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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24

Accompany has been formed in St..
Paul, known as the Minnesota Terra
Gotta Lumber company. > The object
ofthe company is to1nake boards out
Of earth. The capital stock is 500, 600.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24

Gen. Rosser 8. Co. now propose to
build q railroad from Winnipeg to
Hudson Bay. u 81 sis s5,3 l... i
The present summer season has been
too short to be profitable to the hotel
keepers at Lake Minnetonka. 49,
Preparations have commenced for
the laying Of The foundations for the
Bartholdi statue in New y ork.+
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! The report that the Northern Pacific
Railroad company had made extern
sive real estate purchases in Superior
is denied by the eompanys attorney.
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A special telegram from ,Winnipee
says the yield of wheat in Manitoba
will be about twenty five bushels per
acre, with an aggregate yield off, ,250, :
GOO bushels. III %zl ..z:., 4; -. =.
Accompany has been formed in St.
Pau, known as the Minnesota Terra
Gotta Lumber company. (: The object
OF the company is to;1nake boards out
Of earth. The capital stock is $loo, 900.
Or, Thursday. Of lastWeek. the first
passenger car Of the Northern Pacific
crossed the main range of the Becky
mountains. It contained as passen-
gers Henry Ward .Beecher, and wife
and Maj. Pond. ! ...,<
Montana is constantly attracting
more attention as a mining country,
and it will doubtless some day pro-
duce an immense amount of the pre-
cious metals. A correspondent of the
Pioneer Press states that the annual
production of Gallatin county, in the
above named territory, will amount to
$40 ,OO0, 900 within four years. There
are deposits of more or less value in
almost every part of the Territory.
The water of DEVILS Lake is said to
contain the same ingredients as the water
of the ocean, although the brine is not SO
strong. The discovery of this similarity
! has induced the people of this new born
earthly paradise and summer resort to at
tempt the culture Of oysters in the waters
of the lake. The experiment will be tried
as soon as the necessary arrangements
can be made, and ifsuccess follows, the
| lake of the sulphurious name will have
an advantage which no other watering
place this side Of the Atlatic ,coas,
enjoys.-Black Hills Times
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24

Preparations have commenced for
the laying OF. the foundations for the.
Bartholdi statue in New q ork. ~
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-08-24

The report that the Northern Pacific
Railroad company had made extern
sive real estate purchases in Superior
is denied by the company's ATTORNEY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-06
A Novelist Whose Works Cast a Shadow
On the Pacific.

I think | was led into a moralizinc
mood by Henry James, whose stories
gave me days reading. They cast a
shadow across the sunlit sea, and the
worst of it is that one cannot easily Law
aside book written by Henry James.
He is a very ''Ancient Mariner and
holds you with his glittering eye until
his tale is told, however uncomfortable
it makes you. All of these stories
''Daisv Miller, can international Epi-
sode." ''The Diary of Man of Fiftv.''
"a Bundle of Letters are subtly fed
from a single root, which might be
labeled-''All is vanity" Each might
have for its vignette a fower-frmged
promenade, turning to a thorny path
and ending nowhere. Is it so in real
life? Then so much the worse for real
life. So at least it appeared to me as !
read these pages on the Pacific. Long
fellow has told the great difference it
made in his friends poem, as he read
it by sunlight or moonlight. I read
Henry James works in London, where
there is little sunshine, and they APP
peared impressively realistic and large
ly true, but they can't stand this tropi-
cal sunshine Life is not so fruitless
as these characters make out. ''Daisy
Miller" did not die of the Roman fever.
She is on this ship and, quite recovered
from her infatuation, as well as the
fever, is going out with Winterbourne
to visit his sugar estate near Honolulu.
Miss Alden, now Lady Lambeth, was
IN San Francisco when | left; she con-
cluded that after all it wasn't the poor
fellow fault that he was a nObleman
and that there was no international law
to prevent her marrying him. Her rel
atives all came to the wedding break
fast and, strange to say, she told me
with her own pretty lips that Henry
James was present. There is a certain
truth about the story of the MAN of
Fifty" though it is only half told. The
same must be admitted about the
Bundle of Letters, " though | don t like
to admit it, and will insist that so many
people of feeble instincts could rarely
be got together, even in Paris board
ing house. Henry James is not eyni-
cal, yet the most pathetic thing about
his writing is his humor. | have many
time felt proud of such country
man, the only living novelist, save
Howells, worthy to be mentioned with
Tourguenief But he falls short of the
great Russian by not compensating his
reader for catastrophes to happiness by
the triumphs of heart and heroic faith.
M D. COnU0y IN letter aOrjtte1 on
board ship, IN Philadelphia Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-06
Our Cat with the Scarlet Fever.

The ways Of our cat Becky" are al
ways winning, and sometimes remark
able, but the feat which has made her
famous is-catching the scarlet fever.
Many persons do not believe that q
cat can take disease from human be-
ing, but this cat did it most undoubted-
ly, and was very seriously i'll for more
than a week. 1t began by her insisting
on visiting the patient. her young mis-
tress, though the latter was too i'll to
notice the little animal lying on the
bed, and when at last Becky was fOrci-
bly, driven from her post, it was too
late, for customary symptoms of the
disease plainly showed themselves.
She was violently sick, and her throat
and tongue became so infamed that
she could not swallow; Ono one thought
to find out whether there was rash
under her fur), but at all events she
grew thinner every day, as she could
neither eat nor drink, and the physician
in attendance prescribed for her an easy
death by chloroform. However, some
one suggested putting hot pOultices on
her throat, as this treatment gave great
relief to the human patient, and accord
ingly flax seed meal was applied, Becky
submitting without struggle. Some
times it seemed as if the p0ultice was
hot enough to scald her, but she bore the
heat bravely, evidently knowing what
it was for.
One morning, the person who took
charge of the pOultices, was awakened
before light, by puss, who, after ''claw-
ing her vigorously, went to the table
under the gas-burner where the linseed
was heated, and sat looking up wistful-
". 1t was very evident that she want
ed hot poultice, for the one last put
on was quite cold, and after obtaining
what she had come for, Becky went
down stairs again contented.
In few days she was convalescent,
and spent most of her time before the
fire in the invalid room, making weak
attempts to lick her coat, which through
neglect had lost all its gloss.
The first sign of returning appetite
showed itself when she endeavored tc
eat the cork of the cod-liver-oil bottle
She probably thought it would give hel
strength, she being a reflective cat
and particularly fond of fish, This case
of scarlet fever is an absolute fact, as
can be certified by several witnesses
Isabel SnaitbS0n IN american AgricWl-
ht2'iSt for NOU
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-06
What Kind of Cranks Run to Fires2

Among the unsOlved problems of the
age there is none more intricate than
the strange fascination exercised over
certain minds by the sights, sounds and
associations of everything relating to
fires and fire engines. There is an i'm
pOrtant and increasing number of these
people called cranks by other people,
who are too ignorant to appreciate
either the peculiarly of the nature thus
attracted or the intense enjoyment of
the attraction, who are as unable to
resist the impulse to run to fire as if
they were mere autOmatOns compelled
to do so by some invisible force connect
ed with the fire engine. This impulse
is the overmastering desire of their nat
ure, and nothing can approach its in
tenSity.
The sound of the fire engine has the
mysterious power of withdrawing the
attention from any pursuit or amuse-
ment in hand. 1t takes complete pos
session of all the faculties and compels
their intense devotion in its service.
There is no attraction strong enough
to resist its powerful spell.
All other sounds are the widest dis
cord compared with it. 1t is the high
est and sweetest harmony in the uni
verse to the ear for which it possesses
the mysterious charm. Even the
counting of the strokes of the gong is
done by these men without any effort
such as must be made in the simplest
calculation by other people. The num-
Der indicating the locality of the fire
seems to be impressed on the mind by
intuition without any mental exertion
to catch the notation in the way that
ordinary mind acts in relation to com,
mon calculations. The mind seems to
anticipate the very spot where the fire
is located after the first thrilling sound
of the charming gong.-Ne10 York Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-06
Changing Clothing.

Many persons lose life every year by
an iniudicious change of clothing, and
the principles involved need repetition
almost every year.
If clothing is to be diminished, it
should be done in the morning, when
first dressing.
Additional clothing may be safely
put on at any time.
In the Northern States the undergar-
ments should not be changed for those
less heavy sooner than the middle of
May; for even in June a fire is very
comfortable sometimes in New York
parlors.
Wooden fannels ought to be worn
next to the person by all during the
whole year, but a thinner material may
be worn after the first of June.
A blazing fire should be kept in every
family room until 10 o'clock in the
morning, and rekindled again an hour
before shutdown up to the first week in
June, and from the first day of Octo-
ber
Particular and tidy housekeepers, by
arranging their fireplaces for the sum-
mer too early, Oftentimes put the whole
family to a serious discomfort, and en-
danger health by exposing them to sit
in chilliness several hours every morn
ing, waiting for the weather to moder-
ate, rather than to have the fireplace
or CRATE all BACKED up; that is, rather
than be put to the trouble of another
fixing up for the summer, they expose
the children to Group, and the old folks
to inflammation of the lungs. The old
and young delight in warmth. 1t is to
them the greatest luxury. Half the
diseases of humanity would be swept
from existence if the human body were
kept comfortably warm all the time
The discomfort of cold feet or of a
chilly room many have experienced to
their sorrow; they make the mind peeV-
ish and fretful, while they expose the
body to colds and the indammations
which often destroy it in less than a
week. Halls Journal Of Health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-06
The Campbellite Wagon.

Il don't care how good a salesman
a man is" said well known COM
mercial traveller, she will occasionally
meet man vastly his inferior who can
drive him out of town. Some time
ago | was travelling for a well known
agricultural house, and on one occa-
sion | was sent to make an exhibit of
our celebrated wagons at a country
fair. When l arrived found that 1
mad rival He was big, burly, red
headed fellow, with a nasal twang and
disgusting habit of getting up and
making speech, setting forth the adj
yantages OF the wagons he sold. The
farmers all saw at glance that my
wagon was superior to his. and | was
IN fair way to sweep the field, when
suddenly affairs took turn for the
worst. One of my wagons had been
exposed to the hot sun until the tires be-
came loose, and to tighten them | had
the wagon run into a small pond.
While standing near my rival. who was
making speech, | heard him say:
Come on here, now, YOU sensible
people, and look at something genuine.
Don pay any attention To the Camp
bellite wagon. He kept on referring
to mine as the Campbellite wagon. until
l thought an explanation was due. Adj
yancing, | said:
/ see that you call mine the Camp
bellite wagon. Now, sir, | want an
explanation
Without paying any attention tome,
he said: Yes, gentlemen, don't buy
the Campbellite wagon. Probably some
of you would like to know how it cot
its name. In this way: You see he has
to stand it in the water to keep the tires
on.
The people shouted.
Whenever he takes it out of the
water, you see, the thing is lost. The
Campbellite wagon will do for bayou,
but not for dry land. Gentlemen, the
man who sells that wagon thinks you
all live in swamps.'
Il tried to say something, but the
people yelled so | could not be heard
They turned from me to my rival. Peo-
pie who were about to close trades with
me backed out, and the president of
the fair association came round and ad-
vised me to take my wagons away
4rE0HSdlU TrdCeIer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-06
She Got It.

"Therer' called out a woman who was
passenger on Bay City train leaving
Detroit day or two ago, i've went
and gone and left my satchel in the de
pOti Somebody call the CONDUCTOR
A benevolent man with a bald head
and a double chin volunteered his ser
vices, and after time the conductor
was brought in.
Cant you stop and run backr'
asked the woman.
No, ma am, but I'll telegraph to
have your baggage sent on. What is
it?''
"a satchel.''
Every WE'LL" he said as he began to
write. 1T is an old satchel with one
handle off and the lock broken, OF
course"
Yes, sir, but it's none. of your bust
ness if it is! You don't buy my satch-
els!''
''No, ma am-of course not. Let's
see? III telegraph them to open it.
The first thing on top is a night-cap."
'<S'posin' 'tisr' she clustered up. Il
guess there is no law agin wearing
night-capsr'
mo, ma'am, and the next thing is
pair of black wooden stockings which
have been darned in the heels. What
next?'
1.-The next thing is that if any man in
this ere State of Michigan dares to open
that satchel and 90 to paving over the
contents I'll make a corpse of himt'
she exclaimed as she united her bonnet.
''But / must telegraph"
''Then you call it a black satchel
kinder busted in on one side and kinder
busted all to Goshen by you railroad
wretches on both ends, and let it 90 at
that! won't have it paved overr'
''But, madam, you"
Not another word" she said, as her
spectacles danced on her nose ''Do
as | tell you, and if they can't find it
I'll come back and stir things up and
bounce folks around till they'll think
it's bad year for hurricanes. just
say a busted black satchel, and add
that if it comes along with the other
handle pulled off I'll begin lawsuit to
make this railroad ficker!'
The busted black satchel left on the
next train Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-06
How Mans Surroundings Shape His
Rnlinfs

The peculiarities of natural objects
supply molds in which the metal of re-
ligious faith, already lying latent,
readily sets. And not only directly,
but indirectly, do they shape the forms
of faith The rushing river, e. O., not
merely attracts the reverence of the
primitive man to itself, but by its swift
and treacherous motion, its sinuOus
course, and snake-Gkc hiss and CLEAN,
it is personified as mighty divine SER
pent, and next makes sacred by asso-
citation the serpents of the country
about. The sky, persOnifed by the
ancient Egyptian as heavenly goose,
enveloping and Matching the cosmic
egg, made sacred henceforth all geese
to the pious jewellers by the Nile. In
chimes like Egypt, where the skies are
rainless and the whole aspect of nature
equable, almost unchanging, there the
gods are marked by calmness of bear
ing and serenity of nature. We must
90 to the slopes of the Himalayas or
the ridges of the Apennines to find the
bowling Rudra, with his attendant
Maruts, the Founders, rushing wildly
through the glens, or to see the bullocks
slain in honor of Jupiter Tonans, the
Thunderer. In cold and temperate
chimes it is the enlivening and warm
ing sun that is loved and adored; but,
in the sultry air of the tropics, the sun
and the sky of day become evil and
destructive deities and affection is
transferred to the refreshing sky of
night.
So, also, in their ideas of heaven
and hell, there is a natural contrast
between the faith of the man of the
tropics and the man of the Arctic
zone. TO the first, the future home of
the good is some abode of GOODNESS,
some garden of the Hesperides, or a
breezy Olympian height, and the place
of punishment place of fire. To the
IceIander, hell is the place of cold,
worse far to him than fire, and heaven,
some comfortable hall surrounded by a
hedge of flame Again, in hot chimes,
where the soil of the river-bOttoms is
deep and rich, and nature teens with
productiveness, there the gods are
credited with the same sensuous ma
ture; religious ideas are apt to revolve
about the mysteries of procreation- and
the worship of the people is apt IL In
clude not few impure rites and SYM
| bols-Prof. James Z. BiGby, IN Popa-
lar Science Monthly for November.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-06
A Charming Woman.

"a charming woman I've heard it said
BY other women as light as she;
But all in vain puzzle my head
To find wherein the charm may be.
Her face indeed, is pretty enough,
And her form is quite as good as the pest,
Where Nature has given the bony stuff.
And clever milliner all the rest.
Intelligent? Yes-in a certain way
With the feminine gift Of ready speech;
And knows very we'll what not TO say
Whenever the theme transcends her reach;
But turns the topic on things to wear
From an opera cloak to a robe de mutt
Hats, basques, or bonnets-'twil make you
stare
To see,how fluent the lady can be.
Her laugh is hardly thing to please;
For an honest laugh must always start
From a gleesome mood, like a sudden breeze
And hers is purely q matter OF art
A mus cuar motion made to show
What Nature designed to lie beneath
The finer mouth; but what can she do,
If that is ruined, to show the teeth!
To her seat in church-a good half-mile-
When the day is fine she is sure to go,
Arraycd, of course. in the latest style
La mode de Paris has got to show.
And she puts her hands on the velvet pew
Can hands so white have a faint Of sinO,
And thinks how her praycr-boOk's tint of blue
Must harmonic with her milky skin.
And what shall we say Of one who walks
Tn fields Of flowers to choose the weeds?
Reads authors of whom she never talks,
And talks of authors she never readSE
"She's q charming woman, I've heard it Said
BY other women as light as she;
But all in vain puzzle my head
To find wherein the charm may be.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-06
George Eliot's Grave,

It is not true, as alleged in an Am
erican girls note to the London Times,
that George Eliot's grave is unknown
at the cemetery where she lies and is
unmarked. In a quiet little corner of
Highgate Cemetery, one of the most
picturesque spots of suburban London,
the grave and the monument of George
Eliot can be seen. Shortly before her
death George Eliot made a tour
through the midland counties of En-
gland, and on one occasion passed
through one of those charmingly quaint
and severely silent village churchyards,
where time alone marks life and death
so quietly and effectively. There a
simple fagstone bore the suggestive
and mysterious single insert ption:
The Unknown" This attracted 1.-The
great authoress" Making inquiries
She learned that this was the spot
where a cultured and disappointed
woman lay at rest after living the life
of an unmarried wife, and being de-
serted by that very humanity George
Eliot had so much praised in seductive
chapters Living out the remnant of
this worldly existence in retired
corner of a village, and unknown and
uncared for, this fair and frail one
breathed her last in tiny room, leaving
a written request that she should be
buried in the neighboring churchyard,
and that her only epitaph should be
1.-The Unknown" a small sum of
money was found to defray the funeral
expense, and put up the stone which
gave George Eliot a serious view of
life at home and abroad over and above
1.-the humanities. Cor. Italian Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-06
Arraigning a Parrot.

A San Francisco policeman arrested
parrot for using profane language
on the street. When arraigned before
police magistrate, the bird told the
patrolman that he was liar who
ought to '.shut up" and bag his
head and amused the court by sing
ing I'm Mary Kelley's Beau. >
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-06

Miss Lorinda turned very red. She
would have liked to have boxed Lillian
Bourne's ears, but she dared not
All she could say was:
'.Oh, indeed! Well, folks will talk"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-12-06
An indianapolis preacher says base
ball encCuT: loaferism.

Arrangements are making to run a
''Blitzzug, or lightning train from
Paris to ST. Petersburg. 1t will travel
at fifty-six miles an hour and have all
the accommodations of our palace cars.
The Delaware farmer., 1883-08-31
THIS REMEDY IS KIDNEY-WORT.
READ A sAlIPLE TEsTITONIAL.

Have we indicated the trouble that has harrassed you?
Then use package of this medicine and be cured
The Delaware farmer., 1883-08-31
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WHAT WE FIND IN THEM TO sAIII.E
OVER THIS WEEK.
A slaughter HOuse-RailrOad Economy
He Loved lIusic-The EDITORS TrOw-
sers. Etc, Etc.
A SLAUGHTER HOUSE.

In warning the veterans of the late
war against exaggerating what they did
aud saw in it, Ex-Governor Curtin at a
Washington banquet related the follow
ing anecdote of a revolutionary veteran,
who, having outfived nearly all his COM
rades, and being in no danger of contra-
diction, rehearsed his experience thus
wise: ''In that fearful day at Monmouth,
although entitled to horse, l fought on
foot. With each blow I severed an
Englishman's head from his body, until
a huge pile of heads lay around me,
great pools of blood on either side, and
nv shoes were so full of the same dread
full fluid that my feet slipped beneath
me. Just then felt touch upon my
shoulder, and, looking up, who should I
behold but the great and good Washing
ton himself! Never shall I forget the
majesty and dignity OF his presence, as,
pressing his hand upon me, he said: My
young friend, restrain yourself, and for
heavens sake do not make a slaughter
house of yourself. The shouts of
laughter that greeted this story showed
that the Governor had made a point
Detroit Free Press.