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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-11
The Third Auditors Office.

Third Auditor Williams report was
sent to the Secretary of the Treasury to-
day. In submitting this report he says
that 1t affords him pleasure to direct at
tentiOn to the improved condition of the
business of the Office, as disclosed in the
operations of the several divisions, COM
pared with the preceding fiscal year. The
total number of claims, accounts and
cases settled during the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1886, was 1855, invoIv-
ing $159, 4O1,724 During the preceding
fiscal year the number was 500, involv-
ing $91, 758, sos. An increase of So per
cent. is thus shown over 1S84-5 in the
number of claims, ETC., disposed of, and
about u per cent. in che money involved.
Referring to the state war claims the au-
ditor says that while full investigation
has not been mpleted, cursory exam
ination unfolds gross Irregularities aris-
ing out of absolute carelesSnesS or wIlful
preparation of fraud. The office, after
a thorough examination of the claims of
the state of Indiana, says that in round
numbers $4,000 had been illegally allow
ed. Fifty-twO thousand dollars of this
sum was in the year 1874 discovered and
withheld from & credit found due the
state; and, upon investigation, now $46,-
600 more, made up of accounts allowed
in excess of vouchers presented. Amounts
allowed twice for the same service, and
amounts allowed without vouchers, ap-
pear as a legitimate charge against the
state. In the matter of the claims of the
state of Vermont, it appears that for a
want of proper system in keeping the ac-
counts, S225,254 have been at various
times since the close of the war of the
rebellion paid to the state, which, instead
should have been applied to the indebted
ness, amounting to S543,7S0, charged
against the state on the books of the ord
nance Office, of the war department.; be-
ing the money value of arms, equipments,
ETC., furnished in the years 1864, which
have never been returned or accounted
for. The auditor states that he is in
formed that the state of Vermont sold the
greater portion of these arms to for
eign country-Turkey- deposited the
proceeds, amounts to $4,000, in her
treasury. At this time the claims of the
state of Iowa are receiving attention, but
the examination is not sufficiently adj
vanced to include full report. Enough,
however, has been discovered, the auditor
says, to warrant the conclusion that a
considerable sum has been unlawfully
paid the states, growing out of reim-
bursements on account of advances, the
same services having been previously
paid for by the United States paymas-
ers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-11
PHOSPHORUS POISONING.
Dangers of Match making-The Remedy.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.

ST. Louis Globe Democrat
In the making of lucifer matches, the
ends of the wood, suitably dried and
split, are dipped in paste composed of
PHOSPHORUS and chlorate or nitrate of
potash. OF course there are dangers of
explosions and accidental burns from
these chemicals; in addition the employees
chiefly women and children are poisoned
by fumes of phosphorus. Almost ali of
them are pale and badly nourished, COM
plain of pains in the stomach and dys-
pepsia, while many of them have a
catarrh of the stomach, lung diseases
especially catarrhs and consumption
are frequent. Some match manufacture
ers say that the workmen become dull
and stupid and have no energy or heart
in their work.
The most striking case of phosphorus
poisoning is to produce death of portions
of bones, particularly that of the lower
jaw. This disease appears after four or
five years employment in this business,
and ten or twelve per cent of the oil d
hands become thus affected. Toothache
is generally the first thing wrong that is
noticed, then pains in the face, enlarged
glands, etc. Then an abscess forms
which discharges offensive matter and
sooner orlater it is discovered that a
part of the bone is dead. When the up
per jaw is affected the disease is slow in
its progress; in the lower one it runs a
shorter course, and is attended by more
suffering. If the dead bone is removed
by surgical operation, recovery is the
rule, while 80 to 50 per cent. of those
neglected die.
To prevent the painful and sometimes
ratal disesse the most complete ventila-
ton of the working rooms, particularly
near the floor where the heavy varors
sink for time, should be enforced. As
the 4OOth part of the vapor of oil of tur
pentine in the air prevents the giving
off of phosphorus yapors at ordinary
temperatures, dishes containing this sub
stance should be freely distributed about
the floors of the rooms. The English
workmen carry small tin boxes contain
ing this Oil suspended from their necks
in order to prevent inhaling the poison
Gus vapOrs. Children should not be per
mitted to engage in such employment
and all employees who have imperfect
teeth should be rejected, for the poison
frequently gains entrance through the
bone Or tho jaw through defective
tooth. The sc-called 'red phosphorus"
only should be allowed in the manufac-
ture of matches. This is much more ex-
pensive than the ordinary form, but it is
not poisonous. The matches made from
it it require to be manufactured in
careful manner, but the use of the or
binary white phosphorus should be pro-
hibited by law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-11
She Earned 1t.
Philadelphia Times.

Miss Anna Gould, to whom the late Mr..
I1lden left 100000 in his will, is the
daughter of the late General Gould, of
Rochester, who, when heidied, beoueathed
an ample fortune to his widow. son and
daughter. But the son was unfortunate
IN business, and, having lost his own
snare, persuaded his mother and sister to
let him have their money that he MIGHT
open a banking house in New York in
"hlch be soon wrecked all their mainte
nance. This compelled Miss Gould to
earn her own livelihood, and she was
commended to Mr.. Tilden as a reader
oy one or ms family who is connected
win her by marriage She had been
mighty educated, and her reading never
seemed to tire him, and so insatiate was
MS appetite for books that She read tn
MIN IN the hVe years she spent at Grew
stone oOO volumes, besides newswaner.
magazines, letters and miscellaneous
matter. As he perferred solid works.
ana most OF them on abstruse subjects
Wnlch could not interest Miss Gould. her
lncessant reading must have been most
arduous to her. Mr.. Tilden was very
crltlcal, and II she did not pronounce p
word correctly would set her right and
make ner read 1t again. If she Thought
he was falling asleep and read carelessIy,
ne would at once rouse up and insist on
having the passage read over correctly.
She has by this drilling become as criti
cal as Mr.. Tilden was, and has become
terror to her acquaintance when thew
speak IN her presence, and they never use
word IN talking to her of whose pro
nuncatlon and finer significance they are
not certain. When he engaged Miss
Gould's services Mr.. Tiden agreed to pay
her 500 per month and give her a home
at Greystone Later he told her he
would leave her $4,000 in his will, and
after time promised her 100000 if she
remained with him as long as he lived,
which pledge he kept. She certainly
earned all she has received or expects
from his estate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-11
LONG LIFE.
How You May Tell Whether You Are Likely to
Have 1t.
Fortnightly Review.

nave III.
Fortnightly Review.
If anyone would know whether he is
likely to live long or die soon, let him in
qu1re whether old age runs in his family
or not, for the good tissues of long life
are apt to be hereditary, and he may
commit a great many excuses or other
errors without killing himself if he
comes of a long-lived stock. In like
manner he may get much help toward
knowledge of the diseases to which he is
prone and which excuses or other errors
are likely to light up by inquiring what
diseases his forefathers or kinsmen
suffered or died from. Some diseases
are VIGOROUSLY reckoned to be directly
hereditary in like kind, for example, cpl
lepsy, phthisis, and insanity. When a
person has one of them we are not at all
surprised to learn that the discovery is
sufficient explanation and to think that
no more be said. But it is not really an
explanation; it is merely an indication
of the direction in which the exact ex-
PLANTATION has yet to be sought. If it be
sufficient explanation, how does it hap
pen that all the children of the same I'M
sound father or mother do not suffer in
the same way? How is it that twins, liv-
ing under the same conditions, have not
always, as now and then they have, the
same diseases at the same ages? In call
ing a disease hereafter it is not really
meant that the disease itself is actually
inherited by the offspring, who, in that
case, would be born with it; what is
meant is that the latter inherits a certain
organic constitution which, being likely
to undergo that pathological develop
ment in the ordinary circumstances of
life is therefore described as constitu-
tional predisposition or tendency to the
disease. We do not in the least know
what is the intimate nature of the pre-
disposition but we know that it may be
greater or less in different persons, and
that it is thought to be so great in the
cases of the diseases mentioned and 81
likely to be transmitted to children as to
be serious objection, if not an actual
bar, to marriage. Those, who having
fallen in love, are aware of the existence
to them in their families and therefore
not a little troubled sometimes with
scruples of conscience and anxiousIy ask
medical advice whether they shall marry
or not. In the end they commonly mar
ry, whatever the advice given them, hav-
ing pursuaded themselves that the cpl
lepsy was not real epilepsy, but a form
OF VlotenI nySIerla; InaI the lung mis-
chief was not constitutional phthisis, but
the accidental consequence of neglected
cold; that the insanity was not the out
come of family degeneracy, but an &C
cidental blow on the head which was
nothing known of at the time. Would the
earth ever have been peopled had cool
reason been potent enough 20 queuch the
hot passion of love?
Hog cholera has become epidemic at
Bayside, L. l., and in its vicinity. Sew
eral hundred hogs have died from the dis
ease within q few days, one farmer having
lost thirty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-11

of the wights who wear the tunic are fa1
from possessing those physical proper
tions which are generally supposed to
make a favorable impression on women's
hearts.
Ladies are capricious beings, and there
is no accounting for their peculiar tastes
We're not the ugliest dwarfs and most be-
sotted criminals often and often in the
past the objects of the tenderest affection
to the purest and loveliest daughters OF
Eve? And does not the world wag now
precisely as it wagged before?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-11

for instance, that found the very inner
most kernel of "Amiel's journal" TIE first
hour l spent in a preliminary reconnais-
ance of those charming pages. 1t was
In the single phrase "male resignation"
This resignation with energy,''-the Civ
ing up without giving init is a whole
philosophy of life in a nutshell.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-11
A Nice NeighbOrhOOd.
Texas Siftings.

A stranger DESTROYS of locating in Aus
tin endeayored to purchase a residence
frem one of our most leading citizens,
but thought the price too high.
" Too hight! yelled the owner, ''too
high, with three saloons at regular inter
walls on the road to church, peach orch
ard with fence easy to get over close at
hand, and there hasn't been policemen
seen in the neighborhood Tor the last two
years? Why, stranger it dosen't look to
me11ike you was trying to become one Of
u.s."
It is learned that Mr.. Fitzgerald, who
Fairfield, Neb., Tuesday, was not the pres
ident of the Irish National league.
Two heads is better than one when, ex-
cept when there is but one pillow.
A crime under peculiar circumstances
was recently committed at Birmingham,
Ala. Late Saturday afternoon Fannie
Davidson, nurse of Mrs. Smith, took the
baby in the yard and remained about
half an hour. When she returned with
the baby it was asleep, and Mrs. Smith
in few moInenrs discovered unnatural
action, and hastily sent for neighbor.
The child grew worse and, Iotwlthstand-
ing the efforts of a good physician, died
within two hours after. The nurse had
made an engagement to go to party, and
could not leave until the child was asleep
and it is supposed that she uses method
to make it go to sleep earlier, so that she
could leave. She has been arrested.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-11
Mother Goose.
From the Lewiston C1Ie) Journal.


Mother Goose's maiden name was
Elizabeth Foster She was born in
Charlestown, Mass, in 1886, and married
Isaac Goose, of Boston, in 1898. She was
his second mate, and began her maternal
life, stepmOther to ten children. She
added six more to that number. Think
of it! Sixteen goslings to a single goose!
Is it any wonder that the poured out her
feelings in the celebrated:
"There was an old woman who lived in
shoe, she had so many children she
didn't know what to do?"
Yet her family cares sat lightly upon
her and she survived Father Goose many
years. Still, she staid by her nest and
led and fed her flock until they were able
TO swim by themselves. One of her daugh
ters married Thomas Fleet. a printer b !,
trade, with whom she went to live and in
sisted on being nurse to his children
and there she lived and sang from morn
ing until night,
up stairs and down stairs,
And in my lady's chamber"
Thomas Fleet sold songs and ballads
at his printing Office and one day a happy
thought struck him. So, while she sat in
her armchair or shuff1ed about the house
lost In sweet dreams, he carefully wrote
down what he could of her rhymes which
fell from her lips. Soon he had enough
to make volume These he now printed
and sold under the title of ''Mother Goose
Melodies for Children. T. Fleet, Printer,
Pudding-lane, 1719. Price, two coppers."
Rev. j. M. Manning, d. D., formerly Pas
tor of the Old South Church, Boston, at a
festival not many years since spoke very
truly, to my mind, when he said: ''Not
Homer or Shakespeare is so sure of i'm
mortal fame as Mother Goose. Consid-
ering the love in which her melodies are
everywhere held, their freedom from any
thing which might corrupt or mislead the
infantile mind, their practical wisdom,
their shrewd mystery and motives of hu-
man conduct, one is in all soberness
forced TO admit that her name is among
the brightest of the jewels which adorn
the brow of the Old South. Let US hope
that the day is not far distant when a
memorial statue will be erected to this
venerable lady in one of the parks or
SQUARES of Boston"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-11
Lost Time.
Tnrl D.o,,nhnD,

Let any young man pass all the even
ing idleness or in reading some silly tale
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-11

Miss Jenny June Croly has resigned
from the editorship of Demorests
Monthly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-11

! Inventors would do well to make note
of the fact that a machine is greatly need
ed that will cut up corn as it is found on
/ the hill
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-11
1.-THE Maiden Assurance Society,""

"The Maiden Assurance Society" is a
somewhat singular business institution
in Denmark. The nobIeman-for the
association is peculiarly for this class
as soon as female child is Eorn to him,
enroIIs her name in certain association
of noble families, and pays a certain sum,
and thereafter a fixed amount to the So
ciety. When she has reached the age of
q she becomes entitled to fixed income,
and to an elegant suite of apartments in
a large building of the association, with
gardens and park about it, inhabited by
other young or older noble ladies who
have thus become members. If her father
dies in her youth, and she desires it, she
has shelter in this building, and at the
fixed time her income. When she dies or
is married, all this right to income lapses,
and the money paid in swells the endow-
ment of the association. But this very
chance must enable the company to
charge lower annual premiums and make
the burden less on the father insuring.
He has, at any rate, the pleasant feeling
that his small annual payments are in
suring his daughters future and giving
her a comfortable home and income after
he is gone. 1t is obvious that the chances
for marriage among a given number of
woman can be calculated as closely as
those of death. The plan has worked
well for generations in Copenhagen.
The glue leather to iron, paint the iron
with some kind of lead color, say white
lead and lampblack. When dry, cover
with cement made as follows: Take
the best glue, soak it in cold water till
soft, then dissolve it in vinegar, with a
moderate heat, then add one-th1rd of the
bulk Of whitepine turpentine thoroughly
mix, and by means of the vinegar make
it of the proper consistency to be sprea
with brush, and apply it while hot
draw the leather on quickly, and press it
tightly in place. If a pully, draw the
leather round it tightly, lap and clamp.
Miss Jenny June Croly has resigned
from the editorship of Demorests i
Monthly.
Inventors would do well to make note
of the fact that machine is greatly need
ed that will cut up corn as it is found on
the hill.
There are in the employ of the Nation
al Government $50 Smiths, $50 Browns
800 Johnsons and 270 Jonses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-11

There are in the employ of the Nation
al Government $50 Smiths, $50 Browns
800 Johnsons and 270 JOnses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-11

Hog cholera has become epidemic at
Bayside, L. l., and in its vicinity. Sew
eral hundred hogs have died from the dis
ease within few days, one farmer having
lost thirty.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-22
Editor pulitHer's 1ntroductio :.
IWAShin xtQn Herald


l was told a good story by ono OF the
leading Democratic ofliceholders he TO the
other day. This Office holder was delegate
to tho CHICAGO convention that nominated
President Cleveland Joseph Puiitz er. tho
editor and proprietor of The New York
World, was also delegate. The Official
here had never met Mr.. Pulitzer bsfors.
and was particularly struck by thu New
York editor's peculiar appearance and nose
Aftsr they had been introduced my friend,
failing to catch the pronunciation of Mr..
Pulitnsrs name said:
Excuse me, sir. but failed to catch the
pronunciation Of your name"
Putting his long nose very close up 20 my
friends face. Mr. Pulitzer said:
"Pull- itsirp
Il never was so tempted to tweak Il mans
1ose in my life As I was that moment said
tho offlce-holder. "Bus l controlled myself
and let the editor labor under the i.lpreSsion
that he had amused me-" ID.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-22
Special Masters Sale,

Under and by virtue of final decree Of
foreclosure and sale issued out of the circuit
court of the fifth judicial circuit OF Florida
for Putnam county. In chancery. on the 2sth
day OF December a. d, 1885 in certain cause
therein pending, wherein Annie ID. Lopcr and
Julia L. Lopez are compliments and Iaviuia
j. Wiley is defendant, Il will sell at publicauc-
tionto Observation-Disclosures ,onMonday the
lst day of February lSS6 in front of the
front door of the court house in the city of
Palatka, i'll said county between the usual and
legal hours of sale, the following described
property, to-wit: Being in Putnam county
and state of Florida and described more Dc -
ticularly as follows: Being part OF the J. T.
Entralgo grant in section thirty seven C3,D
township nine (9l south of range twenty six
(26) east, and bounded as follows, commencing
on the west bank of the ST. kJohns river at a
point which marks the south east corner OF
land conveyed by John c. GrooTns and wife
and James III. Grooms and wife TO MeSsrs.
Sheppard and Hitchcock and running thence
west along said Sheppard * Hitchcock's south
line TO their south west corner, and continu-
ing thence west six and 50-l0O chains TO the
public highway, thence along said highway
south. seven degrees east nine and J0-I0o
chains TO stake standing in q small pond.
thence east TO 81. Johns river. thence norther-
~ long west bank of said river 10 place OF
beginning and containing by estimation forty
three and 6O-l0O acres moro or less.
Purchasers TO pay for deeds.
Dec, 3Oth, 1885. &C. COCHRAN,
Special Master in Chancerv
Calhoun & ellis cOmplrS. solicitors.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-22
Developing a Higher Humanity.

There are good reasons for believing that
we are rapidly developing a finer humanity.
Science led us to consider the body as highly
as theology requires US to consider the soul
The ideal man is no longer the thin creature
who gees without his dinner to win para
disc. Human life has heightened amaz-
ingly; it viii lengthen still further 4 race
Of cracked, twisted, broken, wheezy, spav-
ined. equity, aH-in pieces candidates for eter-
nal moral perfection must give way to a
healthier, sweeter, stronger, manlier, hand
somer, long-lived race. The American
type has reached its lowest mark, it will
steadily improve until it surpasses all others
that are or eyer have hanl
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-22
Canon Farrar on the Talmaa.
Chicago News.I


The Talmu1 was one Of the mos. extra.
ordinary books In the world. 1t preceded
the Bible altZether in tho esteem of the
rabbiA II was the stranKest collection that
ever existed. 1t was the result Of the
thoughts VI tho rabbis for / oOo years Its
contents included wisdom and foolishness,
sense and nonsense, strange foilss and gems
OK clear reason. 1t contained the pandec CT,
OF the old law: it was the compendium Of
records OF all the Jewish stories, full OF
marvellous solecisms. strange assertions Of
philosophy. childish extravagances reckless
confusion OF theology. and conflict Of
word battlsa To account for these facts,
1t should be remembered that the
Talmud was developed through long
centuries It WAS a wonderful volume Of
human wisdom and human tailings; it was
forest whers there were towering tree,
and stunted growthS The Talmud ha also
been called q sea Of floating ships and
depths unfathomeG, and also the fiossam
and jstsam u jewish life ---' ~
The Talmud was composed OF two parts,
the flrst being devoted to regulations Of the
law, while ths other consists OF legends,
stories and prayers Some Of the stories
had been thought very ridiculous, and upon
reading them over one would set them down
A. gross absurdity. Upon consideration Of
the hidden allegory. the story might be
found to be tho way for expressing great
wisdom. Tho midnight OF the Taimud was
broken by flashes Of light These gave
warning OF the classes Of men, Knockers,
iars, hypocrites. and slanderers. The book
was full OF strange. multitudinous situations
OK 1000 years It bore upon its face an
unfAvorable character to deter men from
reading, but upon searching it it was found
to contain the thoughts and feelings OF fel.
I'm man