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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
SQUIBS.

A section-boss on the Canadian branch
of the Grand Trunk railway affirms that
squirrels crossing at Petrolia absolutely
blocked the road and hand-car run into
them killing 81.
Miss Della Anderson, a handsome
young girl of Youngstown O.. recently
ran away with a strolling band of Indians
who were engaged in selling medicine in
that vicinity.
A town in which people go from street
to street in boat is growing up around
the shore of Lake Elsinore, Cal. The
most principal street of the town is
circular, and can be touched by boat al
any point.
The people of Bakerfeld, CAL, were so
well pleased with the recent adjournment
of the state legislature that they fired a
salute of 100 guns.
I'd Belgian pigeon race that took
place while ago the winning bird com
pleted SO miles at an average af 1,1S1
yards per minute.
An English syndicate is negotiating for
the purchase of $1,000 acres of land in
Tehama county, California, for grazing
purposes.
There are seventy-fve banking institu-
tions in New York city whose condition
is so encouraging that only two are below
par.
A Dickson county, Tennessee, farmer
recently killed an owl that measured
four feet nine inches from tip to tip to
wings.
The following is said to be new pal
indrome, recently discovered by The
Lowell (Mass.) Courier: "No, it is opposi-
ton.
@Fifteen thousand sealskins were IN
loaded from four sealing vessels that
recently arrived at Victoria, British Col
umbia.
A seven-foot black snake that had just
swallowed two large rabbits was killed
a few days ago on Anastatia Island Flor.
ida.
A steam laundry belonging to W. d
Wilson at Los Angeles, California
was destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss
$4,000.
Atlanta, Ga, prison authorities are
thinking of using the whip on Jail birds
who refuse to work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
A Merited Rebuke.
Boston Courier.

The late Prof. MOrren related once in
our hearing a rebuke which he gave TO a
high-string Beacon Hill damsel, which is
worth repeating for the moral it carries.
The young lady was one of his pupils,
and made herself particularly obnoxious
by her haunty and even insolent bearing.
displaying her contempt for all about her
so markedly that it became at last I'M
bearable.
'I knew her mother in France said
the professor, whose broken English there
is no need of producing here, ''and she
was a most exquisitely modest and I'M
assuming woman. But the daughter was
so insolent that she had to have lesson;
so [ said to her: will you be so good as
to remain after the lesson? have some
thing to tell you She says, and in her
haughtiest manner she says: You wish to
speak to me?"
eyes. You are Miss So-and-So?"
eyes"
"And you live at No.-Bacon street?"
yes"
''And your mother is the lovely and
sweet Mrs. So-and-So I have met in
France?"
"Weu?"
"Oh," said, you are sure there is no
mistaken
''No mistake! What do you mean?'
II am exceedingly surprised that you
come of such a family and so well born"
''Sir!"
81 am much surprised. I have been
sure you come of new rich family, some
parvenu-"
"Sir!"
s'You think, madamoiselle," I said
softening my manner, that haughtiness is
aristOcratic' Now you will pardon an old
man if I remind you that the contrary is
true. / have known your mother SO long
that [ dare to be frank with you. You
have been very insolent in the class.
"Insolent, mousieur?"
eyes mademOiselle. You have mistak-
en- this for a mark of arostocracy. So
does the daughter of the Jew money
lender. You had much better copy your
mother, your gentle lady mother.
''And 1 made her my best bow and left
her to think about it. And she was q
good girl afterward very good girl
It is a pity this wise and shrewdly
worded reproof could not sink into the
hearts of many a.young girl to-day who
foolishly fancies she is asserting TIE lofti-
ness of her social position by an inso-
lence which not only proves that she is
not sufficiently sure of her standing to
good many generations to set one socially
so high that one does not condescend to
any human being.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
His BrOthdr Got the job,
St James GaZZette

A story is told of we'll known London
parish which throws some light on the
ease with which ritualistic prosecutions
are got up. In this particular parish the
church is now being restored, and one of
the inhabitants is gentleman who has
a near relative in business as gas fit
ter. In conversation on the subject with
a customer whom he knew well, the par
ishoner expressed hope that his broth
er Qet US say it was a prother) would be
employed to do the gas-fttings for the
chur h ''And, indeed, sir" added he,
''if he does not, l shall certainly raise
the cry of No popery.' Pausing for
awhile with somewhat perplexed ex-
preston of countenance, he proceeded
in a confidential tone to request the as
sistance of his customer in carrying out
this ingenious maneuvCr. "The worst of
it is, you see sir, that don't know the
difference between what is popish and
what isn't, and thought perhaps you
might be kind enough to tell me some
thing about it; are the ten command
ments popish?" He was told that they
were not; and, on further complaining of
the difficulty of proving such charge,
was advised to stand upon tendencies"
and without committing himself to any
definite statement to hint at the exist
ence of a papistical tendency in any city
that was intrOduced-ei spargere'vOces
in vulgum ambiguas. What was the
effect of this excellent counsel we are
not aware; but it is reported that the
gentlemen's brother is to have the gas
fittings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
What TO Teach Our DAUGHTERS.

At social gathering some one propos-
ed this question:
'What shall teach my daughter?"
The following replies were handed in:
Teach her that 100 cents make dol
lar.
Teach her how to arrange the parlor
and the library.
Teach her to say mo- and mean it. or
Yes" and stick to it.
Teach her to wear a calico dress and to
wear it like queen.
Teach her how to sew on buttons, darn
stockings and mend gloves.
Teach her how to dress for health and
comfort as well as for appearance.
Teach her to cultivate flowers and keep
the kitchen garden.
Teach her to make the neatest room in
the house.
Teach her to have nothing to do with in
temperate or dissolute young men.
Teach her that tight lacing is uncomely
as well as injurious to health.
Teach her TO regard the morals and
habits, ard not money. in selecting her
associates.
Teach her to observe the old rule: "A
place for everything, and everything in
its place.
Teach her that music, drawing and
painting are real accomplishments in
the home, and are not to be neglected If
there is the time and the money for their
use.
Teach her the important truism:
That the more she lives within her in
come the more she will save, and the far
Their she will get away from the poor
house.
Teach her that good, steady church
going mechanic, farmer, clerk or teach
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
THE CHESTNUT BELL.
A Boston Writer Who Thinks it is Time to Cal
1t In.

A Boston Writer Who Thinks it is Time to Call
1t H.
Boston Globe.
1t is pity that when Edgar Allan Poe
wrote his poem on "The Bells" he could
not have had prophetic eye to his tin
tinnabulating nuisance of the period. If
he had we should possibly have had a
stanza something like this:
Hear the noisy chestnut bell
Nickel bells!
What world of merry chat their idiocy dispels!
AT the table, on the street,
Nhere'er we chance to meet.
How they fill our souls with terror
With their beating.
Lest we tall into the error
OF repeating,
Aud one and all keep mum,
Sadly dumb.
For fear that some cheap bum
Will ring us down.
It is, indeed, high time that the chest
mt bell should be itself "rung in" At
present it is the blight of conversation,
the destroyer of good cOmpanionship,
and first class social nuisance. What
excuse is there for it, anyway? Solomon
found out that there was no new thing
under the sun, and until now mankind
have been wisely contented to see and
hear and enjoy good thing more than
once.
Take away from the world all its old
music, paintings, art works and literature,
and the logic of the chestnut bell would,
we suppose, be satisfied. But what an
empty world it would be to be sure?
From our cradles to our graves our path
of life is made pleasant for US by chest
nuts. The lull6bies which soothed the in
fants of ten centuries ago are, still being
sung to the babies of to-day. The songs
of our great grandfathers are among the
sweetest we know. The best laws we have,
and all the means of justice afforded by
our courts, come down to US with modifi-
cations from the early ages of eiviliza-
ton. Trial by jury Is thousand years
old and habeas corpus, which means per-
sonal liberty, has been a chestnut for
over two centuries. All the classics, an
clent and modern, from Virgil to Goethe
inclusive, are chestnuts. The best plays
and operas are equally fit subject for the
''rInging-in" imbecility of the hour.
Shakespeare and Sheridan, Beethoven and
Belllnl are alike under the ban the new
bell. And the authors Of whom We have
been IN the habit Of saying that they
wrote for no one age but for all time
Scott, Rabelals, Dickens, Hugo, and the
rest-must all be consigned to the limbo
of forgotten greatness, if the chestnut
theory is to stand.
The whole idea Is absurd, and in its cur
rent application Is an offensive fad. A
group of half dozen gentlemen are en-
Toying themselves at the dinner table or
at the club parlor. One of them begins
a good story by the way of illustrating a
point in the conversation. Four out of
five of the listeners have most likely not
heard of the story, but the fifth has.
Forthwith he must strike his chestnut
gong, and the pleasant relation, which
would have pleased all the others, is cut
short. This sort of thing is unsufferable.
The man who thus lays in wait to inter
rupt the feast of reason and the flow of
soul" is reducing rudeness to fine art
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
A Neat Evasion.
Boston Budget.

Few of the last mentioned actresses
give the date of their birth correctly, and,
perhaps, as a matter of business, this
should not be condemned too harshly,
though we all know that the truth should
be told at oil times. Therefore, we must
not be too severe on the professional
player who was introduced to the Saun-
terer not long since. Il remember You
when you were a little girl he said,
when your father and mother were play
ing at the oId-Theater. | have often
trotted you. as baby Mary, upon my
knee" ''Oh, I am not that Mary at all, -
WINS the quick reply of the actress; ''that
Mary died years ago. am much younger
daughter of the same name"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
Knew What She Was Doing.
Merchant Traveller.

CLARA, don't think much Of that young
Slobkins who keeps coming around here,
said an old man to his daughter.
Don't you pa?"
mo 1 don't. Why he smokes cigarettes
and drinks soda water"
Eyes. know it, papa"
'And he wears collars that come up to
his ears, and carries a number seventeen
cane, and spends his evenings at the club.
Eyes, so I understand. By the way, ]
have promised Mr.. Slobkins that I would
marry him this fall"
''W-h-a-a-at?"
eyes, papa, have always had my mind
made up that I would never be ruled by
any man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30
The influence of Wealth.

"Beg pardon, SIR" said Chicago hotel
clerk, as he took very small gripsack
handed him by a belated traveller who
had come in at 1850 P. NJ, and asked for
a room, ''but our rules require cash in ad-
vance from guests with little or no bag
gage. Boy. show the gentleman up to
room 3S7, sixth floor. Dollar and a half
please.
Q"Sir.' said the guest, Il ana an Iowa
druggist in prohibition town.
"a thousand pardons," exclaimed the
clerk. "Boy, take the gentleman to room
81, first floor. Never mind the cash sir
never mind"
The latest word for the Partisan swell is
cOpenchic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30

er without cent is worth more than
forty loafers or non-producers in broad
cloth.
Teach her to embrace every opportun-
ity for reading, and to select such books
as will give her the most useful and prac-
tical informrtion in order to make the
best progress in earlier as we'll as later
home and school life
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30

Prudence and good breeding are IN all
stations necessary; and most young men
suffer for the want of them.
The three essentials to human happl-
ness, are something to do, something to
love, and something to hope for.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-30

s@For notices in reference to Special Excur-
sions changes of time, and other items of inter-
est in connection with the CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE
* ST. PAUL RAILWAY, please refer to the local
columns of this paper.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-18
Advice to Mothers.

Are you disturbed at night and
broken Of your rest by sick child suf-
fering and crying with pain of cutting
teeth? If so, send at once and get a
bottle of Mrs. WINsLow's SOOTHING
SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEETHING. Its
value is incalculable. 1t win relieve
the poor little sufferer Immediately.
Depend upon it, mothers, there is no
mistake about it. 1t cures dysentery
and diarrhna, regulates the stomach
and bowels, cures wind collie, softens
the gums, reduces inflammation, and
gives tone and energy to the whole
system. Mrs. WINsLow's SOOTHING
SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEETHING is pleas
ant to the taste. and is the prescription
of one of the oldest and best female
nurses and physicians in the United
States, and is for sale by all druggists
throughout the world. Price rs cents
n bottle. Jan. 1857.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-18

Peterson's Magazine for April
opens with very beautiful steel en-
craving, viz: trbe Little Pilferer,n
after i picture by the celebrated
German artist, Meyer Ven Bremen.
Then comes 4 double size colored
fashion plate, which all the ladies'
will rave over; two celorea patterns;
and some fifty wood cuts Of fashions,
embroisler;es, etc. The stories, all
original, are even better than usual.
ION The Roxbuiy Sands" is one OF
great power. "Sister Dorothy" by
Edgar Fawcett, is society novelet
Of very high merit. 1.-THE Burglar
Alarm" BY Frank Lee Benedict, IL
intensely funny. "The Millionaire's
Daughter" by Mrs. Ann s. Steph-
ems, grows IN interest and force with
every number. Altogether, we 40
not sec how any lady can do without
peterson" The terms are but two
dollars wear: and now is good
time to subscribe. Address Charles
j. Peterson, BOG Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-18
MORTGAGE SALE.

Notice is hereby given that will on the 10th
day Of April, 1885, sell at public sale to tho
highest bidder, between the hours prescribed
by law for judicial sales, at the courthouse
door In Pope county, Ark, for cash In hand ,
the following described lots, peices or parcels
Of land, together with the improvements sisu-
ated thereon, to-wit: lots Nos and IN block
ID In West Dover, in Pope CO.. Ark. Said sale
TO be made under and by virtue OF y mortgage
with power OF sale, executed and delivered TO
the undersigned by J. II. Kenney on the 18th
certain note given by the SAID j. X. Kinney to
the undersigned for the sum OF $i3S25, said
note dated Feb. 20, 1885, and bearing interest
date until paid, and in the payment Of which
said note and interest default has been made.
The mortgage above mentioned having been
given subject to another mortgage given by
said j. II. Kinney on the same property herein
described to Harriet White ON the f4th day OF
July, 1884. X. 3. HOGINS, Mortgage.
Dover, Ark, March Sth, 1886.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-18
.,oMMIssIoNER,s SALE.

Notice Is hereby given that I, as Comm'r APP
pointed by the circuit court OF Pope Co., ARK,
In chancery will at the courthouse door in the
town OF Dover, In said Pope Co., during the
the 10Th dav OF April, 1856, proceed to sell at
public auction TO the highest bidder, on cred
Ii of three months, the following described
lands, to- wit: q Onc-rhird undiv ided interest
in the North Half OF North West Quarter and
south west Quarter az North West Quarter or
section Two, 100 acres; also in part OF North
EAST Quarter OF section Three, "a acres; also
i'm the south East Quarter OF said Section
Three 100 ncres.--in all 2.H acres, all in town
ship s north OF range 20 west, IN Pope county,
T Young and sold 10y virtue OF n decree OF
said court rendered nc its November term 1884,
in the case OF q. u. Howell and II. Y. White.
plaintiffs VIZ. 4, $. and 81. y, Young, defend.
ants. NOTES With approved security required
OF purchaser, AMI iien retained 70 secure pur-
chase n,onay J. Il. YOUNG,
Feb. "a 1886. Commissioner,
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-18
LOCAL LINES. =
THE NEw-rAsHIoNKp GIRL.

THE NEw-FAsHIoNED GIRL.
She'd great and varied knowledge,
picked up at female college, of
ouadratics, hydrostatics and pneu-
MATES very vast.
She was stuffed with erudition as you
stuff leather cushion, all the oligies
of the colleges and the knowledges
Of the past.
~khe had studied the old lexicons of
Peruvians and Mexicans, their theolo-
gy and geology DER and DER.
She knew all the forms and features Of
the prehistoric creatures--ichthyo
aurus, plesiosaurus, megalosaurus
and many more.
She'd describe the ancient Tuscans,
and the Basques and the Etruscans,
their eriddles and their kettles, and
the victims that they gnawed.
She'd discuss, the learned charmer,
the theology Of Barmab. and the
scandals of the Vandals, and the
sandals that they trod.
She knew all the mighty giants and
the master minds of science, all the
learning that was turning in the
apurning mind of man.
But she couldn't prepare dinner for a
gaunt and hungry sinner, or get up a
decent supper for her poor voracious
papa, for she never was constructed
Gu the old domestic plan.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-18
Personal Mention.

Mr.. Joe jacobson returned Friday
from Perryville.
Lewis Smith spent Sunday with
friends in Atkins.
Col. 4. H. Elgin returned last week
from Van Buren,.
Mrs. r. B. Petts and Miss Ella is
visiting Atkins friends.
Mrs. Genie Evans, of Dover, IL
visiting Mrs. NJ. c. Bonds.
Judge l.. w. Davis was at Little
Rock on business last week.
Rev. w. d. Matthews. OF Dardan-
ellie, was In town this week..
Mrs. Ed Shinn and little child, of
Dardanelle, were in town Monday.
--Messrs. John Erwin and Frank
Bell were at london on business last
Saturday.
Mrs. DR.. Gardner of Potts Station,
left last eek for visit to her old home
and relatives In Tenn.
Mr.. j. r Helmick of West Virgin.
Ia has arrived with his family, and will
perhaps locate in this county.
-~MTs DuU ~. TT III suS yOuHS ttvhc'
agent ut Little Rock, was pleasant
visitor in town last Saturday and Sun.
day.
DIR. j. d. Burns, the popular youns
dcntist of Dardanelle, passed through
town last week on professional triT
TO Dover.
Mr.. J. j. Warren, the very agree.
BILE editor of the Van Buren, Graphic,
was DEMocRAr caller last Monday
afternoon.
Hon. A. 8. McKennon was at the
county seat Monday, qualifying as adj
m'nist ator or the estate Of w. G. How.
ard, deceased.
Mr.. w. C. Renfrow and family
were down on visit to their many
friends last week. They returned te
Dover Monday.
--Mlss Sudie Woodland who has beer
visiting Mrs. Jno. A. Erwin and other
relatives ut this place, has returned e
her home 10 Yell county.
The following friends have honor
ed the DKMnCRAr sanctum with calls
r.. M. Langford, T.. X. and Hue Bonds
Rev. j. s. Harris, w. e. Renfrow, J
J. Martin, H. N. G. Bowden, ;. D. a
Cline.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-18
CORRESPONDENCE
Corre.poudencs Of the pemocrst.


DOVER, March I5.-H. S. Carter
and DR.. j. d. Burns, Dardanelle, H..
F. Roberts, Little Rock. and DR.. Cul
len, Morriiton, visited our town last
week. We failed to note the visit
of Mr.. Munday, IN. our last, but he
was here and we were glad to shake
him by the hand after an absence Of
about ten years Quarterly confer
ence Of the M. +. church, Rev. Mr..
Matthews presiding, convened here
on last Saturday and Sunday 1t
was not "Pupps"--perish the thought
lit was "puffs." | have shot gnn
charged with Senator Coke's speech
on the silver bill and +. r. McKen-
mons "Anti. congressional compact"
and hereby invite the printer who
said "pupps" to come up and be muir
dered. / want blood or satisfaction,
but have decided preference for
satisfaction The Amateur ORA
matte club Of Dover, contemplate
giving a series Of entertainments the
first OF April, for the benefit of the
Methodist parsonage. Success to
the undertaking 4. Bradley, Brad
ley II Frye. are preparing an Alb
stract OF Land Titles for Pope coun
ty. 1t Is matter OF wonder TO the
writer hereof that some one has not
done this kind OF work years ago.
The possibility that the County
Records might be DESTROYED by I've,
prompts them TO make private
record Dir. j. D. Burns, d. d. s.,
is here on professional business 4.
Jailer Barnard informs us that there
Are nine prisoners and one soon
confined in the county jail An.
drew White has black eye. The
he'd stead rose up and smote him
The sheriff and clerk are busy pre-
pairing for circuit court. Quite q
number Of suits have been commenc-
ed within the past few days, aud the
court promises to be busy one.
Am sorry to SIZE the death OF Hon,
Granville Wilcox, or Van Buren, an.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-18
-"Bro. j. Fl. Shinn is an indefatiQ

--"Bro. j. Fl. Shinn is an indefatiga-
Bile worker; he now gives us live
wide awake educational journal, which
breathes the spirit of the New Educa-
ton, and he shoul. receive the hearty
support of every teacher and friend Of
education in Arkansas. "-Searcy Col
lege journal.
We will furnish the Arkansas Teach
err and DEMOCRAT one year for $1.S0.
We hope to enroll every teacher In
Pope county upon this list. tt.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-03-18
OFFICE OF JAcoBs' PHARMACY,

ATLANTA, June I3, 1884. (


Six months ago we had no demand
for 3. 3. B., but now our lctaii de
mand is snch that we are forced TO
buy in two gross lots. We attribute
the rapid and enormous demand to
the comparative size and price of B.
B. B., (being large bottles for $l.00l
and It's positive merit. The facs ri
its containing Iodide of Potasn rem
ders it more valuable 90 a Blood
Remedy. 1t sells well Dad gives our
customers entire satisfaction. Our
sales have increased 500 per cent.
within a few moDahs.
JACOBS PHARMACY,
per Frtd B. Palmer, M. d.
We have been handling B. B. B.
only few moths, and take pleas
ure in saying it is superseding all
other Blood Remedies. 1t sells well,
gives our customers entire satisfac.
ton, and we cheerfu!iy recommend
it iE preference To any other Blood
Purifier. ASHER & MOORE,
Druggists. Atlanta, Ga.
March 80.