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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-15
She Went Back Home.

The other day nm officer patrolling
! Monroe avenue noticed middle
aged woman standing in halfway
and as she continued TO remain there fol
the next hour he finally asked if she
was looking for anybody
Waiting for the doctor" she replied
as she pointed over her shoulder ur
stairs.
Anything serious?"
'Look-a-here!' she replied rs she
walked up to him, my old man anC
the boys and the gals have GOT the idea
that I'm going into consumption.
That's my boss and buggy out there.
and m waiting to have my lungs sound.
ed. Do look like a woman with con
SUMPTION"
''Well, no."
'.Whoop! Hoop-la-whoopeew she
yelled at the top of voice-''does that
air voice sound as if my right lung was
gone and the left badly affected?'
mo, ma'am, your voice indicates
strong lungs"
That's what I say. The old man
can hear me mile and q half, but ne s
afraid I've got consumption. Could a
| constructive do this?"
And she jumped from the door, crack
ed her heels together. and indulged in q
shuttle which made the officers knees
ache.
''Anything grave-yardish in that?''
she asked, as She stood painting with
arms akimbo.
mo, ma'am. I'd give $40 if could
hoe it down after that fashion"
And could a consumptive take aman
of your heft and prance him around like
this?" she asked as she seized the officer
and slammed him against the wall I'M
til his eye-balls Jared.
Great snakes! No!''
land see here" she continued, as
she made q hop and a step and kicked
She wall as high as his hat, "anything
| there that looks like funeral process
sion? Como out doors and show me
the hitching-post can't pull up by the
| TOots!"
Madam, / have witnessed enough.
You haven't got consumption any more
than I've got riches. Don't YOU fool
away your time looking for DOCTORS"
Gimme fair hold and [ believe I
can lay you on your backr' she said as
she spit on her hands.
Don't think of it! Go home! If you
don't live to be 100 years old I'll pay
the cost of your funeralr'
And YOU don't think I'm ailing?"
mot bit
Lungs all right, eb?''
Sound as a grindstone.
"Think I'll scrape along for ten or
fifteen years, eh?"
yes for FORTY"
well I'll go back, and try and make
the family believe it. Don't want to
try q sjde-hold Wrassle with me, eh?''
"Mercy, no!'
I'm purity certain should flop you,
but if you won't try I'll jog along.
Consumption! Whoop! Whoopee! After
you think I've had time to get two miles
out of town, just listen and hear me yell
a few times" -Detr0it Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-15
"A Little Bit Of a CHAM

Il used to think it was my duty to
cut EN- with ny whip, and I took sat
isfactionin striking hard, but Woudn' t
strike boy now for the best thousand
dollars ever coined"
He was car-driyer, and his atten-
ton had been called to three or four
boys stealing ride on the rear plat
form.
Yes, I was sort O terror on this
route 10 the boys, " he continued after a
time. Not one of the crowd could put
his foot on the step and get away with
out q cut from the whip. Bic or little,
rough or gentle, served all alike, and
il the passengers scoWled at me for
flashing little kid of or8, [ solaced
myself with the reflection that it was
my duty"
A passenger was dropped at the cor
ner, and as the car started up again the
driver went on:
''Well, one day when the boys had
bothered me more than usual, lodged
through the car and found little bit
of a chap, not over years old, seated
on the lower step. He was all bumped
over and softly CRYING about something
or other. At another time | might have
felt pity, but the boys had got my mad
up, and what did l do but give the little
fellow q cut with the lash, and call out
with such q voice that off he tumbled
into the dust. | saw him rise up and
limp away, and there was something in
the look he gave me that | shan forget
in hurry. Whoa! nowr'
The car stopped to take on two
ladies, and presently the driver re-
sumed:
DO you know that I felt so con-
science-stricken that I kept looking for
| that boy on every trip, calculating to
make up with him and secure his for
| giveness for my brutality. I did not
| see him again until the afternoon of the
| second day ="
And what did he say?" was asked
as the driver hesitated.
He was in his coffin,'i was the reply.
lit was his funeral procession which
! stopped my car for two Or three min
utes. That child was i'll when he tried
to steal his way home with me, and
death was not twenty-four hours away
when | dashed him and chuckled over
the way he rolled into the street! I tell
! you, sir, when | saw his coffin in the
hearse, and caught a look from the
| mother, which seemed to charge me with
being his murderer, I got staD at my
heart that pains me yet, and | wouldn' t
! strike another boy if the reward was 70
/ be the whole line and its outfit. ''-Da-
| tr0t Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-15
Embarrassing Girls,

Now, as regards the gentler sex who
came here to "hold down" their claims,
says a Dakota letter to the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette. All over the ter
ritory you will find these little shanties.
In many of them stylish and pretty
young ladies take up q nights lodging
once every month or oftener. I have
seen mum bers of misses from the east
ern states who are out here ''holding
down" a quarter section. Others who
live nearer, as in Iowa, make monthly
pilgrimages to their ranch, or, more
likely, 90 once in two months and re-
main two nights, endure this sacrifice
to their comfort and the shock to their
nerves few times, and become owners
of valuable real estate. A Dakota girl
that isn't ''holding down" q claim OF
two is curiosity. The only drawback
to the eastern girls is the fact that they
must publicly declare that they are over
p before they can file their application.
One hundred and sixty acres of land,
YOU know, is not much Of an induce
ment 10 an eastern girl for such an adj
mission But out here it is altogether
different, for it only lasts six months,
and at the end of that time the young
ladies 60 right back TO Is and % again.
Indeed, it is looked upon as really TO
mantle, despite the fact that wolves
howl around at night and 9ophers play
hide-and-seek through the shanties like
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-15
No Sympathy for Him.

so you admit having stolen the box
of backing" said q justice to a little
colored boy who was up for stealing q
box of backing from a grocery.
Yes, sab, tuck de bIackin'.''
You should have known better than
to do that. That was very stupid.
jess what I tote him, Jedge," spoke
up the father Of the boy. 4 done
broke up barril stave on him for bein'
so stupid. Oar was pair oh high
priced boots on de same shelf, an de
fool boy tuck cheap box OBJ blackin'.
Sock it to him, Jedge. hain't got no
sympafy for dat kind oh q offspring.
Use altered he am gwinter grow up
an disgrace de hull family. "-Ieras
Sittiqqgs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-15

The N0U0Sti in a recent issue states
that the forehead fight, " brutal COM
bat inherited from the old Turks, still
survives in some districts among the
Tartars of the Crimea. a duel of this
savage kind took place q short time ago
in a Crimean village. The report of it
is given by physician who was called
to attend to the defeated combatant
The two foes take their stand at a
measured distance from each other
with their heads bent forward; then, at
q given signal, they rush at one an
other, butting forehead against fore
head, like two goats. The remainder
of the duel is fought wholly with the
forehead; neither blows nor kicks are
permitted, us the man who uses any
weapon except his forehead is disgraced.
In the recent case blood streamed from
the forehead5 of both the semi-savages;
nevertheless they continued butting at
each other with ferocious passion, until
at length one of them fell exhausted to
the earth. He gathered up all his re-
naming strength to draw his knife
from his girdle, and with one deter
mined stroke he cut q wide cash across
his throat. The physician states that
the act of suicide on the part of the
beaten man is to be regarded as q di-
rect consequence of the injury done to
the brain by the fearful conclusions of
the fight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-15
The After Midnight Elbow Dir.

1t was after midnight. writes Bill Arp
in the Atlanta Constitution. About the
time q deep sleep falleth upon a man,
but not upon a woman. for Mrs Arp s
ears are always awake it seems to me.
felt 4 gentle dig in my side from an
elbow. and y whispered voice said:
William, William. don't you hear
that?" .'What is it?" said l. Some
body is in the front piazza" said she.
Don't YOU hear him rocking in the
rocking-chair?" And sure enough l
did. The chair would rock awhile, and
then stop. ami then rock again. rs
the gun loaded?" said she. They are
robbers, but don't shoot. don't make Il
noise, can't YOU peep out of the Win
dow? Mercy on rs, what do they want
to rob us for. Maybe they come to
steal one of the children. Sip in the
little room and see if Carl is in his bed.
Don't stumble over 4 chair; maybe
somebody is under the bed. The
rocker took new start. and I had an
other dig in my side. 1T is the wind. "
said I. mo, it is not" said she.
There is no wind; the window is up
and the curtain don't move. They are
robbers, | tell you. Hadn't YOU better
give them some money and tell them
to mo?" Il haven't cot any money!"
said l. Its all gone" Lord have
mercy upon u.s. said she. William,
get your gun and be ready"
l gently slipped out of the bed and
tiptoed to the window and cautiously
peeped out, and there was the pointer
puppy sitting straight up in my wife's
rocking-chair, and ever and anon he
would lean forward and backward, and
put it in motion. whispered to Mrs.
Arp to come and see the four-Iegged
robber, which she did, and in due time
al was calm and serene.
Last night there was another senSa-
ton in the back piazza, and it was sure
enough feet this time, for they made
racket on the floor and moved around
lively, and the elbow digs in nv side
came thick and fast. 1t took me a min
ute to get fairly awake, and after list
ening awhile, L exclaimed in audible
language, "Goats; Carps goats" and [
gathered broom and mauled 'em
down the back steps. Il told YOU, my
dear" said |, ''that those goats would
give US trouble; but | can stand it if
you can.
Carl and Jessie have been begging
for goats n good while, and | was hos
tile, very hostile to goats, for | knew
how much devilment they would do;
but the little chaps slipped up on the
weak side of their mother, and she fin
ally limited that children were children,
that old folks had their dotage and
children had their goatage and her lit
tie brother used to have goats and so
the pair of goats were bought and
Ralph worked two days making wag-
on and contriVed some harness out of
old bridle-reins and pillow lines and it
took all hands to gear 'em up and at
the first crack of the whip they bounced
three feet in the air and kept on bounc-
ing and jerBed Carl a rod and got
loose and run away and turned the
wagon upside down and they kept on
leaping and jumping until they got all
the harness broken up and got away.
1t beat monkey show. We all laugh
ed until we cried. but the little chaps
have reorganized on more substantial
basis, and there is another exhibition to
come off soon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-15

1t is estimated that in $500 of the
1000 bar-rooms in Philadelphia free
luncheon is provided. The quality of the
food varies according to the location of
the bar-rOom, from the soup made Of
half-pickled beef bone, few scraps of
fat and lean meat, q small measure of
potatoes, turnips and tomatoes, and
two gallons of Schuvlkill water, to the
spread consisting of Boston baked beans,
boiled and baked macaroni, broiled
reed birds in season, choice breakfast
bacon, land a variety of other dainties
that would probably cost from 40 to 60
cents were the patron to get the same
thing in o regular restaurant. The
daily cost of providing the luncheon
grst described is only a few cents, while
the barkeepers who 60 to the other ex-
treme expend about so day for food
which is free to their customers. The
hotels generally refrain from infringing
upon the domain of the dining-room by
offering their customers in the.bar room
any food more tempting than staIa
crackers and dried-up cheese.
Mrs. Frank Leslie is not likely, It Is
said, to bring home q husband from
Europe, but she will bring back par
of SOB 600 diamond ear-riu
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-15

Robert Comwel, of Henrietta. n. Y,
had an accusing conscience. His wife
unsuspectingly joked him about his
fondness for the hired girl, and he,
thinking she knew all. eloped with the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-15

The New York Times says the roofs
Of barns should be steep, and if of wood
the surface either painted or the shing-
les dipped in lime water, to make them
more durable. Straw and dirt collect
under fat-roofed shingles and canse
rapid decay.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-11-15

ot me- a i
Sau ~ H., y ~ y i ID W lhpin,
" IL : we. sf'.t, .Gr ~ t TN to owe tEeJn.
DR. Ia. 49, II -. caves th:t bloc
Sane tn" tree, - T. ey rust ell together
" Oh, she j"y OF rte summer weatberl
r. - al lilies, how do you iare?''
SaEg tho red rose, and sang the white:
:" Glad We are Of the suU's large light,
Ard tie songs Of birds that dart through
the air..
Lily and rose. and tail green tree.
SwnyinC bOughs where the bright birds nestle
Thrilled by music and thrilled by wings.
How glad they were on that summer day!
Litt tHey thought Of cold skies and gray,
And the dreary dirge that storm-wind
sings.
Golden butterflies gleam in the sun,
Laugn at tire flowers, and kiss each Cne
ana great bees come with their Sleepy tune
To sip the honey and circ.c round,
And ire flowers are IuIed By that drowsy
sound,
ard fail. asleep in the heart of the noon.
a small white c .oud in a sky Of blue,
Roses and ili"S, what will they do?
For a wind springs up and sings in the
Down comes the rafn-thc gardens awake,
Roses and lilies begin TO quake,
mat were rocked to secp by the gentle
brccZr
All, roses and lilies! each delicate petal
The wind and the rain with fear unsett!e:
This way and that way he tail trees sway.
But the wind goes by, and the rain stops soon
And smiles again the face Of the noon,
And the flowers arc glad in tie suns warm
ray.
Sing, my j les, and sing my roses,
With a dream that tho alpcaC.
But the trees are old, and ] fancy they tell,
Each unto each, how the summer flies;
They remember the last yCars'S wintry Skies
But that summer returns the trees know
we'll.
Philip b urkc Marston, in st. Nicholas for
October
National Republican., 1883-06-06
Transfers OF Real Estate

The following transfers OF real estate were
filed for record yesterday:
Part Of lot l5 of square 1888, with improvements,
being IL feet on the east side of Eleventh street.
between o and z streets northwest, James p.
Hsines TO Madison Whipple; dated June 8 (; con-
Part Of lot Ii Of square $685. with improvements,
being = feet on the south side of East Capitol
street, between Seventh and Eighth streets south
east Ada !. Case to Ida L. Case; dated June 2;
Lot 80 of square 1888, with improvements, being
~ feet on the west side OF Tenth street, between
and Y streets northwest Ada b. and Ida L. Case TO
Jane Belle Case dated May 2s; consideration
S2,l00.
Sixteen acres of land, being part Of the Sheriff
street, county of Washington Mary c. Dean to
George E. Mitchelli dated April II; consideration,
Part OF lot 22 OF square 254, being Is feet on the
south side Of +, near Thirteenth street northwest
Clayton McMichael, United States marshal, to
John b Larneri dated May !; consideration, 500.
dated May %; consideration, 500.
Lot Of the subdivision of the east half Of square
side between Fourth ana FS ssG noph
west John Il, Wilson and others to George A.
Whitford; dated juno 3 consideration. 81, 100.
mans subdivision of Mount Pleasant, being so
feet on Clifton street. with improvements, Arthur
i. Ba!eman, trustee, to Cornelia Dezendorf dated
June b; consideration. $1,000
Part Of lot Of block IL. Of the subdivision of
the John a. Smith farm, portion Of the grounds of
ar eenbg 30 feet on It the south
Cody; dated March %; consideration, 5000.
Part Of lot 8 OF square SIG, with improvements,
being - feet on the south side of north A, be-
tween Fourth and Fifth streets northeast Amnon
Behrend and wife TO James w. Curtis dated June
l; consideration, $1,000.
Lots 27 and 2s Of Charles Dodge's subdivision,
of square l76, with improvements. being A feet
on the south side OF street, the intersection
OF New hampshire avenue n0.thwest, Thomas Z.
Waggaman to Alexander Elliott dated June 5;
consideration, 81 800.
National Republican., 1883-06-06
The Shoes OF Some Beautiful Women.
Pail Mall (Jasfiis


Ladies have been ever ready to patronize
shoemakers prone to discard anatomical laws
and indulge in freaks of fancy. An exception
was Catherine de Medicis. She was very
active in looking after gardens, walking, rid
ing and overlooking her architects. 1t is easy
to understand in looking at the boots and
shoes of the seventeenth century, why the
coach became an article of necessity TO the
grand seigneur and court lady. The heels
were very high, and the boot cumbersome.
Moliere kept to the square toed shoes fast
ened with a lace on the instep, which the
bourgeois Of Paris had worn for nearly a CEN
tury and a half He was shod pretty much
as an English Puritan, and was able to rove
through France without needing the assist
ance of chiropodist. In the reign Of Louis
Quinze pedestrian exercise except on the
fiat, hard terraces of Versailles, became i'm
possible. The extremity of the heel was
placed under the sole Of the foot, and the whole
weight of tho body was thrown upon the great
toe. Mme de Pampadour wore Asiatic slippers
in the house, but she sacrificed to the fashion
when she appeared at court.
Marie Antoinette's heels were lower, but
the toe of her shoe formed a sharp point. She
was glad at her rustic Trianon parties TO lean
on the crooked staff of shepherdess or on
the arm of courter. If the shoes said to be
worn by her and the Princesse dc Lamballe
were only manufactured to be looked at they
would have been charming. The workman
ship, so far as stitching and embroidery goes,
is perfect. But the feet must have been
dreadfully squeezed in them. Marie An
toinette according to tradition, had superb
gait. ChToniclers Of her time likened her to
a goddess borne along on clouds. AS she was
brought up in simple German way, and
taught early to dance ballets, she may have
been, relatively to the danes about her
graceful in her movements when she walked.
Tho ankles of the Duchesse de Berrl went Ia
and defOrmed her shoes. Her kinsWomap,
National Republican., 1883-06-06
Corner Of Eleventh Street,
Please bear In mind that our eatnbiiai
ment is kept open every evening until 10
o'clock.
we keep regularly for sale the following daIllcs

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National Republican., 1883-06-06
BALTIMORE STOCK MARKET

BALTIMORE STOCK MARKET.
BALTIMORE, June 5.-Virginia 6s second series,
80; new lO-4Os, 3216 bid to-day.
BALTIMORE PRODUCE MARKET
BALTIMORE, June 5.-Cotton dull; mlddlng, 105Ac,
Flour unchanged and quiet; Howard street and
western superfne, 50 254 co. do extra, 81 25@5 90,
Oo do. extra, 81 S5Se co. DOR d. Rio Brands. s. 00g 3
70; Patapsco family SO rs: do superlatiye patent,
~ oV Wheat-Southern lower and quiet; west
q; do. amber, 81 2O9i IS; No. Maryland,
u ,222SS9l 29 No. western winter red spot 81 20k
Sast s SI9S 81 ,22c bid July q 2 22I S2 AG
ern lower ana duii; southern white eSSsslSo do
June, 63c bid July, 64JS965c; August 66j jSS66szo;
steamer, 65@6o1go. Oats lower and dull; south
ern; 4S95lc; western white, 49@5lc; do mixed, AZ
and and Maryland. si2 OO@i5 co. ~ Provisions quiet
bacon, shoulders 934o; clear rib sides, l24c; HAMS
l4A@l5l lard, refined. l2lio Butter dull; west.
steady at 17@1sc. Petroleum unchanged and easy;
refined, S@SLSc. Coffee quiet; Rio cargoes, ordf'
nary 70 f,ir S99c; Sugar Arm son. SIC Copper,
renned quiet ut l4A@l5c. Whisky steady at 81 16l5
@l IL. Froights TO Liverpool per steamer dull
and unchanged; cotton 5-32d.; -four, Is. 3D. grain,
SSgS4d SS ~ Receipts-Flour. 2,ib5 barrels; wheat,
bushels; rye, 100 bushels. hipments--Wheat,
1000 bushels corn, 81 900 bushels. sales--Wheat,
4ohVVo bushels; corn $4,000 bushels.
CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET.
CHICAGO June 5.-Flour quiet aud unchanged.
Regular wheat unsettled and feverish, but closed
higher; sales at 81 ~ June; 81 l31@i 1875 July
q tSl SgI l6Z August; No. Chicago spring 81 ll
Corn active but weak and lower; 55Ja6o56c cash |;
56c June 57lsc July. Oats firm; 39l5S395lc cash !;
39Jac June; 3gl6c July. Pork in active demand;
opened weak and lower closed firm at outside
prices sales ut $40 05919 10 cash aud June $40 17
@l9 20 July. Lard auctuated wildly; opened
weak and lower; closed firm at outside prices;
sll 10 cash and June; sl1 72l5@11 rs July Bulk
meats In fair demand shoulders, 81 60; short rib,
slO 10 short clear, $40 As. Whisky steady and un.
changed.
PIrrsBURd OIL MARKET.
PfTTsBURe June 5.-The feeling in oil circles to.
day was decidedly weak. The market opened
with sales at 81 16f under general desire to sell
at 81 liz,