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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
A MEXICAN LAKE LOST.
City of Mexico Two Republics

The Metztitlan lake in the state Of
Eidalgo headwaters of the panuco
river, has disappeared within the last
few days, and no explanation is offer
ed at its strange conduct. 1t was a
lake at the time some six miles long.
and was located Ia the open MetzGitlan
plain. EVen during the dry season it
was quite a body of water, A few
MORNINGS since D subterranean rumble
was heard, low and sullen, which
shook the hills around. The strange
quaking was especially noticeable on
the Colo de las Yegus hill. The PEG
pie living in the vicinity of the Tajo
hill were especially alarmed; at that
pass is the tunnel which for some time
past has been made to carry eff the
surplus water. AS soon as the sounds
ceased the waters of the lake began
disappearing rapidly till ali had gone.
They emptled into a cavity In the
vicinity of the pass. The land just
beyond commences to rise, and has
always served, from time immemorial,
as dixie to hold back those waters.
It is not known where the water
which existed there has gone, as the
Panuco river. hitherto partially feed
by this lake, has not evidently receiv-
ed them. The government should
make scientific examination of the
matter. The waters which empty on
this plain are many. The streams
from the hills cover a territory Of
thirty leagues with their tributaries
from the sTulancingo heights to the
natural dixie at the Tajo, great bowl
among the mountains. This bowl
has beeu almost filled at times during
the rainy season, and has been con-
slant menace, overlooking fields and
crops, and many farm on the shores
of the Metzitlan lake has been ruined
by the rising waters. The tunnel
thus drilled by nature itself has given
outlet to the waters, and those people
have without further effort solved a
difficult problem. Work will proba>
bly, now be discontinued on the tun>
mel, which was slowly at the expense
of all the porperty- holders in the
vicinity, who could not well afford
the cost But it is also necessary to
examine the phenomenon with refer
ence to its after consequences, and so
as to avoid evils which might arise.
Hygienic measures should be adopted
to purify the air from the effects of
the decomposition of fishes, left behind,
as we'll as to remedy the miasmatic
exhalation from what is yet vast
marsh
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

every sale on a strip of paper, and
drops clipped bit into locked re-
ceptacle. There is a man who owns
thirteen large bar~rooms, all exlrava~
gantly fitted up, and located in places
of fashionable thronging. He says
that he would oe ruined in year, in
stead of enriched by his extensive
business, if he did not take such meas
ure against offering Every horse
car company uses complicated and
effective system Of bell-ringing and
registry for fares. Retail stores of all
kinds are similarly QUILTED. Even
the more prosperous soda water and
cigar stands are provided with checks
and clockswork to enforce honesty,
On the Brooklyn elevated railroad
the ticket-sellers do not SO much as
touch the tickets, but jigger them out
through the spout Of registering
machine, from which the passengers
larry them to the drop boxes at the
gates. Thus nobody employed in the
stations ever handles a ticket, and
there is no chance for collision. Re
sentiment over these things has worn
away, and I shouldn't be much sur
prised at the early introduction of
patent. self-registsring contribution
baskets in churches The good Deacon
Huyler, noted for piety and fresh
every >hour candy, and warmly eulo-
gized after his recent death for having
insisted that the girls in his store
should all belong to his Sunday school
class, did not allow religion to be their
only shield against temptation,
What makes you use checks and a
punching box on your counters,
Brother Huyler?" a fellow church~
man asked. ''Are not your young
ladies honest2" ''Perfectly," was the
bland reply, and mean to make it
easy for them to keep So" After the
inventors have solved the problem of
compelling all of US to be honest to
our employers, perhaps they will dis
cover how to make US true to oursel
YES, and then we shall have the mill
lenium.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
WRESTLING AND WHISTLERS.
Some Reasons why Men and Even
Women WhIstle-A Preventive of
Profanity.
Denver Tribune.

It is an accomplishment which
proves very useful IN d variety of
emergencies. Many a young man
going home from seeing his girl and
plodding over lonely country road
would have been scared to death only
that he whistled up his courage; other
wise he would have been looking
about for ghosts and highwaymen and
get frightened by the sound of every
falling leaf or perambulating cat. The
whistle prevents him from hearing
mysterious sounds and his attention
being taken up with trying to follow
the tune and working his eyebrows in
unison, will have no time to look
about for W hat might be lying in wait
for him. And before he knows it, he
will arrive at the paterRal domIcile
and have to study about getting into
the house without awakening his
father.
Many a man and a great many more
ladies have been prevented from COM
hitting the sin of profanity because
they whistled when they pounded
their forefnger instead of the tack
with which they were attempting to
fasten the carpet toward the evening
of a spring cleaning dag.
Men whistle when they are happy
and they wistle when they are sad.
When you see carpenter or house
painter pushing his plane Or slabbing
on the paint and whistling a lively
air at the same time set him down as a
man who pays his debts, is cheerful
at home and never whips the children.
When the latter task has to be per
formed bis wife has to do it.
When man is sad he whistles 10 a
doleful tone. Nine times out of ten
he won't choose dismal air, but he
will whistle lively tupe, a hornpipe
or negro minstrel end song. And
he will draw the melody In and out
between his lips in a way to draw
tears from all listeners. Sometimes a
man accomplishes the same result
when he is cheerful and trying to
whistle real coed.
When a man is studying some
complex problem, wondering how
he can live at the rate of So
900 a year on a $500 in~
come, or something of that sort, if
he has not got something to smoke he
will whistle. He will walk up and
down the room or the back yard, or
he will sit in a rocking chair and
thrusting his hands as far as the ell
bows into his pants pockets and whistle
whistle softly.
When d man is suddenly surprised
at preposterous statement, if he is
very profane he will say: "H-and
d-nation!" If mildly profane he will
say: ''The DIP If not at all wicked
he will whistle: "W h-e-w!
Girls cannot whistle well as rule.
New and then there is one who can,
bat she is an honorable exception to
the rule. There is one pretty, golden
haired creature in Denver who can
whistle first rate, but the boys usually
do not appreciate it, and they let her
know It. But the girls, as a rule,
whistle in a jerky, disconnected sort
Of way and groan mildly between the
notes
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

An Eastern paper thinks thatif all
the wise suggestions made about the
public schools are adopted, their
course Of study, by the year 1900, will
be about like this: One hour, sewing
one hour washing and ironing; one
hour, cooking; one hour table setting
and other branches Of housekeeping
one hour, music; one hour, dancing
one hour painting; one hour, model
ing and sculpture; one hour, writing
one hour, arithmetic; one hour, book
keeping; one hour, industrial educa-
ton; one hour civil government; one
hour each on geography, algebra, tri-
gonometry, LatiA, French, German,
botany, astronomy, tariff and free
trade, farming and the weather.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
MARRIED HER son.
The Startling Discovery Made by a
New York Couple.

NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-Mrs. Saman-
tina Gooddle, residing near Madison
Square, this city, about three years
age married her own son. The dis
covery was recently made. They have
left the city, and efforts are making
to hush up the matter Mrs. Gooddle
married Amasa Turner of Lowell,
Mass, years ago. She was Is years
old. Shortly after son was born.
Mrs. Turner fell into fast ways and
her husband left her, taking the boy.
He went to San Francisco, amassed a
fortune and died, leaving his son
100000. Mrs. Turner meantime
married Mr.. Sylvester Gooddle at
Camden, n. j., lived with him five
years, when he died, leaving her his
fortune. She came to New York and
took up her residence near Madison
Square, where most of her time was
spent with young men. After the
death of his father in San Francisco,
the son, Harrison Turner, came to
New York, met Mrs. Gooddle, who
was infatuated with him, and the two
were married. Recently he went to
San Francisco to attend to business,
and brought back with hirn some Of
his fathers papers bearing on the
divorce. The wife~mother saw them.
and the whole secret was revealed.
She had married her SON.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
MEN WHO OWN HORSES.
An Old Horseman Says They Can Eas-
lily Outtalk the Owners ofXachts.

There's no mistaking the owner of
q fast horse, or a road horse of any
kind, no matter where you may meet
him IN New York, said the pr0prie-
tor Of big livery stable up town.
I'm the country nearly every man of
reasonable means can afford to keep
at least one hore, but In New York it is
rather ar expensive luxury. To be
the owner of a roadster argues that
you're a man Of means. and as every
one wants to appear wealthy, | sup~
pose that is the reason one hears so
much horse talk. They talk about
yachtsmen being unable TO talk of
anything but their own particular
form OF sport, but that's nonsense
compared to the enthusiasm of
horseman. Yachts are out of COM
mission six month of the year, but a
horse is always ready.
81 The horse fever usually affects men
about as it has friend of mine who
started in a year ago. He has charge
Of department In a big commission
house down town and his salary was
recently increased from So, 500 to S.
a year. Then he decided to keep
horse. He bought light road wagon
looked about, took the advice of half
dozen friends who didn't know any
thing about it and finally secured a
horse that was worth about $500 for
$500 cash. His expenses for keeping
the whole outfit here amounted to S35
month, but that's the lightest part
of the entertainment. The expense
begins above McComb's Dam bridge.
For the first two months the young
commission merchant was up here
every Gay about 5 o'clock, wearing a
frock coat and high hat and driving
gloves and regularly took some young
lady out to drive. The young ladies
worked pretty lap robes for him and
he was quite q go with them for a
time.
''Then one day he went UP the road
alone, after that ne never had a lady
with him. Now he has the regular
horseman manner. He wears a big
linen buster, low hat, goggles, and
rides with bent shoulders and his head
pushed forward. One would think,
to look at him when he stalks out,
that he is driving Maud S He sits
with round shoulders and an intent
look, and nothing new comes up in
the way of fxings for horses that he
does not adopt. His slang is as steep
as q Jockeys, and his knowledge so
profound that the Oldest horse doctors
in New York seem like novices when
compared with him. You can't learn
all about horses In year. nor be
good judge of horsefesh without i'm
mense experience and study; still
every New Yorker that owns horse
apparently knows it all, and to sit on
Cabe Cases or Judge Smiths porches
and hear the one-year-olds talk about
trotting stock makes us veterans feel
SO ashamed that we all go off in cor
ners and talk to ourselves"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
The Fancy Cattle Craze.
New York Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer

The tendency Of our rica men to
indulge in expensive tastes is shown
by the occasional sales OF Jersey cat
tie. Col. Russell, a New England
capitalist, paid $500 for bull and
q COW, and William (. Vanderbilt
bought a half dozen Of the same herd
at fancy prices. The Vanderbilts are
so eager to show their wealth that
they seek every opportunity, If an
auction of antique books takes place,
we find an Eliot bible knocked down
to one of the family at $1,000. II a
rare picture comes into the market it
will find purchaser in the same FAM
lily, if the price only be high enough.
Fast horses are also bought at fa-
bulous rates, and then we find the
same mania displayed at cattle sale.
Well, this is the most innocent man
ner in which such men can show their
wealth, and hence their weakness is
of an excusable nature. When, in
deed, I look on James Gordon Ben,
nett's Alderheys as they are grain
on his grounds at Fort Washington,
they seem a closer bond to his race
than anything else in his character
The milk and all other profits are en-
joyed by Crowley, who takes care of
them; but whenever the proprietor
comes from Europe he drives up to
the place and looks at his pets:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

At the Armstrong Works, in Eng
land, a gun that will cast one~ton
shell Is miles has been made.
Private Betting, of the Eighth
Cavalry, has become heir to $50, 1000,
bequeathed by relative in Paris,
| France.
| Muscogee county, Georgia, recently
prosecuted a man for the theft of Is
cents worth of tobacco. It cost the
county $27 to convict him.
A wid0wer at Whitehall, n. Y,
has MS dead wife's gold teeth made
into an engagement ring, which he
gave to q woman whom he was about
to marry.
The public schools in Mendocine
county, CAL, have been closed for sew
eral weeks so that the pupils might
work at hop-pIcking, the principal in
dustry in that county.
English soldiers in Egypt live in
mud huts. The ease with which they
were constructed shows that there is
no difficulty in making bricks without
straw.
Cremation is popular IN Alaska.
Singing, shaking Of rattles and beat
Tag of long stick accompany the cere-
mony, and are kept up all night. In
the morning the body is taken out
through a hole in the roof of the
house and carried to the funeral pile.
The missionaries are trying to break
up the practice.
Beaconsfold talked in a soft, low
voice. Gladstone talks distinctly In
In medium tones, and Lord Salisbury
loudly.
Professor Bartholow says that
choral is the most effective remedy
for cholera, and that its power is
much increased by the addition of NOR
phine.
Prince Bismarck has made arrange
ments for a constant supply Of can
vasback ducks, which are to be shipped
to BerliG by way of Bremenhaven.
His own cook not being up the cooking
of ducks, the Prince will borrow that
of NJ Bleichroeder.
General Ben. T. Butler recently
told a friend that nc had a presents
ment that he would die within four
years.
The largest profit by German rail
road in 1884 was 9. SO per cent. -Four
other roads earned over s per cent.
General Badeau possesses one of the
most important document connected
with American history. 1t is the orig
inal of Gen. Grants dispatch TO Sec.
Stanton announcing the surrender of
Gen. Lees army.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
AN OLD MASONIC RELIC.
A Travelling card Issued In This City
ON June 6. I776.
Philadelphia Times

John D. Harris, of SO North Thirty
ninth street, is the owner of an old
Masonic travelling card, which is about
a foot long and eight inches wide,
made of sheepskin. 1t is written IN
Latin, French and English and reads
ST do hereby certify Gaat Brother
John Perkins is q regular registered
Free Mason Of Lodge No. 1, of the
province Of Pennsylvania, and has.
during his stay among them, behaved
himself and became an honest and
worthy brother, as appears by the
lodge certificate to me given under
my hand and the seal OF the Grand
Lodge IN Philadelphia, the 6th day of
June, in the year Of our Lord 1776
and the year Of Masonry 5776.
JAMES SUTTON,
Grand Secretary"
Mr. Hartis says it was found be-
tween the rafters in the garnet of an
old house ia Worcester county, Nd.
Within about four feet of the relic
was found the SKI leton of man. One
of the persons present when it was
found was j. w Barker, of this city.
The relic is considered the oldest Ma
sonic travelling card in existence
Nobody by the name of Perkins has
lived In Worcester county for years.
It is supposed that the man whose
skeleton was found was evidently a
traveller who had been foully dealt
with and his body secreted IN the gar
ret. Masons at the present time have
no travelling card, but are proven by
their works.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

many good things from the great
father" and his administration.
The above scheme hes been submit
ted is now being favorably consider
ed by the administration, and the
father says he is raore than confident.
owing to his long residence among
the Indians, and from the opinions of
those I'D whom he has submitted his
plans, that he will succeed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
The Deepest Well In The World.
Drug Reporter,

The deepest well in the world is To-
eaten at Homewood, Pa. 1t is owned
by George Westinghouse, Jr. The
average depth of the Homewood wells
is about 1, $50 feet. In the wei now
drilling everything found of the ma,
ture of gas or water at the depth of
1900 feet was cased off as unimport-
ant, and the drill at present is said to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

A large convention of laborers at
Seattle, w. T., recently adopted res
olutlons that, on the return of the
delegates to their respective localities,
they shall call mass meetings for the
purpose of appointing committees to
notify the Chinese to leave on or be-
fore Nov. 1. 1885.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

The Bismark Tribune tells of a
young heroine in McHenly coun~
ty, Miss Belle Franklin, a school
teacher. She was awakened in her
lonely prairie shack in the night by
the approaching of prairie fires. Re
Numbering that a farmer a half a
mile away was absent from home and
his house, barn, hay and grain must
go, she sped over the prairie, unlock>
ed his stable, hitched up his team and
with pillow ran a fire break all around
the premises and saved his property.
The Shakespeare Society of New
York will have their first anniversary
dinner Nov. %, the date of Shakes
peare's marriage. for the absurd reason
as stated, that ''the date of his birth is
not exactly known"
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-05-02
PUBLISHERS NOTICE.

Persons requiring extra copies OF
any issue of the DAILY BULLETIN,
should send their orders to the office
not later than one O'Clock of the
date required. Those desirous OF
securing file before the sailing of a
mail steamer, can have such pre-
served for them and done up in a
strong wrapper ready for address
ing, by leaving their names at the
office at the earliest date wanted.
This intimation we find it necessary
to give, from the frequency with
which orders are received for papers
after the issues are exhausted. A
file of daily papers sent to friends
abroad will give them Il better idea
of life in this group than many
reams of paper consumed i'll letter.
writing.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-05-02
ADJUSTMENTS,

Roller skating comes in for another
overhauling in the last Friend, some
strong evidence as to its injurious
results being cited from the Ameri.
can religious press. Among other
things said against the amusement,
it is charged with enlarging ladies'
feet, destroying the interest of
school children in their studies,
tending to relaxation of the rules of
social propriety, and alternating the
young, and married men also, from
home and home life.
1t is matter of great doubt with
us whether roller skating can legiti-
mately be condemned for all of the
evils alleged against it. Few of them
can be:proved to belong to skating
exclusively, and some of them are
simply excess in what is otherwise
harmless. In the indictment sum-
married. above, there is not an evil,
except the single physiological one
of abnormal development of the feet,
which may not be laid to the charge Of
almost any other form of recreation.
If looseness is permitted in the
social code of the skating rink, it
signifies simply laXness of discip-
line in the society that gives the
place its patronage. Rink propretors
have not the power to impose rules
of etiquette upon their patrons which
are distasteful to the latter.
However, VIC are not going to at
tempt general defence of roller
skating. 1t does appear to be car
ried to excess in America, and per-
haps also in this country. Still, II
is question whether the excessive
indulgence is not just now due to its
novelty more than to its intrinsic
seductiveness. Another moot point
is whether the rink is not suppressed
ing other places of resort which
even its opponents will regard as
more pernicious. At the Saturday
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-05-02

evening temperance meeting in the |
Bethel recently, it was stated that
one of the most marked results OF |
the introduction of roller skating
here was the drawing Of young men
away from the drinking saloons.
That fact alone would weigh heavily
in n defence of the rink.
To MS the "roller-skatng craze"
rs il has been called, would seem to
represent Il reaction from dearth
of physical recreation in America.
OF late years most manly sports in
that country seem to have been re-
lcgatcd to professionals, and taking
on corollary of gambling practices
have fallen into disreputc with the
moral sentiment of the nation. IL
goes without question, we presume,
that nation of strong men and
women cannot long abide in strength
unless variety of forms of ply
steal recreation is cultivated. Ame-
rica seems to be behind many other
countries, notably England, in that
respect. Naturally, rs cities grow
larger apacc and deblitating occu-
pations multiply, the deficiency,
whether recognized or not, becomes
more serious. Young America has
run too much to enervating forms of
amusement, when truly recreating
ones were required. There has at
the same time been tendency in
the great republic to force intellec-
tual, at the expense of physical,
development. Hence, the remark
able precocity of the young "frec
and enlightened" boy and girl. Let
us hope that the extraordinary popu-
larity of roller skating may induce
more public attention to the neces-
sity for rational means of amuse-
ment combined with physical de-
velopment. A similar want exists
in this country, and if our boys are
to be saved from cffeminacy and
worse, and our girls from genteel
invalidism, that want must be sup
piled. Far from saying that roller
skating fills the bill, we yet believe
it demonstrates the need of beneti-
cial recreation.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-05-02
MARSIIAL,S SALE.

DN virtue OF Writ of execution
ID issued out of the Supreme Court,
on the 27th day of April, A. ID. 1885,
against Jane s. Reed Administratrix of
the Estate of W. II Reed, deceased, de-
fendant, in favor of NJ. S. Grinbaum Il
Co., plaintiff, for the sum of SG5993, |
have levied upon and shall expose for
sale at the Old Custom House Wharf, in
Honolulu, Island of Oahu, at 12 o'clock
of FRIDAY, the Goth day of May, AID.
1885, to the highest bidder, all the right,
title and interest of the said Jane 5.
Reed, A Alministratrix aforesaid, defcn.
lant, in and to the following property,
unless said judgment, interest, costs and
my expcn.e es be previously paid.
List of property for sale: Steamer
Nv. ii. Reed" with all her tackle, APP
parel and furniture.
JNO. Ii. SOPER, Marshal.
Honolulu, April 2Sth, 1885. l0l1 I'd