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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22
Had Enough Of the Office.
Arkansav Traveller.

The following resignation of a
country judge was recently sent to
the governor of Arkansas: ''I have
got enough of this blamed Office.
took this here place expectin' to be re-
spected, but mud has been flung at
me ever since. The temperance peo-
pie an the still-house folks have been
puIlin' at me all the time, an, finally,
when l concluded to go with the still
house folks, the temperance people
lowed I didn't haYe no sense an was
an ole fraud, jes' like a man didn't
have right to do as he pleases in this
here free country. Well, they KEEP
on aharpin' an aharpin' till [ lowed
that mebbe [ was wrong, so turned
over to the temperance people. Then
the still-housefolks gun ter howl, an
swore that [ wuz a fool an a thief,
So you see, ] don't know which way
to turn, an [ wanter say right here
that you may take the blamed office
yourself" "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22
Nebraska as Il Fruit State.

A writer in the Cultivator and
Country Gentleman is confident that
Nebraska will be the best fruit-grow-
ing state in the west. He says: 81
find that four counties in the south
eastern corner Of the state produced
last season $50, 900 bushels of apples.
To show the profit of growing fruit,
one instance will sillustrate many
others: A Farmer of Pawnee County
in 1871 invested $156 in trees, grape
vines and small fruits, which have
been bearing for some years. The re-
ceipts last year were, for apples, $500;
cherries, 5000; grapes, $50; this was
the grape proIdct for the past seven
years.; total, $1,O50, without small.
fruits. J. II. Masters, of Nebraska
City, picked 5000 bushels of Winesap,
Jonathan, Ben Davis and other stand
ard apples from eight acres; price re-
ceived, 70 cents per bushel. Cherries
were not hurt by the past winter, and
are full of buds. Wilson blackber-
ries (half hardy are all right. Per
simmons bear well. Young trees six
feet high have not been injured by 25
degrees below zero.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22

The custom OF having pages at
weddings has not yet penetrated to
many parts of England. However,
at the marriage in a church in the
outskirts of Sheffield last week of Mr..
Percy Edward Schweder, of South
KensIngton, with Miss Edith Mary
Firth, of Riverdale, the brides two
brothers, ia blue plush costumes,
trimmed with point lace of the time
of Henry VIII, attracted universal
admiration.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22
Wind-S0uRds i'll the Desert.
Popular Science Monthly.

The travellers tales of sounds like
the ringing of bells, which they have
heard in deserts and lonely places, are
familiar Some of these are too well
substantiated TO admit of serious dis
pute. Among them is that of the
noises heard at the Gebel Nakus, in
the Sinitic Peninsula, which the Arab
say proceed from convent of damn
ed monks; the musical cliffs of the
Orinoco, told of by Humboldt; and
the sounds which the French SER
wants Jollois and Deyilliers declare
they heard at sunrise at Karnak,
Egypt, and described as comparable
to the ancient fable of the vocal Mem
non. The sounds are not always or
exactly alike the ringing of a bell :;
sometimes the resemble the music of
a string, and may be generally des-
cribed as of an intermediate character
between the two classes. A char
acteristic of the sounds is that ne one
can discern where they come from.
NJ. Emile Sorel, fills, in order to deter
mine their origin, has made some sue
cessful experiments in reproducing
them artifcially. Taking his gun in
to an open field, he placed it at an
angle of Is degrees against the wind,
when it gave forth a sound. Then
moving it around, he caused it to
utter the exact tone he sought. The
sound could not be localized. Ad-
dressing a peasant, he asked him,
DO you hear my gun?" Pardon,
monsieur, it is the bells Of" A
similar answer was got from every
one whose attention was called to the
noise. It was believed to come from
about two miles and a half to
the windward. M. Sorel believes the
experiment authorizes the hypothesis
that the ringing is the result of the
blowing of the wind over a slope at
the foot of which is something that
may act as a resonator. What is
doHe on a small scale in o gun may
be done on a large scale in nature, on
the face of a mountain or a rock
which is backed by a valley or a
ravine, or which is itself elastic
enough to give the resonant effect.
The sounds are apparently not as
readily given when the vibrating sur
faces and media are moist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22

They are building an evangelical
church at Devils Lake City, Mimi.
That is carrying war into Africa and
no mistake,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22

PROF. GROSS, the eminent surgeon
whose death was announced recently
at the dinner given to him in Phila-
delphia on April 10, 1879, said: after
fifty years of earnest work I find my
self still in the harness; but, although
I have reached that age when most
men, tired of the cares of life, seek
repoSc in retirement and abandon
themselves to the study Of religion,
the claims of friendship, or the con-
temptation of philosophy, my convic.
ton has always been that it is far, bet
ter for a man to wear out than to rust
out. Brain work, study and persis-
tent application have been a great
comfort to me, as well as great help;
they have enhanced the enjoyment
Of daily life, and added largely to the
pleasures of the lecture-room and of
authorship; indeed, they will always,
| am sure, if wisely regulated, be con-
ducive both to health and longevity.
A man who abandons himself to life
of inactivity, after having always
been accustomed to work, is practical
lY dead. "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22
And Yet They Say Women Can't Rea
SUM-
NOrristoWn H6ar2ld.

Mrs. Pinaphor thinks telegraphy
ought to be much cheaper than post
age. because the former can perform a
job in five minutes which requires the
mails from one to six days to accom-
plish.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11
Milk For Tea And Coffee.

That there is an appreciable differ
ence between raw and boiled milk may
be proved by taking equal quantities Of
each (the boiled sample having been al
lowed to cool DOWN, adding them to
equal quantities Of the same infusion of
coffee, then critically tasting the mix
lures. The difference is sufficient to
have long since established the practice
among all skillful cooks Of scrupulously
using boiled milk for making cafe au
lait. 7 have tried similar experiment
on tea, and find that in this case the
cold milk is preferable Why this
should be, why boiled milk should be
better for coffee and raw milk for tea,
I cannot tell. If any Of MY readers
have not done SO already, let them try
similar experiments with condensed
milk, and have no doubt that the YER
dict of the majority will be that it is
passable with coffee, but very objection
able in tea. This is milk that has been
very much cooked. The chief definable
alteration effected by the boiling of
milk is the coagulation Of the small
quantity Of albumen which 1T contains.
This rises as it becomes solicited, and
forms skin like scum on the surface,
which may be lifted with spoon and
eaten, as it is perfectly wholesome and
very nutritious. Popular Science
Monthly. -" rs
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11
Condeusatious.

The recent floods out west were very
damaging to pianofortes. In one town
the cost of repairing pianos was esti
mated at $4,000. Pianos have not as
yet been MANUFACTURED that will float
round two days without sustaining seri
Gus injury. Who can tell but that some
ingenious Yankee will soon introduce a
piano warranted in case of floods to re-
main under water week without dam
age.
Sixteen leading railways in Great Brit
ain earned during the last half of 1888
$3,747, $50 more than in the last half OF
1882, and this increase was almost
equally divided between increased ex-
penses and increased net revenue, the
latter amounting to 81, S16, 800, or q
per cent. But there was al increase OF
q per cent in the miles run by trains
lO7, 542 ,46l miles in the six months.
The increase in traffic receipts was
ST, 93S ,01O from passengers, $94o, 4O5
from merchandise, and 81 .1AS, $50 from
minerals, with IL decrease in livestock.
In order to raise money for church
aid society in New Haven on auction
sale of old maids was gotten up by the
the ladies. They disguised themselves
and went on the block heavily yelled.
The first ones put up brought good
round prices ran aging from $40 to $14, but
these figures could not be maintained.
The last one was knocked down to a
clever, well-to-do mechanic for the beg.
carly sum of % cents. When the veil
was lifted she was found to be the
handsomest, most intelligent and wealth.
lest girl of the crowd The buyer said
he was sorry it wasn't sure enough
sale. She said she was too. The
absence of the minister was all that
prevented grand finale to the enter.
trinment.
OF the late Judge Lord, Of Massachu-
sets, the Boston Post says: ellis blunt
ness and sterness incurred for him the
dislike Of some, but it is safe to say
that he enjoyed the respect Of every
one. He belonged to the old school of
| judiciary, and he was one of the ablest
and most upright men that the present
generation has known, even in that
school. His name will be written high
upon the roll of Massachusetts judges"
Alex F. Wotzka wasreleased from the
Todd county jail recently by order Of
Judge Collins. He had been confined
| since Jan Both on an Indictment for for
gerry He has been acquitted Of a charge
Of burglary and larceny. The forgery
| case is not s,,bstantiated by sufficient
evidence, and it is believed that the cesz
| will be dismissed. -,&
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11
TEE NEW Ell DoRA.DO.

|5omething About the Gold Fields in Idaho.
Here I am in the snow, with the Their
moneter at twenty below this morning.
Pack trains are moving right along tow
ard the mines all the same, and more
are coming in from the railroad every
day. When men start for gold it mat
ters very little how many other men adj
wise them to wait. The nuggets brought
ont are tempting looking pieces Of met
Il, whose glitter is well adapted to turn
Dnes head from the usual way Of plod-
ding and to turn ones feet toward the
mines. OF course it would be better
for these men to- wait awhile; and to
wait here is not very expensive, COM
pared to living up at the mines. Attic no.
tel the charges are 81 day, with some
thing knocked off" for long time bar
gains; and there is about everything
here that one need have in fact, the
supplies are coming in and the stores
are going up at a rate calculated to
make this the outftting point for those
going into the mines this summer.
The merchants, traders and hotel men
have settled down to the expectation
that there will be no less than so 900
men here during the next six months,
and the going back and forth of this;
number Will make city Of this quiet
spot down by the lake-where Gen.
Sherman located the tort with nluchl
pride of selection !
The officers here at the fort-many.
Of whom have been here ever since the
fort was built-are as credulous as
the miners. They seem to think that
the rest Of the world has been pref
ty much all prospected and prodded,
and that they must rush in and get
some gold out of the Cnur d'Alene
mountains, if they ever expect to have
that great fortune which has lured
them on from hardship to disappoint-
ment through California, Nevada, Col
Drado and Montana. Some Of them
will ''strike it" and many of them will
not One need not be prophet to
know this.
The new gold fields of Occur d. Alene
may be reached within forty miles by
taking the Northern Pacific to Rath-
drum, town of some 500 population.
Thence there is direct road to Eagle
City, the center Of the mines, only forty
miles distant
Large numbers of men are going into
The mines with the expectation Of going
to work at once upon their arrival.
They are sure to be disappointed. There
are thousands of men out of employment,
and a good many on the verge of starv-
alton. Aman is foolish to go there at
this time of year unless he has plenty
to keep him until the mines are ready
to be open 'up. I write this for the
benefit of men who contemplate coming
out to these mines. The proper time to
start is about the LIST of April--and no
sooner-and then you will be OF least q
couple Of weeks too early. Everything
is held at three times its value, and
would advise anyone from the States to
come we'll provided with blankets and
plenty of provisions.-Ceur d'Alene
Correspondence Pioneer Press.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11
.Misused Words.

A writer in Macmillan's Magazine
anxious to preserve the well of Eng
lish unbefyled," calls attention to the
wrong use Of such words as cain, -"
greet" circumstance, ''incident,
numerous" and Witness"
'"Fain" signifies joyful" or "glad ="
Yet there are writer's who strangely mis-
use this good old Saxon word. If any
man has failed in All effort to get some
thing, and is driven to put up with
something else instead, these writer's
say that the defeated person was 'fain"
to accept the disagreeable alternative.
| When we salute a person with some
demonstration Of personal feeling, such,
! for instance, as q smile, or o hearty
shake of the hand, we greet him. Yet
in the English of journalists an unpopu-
lar speaker ata caucus is said to have
been ''greeted" with shower of mud
or with cries Of turn him out"
circumstance is derived from La
tin word which means to stand around.
In good old English the word is used to
indicate the condition of things sur
rounding an event. But in modern
English the word is frequently, though
improperly used to signify q fact. 4
[ quarrel III the street is not "a circrim-
stance" even though it is reported as
such. It may, however, be explained,
Or excused, or accounted for, by circum-
stances.
An incident" (ircm the Latin Incl
dere, TO fall upon is something that hap
pens upon another thing, though not
necessarily connected with it. II for in
stance, u rainbow should break forth
while man was being murdered, that
appearance would be an incident of the
murder, but it would have no essential
connection with it.
Should fire burn building to the
ground, that would be a fact, though the
morning papers might speak of it as an
incident" IF, however, woman
should jump from the burning building,
the reporter, might properly describe
that as an incident" of the fire.
Numerous" is often substituted for
"many." He who uses the common
phrase, "our numerous friends" would
| have it understood that he has "many
friends" though to a precision he sug-
gests that each friend is numerous ;"
which, to say the least, is an awkward
idea. The word will always be used
! correctly ii it is remembered that ''nu-
msrous" is an adjective properly quail
flying snch nouns as 'Fcrowd," family,
'class, crew." assembly" troops, -
| 'sherd," "fock," etc.
The witness is he who knows from
personal perception, and ':to witness"
means to testify. It is therefore i'm
proper to say that a person went 'to
witness an exhibition of paintings,
| when we mean that he went "to see" it..
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11
70 Cure a Babe Of a Habit.

It is a fact that babies are not all
! alike by any means, and some are much
more troublesome than others about
putting things into their mouths. An
inquiring mother asks how this may be
stopped. An instance that came under
my observation may let light in upon
this subject. The baby at fifteen
months old had a perfect mania for
putting every thing. into his mouth
chessmen, shoe buttons, pennies, ETC.,
and his, mother was alarmed at the
strength of the habit and set about
remedYing it. She took a little pepper.
box into the nursery one day and
sprinkled a little black pepper over
the things the baby was most likely to
put into his mouth. He dropped them
one otter anoth er, and she thought the
victory was complete; but the next day
be presented the spectacle OF 4 burnt
child who does not dread the fire, but
after repeating the peppering for three
consecutive days the habit Of q
lifetime was overcome to a very great
extent. us
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11
Endurance Of Huma an Friendsh;n

Endurance of Human Friendship.
B A writer in the New York World re-
Gently had talk with an old grave-dig-
ger, and drew from him some interest
ing observations upon the question as
to who manifest the most grief when
death enters the domestic circle and
carries off the loved ones of the house
hold. He remarked:
A mother who loses her first child is
about as sad sight you would care to
see at the grave, and am positive there
is no grief equal to hers; next the
| daughter over the loss Of either of her
parents, or the parents over the loss Of
their daughter; then the husband over
+, the loss of his wife, and lastly the wife
over the death Of her husband. AS for
relatives any more distant than these,
the grief is of short duration. Ofcourse,
there are exceptions to
this rule, but 1 am speak
ing generally. [ have seen lovers stand
| by the graves of their betrothed and
weep with more earnestness and show
the grief that filed their hearts to a
much greater extent than did any par
cnt. A young lady pledged in marriage
to gentleman will show the most I'M
comfortable sorrow and will often swoon
at the grave, but after marriage she is
the first to get over it. I think u mans
grief is more lasting. Let me show
you. Here is little three-year- old
childs grave; see how neat it looks and
how fresh the flowers are. They were
placed there by poor mother; now on
this side !" a husbands grave, On the
slabit says he was but 26 years old. ]
dug that grave, and that cross of flowers
was placed there on the day of the fun
eral, and the wife has not been here since
Now walk up this path a little way and
| III show you a wife's grave. But wait,
see that young girl over near the big
walk cleaning twigs off Of thai grave
with the wooden cross? Her mother is
| buried there and has been for five years
but every week, when the weather per-
mits. she comes here to attend to it.
Now, here's the wife's grave, and that
| neat little headstone and flowers were
placed there by her husband. He's a
poor brakeman on the railroad, and she
| has been dead for three years, but you
drop in here any Sunday when he's off
! and you'll find him here, cutting the
grass around it OF doing something to-
ward making it look neat, and paying
what little tribute he can to her who
must have been SO dear to him.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11
Short Paragraphs for Farmers.

Mr.. J. S. Kirkham cautions brother
farmers against putting themselves '*into
the hands of the expert manufacturer
of promissory notes."
Some Michigan people were lately
victimized 10y an agent selling alleged
Holland bulbs ofrare varieties" which
proved to be good for nothing.
A New Jersey farmer writes to the
New York Herald that lie gave dress
ing Of salt eight bushels to the acre) to
land badly infested with white gr11bs,
and for three years after raised good
crops OF corn, which was impossible
previous to this application.
Cleanliness is goodness on the farm.
Clean implements, clean harness., clean
animals, clean fence corners, clean
fields, clean garden, clean orchard
clean seeds, clean pasture, clean yards,
clean stables, clean. shelters, clean
stroughs, clean food, clean water, clean
Litter, clean sleeping quarters, clean
granaries, and d clean conscience.
One Of the best things that can be
said of horticulture is thst the pursuit
Of it leads to more correct views of what
constitutes beauty. We cannot associ-
ate with beautiful flowers without ac-
curing correct taste and the. heart is
nodded as well as the mind The study
of flowers is rest in itself, no matter
how hard We have to labor, and the
labor is only recreation il we truly love
flowers. @ .:e
Sudden changes of food should al
ways be avoided with young animals.
It is the best plan to give. them bran, on
ground oats, mixed with one-fourth oil
1inseed meal, and to make this food nm
form throughout the entire Winter.
They should be fed regularly, as two
meals crowded into the stomach too
close together are likely to produce
disarrangement and scours.
The great weight required to be sup
ported BY the feet Of draft horses rem
ders these parts quite liable to many af-
fections, which may in = great measure
be avoided BY freq uent judicio1as shoe
ing The texture Of the horn of the
draft horses foot is not, as a rule, so
firm and resisting as we usually find in
lighter breeds, but this deficiency is
largely made up BY increase In size, 10
which, If we add proper shoeing, their
feet should prove Just as durable as, or
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-04-11
AN ANTS BRAIN.
A. Wonderful Piece Of Physical Mecnan.
ism,


Well may Darwin speak of the brain
Of an ant as one of the most wondrous
particles Of matter in the world. We
are apt to think that it is impossible for
SO minute a piece of matter to possess
the necessary conlplexity required for
the discharge of such elaborate func
tons. The microscope will no doub
show some details in the ants brain, but
these fall hopelessly short Of revealing
the refinement which the ants brain
must really have. The microscope IS
not adequate to show us the texture of
the matter. It has been one of the great
discoveries of modern times to enable
us to form some numerical estimate OF
the exquisite deHcacy. OF the fabric.
which we know as inert matter. Water,
or air. or iron may be divided and sub
divided, but the process cannot be CAR
ried on indefinitely. There is we'll
defined limit. We are even able to
make some approximat alton to the number e1
/ Of molecules in given mass OF matter.
Thomson has estimated that the number
If atoms in cubic inch OF air is to be
expressed bv the figure 3, followed by
no fewer than twenty ciphers. The
brain Of the ant doubtless contains. z more
atoms than an equal volume OF air: but
even if We suppose them to be the same,
and il we take the size Of an ants brain 1
to be a little globe one-tho usandth OF
of M inch ii diameter, we are able to
form some estimate Of the number OF
atoms ii must contain. The number IS
to be expressed by writing down six,
and following it BY eleven ciphers. We
can imagine these atoms grouped II 50
many various ways that even the COM
nlexity 81 the ants brain may be intelli-
rible when ne. have SO many units to
daal with. An illustration viii perhaps
q Ire the argument clearer. Take q
million and half Of little black marks.
mt then Id certain order, and we
have 4 wondrous resul ~ DarWin's De-
,.ei,t of Ma. Cd his book merely consists
81 abont ], 500 600 letters placed one
ter the tlleg. IN 8 cer tain order hat
ever l,s Aaeconapl exity OF the ant brain