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, 1885-06-14
LOCAL MAVERICKS.
Unbranded News Notes I'icked Up
About The City.

" having p's rest
Governor Warren's new chair is a
beauty.
The boy choir at the Episcopal church
sing well
The young trees about the city art
prosperlng.
The A~nheuser-B Busch company are en-
larging their bottling works west of the
city.
The Presbytery Of Boulder meets in
Fort Collins at II a. M. on Wednesday,
June IL.
Prof. Pasmore will conduct the music
at the Presbyterian church this morning
and evening.
There will be the usual prayer meeting
Wednesday evening at the First Presby-
terrain church.
There will be excellent music at the
Episcopal church at both morning and
evening services.
George Taylor is going to lecture short
~. This accounts for 80 many people
going away temporarily.
S;no;no birds will ada ,h.;r so,as ,o,ho
music of the children at the Congrega-
tional church this evening.
The finest work on shirts collars and
cuffs IN the CITY At the steam l,nndrv
cornor Eighteenth and n. Nail
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Sunday morning will he a momorial sorry.
ice. An friends Of the late Mr. A r.
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"A, meeting OF Tue eo~ngrega'loh OIL the
~respy.erian cnurcn a was APP
po'n.eu 10 urait suitable resolution, re-
garding tne oeeease oil MT a. II. Con
verse lie mas peer a strong supporter OF
tnat churcn rom us beginning and heid
'ne once Oh trustee lor a NUMBER Oh years
There is talk among members of the
Grand Army of producing shortly at the
opera house an original play which will
not only afford some excellent amusement,
but will add to the funds necessary for the
encampment in September. 1t is a good
idea. The proposed play is by a local
author The amateurs will have the as
sistance of several professional actors in
, 1885-06-14

Go to Rhodes and Troxells for soda
water where you have a choice Of twenty
two syrups with pure cream.
, 1885-06-14

| have the largest and most complete
clothing house in Wyoming, and can and
will sell clothing cheaper than any other
house IN the territory. u. Holman
, 1885-06-14

Finely favored Ice Cream and Sweet
ened Wind at Peabody until further
notice.
, 1885-06-14
For fine watch repairing,
DAVID MILLER, ldelman block.

Trunks and v%alises, largest assortment
and lowest prices at Polack's
, 1885-06-14

Omaha steel barbed wire, Call for
prices at Arp X Conway's.
, 1885-06-14

i Dept; Cheyenne, Eyo.
, 1885-06-14

,~ocumnet in poor Photographic condition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
Chinese Journalism.

A visit to the Chinese printing
establishment, says a Saa Francisco
paper, is productive of much that is
interesting. Movable types are in use
in San Francisco Chinese newspaper
offices. Tue manner of getting a
Chinese newspaper on the press and
printing is very primitive. The editor
takes American newspapers to friends,
from whom he gets translation of
the matter he needs, and after getting
it written in Chinese in manner salts
factory to him he carefully writes it
upon paper chemically prepared.
Upon the bed of the press, which is oil
the style that went out of use with the
last century, is a Telegraph stone.
Upon this the paper is laid until the
impression of the character is left
there. a large roller is mixed and
passed over the stone after it has been
dampened with a wet sponge, aud
nothing remains but take the impress
sion upon the newspaper to be. The
Chinese pressman prints three papers
every five minutes, five papers in the
same tune less than Benjamin Frank
lin had a record for. A Chinese print
ing Office has never been struck by
lightning.
The life Of a Chinese journalist is q
happy one. He is free from care and
thought, and allows al the work of
the establishment to be done by the
pressman. The Chinese compositor
has not yet arrived The Chinese
editor, like the rest Of his countrymen
is initiative. He does not depend upon
his brains for editorials, but translates
them from the contemporaneous
American newspapers he can get.
There is no humorous department in
the Chinese newspaper. The news
paper Office has no exchanges scattered
over the floor, and in nearly all other
things it differs from the American
establishment. The editorial room is
connected by ladder with bunks on
the loft above, where the managing
editor sleeps, and next to it is, invari-
ably, a room where an opium bunk
and a layout reside.
Evidences of domestic life are about
the place, pots, kettles and dishes tax,
ing up about as much room as the
press. IN one instance, on Washing
ton street, a barber shop is run IN the
same apartment with the editorial
room, and, in all cases, no disposition
is shown to elevate the position of the
printer" above his Surroundings. If
an editor finds that journalism does
not pay, he gets a job washing dishes
or choppIng woad, and he does not
think he has descended far either.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
The Yanne Aqueduct, France.

The Vanne aqueduct, France, which
is some 81 miles long, is said to be the
most important and costly wol k that
has ever been constructed of artificial
stone. This aqueduct, which supplies
the city of Paris with water, travers-
ing the forests of Fontainebleau it's
entire length, comprises 81 to miles
of arches, some of them as much as
so feet in height, II miles of tunnels,
and eight or ten bridges of from rs to
125 feet span, for the bridging of riv~
ers, canals and highways. The smaller
arches are half circles, and are gener
ally of a uniform span of about 80
feet, with thickness at the crown of
some 16 inches; their construction was
carried on without interruption
throug h winter and summer, ana the
character of the work was not at all
affected by either extreme of tempera~
ture. The spandrels were carried up
in open work to the level of the crown,
and upon the arcade thus prepared
the aqueduct pipe was melded of the
same material, the whole becoming
firmly knit together into a perfect
monolitb. The construction of the
arches was carried On about two weeks
in advance of work on the pipe, and
the centers struck about week later.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
NOTES BY THE WAY.

John Sherman wiuks one eye and
observes that his forthcoming tour of
the south will be for the purpose Of
removing sectional prejudices.
The British Government has order
ed the payment of G100 to each Of the
widows Of the Canadian voyagers
who lost their lives with Wolseley IN
the Soudan.
Frye, of Maine, knows how to make
an ass of himself as we'll as any other
partisan III America. He says "Dem-
ocracy leads to crime, and the cul-
mination of all crimes is democracy.
The house in Philadelphia which
the people Of that city gave to General
Grant at the close of the war will be
sold at auction on She Cd of June. It
cost $33, 200 when new, and is worth
about that much now, it Is said.
DR.. r. W. Jones, secretary of the
Southern Historical Society, said at
Atlanta the other evening, in the
course of lecture on the war, that If
Stonewall Jackson had been in ON
mand at Gettysburg General Long
street would have been shot on the
field.
When train Of cars runs over any
body in Mexico the engineer, fireman,
brakeman and conductors are arrested
and hurried off to an interior prison.
Several train HANDS have been locked
up for more than year, and the
managers Of the roads are trying to
secure their release.
Uncle Overton, colored, Ill years
old, of jackson, Tenn, had fall the
other day, and fearing that it might
result farally be came under convic-
ton of sin and expressed a desire to
join the church. Thousands of people
assembled on Sunday to witness the
old mans immersion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
A SparrOW's Nest.
Hartford (Ct.) Times.

An awing in front of an office en-
Main street was let down few days
ago after being up all winter. In It's
folds were a great variety of things,
the most noticeable being a sparrow's
nest, IN which were five eggs. It was
a perfect little nest, and its arrange>
ment was striking. The birds had
caught it up by means of a string so
that it formed swing. The string
was passed from one side of the nest
to the awing rod, and on the other
side the fastening was through little
staple ring in the brick work Of the
building. In order to make the string
hold fast in this ring, it appeared to
human vision as a necessity that it
should be wound round twice the in
stinct ofEthe birds were equal to the
mechanical situation. They put the
string around twice, and it was thus
held fast. Unconsciously this little
home, In the process Of spring clean
ing up for business purposes, is now
broken up-and it seems a pity-after
all the little birds had done to make
it comfortable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
Russia After Persia, Not India.

That the Russians are ever likely to
invade India is improbable. I have
no doubt, however, that they are by
no means sorry to have approached
India, because, in case of a dispute
with us in Europe, their presence so
near to Cur Indian possessions would
obIlge us to send troops to India in
stead of-as was the case during the
Turco Russian War-bringing Indian
troops into the Mediterranean. But
for this I do not blame them. We can
not insist that Central Asia should be
given over to barbarism in order that
our position in India and in Europe
may be strengthened The Russians
had as good a right to annex Turke-
stan as we had to make our numerous
annexations IN India. We are too apt
to view everything through English
spectacles and to imagine that other
powers will oblige US by doing the
same. Nor can we isolate our posses
slons III all parts of the world by per
petuating deserts on their frontiers
The Russians, no doubt, wish to reach
the ocean, but their objective point is
not India, but Persia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28

Frank Dwight, and William Emery,
alias Sophus. It was this party the
guards and officers noticed about the
camp-f fire the night before. There
they perfected a plan to rob the rich
train. The train plan was to board
the train at Waseon, cut hole IN the
door of the express car undo the fas-
Jennings, enter, seize and gag the mess
senger, capture the keys, and throw
off the safes somewhere near Swan
tons Crossing, where others were
ready to receive the wealth. In an
ticipation OF this attack the officers
had made arrangements also, and
when the robbers had carried out their
purpose so far as to bore holes in the
door, and reached a readiness to break
into the car. Cone, who was in the
express car with the messenger and
Chapin, seized the bell-rope with one
hand, while the latter stood ready to
grasp the arm of the robber when it
should be put through the holes to
unfasten the door. Capt. Purdy with
others of the guard and officers were
in the baggage car waiting the signal
from Cone. Near Swanton crossing
Hartwell, who led the robbers, insert
ed his arm through the hole he had
bored, and while feeling for the key
Chaplin seized him with an iron grip.
Cone gave the signal, and at that in
slant the baggage car door opened
and out rushed upon the amazed rob
bers Capt. Purdy, Sergt. Noble, De-
tective Cavanaugh, and Tom Hart.
On the narrow platform of the car a
desperate struggle took place between
eight men. The night was dark and
stormy, the rain had rendered the
steps of the platform slippery, and
desperation drove the robbers to at
tempt to jump from the train, drag
ging their captors with them. Every
one of the gang was captured, tried
and sentenced to long terms in the
penitentiary. A wife of one of the
robbers gave the express company 8
clew to what was being planned, anC
this led to the results narrated"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
Birds and Their Feathers,

The best time for seeing perfect
feathering Is In the winter. or onward
to the Spring then, after very
short honeymoon, the birds settle
down to domestic drudgery with ex-
emplary ardor, with the result that at
the end of few weeks their tail-feath-
ers are rough and irregular, their pin
ions worn and ragged from constant
contact with the nest IN setting and
by the time their new suit comes at
midsummer, they are more than
ready for il. The spring, of course,
is the climax of birds's life. With
scrupulous care he arranges hourly
his feathers, all their markings are
seen to perfection, and many peculi~
arities of decoration are then and
there alone displayed. The feshy
combs and protuberances become
scarlet and enlarged, and any one
who has not seen a pheasant or cock
grouse at this season of love would
be astonished at the alteration from
his normal state. The cock pigeons
swells that part OF his body most
adorned with iridescent feathers to
make the grandest show he can and
every uuu1U1S uuCu anu StEall ora
brushes up his modest fnery. It is
SAID that not single bright colored
feather on any birds body is left idle
or unplayed. If birds have bright
colored tails, they raise them to their
highest and fullest and abase their
heads if bright heads, then they
shake out their plumes, their eye DIS
tends, and their wattles swell and if,
as in some cases, they have large tip
pets of feathers falling on both sides
of the head, they contrive the be-
wildered hen shall see all the glories
of both sides at one glance, and so
drag all the feathers of the far side
round to the near side, making such
huge mass that the face ss nearly
hidden, and the projecting beak alone
SHOWS where tFe head must be. All
this is done for the hens benefit, and it
is only done when she is near it all
turns on her existence and ceases if
she is absent. Wbymper, in
the Magazine of Art for June.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
John Adams and His Latin.

John Adams, the second President
of the United States, used to relate
the following anecdote:
when I was boy I used to study
the Latin gramner; but it was dull,
and I hated it. Ny father was anx-
ious to send me to college, and there
fore [ studied the grammar, till I
could bear it no longer; and going to
ny father, told him [ did not like
study, and asked for some other en-
ployment. 1t was opposing his wish
es, and he was quick in his answer.
We'll, John, If Latin grammar does
not suit you, you May try ditchlng ;
perhaps that will. Ny meadow, yon-
der needs ditching, and you may put
by Latin,s and try that"
'This seemed delightful change,
and to the meadow I went. But L
soon found ditching harder than Lat
in, and the first forenoon was the
longest I had ever experienced. Tha.
day I ate the bread of labor, and 1ght
glad was I when night came on. That
night [ made some comparisons be-
tween Latin and ditching, but said
not a word about it, dug next fore
noon, and wanted to return to Latin
at dinner; but it was humiliating,
and I could not do it, At night toll
conquered pride; and though it was
one of the severest trials of my life, I
told my father, that if he chose, I
would go back to Latin grammer.
He was glad Of it; and if I have since
gained any distinction it has been
owing to two davs' labor in that abOm-
Unable ditch"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
Malaria Attitudes.

While malaria belongs chiefly to
low~lying districts, it may. under
favorable conditions exist at great
elevations. On the Tuscan Appenni-
nes it is found at height of LOO
feet above sea level on the Pyrennees
and Mexican Cordilleras, 5000 feet
on the Himalayas, 6,40O feet; on the
Island of Ceylon. 6, 500 feet, and on
the Andes, II, 900 feet. Under ordin-
ary circumstances, however, certain
moderate altitude affords immunity
from malaria. The elevation of en-
tire security is not positively known,
but 1t has been approximated as fol-
lows: In Italy. 400 to 500 feet; in
California, 1000 feet; in the Appala-
chan cham Of the United States,
5000 feet; in the West Indies, 1900
feet. In any of these regions malaria
may driI, up ravines to an indefinable
height.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
Wise and Otherwise.

A jury can hang a man and man
can hang jury.
A mustard plaster may not be very
artistic but it draws we'll.
1t is not safe for young lady to
undertake silk cure. Think of people
saying that Miss Hocknsmith has
1000 worms.
''What is love?" asks everybody,
and somebody replies: 'It is a feel
ing that you don't want another fel>
low fooling around her.
A New York school teaches young
ladies chow to lie gracefully in bed.n y
1t should also teach New York editors
how to lie gracefully Ia their news
papers.
When Fogg bought some candy
Which was apparently one-third terra
alba, he handed it back, after tasting
it, with the remark; "L only want
what I pay for. I don't want the
earth"
A Chicago woman scared burglar
away by pointing a hair brusn at
him. Some men who have been boys
can never look at a hair brush or a
slipper In the haads of woman with
out wanting to run.
A man whose knowledge is based
on actual experience says that, when
calling on their sweethearts, young
men should carry affection in their
hearts, perfection in their manner
and confection in their pockets.
"You must caltivate decision of
character, and learn to say No, said
father to his son. Soon afterward
when the father told his son to chop
wood, the boy said ''No" with an en-
phasis that showed remembrance OF
the lesson.
A poet in the Philadelphia Bulletin
gives himself away in the first line,
Which reads: "We met as thirsty
strangers meet in some far distant
land" This being the case the first
thing was said by each was, probably,
Have you anything to drink about
you?"
A married couple were out prone
nading in the suburbs of Austin one
day. Presently the wife said:
Think, Albert, if the brigands should
come ana take nae from you. I'M
possible, my dear" "But suppo Sc
they did come and carry me away
what would you say?" ST should
say" answered the husband, "that
the brigands were new at the busi-
ness. That's all. ."--Texas Siftings.
An Irishman who was very near
sighted, about to fight duel, insisted
that he should stand six PAGES nearer
his antagonist than he did to him,
and that they should both fire at the
same time. This beats Sheridan's tel
ling a fat man who was going to
fight thin one that the latter's thin
figure ought to be chalked on the 9th
ers portly person, and if the bullet hit
him outside Of the chalk~mark it was
to go for nothing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
She Ran The Engine.
Wichita Eegle.

All the engineers on this end of the
Fort Scott road accompanied the re-
mains OF McDaniels to Fort Scott last
Saturday. On Sunday it was found
necessary to send a train out to the
Nix nescah bridge with material, and
no engineer being on hand, Mr..
George n. Baumen put his daughter
Bessie, a school girl, in charge of the
engine, furnished her with a fireman,
and she did her WORK nobly, handling
the throttle and guiding the IRON steed
as well as the best man on the road.
We don't know of any other road hav-
ing female engineers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
SCRAPS OF NEWS.

Illinois is being worked by insur>
ance fraxds.
The Atlanta, Ga, victims of ice
cream Poisoning will recover.
The English parliament will soon
take up the new irish crime act.
Bradstreet's reports the state of trade
in merchandise as considerably below
the late averages.
Judge Field, of California, is fight
ing Gen. Rosecrans before the Wash
ington administration.
Five children of Henry Lewiston
were cremated in the burning of his
farmhouse near Owatonna, Mimi.
Police Sergeant Crowley was found
guilty of assaulting Maggie Morris in
New York, and will be imprisoned
from ten to twenty years.
Munsell. one of the jurors in the
Short trial, New York, was sentenced
to 80 days in prison and fined $25 for
contempt of court.
It is believed still that the Amalga-
mated association and the iron manu>
facturers will arrive at an amicable
adjustment OF their differences.
The remains of Arthur Q. Preller,
found in a trunk at st. Louis, have
been embalmed by his cousin in New
York, and will be shipped to Eng
land.
During the month of April SO, 943
emigrants arrived at the several
American ports. Ireland contributed
the largest number of any one nation
-8,076. There were but 1, ,8O1 from
Germany.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
The American Boys Weakness.
Hartford Times.

4 certain father in MiGdletown at.
tended one Of the meeting Sunday
with his little son. When it was an
nounced that the collection would be
taken the father gave the boy money
for that purpose, but what was his
astonlshment when the box was pass
ed to see the little fellow hold on to
the money. Upon being asked the
reason for SO doing, he replied: "Sav-
ing it for the circus
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
Nice Family Arrangement.
From the Hartford (Kas.) Call.

A gentleman in Lyon county four
teen years ago married a lady with a
little daughter by former husband.
After twelve years he obtained a
divorce from his wife and soon after
married her daughter, The fun of it
all is in the fact that the divorced
wife, now his mother-in-law, lives
with her daughter and husband,
and all are as happy as quails.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
Important Test Cases.

From the Topeka Kas) Commonwealth
Attorney General Bradford states
that a case viii shortly be prepared
for the Supreme Court IN which will
be involved the question of the power
Of q party to manufacture beer for
mechanical, medicinal and Scientific
purposes, under the Prohibitory law.
The case viii be in the nature of
civil suit in injunction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28

ing public reads the additional state
ment that the boatman rescued the
hand organ from watery grave,
there will be no disposition in the
public mind to award the boatman a
medal. Bath boatmen evidently lack
discrimination.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28
Drawing the Line on the Organ.

From the Lewiston (Me.) Joxrnal.
A Bath boatman saved an Italian
organ grinder from drowning Thurs
day: There was nothing objection
able IN that, but when long suffer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28

The president will attend the Mont.
gomery county (Md.) fair on June 5,
by way OF preparation for the autumn
agricultural events,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-05-28

SIN anger few her agile jaws, and
swear words darted from her tongue;
the maid was fighting mad because,
she couldn't make her bangs stay
bung."