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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-19
Life in ST. Petersburg.


People here all arm themselves for
the Winter. There can be no question
as to its severity. Indeed, one would
be inclined to imagine it were almost
welcomed as a friend, for keen disap-.
polntment is expressed when the snow
is tardy in falling. After the heavy
rains which fail in the late Autumn
snow roads are almost necessity of
existence. If frost suddenly sets in be-
fore they are made it is under great
difficulties that the country people
bring supplies to the metropolis; the
price OF provisions rises in proportion,
and distress ensues. Double windows
are universal; they are an absolute
necessity. For the admission of fresh,
air one pane in each window is left SO
that it may be opened at pleasure. The.
rest of the window is so thoroughly Sc,
cured that not a breath of the Keen air
can enter. This process accomplished, ,
the difference of the temperature with
in doors is sensibly perceptible, and
heating by means of stoves may then,
be delayed for some time. The interi-s
or Of a Russian house is not familiar TO
all, so, under favor of the Lares and,
Penates, we will enter the sacred,
domicile, first promising that we'll:
kept house in st. Petersburg or Mos;
cow is exceedingly comfortable. A tall, !
portly SuiSSe (houSe porter) admits YOU,
when footman ushers youup mostly
spacious handsome staircase, often of
marble, and. after passing through the
usual double doors, you are introduced
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your inevitable garment = your fur
cloak. The reception rooms are then
entered, and these often seem intermin-
able; eight or nine in number in the
houses on the Palace or English Quays
are not uncommon, generally opening
into one another. The inlaid parquets
of the rooms are often very beautiful
the floor polisher is an important insti-
tuition in Russia; of course, some rooms
are richly carpeted and do justice to
the looms of Turkey and Persia. The
silk or damask curtains, wall hangings
and coverings for the OttOmanS are SUI
perb. All is luxurious; vases of lapis-
lazuli, porphyry and malachite, pict-
ures and objects of art in general are in
profusion. The Russians are very
fond of promenading through their
suites OF apartments, and ample space
is left for this purpose. The Winter
being so long, every conceivable means
is used to shed around the charms of
warmer climates; trellises, along
which various creepers are trained, are
introduced; pretty baskets of plants
(tulips, hyacinths and camellias in full
bloom, while Winter is still raging out
side), the constant warm temperature
indoors being favorable to their cult
walton. The continental fashion of Iiv-
ing in flats much prevails here. Sleep
ing rooms are not invariably numerous
in proportion to the reception rooms;
but this state of things naturally i'm
proves with the increase of civilization.
Temple Bar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-19
A Dog That Thinks.

A.gentleman from Socorro has a set
ter pup named Jack that is gifted with
almost human sense. Two anecdotes
will serve to illustrate its capacity for
reasoning, and if any one has smarter
dog let them trot him out. Jack daily
accompanies his master to the butcher
shop, where a piece of meat is bought
for him, and which he carries home be-
fore being alllwed to eat it. The other
morning the package was too large to
admit of a passage with it in his mouth
through a hole in the fence the dog was
accustomed to 90 through, but the in
telligent animal laid the package at the
hole, jumped over the fence, and pull
ed it through lengthwise. Another
time, while carrying a paper sack of
peaches, the sack became torn and a
single peach dropped out. Jack set
the peaches down, went back and got
the one that dropped, and replaced it
in the sack. ,Soc0rro IN NJ CHIEF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-19
SUCCESS WITH CARP.

A New Jersey correspondent to The
Country Gentleman writes: ''Twoyears
ago | had on my premises an unsightly
calamus pond-hole, which | converted
into a small pond 25N45 rods. and with
a depth of from fifteen inches to four
feet. [ stocked it with young fry, and
it is now a sight worth seeing. Fish
can be seen that will weigh from five to
eight pounds, and young fry by the
hundreds. They are very palatable,
and also prolific, and make rapid
growth. They do not consume each
other and. at the same time. it is not
necessary to feed them, for they grow
rapidly on insects and seeds gathered
from the pond. They are fond of veg
etable matter. such as BOILED potatoes,
pumpkins, oats, barley, corn meal, and
lettuce, and thrive on it. They are
particularly fond of bread thrown on
the water, at the sight of which they
will give you a grand exhibition of them
selves while taking it from the surface.
They are worth the attention of those
who have unfailing water that they can
control. So well pleased am [ with my
experience with the carp that [ am now
laying plans for the completion of the
second lake"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-19
The Old Scissors Soliloquy.

THE following beautiful poem, bright in
humor and tender in sentiment. was written
several years ago by A. w. Kelly Parmenas
Mix, and first published in the Century, then
Scribner's Magazine. The brilliant author
died last June. He sleeps in Green Lawn
cemetery, Franklin. XVI
] am lying at rest in the sanctum tonight
the place is deserted and still
To my right lie exchanges and manuscript
white.
To nv left are the ink and the quill
Yes, the quill, for my masters old-fashioued
and quaint,
And refuses to write with pen;
He insists that old Franklin, the editor saint,
Used quill and he II initiate Ben.
| love the old fellow-together for years
We have managed the Farmers Gazette,
And although l am old, I'm his favOrite
shears,
And can crowd the compositors yet.
But my duties are rather too heavy, / think,
And / OftcntimeS envy the quill
As it laziy leans with its nib in the ink,
While I'm slashing away with q will.
But when / was newt remember it well,
Though a score Of long years have gone by
The heaviest share of the editing fell
On the quill and think with a sigh
Of the days when I'd scissor an extract CT
two,
From aneghboring editors leader,
Then laugh in my sleeve at the quill as 1t
In behalf of the general reader.
I'm being paid off for my merriment then,
For my master is wrinkled and gray,
And seldom lays hold on his primitive pen
Except when he wishes to say,
eve are needing some money to run this ma
And subscribers will please to REMIT"
Or, THAT last load of wood that Jones brought
was green,
And so knotty it couldn't be split
He is nervous and deaf and is getting quite
blind
Though he hates to acknowledge the lat
teri
And I'm sorry to say it's puzzle to find
Head or tail to the most of his matter.
The compOsitors plague him whenever they
The result of lucxless endeavor,
But the darling old rascal just lays it to me,
And i make no remonstrance whatever.
Yes, shoulder the blame-very littleI care
For the jolly compostOrS Jest,
For ] think of a head with the sivery hair
That will soon, very soon, be at rest.
He has labored full long for the true and the
good
Mid the manifold troubles that irk us.
His only emoIument raiment and food,
And-a pass, now and then, to the circus.
Heigho! from the past comes a memory
bright
OF a lass with the freshness of clover
Who used me to clip from her tresses one
A memorial lock for her lover.
That dear little lock is still glossy and brown,
But the lass is much older and fatter,
And the youth-he's an editor here in the
town
I'm employed on the staff of the latter.
/ am lying at rest in the sanctum tonight
The place is deserted and still
The stars are abroad and the moon is in
sight
Through the trees on the brow of the hill;
Clouds hurry along in unidentified haste
And the wind rushes by with vail
Hello! there's whopping big rat in the
paste
How I'd like to shut down on his tall
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-19
SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION.

The advocates of a wider choice of
studies in American education are of
two classes: One class, admitting the
claims of linguistic training to superb
GRITTY, asks only the option of employ
ing either ancient or modern languages,
saving a little space, perhaps, for
natural science. The other class holds,
first of all, that the art of education
must be based upon the science of
psychology, and that the symmetrical
development and highest efficiency of
the mind can be secured only through
a training which gives the due amount
of exercise to each faculty. 1t has long
been recognized as an absurdity to sup
pose that the muscular part of the hui
man organism gets its best develop
ment from any one kind of hard work.
The stone-cutter or machinist may
have strong arms, with very defective
lees. The coal-heaver will be strong
in the back. but will have STOPPING
posture and a cramped chest; much
rowing produces about the same de-
velopment Similarly with the brain.
The most prolonged and severe exer-
else of the memory will not perceptibly
improve the observing powers, and no
amount of drill in observation will Sc
cure a full development of the powers
of abstract thought. This matter is
very fully and clearly set forth IN MIR.
James Sully's new work, Outlines Of
Psychology" I'm the second place,
continues Mr.. Sully, 1.-The whole
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-19
EDUCATIONAL.
The Study of Language in the Scientific
School Plan-Compositiona and the Deri-
walton of Words Great Aids
Children at Home and School, in Town
and City-The Work Bench is Better
Educator Than the Billiard Table.
PUBLIC OPINION.

Meanwhile the swarms gather and
increase in the vicinity of the school
houses. There assemble the children
of the people, the rich, the poor
American. German, Irish. the robust,
the feeble, the beautiful, the deformed,
the intelligent, the stupid, the virtuous,
the vicious, the children of the people.
They will be men and women-to-mor-
row. They have come from the pri-
rlcy of the family to the publicity of
he school. They have stepped into
the world. They are weaving the in
dividual threads of life into the tissue
of society and Stately. z. Venable.
The fears entertained by many in
telligent persons, at the opening of the
schools, that the admission of the col
ored children to the white schools
would cause disturbance and the with
drawal of many white children, have
not been realized. 1t may seem
strange, but it is true, that the chill
dren most difficult to control come
from well-to-do and wealthy families.
L do not mean to say they are vicious,
disrespectful, and impolite, but are in
dolent and averse to doing anything
contrary to their own sweet wills.
There is good reason for this. They
come to school without knowing what
it is to do anything that requires any
sacrifice of pleasure. R W. Stevenson,
Satpt. Schools, Columbus, O.
Pupils must be trained to read and
write their mother tongue correctly
Teach them to do this so that every
scholar, at fifteen years of age, shall be
able to read newspaper readily; shall
be able to spell common words correct
ly; shall be able to converse free from
provincialism in pronunciation; shall
be able to write legible letter in cor
rect English. In reading, teach them
not merely to pronounce words, but to
get at the meaning of what they read.
There must be no sham scholarship
here. Good spelling is a conventional
test of education, and even a spelling
lesson may be made the means of valu-
able mental training.-Johaa Street.
What the country wants is teachers
trained in the country schools by teach
ers who know how to instruct. But
first there must be a change in several
directions; there must be books written
by those who know the actual wants of
the country schools, and not by those
who, from affair off, guess what will do
for them; there must be educational
journals that can give to their readers
short articles in plain English that
ordinary mortals can understand and
also use the ideas they contain in
actual school-room work. Lastly, our
Institutes must8 be changed so as to
give more didactic training and less of
the impractical academic work. These
secured, we may hope to see the couE-
try schools advance to a standard far
above what they now occupy. -SOuth-
aCeSteT72 Journal of Education.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-19

scheme of training should conform to
the natural order of development of the
faculties. Those faculties which de-
velop first must be exercised first. 1t
is vain, for example, TO try to cultivate
the power of abstraction before the
powers of observation (perceptionl and
imagination have reached certain de-
gree of strength. This self-evident
proposition is one of the best accepted
principles in the modern theory of
education. though there is reason to
apprehend that it is still frequently
violated IL practice. :"
The study of language also should
run through the whole school course.
The process of learning to talk should
be continued in the school, the pupils
discoveries about things furnishing the
SubJect-matter Oh which to exercise his
powers of expression. He should be-
gin early to write a part of what he has
to say, and may thus be introduced to
Composition without knowing the
dread which that big name commonly
inspires in the minds of school-children.
Elocution should receive some atten-
ton, AID the derivation and compost
ton of English words should be studied
to the extent that they aid in remem-
bering distinctions in meanings. The
pupil should obtain also some adequate
knowledge of the history of English
literature, and of its extent, its beau
ties, grandeur, and wisdom. At pres
ent students are admitted to the best
American colleges, whose ignorance of
their native language and its literature
is positively shameful. The study of
grammar should not begin until the
boy is sixteen yeurs old. At twelve or
fourteen years old he may begin to
learn to talk in another modern Ian
guage, and may continue. the study of
this language to the end of his school
course. These are enough subjects in
language; the other modern languages
and Latin and Greek should be left to
the college course, as German, Span
ish, Italian, and Hebrew commonly
are. In direct opposition to this meth
cd of procedure is the practice of put
ting boys into the grammatical study of
languages at ten or eleven years of
age, and its pernicious effect is well
stated by Herder:
1.-The first color which our mode of
thinking takes on never fades; alas for
us if it is 81 disagreeable or an actually
disfiguring one! The friend of hui
mainly must sigh when he sees how, in
the schools which parade the namQ
Latin school, the first young desire is
wearied, the first fresh strength is re-
strained, talent is buried in the dust,
and genius is held back until, like a
spring too long bent, it loses its power.
Who would ever get into the notion
that the system of linguistic education
is suitable for youth, if he only set HIM
self outside of our habit of thought
but how difficult it is to set ones self
outside of itn'-From "Germon Test5-
moaay on the Classics Question:" by r.
Il. Feamatd, IN Popular Science Monthly
for N0Uenber.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-19
The Fascination of Banooning.

Explorers of the air and earth are
strangely alike in two respects = indi-
vidua1ly they seldom weary of their
self-imposed struggles, and collectively
they make little progress. A first
plunge into Africa or the Arctic is al
most certainly followed by a return
trip, if the first be survived. Yet la
dyss finger-tip can cover all of the po-
lar circle yet charted, and Africa is still
the unknown continent. Five hundred
ascents are credited to Professor Wise,
and GODDARD left the clouds beneath him
at least 800 times. Their perseverance
can hardly be surpassed, and modern
skill and science were exhausted in their
appliances. Yet they went little high
er or further or longer than did the
bold men who tested Montgolfers dis
covery century ago. The fascination
of ballooning is akin to that of gam
bling. There is glorious uncertainty
whether the aeronaut will come back
to be feted and quizzed by men OF SCI
ence, Or whether many sorts OF unpicas-
ant things will happen to him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-19
HOG CHOLERA.

The disease having made its appear
ance in several places, the Iowa Home
stead makes the following precaution-
airy suggestions to farmers:
l. a rigid quarantine should be es-
tablished against other hogs. The pigs
raised on farm should never 90 off it,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-19
SALE OF RAILWAY LANDS.

Some remarkable statistics are pub
lished in connection with the sales of
land on the Union Pacific line. For ex-
ample, in June last the sales reached
463, 299 acres, at the aggregate price of
$931,041. In June, 1888, the sales
were only 118, 547 acres, and the amount
S485, GEO. The land sales on the main
line division for the half year ending
June 80, 1884, amounted to 2,062, 291
acres, of the value of $4,127, All; while
the sales for the six months ending June
80, 1888, were only 285, 965, of the value of
81, 056.3 2S. The land sales on the Kansas
Pacific division for the six months ended
June 80, 1884, amounted to FOG, 3S1
acres, of the value of 1876, 546; for the
six months ended June so, 1888, the
sales amounted to 161, Psi acres, Of the
value of $685. Taking the two di-
visions together, there was an increase
in the sales for the first half of 1884 of
1921, 400 acres, of the value of So, $780,
$50. Or, to take another view, Union
Pacific land sales receipts i'll the six
months to June. 1884. exceeded by 81
143, O73, or about 10 per cent, the total
receipts for the first halves of the years
1881, 1882, and 1888. This new and
extensive demand for land is due to the
fact that the tide of settlers is turning
from the northwest into the warmer re-
gions of Nebraska and Kansas. 1t is
expected that at the present rate the
tide will soon cover the whole of the
100000 acres grant of the Union Pa
cifc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-19

George Sand earned more than $780,
900 by her pen; but her possessions
were scarcely worth five thousand dol
lars when she died.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-19

unworthy well-bred child.-R "
oteGeaSon. Sapt Schools, Columbus n
m Journal of ETacQtioa 0'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-02-19
FARM TOPICS.
Suggestions on the Construction OF Farm
Buildings with View to Economy
and Convenience.

Remarkable Statistics in Connection with
the Sale of Railway Lands---Precau-
tiOnary Measures Against Hog
Cholera.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-09
Silk Wraps all Reduced,

Reduced to $3.50 from s22.50, La
dies Plush Goats ~ inches, long
quilted Satin lining.
Reduced to $3.50 from $S5, Ladies'
Brocade Velvet New Markets quilted
Satin lining.
Reduced to S27 50 from $500. La
dies Ottoman silk New Markets,
satin lined and fur trimmings.
Reduced TO $3.50 from 1925, Ladies'
Ottoman Satin New Markets, satin
lined and fur trimming.
Reduced to Sl4 from $50, Ladies'
BroCade Satin New Markets, fur
Trimmed.
Reduced to $ls from 1924, Ladies'
Brocade Ottoman New markets, Satin
| liucd.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-09
Big Bargains this Week

Reduced to SO from $3.50; Ladies
Plain Diagonal New markets, all
wool.
Reduced to $s from Sll; Ladies' all
wool Berlin Twill New markets.
Reduced to SO from 1880. Ladies'
Double Breasted New markets #
heavy all wool Seigo cloth in Black
and Brown.
Reduced TO $i2.50 from Sl650,
Ladies' Brown Berlin Twill New
market, collar and sleeve OF Silver
fur, accordion Back.
Reduced to $40 from S25, Ladies
New market made of heavy Brucle,
military front and shoulder orna-
ments, tailor made.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-09
An PLAYED out.

Don't know what ails me lately,
Can't cat well,-ean't sleep well.
Can't work, and don't enjoy doing
anything Amt really sick. and /
really Amt Well. Feel all kind o.
played out, someway.r That Is what
scores OF men say every day. II they
would take DIR. Pierec's Golden
Medical Discovery they would soon
have no occasion TO say Il. II puri.
lies the blood, tones up the system,
and foriiiies It against disease. II Is
a great anti-bilious remedy a. well.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-09

We Have some Seven Hundred Misses Imported and Do
mestic Haveocks that we offer this week at prices
that will make th.m go, they are way down.
We start ona line at $3.50 for 4-years-oId
and raise rs cents on sizes up to l6
years We start another line at So
for 4.year old an raise 25cts.
a size. Another line we
Start at $3.50 for 4year- old and raise %
cents size. These are the cheapest Lot
o. ClokKS EVER OFFERED
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-09
LADIES SHORT WRAPS

We have immense stock of the in woolen cloths,
ilksbrocade Veves brocidc Satin The way have cut
prices short Wraps this week is something terrible,
quoting prices these don't tell the story and
compare last with this weeks prices, thing is
positive our prices will make them go fast this week
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-09

We wish call the special attention Of all those that enter our cloak de-
any shoddy opoory made goods garment we have tailor made
best of its well for little
cloak Department is the place it,
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-09
SANGER BROTHERS
Great Special Cloak Sale.

Cloak manufacturers already making goods
of their
at dollar, DRAW
CROWD OUR CLOAK ROOM THIS WEEK going
them propcrtonae low prices bought them Added
this our entire stock of
Ladies', Misses & ChiIdren's Wraps
Have Been Marked Down.
Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1885-12-25
BENSON ITEMS.

BENSON, Arizona, Dec A, 1885.
 EDITOR EPITAPH:--I will give you a few items from our town. We have been having lively time for three or four days. Benson was visited by an excur- sion party on their way to California from Ohio and Iowa, to spend the win ter. This is one of the largest excursion parties that has ever passed through Benson, it having fourteen coaches, con taining four hundred people. They looked like an army along the railroad track.
 The new saloon, the Cattle Exchange, James Barret and Robert L. Miller pro- prietors, opened on the night of the 2Ist, and was one of the finest displays ever had in the town. The table was spread with roast pig, boiled ham, etc, in abundance, and the wine and cider was Iof the finest quality that could be pro- cured in the Eastern market. This sa- loon is second to none in the territory, and with MT. Barret and MT. Miller as proprietors, there IS no doubt of success.
 MT. Ben Goodrich put in his smiling appearance on the 23d, in w. L. Reaches court, as attorney for John Thede in an assault and battery case, wherein Thede was defendant. MT. Thede was released, notwithstanding the evidence to the con- trary.
 Tomorrow is Christmas, and the Knights of Pythias are preparing for a grand ball on Christmas night