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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-12-15
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all Kinds, Christmas Candles, and Hold
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The Largest and Best Assortment Of
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JEW ELRY
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Napkin Rings in large assortment.
Books and Stationery.
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Vnses and Vnricties.

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.JEWEIRY.

Gents Chains, Ladies' Chains, Ladies
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SILVERWARE

Quadrnple Plated Butter Dishes, Casters,
Cups, Cake Stands, Spoon Holders, Table
Knives and Forks, Table and Tea Spoons,
Napkin Rings in large assortment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-04
WASHINGTON,

The Senate Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds reported in
favor of the passage of bills TO erect
public buildings at Oshkosh, Wis,
Sioux City, Iowa, and. Pueblo, Col. each
to cost 100000.
IN the United States Supreme Court
Thursday, ia q case regarding patent
for woman's dress protector, General
B. T. Butler created amusement among
the auditors by y peculiar manipulation
of elegantly dressed dolls, which were
attired in a manner to show the ad-
vantages of the protector.
The senate committee on Fish and
Fisheries agreed to report favorably Mr..
SewelPS bill for the protection Of fish
cries on the Atlantic coast. The bill
makes it unlawful to use appliances
for the capture of menhaden upon the
high seas within three miles of the At
lantic coast.
In an interview with the Committee
on Labor OF. the House of Representa-
tives, on the eight-hour law, the Presi-
dent said he believed the law a sound
one and should be enforced to the let
ter. He promised to see that its abuse
should be remedied, as the government,
can not afford to set the example
of non-enforcement of its own enact
ments
TIE House committee on Military
Affairs instructed Mr.. Wheeler to re-
port favorably the bill introduced by
him to authorize the President to re-
store officers to the army in certain
cases. The bill is intended to cover
the case of Fitz John Porter. Only
two members of the committee disa-
greed to the report.
THE subcommittee of the House Com
mittee on Indian Affairs having charge
of the Indian appropriation bill have
completed its consideration, and the
bill will soon be laid before the full
committee. The bill as now framed ap-
propriates S5,526, 053, being S67,642 less
than the bill of Last year, and s525, o06
less than the estimates.
THE Appropriation committee of the
House discussed Mr.. Morrison's bill to
repeal all acts making permanent annual
appropriations. No expression of opin-
ion was had, but the chairman was in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-04
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, Jan. 31.-Flour-Quiet and I'M
changed. Wheat-Firm, but lower; opened 40
&c above close yesterday, declined &c advanced
1910; 8134083 for seller cash; 915z for seller
January; 815s062 for seller February; 871A0
873s for seller May. Corn--Quiet and dull and
a shade easier; closed quiet at 3615 for seller cash.
361@03658 for seller January; do for seller Febru-
airy; 1925 for seller May. Oats-Steady, firm and
unchanged except for January, which was &c
higher; 2915029A for seller cash, 1884 for seller
January; 284029 for seller February; 80 for seller
May. Rye-Quiet at So. Barley-Dull at CO.
Timothy-prime closed at 18O1a. Flax-Weaker
&c lower; No. 1, 1.1301134. Pork-Active;
opened steadier, receded 59711c more active, raj
lied again 121a915c and closed steady; 1885 for
seller cash; do for seller January; 10 8501O. 871A
for seller February; 1.15011171s for seller
May. Lard-Steady and unchanged; 6.1O06, 1215
for seller cash and January; 6.1215 for seller
February; 6271a06.3O for seller May. Whiskey,
1.16
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-04
CRIME.

CALVIN PRATT, who fraUdulently OBJ
tanned over $4,000 by means of forger-
les on the Pacific Bank, of San Fran
cisco, arrived in that city Sunday from
Japan, in charge OF detective.
In front Of dance hall in Water
street, Louisville, John Hughes was
shot dead by Jack Gross, a well known
follower of the turf.
MICHAEL KAELIN, a Swiss residing in
Louisville, has been sentenced to death
for killing his beautiful wife with raz-
or in fit of jealousy.
JOSEPH MOSsE was found guilty at
Dixon, Ill, Wednesday morning, Of the
murder of Frank G. Theil, the jury fix
ing the penalty at Life Imprisonment.
CHAs. HOWARD, night Waterman at
the railway shops in Marietta. Georgia,
was murdered by an unknown person
with hammer, and his corpse covered
with live Goals.
The remains Of Mrs. Perry E. Wees.
wife of farmer living near Monticello,
Ill. who it is alleged; cut her own throat
last October, were exhumed Thursday
ia opposition to her husbands wishes.
Five physicians examined the wounds.
and the opinion now prevails that they
were not self-inficted. It is intimated
that All attempt will be made to secure
the Indictment of De Wees for murder.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-04
FOREIGN.

A PETITION has been sent by the Ger
man board Of agriculture to Prince Bis
marck asking that efforts be made to
raise the price of silver
AN Irish enthusiast in London cables
the statement that the downfall of Lord
Salisbury is simply question Of tactics
and days; that he will be thrown out On
some minor question.
AFFAIRS in Egypt have assumed q
serious aspect, owing to Turkish intri-
que. The strife is assuming religious
coloripg, and it is well known that the
Sultan has very strong feelings on this
head.
THE German Reichstag has adopted a
resolution declaring that the expulsion
of Poles from Prussian territory was
unjustifable and incompatible with the
interests Of German subject
THE Italian minister of finance an
nounces that the cholera and the expe-
dition to Massowah have brought about
deficit Of $4,000, 900 francs in the bud
get. He proposes an increase in the
duties of sugar, coffee, spirits ard other
spices.
ALL reports agree that this is the
hardest winter Scotland has experience
ed in twenty years. The snow is two
feet deep. Sheep are perishing, and
wild birds are fiocking TO the towns and
villages to obtain food. The railway
companies find it very difficult to keep
trains moving.
TURKEY, in a circular to the powers,
complains that her treasury will soon
be emptied by the expense of maintain
ing huge army on war footing. The
Greek fleet has sailed for Pir@us to
avoid being blockaded by tie British.
Greece has positively refused to dis
arm.
A DISPATCH from Rome says that the
Moniteur de Rome, the organ of the
Vatican, expresses annoyance and dis
gust at the opposition displayed in the
Queens speech TO the sundering Of the
Legislative union between Great Britain
and Ireland. The Moniteur longs for
the time TO come when the world shall
see Professionalism entirely extirpated
FROM Ireland and Catholicism univer-
sally recognized,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-04
LATEST KILOGRAMS.
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

E P. SMITHS tile factory near Mum
Gle, Ind, was destroyed by fire 'Wednes-
day, causing loss of $4,000.
FIRE at Oneonta, n. Y, Thursday
moraing destroyed six blocks of build
ings, entailing lossOf $50, 600.
MRS. n. a. ROBINSON drowned herself
and her infant child in the cistern Of
her dwelling at Columbus, Wis, late
Tuesday night.
The Grasshopper Iron Mill, near
| Youngsten, Ohio, was destroyed by fire
Wednesday morning; loss, SIS, 900.
EIGHT men were buried in a cabin by
an avalanche near Aspen, Col. Three
were killed and the rest were insane
when taken out.
TIE West Shore ferry-house at the
foot of Forty second street, New York,
valued at 500, 900, was burned Sunday
| morning.
A CONSTRUCTION train on the Rock
Island road dashed into the rear end of
a passenger train near Muscatine, Iowa,
Tuesday morning, partly telescoping a
| sleepisg car, one man being fatally and
three others dangerously injured.
A SPARK frrn a miners lamp ignited
key of powder which a companion
was carrying under his arm, in coal
shaft near Springfield, ILL.,, Thursday.
The explosion shockingly mangled both
men, but did not infict instant death.
| 4 SERIOUS cave.in occurred under the
bed OF the Shenandoah branch of the
Philadelphia and Reaiing Railroad,
near Shenandoah. About sixty feet of
track sunk two feet few minutes af-
| ter passenger train had passed over it.
| Traffic will be suspended several days
! in consequence of the accident.
! WHILE Professor Jones was deliver
! ing q scientific lecture in the Presby-
| terrain church at Mansfield, Wis, Sat-
urday evening, a certain compound
burst into flames, resulting in the de-
struction OF the edifce. The building
was fully covered by insurance, but it
is question if the origin of the fire
does not invalidate the risks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-04
GENERAL NOTES.

The Mississippi river is gorged with ice
seventeen inches in thickness from the
mouth Of the Illinois to Ste. Genevieve
q distance of sixty-fve miles.
FARMERS in Dodge county, Wis, who
have uniformed a large number Of cat
tie, will be prosecuted by the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to AMI
mals.
A sNowsLIDE, bringing down earth,
trees, and rocks. has so blockaded a
portion of the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Line that the track can
not be cleared in less than three or
four days.
AT railroad me citing in Pittsburg it
was decided that freight shippers shall
not be given passes over the lines.
Stockmen, however, who come In with
cattle will be granted ticket to return
home.
A COMPANY Of Chicagoans, including
M. A. Devine and John M. DINGHY,
have developed rich oil and gas well
at Lima, Ohio. The yield of petroleum
is said to be five barrels per minute.
The interment Of the late Congress-
man Rankin took place at Manitowoc,
WIS., dG I1.OU LnuISldys 4AUuSdAuS
viewed the remains as they lay in state
in the Episcopal Church, and the
funeral procession was g mile and half
in length.
The biennial directory of millers and
furnishers shows total of IS, 267 -four
ing mills in the United States and
Canada, being decrease, as compared
with 1884, of 812. The mills in the
United States number 1886.
JACOB LUTzENHEIsER, who resides in
Chester township, Indiana, was, with
his wife and daughter, poisoned M0n-
day night by eating sausage, over which
unknown persons had sprinkled trough
on rats" Lotzenheiser and his daugh-
ter are seriously ILL., but his wife has re-
covered.
JOSEPH RANKIN, q member of con-
gress from Wisconsin, died Sunday
afternoon in Washington, aged SO years.
His remains were escorted to Chicago
"Wednesday evening by Senator Saw
yer and Representative Bragg, Steph-
enson, Guenther and Van Setback. d.
ceased was a native Of New Jersey, and
at one time during the war was in
spector general of the department of
Mississippi.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-04
A Wise Reform.

The habit of administering quinine in powerful
doses, antidote to malarial maIadies, was
once dangerously common. Happily this prac-
tice has undergone a wide reform Not only the
wholly, of course, but largely, Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters safe botanic substitute for the
pernicous alkaloid. The consequences of this
sufferers are cured-formerly their complaints
were only for the time relieved, or half cured
the remedy eventually failing to produce the ap-
preciabe effect, except the doses were increased.
A course of the Bitters, persistantly followed,
breaks up the worst attacks and prevents their
return. The evidence in favor or this sterling
specific and household medicine is OF no ambigu-
Gus character, but positive and satisfactory, and
the sources whence it proceeds are very numer-
GUS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-04
Congressman Rakin Dead

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-After lin
geripg upon the verge Of eternity for
several months, conscious that his
days could only be few, and expecting
the summons of death at any moment,
Congressman Joseph @. Rankin, of
Wisconsin, expired at neon to-day.
Every physician who has attended
HIM has wondered that he has surviv-
ed so long. When he started for
Washington early in December his
doctor told him that he would not
live till the end of the Journey, and
there was q published report that he
had died on the way. When he pro-
posed to go to the house on the open
ing Of the session he was warned that
the exertion would be fatal, but he
went to the capitol, stood up with the
rest Of the members, and was sworn
in. Then his friends begged him to
return to his hotel, but he said: mo,
I'm going to stay and select seat. I
want one that will look well draped "
He went to the capitol twice after
ward. The last time he was out
of doors, however, was when
he was removed from the Ebbitt House
to private residence adjoining the
home Of Postmaster General Villas.
The lady from whom he rented the
rooms asked if he wanted them for
the season. ''No," he replied, "but
want them as long as I live. I am
liable to die any minute, AID the rent
stops the day Of my death. 7 ana not
going to cucumber my estate with an
unexpired lease, and when I die I
hope you'll be generous enough to let
the funeral be held here without ex-
ira charge"
The landlady, who is the wife of a
clerk at the Smithsonian Institute,
thought her new tenant was engaging
ia some ghastly jokes, but he told her
he was never more In earnest in his
life. ''If I dropped dead here this
minute" he said, 81 suppose you
would think was joking"
Two weeks ago it was thought he
was breathing his last. DR.. Kemps-
ter, who is the private salariei physi-
clan of Senator Sawyer's family, was
attending him, and said: "Joe, it
looks as if death was pretty near.
Your symptoms are very bad to-
night"
Mr.. Rankin opened his eyes with
an effort and replied in husky tone:
Tell me something new. I've been
fooled good many times on that"
The next day he bright ened up, and
seemed stronger aud better, and re-
minded the doctor of what he had
said the night before. Thus he had
been lingering along playing with
DEATH" as one Of his friends express
ed it tonight, every breath weaken
ing his Strength until it was all ex-
hsusted.
Mr.. Rankin has for years been one
of the leaders OF the democratic party
in Wisconsin; was a member of the
legislature Of that state almost con-
tinaally from the time he left the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-04
THR HAND OF FATE.
PaImistry of the Ancient and Mo d.
ern Schools Revealing the Future
by the Fingers.
Pittsbur Dispatch.


A quaint art, once in universal re-
pute and practiced by men of the
highest reputation and learning, was
chlromancy. or hand reading. It
quite occupied a PLACE among the
sciences and was studied even by
men of such wisdom and learning as
Aristotle and the Emperor Augustus.
Curiously enough it was not forbid
den by the church, although that
body would not tolerate astrology, at
least SO far as It inter fered with the
operation of the human will.
Palmistry is very old, and is
thought to have originated among
the Egyptians, among the descend
ants Of whom, the Gypsies of to-day
it is still practiced. With other peo-
pie, however, it has strangely lost
countenance. There is but one indl-
vidual who, in modern times, has
made reputation in connection with
it, and who was considered of suffi-
Gent intelligence to cause his avow-
al Of faith in the art to be received
with respect. His name I can not
recall, but he lives in Paris, and
there was a good deal about him re-
Gently in the papers. He was report
ed to have remarkable skill, and to
have been very fortunate, indeed, in
many of his prophecies. Still he
made mistakes as ever the best Of
prophets may sometimes do;
for although he foretold the down
fall of Napol on I'LL, he added that
ne would die by violence, which did
not prove true. He also related in
advance a good deal that has happen
ed to the ex-Empress Eugene, ana
some things that have not,
The hand is probably tie most use
full of all the members OF the body.
We have power. indeed, which we
neglect to use, for Providence has
provided us with two hands, and by
practices one can be made as efficient
and valuable as the other. Instead,
by an oversight of Indifference, the
world has grown into unthrifty custom
of employing in effect only the right
hand, with loss to itself which may
be described as incalculable.
The only people who are ambidex-
trous are some surgeons, and how val
liable the faculty is they know. They
believe that it is impossible to be
good operating surgeon without it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-04

PREVIOUS to 1926 the use of sto YES,
generally Of the box pattern and OF
a very rude construction, was confa-
ed to stores, hotel bar-rooms, school
houses and churches IN the larger
cities and towns. Country churches
were not actually warmed, but the
older women carried their foot stoves,
and the men protected their feet with
stout leather overshoes, known as
"boxes." In the residences of some
of the more wealthy city families,
camel and other English coal, gener-
ally referred to at the time as ''sea
coal" was burned IN imported CRATES,
or in Rumford stoves lined with fire
brick. The rest of the world used the
capacious, old fashioned fireplace.
The cheapness of fuel, the cheerful
ness of an open fireplace, and the
great weight and construction Of TIA g
stoves in those days made the latter
In but little demand.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-04

INVESTIGATIONS show that the hDi
of temperature at which men can
work depends upon their length OF
their exposure, the amount of exer-
ton they gut forth, their condition
and the nature of the atmosphere, par
ticularly as to its degrees of moisture.
It is stated that men have been en-
pIoyed on railways at 1C4o, In mines
under very favorable conditions
1875, and are said to work occasion
ally In the stoko-holes of tropical
steamers at 1862. Prof. Dubois is re
ported to have estimated that tenn
perature of 1922 can be endured when
the air is as dry as possible, but even
1040 is likely to be fatal in an atmos-
phere saturated with moisture. 1t is
also considered certain that men can-
not become accustomed to stand for
any considerable time a higher tenn
perature than 145o TO 1862 even when
they keep perfectly still and are in
quite pure air.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-04
Should Kisses be Fair on the Stage?
Philadelphia News.

Here Is simple question IN senti-
ment: Can actors and actresses kiss
each other in mimic love without
danger of heart hurt? We used to be
told that stage kissing was counter
felt, and perhaps most OF it was and
still is, but there has lately grown in
to usage, at least here in New York,
a palpably genuine kind of OSCILLATION
IN comic opera and burlesoue. It be-
gan in 'Nanon," where the pretty
Sadie Mariiaot smacked the handsome
William I. Carleton in all actuality
and fervor right on the lips four times
per evening. It was done SO close to
the footlights and so deliberately that
no room was left for doubt. The
story was told that he disliked it and
they quarreled, but she deemed the
thing essential to the prosperity of her
role and got the management tie sus-
tain her in it, though she hated the
man she kissed.
Carleton is now travelling, and
Clara Wisdom, who had been in the
chorus here, kisses him quite as heart
lily as Miss Martinez did in the same
character. There is a great deal of
cooling and kissing between Nanki-
Poo and Yum-Yum in the Mikado.
Behind the scenes Of the two theatres
lie which the opera has been running,
[ was amused to find persons deeply
and unconcealedly interested In those
particular episodes of the piece. In
one instance it was Jefferson Bern
stein, the new husband of Verona
Jarbeau, who eye-witnessed every
hug and salutation which his welded
Yum Yum received from her Nanki-
Poo. La the other case, the admired
of maidens, Courtice Pounds, was
the stage lover, and his Japanese bride
was the fair Geraldine Ulmar. Their
kisses were on cheeks and chins, never
bringing their mouths together.
'"They do it in excellent TASTE" I
remarked.
with admirable discretion" as
scented a member Of the company.
''Do you see the smallish, pretty
woman in the chorus yonder in green?
She is MOI requisite on the stage just
now, and her companions of the
chorus are in the green room. She is
smilingly watching the love passage
between Nanki-Poo and Yum-Y UNI.
1t never seems to weary her, though
size has seen it over hundred times.
She Is the wife of Mr.. Pounds"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-04

OF the various novelties In clock
construction none have excited more
general interest, perhaps, than those
which consist of a plain glass dial
suspended by fine thread or wire,
having the motive power-an ordin-
airy watch movement - concealed In
the central boss of the hands, or In
the enlarged counterbalance of one Of
them. Another Continuance in this
line of note consists of two circular
plates of glass, mounted ia metal
frame Or border, and connected by a
slender column. or foot, to a pedestal.
In these the figures are marked on the
front plate, the hands being attached
to the back plate, which is cemented
to q brass rim, toothed as a crown
wheel, and driven by pinion. the
stem of which rises from the works In
the pedestal. The necessary hour
wheels, to give differential motion of
the hands, are hidden between the
centre bosses of the hands and the
brass washer on the back plate.
Where three glass plates are used, the
short and long hands are fixed to the
second and third plates, but two pin
ions drive the toothed rims of these
two plates.