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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
FRESH FASHION NOTES.

Sashes of black and watered silk rib
bon are worn with dark wool. velvet and
velveteen dresses. They are placed at
the left side of the back, and the ends
reach nearly to the bottom of the dress.
Elegant sunshades are of glace silk.
shot of two shades of color-blue and
garnet-red, pale blue and cerise green
and crimson, blue and gold, seal brown
and blue, and so on-with pretty handles
of carved olive or orange wood.
Bonnets are made of light, coarse
straw loosely plated with fine strips of
vetvet of all colors or else of plated
rushes, with binds of gold, white, or col
ored beads. There are also cabotes. with
crowns forming network of black. gar
net or other beads.
A mourning novelty is fine English
Grape with applique figures in fine bonn
bazlne of drab d'ete with black silk en-
bro1dery. 1t is cut out between the flo
ures and leaves a semi-transparent fabric
of great effectiveness. 1t comes in full
width cords for wraps, and in several
widths of tiouncing for edgings and
trimmings.
Long pins, with heads ornamented
with jewels and pearls, are still some of
the principal adornments of the couture.
There are others of light colored torise
shell, forming combs, which are exceed
1ngly pretty, but rather expensive. They
are put on obliquely, with perhaps a bow
OF velyet at the side, for dinner or even
ing couture.
The long, arm-concealing glove is still
as fashionable as ever, always of unglazed
k1d-llght for the evening, dark for the
morning. The glazed kid glove, how
ever, may be worn in the daytime for
walking or visiting. The silk glove or.
better still, the unglazed kid glove, with
an embroidered open-work cuff, will be
adopted with light summer toilets.
The newest models of summer mantles
are the casavue and the very short man
telet-visite, tight-ftting in the back, with
the sleeves taken from the back and los
ing themselves in the puff; very often
there is tight sleeve comining out from
under the wide open one; long lapels in
front, the whole more than ever loaded
with embroidery beads and passemterie.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Condition of the Winter Wheat Cron.

The Department of Agricultural reports
that the official statistical investigation
for April makes a reduction of the winter
wheat area of 100000 acres from the
bredth seeded two years ago, and per
cent. reduction from the area seeded a
year ago. On the Atlantic Coast there
has been slight reduction, and none on
the Pacific Coast. The largest decrease
is in Illinois, Kansas and Missouri. Com
paratlve areas seeded in principal States
are: New York, 81; Pennsylvania, 9S:
Ohio, 90; Kentucky, 50; Michigan, 90;
Indina, 50; Illinois, So; Missouri, %:
Kansas, S4; California, go Oregon, 1O3.
In comparison with the bredth harvested
last year there is an increase. A moder-
ate degree of protection by snow has been
enjoyed, though the covering has been
neither heavy nor continuous. Winds
have laid bare exposed surfaces and COW
eIed valleys deeper. Winter-killing in
patches is therefore reported to some ex-
tent, while it is generally found that
brown and apparently lifeless plants have
roots uninjured.
The general average of condition is
9212 against rs last year-the lowese ever
reported 81 two years ago. The
average of 1883 was so, and that of 1881
was So. Condition of States is as follows:
New York, 50; Pennsylvania, 80; Ohio, "a !;
Michigan, 80; Indiana, SO; Illinois, Sc;
Missouri, "a; Kansas, So; California, 100
The condition of the soil for autumn
seeding was favorable in four-fifths of all
counties. The exceptions are more fire.
quently in districts of small production
Damage to wheat by the Hessian fly in
indicated in about one county in twenty
in the winter wheat. Its presence is
deemed worthy of mention in sixteen
counties of Indiana and eight of Illinois.
In Ohio, Indiana and Michigan and also
Pennsylvania and New York it is re-
spectively reported in four to six coun-
tics
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
A Latter-day SIMPSONS Family.
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.

Ira Sampson, his wife and eight child
rem, all bound from Maine to California
this was party [ saw in a Maine Cen
trial train one morning this week Mr..
Sampson was eating dOughnut, two of
his children were eating oranges, two
others had hands full of peanuts, the old
est boy was 1nhausting tobacco in the
smoking car, while the baby was crying
and Mrs. Sampson was administering
comfort to him. 1t was an unusual spec
tacle, and when the other passengers as
certained that this long journey had been
undertaken by Mr.. and Mrs. Sampson.
with such brood, they were a magnet
for all eyes and all hearts. There we're
two little girls of 10 and twelve years, in
new straw pOkes decorated with red rib
bOns, just alike. There were two more
little girls of about years, twins, with
blue eyes and sweetly turned up noses
and black straw hats trimmed with blue,
all just alike-eyes, noses, hats and rib
bons. There must have been a mark of
some kind to distinguish those twins
from each other, but [ could not see it.
Then there were two little bows of or
years in pretty, new knickerbocker suits
and nObby round hats about as big as the
buttons worn by the Great Panian-
dnum. At one end of the line
was the strong and brown young man of
%, six feet in height and stout esquire
for his father and mother in the fight be-
fore them. At the other end was that red
bundle in Mrs. Simpsons arms, the baby
IN its red mother Hubbard gown and red
turban, with its red protruding cheeks,
red Hps-and red fire flashing from it's
troubled eyes. Mr. Sampson is a good
natured, hard working and calloused far
mer from Turner. He told me he had
sold his farm for $2,2OO-1OO acres of
land and nice set of buildings for that
price!-and was on his was to Los Angeles:
he did not know what he might do after
his arrival, but would look around and
buy some land if he could: he had once
visited California, and liked the climate
better than that of Maine; it would cost
about $500 to get his family and house
hold goods out there; five of the children
went free, ON account of their youth.
~Ihose two little girls are twins" said
Mr.. Sampson, indicating them with his
finger, land those two little boys come
so near it that I'm agoing to call 'em
twins, although they're year apart.
That woman there, my wife, has had
eleven children. One of them is dead
and we've left two behind. Doesn't look
1T, does she? Yes; she rather hated to
leave the old place, but was willing to do
What's best. The neighbors didn't do Just
the right thing. They took on too Enuch,'
Mrs. Sampson had provided about three
bushels of provisions, packed in baskets
and boxes. Everybody in the car marvel
ed at her fresh, young face. She dzd not
look more than 10.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Quincy and the Minute Men.
Baltimore Sun

The news of the tragic death of Mai.
William Il. Quincy caused good deal of
comments in Baltimore among those who
knew him 1t was related yesterday by
an old associate that after the election of
Mr. Lincoln as president an organization
known as minute men, was formed in
Baltimore, having for Its object the sup
port of Mr.. Lincoln and the republican
party. Maj. Quincy was one of the active
promoters of the movement, and the men
in the organization were largely remnants
of the old know-nothang party. After the
riot on April 10, 1860. these men generally
turned to be supporters of the south
and Maj. Quincy was instrumental in
changing many of them from their for
merly ayowed intentions to southern men
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
S0cialiStic BlatherskiteS.
Chicago Herald

The Chicago workingmen who have
fallen under the leadership'of few Iun-
atlcs who call themselves Socialists are
more foolish than vicious. They are
honest tollers for the most part, and they
can Gave no real sympathy with the idle
Drawers who have the rev rag for their
edlhcauon, or who boast in language
whose tull import they do not under
stand OF the things that they expect to
accomplish. These mouthers are the ir-
responsibles, the off-scourings of CONT
mental Europe, the blackguards who
live on the exertions of
others, and the towards who
would not expose their OWE worthless
carcasses for any cause. American work
men who can be deceived by them are to
be pitied. They arenot fit for citizenship,
for they prove by their delusion that they
cannot comprehend the sovereignity
which has been conferred upon them by
the Constitution and the laws.
1t should be so shameful thing to fol-
low red flag in this enlightened republic
that no man not fool or william could
be enticed into such a demonstration.
He who confounds the rights of labor
with the performances of these shift
less creatures is sadly at variance with
common sense and common patriotism.
Labor has no wrongs which cannot be
redressed by the ballot.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Lynch Law in England.
Londau Pail Mall Gazette

The sacking of seducer's house in the
Midlands, after the suicide of his victim,
however much it is to be regretted, is a
salutary Indication of the growth of a
healthy spirit of indignation against the
basest of all crimes, Without in any way
approving of the introduction of lynch
law into this country, there can be no
doubt that if one or two of these scoun-
drels were well hanged it would do a great
deal to deter others from following in
their footsteps. Only the other day, at a
London police court, a poor girl of 10
who had been ruind and deserted by her
sweetheart, was charged with attempting
to commit suicide by cutting her throat.
The author of her ruin told her that if she
wished to make away with herself she
could do so. She cut her throat in his
presence, and he made no effert to prevent
her. In Ashantee there is a custom by
which any one who has been injured by
a neighbOr and fails to obtain other red
ress has only to commit suicide at his
door in order to secure his summary ex-
ecution. Unless our law makes some
provision for Furnishing seduction when
it is followed by desertion, the custom of
"killing ones self upon another's head"
as it is called in Coomassie, may be &C
climatized in this country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
They We're all With Sherman.
Pittsburgh Dispatch.

Col Hazard was in the same car with
the hero of Georgia on their way home
from some army reunion not long ago.
The seat beside the general happened to
be vacant for time, and Col Hazard,
passing along the aisle, stopped and said:
General, may 1 share your seat?" Sher-
man glanced up through his iron-gray
brows and responded, somewhat YEARLY
''Yes, if you amt just going to say you
were with me-" Hazard hadn't more
than fairly seen the point of qualification
until a stranger came up full of enthusi-
asm, and, reaching out to shake hands,
exclaimed: Gen. Sherman, how do you
do? Natural as life, I swear, was with
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
A SpOtlesS Future.
Texas Siftings.

Judge Noonan, of San Antonio, is not
very popular with the young attorneys,
because when they argue motions for new
trials before him he gets excited and over
rules the motions, and orders them laid on
the table. A few days ago, a young lawyer
in arguing a motion for a new trial of a
horse thief, said pathetically:
1T is true that my client has bad record
in the past, but even your honor should
admit that there is no stain upon his future
record"
Inspite of this eloquent appeal Judge
NoOnan Overruled the motion, remark
ing that the penitentiary was just the place
for man to keep his future record spot
less
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Giving Himself Away.
Ta-vocl ci<+;,,o

Nose Schaumburg was as mad as
moist hen one day last week. In voice
that quivered with rage he said to his
clerk, Ike Silverstone:
Sit down dat desk at and write letter
vat l dictatet dot Joke Oppenheimer at.
Write I have written to you. who has
not answered dot ledder? Jake Open
heimer. Who had [ dunned dime and
again? Jake Hoppenheimer. Who has
paid no attenshuus to dose duns? Jake
Oppenheimer. Have you got dot down
Mr.. Silverstone:''
II have dot down.
Den conclude: Who vas tam scoun-
drel;' Have you got dat DOWN."
II have dot down."
"Den give dot letter to me so puts my
name to it,"
The clerk did so, and hence the conclu-
sion of Notes letter read: "Who vas a
thh scoundrel? Nose Schaumburg."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Men All Alike.
Toronto Mail.

1T Is very Seldom said the waitress,
that you meet one man different from
the rest. They are all tuned to the same
key, and that key is conceit. There ism t
a man who comes in here regularly but
believes that all Us girls are dead gone on
him. Doesn't matter how old, how poor,
or how homely the man is, he still thinks
that whenever he goes he leaves behind a
broken-heartedw woman. l 'spose you think
men come here just to eat. Well, they do,
but anybody to look at them would think
that their chief purpose was to whisper
chit-chat to the waitress and look killing
ly every time she passes. And they are
all alike, married or single. If they only
knew how tired it makes Us, perhaps they
would quit. I tell you it is refreshing
when, once in long time, a man comes in
who really appears to have come in for
the purpose of having a meal-who piles
into the grub ard seems not to mind Us
any more than if we were men. When
that sort of a man strikes the place and
leaves it without any of the little iirty
tricks of the general run we girls just dc
admire him, and wouldn't mind if he was
little more sociable."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
Youthful PrecOcity.
San Francisco Chronicle

It's rather alarming. There seems to
be no limit to the precocity of children in
this generation. This child was not five
years old. She was away with her mother,
and she indited an epistle, in her mothers
handwriting, to her papa. She had doll
which, with budding poetry, was named
Helen Marguerite, and she wrote:
Helen Marguerite's eyes fell down her
stomach, and her head fell off, and I'm so
sorry. [ want you, papa, to go and get
me pair of twins from DR.. II want
some babies to play with
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
The Same Old Crowd.
Texas SiftingS.

An old New York gentleman, meeting
his grandson, said to him in an impress
sive tone of voice:
my dear boy, I hear some very dis
couraging reports about You. They say
that you go behind the scenes and toy
with actresses. Is that so?''
eyes, uncle; to a certain extent"
Drop them, my boy. I've been there
when was at your age, half century
ago. They are bad lot"
"But, uncle, actresses of to-day arevery
different from what they were when you
were a boy"
Not much. They are the same identi-
cal actresses"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

served her rights. Now they demand the
frontier originally agreed on, on the
ground that Greece needs strategic
frontier, which she now does not possess.
so the case stood. The difficulties of this
question are greatly increased by the fact
that the territory claimed by Greece is
inhabited by both Greeks and Turks and
that the latter would be hauled over to
Christian and unfriendly power. The
territorial lines indicated have no rela-
ton to race or religion, but have been
drawn IN purely arbitrary manner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
A Wet Blanket.
Texas SiftingS.

Another, Texas man, Col. WitherspOOn,
of Austin, had the misfortune to have his
wife's mother die on the primises. Col
WitherspoOn is generally supposed to be
the champion stingy man of the Lone
Star state.
A few days after the poor old lady had
been consigned to mother earth, the
undertaken showed a bill at Col. Wither-
spoon.
Seventeen dollars and forty five
cents!'' exclaimed the dazed survivor, ''if
that don't knock the whole fun out of the
thing I'll give it up
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
At Home and Abroad.
Harper's Bazaar.

Hostess Ito Bobby, who is dining out
with his mother -Win you have another
piece of pie, Bobby?
Bobby -Yes'm.
Hostess (smiIingly) And so you are one
of the fortunate little boys who's mammas
let them have the second piece of pie?"
Bobby Yes'm; she does when we're out
visitin', bat at home never get but one
piece.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

Brown Sequard, the French physlolo-
glst, has demonstrated that for several
weeks after death, or during the persist
ence of the rigid condition which 1mmedl-
ately follows the cessation OF lie, the
muscles of an animal undergo slow, al
ternate contractions and elongatlons; and
he reaches the startling conclusion that
the muscle in Uig0r morris are not dead,
but are still endowed with vital powers,
being, however, in certain chemical con
dition which is antecdent and preparatory
to final death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06

you, general. 1 was with you when we
split the heart of the rebellion in twain"
L knew it." was all the answer he got.
but as soon as he moved away the old
general broke out emphatically: "They
were all with me- and they are all with
me- yet. By heavens, if l had ever had
half as many able-bodied men with me-
as they were, the war wouldn't have
lasted a week"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
THE PRESIDENTS BRIDE.
The First President to Marry in the White
HOuse--Sketch of Miss Folsom.
New York World

President Cleyelands approaching mar.
rlage Is now regarded as a certainty. AL
his friends agree that he would have been
very prompt to deny the story of his
marriage, coming in as positive a form
as 1t has in the last week or ten DAYS. if
he had not fully made up his mind on the
subject. He has kept the secret yery
well from even the most intimate as
soclates. 1t is understood that the en-
gagement took place during Miss Folsom's
last visit to Washington. If Mr.. Cleve-
land is married at the White House in
June 1T will be the second marriage of 2
President during his term of office. Mr.
Tyler was married while he was president
but his marriage took place in New York
There have been a number of marriages
at the White House of members of the
Presidents family. The last MARRIAGE
was that of Nellie Grant and Mr.. Sartoris
1t is understood that the coming wedding
will be very quiet one, if it takes place
in June, as the members of Mr.. Cleye-
lands family in New York seems to think
it will The President is very averse to
personal parades.
THE PREIDENTs BROTHER WILL MARRY HIM
1t is expected that his clergyman broth
er will be brought here to perform the
marriage ceremony and that it will be
private. If the President should invite
any of his official associates he would have
to invite all of them, and this would give
his wedding the official character of a
parade reception of the winter. 1t can
not be said that Washington society is
very much moved over the Presidents
marriage. He has very little sympathy
with the social people here, and as he
does not go out much here because in a
measure Indifferent to what he does. They
are glad, however, that he is going to
marry, because it is always pIeasanter to
have the wife of a President to preside at
the White House. Miss Folsom has not
spent much time here and is unknown to
the majority of people who move in
society. 1t is probable that the President
will go away for some time after his mar
riage. He has had number of invita-
tions to visit Eastern watering-places.
it is hardly probable that he will go to
the adirondacks.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1886-01-01
Power of an Ocean Wave.

In paper by the Rev. Philip
Neale, late British Chaplain at
Batavia, in Leisure Hour speaking
of the great inundation from the
sea caused by the Krakatoa earth
quake, Java, he says: ''one of the
most remarkable facts concerning
the inundation remains to be told.
As we walked or scrambled along,
we were much surprised to find
great masses of white coral lying
at the side of our path in every
direction. Some of these were OF
immense size, and had been cast
up more than two or three miles
from the seashore. It was evident
as they were of coral formation,
that these immense blocks of solid
rock had been torn up from their
ocean bed in the midst of the Sun
da Straits, born inland by the
gigantic wave, and finally left on
the land several miles from the
shore. Any one who had not seen
the sight would scarcely credit the
story. The feat seems almost an
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injustice in many cases, especially
that debarring claimants from
making communication proof upon
homesteads after having proved
up on premptions, loan agents now
refusing to advance money on
them. Ex-Commissioner William
son says Sparks is only three re-
movals from an idiot, which may
kindle the latter into fame.
Townsend's bill to erect the In
dian Territory into one Of the Or
dinary kind, dividing the land in
severalty among the Indians the
Van Wyck bill in the Senate and
the Weaver bill in the House to
organize Oaklahoma as part of
the public domain, Cullom's post
al telegraph bill, Buffers inquiry
resolution as to the status of Da-
kota, Dunn's bill requiring rail
roads to patent earned lands, Muir
phys Canal bill, ETC., all show
which way the wind blows, and
will be watched with great interest
The weather at the Capitol, il
sympathy with Senatorial prohibi.
ton views, is mild.
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List of Patents.
]Sth.tii,
J. o. TRUTT.

List of Patents granted to citi-
zens of Missouri, for the week
ending Tuesday, Dec. Sth, 1885,
compiled from the Official Records
of the United States Patent Office
expressly for the GRAPHIC, by W.
A. Redmond, Solicitor of Patents,
No. 637 f Street, N. W. Washing
ton, d. c., of whom information
may be had:
No. 333,051 L. Bates, st. Louis.
car coupling. No. 332,S77 c. Fl.
Cain, st. Louis, vehicle spring
No. 332,7S6 W. G. Cline, Gallatin
door latch. No. 332,997 J. Cornell
st. Louis, steam trap. No. $685..
05S J. r. Creviston, Unionville
buggy top protector. No. 333,O5j
j. Ell. Granger, st. Louis, adjusta
BILE window shade attachment
No. 332,90S T. c. Kessler, st
Louis, vegetable crater. No. 332,
724 T. Manual, st. Louis, sparl
arrester. No. 332,965 G. c. Spring
and G. J, Raiffeisen, Sedalia, sci
indicating measures for dry good.
etc. 333,0S6 NJ. d. Strickland, S
Louis, injector.
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School Entertainment.

The school entertainment given
by the Primrose school, as previ-
ously advertised in your columns
took place on the night of the Oath
of Dec, and proved a grand
success. The exercises were of an
interesting and instructive char
acter interspersed with humorous
selections. The pupils seemed to
enter into the performance of their
various duties with considerable
spirit and energy, and acquitted
themselves very creditably indeed.
The selections were for the most
part familiar to the writer but
were highly appreciated by him
and Judging by what he could
learn were well received by the
vast audience present. Mr.. I. r.
Cravens teacher, has given very
general satisfaction. He is one OF
Livingston county's gifted young
men and rising in his profession
He is also g. Normal Student
Both teacher and pupils deserve
great credit for the excellency Of
their entertainment.
Respectfully,
j. O. TRUTT.