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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-10-04
NEATNESS ABOUT THE HOUSE

Every farmer, and IN fact, every
person owning yard, ought to take
pride in keeping it neat and clean.
Neat, well-kept yards attract the
passer-by, and often add a money
value to the place. We have an in
stance of this kind in mud, now. A
man came into a certain neighbour
hood, recently, to buy a farm. He
found two that were for sale. One
was as good as the other, as regards
location, soil, building, etc., but one
had a neat yard about the house,
and the other had a slovenly one,
and though he could have bought the
slovenly yard for less money than he
had to give for the other, he chose
the one that cost most, simply be-
cause it looked best.
Have well-made fence about the
yard, and keep it in repair. Have a
strong gate, and never let it get off
it's hinges. Keep the shrubs and
trees trimmed up we'll and never let
litter of any sort accumulate
a big box, or hogshead, in the back
yard, into which cans, old boots,
shoes, and the thousand and one
things which accumulate about the
house can be thrown from time to
time. When the box or hogshead is
full, burn or bury the rubbish. This
refers to the front yard only; let
neatness prevail all about the place.
1t gives an air of thrift and pros
perity, and always impresses a be-
holder favorably. 1t pays in more
ways than one to have neat surround
ings.-American Agricuztm'ist.
THE EXCELLENCE OF FARM LIFE
1t is common complaint that tie
farm and farm life are not apprecia-
ted by our people. We long for the
more elegant pursuits, or the ways
and fashions of the town. But the
farmer has the most sane and natur-
al occupation, and ought to find life
sweeter, if less highly seasoned
than any other. He alone, strictly
speaking, has home. How can g
man take root and live without land
He writes his history upon his field
How many ties and resources he has
his friendships with his cattle, bis
team, his dog, his trees the salts
faction in his growing crops, in hi
improved fields; his intimacy will
nature, with bird and beast, ant
! with the quickening elemental forces
Cling to the farm make much of it
bestow your heart, your brain upol
it, so that it shall SAVIOR you and radi
r ate your virtues after your days worl
is done.-IHe Century Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
o the new nauve wrapper with a Vatican

to the new nauve wrapper with Vatican
plat.
"What is it, dear?"
"What has he done?"
did he beat your"
did he choke your"
"Why did you marry the scoundrel, the
villain?"
These were q few of the questions that
ratified upon her like charge from a
shotgun.
The bride struggled to sitting posi-
ton, and glarIng wildly at the corner
where the little man shrunk and shivered,
pointed at HIM
He deceived me-he = that mani" she
gurgled.
Eyes! Yes"
How, dear? How?"
He said he was worth over half mill
ionn'
She shrieked again.
"Vell!' roared the little man, goaded
by the stabs Of dozens of indignant and
loathing eyes. "Ven, Yot of it? She
wouldn't have mitout'
Hes only" sobbed the bride, ahe's
only worth $2O0,OOOn
"Monsterr
1hls by chorus of twenty.
And the pauper husband returned COW
ed to his corner, and Observed in miser-
able silence the practice of the art of
bringing pure-soHled and suffering
woman out of a fit of Mysteries without
medical assistance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
Women as HomestaaderS,

A dispatch from Washington says:
In the Case of Maria Good, nee VIII
COX, of. Kirwin, Kan, on an appeal from
the decision of the Commissioner of
the General Land Office, following is Sec
rotary Iamar's decision in full:
To the Commissioner of the General
Land Office Sparks.
Sir: I have considered the appeal of
Maria Good nee Wilcox, from your de-
cision dated July IA, 1886, holding for
cancellation her homestead entry No. 15,-
552. Said entry, it appears, was made
Sept %, 1880, and covers the northeast
quarter, section %, township 3 south
range % west, Kirwin Kan.
Nov z, 1885, claimant made a final
proof before the Clerk of of the District
Court. which proof was on the 18th of the
same month rejected by local Office 'be-
cause of insufficient residence" From
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
Basely Deceived.
San francisco Chronicle.

Shrieks rang through tho corridors of
the fourth -four of the fashionable board
Ing house and echoed down the elevator
shaft and ktairways. Thore was rush to
room No. SO. The door was burst open
and the boardsrs rushed in, although it
was the bridal chamber. On the lounge
the young wife of day was lying all dis
heveled, drumming with her French heels
on the carpet and sending forth sceam
upon scream from her lovely throat. The
husband a small and elderly man, with a
beak like an eagles, covered in corner.
He was pale as as corpse, and shook
from the top Of his bald head to the ulti-
mate toes of his large feet
Agitated ladies fell upon the bride,
ripped mysterious strings and iorked
hidden buttons from their fastenings.
They chafed her jeweled and shapely
hands, and threw water into her fair
young face, regardless of consequences
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
FayOFite Drinks of Great Men.
New York Mail and EXPRESS.

New York Mail and Express
Tom Reed drinks water when he is al
home.
Senator Frye, of Maine, drinks mineral
waters.
Secretary Bayard loves a good big
dirk of pure rye slightly mellowed with
water.
Secretary Manning is a temperate man,
but he can enjoy a small bottle occaion-
ally.
Joe Blackburn, of Kentucky, drinks
whisky, and likes to imbibe it out of a
tin cup.
Nearly all the New York city statesmen
drink beer at home and wine in Washing
ton.
Senator Edmunds still sticks to the fes-
tive cocktail and does not like to drink
alone.
A glass Of champagne slipped slowly
rouses Sunset Cox to ebullitions of wit as
nothing else can.
Senator Ingalls, favorite drink is a mys-
terry, but some Of his brother senators say
it is vinegar.
Secretary Lamar drinks anything that
comes along, and does it as a southern
gentleman should.
Senator Salisbury, of Delaware, is par
tial to whisky sour now and then. It
gives him inspiration.
Attorney General Garland can drink
anything and in any style. Aqua forts
would not move his nerves.
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, thinks that
any man who spoils good whisky with
water is a heathen
President Cleveland is not averse to
good whisky, but he prefers plain, every
day beer as a beverage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
BRAZIL'S AFFLICTION.
A TerriabIe Plague of Mice with Extraordinary
Appetites.

Appetites.
Science.
In the colony of Lourenco, Brazil, in
the months of May and June, 1876 mice
suddenly appeared in enormous numbers
They invaded the grain fields in such
large numbers that the corn seemed lit
terally alive with them, destroying in a
few days everything that was edible; and
where, but short time before. bushels of
grain might have been harvested. not an
ear remained, and the noise produced bv
their nibbling and climbing was audible
for considerable distance. After the
corn-felds were devastated the potatoes
next received their attention. OnIy the
largest were eaten in the ground: such AS
were transportable were carried ayav and
hidden In hollow trees or other retreats
for future use. Gourds and pumpkins.
even the hardest were gnawed through
and eaten. Of green food, such as clover.
oats, barley, not leaf was left standing;
even weeds were cut down and the inner
parts eaten out.
In the house the struggle for existence
of these lOng-tailed invaders was truly
amazing. In many of the dwellings hun
dreds we're killed in a single day. The
cats could contribute but little and in
d
many of the rats so large that it wonld
have been an unequal contest, but by their
great number they drove the cats actually
from the houses, not to return until the
plague was passed. Nothing except what
is composed of iron, stone or glass was
spared from their distructiveness. Fur
nitUre, hats, cloths, ks-everything-
bore the traces of their teeth They
gnawed the hoofs of the COWS and horses
In the stable, literally ate up the fat hogs
and often bit away the hair of persons
during sleep. They penetrated all apart
ments and gnawed their way through
boards and walls of hOases. bitches that
were dug about graineries did not suffice;
the mice would crawl over each other and
thus reach the top.
The foregoing accounts of the occur
renee IN Laurence will suffice to show to
what an extent the plague reached The
same province had suffered similarly in
1913 and 1868, and in all probability will
again in 1879.-Similat plaques, though
far less in extent, have occurred in
Europe in which the field mice mac
countably appear in greatly increased
numbers. One may well think what
would be the result where these little. al
most insignificant creatures everywhere
IN such wise to take the ascendaney. When
one considers that an average of every
one or two months from five to eight
young are born, and that these young be-
comes mature in a few months them
selves, he will be surprised to know that
single pair of common field mice in the
course of single summer would increase
to $4,000 rodeuts. Could all the condi-
tions which now keep them in check be
removed every living thing on earth
would be consumed in half dozen years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
THE BARTHOLDI STATUE.
Description of the Great Figure of ''Libert,
EnliGhtening the World =

9oAlbIhol VI CIe UrSdt Figure OF Liberty
Enlightening the World"
The plan of Bartholdi's gigantic statue
Of liberty, which was unveiled on Thurs
day, Oct. 28th, on Bedloe's Island, New
York Rarbor vas first launched upon the
public by the French-American Union in
the year 1874, at the the when the world
was alive with preparations for the ceIe-
bration of our then approaching centen-
MAI IN 1876. The measurement of the
statue which represents "Liberty Enlight-
enlng the World" is as follows: From
bottom to top of torch, 151.14 feet: height
OF bottom foundation of pedestal above
low water mark, Ii feet; height of foun-
datlon mass, $40 feet; height of pedestal
proper, 50 feet; total height to top of
torch above mean low water mark, 305.l1
feet The forefnger is nearly feet 5
inches IN length, and 4 feet 7 inches in
circumference at the second Joint: the
head is IA feet inches in height: the eve
Is over feet wide, while the nose is 3 feet
= inches IN length. At the Universal Ex
position IN 1878 about forty persons were
accommodated In the head, and the torch
above the head will easily hold twelve
persons. The total weight is about AL
2OO pounds, of which three-ffths are iron
ana tWo-htths are copper. The whole work
represents an outlay of nearly 100000,
including gifts, gratuitous work and the
losses Of those who have devoted their
labOrs to the work.
Two large and handsome bronze tablets
nave been placed on the sides of the cen
ter arch on the seward side of the base
OF the pedestal. They bear the following
inscriptions:
THIS PEDESTAL
Was built by voluntary contributions from the
people OF the United States
Of America,
CONSTRUCTIVE AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
William NJ. Evarts, Chairs am: Richard But-
Ter, Secretary; Henry E. Spaulding,
Joseph w. Drexel, N. MumfOrd Moore ParE1e
GoodWin Frederic A. Potts, James
w, Pinchot.
Richard NJ Hunt, Architect; General Charles P.
Stone, Engines Rim Chief; David 81
King, Jr., Builder.
Completed A. D. 1885.
A gift from the people of the Republic of France
10 the people OF the UAitei States
This Statue of
LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORD
IN achieving the Independence of the United
States OF America, and attests their
abiding friendship.
Inaugurated Oct 49, 1886,
Auguste Barthodi Sculptor.
The statue is the largest of its kind
that has ever been constructed. Even the
Colossus at Rhodes was but miniature
compared with this, and the other i'm
mense statues of the world are but pig
mics when placed beside this one. The
Column Vendome from base to summit
was only IA feet; the Arminius in West
phalie, 81 feet; the St. Charles Borromeo,
IS feet; the Virgin of Puy, 50 feet, and
the Bavaria at Munich, 81 feet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
The Company to Blame.
Texas Siftings

One of the passengers in an Austin
street car was in particular hurry, but
the car in which he was, moved as slow as
the prosecution in the New York Doodle
cases.
'What's the matter with that mule
Isn't he well?" asked the impatient pas
senger.
''The mule isn't to blame for all this
slowness. It's the Austin street car com
pany that's to blame," replied the driver.
"How's that?"
'Why, you see, the company pays US
by the month so we amt in hurry; but
if 1T paid as by the trip I could get 2:16
out of that mule. You bet I'd make him
hump himself"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
Undeniable.

'Mr. Jones'" said the bones at the min
strels, with the insinuating voice for
which he ceased to be famous some time
during the reign of Elizabeth, ''can you
tell me how to invest money SO that it will
go the farthest?"
mo, Mr.. Thompson, 1 am not aware
that I can. How do you invest money so
that it will go the farthest?"
''Why, buy postage stamps, to be sure"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04

does dispute those claims, that is the
man, as we understand it, that Mr.. John
l.. Sullivan is looking for.
Now, out OF these lists we venture to
suggest, under correction, that the seven
wounders of New York are: The Brook
Ign bridge, the statue of Liberty, the
elevated railroad system, the great flats
Central park, the Vanderbilt viaduct, and
the subtreasnry vaults. But, as we have
said, we are willing to hear criticism on
this selection.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
Appearances Against Her.
New York Sun

Old Lady Suffering from hiccougs to
drug clerk Young man, want to-get
some liquor
Clerk chastity Giant do it, madame.
You've had enough alrea-
Old Lady (rigidly) liquorlce.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
A New Precious Stone.


A new precious stone has lately been
brought to the notice of jewellers and the
public in discoveries made by Mr.. Will
liam Earl Hidden in Alexander county.
North Carolina. The stone resembles
in many respects the emerald, being of
nearly the same color, but is denser and
more brilliant. It is named the hidden
tie by the late DR.. J. Lawrence Smith,
of Louisville, KY, who was first
to recognize its true chemical nature.
This new stone is found in close connec-
ton with the emerald, but does not, like
the latter, belong to the bervi family.
The story of its disc 0very as told by Mr..
Hidden, is interesting. While carrying
on search for platinum through the
southern states, under the patronage of
Thomas A Edison, he came across. in
Alexander county, few pieces of bronze
which in their edges showed a tinge of
color which verged distinctly on that of
the emerald. Being an expert minerolo-
gist he came to the conclusion that a
region which could produce bronze hav-
ing slight tint of the true emerald,
color ought to furnish the
pure emerald itself. A vein
was subsequently found at depth of
eight feet below the surfac, in which he
not only found the true emerald, but with
it many slender crystals having emerald
color, but differing from that gem in
nearly every other respect. It was to
those slender crystals that the name of
hiddenite was applied. It is to-day the
rarest among the precious stones, and
has not yet been discovered in any other
place. The largest one found thus
far was three inches long, weighed
one-half ounce, and was cut up into
gems valued at more than $4,000.
Besides the hiddenite and the emerald
these mines prod ice numerous specimens
of aquamarines, yellow spodumene, cit
rine and smoky topaz, rutine garnets
and peculiarly beautiful quartz crystal.
From the same mine next to the larg-
est emerald in the world was quarried.
The largest is owned by the duke of
Devonshire, and weighs but two penny
weights more than the one in question,
which is hexagonal in form, is inches
long, IA thick from face to face, and
weighs 50 ounces. 1t value IN the pres
ent uncut state is about $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
A FASHIONABLE FOLLY.
Long Handled Eyeglasses and the DudineS
Who Buy and Use Them.
Philadelphia Times.

HnnaOelDnl2 Times.
"Will you kindly let me see some of
your tortoise-shell Iorgnets?" languidly
inquired afashionably dressed young lady
the other day as she stood before the
counter in a leading opticians store on
Chestnut street and looked the clerk stead
lily in the eye.
'Beg pardon; do you mean opera-glass-
es or eyeglasses? 2" asked the clerk.
Eyeglasses"
Thereupon the clerk pro duced a large
box, in which was an assortment of the
most absurd specim ems of the optician' s
handiwork ever sold for failing eyesight.
They were 'lOrgnet eyeglasses" so called
because, like the ordinary opera Or field
glasses, they have to be continually held
to the eye while in use. The eye-glass
part is shaped like pair of spectacles,
except that instead of two bows to go
back over the ears there is a long
handle to be held in the hand.
Ultra fashionable people have de-
cided that these are the proper
things, and in consequence spectacles,
double eyeglasses, and even the single
eye-glass or quiz" having been rele-
gated to the use of the vulgar herd. The
young lady mentioned bought one of the
"lorgnets," and went out of the store af-
ter paying SO bill for her purchase.
"Do you sell many of these things?'
was asked of the optician.
"Quantities," he answered, land the
sale of them is constantly increasing.
The Horgnets' we're introduced from Eng
land about two years ago, but it is
only lately that there has been anything
of a fashionable craze for them.
They are the most ridiculous thing in
the way of eyeglasses ever saw. They
are clumsy, and one has to hold them up
to the eyes whenever they are used, which
becomes quite tiresome in time. I sell
them to young ladies mostly, although
their mothers buy them too. They hold
them to their eyes with a Lady Clara We're
De We're air and try to look naughty and
well bred. My observation is that only
women with very shallow brain-pans use
lorgnets. Many order plain glasses in
them and extra long handles. The longer
the handle the more stunning the
effect and the shaIlower the brain. Lorg-
nets are worth from So to $14 each. They
are made of tortoise-shell, zylonite, and
vulcanite, although [ have seen extra fine
ones of mother-of-pearl. Some are gold
mounted, and cost $50 to $50. They are
mostly for evening use, and are displayed
at the theatres or wherever there are peo-
pie to look at them. At home the lorg-
net-users are glad enough to wear specta-
cles or eyeglasses, which further goes to
prove that the new-fangled arrangement
is only another Of Dame Fashions freaks
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-04
How a Woman Carried Her Point.

Atlanta Constitution: The drink cues
ton has been settled for some time to
tcOme in the town of Stockton, Utah. A
short time ago the saloons and drug
stores of Stockton were notified by a
woman that they must stop selling liquor
to her husband. No attention was paid
to this and the dealers continued to sell
as usual. Having tried mild methods
and failed, the drunkard's wife de-
termined to give the community practical
prohibition at one fell swoop, as it were.
AS starter she smashed all the saloon
windows, and, in the words of a local
chronicler, "raised thunder generally"
But this was not enough. It occurred to
this earnest reformer that the way to
suppress the liquor traffic was to squelch
it, wipe it out, extirpate it. So that night
she set fire to two saloons and a drug store
The flame spread rapidly and in few
hours the entire business part of the town
was in ashes. With a little more wind
the dwellings would have gone also. 1t
cannot be denied that the Stockton wom-
an carried her point, temporarily at least.
Like many other jealous reformers, how
ever, she is under the ban of public opin-
ion, and her angry fellow townsmen
threaten to hang her to telephone post
as soon as they can find her. This state
of affairs renders it impossible for her to
remain and enjoy the fruits of her VIC
tory. The best thing for her to do is to
come east and lecture.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-16

8l4e; bellies light medium do Size; backs, light
medium weight Sc. Drysated and Picked
observation-disclosures clear sides funsmokedl. 712c;
backs or bellies tunsmoked), 712c; clear pork,
" brl 200 bs none; ham pork, ~ brl 200
lbs. 5000 Lard-Pure leaf kettle-rendered
chilled 72c; in u brls and so 10 tubs 3sc advance
price of terces; 20 ID pals Sac advance Sob in
100 ID cases. 1ec advances 2O-fb cans in 8O-fb cases.
lac advance; lob in 6O-fb cases. 12c advance;
5b cans in Cobb cases, SEQ advances ID cans in CO.
cases, 2ac advance.
PRODUCE.
BUTTER Creamery fancy, % 024c; choice country
1OO12c; common $3.50.
BEEswAX-Dark, 18c; yellow, zoe.
EaGs-Shppers paying loo, loss off; selling from
store at 18c.
FEATHERs-Prime geese, 45c y tb; mixed duck. 20
025c % I'd.
PoULTRY-Hens 7c: young chickens shippers
paying 7c % 10; ROSTERS 312c; ducks &c per tb geese
80 " doz for full feathered, 81. so for young or
picked hen turkeys, &c y fb; toms, &c % rs.
WooL-Medum, 23O24c; one-fourth blood 21O
23c, braid, l80I1c; bury, Cotswold and black %
Ocless. We quote prices farmers lots on large
lots slightly higher prices paid.
SEEDS.
Prime clover, $3.7504.2 20 - Blu; prime timothy,
$2.1OO2.25 ~ blu; extra clean blue grass, 75c1$1
" bu; red top, 75c0$l " bu; orchard grass 81 500
LIS ~ bu German milet, 81 - bu; common millet
75c bu; faxseed, selected 81. 1001.4O ~ bu; seed
rye, 75c p bu.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-16
INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS.
A Fair Volume of Trade in Progress and o
Confident Feeling Noticeable.


INDIANAPOLIS, Oct Is.
The distributive demand continues fairly act
i've, and the outlook generally is encouraging
Advices from nearly all the impor-
tant distributing centers in the in
terror report the movement of trade act
i've, particularly throughout the West and South
west, while in the South the more rapid market
ing of the cotton crop has quickened the general
temper of commercial affairs. With all the i'm
provement that has taken place, however, the
distinguishing feature Of the situation is the alb
sence of unhealthy speculation and the unwill-
ingness of buyers to stock up beyond the actual
requirements of consumption, and the recogni-
ton of this fact has had an important influence
in strengthening the feeling of confidence that
now so generally prevails, and is really the most
substantial feature OF the general improvement
that has been established Those who have been
closely watching the course of events during the
past two months have found the expansion of
trade the natural result of abundant crops, in
dustrial prosperity and the legitimate develop