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Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-13

Neuralgia and kindred diseases, prompt
" yield to the immediate action of st
Jacobs Oil, the pain-conqueror.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-13

Volcanic eruptions have caused great
loss of life and property in New Zealand.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-13

DIR. Henley's Celery, Beef and Iron, used
before meals, creates a healthy appetite.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-09
A Popular Drink.
Brooklyn Eagle.

'KOumiss is fast becoming the popular
drink with Brooklynites who have large
families of children" said local drug
gist recently to reporter. "KOumiss is
made of COWS milk with the addition of a
little sugar. 1t is highly essential that
the milk should be fresh and pure. 1t is
said that koumiss is a great cure for dys-
pepsia. Certainly it gives relief in that
most painful disease. Within year a
number of companies have been formed
in Brooklyn for the sale of the beverage.
An excellent formula for the preparation
of koumiss was furnished some year ago.
Here it is:
"EFill quart champagne bottle up to
the neck with pure milk; add two table
spoons of white sugar after dissolving the
same in little water over hot fire; add
also quarter of 2-cent cake of COM
pressed yeast. Then tie the cork on the
bottle securely and shake the mixture well;
place in a room of the temperature of 80
to 95 degrees Fahrenheit for six hours,
and finally in the ice-box over night.
Drink in such quantities as the stomach
will require. It may be we'll to observe
several important injunctions in prepar-
ing keumiss, and they are: First, to be
the bottle is sound; third, that the yeast
is fresh; fourth, to open the mixture in
the morning with great care on account
of it's efferYescent properties; fifth, not
to drink it all if there is any curdle or
thickened part resembling cheese, as
this always indicates that the fermenta-
ton has been prolonged beyond the pro-
per time.
"The above formula, I think is the best
for preparing koumiss. Dyspeptics find
much relief in its use. I sell almost as
much on draught as soda water. If pre-
pared in a certain way koumiss will keep
for long time. It has delicious taste,
and is, think, the best of all the summer
beverages"
'From what is the word koumiss de-
rived?"
''The word and the drink originated in
Asia, and is largely in use by the tribes
Of that country. The Tartars make it of
mares milk, which ferments into a liquor
which is very palatable. Koumiss, as
made in this country, certainly gives
great relief in all stomach troubles, as it
is so easily assimilated."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-09

the midst of a rain-cloud and the silence
of the grave. Moreover, had sole charge
of the balloon: If 1t had not been for this
fact I could have taken little comfort,
as had no confidence 10 my ability to
manage it. A rainstorm upon earth is
accompanied by noise; the patter of the
rain upon the houses, trees, and walks
always attends the storm; while here, al
though the drops were large, they could
not be heard falling upon the balloon Or
its belongings. Silence reigned supreme.
The quiet spoken of by DR.. Kane and
other Attic explorers as existing in the
northern regions, was a hubbub beside
this place. More tissue-paper was thrown
out; seeing that it seemed to ascend, I
knew that the apparatus was slowly de-
scending, being brought down by the
weight of rain upon it. Soon the
earth was in view. How peaceful and
quiet it looked! Immediately the whistl-
ing Of railroad trains could be heard.
Nov mountains could be distinguish
ed from valleys, and the cawing of
frightened COWS and the shouting of men
could be heard. I passed Immediately
over Tallcott Mountain tower, where
there were some two hundred people en-
joying the day. l could plainly hear
one of them blowing horn. As the balloon
slowly descended men could be seen run
ming from all sides towards the place OF
landing. Now the hum of insects could
be heard, and the grapnel, with hundred
feet of rope attached was, thrown out; 1t
soon struck the ground, and dragged
laziIy along through the turf and over
the stones without getting secure hold.
[ approached a man weighing three
hundred pounds, who was sitting upon a
stone wall all out of breath from running
Without the formality of an introduction
I asked him to catch on to that anchor
and stop the business With a woe-be-
gone look upon his honest face and an
ominous shake of the head he replied:
It's no use, young fellow: I can't work
my bellows But as the rope; twitched
along uear him, he fell upon it, and my
journey was ended"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-09
Ideal Women.

The women of fiction form, perhaps,
the most delightful ideal possession of
the civilized races of the world. Inven-
ton, based upon imitation. has produced
true and lovely images OF the fairest and
sweetest creatures that make the earth
divine. To few men it is given to know
and meet IN actual life women who rise
to the attitude of worth and charm of the
women of the poets, and it is pre-emi-
nently the happy task of the poet to en-
body for US, in suggestions Of deathless
loneliness, beings who answer to the high
est conceptions that man can form of
beauty, of tenderness, of purity and of
nobleness. In the magic mirror of the
poets imagination are fixed to perma-
nence the images of the fairest and dear
est of Gods feminine creatures. He who,
protesting a high ideal of womanhood
can yet never find an ideal love, may in
Imagination be welded to Imogen or Di
Vernon. The greatest poet, who "wears
the crown of the world" Shakespeare, is
the greatest creator of ideal women. The
true ideal Is always based upon the real;
and Shakspeare's women are so ideal be-
cause his ideal is always based upon living
types of abstract truth. His women are
what they are, because womanhood is, at
its best, what it is. Imogen, Desdemona,
Rosalind, Portia are Hottest creatures,
and yet are all possible women. Another
mighty poet has given US Gretchen and
Clarchen. Impossible, in such limited
space as we can here command, to emu
merate or even allude to all the fair wom-
en- painted by noble poets. The large
and lovely constellation of sweet, good
women shines maiestically before our en-
raptured visions, stirs our ceaseless graft
tHde and awakens our wonderful admira-
ton. They excite the fancy and touch
the heart. They animate Us to noble life
and they move US with the high delight of
fair images of honorable love.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-09
education has been entirely of private
character

education has been entirely of a private
character.
The lists of the candidates who have
passed the recent examinations include
those who have been examined for the
NJ. A. degree. In classics six candidates
are successful, Mr.. J. II. Hayden, of
Kings college, Cambridge, taking the
golden medal, followed by two ladies
Miss Fl. E. Macklin, of Bedford and Cir
ton, and Miss L. Mcdonald, of Univer-
slty college, London, who precede in
position the other three male candidates.
In the branch for mental and moral
science there are four successful candi-
dates, one of whom is Miss G. E. Collet,
of University college, London. In ex-
animation for modern languages one
male candidate only passed. In the lists
of those who have passed the examina-
tions for the degree of doctor of science
the names of no women appear.
The matriculation examination, which
is the first that those who purpose taking
degree at the university have to under
go, is perhaps the best test that could be
afforded of the relative intellectual status
of the rising generation of male and fe-
male students; a very large number of
young men and women pass the first test,
many of whom go no further, or fall in
the severe examinations that follow
Taking those who have succeeded in OBJ
tanning places in the recently published
honors' division, we find that they numb
er no less than 154 out of the 442 who
passed the martriculation. First in the
honors' division are the names of of six
students who obtain exhibitions and mon
ely prizes varying in value from $50 per
annum for two years toa prize of e5.
These are all boys who have recently left
school. Then follow the names of fifty
seven who obtained the number of marks
qualifying them for one of the prizes
had there been no more successful COM
petitors. Of those, nine were girls. Of
the remaining ninety-sevcn who are plac-
ed in the honors' list, twenty three are
girls.
The high position attained by so large
number of young women is satisfac-
tory proof of the value of the instruc-
ton which is now instructed at the var
ious high schools and collegiate institu-
tions established in every large center Of
population. The matriculation examina-
ton of the University of London is in
itself one of very searching character
To pass it is a test of considerable and
satisfactory requirement in the young
students, and those who succeeded in get
ting into the honors divisions must have
been well trained and taught. That so
many girls succeeded is evidence not
only of their own intellectual ability, but
of the excellence of the educational facil-
titles of the present day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-09
UNIVERSITY WOMEN.
Proportion of Those Who Succeed in Their
Collegiate Course

Proportion of Those Who Succeed in Their
Collegiate Course.
Women have been admitted for some
few years at the University of London,
says The Queen, to precisely the same ex-
aminations for degrees as those undergone
by the male candidates for similar titles
and honors. On the first opening of the
portals of the Metropolitan university to
women there was naturally sudden influx
of candidates, some of whom had been
waiting for years the opportunity of Sc
curing degrees, and others who entered
without knowing precisely the character
or severity of the tests to which their &C
quIrements were to be submitted. Hence
there were successes and failures which
could not occur under ordinary conditions
and it is difficult to infer, under these ex-
ceptonal circumstances, the permanent
place that would be taken by the female
candidates for degrees and honors. Now
that the first rush has passed and the
stream of candidates, both men and
women, settled down into a steady cur
rent, the relative position of each to the
other at the University of London can be
more definitely ascertained. The exami-
nations at the University of London are
better tests of the intellectual status of
women in general than those at the two
bridge, inasmuch as the former receives
candidates from all the schools and col
leges of the kingdom, and even from those
beyond its limits, and accepts others who
have had no collegiate training, and whose
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-09

ed of. 1t was surrounded by high wall
and had plants in it from every country
under the sun. The white-haired old gen
tleman and group of grandchildren
hanging about him took Us about, and
the first thing we stopped at was large
oval plot, set out with small plants around
the edge.
"This," said the Judge, ''is my clock.
What time is it Clara?" he asked of one
Of the children. The girl ran around the (
plot and said 1T was four o'clock, and so
1t was. The four o'clock was In bloom.
In fact" said the story-telIer, sthe clock
was made up of flowers" In the center
was pair of hands, of wood, covered
with some beautiful vine, but they had
nothing, however, to do with the time
telling
The plan was this: The Judge had no.
tlced that almost every hour of the day
some plant bloomed, and working on this
prlnclple he had selected plants Of differ
ent hours and placed them in circle,
tWenty-four In number, one for every
hour. For example, at the top of the
earthen CLOCK, at II o'clock was planted
the portulaca, and he told me it would
bloom within ten minutes of II and rare
ly miss. At the hours of l. , and 3 he had
different varieties of the same plant. all
of which bloomed at the hour opposite
to which it was planted. At 4 o'clock he
he had our common plant of that name,
and you all know how you can depend on
that. At the garden niotago came out,
st the geranium triste, and at the
evening primrose. Opposite eight o'clock
he had the bonenox and at nine the silent
noctifora-an these blooming at or near
the time given. At 10 O'Clock, if I re-
member rightly, he had a cactus, at II
another kind and at Il night blooming
cereus. Half of the year some Of the
plants don't bloom at all. The plants OPP
posite and III the morning were cac-
tus that bloomed about that time, and at
3 was planted the common satisfy, and
the chicory, at the snow thistle and at
the dandelion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-09
SOME OF THE GREAT HEADS.

Tennyson is to write poem on Amer
lean beauty.
Henry Irving sailed for Europe Satur-
day.
Johann Strauss is at work on a new
operette.
General Pope is in the saddle on Mans
field Mountain, in Vermont.
Secretary and Mrs. Endicott are NOV
ing slowly along the eastern coast.
Congressman William Preston Taulbee
is preaching at a camp-meeting in north
ern Kentucky.
E. P. Roe, the novelist; is going to the
Rocky Mountain region in search of ma
terial for new story.
Carl Schurz has been offered $4,000 a
year by the Cincinnati Illustrated News
which seeks an editor.
The dispatches from Paris report the
increasing illness of John Russell Young.
His brother, James R. Young, sails to-day
to ioin him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-09
THIRTY THOUSAND SHORT
A Clerk with the Adams Express Com
pany Charged with PiIferine
That Amount.
Five Persons Poisoned by Arsenic, Said
to Have Been Put in the Tea by
Negress.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Sept. l. Thirty
thousand dollars in cash disappeared from
safe of the Adams Express company
two weeks ago, and since that time the
operatives of detective agency have
been endeavoring to unravel the mystery
connected with the robbery. Circum-
stances pointed to Rath Pratt, a clerk in
the Philadelphia Office of the company,
as the purloiner of the cash, and on We'd
nesday last he was arrested by detec-
tive, and, after a preliminary hearing,
was locked up in Moyamensing prison
for further hearing Wednesday next
Pratt stoutly protested his innocence.
On Thursday, the 10Th inst, Pratt and
another clerk named Heath went to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Office to obtain the
money which the company sends monthly
to Shamokln, Pa, to pay the hands en-
ployed by the Mineral Mining Company.
The amount was $780, SOS, of which $4,000
was in silver coin in bags. The entire
amount was taken safely to the Adams
Express Company's Office, and was reg
ularly way-billed, checked off, and
placed in one of the small safes used by
the company. The safe left the company
bearing the many seals which the system
demands to prevent valuabIes from be-
ing stolen, and the seals replaced along
the route.
When it arrived at Shamokin the agent
at that place, following out custom
which he had adopted for his own safety,
summoned three or four persons, and
broke the seal in their presence. When
the safe was opened the only money it
was found to contain was $4,000 in silver.
Word was at once sent to the Philadelphia
Office that the contents of the safe did
not check out according to the way-bill.
Clerk Heath was positive the money was
on hand when he way-billed it, and Chief
Money Clerk Crow was equally positive
that he placed the greenbacks in the safe.
Clerk Pratt was the only interested party
whose explanation was not satisfactory.
He had neglected to conform to the Gus
tom in vogue among the employees who
handled the money on calling one of the
other clerks to see that the money was in
the safe before he closed the door, and
upon this and other clews the detectives
had him arrested and will continue their
Investigations still further.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-09
Foreign-8orn Members Of Congress.

The Washington correspondent of The
New York Staats-Zeitung writes thus con
corning tho nationality of the members
of the house of representatives
There are eighteen members who were
born abroad, seven of them being natives
of Ireland, namely: Davis and Collins of
Massachusetts, O'Neill of Missouri, Wood
burn of Nevada, McAdOo of New Jersey,
t. j. Campbell and Dowdney of New
York. Two were born in Scotland, Hen
dersOn of Iowa, and Farquhar of New
York; two in England, West and Spriggs
of New York; two in Canada, Gallinger of
New Hampshire and Adams of New York;
three in Germany, Lehbach OF New Jersey
Gunther of Wisconsin and Romeis of
Ohio; one in Luxembourg, Muller of New
York, and one in Norway, Nelson of
Minnesota. To this number may be add
ed Game, the delegate of Utah territory,
who is an Enblishman by birth. Aside
from the Pennsylvania Germans, Erment-
rout, Sowden, Negley, Brumm, Everhart,
Storm, ETC., all of whom speak German
more or less correctly and fiuently, there
are to be mentioned among representa-
tives of German descent who have not
neglected that language only Belmont of
New York and Kleiner of Indiana. Her
physician, has almost completely forgot
en- his German. On the other hand, there
are quite number of non-German repre-
sentatives who know German very well.
Henderson, of Iowa, speaks and writes to
his German constituents only in that Ian
guage; Adams, of Illinois, having con-
quered the high German, is now busy
with Uncle Brasig's Plattdeutsch; Petit
bone of TeInesee is a great Schiller en-
thusiast, and recites with great gusto
''The Distribution of the Earth,'' he being
poor poet himself. Reed and Milliken
of Maine are not embrassed if addressed
in German; and Grain of Texas, La Fol
lette of Wisconsin, O'Neill of Missouri,
Colqutitt of California, Hit of Illinois, LIE
Fevre of Ohio, are far beyond the aver
age vocabulary of ''Wie gehet's!' and
''Zwei Bier" Moreover, if one considers
that among the congressional employees
there are number of Germans, and
that among the correspondents of the
English papers there are several who
speak and write German, one may well
say that even if the Germans are not nu-
merously represented in Congress- the
German language decidedly is
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-09
POISONED BY ARSENIC.
Five Persons Take it in Tea.

MAIDEN, Mass, Aug. 31-Another case
CT wholesale poisoning has just come to
light. Mrs. Elizabeth E. Blanchard lives
on small farm at Wilmington, Mass,
and takes number of summer bOarders.
She had to assist her in her homework q
13-year-old colored girl, named Mary
Davis, who belongs in Chelsea. At sup
per Thursday evening five of the board
ers partook of tea and were all made vio-
lently i'll. Physicians were called, who
by prompt action, saved the boarders'
lives.
The doctors stated that the cause of the
sickness was arsenic, which fortunately
had been administered in such large
quantities that it caused copious vomit-
ing. Those affected by the poison were:
Judge W. FL. FL. Emmons and wife, Of
Boston; Mrs. Elizabeth Blanchard and
Samuel Blanchard, and G. A. Littlefeld, of
Boston.
Officers were put on the case, and, as
result of their investigation, last night
arrested Mary Davis on suspicion. She
was arraigned this morning and held in
$4,000 for trial. She says that on Thurs
day Mrs. Blanchard bought some tea,
which after placing it in the canister,
she remarked tasted like tobacco. Mrs.
Blanchard, the girl says, scOOped the
new tea out of the canister until she
had got it all out, and told the servant to
use for supper the old tea remaining in
the box, which she did. The girl denies
ever having had any arsenic in her poss-
ession, and says she does not know what
it is, and that she did not put anything
in the tea. Her character has been good.
At q late hour last night all of the patti
ents were comfortable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-09
HUMAN SKULLS UNEiRTHED.
Two Thrown Out by a Laborer While Digging
in Vault in St. Louis

III a. fdHIJ III Oh. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. IA few DAYS ago
vault cleaners found in a vault in the rear
OF Joe Messerang's saloon the bones of
an old man, and there was a great sensa-
ton, but the Coroner's inquest resulted
III verdict that the whole thing was a
mystery that could not be fathomed Mes
serang and his wife were arrested, but
were released.
This morning Gustave Ruppe, labor
er, striking his shovel into the vault in
the rear of 1,103 South Third street,
turned up a human skull. He threw it
carelessly to one side and resumed his
work, and the next delve unearthed an
other skull. Next jaw belonging to one
of the skulls was thrown out, and then a
rib, thigh bone, and joint that no one
near could identify as the part of hu-
man body. AS the bones were thrown
out they were laid on the bank of the ex-
cavation, and driver robbed his horses
of a bunch of straw to cover them. A
deputy coroner was summoned by the
police, and, awaiting his coming, the dig
gers ceased their work.
The excavation begins at the rear end
of Cox d GordOn's pork-packing house,
and is about 100 feet wide. The firm de-
sign building in this excavation an addi-
ton to their factory. The ground was
formerly covered by a rambling brick
house of two floors, which was originally
intended for ice house, but was conA
verted years ago into tenements. The
house fronted on what is known as ''Pig-
foot alley
The tenements were. up to the time of
their demolition, inhabited by as worth
less lot of persons as could be made to
exist under a roof. There was no dis
tinction there "a to race or color. The
vault in which the bones were found was
covered by a wooden shed in two parts,
one for the use of the residents at LOB
South Third street, the other for the herd
in Pig foot alley. The bones belonging
to full-grown person, whether black or
white, male or female, is not certainly
known. The skulls will be cleansed and
more thoroughly examined. If murder
has been committed, the manner of its
commission does not appear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-09
A SEPTEMBER VIOLET.
THE CENTURY .

For days the peaks wore hoods Of cloud,
The slopes were yelled in chilly rain;
We said: 1t is the summers shreud,
And with the brooks we moaned aloud,
Will sunshine never come again?
At last the west wind brought us one
Serene, cloudless, warm, crystal day,
As though September, having blown
A blast of tempest, now had thrown
A gauntlet to the favored May.
Backward TO spring cur fancies flew,
And, careless of the course of Time
The bloomy days began anew,
Then, as happy dream comes true,
Or as a poet finds his rhyme
Half wondered at, half unbeeved-
found thee, friendliest of the fiowers
Then summers joys came back, green-leaYed
And its doomed dead awhile reprieved,
First learned how truly they were ours.
Dear violet! Did the autumn bring
Thee vernal dreams, till thou, like me,
Didst climb to thy imagining?
Or was it that the thoughtful spring
Did come again, in search of thee?