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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-12

A singular and an interesting cues
ton is pending in the United States
District Court in Oregon. A lady in
jured by the accidental discharge of q
revolver while travelling in Pullman
palace car has brought suit for $500
damages. 1t appears that the porter,
to whom the weapon was handed for
safe keeping by another passenger, let
it drop and caused it to explode, to the
injury of the lady in question. The de-
PENDANTS lawyers are trying to show
that the porter was not in this instance
performing one of his duties, and that,
therefore, damages for his carelessness
ought not to be paid.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-12
Women as Photographers.

Glrard avenue is excited over fe-
male photographers quiet little wo-
man who cares nothing for anybody,
and who goes about her work with the
mechanical don t-careativeness of a
man.
Some people have an idea woman
can take picture, she said to a
Nea0S reporter this morning. but
there's no reason in the world why a
woman shouldn't be able to take a neg
atlve, print a picture and mount it just
as well as man.
And yet there are very few female
photographers
Il only know of one other beside my
self who goes into the dark room.
Shes Juniata county woman, and
stepped into her husband 5 shoes-cam-
era, might say-when he died year
or two ago. Scores of young ladies in
this city paint and finish pictures, but |
am the only female photographer in
Philadelphia.
daintily furnished studio with evident
exllltation.
You are proud of it?''
Very
why is the female army of photo
graphers so small?'
Women don't like the chemicals.
That's one reason. They dislike to get
their pretty little fingers stained. In
taking tintypes the staining is very
marked objection. The silver bath into
which the tin is first plunged leaves
an almost indelible bronze stain on the
fingers. Then, when the picture has
been taken from the camera, the chic
ride OF potassium with which it is run
gives the skin peculiar greenish-yel-
low tinge. Finally, the varnish, which
follows coloring, stains horrid brown.
It's impossible to keep the fingers out
of the chemicals, and pretty women
with pretty fingers don't like it.
''But that is not the only reason?'
ooh, no. The opposition of the trade
has much greater influence in keep
ing women from practically photo
graphing. The photographers will not
give their female employees chance to
do anything but finishing work, and as
a consequence girl leaves a studio af-
ter two or three years with no more
practical ideas of how a picture should
be. taken than when she began. It's a
shame! But just like the selfish Great
rres that men are" added the little
woman, spitefully.
Why" she said, Il never heard of a
woman in Philadelphia Photographic
studio who takes picture out and out.
They get the back work, that's all.
The men carry off all the honors. If a
woman does manage to get an idea of
practical photography they WOULDN'T
have her in gallery. The only chance
for her is to go in business for her
self y
What is the future of the female
photographers
The '.only woman photographer
walked the length of the gallery. She
clenched her little chemica1-stained
fingers.
photography is an art requiring pc
cular abilities. Those abilities women
possess to a more marked degree than
men. Woman" she said, and she took
anather turn across the studio, ''wo-
man is the photographer of the future :"
- Ph1I0GeZq1bin Mems
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-12
the Champion Chewers.

Tobacco is chewed to greater ex-
tent in the United States than else
where; its use in this manner, except
in this country, being mostly confined
to sailors. The effects of chewing are
very similar to those of smoking. The
loss of fluids from the body, in either
case, by eXpectoration, may be cause
of kidney disease, as held by some, but
the evidence on this point is very far
from being conclusive.
Tobacco lessons the waste of the BODY
and permits a greater amount of mus
cular exertion than could be effected
without it. DIR. Hammond's expert
ments, published in the North Aqneri-
cdp ReUiee0, some years since, directly
prove the truth of this assertion.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-12

Some of the customs of the Thibetans
are very curious. AT parting a junior
person takes off his cap, bows and puts
his tongue out. They pull their cheeks
in order to show surprise. Turning up
their big finger means approval, and
turning up the little one means the con-
trary. The rest of the fingers mean an
Indifferent quality of things or persons.
All the men and women smoke. The
nomadic Thibetans do not bury their
dead, but throw them to the wild beasts
and birds of prey. In the capital of
Thibet the clergymen decide as to the
disposal of a dead body, whether it
shall be buried or thrown into the river,
burned CT left as prey for birds and
beasts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-12

Nellie Hastings, little daughter of
Mr. VIII and Carrie Hastings, of this
place, lays claim to six living grand
mothers -four great grandmothers and
two grandmothers. The great-grand-
mothers are Mrs. Mary Hastings, of
Westchester, and Mrs. Susan Dougher-
ty, of Londonderry; Mrs. Eliza Stead
man and Mrs. Elizabeth Steel, of Free
port. The grandmothers are Mrs. JOS
eph Hastings and Mrs. George Stead
man, of Freeport. Freep0rt (Ohto)
Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-12

Mr.. Petrie. the archaologist, has re-
turned to England laden with rich
spoils of his Egyptian investigations.
Among the treasures are hut of the
time of Nero, embroideries of the Ptcle-
maic period, and fine gilded slab OF the
time of Nectabanus.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-12

''How did | come by my second hus-
band?" repeated steamboatman wife
in response to a similar inquiry the 9TH
er day. We'll, my first husband, Tom,
was mate on the Inflated Red Fawn,
and we were both blown up with her in
the terrible explosion of SO. / saw
poor Toms head blown off, and the
next thing / knew | was flying through
the air higher than the smoke-stacks
As | came down 1 passed Jack Harner,
the second cook, and he called out to
me: Mrs. McCray, will you marry
me?' I'm agreed to it when | land,
Jack, says /, for l knew straight
enough that | was widow. Ehey fish
ed me out of the water as sound as a
dollar, and when Jack recovered from
a broken rib we were married in the
first town we landed at.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-12

Little Rock, Ark. is deep in debt, has no
good streets, and is almost without sew
erS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-12

The iron dome Of the United States
capitol weighs 5000, 200 pounds, is SOFA
feet high, and, compared with other
homes in the world, ranks fifth in
height and fourth in diameter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-09
4 WISE DETERMINATION.

Be it said to the credit of President CLEvE-
LAND, he has firmly resolved to make his
territorial appointments from residents
thereof, in harmony with the letter and
spirit of that plank in the Democratic national
platform. This policy will receive the cor
dial Endorsement of Dakota and Montana,
which have suffered severely from the pur-
suanee Of Z contrary policy of Republican
presidents, especially ARTHUR, who foisted
upon the people of Montana the governor
ship of SCHUYLER s. CROSBY, an old crony,
who disgraced his position aud made him
self obnoxious to the people BY his assump-
ton of superior wisdom and personal favor
itism. CRosBI assumed Immediately upon
his appointment as su ARTHUR satrap that be
was virtually in control Of the Sestinies Of
the mountain territory and that his mission
was to administer its affairs for his own ag-
grandizement and for the benefit of the
party. He was the most cordially and unan-
inously despised man who ever held an off,
eial position in the territory and was re-
ssried for his misdireetion Of territorial
affairs By the appointment to the position of
assistant postmaster geuersl,o of which he will
soon be most happily dispossessed
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-09

Tns threatened trouble on the Afghan
frontier win probably be averted by the
withdrawal of the Russians from Akrobat
aud the English from Peniolep leaving the
old status on the Afghan frontier in statu
quo. Neither nation cared to resort to arms,
the one BY reason Of its complications in
Egypt and Soudan, and the other on account
Of Its fear Of Nihilistc doctrines distilled in
the army by the emissaries OF the In sidious rev
olutionary doctrine which is gaining ground
even in the regular army of the empire. The
fact is the two greatest nations in Europe, the
one dominating the ses and the other the
land, have all the home troubles they are ca
paole of caring for, without inviting hostili-
ties from foreign powers. Neither Russia nor
England could afford at this critical juncture
TO engage in war for territorial sgyTaudize-
menI and the diplomatic policy of each die
tates eonoiliatory course wherever their in
terests clash as they do on the frontier Of
India
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-09
Base Bal.
THE ST. PAUL CLUB.

Everything seems TO be encouraging for a
club in st. Paul. The gentlemen who have
been out on the street soliciting financial aid
have met with such success as to convince
them that good club here in st. Paul will be
well supported. Contracts have been sent
out to MapDis, third base; 0'Brieu first base;
Nelson, pitcher; Carroll, right field; Hogan,
left field; Whitney, catcher; Walsh, second
base or short stop; Matthias, short stop; Dealy,
catcher; CavaDaugb, catcher. Calvin, the
other pitcher, is in the city and is in fine
form. Matthias played short last season for
the Chicago Unions, and is regarded as one
Of the best in the country, and
those who are familiar with the
records Of the other players do not
hesitate to declare that If the club is balf
managed it should stand near TO the front
rank. It has not been decided yet where to
locate the grounds. very strong effort is
being made to have them in West St. Paul.
One great indueement for going across the
river is that Mr.. stickney proposes TO put on
trains Of cars to run as often as street cars
do. This viii make it very easy and expe-
ditious patter 20 20 70 the grounds and re-
turn, and il viii certainly be more pleasant
tDzn gong up boNn ID Lbe pace where
the grounds were last year. OF course
there is an effort to have the
grounds located where they were last
season, and possibly those who desire TO have
them there may succeed. Ia mentioning
the names Of the players to whom contracts
have been sent. II may De stated that Mappis
O'Brien and Nelson have sent back their
contracts signed. The contracts Of the
others viii be along ia q few DAYS probably.
The WESTERN LEAGUE.
The Mirror OF American SPORTS. in speak
Ing Of the Western league, thus refers to the
Indianapolis club, which it regards as the
leading one in the league: The team Is
doubtless far stronger than the one which
started out last season 20 win the cham pion-
ship Thirteen mea are under contract, the
last TO be engaged being Mcguire, VINO
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-09

THE projects now before the Montana leg
islature for railroad from Butte to Bozeman
and from Helena to Benton should be treated
with all liberality. Both schemes are to be
submitted to vote of the people of the
counties interested, Silver Bow in the one
case, and Lewis and Clarke and Choteau in
the other. The one line wSpld bring the
Bozeman coal fields and the productive agri-
cultural Gallatin valley into direct communi-
cation with the greatest mining camp in the
territory on the one hand, and the capital
of the territory in communication with the
head of navigation of the Missouri, immense
coal fields, mining camps, and the cattle
ranges Of the Musselshell and Sun river on
the other.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-09
14MARIN TIE cABINEE.

Because Mr.. LAMAR is Southern man it
has been urged by some exceedingly preju-
diced directors that he ought not to have
been placed at the head of the department
which has jurisdiction of the pension bureau.
For years the Republican organs and politi-
clans have been claiming that return TO
Democratic rule by the aid of the solid cleo
toral vote of the South would mean the pay
ment of Rebel claims, the pensoning of Rebel
soldiers, and the Withholding Of pensions
from the surviv ors of the Union army and
their families. The persistency with which
these falsehoods have been uttered has in
duced many ign GRANT but honest people to
credit them and to vote against Democratic
candidates on that account.
For this reason, if no other, Mr.. CLEvE-
LAND did wise thing to put a Southern
man at the head of the interior department,
for he will kill the seed of poisonous section
alism by the practical proof that the pension
bureau can be run more honestly and more
advantageously for the Union pensioner by
Southern Democrat than it has been by any
Republican. Mr.. LAMAR lisa national man,
and has done more to heal the animosities of
sectional bias and prejudice than any man
in the South. He is a man of broad and
thorough craftsmanship and will lend char
acter and influence to the administration.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-09

AMONG the painful things connected with
the retiring administration one of the sad
dest is the departure of Secretary CHANDLER
from public life-it is saddest to Mr.. CHAN
DLER. Like some of the Others who go out
CHANDLER does not go without hope. He is
not penniless orphan without experience
thrown upon the cold charities Of an IN
friendly world. In fact Mr.. CHANDLER has a
good deal of experience that he can utilize in
business way, and if he is without capital
it must be becau Sc his bosom friend JOHNNY
ROACH has not made a fair divide. 1t has
been suggested that the retiring secretary
might utilize his experience acquired in the
naval service and ought to open CHAN
DLER's shop for the furnishing of ship sup
niles
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-09
THEN md NOW.

Comparing prices and wages Of the present
time with those II SO years ago, an old timer
says:
"Beef was 81 per hundred then, now IS;
pork 81, now Sc; fat sheep 50 then, now S. !;
chickens cents per pound already to cook !;
good cows S25 then, now $50; corn IS cents
per bushel, now 20 cents; rye, same now
oats % cents, 40 now; buckwheat so cents,
now 81; wheat -four So per barrel then, 81
now; brown sugar cents per pound; gran
ulated cents now; tea S1.50 then, now 70
cents; hay from s. to $40 per ton then, now
from $50 TO $50. Then farmers often got two
tons TO the acre, now often less than half
ton; then butter brought from 10 to Is cents
per pound, now 80 cents: then cheese to 8
cents, now 16 to Is cents. Fifty years ago
people would go three or four miles to church
with the thermometer at zero; now the cross
is heavy if they have to go a mile when 1t is
beloY freezing. Then you could get help to
do the homework for so and rs cents per
week; now they have 50 and SO per week
Then their task was to spin two runs of
wooden yarn each day, which required some
labor to perform; now they spin street yarn.
Then lady teachers had from 81 to 81. so per
week and board; now they have from IS to
$40. Then men taught the winter term for
SIS or $50 per month and boarded them
selves; now $40 is small wages.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-09

with brains and money, and behind them are
several millions Of capital interested
| in various ways in the manufacture
of roller skates and other sup
plies connected with the popular pastime.
These men and these millions are not going
to lie down and, without struggle, submit
to be stamped out Of existence under the
heel of the unholy alliance of bigotry and
selfishness. They are able to demand and
compel fair play as against falsehood in the
pulpit, the bribed opinions Of medical ex-
perts, the envy of the show people, the malice
of the rumsellers, and the cringing subser-
yiency of demagogues having little brief
authority in legislative and municipal mat
tiers. Those who own the Kinks Will IND
way to protect themselves. They are engaged
in the perfectly legitimate business OF cater
ing to popular demand for type Of arnuse-
ment which is, on the whole, cleaner and
more wholesome than any pastime
that can be named that is available to 50
large an element of society. Roller-skating
thrives and prospers because it deserves TO
thrive and prosper. The rink attracts the
patronage of respectable people because they
find it q safe resort, where conversation and
department are subjected to~eficient scru-
tinv and the opportunities for undesirable or
harmful aSSOclaUlOu are III consequence Tt
duced to the lowest possible minimum. So
we say the Kinks will survive in spite of the
selfish hostility of preachers, showmen and
saloonkeepers. The men whose level heads
and careful management have developed
rinking to its present phenomenal stage OF
popularity will see that their interest and
safety can best be subserved by continued
adherence to the same wise methods. A
well-conducted rink is knock-down argu-
ment in its own favor; as for the Kinks that
are not well conducted let them die and the
sooner the better.
New York city continues to increase the
number of its Kinks.
K. A. Skinner won sixteen out Of twenty
one skating races in the West.
Indiana, Penn, boasts the youngest skater
in America, Master Jay Wilson, aged III
years.
The roller Kinks in st. Paul have been well
patronized during the week, and the attend
ance is daily increasing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-09
The Bnxers.

George Fryer and ALI Greenfield had four
round glove contest at Philadelphia on the
9th Of February which ended In draw.
An effort is being made to bring Charlie
Mitchell and Jack Burke together.
Ed McKeown Of Winnipeg and Ben Ar
thurs Of Montana are to fight TO a finish, for
500 side, at Pembina, Oak, at an early
date They will use three-ounce gloves. The
men have been TRYING to come together for
some time past, but have been prevented by
the Manitoba police.
Mrs. Elliott, mother Of the late Jimmy
Elliott, has for some months past been in a
deplorable condition mentally. Time has
not sufficed to sssuage her deep grief over
the violent death of her only son and chief
support and continual brooding over her
great sorrow has quite wrecked her reason.
She resiGes in the old house on Forsyth street,
and requires constant watching in order to
prevent her INJECTING injury upon herself
during frequent paroxj SINS Of grief.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-09
In Cincinnati the druggists sugar coat
dried peas and sell them as quinine pills.
And the difference is never discovered.

The Washington correspondent of the New
York Sun describing the Inauguration says ::
Mr.. CLEVELAND was surprise as a public
speaker. His voice is fiute-like, almost bird like
in its clearness and penetrating power and his
lungs proved strong enough to-day to send it to
so great distance that some of his utterances
were appauded by men who seemed a city block
away. His enunciation was distinct and he mod
ulated his voice TO give force to his sentences.
His position while speaking was easy and was
not at all ungraceful. 1t showed him to be not
only at ease but very confident He held his
head so high thabit might have been described
as thrown slightly ack, but only at long inter
walls did he slowly raise his ri ht hand, move it o
little as If to emphasize sentence and then drop
it to the railing. At other times ne lifted the
same hand, his right one, teglance at the notes
of headings of his addrele that he had jotted
down on visiting card. lis left hand he held
behind him.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-09
Our puEDifs.

DIR. CARROLL AT THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
In view Of a united effort on the part Of
the pastors and the churches Of the city in
conjunction with the Y. NJ. q. A. to reach
the masses of non-church gOers, DR..
Carroll selected for his theme the
Spirit Of Unity in the Church Of
God, and illustrated its omnioperative
energy in combination. His text was from
John xvii, 21: ''That they all may be one, as
thou Father art in me and in them, that they
also may be one in US; that the world may
believe that thou hast sent me.'
The speaker said: Ever one had been the
church Of the living God. The litany Of the
ages had been one faith, one Lord, one bap-
tzng, one God and Father Of us all. The
church can never lose her essential unity;
for Jesus came 10 gather In one all things In
himself, both which are in heaven and which
are In earth even in him. Nor are we 70 lay
a new corner stone Of unity. The chief
corner stone, elect and precious, is laid, and
that forever. The walls Of spiritual unity are
already built-built by the Holy Ghost in his
sanctifying power. The prayer was TO en-
phasize the spiritual unity realized the
unity Of faith in the Son Of God; the unity
Of common regeneration by the spirit Of
God; the unity of love TO Christ and loving
work for Christ; we are humanity TO
demonstrate unity which is already divinely
created. This microscopy prayer Of the Savior
IS no plea for organic union, for surely
nothing visible can reach oneness betwee
the Father and the Son. II is not a union
that can be seen or manipulated, nor can IL
be increased or diminished by human will
or human consent 1t is more than union,
! or fraternal union, or churchly union, or
sacramento union, it 10 Christian, one which
Christ presides and sways a sceptred in
fucnce, over which he dominates, ali else
secondary, subsidiary and tributary: in
which be, Christ, is first, midst, last This
union is consistent with diversity-diversi-
ties Of gifts, but the same spirit-consistent
with denominationsl fellowship and love
| illustrates Christian charity; rebukes unchris-
tian bigotry; It is all powerful; it is prophetic
Of millenial light when the watchmen shall
| gee eye to eye; 1t tells Of the presence Of the
/ spirit Of God, without which we do impO-
| tentIy, with which We do omnipotently; II 10
the harbinger of reyiYals, and "a epn-
| ephany OF the supremacy Of the lore OF
| Christ and our love for Christ.
There was an unusually large congrega-
ton present, who were highly pleased, ana
It was evident that the reverend gentleman
believed With emphasis in the Holy Csthoilc
church and the communion Of saints.