEXT Senate.

There are twenty-one senators to be
elected next November, including one In
the Norfolk county district, and one In the
Nansemond district. Both these last dis
tric,s repudiated MALONE last week. There
are twelve Democratic senators holding
over. and the Senate consists OF only forty
members. The Democrats need TO elect
only nine senators, therefore, In order to
control the Senate-nine out OF twenty-one.
The two districts named will furnish two
of them il the results Of last weeks elections
are 20 be accepted as test, land the
question now under consideration is
whether those elections were a Coalition
defeat or not.) The Sixth, Twelfth, Four
teenth. Twentieth, Twenty-second, and
Twenty-fourth will certainly furnish six
Others. Then we shall have chance TO
carry at least half OF the following dis
tricts-namcly the Second, Fourth, SIX
tcenth, Eighteenth, Twenty-siNth' ana
Thirty-fourth. Why, therefore, should
the Democrats OF Virginia not exult over
their victory OF last week? Why should
not all southern Democrats rejoice because
Virginia has rejoined the Democratic
"Solid South?
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-05-30

We are glad TO see that the Dispatch has
considered the timely suggestion OF the
Lynchburg NelcS. and has ceased to ask
that the negro trustees OF Richmond be re-
moved. As famous French diplomat
used 10 say, blunder is worse than Il
crime, and we may regard the action of the
Governor as political blunder OF the
worst possible description.
And while we are on the subject we NAV
as well say that the Democratic party is
perfectly willing TO 90 before the people on
this issue. Not only are the whites in
clined TO view the Objectionable action OF
the "powers that be" with disgust not I'M
tinged with anger, but even the more SEN
sible OF the negroes are beginning to fear
some apprehensions as to the schools for
negroes il they be dragged into the slime OF
politics and made odious as political is
sue TO the whites.
We therefore trust that, after having
committed this blunder, the Coalitionists
Will be made to reap the fruits thereof, and
not escape unscathed. They have delibe-
rately thrown down the gauntlet to the
white people, and they are not only willing
TO wreck themselves, but they have shown
that they VIII engulf the poor, ignorant,
preludiced negro in the ruin which will
inevitably overiake that party and its fol-
lowers. The negro has not yet displayed
sufficient intelligence TO take care OF him
self in politics, but he is being rapidly
educated up to the point OF seli-reliance
and independence, and he will finally realize
that he must act on the defensive by re-
fusing to antagonize those who give all Of
material wealth TO the State. When once
he grasps the idea the Coalition is forever
broken and Radicalism doomed. Peters
burg Mail.