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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-04-17

ToApos, April l5.-Charles Marvin, q
writer on Central Asia, says be has
learned semi ofiieialiy that the Russian
telegraph system Ia in full working
order from Askabad to Merv. The latter
place 10 Gen komaroff : base Of opera
tions, aud is at all times connected with
his headquarters In the field by feet
courier service. Therefore, Mr.. Marvia
says, Gen. komarod can send OF receive
messages to or from St. PetersbuFg
within "a hours.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-04-17

Charles Tucker, 9 prominent lnmoer
manufacturer of Appleton, Wisconsin,
passed Through here today. He is max
ing general inquiries Concerning lum-
oer manufacturing on Puget Sound.
Mr. MeAilister Of Seattle ia in town
exhibiting samples of brick.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-04-17

YIkSsA. April 1.-THE Taghiatf says
the last days Of Eneland's poser woald
be the last days Of European liberty.
One cannot understand German gym
pathy Tor Russia. whose oyergroWth
would certainly imperii Germany.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-04-17

BAN Francisco, April I6.-Fer th
north and middle Pacific. partly cloud
WITH local rains. For the south Pacifis
fair weather.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-04-17

fosTLAxD. April IA Wees DAYTON
"; IL syeciat says that Joseph Smith,
q Forio1R 4 Smith. took 81 ears Of
sofses 70 CnicaRo. sold the same and
skipped with tbs prosseds, leaving q
partner. who 10 his brother-in-lsv,
bankrupt 10 the amount Of $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10
The Planets in September.
Sciantiffc Amarican

Scientific American.
September bears witness to an act
i've and stirring season among the
members of the solar family, wherein
the sun himself plays prominent
part. Two great planets, Jupiter and
Uranus, as they reach conjunction,
disappear from the suns eastern side
to reappear on his western. Mercury
fits between the earth and sun at in~
ferior conjunction, and oscillates to
his extreme western limit Or elonga-
ton, where early risers may behold
him for short time before his ftful
light is quenched in the sunbeams.
The sun reaches the vernal equinox.
and equal day and Aight mark the
passing hours. while he shines be-
nignly over the earth from pole to
pole. A favored few will behold
total eclipse of the suns radiant face,
and be filled with wonder and delight
as the silver corona starts it to view
and the rosy flames dart forth, while
the stars appear in the darkened sky,
and the face of nature is shrouded in
funeral gloom. The moon is not be.
hind the superior member of the fam
lily in the part she plays in the incl
dents of the month. She treats us to
a partial eclipse and the occultation OF
bright star. More than this, our
fair satellite crowns the month with
the harvest moon, whea for several
successive evenings the lesser orb
rises in the Eastern sky soon as the
sun disappears in the Western, thus
prelonging the day. flooding the earth
with silvery light, and making it
almost as beautiful as dream of
the land where there is no night.
There may be other planets combining
more elements OF natural beauty than
this little world, when the sunset
clouds linger in the west, and the har-
vest moon. rising majestically in the
east, looks serenely down upon belt
Of earthly domain ripe for the harvest
if such fairy abodes exist in the great
universe OF space, we have no desire
to visit them unless we can be equip
ped for the voyage with higher powers
than we now possess for the apprecia
ton of the transcendent scene.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10

benefits of wealth. Destitution is
dreadful, almost as dreadful as the
painful mortal sicknesses that affiict
the rich as well as the poor; but the
poverty that does not involve pangs
of hunger is more endurable than it
appears TO be. People get accustomed
to doing without luxuries or even
comforts. Competence, that is,
enough for the comforts of life, is, of
course, far better than poverty, out
wealth is not better than competency.
| The selfishness of man is strickly linn
tied. A Hebrew, who as furrier had
amassed a fortune of $4,000 was
dying, and he said to the reader from
the synagogue: Cant I take some
OF my money with me2' The reply
was: ''No, sir Naked you came into
the world, and naked you mast 60 out
Of the world" The dying man said !:
"Well, it is hard. What | have earn
ed I have to leave behind me, and
while living could not eat more than
one of my workmen." TIE dying
furrier was correct as TO his limitation
of his enjoyment of wealth. The
| consuming capacity does not increase
with the j. crease of fortune. A man
with a hundred thousand year may
have hundred coats and scere of
cooks, but he will not wear out more
clothing or consume more nourishing
matter than q we'll TODD mechanic.
Whether he spends his income In
grand stgle OF living, or invests it in
reproductive enterprise, he himself
consumes no more of the necessities
and comforts of life than compare
lively poor man. A rich man has the
privilege Of disbursing large income
in the way he fancies, but be must
dlsburse it, for he can not consume it.
So far as the individual is concerned,
there is not the wide difference be-
tween wealth and poverty, say pov~
erty, not destitutlon, that some per-
sons suppose. I am Lot seeking to
laud poverty or to depreciate wealth.
[ believe that In moral worth there is
not mUch To choose between the poor
and the rich Il is to me as difficult
to conceive the salvation of the poor
as it is the salvation of the rich, and
IN both cases let us be aevoutIy thank
full that what is impossible with man
is possible with God. Property is not
an accumulation for the benefit of the
nation. The very rich man, as an
Individual consumer, can consume no
more than the prosperous mechanic.
Property is not the cause of the coms
parative poverty of the non-property
classes. On the contrary. it is the
means by which their comparative
poverty is alleviated. Without those
stores of wealth called property, the
outcome of which the owners must
1aoZe'as Uoze2as distributed, the poverty
OF the comparatively poor would be
hopeless, and would soon become dire
destruction.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10
A New Grant AnecdOte,
New York Tribune.


1.-The recent outpourng of Grant
anecdotes" said Mr.. Stuart Robson,
the actor, In an interview with Trib~
une reporter, ''has reminded me OF one
which do not think has been printed.
Crane and myself We're playing some
years ago In well>known managers
theater out of New York. The first
act was over and we were chatting in
the wimgs with our manager, when
one of the boys rushed up to tell us
that General Grant and his family
were in one of the boxes. A flush of
gratified pride mounted to the man
agerial face, followed by a look OF
agonized doubt, as he evidently re-
fected that perhaps the General dead
headed into the box. Did you send
him a box, RobesoR2" he asked me,
and on my replying in the negative,
he pulled card out Of his pocket, and
scribbling line on it, told the boy to
take it to the kox' Office and bring
back an answer. The boy rushed off,
his head full of the General, and re
turned in few minutes with the same
card, which he handed to Mr. Mana>
ger. A CHASTITY look crossed his face
as he read it, and without wold,
handed it to me. The first line read
in the rather shaky managerial cali
graphy: Did General Grant pay for
his box?" while underneath appeared:
No. But nay son Fred did
U. S. GRANT
The boy had taken it to the box in
stead of the bOx-Office.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10

fast, about as much for dinner: but
after the work of the day is done, ne
sits down to hot meal swimming in
oil, or better yet, boiled butter.
His sons eat with him, but the fes
males Of his house wait till his lord
ship is done. He rides donkey when
travelling, his wife walking behied.
He laughs at Jhs idea Of vacating his
seat for woman. He knows no use
for chairs, tables, knives, forks or even
spoons, unless they are wooden ones.
Bedsteads, bureaus, and 6replaces may
be placed In the same category. Ii he
be an artisan he does work sitting.
perhaps using his feet to hold what
his hands are engaged upon. He
drinks cold water With a spoon. but
never bathes in 1t unless his home is
on the seashore. Ite is rarely seen
drunk, is deficient in affection for his
kindred, has little curiosity and no
limitations, no wish to improve his
mind, no desire to surround himself
with the comforts of life
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10
Work of the London Mint,
Chambers Journal.

The recently issued report of the
Deputy Master of the Mint, giving an
account of the operations OF that de-
partment for the year 1884. is p more
than usually interesting document.
From it we learn that the amount of
gold coined during the year exceeded
by more than a million the amount
coined in 1883, while the silver coin
age was but little in excess of the aver
age. The coinage of bronze, however
was larger than in any year since
1875.
The total weight of metal melted
down during the twelve months, was
40 tons, made up as follows-a cer>
tain proportion of alloy being, of
course, included: Gold, 81 tons, sll-
yer, 1913 tons, and bronze, 2G5 tons.
The total number of coins struck out
of this metal was 65,295. 392, giving
an aver rage of more than 10000
pieces per week throughout the year.
Out of these, however, s. 932, 081 pieces
did not come within the limits of the
standard legal weight, so that the
number of pieces available for issue
was reduced to Sc 1868 301, the value
Of these gold pieces being, real or
nominal, 93, 157, 966 10 shillings 1
pence. o. this amount, 5000, 292
1G shillings pence al, 093, 3O1 pieces)
consisted OF imperial coinage, and the
remaining $87, 673 10 shillings s pence
Us, 270, 600 pieces being colonial coin
age for Canada, Jamaica. Hong Kong.
etc. All this coinage, both imperial
and colonial, has been executed at
the mint, it's increased coming power
rendering it unnecessary that any por-
ton of the work of coinage should be
intrusted to private firms.
The greatest number of coins struck
Of any denomination was LOO, 600,
consisting, as will readily be supposed
of Lence. Halfpence came next IL
point Of numbers, nearly 1000, 900 Of
this coin being struck. The number
of farthings struck was 5,7OO, 600, q
seemingly large number, considering
the present small general circulation
of this coin. Of shillings, nearly
1000, 900 were coined, sixpepses, over
3 400, 900; threepences, over 3, 800, 600.
Sovereigns and half~so gereigns we're
coined to the number Of over /, 700, 900
and l, 100, 600 respectively. Of colonial
coinages, that Of bronze half cents
for the Straits settlements was
numerically largest, 4.000,0 900 of this
coin being struck during the year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10
HIGH-PRICED CIGARS.
Twenty-Five Cents Will Pay for as
GOOD a Smoke as rs 10 BE had.

New York Sun.
For 25 cents each" said the pro-
prietor of one Of the largest and most
fashionable cigar stands on upper
Broadway, ''you can buy as good a
cigar as one wants to smoke. The diff
ference in flavor between that and
one that costs 81 is to slight to be no.
ticed almost. You can't make good
many young men believe that,
though. [ used to have wealthy
young customer who quarreled with
me once because [ didn't keep cigar
that sold for more than SO cents.
IT told him would order some for
his especial benefit After he had
gone I took fifty OF the Is cent cigars,
wrapped them carefully in tin foil,
and put them in an old box with a
tag stating they cost 81 each.
1.-The next day he came in and ask~
ed me if I had filled his order.
IT told him that at great personal
Inconvenience I had done so, and
then I handed him out one of the dol
lar brand.
''He took five, and eodld never be
induced to smoke any others.
They cost q great DEAL he used
to say, but the favor is so fine they
are more than worth it.
II want a medium strong cigar. :"
said an old gentleman who now en-
tered the store.
Yes SIR" responded the cigar man
as he handed out number of small
cigars. The old gentleman laid down
a quarter on the counter and took six
cigars.
THAT isn't the kind o. a man who
pays dollar for 25~cent cigars" we
said
mo" answered the dealer. ''He
leaves that sort Of folly for lis son.
He is the father of the rich young
man"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10
MAKING NECKTIES.
Materials Used i'm Scarfs-DesEgus and
FashiOns-Suiting the supply to the
Market

''There are special grades of silks
and satins made exclusively for the
necktie trade" said a manufacturer to
a reporter Of The New York Mail and
Express recently. ''These materials
are made from patterns designed by
men who do nothing but study up lie "
things in neckties. There are from
fifty to seventy-i factories in this
country and ten or twelve frst-class
makers. The latter usually secure ex
elusive rights to use certain styles of
goods from the makers, by buying
either the entire stock offered to the
American market Or a large portion Of
1t. But the success Of making up the
goods is just like lottery ticket.
Perhaps one year I may hit on some
desig On and it will become so popular
that all other makers will be forced to
adopt it, but the next year some one in
Boston or Philadelphia may make a
hit and I will have to follow him
There's never any telling how a neck
tie is going to take with the public
until it's on the market. There its
success depends on who adopts it fist.
If he happens to be a bowling swell,
and on the right side of popular fa>
vor, that particular kind of necktie
will see WE'LL"
care the styles of making up neck
ties originated abroad?"
mot now. They were until less
than three years ago, but now our
style are superior to the European,
and they are coming over here for
patterns However, there is ten
dency for English fashions for the
fall"
"Are men or women employed in
making neckties2"
women. There are more than
200 girls thus employed in this city
alone. They work by the piece and
make more or less money according
to their expertness. A good finisher
can make S. or So week. She takes
necktle after it is put together and
finishes each detail perfectly so that it
is ready to box. Three different coll
ors of the same design and same style
are boxed together to give the dealer
an assortment in the one make. The
finisher must see that all of this kind
are exactly alike in point of finish
and make up. We have one girl who
does nothing but turn the bands of
neckties. and she naks SIS a week.
She turns twenty-five or thirty dczen
bands day.
THE cheap wear now flooding the
market is composed CT old styles made
of poor goods. AS rule, men show
no discrimination IN purchasing neck
ties. They look iato window, see a
tie that takes their fancy and rush in
to buy it, never stopping to ask the
price. Thus they are just as likely TO
buy one of the cheap kind. that will
not last a week, as good one"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10

Mediterranean. Every now and then
some enterprising De Lesseps or other
proposes to dig canal from the Med
lterranean 10 the Dead sea, and re-
establish the old high level. The eff
feet Of this revolutionary proceeding
would be TO flood the entire Jordan
valley, connect the Sea of Galilee
WITH the Dead sea, and play the dicks
ems generally with scripture geeg-
raphy, to the infinite delight of Sun
day school classes. Now, when the
Dead sea first began its independent
career as q separate sheet of water Oh
| its own account 1t no doubt occupied
the whole bed of this Imaginary en-
gineer's lake-spreading if not FROM
Dan TO Beersheba, at any rate from
Dan TO Edom, or in other wolds, along
the whole Jordan valley, from the sea
OF Galilee and even the waters OF
Merom to the southern desert. & will
not Insult the readers intelligence
and orthodoxy by suggesting that
perhaps he may not be precisely cer~
tain as to the exact position of the
waters OF Merom; but | will b erely
recommend him just to refresh his
memory by turning to his atlas, as
this is an opportunity which may not
again occur.) The modern Dead sea
is the last shrunken relic of such g.
considerable ancient lake. Its waters
are now so very concentrated and so
very nasty that no fish or other self
respecting animal can consent to live
In them, and so buoyant that q man
can't drown himself, even if he tries,
because the sea is saturated with salts
of various sorts till it has become a
kind of soup Or porridge, In which a
swimmer floats. Persons in the neigh>
borhood who wish to commit suicide
are therefore obliged to go elsewhere
much as in Tasmania, the healthiest
climate in the world, people who
want to die are obliged to run across
for week to Sydney or Melbourne.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10
a Glimpse Of Dead Sea.

The Dead sea is an old and decrepit
salt lake In very advanced stage OF
evaporation. It lies several feet below
the level of the Mediterranean, just
as the Caspian lies several feet below
the level Of the Black sea; and as In
both cases the surface must once have
been continuous, It is clear that the
water of either sheet must have dries
up TO q considerable extent. But
while the Caspian has shruak only to
eighty-fve feet below the Black sea,
the Dead sea has shrunk to the enor-
nous depth of 1892 feet below the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10
Arab Oddities .

An Arab on entering a house re-
moves his shoes, but not his hat. He
mounts his horse upon the right side
Ia writing a letter he puts nearly all
his compliments on the outside. With
him the point of pin is its head,
while its head is made its heel. His
head must be wrapped up warm. even
ia summer, while his feet may well
enough 90 naked in winter. Every
article of merchandise which is liquid
ne weighs, but he measures wheat,
barley, and few other articles. He
reads and writes from right to left.
He eats scarcely anything for break
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10
Evolution in Music.
Philadelphia Call

FmIoepnla Cau.
II tell you, Bromley; I've married
an angel"
80, no doubt Wait until you We
been married as long as I have"
''She's all smiles, Bromley; never a
cross word. Her voice is as sweet as
the sound of harp. Her"
20, she reminds you of harp does
she? Inside of year she'll remind OF
an accordion"
"Why of an Accord n"
Because she'll make the most noise
when you attempt to shut her up"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10
A DEMONSTRATION.
Boston Courier.

"Just ORE said the lover, as he
stood upon the stoop with his girl,
''just onei''
''Just l." said the mother, putting
her head out of the bedroom windo "
above; "well guess it amt so late as
that, but it's pretty Lear II, and you'd
better be going, or her father will be
down"
And the lover took his leave with
nain in his heart.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10

An EngIishman has been condemn
ed to 90 years penal servitude at
Lyons for plundcring churches.
While secretly prosecuting has career
of crime he was received into fashion,
able sporting circles, and became 3
patron of the turf
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10

Ladies as poor law guardians have
found a legitimate sphere of public
work, and in England and Scotland
there are now no less than forty six.
In London there are sixteen and 10
Edinburgh nine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10

The principal wedding anniversaris
are: First year, paper; fifth year,
wooden; tenth year, tin fifteenth year,
crystal twentiethyear, china twenty
fifth year, silver; fftieth year, golden
seventy fifth year, diamond.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10

1t is estimated that the opposing
candidates for District Attorney of
Lszerno county, Penn, have promis.
ed 1, 500 postofices to politicians,
though there are only 100 to be filled
by anybody.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-09-10
Poverty and Wealth.
TinSIey's Magazine.

There is much exaggeration as to
he deprivations of poverty and the
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-04-29
MAnY ANnERsoN,s ApIEu.

Her Farewell Speech from the Slage-she
!. - ReturBsHonie In September,
LOHdSi ca5h DitpGteh % lSesp iork Herald
&Aiiss Anderson atalt hour ago made
her esitfron the London sage. a vein
q sad nervousness ran throughout her
performance, 1rarfihg her best eEottsin
"Galatea' and Comedy and Tragedy"
The house was uncomtortably filed, but
was. not q istihguished one - =. :.
AT the close, being called before the
curtain, Miss Anderson said:. Ladies
and gentlemen, although shall soon re-
turn 10 my native land, j feel sad ut now
saving farewell TO London. little thought
eighteen mont ago, when first appearng
here, trembling and fearful, that should
finally have won such kindness and ap.
plause as greeted my farewell. shall
neyer forget you. ask you never TO Tor
get me. ECrles from the.pit We won
Slaryv7 / hope In time to again return.
Nav. 1? [Cries over the house, You
mustPl IF do hope the London public
will bs glad TO seq me. Voice IN the
gallery-'The public is YOU. little lamb,
Mary!' followed by roars Of laughter and
applatfse.1 Twill therefore not say fare.
well, but good by" In response to more
calls Manager, Abbey washed on by Miss
Anderson. TO cries Of Speech! !" he pan
tomimed TO his lips and heart, and pulling
down'his vest, retired.
Miss Anderson now rests until mic. Au-
gust, partly in England, accepting private
hospitality, partly, on the Continent. Then
she completes her provincial tour, begin;
nIhg at Newcastle, through tho principal
cities in the Midlands and northward, end
| ing at Corkion september ", whence she
takes steamer for New York.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-04-29
TRUSTEES SALE.

by virtue Of Deed Of Trust made By James
DyIon and Susan A. Dyson, his VILE, - ne -
Trustee Tor Elizabeth stegeF dated Nay ., lssl' y
corded In the Office Of tho Clerk Of ne LogAu
Court Of Ohio ounty, West VirgInia; IN peId Y
Trust Book No. II, Pogo BIB, viii sell nj The ir'
door OF the Court House Of said county, on
SATURDAY, THE 9th DAY OF MAY, i%S'
commencing at 10 O'Clock A. ", the following es
schbed property, that Is 10 GAy; certain poLHS11
Of lot MI . Der one hundred and eighty Two III y
Wheeling Island, SaId portion being At the r0iHg
OF York and Ohio streets and measuring 10Y Ky ~
on York street, and the breadth Of SAid IOI NJ s'
on. Ohio street, sixty feet more or les -. a,
TERMS OF SALK-Une half and as mnCh non,
tho purchaser may elect 10 pay In cash on the aI
Of sale, the balance IN two equal insLAlmcpp NY
and twelve months, notes bearing il'ens y X
given for the deferred payments, and 'tN"iSu n,
deed OF trust and policy oil insurance " 'N'
P'ST II nt.,,v, AuS,iSno"r apfll