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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13

$500 to 5000 will do better to stay at
home than to spend it all in travelling
to an unexplored country.
Fame and fortune await the dis
coyerer OF an efficient method of so
consuming coal that none of its con-
stltuent and combustible particles can
escape into the atmosphere of large
cities, with the two-fold result of pre-
venting pecuniary loss and sanitary
degradation of the air. 1t is estimated
by competent experts that London
alone loses every winter $25, 100, 90
through imperfectly burned coal, not
to speak OF the damage done to build
lngs and the injury done to the public
health through the breathing of q pol
lured atmosphere.
Robert Harris, the new president of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, IS one
OF the ablest railroad men in this cOun-
try. de first made his mark upon the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy as
manager OF that property, and man
OF quick insight and penetration of the
problems of railroad management. He
was thence taken to be yice-preSident
of the Erie Railroad. AS director of
the Northern Pacific, he accompanied
Mr.. Willard upon the grand excursion
last September to drive the last spike
In personal appearance he is in strong
contrast to Mr.. Willard, who is stout,
well proportioned, and placid in de-
meanor, with a trihe of German phlegm
in his bearing. Harris is tall Yankee
of the Lincoln type, with black beard,
brows, and abundant stock of black
hair, keyed up to the highest pitch of
nervous intensity, and putting chain
lightning into all he does. whether he
is telling stories and having 4 good
time or running railroads.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13
Character in Misunderstanding.

The different modes of shaking hands
will delineate human character better
than any other single act can do, and
many peculiarities of different persons
may be noted in the performance OF
this social custom.
Who would expect to get q handsome
donatlon-Or any donation at all-from
man who will give two fingers to be
shaken, and keeps the others bent as
upon an etching palm?"
The hand coldly held out to be shak-
en- and drawn away again as soon as it
decently may be, indicates q cold, self
ish character, while the hand which
seeks yours cordially, and unwillingly
reIinquishes its warm clasp, gives to-
ken Of warm disposition, and of q
heart full of sympathy for humanity.
How much that is in the heart can
be made to express itself through the
agency of the fingers! Who, having
once experienced it, has ever forgotten
the feeling conveyed by the elegant
pressure of the hand from dying
friend, when the tongue has ceased to
speak?
A right hearty grasp of the hand in
dictates warmth and ardor, while soft,
lax touch, without a grasp, indicates
the opposite characteristics. In the
grasp of persons with large-hearted,
generous minds, there is 'whole-
souI' expression most refreshing and
acceptable to kindred spirits.
But when a man presents you with a
few cold, clammy, lifeless fingers,
feeling very much like a dead fish, and
expects you to do all the shaking, it
will naturally make you think of the
hospital and other cheerful things.
Contrary to this style there is a habit
among a rude class of giving your hand
q crushing grasp, which is often most
painful. In these cases there may be
great kindness and a strong" affec-
ton, but it is as crude as it is hearty.
If the grasp is warm, ardent and
vigorous, so is the disposition. If it is
cool, formal and without emotion, so
is the character. If it is magnetic and
animating, the disposition is the same.
AS we shake hands, SO we feel, so we
are.
But why do we shake hands at all?
1t is a very oId-fashioned way of indi-
eating friendship. We read in the
bible that Jehu said to Jonadah:
els thy heart right, as my heart is
with thine heart? Ii it be, give me
thine hand"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13
English as She Is Spoke.

Great are the capabilities of the En-
glish language. A wayfaring Indian
apolis man in search of cigar went
into a grocery store in very small
and rural village, not two hundred
miles from this city. The young wo-
man presiding produced box con
tanning the desired articles, and when
asked the price thereof gave voice to
the following mystical languages:
''Thcm there tWo-fers.
''Two-fers!' repeated the bewiIdered
indianapolis man, ''What in the name
of sense is n two-fer?' "
why, two fer nickel" replied the
young woman, with an air of disguised
astonishment at some folks ignorance.
"Oh, [ see," said the enlightened
Hoosier. well, if you have any "one-
fers, let me have look at them. :"
The purchase of the ''one-fer'' was
made, and the wayfaring man with
drcw.-Inds0nap0,is Journal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13

thought you hadn t any. Papa said
you married for money, and that was
all you got"
A well known Detroit lady, who is .
thrifty provider, saw load of pork,
and concluded to purchase a couple OF
fine porkers, for which she settled with
the dealer on the spot. She forgot,
however to give him her address, and
an hour after, as she stood cOnversing
with some of her aristocratic friends,
the man of pork approached and
''nudged' her mysteriously with the
butt end of his whip. The lady turned
in amazcment. '.Shzay, shay" he
asked in a loud voice, ''Yas you de vo-
man dot belongs to dem hogs?"
"What do circus people do in the
winter?" asks a contemporary. The
clown devotes the season to cleaning a
fresh crop of jokes from the almanacs
printed prior to the American revolu-
ton, and occasionally writes for the
London comic weeklies; and the
''strong man." who splits rocks with
his fist, secures employment in a cheap
boarding house a hammering tough
beef. No doubt the others find en-
pIoyment adapted to their respective
talents.
Every man has his favorite story,
and the Hon. Rowell P. Flower tells
the following: lone day an old negro
clad in rags, and carrying burden on
his head, ambled into the executive
chamber, and dropped his load on the
floor. Stepping toward the governor,
he said, Am you de gubner, sah?' Be
ing answered in the affirmative, he
said: If dat am fac Is glad ter meet
yer. Yer see L Ibis way up dar in de
back of dc country, and is a poor man,
sab. h'ar dar is some pervishuns in
de cons tuition fer de culled man, and
am har to git some oh 'em, sab. 4"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13
The First Hoss Car.

''In 1881, said John Stephenson,
/ the veteran builder of horse cars.
81 designed and built the first tram
car of the first railway for street
! service in this country or abroad. This
car consisted of three separated COM
partments, each compartment holding
ten persons and being entered by sepa-
rate doors, on the side, from q guard
rail. Seats were provided on top of the
car for thirty more persons. The car
was very much like the English rail
/ way coach, though it was set consider
able lower. 1t was hauled by g team
OF horses, the conductor remaining out
side on the rail, rain or shine. The
company for which it was built was
called the New York & Harlem Road
running from Prince street, on the
Bowery, along the line of the Bowery
to Fourteenth street, thence along the
line of the present Fourth avenue to
! 1orkyille and Harlem. Fourth avenue
at that time had not been opened, but
the line had been surveyed in 1910.
The fare paid varied with the distance,
being siXpence or six and one-quarter
cents from Prince street TO Fourteenth
street, siXpence more to a point where
FOrty-SecOnd street now runs across
Fourth avenue, siXpence more to York
vile, and twenty-five cents to Harlem.
These fares were paid in the silver of
the old Spanish currency then prevail
ent. In time the through fare was re-
duced to eighteenpence, and then to
twelve. But the road did not succeed.
In 1887, after six years of construction,
1t temporarily gave way to the steam
cars. In 1916, however, it resumed
working under its charter, which has
not been given up, and which. by the
way,i the charter under which the pres
ent 4th ave horse car line is operated.
''In that year, 1916, the cars were
remodeled nearly to their present
style, the great feature being the
adoption of end platforms and en-
frances. No other horse car line was
built till 1852, when at about the same
time charters were granted for the
Second, Third, Sixth and Eight avenue
lines. Outside of New York in this
country, Boston first adopted the sys-
tenn in 1856, Philadelphia TO owed in
1857, after which it spread over the
country. New Orleans, in 1861, was
the first to adopt the small car, or, as
it is called, the bob-tail car. And I
should like to say just here that out of
the 428 horse cars lines now existing in
the United States, 279 use the small
cars only, the remaining 149 having
the conductor cars. ~ Y IriGune.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13
Results of Gambling.

Here are few recent catastrophes
from Monte Carlo: An EngIishman
allows = train to run over his neck; 8
Russian blows his brains out; a young
Bavarian fires two bullets into his
chest; Pole shot himself in the stom-
ach in the middle of the gaming sa-
loon at Monte Carlo, and q well-dress-
ed stranger shot himself in the Hotel
de Ia Grace at Cannes; an Austrian of
distinguished family, at Vienna, blew
out his brains in shed in the Rue
Segurane, Nice; q lawyer threw him
self from the top of the Rauba Capen
into the sea, at Nice; German officer
shot himself in the ear; a Hollander
poisoned himself with laudanum, and
another Dutch nobleman put an end to
his life with his pigeOn-match gun, in
the garden of his villa at Monaco; a
widow, aged ffty-tive, poisoned her
self with laudanum at the Hotel des
Deux Monde, Nice-she had sold her
last jewel to endeayor to recover her
losses at Monaco; a German shot him.
self in the chest on a seat, few steps
from the casino, and an Englishman
hung himself on a fig tree on st. PonS
coad; a gentleman shot himself before
the Cafe de Paris, close to the casino,
and young Russian shot himself close
20 the casino.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13
The Sticking Point.

Zone evenin', as I was sittin' by
Hetty, and had worked myself up to
the sticking point, SEE l, ''Hetty, if a
fellow was to ask you to marry him,
what would you do?' Then she
laughed, and says she, THAT would
depend on who asked me" Then seq
|, Suppose it was Ned Willis?" SEE
she, I'D tell Ned Willis, but not you. -
That kinder staggered me but [ was
too cute to lose the opportunity, and so
l sez again, Suppose it was me?"
Then you orter see her pout up her
lip, and seq she, II don't take no sup
poses" Well, now you see, there was
nothing for me to do but touch the gun
off. So bang it went. SEE |, 'Lor',
Hetty, its me; won't you say yes?"
And then there was such hullaballoo
in my head. [ don't know exactly
what TUX place, but | heard q yes"
whispering somewhere in the Skin
mish.h
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13
Thought He Could Pull Through.

There arrived in Detroit the other
day, half an hour after the west-bound
train over the Detroit, Grand Haven
and Milwaukee Road had departed, a
young man who was in 4 terrible fix.
He was on his way to a village in the
interior to get married. The day and
the hour had been set, and here he was.
fifty miles away and no show to oct
there unless he hired a locomotive
Acting upon the advice of the depot
policeman the young man had an inter-
view with one of the chief officials of
the road, who offered the use of loco
motive for $40
That's Il heap of money!" replied
the young man, as his enthusiasm be-
gan to ooze away.
Yes" said the Indifferent official.
IN telegraph to her father and see
what he says"
Very well, let me know within an
hour"
In about an hour the young man re-
turned with message in his hand, and
he laid it before the official without a
word. 1t read:
Susan changed her mind yesterday
and was married to Frank"
Then you won't want the locomo-
tive, of course?"
"Of course not. 1t was lucky I
thought OF telegraphing, for I'm just
$40 ahead"
And you don't feel bad over being
Ieft?"
well, I'd been engaged to Susan for
thirteen years, and when opened that
dispatch my knees wabbled a bit, but [
guess it's all for the best. I'm also en-
gagged to q Toledo milliner who does a
business of $4,000 per year, and to a
girl in Columbus who expects her aunt
to leave her $4,000, and I'm in hopes
of pulling through without going into
decline. Sorry to have troubled YOU.
sir, and III bid you good-day." DE
trOit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13
An Awful Scene.

An eye witness to the great disaster
on the Bradford, Bordell and Kenzua
Railroad, SAYS: at was the grandest
and yet the most awful scene that hui
man eyes ever witnessed. For a dis
tances of nearly half a mile the road
bed was covered with oil and paints.
It was over the rails, and the moment
the gas came in contact with the fire
box it exploded and fired the oil. In
less than one minute the engine and
ears were enveloped in flames, great
black pillars of smoke assembled heav-
onward; the driving wheels of the en-
CINE went dashing along at the rate of
forty miles an hour, scattered the oil
over everything with a rush and roar
which might have been heard for a
mile. The flames leaped fully 250 feet
ahead of the locomotive, which was
thus compelled to run through veri-
table sea of fire. It was terrible race.
and the only parallel [ can remember
is the oil train which burned up near
Brocton, n. Y, few years ago. How
the engineer, train hands and the men,
women and children escaped is some
thing that only Providence can explain.
1t was a sight to make the strongest
heart shudder. [ never want to see its
like again. y
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13
Health Hints.
to bed with cold feet.

Don't go to bed with cold feet.
Don't stand over hOt-air registers.
Don't lie on the left side too much.
Don't inhale hot air or fumes of any
acid.
Don't eat in less than two hours after
bathing.
Don't sleep in room that is not well
ventilated.
Don't eat the smallest morsel unless
hungry, if well.
Don't start a days work without eat
ing good breakfast.
Don't eat anything but well-cooked
and nutritious food.
Don't take long walks when the stom-
ach is entirely empty.
Don't sing or holloa when your throat
is sore or you are hOarse.
Don't wear thin hose or light-soled
shoes in cold or wet weather.
Don't forget to take q drink of pure
water before breakfast.
Don't forget to cheer and gently
amuse invalids when visiting them.
Don't jump out of bed Immediately
on awakening in the morning.
Don't strain your eyes by reading on
an empty stomach or when i'll.
Don't eat between meals, nor enough
to cause uneasiness at meal times.
Don't fill the cash with SCOT, sugar or
anything else to arrest the hemorrhage
when you cut yourself, but bring the
parts together with strips of adhesive
DlaStnI
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13
Polite Boston Bows.

81 hear q great deal of talk" said
old MI. Joblingson, as he drove out
into the country, the other day, in or
der to enjoy 4 sleigh ride with a friend,
''Of the decay of manners in Ameri-
cans, and particularly in American
youth. Now | don't take much stock
IN 1t. To be sure, when [ was a boy, L
was taught TO say sir or madam to
every man or woman who spoke to me,
and to take off my hat to every grown
person l might meet on my way to
school. Nowadays the boys are less
formal, perhaps, but are they less truly
polite? | think not. Look at the
crowd outside the school house we are
just coming to. Did you ever see q
brighter, more respectful, quieter set
OF boys? Gentlemen, every one of
them, j make no doubt" The boys
were, indeed, remarkably quiet, and
when the old gentleman babe them
good day as he and his friend skim
med by, they responded in fitting
terms. What did L tell you?" asked
Mr.. Joblingson, proudly, as the con-
gregatIon was passed. But at that in
slant q SNOWFALL came between the
heads Of the pair, and, striking the
horse, set him off at dead galIop; an
other knocked off Mr.. Joblingson's
hat; a dozen hit him and his friend on
their backs at the same instant, and as
long as they were in range they were
soundly peppered, amid the boots and
yells of the ''quiet young gentlemen. "
And when the horse was stopped and
Joblingson had picked the snow out of
his ears and neck, he cursed the youth
of the present generation soundly for
q pack of roughs and incorrigible ras-
cals.-B0St0n Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13
The public schools of Texas will soon

The public schools of Texas will soon
have a magnificent endowment. Fifty
leagues of land were donated to each
of the two state universities, and 80, :
400, 900 acres for the public schools.
These lands are being sold at auction
to the highest bidder, under certain re-
strictions. and $4,000, 900 is now in
vested in United States bonds and other
securities, the interest upon which is
annually applied TO sustain the schools.
About 25,000,0 900 acres of school lands
remain unsold, and are rapidly in
creasing in value. The State will have
a permanent school fund of from $75,-
100000 to $1OO,OOO,O 900, and the uni
versities will have from $4,000, O0Q
to $4,000, 600 each when the lands are
sold
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13

Inc vay in which the word ''lady"
is used now was well illustrated in
little scene which actually occurred in
the vicinity of the market the other
day. There had been disturbance on
the street corner, and a Hibernian
nymph described it to the curious side
walk committee as follows: "''Ye're a
dirthy liar, saws the lady as keeps the
apple-stand. Wild that the ould drunken
lady up with a brick and tuhk her lick
in the head
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-13

A rowing newspaper man has made
the discovery that all the women in the
Isle OF Jersey are pretty, many of them
Prettier than Mrs. Langtry, and he will
build summer resort hotel with a
frontage of 1000 feet, and piazza
with a double deck
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-02-03

Frs Bapeist Churoh-RouxtA stssss
nsar Cheny; pcsaehing b. TIE peseoe.
Rev. D. j. Pioreo, q II .. a. and p.
m; oommuaioa st doe Of morning
service; subject for evening. Christian
Joy and Worldly Amuasmsnts"; YoonQ
Peoples Association msses 1t s p. m;
Lake Union Mission at $50, pesoedsd
b. . half boar Of prayer.
Trinity Church (Episoopal)-Corn
Third and Jefferson streets; Rev. Geo.
h. Watson, rector; Sunday School. 10 Q.
10 hO0rs of Divine service. 11:l5 .. N.
and p. n; sittin9s free; all welcome.
Christian Church-Seneca street. b.
tweed Third and Fourth; preaching as
II q N. and p. m, BY Elder Hariaoa
Price; morning subject, "rhe Good Con-
feasi0n"; Sunday School at IL q. m; al
are cordially invited.
Young Mems Christian Association
Rev. J. N. Deunisou leads the 7. II. G.
A. service held in Yealer's Hall today at
I p. m. All are invited.
Chapel of the Coed Shepherd Episco-
pal)-North Seattle; NO morning ser.
vioe; evening service as ! p. M; Sunday
School at l2:l5 p. n.
Scandinavian meeting. BY G. JofRen-
son, today at 8 p. m, IN the basement
Of the Methodist Protestant Church, on
corner Of Madison and second streets.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-02-03

OPKxrNo THE NEw BAxAAs.-By far
the largest number of people that ever
attended the opening of new store in
this city went yesterday to the opening
Of the new Ichi Ban Bazaar, IL the
Squire building on second street. The
doors we're opened to the public at two
In the afternoon, and kept open two
hours, and again In the evening for
three hours. The people gathered from
all parts OF tho clty--tho old, middle
aged, and the young Of both sexes-and
DURING the whole time poured along the
streets IN unbr0keu shr onQ. The store
vas jsmmed With people, % that the
doom we're OF necessity olesed time and
again TO th 10 outside. Inside thu ar
ran9emsnt Of goods vas very attractive,
while the decorations were particularly
pleasant. The curtains were lowered
to darken the store; which was lit up
with Chinese Ian ems. No goods
were sold, tho clerks busyinQ themselves
with the distribution Of cards, giving
information 70 visitors, DO. The man
Ager gave the presents, the number dis
tributed BY him being twelve thousand,
The presents consisted of parasols,
fans, combs, brushes, autograph al
buns, cum batt0ns, cups and GAucars,
pincushi0ns, earrings, birds, necklaces,
banners. There have been distribn-
lions OF gifts here before, but never
With suoh pfodiGality a. yesterday. A
great number Of answers 70 the c0nun-
drum proposed By tho Bazaar we're left
b. visitors. bat the award Of the prizes
will not be made known until TO-
mOPPOv
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-02-03
Tas vERY LATEST.

The door-bsll announced the arrival
Of . visitor. Lady of the house
answered the summons and found q
large, Incorporating man, whose polite
Good morning, madam does Mrs.
Fraser have rooms hero p rather won
the good opinion Of the lady.
No, sir"
Well, you go, she ia my sister.
have just arrived bore and am trying "a
find her. Does she stop in this neigh.
borhood p
don't know"
:" Ny sister don't expect me until
spring. bot was burned ont In Halifax,
Nova Scotia, and lost $4,000, and Z
sweet, DAZZLING little daughter, i've years
old, burned 70 crisp"
Tears dinmea his eyes and soba
choked his utteranoe, but, slightly 70
covering, he said
"lt almost sst me wild. Oh, it VA
horrible and left the scene % her.
rowing to my soul. to join nv only sis-
ter in this distant land. Are you {
Methodist p
No. SIR"
here 2"
~ don't know"
" Ny sister 10 a Methodist. Do You
belong to any church p
Yes, sir the Episcopal"
am not church man, though
believe in Supreme Being and always
practice the Golden Rule. I am begin
ming to believe IL Vas my skepticism
that brought ne the terrible Affections
OF the past month ~ . last punish
mont and TO force me into the straight
and narrow road that leads to eternal
happiness; bat tho horrible su6erinQs
have passed through entirely unman
me and poshine but my pressing needs
BRING me 70 reason and realization Of
natures requirements. Oh, | am 90
glad that you are . good Christian
woman. Who believes in doing INTO
others ~ you would that others should
DO unto you. win yOu pnscsics that
golden rule when tell you have not
one cent IN the world. and loan me nfty
cents until am able 10 pay yoa 1
can't cav when pay day viii come, bat il
surely will come. for I would not ssll
myself for % trilline Q sam"
AZ this point, the lady = patienoo being
exhausted, she raised her eyeo, and. II
the mose Winning and sympathetie
tooee. invited the man 20 The wood
ho0se 20 honestly earn Q dollar. The
o6sf vs. joyfully accepted, b. peomis.
lng 70 return In IN hour and oolh-
msnee voek. So far be- has failed to
connect.