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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
The Tie az the Futurp.

A tall man, with sharp features and a
thoughtful air, sat in small study and
gazed gravely at brown object that lay
at his feet.
at is paper railroad cross tie," he
said.
The reporter raised it with some diff
ficulty. 1t was of very close fiber, and
so highly polished that it resembles
rosewood. Its inventor tapped it with
his nail, and said:
"lt doesn't look much like paper,
does it?',
ut seems more like iron. Is it posi-
BILE it is made of paper?''
"Oh, yes; almost anything can now
be made of paper. A paper ball eau be
rendered so solid that nothing will in
dent it but diamond tool Car-wheels
are now made of paper. Its strength
is astonishing. You can suspend 339
pounds from bank of England note
and it will not part. Bath-tubs, pots.
plates, knives, forks, cooking stoves,
printing presses, steam-engines and
chimneys are made of paper nowadays,
and there is absolutely no limit to the
uses to which it may be put
PdBCl SlOoo-tiCS CFCL Dtcu
used?''
''Not vet. The cross-tie is my in
vention.''
.'How did you happen to think of
itp''
'Well, didn't happen to think of it,
exactly. | started out deliberately to
invent substitute for the wooden cross
tie or sleeper, and | kept steadily at it
until | was successful. thought of
paper. There are scores of mills in the
country where paper. straw, prairie
grass, and other fibrous substances are
converted into straw boards. The pro-
cess is simple. The straw is reduced to
pulp and run out into boards. These
straw boards are sold ali over the coun-
try as substitutes for wood. My inven-
ton utilities straw board. The cross
tic is constructed of sheets or LAYERS of
paper or straw board, laid one upon
another, cemented and compressed into
molds- 1t makes perfect cross tie.
1t is practically water and fire proof, as
it is manufactured under 500 degrees of
heat Atmospheric changes have no
effect on it. 1t can be made as cheap
as wood at the present time. and will
last at least twenty-five years. -Neso
York Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
Too Mucll Color.

Mr.. Healey, of New York, had some
time since, as a subject for portrait, a
young Southern lady, who came to his
studio so bedimmed with paint and
powder that every characteristic line
was obliteratcd. Mr.. Healey, of course,
was in a dilemma. He could not order
the girl to go wash her face. He would
lose his commission, and be is too polite
a gentleman. He could not lay the
same paint on canvas that there was on
her face; it would not be satisfactory to
the family. When the sketch was lined
in he rose from his seat, sat down by
his subject and kindly asked her il
she was feeling as well as usual.
Surprised of course, she replied that she
was. 'But, Miss Jones, you walked
from your hotel, did you not?" "Yes y
''And came hurriedly upstairs without
stopping to rest?n 'sWhy, yes, OF
course" ''Oh, yes, Miss Jones, but
you see, though you may not be fever
ish, you have exerted yourself so Sc.
verely that there is so much color in
your face that fear it would mislead
me. Now, tomorrow, if you will be
so good, please battle your cheeks in
cold water the last thing, come in a
close carriage and stop and rest yourself
upon the sofa you will find on each
landing. In that way am sure we
shall have no more trouble His
speech had the desired effect. The
faint flush on her face when she came
the next day was perfectly natural, and
did not at all retard the picture.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
PRAYER Rurs.

Strange are the vagaries of fashion.
Among the latest of its freaks is said to
be the introduction of prayer rugs"
to be used by the fashionable. ladies'.
They have come from the MAY East,
along with Japanese goods, hashish, altar
OF roses, and other delcctable things, and
the aroma of aAraby the blest is sup
posed to cling to them, even when they
are bought from nm Irish Turk on
Broadway. They are described as be-
ing similar to those used by the Mo-
hammedans, are usually about three by
four feet in size, and can be distin-
guished by the design, which always
represents some large figure at enc end,
and is pointed at the other. Places are
indicated for the hand and knees. De-
won't women procure the real things
from an importer, and, without facing
Mecca, humping their head IN the floor
or removing their shoes and stockings,
like the sons of the Prophet, still
actually do use them to kneel on while
praying. They are said to be great
comfort.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
Rurying Rerdell.

Colonel Ingersoll continued his argu-
ment in the star route trial to-day.
After lengthy review of Rerdell's
testimony and denunciation of its char
acter and all his methods, Ingersoll
said: II will not dwell longer upon
this mans testimony. Let us put him
out of sight. Put him in his coffin and
nail it down. Let the first nail be the
affidavit of June, 1881; let the second
nail be his letter of July 5, 1882, say
ing that that affidavit was made by the
persuasion of Bosler Striking the table
violently; drive it down. Let the third
nail be the affidavit of July IS, 1882,
where he swears they are all perfectly
innocent, and the fourth nail is the pen
Gil memorandum down with that. The
fifth is the tabular statement. giving 33a
per cent to Brady, and the sixth is the
pretended letter to Bosler The seventh
nail is the pretended letter from Dorsey
to Bosler, on May Is, 1879, and copies
made by Miss Whites-drive that in.
Wind his corpse up in the balance
sheets of the red books made by Don
nelly We want the plate for this coffin.
Paste on there the Chico letter of April
3, 1873. Now. for the grave-stone, let
us take the red books, put one at his
head and one at his feet, and let him
sleep, and my prayer to Gabriel is, when
he passes over that grave, don't blow
Laughter.] There is not, never was
and never will be twelve honest men
who will deprive citizen of liberty on
the evidence of man like Rerdell. II
never has happened; it never will
happen"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
Corrective Remedy Needed.


The recent Brooklyn bridge disaster
is another illustration of the fact that
even our nineteenth century civilization,
with all its boosted educational adj
vancement, scientific progress, and
intellectual improvement, has not yet
been able to eradicate, but only to
gloss over, the lower animal attributes
which penetrate through the thin We
neering of superficial polish at the first
hint of danger. A hasty cry, sudden
start, and the brute instinct of self
preservation takes immediate posses
sion OF each man. woman, and child in
the throng and the human ,beings OF
one moment are transformed the next
instant into crowd of panic-stricken
brutes, lost to all the higher attributes
and intent each on securing his own
personal safety.
In the present case a hitch in the
flow of humanity over the bridge arous-
ed suspicion that something was wrong
and that suspicion terminated a fear
that the bridge was falling. Then en-
sued the transformation from human
being to animal. Intelligence gave
way to brute instinct and the mas
struggled and fought until the dead
and wounded were piled three deep in
the roadway. A few cool, clear head
ed persons in authority, backed by
broad shoulders and ready locusts
woald have quoted the mob in few
moments and prevented the terrible
sacrifice of life. Unfortunately those
clear headed parties were not on hand.
They seldom are, hence the numberless
instances of this kind with which the
newspapers teen. The crying need APP
pears to be a more thorough drill in
self control in times of danger. This
work might be well inaugurated in
the public schools among the children
at that age when they are the most
impressionable, and the drill and
dicipline there would without doubt
remain through after life, especially
if carried entirely through their
school years. In this way something
might be done, some improvement
made, on the present prediction to
panic which presents itself at the most
unpropitious time in every crowded
assembly, whittier under covsr CT in
tic cpcr air.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
No Profit From Winter Feeding.

There seems to be growing convic-
ton on the part of many Western farm
ers that Winter fattening of cattle and
hogs, with ordinary methods does not
pay. An experienced farmer. who has
made money fattening hogs on an Iii
nois farm, said 70 us the other day: Il
have made up my mind that will feed
my Spring pigs in the Fall, up to about
December l, and then. fat or not, / will
sell them.n 1t was his opinion that
Winter feeding of hogs lis generally
done at loss. He often buys. in the
Spring, young hogs which his neighbors
have wintered; he fattening them in the
early Summer, and making money from
the work. We recently saw some fig-
ures showing the weights of Young
steers. stabbed and well fed during the
Winter, compared with those of like
steers kept cheaply, but comfortably,
through Winter; with full feeding Of
corn commenced ut middle of March.
and certainly there was no showing OF
proht from the Winter feeding in this
case. Breeders Gazette.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
Rad RufIpr.

1t begins to appear as though Massa-
chusetts was destined to be Butlerized
to the end of the chapter. Years ago
Mast in one of his inimitable cartoons,
pictured the blue blood baby of the Bay
State shrieking in terror over the Butler
ogre, who was seen Undertaking. from
out the surrounding space, and from
that day to this the howl has, with vary
ing intervals. continued. The immense
energy OF the crook-eyed statesman has
enabled him to break out in new place
each time, the Bay Staters were on the
point of congratulating themselves that
they had securely bottled, the specter.
Just at present the Butler ogre has
invaded the sacred precincts of Harvard
and threatens TO shake those classical
shades from center to circumference.
The cause of this agitation lies in the
fact that it has become y tradition of
that institution of learning that, at the
annual commencement exercises, the
honor of Ii. ID. should be conferred
on the reigning executive of the state
This, in the present instance, is Gov.
Butler, who is not only obnoxious on
general principles but has lately been
interfering with the crop of cadavers
usually falling to the Harvard medical
school, through the Tewksbury investi-
cation. For this and other reasons there
has been a vigorous discussion going on
within the ranks of the board of over
seers of the university, as to whether
the custom would not be honored more
this year in the breach than in the OBJ
seIvance. The feelings of the opposi-
ton to this course are perhaps best eX-
pressed by Wendall Phillips who,
though Harvard man, recently said:
''Such a breach of the custom, 50 long
established as to be almost law, would
be disgrace to its (the university 81
officers. and would seriously affect the
feelings of the commonwealth toward the
college" The other side holds that the
disgrace of having an oblique visioned
LII. ID. would be more than the univer.
sity could stagger under and the proper
way to meet the issue is to have the
procession pass by on the other side
and leave Gov. Butler out in the cold
While there are none so wild rs to
assert that the university will be over
whelmed with honor by the introduction
of the erratic and hayward chief magis-
trate into its ranks. still the opposition
appears to rise from a mere personal
spite and the recognition, if refused, viii
certainly be laid TO this baser motive
rather than to any fears of present and
prospective disgrace. Therefore, under
the circumstances, the path Of wisdom
would appear to point TO preparation
ON the part of the academical authori.
ties to swallow the dose with as few
wry faces as possible.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
sides. But people continued to crowd
on toward the steps. No police were
in sight. Every minute

sides. But people continued to crowd
on toward the steps. No police were
in sight. Every minute
THE EXCITEMENT
was becoming worse Men in the crowd
lifted children above their heads to save
them from the crush. People were still
paying their pennies at both gates and
swarmiug in. AT last the people at tie
New York end Of the bridge under
stood what was happening. The gates
were closed and word was sent to
Brooklyn to close the gates there.
MESSENGERS WERE SENT
to the Police Station on Oak street. but
before any outside help came to the
bridge, the police, assisted by citizens,
pressed two grocers' wagons into the
ambulance service. They were loaded
with dead and dying, and driven off the
bridge, followed by crowds of distracted
men and women. As the wagons came
out on the street, they were obliged to
stop to allow a brilliantly uniformed
band playing gay music, to pass up
Chatham street
Twelve dead bodies had been laid in
the basement of the Chambers Street
Hospital at o'clock.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
0DOwn East"

It is hard for New Englanders to rec
ognize that the East" may mean some
other section than New England. Oc-
casionally their exclusiyeness receives
severe rap, as did ours, while travelling
along one Of the small streams of South
ern California. Seeing sun-burnt,
ragged young man shooting pickerel,
we stopped to witness the novel sight.
On catching sight of fish beneath
the surface, the youth would take quick
aim and fire. The concussion of the
ball upon the water so stunned the fish
that it foated to the surface, when it
was then quickly secured.
After witnessing his performance of
this feat several times, we remarked
that, as it was new sport to us, we were
curious to know where he had learned
it.
"Oh," he answered, ST often enjoyed
it when lived East; In fact, by birth,
am an Eastern man."
We were at once interested, and
thinking we had found Yankee from
Maine or Massachusetts. or possibly
from the city called the Hub we
gave his hand a hearty grip, saying,
"We, too, are Eastern born and bred;
from what part OF the East do you
Gomez" &
II was reared" replied he, with
cordial smile, "in Eastern Missouri"
We stared at him a moment, muir
INJURED something about the size of the
country, and said that we came from
Boston, and then babe him good-morn-
ing.
LOngstreet's Charge at Gettysburg.
As yet no Federal musketry had
broken out, our veterans knowing too
well the value of every bullet in crisis
like this. Still the assaulting lines con-
tinued to march on, until it seemed,
from where / was standing, that the
leading one touched the breastworks
along our center. Then, and only then,
a vivid flash sprang from the earth, fol-
| lowed by sharp rattle as the Federal
skirmish-line opened fire. The volley
had no apparent effect on the Confed-
crates, who continued to advance stead
| lily, sweeping the skirmishers before
them like chaff in the wind A minute
later a deafening crash of musketry
broke upon the ear, and we knew that
the main line had opened fire. Despite
the sunlight, the flame from our mems
| muskets could be distinguished as it
| played to and fro along Cemetery
Ridge. Then for the first time the
| Confederate line seemed to waver; but
only for an instant, for it soon rallied,
and, as if .by.-.4o common impulse,
dashed ooeif like a mighty wave against
| the wall of steel before it,. The Federal
artillery on the higher ground behind
our infantry now tore the enemy's ranks
with a storm of iron balls until it
seemed that none could stand before
them and live. But the troops under
Longstreet had, gained an impetus
which carried them clear up to and at
intervals into our lines.,, For twenty
minutes the terrible hand-to-hand strug-
| gle continued; and 1 saw, by he,sud-
den movement of Hancock's corps, that
his line had been pierced and broken.
1t was, however, soon reformed; and,
although the second line of the Confed-
crates Joined and strengthened the
| first, our defense was too fierce and
stubborn to be overcome. Finally the
attacking force quiyered, and moment
later the entire body was in full retreat.
George T. Williams, i,s Bullet and
She'll"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
Heroic Treatment.

Narrowing potatoes is everywhere
growing in favor, and now may be re-
garded as an auxiliary to potato cul-
ture. The field should be narrowed at
least twice before the potatoes appear,
and once after. This seems heroic
treatment, but it gives mellow soil,
and cuts the ground from under the
terminating weeds, and if thorough
cultivation follows, the labor of culture
is reduced, as it becomes stirring the
soil rather than job of hoeing and
wedding. The slant-tooth harrow is
the implement needed. as the backward
slant and side cut of the teeth are es-
pecially adapted to perform the work
demanded
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
An UnlnckY Structure.

The East river bridge, which was
opened with a flourish of trumpets a
week ago, appears to be an Inflated
structure. The recent disaster, by which
number of persons were killed and a
much larger number wounded recalls
to mind the death of the eminent en-
gineer Roebling, who was the mechani-
cal head of the great wonder, from
lockjaw caused by wound to his foot,
incurred while experimenting opera
tons about the bridge. His son who
took up the work where his father
dropped it, has been for a long time an
invalid, from too close confinement in
the cassions. In addition to these can
be counted formidable list of work
men who have succumbed to the poison
GUS vapors or fell by accidents later on
in the progress of the structure. All
these would have probably been forgot
ten had it not been for the recent shock
ing slaughter 1t will now be a long
time before those given to superstitious
fancies will fail to view the structure
with wholesome feeling of awe COM
bined with an idea that within the my
Rad of twisted wires is contained a host
of vicious sprites who hold in store
more fearful disasters. 1t will be many
a day before this feeling wears away
and is replaced by one of security and
confidence. But fortunately for the
profits of the enterprise this class of
unbelievers are small compared with
the vast number of ''happy-go-lucky'
individuals who throw their fears to the
winds in the hurry and excitement OF
the moment and despite warnings oil
omens make use of the bridge as a
means of transit between the two cities
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
An IngeniNns Toy.

A poor Jewish matchmaker of Kishe-
ney. in Russia, has just completed, after
two Years. labor, an ingenious clock,
which at certain hours of the day, plays
the national anthem, aud gives a mimic
representation of the coronation cere-
mony. When the hour arrives. two
doors fly open, disclosing a model of
the Cathedral of the Assumption at
Moscow, where the Cars are crowned.
Then the gates of the cathedral swung
back, and within appears the Mefropol-
itan of Moscow, surrounded by dignita-
ries of the church in gorgeous robes.
The Emperor and Empress enter. and
are sprinkled with holy water; there
upon the Emperor takes a golden crown
from the Metropolitan and places it on
his own head. and second crown upon
the head ~ the Empress, and'thereupon
the doors of the cathedral close.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07

When Potts began his married life,
the watchword engraved on his memory
was, Beware of the plumber" The
awful destinies of numbers of friends,
who had foolishly been inveigled into
poverty and distress by this fiend,
doomed up before his eyes, continually
reminding him of his motto, until he
grew to consider himself public bene.
factor in endeavoring to suppress this
inhuman monster.
But in an evil hour, during the
family's absence in the country, the
wash-boiler began to leak and the
plumber glided in through the base
ment door. From that time the house
seemed bewitehed.
Two days afterward the hot water
pipe blew his range to atoms and the
servant to glory, the boiler began tc
leak at every conceivable point; and,
after the second story basin had been
overfowed two days IN succession, the
parlor ceiling reminded one of col.
ander, with ancient frescoing between
the holes. These repairs had scarcely
been completed when the tank on the
EOOt Def,di w iii anu iCSistNA III 4 ChtS
efforts to turn off the water, and SIX
hours steady running very materially
increased the damage. The plumber
was then engaged regularly for three
days in the week, and the adjoining
house hired to be used for the storage
of lead pipe, tools, etc, which were
bought by the cargo. During the first
week of the plumbers engagement,
every faucet in both houses began leak.
ing badly, and all the basins were
stopped up twice day, and the third
week Potts was compelled to put wire
screens in all the windows of his bed.
rooms to prevent, the occupants float
ing out during the night.
In the midst Of these entertainments
the plumber reminded him that lead
was rising, owing to so much being used
for counterfeit money purposes. And
three months from the time of the
plumbers first appearance he owned
and resided in the house, while Potts
lived In the garnet and worked as helper
to him, half his wages each week being
forfeitedto pay off the balance Of his
bill.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
Broad Turnnikes.

In England thirty feet of clear space,
each side, from the center of turnpike
road must be kept free from Enclosures
as far ont as three miles from market
town; beyond that distance twenty-five
feet from center to edge are required;
the same applies to al roadways that
We're once turnpikes. Only fifteen feet
are required to be kept free on highways
that have never been turnpikes. Any
person encroaching upon these specified
spaces by fence, building, rubbish,
ditch, or otherwise, is fined IS and the
obstacles must be removed
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07

A butter maker, writing to the Iowa
Homestead, says the best butter color IS
a pailful of corn meal mash. fed warm
once day. the corn to be of the yellow
variety; adding that it viii increase the
milk and butter, as well as give a good
color.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07

Spiced beef, which is delicious cold
and sliced thin. is easily prepared.
Choose a piece with less tat than you
would wish to have in roast; boil this
until tender in water in which you have
put salt, pepper. celery seed and clover;
the amount to depend on your taste.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07

Lettuce, boiled, makes good side
dish. Cook and serve as you do spin
ach. A small piece of bacon boiled
with it is a good seasoning. When the
lettuce has grown little rank and is
not quite crisp enough to serve as salad,
it may be prepared in this way, and
make an agreeable and wholesome dish.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07

Kansas farmers hold ever 100000
bushels of old wheat, AMI over 81, 900, :
600 bushels of old corn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
WAS BURIED FOUR DEEP

under the bodies of Others who fell over
the steps after her. She was dead when
they got her out more titan half an hour
atterward. The men sprang up on the
rails at the side and waved the crowds
back from the New York and Brooklyn