Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-19
TO REMOVE GREASE FROM CASHMERE
Four Days on Bunt Beet.


A traveller who was on one of the trains
delayed by the washouts in Colorado
along the Sante Fe Road gives his ex-
perience to the Kansas City Times:
"The train I was on, which left Kansas
City Tuesday morning, had about as hard
a time as any of them. We got along all
right until we got to Caddoa, Col, We'd
nesday. There we met the water, and be-
fore the conductor could get orders to go
backt to Coolidge, the flood had got in
behind US. In the meantime, the train
which left Kansas City Immediately after
ours had come up, and there we were,
about two hundred of US, midway the
Prairie, at station consisting simply of
a section house, with miles upon miles of
water stretching out on all sides. We
didn't realize our situation until dinner
time came. There wasn't enough in the
buffet car to feed canary bird, and it be-
gan to look blue for the 200 hungry pas
sengers. The trainmen, however, were
equal to the situation. Making a raid on
the express Car, they took out some press
ed-beef, and buildings fire in the section
house, soon furnished a meal that would
have made buffalo hunters mouth water
The same thing was repeated at night,
but when we awOke the next morning we
found our shanty partly submerged. The
prospect for breakfast was rather gloomy
until the conductor told US that the brake
Ien were cooking some food in the fire
box of the engine. Well, to make long
story short, we remained there until Sat-
urday night, using the engine for cook
stove and resortlng to all sorts of expe-
dents to drive away ennui. You must
not suppose that our fare consisted of
poorly cooked meat the whole time. Aft
er the water had subsidized somewhat, the
conductor skirmished around and got
some bread from neighbOring town 1t
was brought fresh every day in wagons,
and from that time on we lived like white
people. No, we had no thrilliag exper-
fences; that is, not until we arrived at
the Picketwire river, where we transfer
red. In attempting to walk across the
bridge, a lady fell into the river. A dozen
men jumped in after her, and she was
soon fshed out, wet, and frightened al
most to death. but little the worse for
the plunge. The Sante Fe people treat
ed us nicely as soon as they got US to a
place where edibles could be obtained.
For my part I was glad to get off as well
as [ did. If we had arrived at Caddoa
we would have been caught in one of the
lowest places on the road and in all prob
ability washed into the Arkansas River.
An Attractive Tower.
Electric World.
When the great iron tower, one thous-
and feet high, was proposed some time
ago for the Paris exhibition of 1885, many
engineers doubted the feasibility of the
project, judged from their point of view.
However, M. Eiffel went at the problem
and evolved design which was chosen
and which 1T is proposed to execute. On
the eve Of accomplishment, however, a
French "sayant" comes forward with a
timely warning of the fearful consequence
es which the building of the iron tower
will entail. He says that the enormous
block OF iron running north and south
would become polarized and that this
polarization will soon invade the whole
column. Then who knows whether the
four lifts, with their continual friction,
will not increase the magnetic influence a
hundred fold? In this case all articles
for mile around will be attracted to the
tower, and will adhere to it as a needle
does to magnet. If the troops quar-
tered in the Ecole MiIitaire hard by be
called out to drill, it will be all in vain for
the commanding officer to shout EN-
avant!" if they are paraded with the col
umn behind them. Then all the houses
in Paris will suffer from a st. Vitus'
dance, and, being gradually drawn toward
the Champ de Mars, will finally find them
selves stuck to the tower. As for loco
motives entering Paris, it will be found
impossible to stop them at the various
termini; they will rush through the city
and dash themselves to pieces against the
center of attraction. These and other
evils, we are told, will follow the erection
| of the great Eiffel tower, which might,
indeed, be called the Teufel tower.