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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
The Situation in Wisconsin.
WaukeSha Freeman.

If Governor Rusk had not been renom-
mated it might have been plausibly
claimed that his party was unwilling to
assume the responsibility which he him
self assumed in the prompt suppression
Of the Milwaukee rioters. As the case
stands now, the party has placed itself
both by the denomination and by the
resolutions upon that subject so squarely
ana unequlvocally in opposition to mod
ern anarchical theories and practices that
there cannot be the slightest doubt as to
where 1t Is to be found in case of emer-
gencY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30

women then were as agreeable, and the
men as brave and forceful, as in this age.
But 1T is certainly interesting to consider
whether, by reason of cheap and chopped
up literary food, we are coming round
practically to the Middle Ages relative to
reading, that is, to reading anything ex-
cept what is called news, or ingenious
sorts of inventions and puzzles which
can be talked about as odd incidents in
daily life are talked about. Reading to
any intellectual purpose requires patience
abstraction and continuity of thought.
This habit of real reading is not &C
quired by the perusal of newspapers, nor
by the swift dash which most people give
to the cheap publications which are had
for the picking up, and usually valued
accordingly. It is an open question
whether cheap literature is helping US
any toward becoming a thoughtful and
reading people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
Democrats and Whiskey.

An item IS going the rounds of the pa
pers that nice old lady, living some
where IN New York, has certain test
which she applies to all the young men
who pay attention to her grand daughters.
After certain time she offers him some
homemade cake. If he cats it with avidi-
ty she mutely gives consent; if not, she
instantly begins to oppose the match. She
has theory that men who like cake never
drink to excess nor live dissipated lives
of any sort. ''Give me-" says she, "a man
who loves gingerbread; it's sure sign he
isn't fond of whiskey." The New York
Tribune in commenting on the theory
says if it is true the democratic party
should add another plank to its platform
that gingerbread should be allowed to be
made for medicinal purposes only.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
A Cow Dies by Her Own Horn.
West Chester News

Abiah Dickinson, East Bradfort. found
one of his COWS dead in the pasture field
Her death was from a most singular
cause. She was a smallsized Attorney,
had crumpled horns, and when found one
os her hind legs was at her head, and on
closer examina ton it was found that the
horn had penetrated through the leg, just
above the hoof and so tightwas it that the
man who took off the hide was unable to
remove it and had to cut off the leg be-
fore he could do so. The supposition is
that the COW was lying down at the time.
when she was stung by some incect and
attempted to brush it off with her hind
foot, when it caught on the horn, and in
her endevors to pull the foot away drove
the horn in still deeper, until it passed
entirely through the leg. Mr.. Dickinson
thinks that death from so singular a caure
as this never before occurred.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
POWERFUL LENSES.
Discovery of Glass Which Vastly Improves
the Microscope

That recent wonderful discovery in mi
croscopy has not been even noted In the
public press may be cited as proof of the
general apathetic tendency as regards
scientific matters, says the st. Louis Post
Dispatch. The microscope has always
been regarded as a wonderful instrument,
but by the discovery of an entirely new
kind of glass lately, its powers are in
creased to an incredible degree. 1t was
in the year 1878 that DIR. Abbey read a
paper before the South Kensington asso-
citation in England, in which he strongly
set forth his ideas that it was possible
that a new kind of glass might be made
which would increase the powers of the
microscope.
In the year 1881 he and DR.. Scott, a
celebrated chemist, began to experiment
in the town of Witten, in Westphalia.
Their funds gave out in 1888, however,
before they had obtained any remarkable
results from their experiments, but both
were so sanguine of making a beneficial
discovery if they had funds to continue
their work, that the Prussian government
was induced to give $1,000 for their con-
tinuance of the experiments. Prof. Alb
hey and DIR. Scott then erected a labora-
tory in Germany, at the works of Carl
Zeiss, a manufacturer of instru-
ments used by scientists. They
tried nearly all elements, and
1t was about SIX months ago that their
long labor was crowned with success
which will make them famous in the his
tory of science. The ordinary glass con-
! tains six substances. The new glass
made by Prof. Abbey and DR.. Scott con-
! tains fourteen. The most essential ele-
ments of which it. is composed of phos;
| phorus and boron; neither of which is
used in common glass. With the old
| glass the full power of the microscope
was the discernment of the 5OGth part of
an inch, and with the new glass it is claim
ed that 204, 10O,060th part of an inch can
| be distinguished. This certainly seems
incred1table, but positive assurance of
its truth is given by parties who have
tested Prof. Abbey's and DR.. SCOTS new
instrument.
| When the discovery was first made Carl
Zeiss, the manufacturer, in whose place
experimentalists had worked, was in ia
vor eff getting out patent so that the
discovery might prove a profitable one,
but the fact of the experiments having
been conducted with funds funds sup
piled by the Prussian government pre-
vented the discoveries from making it a
private enterprise, and compels them to
make it public benefit. The difference
between the new and the old glass con-
slsts in there fraction of light.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
German Soldiers.
New York Sun.

German newspapers are drawing atten-
ton to the interesting fact that the pres
ent year. 1886, markes the outset of new
era in which the men that fought in the
great wars of 1866 and 1870 will have entire
ly retired from service. Hereafter the
conscripts who are annually levied to re-
new the active army will be men who were
not born when the last of many quarrels
between Austria and Prussia ripened to-
ward the final settlement at Sadowa.
These coming recruits were but children
years old when the leaguers of Metz and
Paris were begun, and they can have no
recollectlons of the suspense, the trials
and the triumpns of that period. Nor
with the exception of some officers, is
there any one left in the active army or
even In the landwehr, reserve, who can re-
count as an eyewitness the soul-stirring
campaigns of Bohemia or France, and
perpetuate In his young comrades the
passions which formly infamed the Prus-
sian soldier against his Austrian and BAY
arian cOmpatriot as we'll as against his
traditional French enemy. Only in the
landstrum, or home guard, linger some vet
Grams of the seven weeks war, and the
grass has long been green over the graves
of their brethren who persisted in fraticidal
conflict at Koniggratz and Kissingen. Of
the soldiers VINO will henceforth be called
upon to fight for the German empire in any
probable contingency, not one can recol-
lect time when North German and South
German were not brothers in arms nor
would any of the new generation look with
the old fear and rancor of their neighbors
across the Rhine if Frenchmen upon their
part would but cease talking of revenge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
SPICE OF LIFE.

'The water flowed like CHAMPAGNE
said Mr.. Evarts when speaking of one of
President Hayes dinner parties in the
White House.
Now that the pug dog has been tabooed
by fashionable society, the dude is silly
enough to think that he will be reinstated.
-Philadel phia Call.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
Hats as Brain Tests.
Pail Mall Gazette.

It has been stated that as regards oc-
cupation, grooms and government clerks,
before the days of competitive examation
rejoiced in the most limited craEiaI capac-
tiles. In the investigation of the head of
the living, the hat is a valuable gauge, and
some statistics furnished by hatters give
interesting cOrroporatiVe evidence.
I may say that the ''size" of the hat is
the mean of the length and breath; thus
a hat measuring ~ inches long by 612 in
ches wide would be size No. 7. Mr.. Chris
ty, the well-knOwn purveyor of chimney
pots and other headgear, informed me
that the average size for English adult
males was 7. or % inches in circumference
Germans have round heads, Maleys are
Portuguese average 6$8-7, Spaniards slight
ly larger, Japense exceeds the English av
erage; the order for a dozen would rum
thus: four 7, three IA, four TX, one ~
Mr.. Br. Bowen gives similar information,
and adds: "Men who have to do with horses
-coashmen, jockeys, livery servants
undoubtedly the smallest heads" The
size of livery hats would run from 615 to Z
nothing larger.
Mr.. Kissop Hotter, of Glasgow says the
Scotch head is larger than the English.
1ofk mas Gne lafSeSG Engl1Sn range, Cam-
bridge next, then Oxford; the professors
of the Scotch universities average 1-16;
Joseph Hume took 81, Chambers74. 9th
er heads of interest are Mr.. Gladstone738,
Lord J. Russell II, John Bright ~, Lord
Selborne 10, the Prince of Wales and
Lord Beaconsfeld each 7. It is lamentabe
to reflect what a golden opportunity for an
extensive observation was lost in the House
of Commons on the memorable 9Th of
April of this year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
Grants HumOr.
Lewiston Ole. } Journal

A few days ago I happened to dine
with Mr.. Blaine, and l heard him tell a
table story about General Grant which
illustrated his sly humor and keep appre-
citation of joke.
''The late Israel Washburne," said Mr..
Blaine, had very exalted opinion of the
state of Maine. He thought Maine a
great state for everything. He thought
Maine great wheat state and a great
corn state-and I don't know but great
cotton state. When General Grant visit
ed Maine Ex-Governor Washburne and
myself in railroad ride through a part
of the state. Ex-Governor Washburne
had been descanting on the glories of
Maine, when General Grant said, giving
me a nudge:
"'I believe Maine is great corn state,
Governor Washburne?'
"'Oh, yes, Maine is great corn state,
replied Washburne.
'''Some of the corn patches we've pass
ed remind me of the corn fields in Illinois
in which a man on horseback cannot
reach the tassels, added Grant, with a
twinkling eye.
THE ex-governor" continued Mr..
Blaine, ''did not see for moment that in
one case the horseman could not reach up
to the tassels and in the other could not
reach down to them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
Familiar with Human Nature.

i suppose" said Dumley, after ne had
registered, to the hotel clerk, that when a
person has no baggage his personal ap-
pearance has more or less to do with
making him pay in advance"
"Oh, yes" replied the clerk. ''In this
business we soon learn to size man up.
VIII you have your trunk sent to your
room, Mr.-er-Dunley?
NO, havn't any baggage. I only ex-
pect to be in town day or So"
-Four dollars please"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
A COnSiderSte Man.
to the flag
, eXaS SiftiuyS.

A countryman and his son "put up at
a city hotel. Son out seeing the town.
Old gent comes down from his room at
midnight and says to the clerk:
HAS my son come in YETI"
Night Clerk-Guess not. Haven't seen
him.
Old Gent-Wen, you needn't sit up for
him any longer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
Renewed Interest.
Judge.

Husband-You know that pretty Mrs.
F.
Wife-For goodness sake, John, don't
talk about that pretty Mrs. f. l can't
go anywhere without hearing her praises
sounded.
Husband was going to tell you of a
rumor heard about her to-day.
W1fe-A rumor? Oh. John, tell me
all about it; that's good sopl.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
Checked Through.

As the train stopped at a small station
the attention of a citized was attracted by
the yelp1ng of small dog in the baggage
car.
SIS the dog mad?" he asked.
'Mad?" repeated the distracted bagga-
&c master, as he wiped the moisture from
his brow, mo, the dog amt mad, but all
the rest of us are"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
Why Emma wasn't Popular.
Boston TRANSCRIPT

NO" remarked one of the dear crea.
lures on the veranda. II don't like EN-
ma one bit"
"Why not asked her friend: II am
sure that Emma behaves herself like a
lady"
That's just it; she never does any
thing to give one a chance to talk about
her,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30

The Rev. DR.. Timothy Dwight yester-
day assumed the presidency of Yale col
lege. Two Dwights have filled the chair
before him, the grandfather and another
relative of the present incumbent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
AMERICAN WOMEN ABROAD.
Their Manners on the COntinent-H0W the Ac-
ton of q Few DiScredit All

Their Manners on the COntinent-HOW the Ac-
ton of a Few Discredit All
Mr.. Sherwood writes from Aix-Les-
Bains to the Boston Traveller the follow
ing about American women abroad:
At foreign watering place lately din
ingrOom was furnished with small tables,
at which men sat alone, dining. There
came into this room the very pretty
American woman whom we will call Lady
baskerville, with her hands in her pockets.
She walked first to one, then to another of
these tables, sitting down to each to talk
to the men with whom she was acquaint
ed.
'How very American" said an English
lady who remarked it.
NO." said an American lady present,
that is treason to the American flag. You
would not see that thing done at any
American watering place."
''Yet that sort of boldness 1--WE call it
dash) has made the fortune of your young
country women with the Prince of Wales, .
said the English woman.
every we'll, then,' said the American;
Treason doth never prosper; what's the
reason? Why if it prosper, none dare
| call it treason"
They call it dash, do they? Let me
hope that some of our young country wo-
men will
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
CONTINUE TO FAIL TO SUCCEED"

1t is probable that the very self-consci-
BUSINESS of the desire to be talked about,
even if one is abused, is inherent in some
natures, 1t was that disease which made
Gulteau shoot Garfield, and which gave
US the spectacle of his horrible conceit
during his trial. 1t would seem as if GER
tain American beauties were filling HON.
bOurg, Baden, Cannes, Paris, London, and
Irouvllle with stories, were bitten by this
hopeless mad dog, whom no Pasteur car
Yacclnate away. The virus is in tbs
blood; they must be notorious or nothing
Many are the examples to the contrary
Certain young American princesses at
Rome are models of good conduct. Many
quiet, amiable, welI-bred American wives
of English noblemen are blushing for the
vulgarity of their compatriots. Many a
wife of an American Minister is shudder-
ing as she sees the rouged, vulgar, and
loud American whom she is expected to
receive "and call her cousin" and of
whom she hears the constant reproach
whispered behind fan, "Oh, she is so
American you knowr'
This quiet lady from Vermont or
Massachusetts, who may be representing
America, longs to say; ooh! no, she is
my America than any other country"
and yet she has to learn as we all do VIII o
travel, that there is a development Cd the
continent of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
AMERICAN ECCENTRITY.

in certain women which we never see at
home. And it is worth asking why. In
the first place, ignorance of convention
atty is the first and final cause of many
of the sins. A woman comes from some
circle which is not considered the best in
America; by her beauty and good clothes
she attracts attention at foreign water
lag place; she soon finds that the more
she is unlike other people the more men
notice her. She accordingly makes a
rare show of herself, gaining false
position, which lasts her perhaps two
seasons; or, if she is very lucky and has
money, it perhaps buys her an impecun-
ious noble and title. She then quar-
rels with the gentleman thus landed, and
then pursues the career of titled adven-
turess, which some women have render
ed very conspicuous and somewhat profit
table to themselves. But although every
city teens with adventuresses, the Amer
lean adventures does something which
shocks European ideas at every turn,
and her whole country has to suffer for
1T. The best and the most delicate, the
most peaceful and refined American
woman is classed in a certain general
sense with these women who are traitors
to the flag.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-08-12
The Largest Assortment of the Best and Most Dura-
able Machinery in the Northwest

which sell merits, all Machines
the latest improvements and best
nothing but Machines manufactured in 1S86no Machines
from former and be the latest
fall line of Repairs for all Machines represented by
complete and felt confident
ability please and satisfy the farmers than and it
benefit every his Machines reliable firm where he
can be sure of getting Repairs hereafter.
The following is a list Of stock:
Champion Light Binder, 5 and foot
Champion Light Reaper. Champion Single Reaper No l.
Champion Combined Reaper No f.
Champion New Mower. Champion Light Mower
Osborne Steel France Light Binder, and cut.
Osborne Reaper NO. s. Osborne Mowers No. 4 and s.
Johnston Folding Harvester and Binder, and
Johnston Reapers and Mowers No g. and g.
Minnesota Chief Sepaators and Horse Powers.
Minnesota Saltwater Engines, Traction and Portable.
Minnesota Giant Engines, Traction and Portable
Gaa Scott u Go. Peerless Sepaaors and Horse
Gaar, Scott & Co. Engines, Portable and Traction
Gaar Scott q Co. Glover IIuer g. S. q Co. Saw Mills
trick & Co. Vibrator Separator and Horse Powers
Prick Co. Engines, Portable and Traction F. & Co Saw Mills
NJ u D. Rumey Separator and Horse Power.
f. ~ j. Rumey Engines, Portable and Traction
Monitor Force Feed Seeders Brdsal Glover Iulers
Veteran SelfDump Hay Rake, Corn Planters
Chetan selfDump Hay Rake. Advance Hay Tedders
Chiettain Hay Tedders. Riding and WALKING Cnltvato,O
Lana Rollers flaster Sewers Ilarows. Feed Cutters
ffench burr otoie Feed Mills Cahoon Broad Cast Sceders.
Red Jacket Pows Steel and Combined.
- day Forks, Double and Single Harpoon
Hay Carriers all kinds Puley all sizes Binding Irvine the best
and last but not least, the celebrated Chambern
We also keep the very best Lubricating Oil.
We would advise every farmer give his any Machine
before'he has been here and examined ours stock
Our office where
kept exhibition Franklin South Side east of the
Williams House NAV 6
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-08-12
LOW RATE EXCURSION.

The MILWAUKEE, LAKE SHORE & IVES
TERN and NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROADS
have arranged for Low Rate Harvest
excursion, Aug. 18th and 18th, from the
principal stations on the line of the NJ,
L. S. & w. Ry., to Dickinson North
Dakota, and return, an important town
on the Northern Pacific Railroad, situat.
ed west of the Missouri river, 624 miles
vest of Ashland. The exceptionally
low rates offered furnish an excellent
opportunity for farmers, and stock rails.
ers to visit aud examine the productive
agricultural and grazing districts OF
North Dakota, and take up land in a
section eminently adapted to diversified
farming and stock raising. The excur-
sion will pass through the important
lake ports, Ashland, Superior and Du.
luth, the timber belt and Lake Park
Region of Minnesota and the fourshing
towns on the Northern Pacific Railroad,
to Dickinson, situated west of the Mis-
souri, River, North Dakota.
Tickets are good for 40 days from date
with stop over privileges on the North
ern Pacific r. r., and must be purchased
Aug. II and Is. For rates from
various stations on the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore Western Ry., inquire of ticket
agents; and for particulars see bills
advertising the excursion.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-08-12
DIED.

At his home in Cato this Co., July
Goth, 1856, Abandon r. Classon aged 50
years 2 months and IA days, having been
born in Vermont May II, 1904. De-
ceased was an old resident of Wis, hav-
ing settled at Cato in Oct. 1858. An
aged wife and eight children survive him,
three sons and five daughters namely,
Mrs. L. P. Nichols and Mrs. j. ".
Whitcomb of this county, Mrs. G. W.
Mccartney of Oconto, Mrs. W. II. Burn
side of Stiles and Mrs. l.. B. Straw of
Ingalls,, Mich. His soaS are J. III. now
i'll Dakota, j. K. of Marinette, A. II. Jr.
(LolD of Cato. All of his children with
the exception of his son Josiah, had the
mournful pleasure of visiting him during
his sickness, and being present at the
last sad rites of burial. A large attend
ance OF Borrowing friends and neighbors
was at his funeral rendering their sym
pathy to the sorrowing family who with
bruised hearts were bidding their life
long friend farewell until they too ''shall
join the mighty throng which crowd the
dusky realms of death"
The funeral service was conducted in
the Presbyterian church by Rev. J.
Wills of Manitowoc. The religious
views of the deceased has tended toward
universalism but previous to his death
he expressed his faith in Christ, stating
that he hoped for salvation alone in the
inertia of his atonement, according to the
requirements of the gospel. ~
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-08-12
PERSONALS.

p. LONG of Chicago spent few day.
In the city visiting friends.
GEORGE b. BYRON, ESQ.,, of Kewaunet
was in the city on Tuesday.
Col. BIRD of Jefferson is in the city,
called here by the encampment.
Mrs. Ed BLAKE of Port Washington
is in the city visiting Mrs. Rankin.
Rev. Mr.. BREDEsEN of Stoughton is
in the city the guest of Mr.. o. Torrison.
Mn. JAMES PHIPPs of Saltwater, Mimi,
spent couple of days in the city last
week.
RENHARDT RAHR left on Saturday
evening for visit to Philadelphia and
New York.
JOHN MCMULLEN, ESQ.,, of Chiffon is
In the city on business, pleasure and it
may be politics.
ALBERT SMITH of Cadillac, Mich, is
spending few weeks in the city arrang-
ing his fathers affairs.
Miss NICHOLSON and her two brothers
and the Misses johnson of Chicago are
visiting at Mr.. o. Torrison's.
CAPTAIN CHR1sTIANsFN of the Rube
Richards spent short time in the city
while his vessel was being unloaded in
Milwaukee.
j. S. Villas came over from Kaukauna
on Saturday and bought G. A. r. suit
and now he is passing himself off as an
"old sojer."
Miss ALICE EMERY came home from
Milwaukee Tuesday to be present at the
first meeting of the alumni of the north
side school,
NICK DIDRICKs of this city went to
Chicago to look over the type foundry of
Barnhardt Bros. & Spindler. He has
been working for the firm here for some
time.
Hon. HENRY MARKHAM, member of
Congress from California, arrived in the
city from Washington on Monday and
with his family is stopping at Mrs.
Enery's.