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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Attorney General Garland's Home.
Washington Cor. N. Y. Graphic.

It is said that no one connected with
the new administration is half so
much pleased with the social duties
incident to the position as is Mrs. Hub
bard, Attorney General Garland S
mother who, though she is an old
lady and one who has never been sup
posed TO take an interest IN society, is
perfectly delighted with her weekly
receptions and never seems to feel
fatigued by them. She says, however,
that she is doing it all, and would do
far more, for the sake of nay baby"
By her "baby" she means him whom
we call ''the Attorney General of the
United States" She explains that she
calls him her baby" because he is her
youngest child and she raised him
after his fathers death. One of his
little girls says. ''Nc, now, Grand
ma. Pm your baby. You must not
have any baby but me-" 1t is q sim
ple-hearted and most affectionate
family, and Mrs. Hubbard welcomes
the visitors, whom she feels she is en-
tertaining on behalf Of her son, with
the same simple cordiality she should
show If they were calling upon her in
country house in Arkansas. Those
who were familiar with the habits in
Office of the late Attorney General
Brewster) and those of his successor
(Garlan0 say that it would be impos-
sirle to imagine greater contrast be-
tween two men in the same position
tha!a between those two. Brewster
having been as luxurious in his tastes
and as ostentatious in his manner as
Garland is simple and unaffected.
The latter succeeds to the use of the
office rooms fitted up by the former in
more costly style as to furniture and
ornaments than that of any other
office Of the government in this city,
and as these articles, all of which are
dainty enough for q lady's boudOir
and entirely suited to one, had been
purchased and put IA their place long
before the present Attorney General
came into Office, h6 Will no doubt
leave them where he found them. The
furniture in what the ex-Attorney
General calls his parlor, which adieins
his large Office room, was upholstered
IN q velvet brccade wrought with gold
threads, while on the table were Just
such pretty knick-knacks as a lady
would select for her favOrite room
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

One cup of Graham flour, one tea
cup of milk or water; beat for few
minutes, add little salt; have your
cups for baking in the oven heating;
take them out and grease them; fill
on the top of the stove as quickly as
you can bake in hot oven.
AS change a dish of hominy or
farina is very palatable. Farina
should be mixed thin-about like
meal husband boiled about an hour
(oYer hot water). HOminy should be
soaked in cold water over night, and
boiled for an hour. with little salt,
In the morning. Eat with sugar and
milk, or butter and sugar.
Sponge cake.-Beat the yolks of
four eggs together with two cups of
granulated sugar. Stir in gradually
one cup of sifted flour and the whites
of four eggs beaten to a stiff froth;
then a cup Of sifted flour in which two
teaspoonfuls OF baking powder has
been stirred, and lastly, scant teacup
of boiling water stirred IN little at
time. Flavor, add salt, and, how
ever thin the mixture may seem, do
not add any more flour. Bake in
shallow tins.
Layer cake.-Take one cup of sugar,
one teaspoolful Of lemon extract, one
egg, butter the size of peach; stir to
a cream. Do not beat the egg. Sift
your -four twice; take two cups of
flour, thoroughly mix two teaspoon,
fuls of baking powder with the flour,
then add one cup of sweet milk to the
butter, sugar and milk, then the -four;
stir quickly and thoroughly; have
your oven right; pat in tins so thin as
not to run over, s,s it is very light. It
is cheap and most delicious. Fill be-
tween the layers with anything to
suit. Let them cool before taking
from the tins.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
His Sin Found Him Out.
Bozeman. Mont, Special.

Three years ago Rudolph thinner
man, wealthy farmer living al
Breitenberg, Bavaria, was murdered
and robbed of large sum of money
which he carried on his person. The
most careful investigation on the part
of the police failed to discover the
perpetrators of the crime. Atlast the
secret of the crime has been divul ged
by well known leader Of the demi
monde in Berlin. The woman at one
time lived In Breitenberg, and by her
beauty and attractive manners won
the affectioa of the Catholic priest of
that parish. In an unguarded mo
ment he revealed to his mistress one
of the secrets of the confessional,
which was to the effect that Ernest
Snyder was the murderer of Rudolph
Zimmerman; that he confessed the
act before leaving for America. In
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Condensed Dispate hes.

The stage from Vulture to Phoenix,
Ari., was stopped by masked high.
waymen, Thursday night, and rob
bed Of an express box containing
S., 400.
The Terminus hotel, at Victoria, Z.
O., and seven other buildings burned,
Friday. Two bodies, supposed to be
those OF guests, were found in the
ruins.
The New York World has forward
ed $25, 600, collected by 1T for the Bar
tholdi Pedestal fund, to w. NJ. Evarts,
chairman of the committee.
By the collision of two live stock
trains at crossing near Plymouth,
Mich, large number of animals was
killed. The loss is heavy.
Ex-Congressman, John T. McKin-
ney, of Piqus, O., was convicted Of
charging excessive pension fees in
the United States coGrt at Cincinnati.
The damage by the flood at Bell
vile, Ont, is estimated at so, 900.
Much stock has been drowned by the
rapid rise in the river.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30

the meantime Snyder had come to
America and settled in Montana, en-
barking IN railroad contracts and sue
ceeded in making a good deal OF
money. About year ago he fell in
with two brothers of the murdered
Zimmerman, and they formed CO.
partnership for carrying on the busi-
ness of numbering in the mountains
near Rozeman. About week ago the
Zimmerman brothers received a letter
from a relative in Germany, stating
that they were on the track Of the
murderer of their brother, and hoped
IN their next letter to be able to state
who he was. This letter was read to
their partner. Snyder, who appeared
greatly excited and talked incoherent-
ly when discussing some business
matters, but they suspected nothing.
The next morning Snyder packed his
vallse and said he was going out hunt
ing. They thought it strange that he
should dress up in his best clothes and
take satchel witt, him on a hunting
trip, but still suspected no deeper mo-
tive. After three days absence their
lOeNi . WCIC dIOuSSu, SedICn Was lHStL-
tuted, and their comrade was tracked
to precipic where broken bushes
and trampled snow indicated a death
struggle, and the disappearance over
the cliff of some one. They took it
for granted that Snyder had lost his
life In an encounter with bear, re
turned to Bozeman, applied for letters
of administration on his property,
which the judge was about to grant
when a telegram was received from
Germany stating that Snyder was the
murderer Of their brother Rudolph.
Il vas at once apparent that Snyder
had prepared the evidence of his
death for the purpose of misleading
his partners, while he made his es
cape. He leaves d good sized note
book account and a large amount of
other personal property. The matter
Of his arrest is in the hands OF skilled
detectives who will spare no expense
IN hunting MIN down.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Brief kilograms.

Fourteen hundred employees of the
Barbour fax spinning mills at Pater-
son, n. j., struck for an increase of 1C
per cent. i'll wages.
The Hon. S. B. Elkins, Of New
York, VIII deliver an address before
the Alumni association of the univer.
sity of Missouri, June 4
The Rev. Thomas Spencer, colored
Baptist preacher in Norfolk, Va, was
sentencedsto prison for five years for
hoasebreaking, Thursday.
Joseph E. Leskie was arrested in
New York Tuesday on the charge of
embezzlement from the Rochester
Lock company, at Rochester, N. Y.
Sixteen roller-skating rink proprie-
tors of New York city and vicinity
have organized an association for the
elevation Of the tone of rinks gen
orally.
Information has been received IN
Philadelphia to the effect that George
Firth, q baseball player, was murders
ed at Marshalltown, Ia, Saturday
last.
The Kansas Southern, Kansas City
& Emporia and the Southern Kansas
roads have been consolidated under
the name of the Southern Kansas
railway.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Russia's Motive for War.
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph

One evident and powerful reason
why Russia should urge war does not
come to the surface in the present en-
tanglements, but it is most decided
factor in the problem. At least as
much of a motive as Indian conquest
is the desire of the throne and the no
bility to secure themselves through
the exciting of general patriotic
spirit. History has shown before
now that one Of the surest antidotes
to internal disser sion is external di-
version With all the hatred Of the
imperial power among a large class
of Russians, there is a definite love Of
country which may be appealed to to
forego its attacks upon home interests
IN the face of nataral perils The
game, to be sure, has sometimes fail
ed. The Nephew of his Uncle tried
it and went under Ia the process. But
it is possible Russian imperialism
may be more successful It may not
conquer England, but it may quiet
Nihilism, and that, we may be sure,
is one of its chief objects IN engaging
in a foreign war.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
A New Kind of Cruiser in the British
NAVY
Glasgow Herald.

Glasgow Herald.
Fhe new belted cruisers, or as they
have been called in Parliament, the
''new Merseys," for which certain
shipbuilders have been invited to ten
der, differ from their more recent
predecessors in having ten feet more
beam, being 800 feet by ffty-six feet,
and IN having an increase of 1, 800
tons in the displacement, making
them up to 1000 tons. The protective
deck has been replaced by an armor
belt 200 feet long, formed Of ten-1nch
steel>faced armOr of six-inch backing.
The ends are protected by an UNDER
water belt similar TO the Merseys. AS
the ends of the belted cruiser are very
fine, the part of the water-line not
actually protected ~ armor is pro
portionateIy very small. The engines
of these vessels are to be 1000 horse
power to be obtained by the use of
forced draught in a close stok0hole.
There are four boilers, double-ended,
having total CRATE surface of about
500 square feet, and working at
pressure of 120 pounds. Their total
weight is not to exceed 720 tons. They
are OF similar type to those supplied
to the Leander class by Messrs.
Robert Napier s. Sons, having cast
steel framing and hollow steel shaft
ing throughout.
The armament consists of two
eighteen-ton guns, arranged-one for
ward, to fire half around the bow TO
about fifty degrees abaft the beam,
and one aft, to fire through similar
sweep round the stern. In addition
to those there are twelve four ton
guns and six machine guns. A
torpedo armament will be provided,
both above and under water. The
construction of the hull does not
materially differ from that of the
smaller and earlier iron -Clads of Her
Majestys navy, such as the, Nelson
and Conqueror, bat they are of steel
throughout.
These belted cruisers will each be
manned by crew of from $50 to $50
officers and men, for whom very good
accommodation is found on the Sec
ond deck above the water-iine. All
the usual refnements OF a cruiser have
to be provided in their most modern
form. When completed these vessels
will be works of modern engineering
second to none. AS vessels of war
they can not fail to be formidable.
Their weak points seem to be their
speed, which is not to be more than
eighteen knots.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Persian Baths.
Teheran Letter from Minister Benjamin

Teheran Letter from Minister Benjamin.
There are two remarkable restrict
ions IN every Persian city. No Chris
tian is ever permitted to enter one of
the public baths. Taese baths are on
the plan of what are called Turkish
baths IN America. The women bathe
IN the morning and the men In the
afternoon. After the bath the bathers
lounge in an outer room and gossip
and smoke For the women. es~
pecially, the weekly visit to the bath
is like resorting to womar's club.
They take their sewing and embroi-
derry, and after the bath sit for hours
ehattering, sewing and smoking the
water pipe. When the women return
home from the bath she is full of the
gossip of the neighborhood, and has
plenty to talk about for week to
come. In Turkey all sects can visit
the bath, but the Persians allow no
one to bathe with them but the faith
ful followers of the Prophet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Personal MENTION.

Abd-el>Kadier, the famous Arab
chieftain, claimed that two great
enemies Of the horse were rest and
fat.
Mark Twain asserts that he set type,
and of course a good example, In The
Philadelphia Ledger Office more than
thirty years ago.
President Cleveland has announced
that he will not dine formally outside
of the white house during his term of
office. His friends expect that he
will stay in Washington all summer.
Elk Gov. Moses, South Cardinals
carpetbag ruler, will take to the lee
ture platform after he energies from
the Massachusetts, house of correction,
where he is now confined for obtain
ing money under false pretenso.
Capt. George n. Stone, the retired
Cincinnati gambler, and one of the
early owners of Maud S., was elected
president of the Cincinnati board of
aldermen the other day,
Henry George, the author, and lee
turer, and Gland reformer," is a
Philadelphia by birth. His father,
Richard S. II. George, was we'll
known citizen, and his grandfather
was Capt. Richard George, whe was
born IN England
The Rev. DIR. Talmage says that
roller-skating eclipseE croquet, foot
ball, lawn tennis and sliding by moon
light on pond. It has an advantage
over the gymnasium in that it is more
exhilerating. He also adds, in the
same connection, that Irritation is
dannation.
D. r. Francis, the new mayor of
ST. Louis, is not yet 40 years old. His
rise has been due to what is known as
streak of luck. He married a
wealthy young lady and with the
money she brought speculated bodily
Or change. A Adead-locK in the conven-
ton gave him the mayoralty nomina-
ton and he was elected without
trouble.
Mr.. Parnell's always frigid style of
oratory has become even colder and
more nonchalant than ever. He speaks
except on rare occasions, as an official
duty, apparently, rather than from
any other motive, and seems to take
a pleasure in showing that, as it was
not by mere talk that he gained his
unique position, he need not initiate
the loquacity of his followers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
GOuld's Telegraphic Facilities.
New York Sunday Financial Journal.

Jay Gould has twenty-seven tele~
graph instruments in his Office. Sit
ting at his desk he can be put in
communication with any place that is
reached by the wires OF the Western
Union Telegraph company. There
fore the managers of his
properties are accessible no matter
where they may be. The message of
congratulation which he sent to Presi-
dent Cleveland when he conceded the
latter's election was transmitted from
his Office. The Offices of twenty-five
brokerage houses can be communicat-
ed with by wire, naaking it easy to
give out orders to be executed in the
market. Mr.. Gould has but one tele-
graph instrument in his house 4
telephone also runs between his office
and residence. When Gould has any
telegraphing to do at home the opera>
tor goes to his residence. He has no
''ticker" in his house. and when he
stays away from his office, as he did
much of the time last week, he has to
get the quotations by telephone or run
across the street to the Windsor hotel
for them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Practical VS.. Classical Education.
New York Tribune.

This is the age of the practical, and
the old ideas of education will doubt
less be modified by the new spirit. No
one regrets this; but it is to be feared
that the enthusiastic friends of
practical education are sometimes
more jealous than wise. A few of
them seem seem to imagine that when
Latin and Greek are banished frona
schools and colleges the millennium
will come. This is far from being the
case. On the contrary, if the classics
were banished from schools and col
leges, the cause of education would
suffer great loss. Then, again,
other'adYocates, ,of.industral education
appear to think that the whole system
of education should be changed in
order to make room for purely
machanic arts. This is riding hobby
to death. What is known as indus
trial education is certainly very i'm
portant, and its Importance is now
recognized by the best educators. But
it is Hot all important. A liberal culx
ture, aside from manual skill, is still
one Of the necessary elements of a
true education, and no good end can
be served by ignoring the fact.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Charlotte Cushman's Feet.
Every Other Saturday

Charlotte Cushman had foot OF
her own" in size, and generally wore
fours, but could crowd into three
and half on "a tight squeeze" One
night, soon after recovering from
severe attack of nifammatory..rheup,a
tism, she was wearing pair of slip
pers mucn TO small for her. Darling
behind the wings between the scenes,
she snatched them off and threw them
as far as she could, exclaiming: ''Ye
gods Somebody lend me pair of
Slippers or I'll go in my stockingsl'
What number do you wear2" asked
young actor, ready to help her in the
emergency. On, never mlRd the
number; anything from five to
twentyr' she replied.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30
Northern Limit OF Corn Growth.

On the northeast shores of Asia corn
can not be cultivated at 500 north
latitude, although IN the interior it
natures as far north as SO. Ga the
eastern shores of America the north.
ern limit of its growth is 500, and on
the western shores it reaches about
SO, while III the intermediate coun-
try it is known to go as far SIS 65 c :.
The fact that it thrives farther north
in the interior Of continents than on
the shores is thought by NJ. Buysman
to be due not alone to the cooling in
huence of ice accumulations on the
coasts, but to depend largely on the
greater amount of sunlight received in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30

the dry regions far from the oceans.
In Norway corn grows in latitude
700, the climate being not only
warmed by proximity to the Gulf
Stream, but the skies being very
clear as well. Even in the most
northern regions, where the shade
temperature is very low, vegetation
may grow in sheltered spots exposed
to the sun, and luxuriant scurvy
grass has been found on Walden Is
land beyond 500 north latitude.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30

Several days ago Clark Mosley,
who lives few miles below Blakely,
saw a drove of wild turkeys near his
house and noticed that they were nav
ing a general fight with his tame
ones. He took his gun in hand and
succeeded ia killing a very fine one,
but on examining it he found that it
was one of his tame turkeys. The wild
ones made good their escape.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-04-30

A few years ago, says the London
Standard, the young people of Eng
land became imbued with the roller
skating craze, and rinks were built all
over the country The fever, how
ever, was as brief as any other vagar>
les Of fashion; the enthusiasm died
away, the rinks were deserted, the ia
ventors lost their money, and roller
skates disappeared from the land.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-22

The streets OF Astoria, Oregon, are being
mscsdamized with the hallssts of ships
which lighter or. take in cargo there, and
the local paper speaks prophecy concerning
II in this wise: From the coral strands OF
India, and from the far of islands ofthe
soft South sea, come in the holds OF vessels
the foundation of many Of Astoris's streets.
South American pebbles and Australian
5ornicks; chunks Of Eocene formation from
the Fesiees, and relics of the PeleozOic
period from Hong Kong, are alike mingled
in the conglomerate mass that undeliss our
thOroughfAres. When Oregon's future geOE
ogists analyze the component parts OF the
strata they shall here End, it will puzzle
them worse to reconcile the geological for
nation than the BIBLICAL miracles puzzle
Bob Ipgersoll."
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-22
AGRICULTURAL.

Notes OF General Interest to Farmers
The seventeen-year locusts have appeared
in Illinois and other Western States.
Wheat Is the best food for growing poul'
try, and corn the best for fsttening them.
The State Veterinarian in Illinois reports
that the cattle interest in that State amounts
10 $500 900 900.
Professor Sturtevsnt says that peas plant,
al uben at the edible maturing state will
yegetste as well as ripe seed.
Eggs from hens not in company with
cocks will keep twice as long as eggs from
hens not separated from the males,
Butter is carried from New Zealand to
EnoIand AZ a temperature of 80 degrees,
and arrives in excellent condition.
IA a result from the prohibition Of the
sale Of oleomargarine in New York the
demand for genuine diary butter Is increAs-
farmer near Sacramento, Cal, says his
cron Of asparagus this season has brought
him Sl2, 900, Of which 80 900 is profit be
has twelve acres.
The Hessian fly has extended its opera
tiora to the wheat uetus VI huo e~AAN
coast. Heretofore Its ravages have been
ssst of the Rocky Mountains.
80 Wheat and oats may be SoSn late tor hay
;ftAe season is not too dry. Cut IN the
5orOh or milky state such crops will D.
accepted BY stock and prove excellent feed
ing. -.
,Do-nip0 walk from Frankfort to Cooper
.;IIs ~ Jaw sixteen English sParroWs mS<'
ne their mstin meal Of locusss,
7, rrunipg cut the wood OF close to the
- : order to leave the stubs. This Is
oos 80, needful with the sprouts tnat
~ m from the limbs in the middle Oh the
tree. a -
plsuss are benefited BY the hoe no Or
.ri,;vator especially in ; dry season. Inc
S.annent stirring Of the soil keeps the sur u.
H.cs IN condition to get the tull dement, o.
az air dews and rain
T,.ee.. rill now nultiply very rapidly
IA opIy vigorous work viii keep them n
s sna 0D' EpocHrsge The birds, use plenty I"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-22

VIZ are indebted 10 Pompeii for our great
industry of canned fruits. Years ago when
the excavations we're beginning party Of
Americans found, in what had been the
pantry Of a house, many jars Of preserved
6gs. One was opened and they were found
to be fresh and good. Investigation showed
that the 6gs had been put into jars In q
heated state, an aperture being left for the
steam to escape, and then sealed with wax
The hint was taken, and sooh after fruit
canning was introduced here, the process
being identical With that in vogue q: Pom
beii twenty centuries ago. There are many
ladies among Us who can tomatoes and
peSehes for domestic use, and they do not
realize Hbsy are indebted for this to the
peoule of Pcmpeii.