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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

The powers have agreed upon the
outlines of a memorandum to Turkey
and Bulgaria respecting the RoumelH
ian question. The porte refuses to
acknowledge the union, and the sui
tan is resolved to fight against the
further acknowledgements Of lis empire,
Active military preparations are in
progress throughout Turkey, and the
war fever is spreading among the
Moslems, VINO are volunteering free
Iy. The Greek consuIs III Turkey
have been instructed to maintain
friendly relations with the Ottoman
government
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

The bill passed by the last Michigan
legislature prohibiting the manufac~
ture and sale of oleomargarine has
been held unconstitutional by De-
troit judge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
milwaukee, Market.

+MmwAUKEE Oct NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 1914 for
seller cash: 9O4 for seller November; 9218 for sell
Ter December. Corn-Steady; No. 2, 1925. Oats
Quiet; No. 2, 25a8. Bye-Dull; No I, 6115. Bar
ley-Quiet; No. 2, Sc. ProVisions-Easier;
Mess pork, s 40 for seller cash and November;
$40 for seller December.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

On the LIST Of December there will
be nearly 100 vacancies in presiden
tial postoffces, caused by designations
and the expiration of commissions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

4 Chinese theatre is to be opened in
Philadelphia, in November. Only
tragedies are to be put on in the be-
ginning, which, owing to their great
length, will be acted IN sections on
Sunday nights. Only Chinese will ee
admitted to the theatre, as it is feared
the Mclean man would disturb the
performances.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

The late Earl of Dysart was very
eccentric man. 1t is said that when
he wanted pair of boots or shoes the
SOB of ST.. Crispin who supplied his
Lordship, had to measure his feet on
the outsida of his sitting-room door,
the noble legs being thrust through the
door panels.
There is building in New York In
which over 5000 persons lind office
room.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
ms and Outs,

Nothing is so productive of distress
ing headaches, as the tropical heat of
summer. st. Jacobs Oil will remove
them at once.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

A CASE of small pox has been dis
oyered in PiUtsburg, Pa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

A man who has never had teeth Is
living in Surater county, Ga. He Is 90
years old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

EARTHQUAKE shocks have been fell
n some portions of Spain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
A ROYAL TRAIN.
How the Emperor of Russia Travels
Luxury I'm Railway Cars
New York Telegram


The train which is always used by
the Emperor and Empress of Russia
for long journeys consists of sixteen
carriages, of which the first is a
kitchen, and then comes one for police
agents, one for the military suite.
three for members of the household
and two for the Imperial family, each
| Grand Duke having an entirely Sepa-
rate compartment, which can be fitted
for either day or night use. The car
riage of the Enpress las separate
sleeping compartment, with a ham
mock bed, furniture of ebony and
utensils Of silver and an immense
looking-glass. There is bath room
completely fitted and 8 compartment
for the lady IN waiting. The En-
press sitting room contains writing
table, a sofa and easy chairs.
The Empcror's sleeping carriage is
fitted with olive green leather and
only contains a bed and s. dressing
table and bath. Then comes a sitting
room, fitted very simple, and lastly
the dining room, which is furnished
with carved oak and merely contains
tables, chairs, and a sidcb0ad There
is communication throughout the
train from one esd TO the other. There
are many Americans who travel quite
as luxariously as the above potentates,
although they may not have such an
extensive train. a certain wealthy
lady of this city, who is something of
an invalid, not being able to bear the
jolting of cars, chartered q steamboat
10 take her to the Jersey coast last
summer. There are a number of the
railroad kings Of the United States
whose travelling cars are works OF art
and contain ali modern cOnvenionces.
AT meeting of engineers in Bos-
ton the relative danger from coal and
water gas was considered. This is
the conclusion: With coal gas it ap-
peared TO be difficult to introduce
enough into an ordinary room to be
dangerously poisonous; with water
gas it was not only possible but easy
to produce fatal results. AS far as
could be judged, tRe fatal effects in
the latter case resulted from the high
er percentage of car5onic oxide. There
seemed to be danger line" III the
use of tho carbonic oxide, and the
amount necessary for the danger limit
can be gained III water gas, but not in
coal gas. It wat not correct to say
that the former was two or three or
four times as fatal as the latter, any
more than it would be correct to say
that a grain of morphia was four
times as dangerous as one-fourth of a
grain. Beyond certain point little
more would be highly dangerous in
both cases.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
The Stolen Timber.
A Valuation of the Timber
Stolen by Railroads From
the Public Domain.
The Montana Improvement
Company is Involved i'll
the Game.

Timber Trespass Cases.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE follow
ing letter has just been received by
Commissioner Sparks:
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03

Powder is made from three ingredients,
charcoal made from willow or alder
wood for good rifle powder, and from
poplar for blasting POWDER, saltpetre
and sulphur, The saltpetre is refined
and ground as fine as flour, and with the
charcoal is taken to q separate building
and mixed in proper proportions with the
sulphur The whole is then taken tc
the first mill-the barrel mill-where
there are number of large casks made
to revolve on shafts. A certain quantity
of the mixture is put into each cask with
a large supply of common playing mar
bles; the whole is then set in motion and
is allowed to run for a certain number of
hours, the marbles serving to thoroughly
mix the different ingredients in their
continual revolution with them in the
casks. The noise made by the marbles
is deafening. From the barrel mill the
powder is taken to the rolling mills,
each of which contains large lion pan
with two heavy wheels weighing seven
tons apiece, which run round and
round inside the pan. The pow
der is spread over the bottom of
the pan, about one hundred pounds
making charge" The wheels are
set in motion and allowed to run over
the powder from two to three hours, &C
cording to the quality of powder desired.
The attendant at these mills starts the
machinery and then very prudently takes
a walk until the time is up, as the pro-
cess is an extremely dangerous one. The
powder not being as yet far advanced
toward completion, when these mills ex-
plode it rarely ever kills outright the
persons who happen to be in them, but
it burns them so frightfully that they
finger in the most fearful agony for sew
eral hours.
From this wheel-mill the powder is
taken to the press-house, where there is
powerful hydraulic press. The powder
is built up in tiers with heavy canvas be-
tween each tier, and then the pre- sure is
put on. This is so great that it presses
the powder in cakes about two feet
square and one inch thick, and it comes
out almost as hard as glass. 1t is then
taken to the corning mill, where the
cakes are run between heavy rollers and
ground up in the different sizes required.
After that it goes to the drying house,
where it is spread out on trays with can
vas bottoms and subjected to as great a
heat as It will bear Until it is thoroughly
dried. The whole process is ended in
the glazing mill, which much resembles
the barrel-mill, except that instead of
using marbles with the powder a small
quantity of black-lead is put into each
cask and the polish is thus given to the
powder, which before this is of black
ish gray color. On leaving the glaze the
powder is ready to be packed and sent
to the market. -NeU York Tribune.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
The Bank of England.

In an article on England's great finan
cial institution the F0rtnightly ReeieO
saws The total number of employees all
told in the bank is about 1, 100, and the
salary list, including pensions, is about
G300, 900 per annum. There is an excel
lent library and reading room in the
bank, to which the directors have liberal
ly contributed both money and books.
There are also Widows Fund and
Guarantee society, life insurance com
pany, a volunteer company, and a club,
or dining room, where clerks can dine
cheaply and well, connected with the
bank, which owe very much of their
prosperity to the liberality and kind con.
sideration of the directors The COVER
nors and directors of the bank divide be-
tween them GA, 900 per annum. OF
this the governors receive 81 900 each
and the directors $500 each. Beyond
the status which their position gives
them they derive no benefit from their
Office, while they tax themselves most
literally by their contributions toward
the welfare of tncir clerks. The COVER
nor and deputy governor remain in office
for two years only, and this short tenure
of Office is, with considerable reason,
thought to be detrimental to the efficient
and consistent administration OF the
functions of government.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Milking Cows.


That cows should be regularly MIXED
is equally us important as that they
should be regularly fed, and every TAR
mcr knows how much more quiet ami
mails are which become accustomed. to
regularity in feeding. They learn to ex-
pect their feed at a certain time and are
on the lookout for it at that time ano not
at any other, and are quiet; while if fed
with irregularity they are continually
upon the lookout and uneasy for the
want of feed. So with milking; if there
is regularity the COW is expecting the
time and is quiet.
There is no giving down of milk, as is
termed, before the time, that results in
any painful distension in the udder. In
the sta of nature it is probable that
the COW is relieved of her milk a great
many times during the day, because the
calf left with its mother helps itself as fire.
quen:ly as its inclination prompts. Under
such circumstances the udder of the
mother will remain sma |, because there
is no necessity of enlargement to contain
twelve hours of milk. But if milking is
to be conducted only twice in twenty
four hours, there must be an
uuHdIuTal enlargement WHICH 10 llaUlc W
produce feverish symptoms, hence 1t is
better not to allow the calf to run with
the COW, but to have access to her at
certain regular times and then the udder
becomes accustomed to the accumulations
of milk and attains a natural distension
which will occasion no feverishness. But
in this practice when the time of milking
arrives it should be attended to, because
the udder is fully distcndcd, and if the
milk is not removed, the animal will
suffer pain, and again will arise danger
of fever.
If milking is delayed too long nature
will cndeavor TO relieve the poor animal
and an absorption Of the milk into the
blood will to some extent take place, and
that which remains will become deterio-
'ated, and if the practice of neglect in
milking at regular times occurs with
much frequency, the regular secretion of
milk will be diminished and finally per-
nanently checked, and if continued for
any considerable length of time the ami
nal is liable to become wholly dry. as
has sometimes been the case. Thus will
DC seen the necessity of great regularity
In this important branch of agriculture.
Lancaster (Peaa.) Examiner.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
Queer Habits of Ants.

Most of the members of each commu-
nifty of honey ants are active and rowing
in their dispositions, and show no ten
dency to undue distenson of the neither
extremities They go out at night and
collect nectar or honey dew from the
gall insects on oak trees. This nectar
they carry home and give it to the ro-
funds or honey bearers, who swallow it
and store it il their round abdomen I'M
til they can hold no more. They pass
their time chiefly sleeping and clinging
upside down to the roof of their resi-
dence. When the workers require a
meal they go up to the nearest honey
bearer and stroke her gently with their
antenne. The honey bearer thereupon
throws up her head and gives out large
drop of the amber liquid. The workers
feed upon the drop thus eXudel, two or
three at once often standing around
the living honey jar and tapping nectar
together from the lips of their devoted
comrade.
The big rcd ant of Southern Europe
makes regular slave raid upon the nests
of the small brown ants and carries off
the young in their pupa condition. By
and by the brown ants hatch out in their
strange nest, and, never having known
any other life except that of slavery, ac-
commodate themselves to it readily
enough. The red ant, however, is still
only an occasional slave owner; if neces-
sary, he can get along by himself with
out the aid of his little brown servnnts.
Indeed, there are free states and slave
states of red ants side by side with one
another, as of old in Maryland and Penn
sylvania; in the first the red ants do
their work themselves like mere vulgar
Ohio farmers; in the second they get
their work done for them by their indus.
trious little brown servants, like the aris-
tocratic first families of Virginia before
the earthquake of emancipation. H. Corn
hill Magazine.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
NEWSY GLEANINGS

SURF bathing has commenced in San
Diego, Cal.
GREAT BRITAIN has 1904 more females
than males.
FRANCE has more suspension bridges than
any other nation.
THE skating rink fever has reached the
Sandwich Islands.
THE descendants of Brigham Young now
number lj,OOJ persons.
THIS country controls three quarters of the
cornfields of the whole world.
PROVIDENCE, R l.. has eighty churches
one to every 800 inhabitants
The great grain sections of California are
suffering from the lack of rain.
The value of wood used annually in coop.
srage in the United States is S33, 1ll,710.
A YOUNG boy who is studying at the Yves
leyan institute Illinois, weighs 335 pounds
JAPAN now has, in round numbers, 10000
common schools, 5000, OO0 pupils and 81, 5Ot
teachers
PENNSYLVANIA stands first in the produc
ton of powder, and New York and Ohio
come next.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03

is now sowp for fodder and cut when the
plant is in tassel, yielding thirty tons to
the acre. The fodder is preserved in
silos, and the corn is out of the way in
time for a late crop of turnips. The
English farmers find corn ;he best crop
they can raise for fodder.
a mixture of two gallons of crude pc
troleum oil with one gallon of fish oil,
combined with any cheap paint, makes
an excellent prcservative for farm build
ings and i'm Elements. The fish oil is
better than linseed, as it docs not pene-
trate so deeply, and the same quantity
will go further. A gallon'of this paint
will cover 100 square feet of shingles.
1t should be used literally, and one APP
plication will last ten to fifteen years,
according to the exposure.
A change of soil is always beneficial to
the flower border. With some kinds of
flowers, the verbena for instance, a new
soil is great luxury for which they will
be very grateful. The first two inches of
with about third of the surface soil of
an old wood, makes an excellent medium
i'll which to grow border plants, not the
mere rotten leaves from wood, but the
dark, black humus in which the roots of
the trees and other rank vegetable roots
have already begun to run riot.
To kill scale the following wash is re.
commended: Kerosene, three gallons;
whale oil soap, half pound; water, one
gallon. Dissolve the soap in hot water
and add boiling hot to the oil. Churn
the mixture at least five or ten minutes
if possible through the spray nozzle of a
good force pump. This emulsion is a
thick cream, which should adhere to the
surface of glass and show no oiliness.
For use, dissolve one part of emulsion
with ten parts of water. The above
formula is for thirty gallons of wash.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
An Eel Found in a Grain of Wheat,

An interesting experiment by which
specimens for the microscope are OBJ
tanned is thus described in the Manu-
facturer's Gazette; Take a few grains
of dry wheat; if it is little blacklist
looking, all the better. Soak it in water
and set in the sun for couple of days
ia saucer or any other convenient dish.
When it softens considerably take it out
of the water and with a sharp knife split
open the grains of wheat and ut it 1--WE
mean, of course, the material taken out
of the grain of wheat into watchglass,
without any water and with as little
crushing as possible, and when you have
all that you wish two or three grains of
wheat will be enough) drop on few
drops of water and leave it for few
hours in the sunshine, with the watch
glass covered up to prevent dust, and
you will find cells, lively fellows, too
You can mount them in Deane's gelatine
medium or in marine glass as medium,
cover and press very gently so as not to
crush, and you will find very minute
specimen OF the eel and from the grain
of wheat
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
Feed Mills, Feed Cutters, Pumps,

Etc. are made by the same company as the
mill, and adapted for operation by one of
their geared wind mills.
We are also q ents in Orwell an vicinity
for the justly-celebrated
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03

1t is claimed by La Nature that the
highest railroad viaduct in the world is
that ofthe Garabit bridge, France. That
remarkable structure is 1900 feet long,
and near the middle of the great central
arch the distance from the bed of the
river to the rail is Alb feet.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
MINERS PERILS.
More than 100 Killed by Three Ex-
plOsiOns in One Day.

Forty miners were imprisoned and instant
ly killed by an explosion of fire damp in the
Dombrau-O rnau Mining company's collery
at Troppau, in Austrian Silcsia.
Fifty-six miners were killed on the same
day by an explosion in the mines owned by
Baron Rothschild, at Astran, Austria.
AT !: 30 m. an explosion of gas occurred
at the coal mines of Senior Erazuriz in Lebu,
Chill. Thirty-tive miners were killed and
thirteen dangerously wounded
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
Remington Pump,

One of the best non-freezing lifting and
force pumps made
Parties desiring either mills or pumps are
requested to call on or address US.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03

The collection contains the first and
last messages of General Garfield and the
message of President Arthur nomina-
ting General Grant to his place upon the
retired list of the army.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03

uET Dior working people. Send1O cents pos
aCAI tage and we will mail You free, a royal,
valuable sample box OF goods that will put you in
The way OF making more money in a few days than
yeopired YpU can live AT home and WORK in snare
time only, all the time. All OF both sexes OF sll
ages, gIandly successful. so cents TO IS easily
earned every evening. That all who want work
may test the business, we make this unparalleled
offer To all who not well satisfied we will send
81 10 pay for the trouble OF writing us. Full partc-
ulars, directions, etc, sent free Immense pay alb
solutey sure for all who start once. Don't delay.
Address STINsoN q Co, Portland, Maine.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-11-27
Pension Commissioner Blacks Annual
Report.

WASHINGTON, November 26 The Secre-
tary of the Interior has received the an
nual report of Gen. John c. Black, Com
missioner of Pensions, for the year ended
June 30, 1885. 1t shows that there were
st the close of the year 345, ,l25 pensioners.
During the year there were added 35.767
new names and 1885 reinstatements. Dnr-
ing the same period the names of Is, ,233
pensioners were dropped from the roll for
various causes, leaving a net increase of
2, 1859. The average annual value of each
pension at the close of the year is shown
to be S1l0 S6, and the aggregate value Of
all pensions is $sS, ,090, 1856, an increase over
total value for the previous yeas of $3,-
634, ,3S4. The amount paid for pensions
during the year is S64, ,97S, ,435, an increase
in amount over the previous year of aS,-
O6Q S2S
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-11-27
1910.

He spoke st length OF the great prosperity
of the nation, Of the fast disappearance of
sectionalism, and of the present conserva-
tive administration of the government,
and took strong grounds in favor of civil
service reform. He deprecated what he
termed the "epoils SYSTEM" first con-
ceived by Aaron Burr, fostered and en-:
couraged by Van Buren in New York, and
put into practical operation in the nation
by Jackson. Monopolists received gen.
tie rebuke, and the threatened dangers OF
communism were descanted on. He in
voked the strict observance of truth, JUS
tics, religion and piety as being the corner
stones OF good government. In the chancel
OF the church there was an artistic dis play
of fruits, vegetables, cotton. grain, and, In
fact, all the products OF the soil
OF this climate. Thank offerings were
made by the congregation, previously
cent in, of provisions of various kind for
the poor of the parish. These offerings
we're in packages of from one pound to
barrels. Aftsr service they were distrib-
uted to the poor under the supervision of
the Daughters of st. Andrew" q long
established society, composed of the young
ladies CT the congregation, and which has
proved to be most valuable and indis-
pensable adjunct to the parish. The Pres
byterian, Methodist and Baptist congrega-
tions held a joint service at the Baptist
church, where the Rev. DIR. G. G. Andrews,
pastor of the Methodist church, delivered
an able and appropriate sermon, mingled
with the Thanksgiving and rejoicing.
There is deep sorrow here among our
people over the death of Yiee-President
Hendricks. Flags on public buildings are
at half mast. The sorrow is general and
genuine,