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The Daily Tombstone., 1885-09-22

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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23
Blistered Ears and Seasickness.

The semi-circular canals of the inter-
nal ears are nowadays pretty well un-
derstoOd not to be organs of hearing
but of equilibrium. The sensation they
normally give us is that of change of
direction and speed in the movements
Of our head through space. When
over-excited they give rise to vertigo
and nausea. A large percentage of
presumably thrown out of function, are
insusceptible of being made dizzy. OF
considerable number Of such deaf
mutes who had been exposed to sick
ness, none, with the exception of two
doubtful cases, had ever suffered. All
these facts lead to the hypothesis that
sickness may arise, in the firstinstance.
from the over-eXcitement of these sem
sitiye organs, and, finally, they lead to
the practical suggestion that such over
excitement might be warded off or al
layed by counter irritation" which
consists in blistering or otherwise red
dening the skin above and behind the
ear. The experiment is so simple. and
would be if successful, so pregnant of
relief that it seems Il shame it should
not be tested by a large number of per-
sons. [ have tried it myself twice.
The first time was on the British Chan
mel, on a very rough day, when every
one around me was violently sick. [
simply rubbed the skin behind my ears
till it was slightly excoriated. An in
cipient nausea, which [ felt at the end
of the first half hour, completely van
ished as the sensation of cutaneous
burning became strong. In crossing
the Atlantic | was less successful but
my seasickness was rather anomalous,
its principal symptom being high
fever and no nausea, and do not con-
slider the failure to be REPUTATION of
the method. 1t may be that the
latter will serve for short exposures,
like channel voyages, but not for long
er ones. At any rate, the scientific
presumption in favor of its utility is
certainly large enough to warrant ex-
| perimentation by anyone who breads
the direst of all forms of misery.-Dr.
William Jones, Cambridge, Mass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23
A Check to Deep Mining.

For a long time explorations have
been going on at very great depths on
the Comstock, without any renumera-
tive results, though work has been con-
tinued with the hope of finally finding
something of value. Several companies
joined together to work deep winze
at the depth of $500 feet in the Mexi-
can, and from that depth diamond drill
holes have been run in every direction
for about 500 feet, but nothing of any
value was found. In case there had
been, it would have encouraged all the
other companies to prospect at those
depths, and great interest has there
fore been felt in the prospecting opera
tons at that point. We have chroni-
cled the progress of the work from
week to week in our Mining Sum-
mary"
1t is stated that at the Union Mining
Company's office meetings we're held
of the Union Con, Sierra Nevada,
Mexican and Ophir Mining Companies,
and the Con. California and Virginia,
a resolution was passed to abandon for
the present, if not finally, all of that
portion of the workings below the
27O0-foot level of the above-named
mines. The pumps below the 27OO-
foot level are driven by COM
pressed air-a very expensive opera
ton. In the Ophir, Sierra Nevada and
Union the depth of explorations has
reached the 800 level, from which
point the diamond drill has searched
in every point of the compass and
nothing found. It is determined at
present to fully explore the 270O-foot
level and all the immense stretches of
virgin ground above that level.
This will be bad news to the Com
stock miners, as a matter of course,
and matter of Encouragement to the
owners as we'll. But after extended
time and much expenditure, they have
come TO the resolution referred to.
Now they will come up a little and
prospect from levels not Sd deep.
There is plenty of ground for them to
prospect as it is.-Aini'ag and Scientific
Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23
The Widow DISTANCES Rint.

whist, there Mary Murphy, doan think me
But I'm dyin' ter tell we of Wilder O'shane-
She as lives in the attic mkt mine, doan you
An does the fine washin' fer oud Misther
ShnOW.
Wild niver chick nor a child ter track in,
Her kitchen is always nate as a pin;
An her cap an her apron is always that
Och, moighty foine gurrul is the Wilder
O'Shane.
An, wud we behave me, on Saturday night
We heard a rough slip comm over our flight;
An Mike, me ould man, he jist hOllered to me,
Look out av the door an see who it moight
be-"
An looked, Mary Murphy an save me if
there
wusn't Thomas Malone on the uppermost
stair
QIe's the landlord; yere seen him yerself, wild
cane),
An he Knocked on the door of the Wilder
O'Shane.
An whispered to Michael, ''Now, what can
it name
That i lis worship is calling on Wilder
Rint day comes on Friday wild us, doan you
see,
EFT must be she owes him some money fer rint,
Though the neighbors do say that she pays to
the clint.
You take care of the baby, Michael Brady"
says j,
can III Pape through the keyhole-I will if
die"
The howly saints bliss me! what shudnt [ see
But the Widder O'Shane sittin pOurin the
tea;
An the landlord was there, Misther Thomas
Malone,
A-sittin' one side ov the table alone.
An he looked at the Wilder OShane, an SEE
he,
otis privilege great that we offer fer me
Fer I've not once sat down by fair womans
Since / sat down by her that once called my
bride.
can is it ye're poor now, Wilder O'Shane?
Ye're q dacent woman, both tidy and clane;
An we're both av us here in the wurruld
alone;
wud We think of unitin' wild Thomas Ma
homer"
Then the Wilder O'Shane put the teakettIe
down,
An she says, "Misther Thomas your name is
crown;
take it most gladly"-An' then me ould man
HOllered, Bridget, cum in here, quick as yer
can"
So then, Mary Murphy, / riz off that floor,
An / SEE to me Michael, ''NOw, isn't it name?
She IL have no rint to pay, will that Wilder
O'Shane.
-YOuth'g Communion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23
A CHRISTIAN WORKER.

The Spectator" writing in the
Christian Union, says: The ''Specta-
tor being in a neighboring town one
Saturday evening, called on Mrs. A, who
is, by the way, the widow of Congre-
gational minister, and found her busily
engaged in sewing. She begged his
pardon for continuing at her work,
and stitched away Us she chatted. The
curiosity of the ''Spectator" was aroused
by the unusual aspect of the garment
she was making, and at last he boldly
asked what this combination of white
cotton and lace and purple and gold
fringe might mean. "Oh," explained
the hostess, s'it's a robe for a boy
neighbor of mine who has just attained
the dignity of acolyte in the Romish
church. Mrs. Murphy, his mother, is
taken suddenly i'll, and I'm finishing
this off to be ready for early mass to-
morrow morning." Before the Spec
tator" had time to remark on this intel
igence, young woman came in, and
asked if she might borrow Mrs. A. S
big coffee-pot for the Methodist mis-
sionary meeting. Certainly" said
Mrs. A, "but it isn't at home. think
you'll find it at the Baptist vestry.
They had it once there at the time of
their festival. I would get it for you
myself, but / shall be busy Monday
making cake for our church sociable,
and for you, too. haven't forgotten
that promised you some" The spec
tator afterward mentioned these cir
cumstances to friend of Mrs. A., and
was told that they were by nc means
unusual. That coffee-pot," declared
his informant, sis known far and wide.
1t appears at all the missionary gath
erings and sociables of every church,
and there is a story that it once went
to a Spiritualist camp-meeting. Mrs.
A is. active in our own church. Nobody
works harder for it. BUT she is just as
active in helping others. She seems to
regard everybody's religion as sacred
thing, and she does all she can to help
it on, whatever its form n1ev be- I"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23
The Size of Our Lakes.

The latest measurement of our fresh
water seas are as follows:
The greatest length OF Lake Superior
is $50 miles; its greatest breadth is 100
miles; mean depth, 68S feet; elevation,
627 feet; area, $4,000 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Michi-
gan is 800 miles; its greatest breadth,
108 miles; mean depth, 600 feet; eleva-
ton, SOC feet; area, $4,000 square
miles.
The greatest length of Lake Huron
is 200 miles; its greatest breadth, 169
miles; mean depth, 600 feet; elevation,
PA feet; area, 10000 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Erie is
250 miles; greatest breadth, so miles;
mean depth 81 feet elevation, 500 feet;
area, 5000 square miles.
The greatest length of Lake Ontario
is $50 miles;its greatest breadth, 65 miles;
mean depth, 500 feet; elevation, POI
feet; area, 5000 square miles.
The length of all five is 1858 miles,
covering an area upward of $4,000
square miles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23
The Evolution of the Horse.

l remember having seen sOmewh here
a picture OF Adam in the garb of Eden
riding a barebacked mustang, a lion
gamboling by his side. But in Holy
Writ the horse appears in only one as
pect-as the war horse. He saith
among the trumpets, Ha! ha! and he
smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder
Of the captains and the shouting" In
Genesis the name does not occur at all.
Nor, as matter Of fact, could it do So
seeing that the first ''horse" (the first
that science knows of was a little five
toed, sharp-nosed creature, much too
small for man of even our degenerate
stature to ride upon, and otherwise
also unsuitable for steed, and it is,
therefore, very probable that 1.-the first
man" never was on horseback. Yet
the use of the animal dates back to q
prodigious antiquity. The Assyrian
sculptures show US high-bred and care
fully caparisoned chargers, 5000 years
and more ago. Nor is it at all likely
that they were the first to train them,
for the horse is native of Central
Asia, and the early Aryan is hardly
likely to have wasted such a useful
beast. At any rate, that perfection to
which the extremely ancient Assyrian
monuments show US that the breeding
had attained some eighteen hundred
years before Christ must certainly have
taken long time for Development
The Gentleman s Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23

pointed place at her husbands table,
grooming under its weight of gold plate
Latterly Lady Georgiana had lived al
most entirely at Bournemouth, which
suited her own and her husbands
growing infrmities. Lord Granville.
to whom she was deeply attached, and
whose escape from town and more
pressing ties as often as he could to get
breath of the pine woods and to pass
night at Ayrheld. was truly, as well
as conventionally, the chief mourner on
Friday at the beautiful convent at Roe
hampton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23
THE FAN IS A GARMENT.

Did You suppose that clothes were
always Tor warmth and fans for cool
ness? Well, then, you are mistaken.
writes correspondent of the Utica o.
SerUer. Your theory is sound in the
main, but the ball belle now reverses
it. She goes to the gay gatherings of
dancers bare breasted, in tho fashion
sanctioned by polite usage. From
shoulder to shoulder, and from neck. to
a perilously low point, she has no COW
ering whatever. 1t is clear as can be
that her garb has no reference to
warmth. She is by it exposed at her
most sensitive area to cold. Every
draught of air threatens her with pneu-
monia, and each change from the tenn
perature of a room to that of cooler
one menaceS neuralgia or rheumatism.
In this quandary she has bethought
herself OF making her fan paradox.
She employs that article of adornment,
Irritation, and refrigeration for still an
other purpose. She gets a big one,
constructed of feathers on the outside,
or else a lace affair, which looks as
airy as her own corsage; but the inner
surface is covered with swans down,
under which is thick wadding. Armed
with that sort of fan, like the shield
of a Joan of Arc, she defends her breast
against the darts of death. If door
is opened to let the cold air in on her
while she is engaged in quadrille, she
spreads the fan closely to her bosom,
and thereby is instantly as much dress
ed as though high-necked gown,
chemise. and chamoiS underskirt had
been suddenly donned. If in the cir
cles of waltz she has to pass an open
window the fan is clapped into place.
White fur is in some instances used for
these fans. They are a great comfort
during the ball and opera season, as
sure you. But had to laugh at an
unsophisticated fellow who, the other
night, was discussing with a matron
the charms of a maiden who sat at the
opposite side of the hall.
''She is really so modest" he re-
marked, as gushingly as schoolgirl;
''see how she defends herself with her
fan against the eyes of the man who is
bending over her"
The fact was that she sat in breezy
spot, and was using her fur-lined fan.
ITS the wind she's afraid of, said
the matron.
''Bless my soul!' the chap calculated.
Il knew he was a rapid talker, but |
didn' t imagine he was such a converse
tiOnal blizzard as that
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23
Slang: Its Unpleasant Properties.

Our fine mother tongue seems lately
to have lost, and to be still losing, much
of its native dignity and music and
power. We seem to be entering upon
one eternal, universal carnival of slang.
It is impossible for any one who has
studied the essentially noble, deyout,
sincere, and earnest English character
at its sources; who in childhood has
heard the English language spoken in
everyday life in all its sincerity, purity,
and vigor; who knows and has studied
the magnificent capabilities of this in
strument of speech which our ancestors
have forged for us-it is impossible for
such an one to view without the bitter
est pain and diSmay the parallel degra-
dalton of English character and En-
glish speech which is rapidly taking
place. For the degradation of the En-
glish tongue implies the correlative
degradation of the national character.
Out of the fulness of the heart the
mouth speaketh. You know what a
great power this spirit of foolish banter
and slang IS in London life. Nothing
is attempted in truthful and earnest
manner, but up comes this evil mon
ster and spews its blistering froth of
filthy familiarity over every fair and
reverent deed, and nothing is left that
is sacred, or mysterious, or even de-
cent.-H 4. Jones, IN the English IL
Illustrated M0Qdzine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23
A NOTABLE WOMAN.

The death of Lady Georgiana Fuller
ton removes from Catholic society one
of its most characteristic figures, says
the London World. 1T is Lady Geor-
giana or beggar,'' said a lady once,
who caught sight of a coming visitor.
Her dress, indeed, was of kind so
extremely dowdy that one wondered
where she got it from; but to the NOR
tifcations she made for herself she by
no means desired to condemn her
friends. She liked the young people
about her to be as bright and as gay as
the rules of their religion would allow
them to be; and she took care to be the
only thing that had not the last finish
from Paris about it at her dining bic
when her friends came to see her in
Chapel street. Her manners were ever
of the sweetest, and they were not the
result so much of a studied politeness
as of natural goodness of heart and fas-
tidiousness of taste. 1t was told of her
that she once took the place of wo-
man who swept London crossing so
that the woman might 60 to mass, and
that nobody noticed the difference.
Yet she was equally at ease at the APP
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23
WOMAN GOSSIP.
The Charm of Southern Home Life Charm
nngly Portrayed.--A Ubiquitous
Coffee-Pot.
a New Use Discovered Tor the Fam
Death of Notable Woman.
SOUTHERN HOME LIFE.


The charm of southern home life,
says the New Orleans Times Democrat,
is all-pervasive, and it radiates from
southern young ladyhood. A creamy
complexion with faint pink flush I'M
derneath, soft eyes with world of
dream in them, rounded figure, tiny
hands and feet and kittenish ways
make it no marvel that the youth mas
culine of New Orleans is mostly mar
ried at %. These lovely danoiselles
make fascinating studies. They read
clever books and discuss their finger
nails, they are shocked at the conven-
tional appearance of the three-lettered
pedestrian member, but are ''enthusias-
tically devoted" to the ballet. At II
the New Orleans girl is a charmingly
developed poem, in which coquetrv and
an excellent idea of matrimonial neces-
sites make well-balanced meter and
admirable rhyme. She is innately and
entirely doIaestic, lovable and loving,
asking only to be shielded from the
facts of life, and permission to unlim-
tied pirouette.
One seldom sees plain-looking
member of the fair sisterhood under
%. After that the whole beautiful
structure is apt to be a collapse. But
in the day of her beauty and brightness
the American girl of the south is an
unparalleled example of beautiful wo-
manhood. She would rather firt than
vote, and much prefers the acquire
ment of the Kensington stitch to the
practice of medicine. She has number
less cousins all deeply in love with her,
and usually returns the tender passion
to a limited and discriminating degree,
but doesn't take it seriously. Indeed.
nothing is taken seriously here but cof-
fee.
Coffee is matter of great anxiety,
OF profound speculation, the key to do
nestle felicity, and the contents of
many a family jar. by their coffee
ye shall know them" is the popular
maxim concerning the grocers, and
dismal is the fate of the man of sugar
and spices who is weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting in the quality
IF the Mocha. The cousinly affection
OF the fair Louisianian is by no means
to be compared to her devotion to her
tiny after-dinner cup of the inspiring
brown fluid, and she is delightfully."- can
did in avowingit. The society girl has
no more to say than northern belle,
but she says it better. Conversational
ly, as in every other way, she is grace
full, arch, and in excellent taste. She
is not eloquent, but her eyes are, and
the thick play of light and shadow in
her face, the unobtrusive action of her
suggestive little hands, and the ever
changing emphasis and infection of
her soft syllabled words, put a world
of meaning into her most ordinary re-
marks. The only respect IN which her
taste is questionable is her unlimited
use of cosmetics. | have yet to meet
a pretty girl who does not endeavor to
enhance her beauty, and succeed in
Fastening its destruction, by the as
sistance of the powder puff-or mar
ried woman, or an old maid! They all
do it. If you keep your face clean you
are q northerner and barbarian.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23

In Bolston, England, there is club
of men composed entirely of habitual
wife-beaters. The object of the club is
mutual assistance and protection
When a member beats his wife and a
benighted magistrate fines him, hefne
is paid out of the club funds, and the
gentleman goes home and gives his
wife another beating just for luck. The
noble Briton must have his fun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23
The Parrot and the Monkey Story.

A well-worn American anecdote de-
scribes the result of owning both par
rot and a monkey. When the owner of
the bird and the beast comes home one
day he finds the monkey decked with
red and green feathers, but he does not
find the parrot for long while. At last
the bird appears from an obscure COR
ner plucked bare save a single tail
feather; he hops upon his perch with
such dignity as he can muster and
says, with infinite pathos: ooh, we
have had hell of time!' At first
nothing could seem more American
than this, but my friend Mr.. Austin
Dobson has recently drawn my atten-
ton to a story essentially the same in
Walpole's letters. Yet another parrot
story popular in New York, where a
well-known wit happens to be motto
rious sufferer, is as little American as
this of Walpole's. The sufferer is
supposed to ask the man who offers
the parrot for sale if it c-c-c-can TIT
talk. IF it could not talk better than
you I'd wiring its neck" is the vender's
indignant answer. [ found this only
the other day in Buckland's "Curiosi-
ties of Natural History" first published
nearly quarter of a century ago; in
all probability it is yet more ancient
LOnqn1G72' S Mdq0zi7le.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23
Everett Farnham died at Richmond.

Everett Farnham died at Richmond,
Summit County, Ohio, recently, at the
age OF 81 years. He was the largest
landowner in the county. He was ex-
ceedingly eccentric. He called his land
his domains. On his farm was large
tract of meadow-land which he called
Goods Heart, and of that he took
especial care. He was a great admirer
OF England and British customs, and
on a recent visit to London he under
took to lecture on the streets on the
benefits of repubGcanism and was ar
rested and fined. Four or five OF his
acres were inclosed as a park IN which
he kept deer, elk, and buffalo.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-23

A man who has travelled much saws
that life in the Northwest in winter
may be made as comfortablea as in anv
of the cities in the East. Hetinds that
the places where one suffers most in
the winter are in ATTITUDES like that of
South Carolina, where no reasonable
preparations are made for winter.