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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-26
CAPTAINS OF 1Sprsrnr.

Under this title Mr.. James Parton tells
the story Of twenty six men of business.
Like Elihu Burnett, John Bright, Peter Force
and Gerritt Smith. } Englishmen and Amer
leans, ''who did something besides make
money'-who ameliorated the condition of
the race, and, without professional philan-
throphy, left the world better than they found
it. Capital portraits of Ichabod Washburn,
Chauncey jerome, Gerritt Smith, Myron
Holley, John Bright, John Duncan, Peter
Cooper, and Sir Rowland Hill, illustrate the
volume, which is one which can 90 where it
is semitic the eyes Of ''Young Americans
with profit. PLEASURE and applause
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-26
HARRY covERDALE's coURTsHIP.

In the early part of the present CEN
tury there was q class OF novel
writers, Of whom the best known are
Charles Lever and Samuel Lever, who wrote
what may be called the Rolhcking school of
novels. Their heroes were guardsmen, or
subaltern officers, hard riders, deep drinkers,
lordlY gamesters, duelists and men OF honor.
But the books were not unwhOlesOme, the
men were never sneaks or prigs, aud the
lesson was always a lesson of maDliness.
However hairbrained the adventures, or i'm
possible the conditions, they are healthier
set Of books than the run of tenth rate
Frenehiness, and Emerson Bennett, z. d. E.
y. SOuthworth, and that ilk trash which the
Peterson's seem to deal in the monopoly of.
And when those gentlemen do see lit to re-
print such book as this OF Mr. Smedley's
which belongs to the school above specified,
we think they ought to be encouraged in
doing so.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-26
DAILY WEATHER BULLErIN.

OFFICE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. IS, 20 SO p. N.
Observations taken at the same moment Of
ime at all stations named
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-26
HAwTHoRNE's woNDER BOOK.

We remember nothing more sumptuous in
the holiday efforts of publishers than this
edition Of the Hawthorne Wonder Book.
Nobody handled the brownies, COLLINS,
dwarfs, pigmies, giants and spOoks as did
Hawthorne, and this is noble presentation,
by binder and printer, of the best Of Haw-
thorne's work
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-26
THE DESTINY OF NAN.

An application Of a lecture before the
Concord School of Philosophy. Mr.. John
Fisk is what he has, We believe, himself
called . Christian evolutiOnist. He
believes that the discoveries Of the
Copernical system of evolution OF
the doctrinesof natural selection and the
survival of the 6ttest have ennobled rather
than degraded the status OF man in nature,
and that, so far from having reiegated him
70 the position Of particle among other par
ucles Of the great organism, they have con-
nrmed the human domination and inner
itanee. No scientist Of the era writes more
luminously and readably than Mr.. Fisk, or
has the merit Of discussing these deep sub
jects with a more graphic familiarity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27
The Growth of a ChiId's Ideas.

Prof. Straight, of OswegO, in an adj
dress before the school teachers of
Hartford, Conn, says:
IF we can think of the little child,
just born into the world, its senses Just
opening to the world-the eye, the ear
and the tOuch-of the impressions
shOwering down on these senses-there
is the beginning. The waves of ether
from the bright light beat upon the
eye and the child at once distinguishes
the bright light from the darkness.
Soon bright colors attract the attention;
and so it begins at the outset to study
optics, discovering light and shade.
Form next comes into its conscious
ness. Thereby it learns to distinguish
It's mother or nurse from other people.
l was told of an experiment tried lately
by teacher at a kindergarten. A very
young child had been accustomed to
see q bright dress upon it's mother, and
knew her only by color. A young lady
friend put on the dress and came into
the room where the baby was and was
Immediately taken for the mother. The
child had not progressed far enough to
distinguish between them by form.
Other children were similarly expert
mented upon, but they had been edu-
Gated in both form and color so as. not
to be mistaken. After discovering OPP
tics and forms, the child begins to
study sound, and soon distinguishes
the mothers voice from any other
voice. 1t also learns to distinguish
striking sounds from sounds produced
otherwise. Next follows the knowl-
edge of number. AS soon as a child
has one pain and one pleasure it begins
to learn number; when it realizes two
pains and two pleasures it has learned
number. 1t is just as easy for child
to learn number by using cubes and
triangles as by illustrating with oranges
and apples. And as soon as the little
child can locate pain within its body
in its limbs or its head-there is To-
cality, the beginning of geography.
Its striking, kicking and wriggling
enables it to discover the smooth
ness, and roughness of bodies. The
child begins next to study its own form
its hands and feet. [ shall never for
get the pleasure and surprise that nv
own little boy showed when he discoV-
cred that he had ears. When he put
his hand on the side of his head and
found something he had not known of
before, there was thrill of discovery.
This Joy of discovery is like that which
thrills every true discoverer. We can
see these powers of discovery in the
first few weeks or months of the child 5
life -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27
He Knew Her Husband.

There are individuals who possess
the happy faculty of forgetting nobody,
but they are far less common than is
generally supposed. The value of
hotel clerk depends very largely upon
his ability 10 salute travellers by name.
and promptly have the hotel beat fired
into the street by the porter. Some de-
tectiyes. by cultivating this faculty long
and aSsiduously, have acquired it to n
remarkable degree, but the general run
of them would forget Ben Butler in
month, and wouldn't know their own
mother if she should disguise herself
with their fathers coat and hat.
John +. Martin, the Superintendent
of the Poor, has, from his long service
in that office, nearly fifteen years. be-
come so familiar with the features of the
poor and unfortunate that he is rarely
obliged TO ask name, or refer to his
books. Besides the destitute, howev-
er, there is another class who come to
him for information. They are those
who have relatives in the Insane ASy-
lum on the County House grounds; Oft
times well dressed people in easy cir
cumstances. Johnny makes it point
to remember these, also, but he made
a mistake the other day that made his
hair stand on end for an hour, and
gave him congestive chill.
A large, distinguished looking lady,
who desired to gain some information
in regard 10 the poor of the city, and
how they are taken care Of came in
and said to him:
Il presume you remember me, sirp"
Eyes, ma'am; your husband is outin
the asylum, L believe
No, sir!'' exclaimed the lady, in
tones that fairly Kissed around John
ny's head. No, sir! my husband is
not in your insane asylum, nor in your
poorhouse. My husband, sir, is a gen
tlemann' and she departed never to re-
turn.-DetrOU Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27
a Practical Use for Finger Rings.

The recent disaster to the City of
Columbus brings to the minds of many
the necessity of some sure means of in
dividual identity. All are liable to IA
tai accidents, and those who make long
Journeys are exposed to diseases that
change the looks of an Individual so
that near friends would not recognize
them. Many such unfortunates in a
condition not to be able to account for
themselves find their way to hospitals
The writer has seen several bodies af-
ter the Mill River flood, French Catho-
lie church at Holyoke, and the Sciota
steamer on the Ohio near Wheeling, in
each case rings were an easy means of
Identification. The writer has worn
for many years a ring with his name
and address in full engraved on the in
ner surface. A ring of this kind will
also prove handy article as a means
of business identification to every per-
son who travels any distance from
home. At least such is the writer's
experience
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27
Justice Waite's Experience.

Chief Justice Waite had a funny ex-
perience the other day. He had an
imperative engagement in Baltimore.
Like all great men he is absent-mind-
ed. AS he went up to the ticket office
he discovered, to his surprise, that he
had only few pennies in his pocket.
He saw no one he knew He filed up
in line to the ticket office, smiled across
the full width Of his ample mouth, and
asked the ticket agent if he knew him.
mo, [ don't" snarled the agent,
land [ don't want to. What do YOU
want?"
Il want ticket to Baltimore and re-
turn. | am the Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court, and | have no money
with me; it is purely accidental. [ can
give you my personal check"
''Oh, [ know you. That dodge won t
work. l have had two members of the
Cabinet try to blk me out of tickets"
The Chief Justice glared. He could
not fine the young man for contempt of
had his belief strengthened. The
Chief Justice had only five minutes
left. Across the street there was sa-
loon. The Chief Justice made a rush
across the road. He rushed IN and ac-
costed the proprietor:
''Do you know me?"
''Bet yer head, yer HonQr," said the
short-haired man behind the bar. Eye
are the boss av the Supreme Court. I
see you livery day"
evil you cash my check? have
no time to explain
''Shure l will. I've seen Guild b'yes
off on a tear before get out of money.
Here it is"
The Chief Justice grabbed the money
and ran across the street. Mr.. Waite
made the train, but he has not had
such shock to his dignity since he
went upon the BENCH Washington Dis
patch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27
Riding Down Hill With Baked Beans.

Probably as laughable a thing as has
been seen in long time took place at
Janesville at the Grand Army Ie-
union few weeks ago. There was to
be baked bean banquet for the visit
ing veterans, and half the families in
town furnished pan of baked beans
for the occasion, sending them to the
armory late in the afternoon, piping
hot. A couple of boys, sons of a SOL
der, were intrusted with a large pan
of red-hot baked beans to take down
town, and they put the pan on hand
sled and started. Arriving at the top
of the big hill, where the road runs
straight down into the business street,
the temptation to ride down was too
great and the boys got on the sled with
the pan of beans in front of them,
steaming hot. They started. Every
crossing they struck a COB of the beans
would fly out, and before they were
half down the hill the boys were COW
cred with beans from head to foot.
They shut their eyes and let the sled
event. A girl stood by the crossing
as they passed, and as the sled struck
a hummock handful of beans hit the
yin Ill tuG udII, anu DIS Tie uOG udSS
began to heat up she felt that the hairs
Of her head were numbered, and put
her hand to her head, and when the
beans burned her hand she yelled fire
and went away on gallop. A dog
ran along beside the sled and barked
at the boys, but a quart of beans struck
the dog and the weather was too warm
for him, and he ran away with a hot
box. The sled finally turned over, and
boys, beans and sled rolled and slid
for half block, and the street was
paved with good intentions and baked
beans. The boys got up, scraped the
beans off their clothes, thought the
matter over a minute, when each took
hold of side Of the empty pan and
they carried it down to the armory,
and reported to the committee on
beans. The circumstance was related
to the soldiers, and the empty pan, the
hand-sled and the boys decorated with
beans created as much amusement for
the old veterans as any one thing
Pec6'S San.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27
A CarbOniferous Wait.

Even a charcoal peddler can have
some esthetic ideas to inspire him on
his daily round of heaven-piercing
yells.
Would you like to buy some nice,
clean charcoal?" inquired one of these
sooty hucksters OF a housewife, the
other day. 1T is very clean, [ assure
you. Pond lily charcoal, l call it.
Clean charcoal! Well, 1 sh'd like
to see some once. If it is so clean why
do you get your face and clothes SO
black with it?''
''Oh, dear me. Well, of course, it is
impossible, absolutely impossible, to
handle charcoal in such large quanti-
ties as | do and not be affected by the
attrition of the carbon"
Jane, come here. Here is walk
ing dictionary peddling charcoal" and
in moment more the well-known re-
frain, ''Char-co-co- co! Pond lily char
co-co!" rasped the frosty air.-Hart-
ford Posi-.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27

to the material to be operated upon.
This manual training is an addition to
the ordinary studies of a primary
school; the boys appear to like it, and
it gives a new form of activity to their
minds and valuable exercise to their
muscles.
Mr.. G. r. Miller, the new editor-in-
chief of the New York Times, is one of
the youngest journalists of that city.
1t is less than twelve years since he
graduated at Dartmouth; now he draws
salary of $4,000 a year and occupies
one of the leading positions in journal
ism. He began journalistic life as
local reporter on the Springfield Mass
Per'oAh1in"q, and afterwards became an
assistant on the New York Times, in
which he has by actual merit gradually
worked himself to the head. He is a
scholarly man, and is described as "a
short, chunky sort of a man"
Miss Anthony said: II have been
roundly abused and ridiculed for allow
ing female clerk of mine to send
letter in which woman suffrage was
spelled suffrage, and was not cor
rected. There is little secret history
about that letter that will be amusing
to those who are laughing at me and
my female clerk who cannot spell suf-
frage. The fact is, that my clerk made
a correct copy of the letter, which
approved, and which was then sent to
a male clerk, a college graduate, to
make large number of copies. Every
copy which this gentleman prepared
read 'SufferaOe and what is still more
startling, a number of members of
Congress, in replying to the letter,
adopted the same unique photography.
This may turn the laugh a little onto
the other side, was Miss Anthony's
closing comment, and the reporter
thought SO too.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27
The Duration OF Sleep.

Let us briefly allude to the duration
OF sleep-how in some cases a few
hours will suffice, and in others a
longer period is needed. DR.. Reid,
the metaphysician, could work for two
days without break if he got one sound
sleep after full meal. If the stories
about Lord Brougham could be believ-
ed, he could work on less sleep than
most people require. Frederick the
Great and John Hunter required only
five hours sleep; but it must not be
supposed that because men with ex-
ceptionally powerful nervous organi-
cations can dispense with the normal
quantity of sleep it would be safe for
every body to follow their example.
The sleep of the heart, which we have
seen to amount to eight hours out of
the twenty-four, is a fair indication of
the quantity of sleep which on an aver
age ought to be allowed to the brain.
AS Sir Thomas Browne, the learned
knight of Norwich, hath it: Half our
days we pass in the shadow of the earth
and the brother Of death extracteth a
third part of our lives. "-Science TOR
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27

''And she loves you-at least, you
think so-and you want to know if it
is a durable case, and -- Well, [
will not torment you any more. Your
charmer, Fred, is not a patient, nor, as
far as know, a lunatic.''
Fred gave a long sigh, but only
looked his eager questions.
''She is my sister, Bessie Atkinson,
who has had long winter of illness
from typhoid fever, and is paying me
q visit. thought she was quite safe
from intrusion in that summer-hOuse,
as the attendants have orders to keep
the patients away from there, and [
did not think of you. But since you
have been proWling around so long,
perhaps you had better come now and
be introduced in form"
Zone moment, VIII. [ have been
puppy, it seems. in taking her love for
granted; but if [ have won it?'
Il am her eldest brother, and her
father died years ago. [ am quite sure
that what | approve, my mother will
sanction, and you must know nothing
could please me better than to know
Bessie has lover l esteem so highly
as / do youn'
''And-you will not tell her-will
you, my awful mistaken"
Il can't promise. I'll try to keep
the secret. butt and the doctor roared
again, ''the idea of Bess as a raging
lunatic! Well, there, won't tell her,
at all events, until you have told her
something far more interesting"
And he kept his word SO Loyalty that
Bessie Atkinson had been Bessie Read
more than year before she knew that
her husband had ever considered her
an interesting patient in Iunatic asy-
lum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27
The Hats Our Fathers Wore.

The fashion in head gear for men
and boys has undergone a great change
during the last thirty years. Now caps
OF cloth are rarely seen except on men
in uniform or on foreign arrivals, and
the silk hat is affected only by staid
citizens of middle or mature age. The
felt hat has usurped the place of both
these head coverings for young and
old, except when some state occasion
demands the traditional ''stovepipe;"
and there are few Wearers Of these who
know their composition. Once, when
the beaver" hat was actually beaver
skin fashioned into 81 hat, the name
was appropriate. Subsequent improve
ments reduced the price of beavers
by changing the material, which became
beaver tur-sometimes cheaper fur
attached by a glue or cement TO hat
body of felt. Still later the fur was
replaced by silk plush, glued On to a
felt form or body. But Of late years
even the felt body has been discarded
for one OF coarse muslin or canvas,
stepped in the same stifening liquor
used on the felt body-sheIlac dissolved
IN alcohol-and receiving the outer
covering of silk plush by the melting
Of She lac glue by means of hot iron.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27
Twelve Texas Millionaires.

Major Sayers. the Stephen A. Doug
las OF Texas, is one of the famous cat
tie men. He is probably about As,
weighs. near $50, dark complexion,
black hair, inciining to grizzly gray
ana always worn short. wears Il mus
tache and goatee, and has 4 strong
likeness to General John A. Logan as
he appeared fifteen years ago. Sayers
nalls from Bastrop county. John n.
simpson, a short man. 81 years old,
owns the better part of 1000 head of
cattle K. III. Overall. of Coleman, is
an Old Missourian. He is pleasant in
appearance, light complexion. Is to so
years OF age, weighs $50, perhaps. and
IS reputed to be worth $4,000, 900 in
cattle and land.
Ex-senator Lane. of San Antonio, of
the trm of Lane & Millett, was a con-
splcuous figure in the Austin cattle
convention. He is about six feet two
inches, very slim, straight as an Indian
(and IL may be added as black and
sWarthy as a Comanche), with pierre
ing eyes, straight black hair and very
dlgnlted in appearance on the street.
He is a native cowboy, delights in hay
ing it known, a lawyer by profession,
somewhat of a politician and an ex-
ceedingly shrewd and adroit opponent
in debate. Land & Millett own about
10, 600 acres of land and employ sixty
cowboys all the time. II. H. Campbell
OF Motley county, represented in the
convention $4,000 in land and cat
tie. {. c. Slaughter. of Dallas, at the
age OF 45, is worth $3.50, 900.
George w. West, of Live Oak, was
born IN Lavacca county, is 81, to SO, is
slender, don't talk much, but has the
most convincing ways at a band coun-
ter OF any one you are likely to meet.
lie owns one pasture containing 1885,
900 acres, has over 10000 head of cat
tie, and considers check for 800, 900
a rather small transaction. Senator
n. q. Collins, who hadn't 10 cents to
begin with, is worth 1000, 900, made
IN cattle. l.. B. Harris is much like
him. The latter has one ranch in Tom
Green embracing 60, 900 acres, which
is half-day's ride in length, and takes
in ten to fifteen miles of the Colorado
river.
Dick" King is literally king in the
BUSINESS. lie mas O0U, OUU acres OF land
in one body, 10000 in another at St.
Gertrude's, another in Cameron of
about the same extent, and many
smaller tracts in his opinion scarcely
worth mentioning.
A. y. Pierce, of Matagorda, was a
cowboy. but now owns one pasture
from the Gulf to the Colorado river,
siXty-four miles long, besides 10000
acres eaney land on Matagorda Bay.
He is tall, slightly gray, a great wag
and story-teller.
E. c. Sugg, of Gainesville, Texas, has
immense herds in the Indian Territory
and in Wyoming. He is about 80, a
great big, tine-looking fellow, weighs
over 200, and is honorable always and
generous to a fault. He came to Texas
at the close of the war poor boy. He
is said to be worth ct least 81, $50, 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27
The Chronic Juryman.

Another horrible murder! Man
found with his throat cut. See here,
Difenderfer, let me read"
''S-s-s-h! None OF that" said Difen-
derfer, shaking warning finger at the
man with the newspaper. If you are
going to read that just wait till l get
out of doors"
What for?" inquired the man with
the paper. I want to post you up on
the leading events of the day"
Yes. know, but you don't want 10
take the bread right out of my mouth,
do you, and out of my children s
mouths? You don't want to interfere
with my business and break me all up,
10 youP"
''How is this going to interfere with
your business?"
Il am professional jury man"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27

One of the oldest houses in Baltimore
is about to be replaced by q modern
warehouse. 1t is two-story and attic
dwelling built of imported bricks in a
most unusual manner, builders of long
experience saying that they never saw
a similar structure. The joists are of
white oak, and the lighter woodwork
is of yellow pine. The holdings of the
windows-frames are solid, the pockets
for the weights having been chiSeled
out. Every part of the building, in
Guiding even the wrought-iron nails, is
papers, and English and Spanish coins.
dated early in the last century, have
been found secreted in different parts
of the house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27

Speaking of Alaska, the San Fran
cisco Chronicle says: Its climate is
on the coast less rigorous than that of
Newfoundland, or Sweden, OF Norway,
or the Baltic coast of Russia. There
are good reasons for the belief that
wheat can be made q profitable crop in
parts OF the Yukon valley. And the
cedars of Alaska are better and infin-
itely more inexhaustible than the famed
cedarS OF Lebanon. "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-03-27

Senator Colquitt, of Georgia. is hale
and hearty man, and has many per-
sonal acquaintances whose faces are
always familiar, but whose names he
cannot recall When an acquaintance
meets him the Senator shakes him
warmly by the hand and numb
something, which the man cannot pos
sibly understand, but which he is left
to suppose is his name. He goes away
quite proud of being so well remem-
here6.