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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-12-17
Comets, CODjunctiOns and Human Stu
pidity.
All the Year Roun d.

Eclipses, comets and conjuactions
of the superior planets play a great
part in state astrology. Some well
authenticated cases of success in this
department are on record. One astro-
logger, by name Landino, according to
Villari, drew the horoscope of religion,
and predicted from a conjunction of
Jupiter and Saturn, that on the 25th
Of November, 1854, a great reforma-
ton of Christian religion woald take
place, and it is singular that Luther
was born on the very month of No.
vember of 1883 or 14S4-some doubt
existing as to the year. Tycho Brahe
predicted from the comet of 1877 that
in the north of Finland there would
be born a prince who should lay waste
Germany and vanish in 1852. Now,
Gustavus Adolphus, it is well known.
was born in Finland, overran Ger
many, and died in 1882. It is also
very singular that during the very
worst period of the late troubles in
Ireland Saturn should have been pass
ing through Taurus, sign which
astrologers say rules Ireland, and
prior to the passing of the Land act,
Jupiter and Venus should have been
In conjunction with Saturn in the
same sign. Also, just before the as
sassination of President Garfield, two
comets--6rst seen ia the United States
appeared ia right ascension, cor
responding to Gemini, a sign again
said by astrologers to rule the United
States. Now 1t is an old astrological
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-12-17
More Wickedness of the Telephone
Girl.
National Weekly.

There has been an unusual electri-
cal disturbance, and the telephone girl
had received several discouraging
shocks while answering calls. AS
might have been expected, this soured
her temper more or less, and when SIS
called she uttered her customary
''helle" SO snappishly that the mana
ger, who sat by, knew somebody was
about TO suffer.
"Give nae Mr.. Bullwinkle's store,
please" said Mrs, Bullwinkle, who
had called.
"All right Here it is"
Hello! Is Mr.. Bullwinkle there9n
''No ma'am," replied one of the
clerks.
''Do you know where he is2"
At this instant the heartless girl
switched on Warpman, who was des-
cribing the gentleness of a horse he
was about to purchase of one of his
friends, and the reply Mrs. Bullwinkle
got was:
ST went down to Farmau5s this
afternoon, and when I went to the
barn | found T arman's wife with her
arms around his neck, and when I
spoke of taking him away, she began
crying and said she would not be able
to live without him."
''She did, eh2" said Mrs. Bullwinkle,
sputtering into the transmltter. "The
huzzy! Well seer and when the
same number called for surgeon just
before bed time, the telephone girl
knew that Mrs. Bullwinkle chad
seem -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-12-17

the contrary the watching off Ger saw
him shoot out with his left, and the
club-lifter took tumble into the ditch
and laid there while the other passed
on. He was sitting up as the officer
arrived and walked around him and
remarked:
well it didn't work did it9"
The other looked up at him a long
time. and then di zzily replied;
white man 60 long! When I is
attacted Wid desc faintin fits an falls
IN de street ii makes me tired to be
talked tot"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-12-17

not certain as to the exact year,, there
was throughout northern and central
Illinois great scarcity of corn, while
all through southern Illinois there was
a very great abundance; as a conse
quence, the following fall and winter
great numbers came down into
Egypt" CAS- IN ancient times the peo-
pie went down into ancient Egypt for
a like purpose) to buy and carry back
corn to supply the wants of the people
in that part Of the state where the
corn crop for that y ear had been a
total failure. The chief product of
the state at that time was corn; but
little else was cultivated. It was the
staple article of food, both for man
and beast. And thus southern I'LL
nois came to be called Egypt.
The ''thick darkness" and the extreme
ignorance never did exist here.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-12-17
Cooking Husbands.
Inter Ocean.

The following clever bit of pleas
antry is not new, bat it will bear
reading more than once. It is entitl-
ed "How to Cook Husbands, So as to
Make Them Tender and Good" and
is as follows:
A good many husbands are spoiled in
the cooking. Some women go about it
as If their husbands were bladders,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
GABLEGRAMs.

SCOTLAND has just experienced
several shocks by earthquake.
THE Journal &c Rome utramuntaue
organ, has ceased publication ard the
entire staff will go to Paris.
THE prospect Of the corn crop in Ger
psany is rood. The ears are long and
full, Rsaping has begun.
A revolution has broken out in Vene-
zuela and the insurgents have seized
the steamer Libertadon, with several
government chiefs on board.
CHOLERA, it is rumored, has crossed
the Spanish frontier into the depart
ment OF the Aurne.
TaR work Of fortifying Bosphoius
has been stopped, owing to the convic-
ton that war between England and
Russia has been ayerted,
UNITED STATES CONSUL MASON at
Marseilles has informed the department
of state that cholera has again appSar-
ed in that city and Toulon. A general
exodus irCm Marssilles has begun. He
reports that tho death rate is below the
average.
ADvIcEs from Port Stanley Falkland
/ Islands, say that wreckage has been
washed ashore which indicates the loss,
with her crew, of the British ship Yarra.
Narra, Capitals Earl, which left Ports
land, Ore. Feb for Queenstown.
GEN. DE CoURoEY telegraphs from
/ Hue that the French are absolute mas
/ ters of the situation there. Tue royal
palace, containing 100000 francs in
| bar silver, besides rare artistic treasures
is intact The Anamite forces are dis
persing.
4 ADMIRAL Mot telegyaphs from NADIA
| gascar urgently demanding prompt
dispatch Of reinforcements. Admiral
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16

CALDER, minister Of marine will ask
an immediate credit Of 50 400, 600 for
preparing and lending to NJ Madagascar
a foHr thousand reinforcement.
In the hou.e of lords Salisbury slated
that he you'd coutiAu ne the policy of
Gladstone ia regard to the negotiations
with Russia. In moving the al journ-
ment OF the house he said matter of
the gravest Importance was the recent
negotiation with Russia in regard to the
\ froatier of Afghanstan.
/ In the house of Lords, the marquis of
/ Salisbury announced that he would con
tinue the Gladstone policy ia the pend
/ ing negotiations with Russia, but de.
clared that no treaty which might be
signed could he regarded as final and
conclusive, as the condition Of affairs in
central Asia was unsatisfactory and I'M
certain. lie referred to the Egyptian
difficulty as 4 complicated problem,
and said that to abandon Egypt to her
fate would "cover Englan! with
shame.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16

the murder of Henry Nerporter. The
former was a hotel runner, and the lat
ter clerk in the ST. James Hotel, at
Omaha. Neb. Ballard was found guilty
tbis after noon of murder in the first
degree, and the death penalty VIII fol-
low.
BY orders from department head
quarters $4,000 pounds Of barblne cart
ridges will be forwarded to-day from
the R5ck Island Qu) arsenal to posts in
Western and Northwestern districts
where trouble is anticipated with the
Indians.
GEORGE STEWARD, a farmer living
near Yorkville, ILL.,, was shot and killed
by James freeman, of Aurora, mem
Der of a camping party who had spent
the night in a mill belonging to Steward.
Freeman, who surrendered himself,
says the shooting was accidental.
THE mob which lynched the two ne
groes at Grenada, Miss, on Thursday
completed its work by taking Barley
James from his home aud hanging him
to tree and killing John Campbcll for
whom a similar fate had been reserved,
but who was on his guard and refused
| to be t.ken alive.
A REIGN of terror exists in the coun.
ties OF Alexander and Caldwell, in
North Clroling, owing to the depreda-
tions Of gang of outlaws who are ia
| trenched IN the Bushy mountains, and
who have long successfully defied the
law.
A Young man named Ebright has for
some time been paying attention to a
daughter of Louis Graves, a farmer
near Rising Sun, Wood County, Ohio.
He had been warned against visiting the
house by the father. Tuesday the old
man found Ebright there, picked up az
AK aud split the young mans head open
killing him instantly.
JOHN MORGAN, late agent of the
! Queen Crescent route at Miller's Land
ing, Arkansas, Las been arrested or
charges of em5ezzling S11,270 of the
Railroad company s funds, and OF being
implicated in the theft of several thou
sand dollars worth of freight. Eleven
railway employees, charged with com
! p'icity, are also III custody.
Two fellows under tho influence 81
| liquor engaged in a fight at the Nationa
Park Milwaukee, the Fourth, durini
the picnic of the Fourth Battalion
which cause ed general fight of the in
toxicated crowd The militia was or
dered cut, and charged upon the people
A lieutenant of one Of the companie,
his one young man with his sword anC
laid his skull open. The determined
attitude of the militia checked further
trouble.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
Breathing a Fonl Atmosphere.

Above all it is filthy to live in a
foul atmosphere. We do not. battle
again and again in the same water or
or enjoy eating or drinking from un.
washed dishes. Why be fastidious
about sdch matters during the day
and careless at night. The seeds Of
disease are floating in impure air and
find ready access to our bodies.
When in sleep the organs are less able
to resist the noxiOus influences.
When in early times the more care.
less manner of building houses let
the air freely into the rooms around
the loosely fitting window frames,
and the wide-o2en fireplacos readily
drew out the foul air, the inmates of
the dwellings according TO modern
ideas, were more uncomfortab ole,
but they were cleaner. The ideal of
the modern building seems to be a
Theoretically closed box, impsrvious
to air from without, niggardly in
the means of allowing the air to es-
cape, economy in the use of fuel,
prodigality in the waste of life. /
do not propose to criticise the care.
fully built house of the present day,
but simply to emphasize the addition
al care used in making the dwelling
warm and dry must be supplemented
by equal painstaking in furnishing
sufficient means for the proper egress
and lngress of fresh air. Not necess-
arily cold air, and this accomplished
with as little draught as possible.
The possible danger to health is in
the current of air passing so quickly
over the body as to rapidly exhaust
the heat, producing a chill. These
required conditions are readily obtains
ed by an open fire place on the one
hand and slightly opened windows on
the other hand, with a screen before
the windows, if needed. Yon can re-
adily prove if your ventllating is
sufficient ny occupying the room for q
time, and then leaving the room,
breathing the fresh air from out OF
doors for few moments, and return
ing to your room. Now your sense
Of smell is a fair means of judging of
the purity of the air in the room.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
WASHINGTON

=. CANNON, comptroller OF the cur
rency has called for a report Of the con
| dition OF the national banks at the close
of business onJuly /.
COMMISSIONER BLACK yesterday APP.
proved over 1900 pension cases. This
/ IS the largest number of pension cases
granted any one dsy in the history of
the pension Office.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MULDRow, Of
the interior department., has declined to
review the decision Of ex-Secretary
Teller refusing to ISSUE patents for the
Renault land grant in the Kankekee
district (Ill.), in the absence Of legisla-
ton IN the matter.
THE first comptroller will be called
upon to decide the question as to the
right of the treasurer 10 redeem a $50
compound-interest bearing note of 1854,
on the face of which the date of TIE
act authorizing its issue wrongly stat
ed. The treasurer recently redeemed
such "a note and the first auditor in
passing on his accounts disallowed the
payment.
CHARLES MOORE was murdered by his
wife, near Clay Creek township, twelve
miles north of Charlotte, S. g. The
couple had only been married a few
months, and during that time had sew
eral quarrels, the last of which resulted
in the young wife picking up small
lawn hoe and striking her husband 3
blow on the temple. He died within the
hour.
IN TIE Mackin perjury case, Mr. Emery
A. Storrs made an elaborate argument
for the defense, followed by |. n. Stiles
for the state. The jury returned ver-
dict of guilty, fixing the penalty at Eve
years imprisonment. Mackin listened
unmoved to the verdict, and after its
announcement was removed to the
county Jail.
GENERAL SCHoFIELD has forwarded
to the war department dispatch from
Col. Bradley in which the latter says:
"The Mescelero Apaches, in the vicinity
of southeastern New Mexico, are be-
coming restless because of then sup
/ plies giving out. AT present they have
nothing but beef" General Schofield
was directed by the rumor to issue ra-
tions from the military stores at the
post where the trouble Is threatened
THE board of visitors to the West
Point military academy have submitted
the annual report to the secretary OF
war. The report recommends tke dpPro-
priation of $237,000 for improvements;
also recommends that the chief of en-
gineers be made Inspector of the
academy, and that the number of APP
pointments at large be restored to ten
per year.
In regard to the reported invasion OF
southwestern Kansas by the Cheyennes,
+, Gen. SchoGeld has sent the following
telegram to the War Department
--latest reports indicate that no Indians
have been in Kansas yet and no citizens
killed, but number comprising one
hundred young Cheyennes, have left
the agency. it is believed to conceal
their arms, On account of recent I'M
timely threats to disarm them. The
present disposition of troops will,
hope, prevent serious trouble if thu Ind
ians are left alone"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
A FAllaeY Exploded.

There is something at once insplr-
ing and dreadful in the intensity with
which these men work, writes Mex =
leo correspondent of the Boston jour
nal. Where or how the fallacy con-
corning their laziness has gained
ground it is hard to understand
Whatever they do is done as if sal
walton depended upon it, and the ex-
ertlon demanded where manual labor
takes the place OF steam or horse
power is so bitterly hard that it makes
their continuous application the more
wonderful. We have yet to see the
first instance of Sinking or of care>
lessness. Slight of frame, small in
stature, with every appearance OF deli
cacy in physique, they viii take upon
the shoulders as much as five or six
men can lift, and carry il an indefn-
tie distance. Under these immence
burdens they trot instead of walking.
To see q mozo climbing five or SIX
flights of stars and traversing acres
of corridors at this swift pace, with a
heavy Saratoga trunk on his back, or
to meet four poems rushing through
the city streets with a Chickeling
piano on theif shoulders are sights to
which we are becoming SO well used
that familiarity robs them of their
first painfulness. These brave work.
srs are so surprised and unprepared
for either pity or sympathy that sc
begin to cover both with the negative
quality OF indifference Still to look
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16

day after day at street PAYERS ~,
sweepers working as if fame and foa u
tune depended on dispatch porte.-
hurry ing unuer the
farm laborers blowing, reapinn
gathering woad drawing water nos,
after hour without turn of the heoa
or lifting of an eyelash fer the world
outside, upsets ones pleconceived nv
tions and leaves one in maze of re.
Election. This utter absorption IN b;s
occupation gives certain dignity Il
the man; and one finds here often
amid the most mental surroundings
something of that fine spirit that n
breathing of purpose into action-that
makes TilletGs sower a heroic figure
Think of the men lifted above these bv
every accident Of education and for
tune, whom we SO often see IN the fsi,
fields, listless uninterested, careful
only to fill the time Of their contract
ana these earnest, eager, constanr
laborers become superb.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
Chinkings.

Like the grave of Moses, that OF
Mozart is unknown.
Frogs sell at 50 a dozen in the
Washington city market.
A vein of pure rock salt has been
discovered IN Cleveland at depth Of
l, 985 feet
London telephone subscribers pav
q rental of 500 per annum for each
phone. ten per cent. OF which goes 10
the government.
Fruit trees are so heavily laden in
places on the Pacific coast that hund.
reds of laborers are kept thinning out
the fruit
TAe artesian we'll on Providence
street, Boston, has reached depth of
a few feet less than half,a mile. Work
has been stopped, and pumps will be
put in for regular supply Of water.
The daily capacity OF the well is ess
timated to be 200, 900 gallons.
According to recent statistics there
are in France and Greece 100 non.
working days, including Sundays; in
England 81, in Russia Sc, in Belgian
IS, and in the United States 60
A plant called by the Mexicans gon-
agra, indigenous to the deserts and
uplands of Arizona, has been found
to possess superior tanning qualities,
and is coming into extensive use for
that purpose. Its an annual growth
and has root resen bling a beet,
In France criminals under sentence
of death are never told of the date
fixed for their death. They are in.
formed of nothing until the fatal
morning, when they are awakened to
be led forth to execution, which event
usually takes place about o'clock,
or in the winter season as soon as it
is light
There are now established on the
coast of Great Britain 2S4 life boat
stations. la the current year there
were 1864 casualties TO shipping
around the British Isle; 633 lives anC
eighteen vessels were saved, IN addi-
ton to 1S9 lives by shore boats anC
other means, where rewards were
given, being total of 791 lives savec
through the agency of the society
During the year life boats were
launched 252 tines, and not one mar
of their crews was lost
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
SORAKICHI'S MUSCLE.
He Lifts the One Hundred and Fifty
Pound Club Eighteen Times and
Reafs Capf. DAILY

heats Cnpt. Daiy,
Capt. james G.. Daily, the Irish
American athlete, sauntered into a
newspaper office the other afternoon
with a big roll of bills in his pocket TO
make a match with Emil Voss, the
German hercules, for $3.50, to lift
Fox's big 150-pound club more times
than Voss. Voss didn't come in, but
Matsada Sorakichi did, and he had a
lot of greenbacks with him, too,
''You put-that club up six times the
other day, / hear" Sorakichi said,
with twinkle in his eye.
eyes, / did" retorted DAILY, "and
I'm going to bet $500 on the outside
that beat Voss."
"Well it's something new to me, "
the Jap continued, "bus I'll bet $40
that can put il up ten times myself.
Cart. Daily smiled incredul0usly,
and said: ON have to go you,
Mat"
The Jap stripped off his outer cloth
ing, and walked around the club
thoughtfully. 1t is four feet high
and nearly two feet in diameter, and
built purposaly to tease heavy lifters.
The Jap lent himself like crescent
suddenly, and Selling the handle with
one hand and sliding the other under
the bottom, drew himself up straight
slowly, and elevated the huge thing
eleven times. Then he stood it ON
the ground and claimed SO.
But Capt. Daily didA't let nina have
it. Il thought you were fooling,
Mat" he said. 'You didn't put up
the money"
The jap wiped the perspiration
from his brow, counted out $40 from
his roll Of greenbacks, and slipped il
into Harding's fist.
Now the moneys up, anyhow,
the Jap said, ''and / bet you | can
beat you lifting that club. >
Daily put up $40 note, too, pealed
off his clothes, and hoisted the ire
mendous club fourteen times.
Spectators who had been invited,
watched him with open mouths. He
had more than doubled the highest
previous record.
That's pretty good" the Jap said,
but watch me. He rushed ct TIA;
club Just as he rushes against his ad
vcrsary in a wrestling bout, and had
the club in the air in a twinkliHg.
Then he sent it up in the air eighteen
successive times, closed his hand upon
the stake money, and smiled delight
eddy
That's the most marvellous exhibi
ton l ever saw" Harding said, as he
shook hands with tie Jap Capt.
Daily said nothing. He put on his
clothes and walked out into the open
air to think out how the Jap manag
ed 10 accomplish the feat.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
CRIME.

JOHN CARPENTER, the New York wife
killer, was convicted of murder in the
first degree
GELARpI, Silrestri, and Azari, the
Italians who strangled Filippo Caruso,
were convicted OF murder in the first
degree, and will suffer DEATH
BENJAMIN ANDERSON was killed and
and five or six men injured, some Of
them fatally, by .oiler explosion at
FELTON,, Del.
HENRY STAss, 15years old, was arrest
ed Wednesday for placing distractions
on the track of the St. Paul road, near
Freeport, III.
Two Italians, who had been discharg-
ed from he service Of a railroad com
psny at Ligonier, Pa, attacked their
late boss Dennis MCGOWAN, ana cut his
throat. They are still at large.
ANNE LARCH, of Arcadia, Wisconsin,
was shot and killed by Fred Rekugler
because she refused to marry him.
Rekugler ended the tragedy by killing
himself.
Four leading men of the Salvation
Army in Plymouth, Pa, were arrested
on warrants for disorderly conduct.
They were fined 50 aud costs each, but
refused to pay il and went to jail Tor
five days.
IL the county offices of LoHdon
County, Tennessee, defalcations of 500
coo have been discovered. An ex-
sheriff is serving ID year sentence for
swindling the same county out of SIC,
/ 600,
THOMAS BALLARD was indicted for
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16

THE secretary of the treasury mas
decided contract case involving an
important labor question. Bids were
recently opened for stone work ON
the new government post office build
ing at Peoria, iii. Messrs. Brainerd
& Co., of Joliet, ILL.,, were the lowest
bidders. A protest against their be-
ing awarded the contract was, how
ever, filed by Messrs. StIaub & Co.,
Of Buffalo, the next lowest bidders,
on the ground that Brainerd & Co,
are contractors for the labor OF the
Illinois state prison, and would employ
convict labor Ola tho post Office. The
matter was referred to Solicitor
McCue, who gave an opinion that the
department should not be expected tC
dictate the means by which contrac-
tors perform their work, and that he
did not believe the protest valid
one. Secretary Manning has sustain.
ed the solicitor, and the contract will
be awarded to Brainerd * Co.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16

THERE is quite a co2test for the To-
cation of the Illinois State Soldiers
and Sailors home, provided for by an
act of the legislature passed at its
recent session. Joliet, Rock Island,
Peoria, Quincy and other towns are
candidates for the location of the in 2
stitution. The location is to be decid
ad BIZ a board OF seven Commissions
ers, to be appointed by the Governor,
who viii also have supervision of the
construction of the buildings, etc.
The sum of $500, 600 is appropriated
by the act for the parchase OF a site,
to be not less than forty acres non
more than 800 acres, and for the cree
ton of buildings thereon. The obiec
of the institution viii be the care anC
subsistence OF disabled and indigen
soldiers and sailors Of the late War 81
the Rebellion and Of the Mexican
War, many of whom, it IS alleged
are now either inmates Of county
poor-hoases or dependent upon private
charity throughout the state.