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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
Voters in the United Kindem.

A correspondent asks who in En-
gland is eutitled to vote-whether
there is property qualification. Vo-
tiers IN England under existing laws
are divided into four classes. Owners
of,.property yielding a certain income;
occupiers of property who pay csr-
tain sum annually in rent; dodgers
who occupy separate apartments IN a
house and pay certain sum annually
in rent, and pesons who occupy prop>
erty as care-takers, that is, reside on
1t to look after it. It will be observed
that the principle is adhered to that
the voter must have some sort OF some
stake in the country, though the stake
in majority of the cases may be a
very small one. 1t is not manhood
suffrage" but approaches very near
to it. The householder, as being the
man who bears the chef burdens of
the state, seems to be the ideal voter,
according to the British notion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
Winter Evening Reading.

Mrs. Ellen Bliss Hooker, in Good Housekeeping
1t is delightful way to pass the
Winter evenings, when the children
are old enough Tor it, for the family
TO take up the plays Of SHAKESPEARE,
assigning the various parts to differ
ent members Of the family. If your
own circle be not sufficiently large,
call in your neighbors. Let the young
people be made to read correctly, in
diligently and well; thus you are
able to accomplish several things. An
case of manner in reading is acquired,
correct ear, q knowledge of the best
use of words, and naturally follows a
love of The highest literature. Then
when it becomes possible for the child
rem to see some one of these familiar
plays on the stage, take them your
selves. Thus they will easily see that
the theater is to you a place where
something good may be seen and
heard; possibly you may be able to
form SO correct taste IN early life as
to preclude all desire for inferior act
ors and plays. Set your intellectual
standard high and try to keep your
selves in sympathy with the children
IN every way, and they vii have no
desire TO conceal anything; the book /;
the amusement, the friend, will be all
the more enjoyable because OF the
presence Of the father and mother Ia
TO their inner life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
Talked His Arm Off.
Omaha Bee,

A bore IN one Of the hotels the
other evening, caught the laugh In a
style he richly merited, after he had
wearied a dozen or more gentlemen
sitting around with his loud and in.
cessant gable. He had hauled his
chair about the room, delivering his
ideas Of the closest obtainable range,
and was just closing the list on a de-
mure looking gentleman buried studi-
ously IN a newspaper. The quiet man
had lost his right arm and wore a
false gloved hand. The nuisance
planted his chair Immediately in front
of him and plunged into one of his
insane haranugues. The annoyance
was tolerated for a few minutes, when
with stealthy movement, the quiet
man urfastened the attachments of
the false arm and it dropped to the
floor. The garrulous bore checked
his tongue aghast, and with feigned
horror his victim started to his feet.
exclaiming, MAN, you have ruined
me; you have talked my arm offr
Amid screams of laughter the bore
leaped from his seat and fled.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

the factory himself. A very ingenious
continuance attached to the machines
gives the length of thread as the wind
tor to cut it at the right place. With
the qulckness of thought and what
seemed like supernatural dizziness a
little slit is made in the fange of the
spool and the end of the thread, is
caught in it. Some kinds of thread
are weighed as well as measured, the
operator having at her right hadd
small set of scales. The superintend-
ent tests certain portion of the spool
ed thread every day, to see that the
average quantity On each spool is
what it should be. it being guaranteed
on the label. The difference in the
appearance of the thread at various
stages Of its manufacture is quite re-
markable. After the twisting has been
finished, and before it has been boiled,
It's hard and even harsh to the touch,
and resembles more than anything
else fine fishing Irvine. One would
not imagine it to be silk. When it
leaves the dyer's hands nothing could
ee softer or glossier. The sole silk
thread making establishment in the
western part of the continent con-
sumes yearly about seven thousand
pounds of silk, the value of which is
aboat $4,000 The industry has not
felt the prevailing depression as much
as many others, and it is probable
that very soon after the revival of
trade plans may be entered into for
charging the plant of the present es-
tablishme2t so that piece goods may
be manufactured. This design is at
all events the ultimate aim of the cap
italists already interested.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
THE WHIPPING-POST STATE.
A Glimpse of the Land of True Pro-
gress and Reform.

Delaware justice is not calculated
to render the life of criminal a hap
py one. A correspondent Of the New
York Stats Zeitung, who attended
the September session of the county
court at Wilmington, gives q curious
glimpse of the administration of jus
tice In,the progressive little State. The
Judges IN Delaware are appointed for
life, and are almost Invariably grey
haired, venerable men. TIE Judge
usually lives on his farn, some dis
lance from town and puts IN an ap-
pearance only while the court is IN
session. He is scrupulously careful
dispensing justice not to err on the
side of lenienc7. 1t would be en-.
ceura ging crime ard vice. At a recent
session a prisoner who was convicted
of having stolen some keys was con-
demmed to pay 1878 damages and
the cost OF the court and to receive
in addition ten months imprisonment
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
SOCIAL LIFE IN AMERICA.
Hts Beautiful and dmirabIe Charac.
terisIics the Country over.
New York Tribune

But whatever may be true of Soc
iety IN New York, there is great,
wide, independent world which not
only receives no law FROM New York,
but never thinks Of New York. does
not know that there is any New York.
1t is IN the city, III the country. 1t has
all the convenience, all the refine.
ments many of the luxuries of mods
ern material life. 1t mas as much in
teiligence as New York. It reads
more, it thinks more, it deals more
with real things. 1t speaks as gently,
1t stands more firm. Perched on my
sunny hiIl>top I survey the wide
wooded hills and the far stretching
fields, and | suppose there is not a
single dress coat within my great
eircling horizon. Can civilization be
without dress coats? see yonder IN
the southwestern heavens the sky
light of a social club which gathers
every known flower and bird and bug
all Summer and Classics and analy-
yes then9 all Winter. Here is a Presi-
dent of bank who leaves his CARR
age 10 pluck a green knob, cut it open
with his pen knife and show you the
worm that nestles Ia its heart. A
tradesman points out the smooth rock
under your horses hoofs the track of
the glacier billion years ago-or is
it the swoop OF Mr.. Donnelly's comet
From yonder shoemaker's little,
graceless shop comes man, learned
IN snakes, who will lay down his laps
stone and teach you as deity how a
snake walks as Ruskin teaches yosl
the falsehood and ignorance of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

and ten lashes OF the cat. A burglar
Was punished by fine of 5000, SIS
damages, the cost of the court, an hour
in the pillory and twenty lashes.
Another who was found guilty of va
grancy, was condemned to pay the
court, $500 fine, and to undergo
years Imprisonment, an hour in the
pillory and thirty lashes. The last
items of these sentences were duly
executed under the eyes of the Sheriff
in New Castle on Saturday last The
culprits received the punishment with
Grecian stoicism.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

LAGOON. On the northeast see a
man to whom the light Of heaven has
been darkened these thirty eight
years, but before when on that ac>
count ali the ways Of the world seem
only the more clearly outlined and to
whose ardent patriotism the manifest
destiny of this country is strangely
blocked by the most hopeless blind :
ness of all-the blindness of those
who, having eyes, see not. But fear
ing lest, in that new world to which
We are fastening, he shall find light
again only to learn that his beloved
classics have no circulation there, he
is having his dearest old Greek plays
and Latin epics and Hebrew songs
read over to him by every man and
maid whose mouth is fashioned to
frame those unaccustomed words
and they are not feWi Yonder is the
simple, sweet home of woman whose
domestic virtues and gay private
banifcences make you forget that the
most chill and wimtry scenery Of New
England will grow gorgeous, vivid,
sentiment under the glowing pen. On
that western slope gathering now the
amethystlne tint of the setting sun
young girl breathed the breath Of
Italy, drank the wine Of Me3enas.
distilled the honey Of Hymettus, and
IN this new, fresh world wrought
from the older worlds such sweetness
and light as dared shine out full and
free and bold even into Matthew Ar
nold's face. Time and type would
fail me to name the names of those
around me, poor and rich, who have
turned from the mere material pleas
ure of wealth, who have forged their
way out from the stern restrictions Of
poverty and by nome study, by for
eign travel, from pure love, have
Joined force with the simple great Of
all ages and have added their own
clear candor ana white radience TO the
sweetness and light of The world.
It may not be civilization, but 1t is
q most endearing and exalting form
of 5arbarism.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
Removal of Flood Rock.
RESULTS OF YEARS OF LABOR.

The removal of Flood Rock in He'll
Gate Channelis the browning act in
the work of 35 years. The reef OBJ
structed the navigation of ships wish~
ing to enter New York Harbor from
the east, The initial step toward re-
moving the rocks was begun II 1848.
In 1870 the steamer Hussar, bearing
British gold, struck Flood Rock and
sunk By removal of Flood Rock and
the reduction of Hafleck's Point reef,
10 depth of 26 feet at mean low wa>
ter. the channel is now estimated to
be from /, 200 to 1 500 feet wide, and
is navigable for ships and ocean yes
sells Of the larger class, many of which
will vail themselves Of the saving of
forty miles which the Sound route
offers over that by New York Bay.
With the aid of the immense electric
light on Hallett's Point, which throws
lis powerful rays over the whole of
He'll Gate channel the passage through
this once dangerous waterway will
be practically safe Gay and
night. The cost Of the work Ga Flood
Rock closely approximates 81, 900, 600.
From 1869 to 1879, the amount expend-
ed was $3.50, 900, and since the latter
date Congress appropriated over $3.50, =
900. This sum has not all been ex-
pended On Flood Rock, the appropria-
ton being for improvements in the
East River generally. The work was
delayed on several occasions by the
exhaustion of the appropriations,
other wise the explosion would have
occurred year ago. The engineers
who were in charge of the work at
the time of its completion ware,
JOHN NEWTON,
Lieutenant Colonel of Engineers and
Brevet Major General, and G. Meg.
Derby, Lieutenant of Engineers. In
addition to the ''rack>a- rock" cartrid-
ges there were several hundred ordiu-
airy dynamite cartridges to which the
wires connecting with the decorating
batteries were attached 1t was through
these latter that the Simultaneous
shocks causing the explosion of all
cartridges were produced. 1t is estimat-
ed that 285, 600 pounds of explosives
were used; over 100000 feet of wire
were used in connecting the blasts
and the batteries. Owing to the diff
Guilty of laying wire or cable from the
rocks to the mainland for the purpose
Of causing the explosions in a man
ner similar to that used when Hal
let's Point was blown up an automat-
ic exploding battery was designed by
General Newton, which was set by
Lieutenant G. MEG. Derby fifteen
minutes before the grand finale. In
addition, how=ver, connection by
electric wire with an exploding bat
terry IN Astoria was made to use in
case of any miss on the rock, and
make success doubly sure.
e General Newton's next work will
be the leveling off by surface blasting
of Fryingpan Reef, which now has a
depth of only eigeteen feet of water
above it at low tide. and in working
q little off Negro Point at the south
eastern extremity of Wards island,
When this is done there will be a
straight channel through. The re-
moval of Flood Rock will do away
with the boiling eddies south of it,
where the waters OF the Harlem river
join those of the East river at almost
right angles, and will change the APP
pearance of the river very material
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
A Settled Point.
New York Herald.

Samuel Frazer lifted barren waste
of smoke colored intellect above the
Jefferson market police court railing
and looked sadly at Mrs. Frazer, who
was pointing at a lump as big as a
doughnut on one chocolate>tinted
cheek, which she said Sans fist bad
raised there. The magistrate looked
incensed.
Frazer, you and your wife were
here year ago"
t'Yessah."
"She was stouter and moro robust
then?"
''Yessah."
"She was less carewarn?"
"Yessah."
''She was younger and more kindly
looking?"
"Yessah."
you're The cause of this"
"Yessah. I'm responsible for mars
rying dis var CONAN. De udder un
you means done gone dead desc ten
nuns"
"What2 Taken another for better or
worse in that time? Well, you ought
to be satisfied"
IT am satisfied yo' 'onah," answer
ed Samuel solemnly. "Dis I'm is
Wuss.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
A carriage road is TO be made fror

A carriage road is TO be made from
Jerusalem to the ruins made at Jeri-
cho by the blast of Joshua's rams
horns. A small modern village now
stands near the ruins, which are sunk
], 200 feet below the sea level IL, well
watered, but dreadfully hot valley.
at the very cave in which Elijah is
said to have been fed by the ravens.
The monaGtery is literary hung on to
the face of the preclpice, and consists
Of a series of cells and hall sup
ported on vaults. through which lies
the entrance A few Greek monks
live like birds perched on the edge Of
a nest in this singular abode, to which
a chapel pinnacle on d rock is at
tached.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
Various News Standards
Atlanta Constitution.


'Some papers have peculiar ideas
about ordering news, ''sald New York
correspondent.
you'll find that the standard varies
with the place. In st. Louis they
want murders and Iyhchings, in Gins
cinnati scandals, in Chicago railroad
news and crime, and in Boston scien-
tifc matter. In New York each paper
has its particular feature. but the
hardest paper [ ever tried to please
was the Baltimore Sun. All it wants
in the way of a special service is
births and deaths around Maryland,
and horses that go lame. It's odd,
but It's fact, it will pay more for a
crippled horse than for 8 frst-class
sensation
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

The type used upon one issue of the
newspapers of this country weighs
6,700,0OO pounds, aud would set up
ISIS ordinary 12mo. books. The
composition done on the dailies In one
year would fill 10000 volumes of the
sizs OF Appleton's Cyciopedia. Eight
thousand presses are required for the
press work, and the proof slips, pasted
end to end, would much more than
cross the continent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
They Had Forgotten 1t.
Detroit Free Press

Say" shouted a boy in front OF
the city hall the other afternoon.
Something like so men came to q
dead halt.
Say! Your wife said L was to tell
you not to forget to bring home that
teal continued the boy, IN louder
voice.
Fortyfve men &%hheeled, slapped
their legs and grunted out:
Hanged # [ hadn't forgotten all
about 1t
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22
Julia. ] don't see why YOU are 90

Julia, ! don't see why you are go
ing to marry Harry Bascomb. He
hasu't any money and it is not likely
that he'll ever have any"
Fanny, I'd scorn to marry for
money. Harry is handsome and
fine athlete. He would bring me a
sense OF protection"
80, that's all right, Julia. Every
one to their mind. You may marry
for protection, I intend to marry for
revenue"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

It is interesting to note that of a
total operating expense of $14. $50, coo
nearly ten millions goes for salaries.
Taking this road as an example, the
cost of running and maintaining
railway may be stated IN detail as fol-
lows:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

The Scientific American recon-
mends a gargle of salt and water for
diphtheria sore throat with light
diet. This in the first soreness. Also
a sirup of onions, sugar and honey
for obstinate coughs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

The attendants at the cholera hos
pitfalls in Madrid and elsewhere in
Spaid are all Sisters of the Society OF
ST. Vincent de Paul. AL the regular
attendants fed. AL these women are
ladies by birth, chiefly from Navarro
and Valencia.
Queen Victoria's ambition as an
autnoress is greater than her capacity,
which is respectable, however.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-10-22

of the details of the process would fill
q greaG deal Of space. The sizes of the
completed threads are finally CLASH
fed by means Of a weighing machine.
which indicates the most delicate diff
ference not distinguished to the eye.
| The threads consist of from As to $50
! original fibers. A stretching machine
makes the weight, size, and strength
as nearly uniform as possible. After
this the remaining gum, about rs per
cent, is boiled out. The thread then
goes to the dye hous which is situat-
&c in another part of the city. A
hugdreh or more of shades, tints, and
colors are here applied according to
the demands OF the trade, which is
supposed to be an index of the public
| fancy. No new hue is produced in
France for dress goods, but is repro>
ducea here IN threads designed to be
usedln making up those fabrics. After
returning from the dye-house the
thread has still to undergo another
process. Itpasses through machine
which divests it of all fluff or ragged
particles, leaving it bright and glossy
| article which is found IL shops. The
cleaning machine finishes about three
hundred pounds of thread a day. As
yet no use has been found for the soft
| and downy fluff which falls from its
miniature wheels. Someone who can
discover some way Of making it valu-
able might make fortune.
The spooling IS the last act Ia the
preparation of the thread for the mars
ket, and it requires greater skill and
experience than any other duty not
performed by the superintendent Of
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-12
GUILTY OF A BASE CRIME.
A One.Armed ScoundreI Who Will
Probably Get A Heavy Benefit.

Robert Weston, the one-armed wretch
who attempted to commit rape on little
Louise, the 4-year old child of Druggist
Nelden, appeared in court to-day with
his attorney, E. 7. Sprague, for trial.
Weston pleaded not guilty, and prescott
ing attorney, G. S. Varian, conducted the
cinching process.
A jury was formed from the regular
panel William A. Nelden, John
Wicket, John W. Wicket and Samuel
Stone were called as witnesses for the
prosecution.
Defendant Weston testified in his own
behalf, and claimed to have been under
the influence of liquor when he lead the
little girl into the closet off Commercial
street.
During all the sickening account of the
horrible affair no ladies were allowed
present in the courtroom.
Mr.. Nelden could not refrain from
showing his worked-up feelings over the
assault of the tramp on his little daugh-
ter, and during the testimony his face
depicted wretchedness, although he sat
quietly without saying a word.
The appearance in court of the sweet
child caused many expressions of con-
tempt for the brute who was so low and
degraded as to attempt to defle such a
little innocent. The prosecution rested
and the jury retired, and at 2 o'clock the
twelve men were brought into court and
rendered verdict OF guilty as charged in
the Indictment
Sentence was fixed for next Thursday,
and Weston was returned to the school
provided for such culprits.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-12
Bishop Whitney's Historical Harangue.

A falr-sized audience congregated at the
Tabernacle yesterday, expecting to listen
to a synopsis of the Conference just
ended at Logan, and something new in
the way of prosecutions, celestial mar
rlage, tithing, and latter-day signs, as
revealed to the people, but all present
were not to receive such a treat, for
Bishop o. f. Whitney mounted the stand
and exercised his oratorical abilities by re-
hearsing the history of the world since the
flood. The young aspiring bishop seems
to have caught sight of the grand oppor-
tunity to reach the front ranks of the
Mormon church while the leaders are
scattered to the four winds, and but few
are left to steer the boat. The speaker
hkened Joseph Smith to Jesus Christ as a
prophet, and possessing the same powers.
The Christian world still held to the dead
letter of the Scriptures, and were too
egotistical to be changed by the
gospel of the Latter-day Saints. The
polygamious wives of Jacob were the
mothers OF the pure family from which
the Savior sprang. The same system
holds good to-day with the Latter-dav
Saints, the chosen people OF God. After
consuming over two houes' time in recit-
ing the old, old story to the weary and
worn-out audience, Bishop Whitney re-
tired from sight, and the choir sang
beautiful anthem as refreshing close to
the meeting.