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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-08
Objects to Being a Princess.
st James Gazette.

The Berlin Opera is suffering, like
many other old world institutions and IN
terests, from the effects of American com
petition. It is now mourning the loss of
one of its brightest ornaments, Fraulein
Lehman, who lately obtained leave to
accept short engagement in the United
States, and has been induced to stay there.
She has discovered, she writes to a friend
in Berlin, that 'the laurel wreaths have
leaves of gold" in that part of the world,
though to do her justice, that is not her
reason for electing to settle there. She
has never had fair play, she says, in Berlin.
During the fifteen years Of her connection
with the opera she has never it appears
been cast for any other roles than those
Of "princesses," and this, oddly enough
she seems to resent as an indignity. Pos
slbly she has had a surfeit of scenic state
We are told sometimes that the lot OF 2
real princess is by no means SO enVlaole
as one might be tempted to imagine, ana
the remark apparently holds good OF their
stage representatives also. NO doubt
Miss Lehman means to contract herselt
out of these assumptions by her transat
lantic engagements. The home of he
adoption is one of the most democratIs
countries in the world but they have not
vet gone the length of abolishing royalt.
on the stage there.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-08
A Surprising Novel.
Memphis Avalanche.

We have received "Christie's Choice
by EIlery Sinclair. The new novel opens
with gore, maiden's gore. 1t Is SAN
culinary opening. and yet it is not a blood
and thunder novel. 1t ought to be, per-
haps, that story beginning with gore
in this sanguinary manner should end in
lurid, sulphurious flames; universal dis
cord and hurly-burly and slaughterous
thoughts worked out into murderous
deeds. It opens as follows:
"The night was warm and sultry. Up
on the trees outside her window, Chr1sta-
bel could see that the leaves hung droop-
and ifeless, unstirred by the slightest
breath of air. Her room was resonant
with the songs of myriad mosquitoes.
These were pitched inthe minor key,
touchingly plaintive, but experience had
taught her the meaning of the siren
strains Fothing could quench their
bloodthirstiness. Having once tasted
the elixer of life they cried angrily for
more Tooth and nail they fell upon her
thrusting their lance-like tongues into
the delicate flesh and drawing forth in
tiny streamlets the precious fluid with
which her fresh young veins we're filled"
These extracts are from the sanguine-
Gus opening The book contains 925
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-08
A Noted Dynamite Bomb Maker Dying II

CINCINNATI, July 3.-Wm. Hanes, wide
ly known throughout the country as the
inventor and manufacturer of dynamite
bombs, is dying at his home in Coving-
ton, Ky. 1t is said he has $4,000
worth of bombs hidden on the banks
of the Mississippi between Vicksburg
and Memphis. He has furnished them to
several foreign governments, and was ne
gotiating with Greece during the recent
war excitement there. Lately he saw
Hon. J. G. Carlisle, who informed him he
had about succeeded in getting the gov
eminent to purchase his patent for $780,
900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-08

the letter, unopened, into the waste-paper
basket.
The next letter was from Bennydeck, writ
ten in the kindest terms, but containing no
allusion to any contemplated change in his
life. He would not be able Che wrote to
leave Sydenham for a day or two. No ex-
PLANTATION of the cause of this delay followed
But it might, perhaps, be excusable to infer
that the marriage had not yet been decided
on, and that the captains proposals were
still waiting for GATHERINGS reply.
Randall put the letter in his pocket and
went at once to Sydney's lodgings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-08
His Education Nearly Finished.

Mrs. Grundy-So your son is being ed
ucated in England? Dear me! how pop
ular he will be in society when he returns
Mrs. Toady-Yes, the dear boy. I told
him not to come back until he was perfect
in the English accent.
''And he is by this time, surely?"
ssNot quite; he writes that his pronHn-
citation is correct, Init he hasn't got the
catarrh yet"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-08

Alexander III. of Russia has not turned
out the popular monarch that might have
been exwected from the advantageous cir
cumstances under which he assembled the
throne. He has proved to be too con-
scientious, too much given to examining
all the petty details of every question, so
that he cannot take broad views of things
His love of honesty has caused him to
dismiss from posts about his person all
the able but dishonest men who under
stand affairs and to substitute people who
will not prey upon the exchequer, but
who are at the same time, unfortunately,
incapable. He is more intellectual and
better informed then he is generallg Civ
en- credit for being; his Judgement is
sound and his patriotism sincere, and
when it is necessary for the honor of
Russia to go to war, he will do it, but ne
viii choose his moment. He is an ex-
celent husband and father, and amiable
in private life, though given to outbreaks
of impulse and brusqueness from which
the Empress and those about him suffer
One day he will be recognized as a SEN
sible sovereign, not devoid of capacity,
as his enemies claim, though not perhaps
as skillful one, since his conscience
stands in the way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-08
CHAT XII.

For moment the two men looked at each
other without speaking. Herbert's wonder
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-08
The Government Crop Report.
Milling World

The crop report of the Department of
Agriculture makes the area of spring
wheat nearly the same as last year, about
100000 acres. There is an increased
acreage of one-sixth of last years breadth
in Dakota, decrease in Nebraska and
small reduction in Minnesota and Wis
cons1n. In the minor spring wheat dis
trlcts small advance. The extension of
area In Dakota is due mainly to settle
ment and the necessity of ready money
for improvements, and somewhat to last
years unsatisfactory flax product in
Southern Dakota. The effect of low
prices of wheat has been counteracted by
the superior rate of yield of recent years.
The condition of spring wheat averages
$50 against 81 in June of last year; Wis
consin 81, Minnesota 90, Iowa 100,
Nebraska 81, Dakota 90, Washington
100.
Winter wheat is not quite so promising
as on the first of May. A slight decline
In condition is reported in the west and
the low condition of the southern crops
is more reduced. Yet the average is
reduced only two pOints-from 94.9 to
92.7. 1t is still from average to high in
the great wheat-producing states. In
New York it is not tilIering as in years of
in Maryland and Virginia, except on
waste lands. In the south it has been
affected with rust. There has been in
jury from drouth in Texas, rain and floods
in Ohio and hailstorms in Missouri. The
prospect is good for a small fraction
above II bushels per acre. Rye has also
declined from general average of 95.7
to 94.4 during the last month. The barley
average has been increased per cent.
and the condition averages 100. Last
year in June it was SO.
The tendency to increase the area of
cotton has been checked in the Eastern
States of the cotton belt Returns show
a slight reduction in South Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama. The more West
ern States, in which settlement and farm
extension have been active, exhibit some
increase, mainly in Texas. The net in
crease is about 100000 acres, an advance
of 158 per cent. The record stands
Virginia 80, North Carolina 100, South
Carolina 80, Georgia SO, Florida 1O3
Alabama SO, Mississippi 1O2, Louisiana
102, Texas 107, Arkansas 1O2, Tennessee
101. The condition of the crop is lower
than in 1885, averaging 88.S against 80
last year.
The large acreage of oats in 1885 has
not been extensively increased. 1t has
been slightly reduced in Kentucky and
Ohio where the area was abnormal last
year. The increase will approach half
million acres. The condition averages
nearly 90, against 81 in 1885 and 80 in
1884. 1t is highest east of the Alleghanies,
and little below full condition in the
South and West.
The Irish standard., 1886-06-26
BEAcoNsr1ELD,s LETTERS.
Impressions of Himself and His Col
tempOraries.

Impressions of Himself and His Con
| temPoraries.
The following extracts from letters
written by Mr.. Disraei to his sister in the
| years 1S32-1S53 are from the volume
edited by Ralph Disraeli.
DECEMBER 8, 1871 made my maiden
speech last night rising very late after
O'Connell, but at the request of my pa rty
and the full sanction of Sir Robert Peel
AS wish to give you an exact idea ol
debut was q failure, SO far. that could
moi succeed in gaining an opportunity OF
saying what l intended; but the failure
was not occasioned by my breaking down
or any incompetency on my part, but from
the physical powers Of my adversaries:
can give you no idea how bitter, how
like my first debut at Aylesbury, and per.
OF ultimate triumph in the same
daunted pluck and unrufHed temper,
made occasionally good isolated hits when
there was silence and with spirit when
found formal display was Intellectual.
My party backed me well, and no one with
itOlE LSd1 f1lO hl!lullCSS llltI ccl. CllGSI-
ing me repeatedly. which is not his Gus
tom. The uproar was all organized by
The RAIDS and the repealers. They formed
compact body near the bar OF the house
and seemed determined to set me down,
but that they did not do. / have given
you most impartial account stated, in
deed, against myself.
In the lobby at the division, Chandos,
-lo@ 1,S,
came up and congratulated me. replied
that thought that there was no cause for
congratulations, and muttered "failure." !"
':No such thing" said Chandos; s'you are
quite wrong. I have just seen Peel, and
said to him: Now tell me just what you
think of D. Peel replied: Some of my
party were disappointed and talk of fail
ure, say just the reverse. He did all
that he could do under the circumstances.
say anything but failure; he must make
his way.'"
july 3, 1891 dined at Greenwich
with the Duke of Buckingham on Sat
urday. A large party embarked at
Whitehall in q steamer, but went by
land with Lyndhurst. A sumputous ban
quet, and Brougham made nearly fifty
speeches full of comic humor and fierce
SlsLSlllIl& VI NulGS, uec1tttSu ~ Was iUlkOS-
si6le to turn them out OF power, to Chan
dos's blank despair, because they were
not in power to Chandos's chuckling re-
lief, Lyndhurst was also capital. 1
dined with him yesterday to meet
Webster, who is, I believe, consid-
cred very refined and spiritual Yankee,
but seemed to me complete Brother
Jonathan--a remarkable twang, as '.TY-
rannical" and all that; he also goes to the
leyEE. A fine brow, lofty, broad, and
beetled dcep-set eyes, and sw-arthy CON-
plexion. He is said to be their greatest
orator. Strangford WAS there, very airy
and sparkling: all the rest Americans and
principally relatives. A good story, and
true, Brougham asked Webster verbally
To dine with him. and sent him a card the
next day headed '.To remind" Webster
Immediately answered by another card
headed s'To acknowledge''-yery Anaeri-
can, don't you think?
The Irish standard., 1886-06-26

.sNo, I wouldn't I'd have stuck to
Blue Rock, and perhaps been postmaster
there yet on salary of SIS year. Now I
have a ranch worth $3.50, 600. I have knock,
ed about in the world. go to ST. Louis and
New Orleans every year, and am begin
ming to enjoy life. Come home with me
and see. l live only twenty miles from
here"
had to decline the invitation as was
going to leave next day.
.'You can tell the boys if you ike,' said
Jam at parting s'Some of those Blue
Rock fellows are as green yet as 1 ased to
be, and don't care what they may think
about it, And: Colonel, tell them that
me and the old woman are getting along
just splendid, and that my two sons and
two daughters are the finest lads and las
ses in Texas.''
AS rode off turned when came to
the first hill top and half q mile below in
the village street could see the ex-post-
master Of Blue Rock waving his sombrero
after me- Atlanta Constitution.
The Irish standard., 1886-06-26
IN TIME OF SLAVERY.
The Origin OF an Incident Found an
Many Plays.


DR.. James E. King was telling some OF
his early experiences in the South last
evening to some newspaper men, says the
Buffalo Courier. .'Early in the sos" he
said, 81 was in Memphis, Tenn, when a
fight took place between a banker and a
speculator who had been bidding against
each other at the slave block for beauti.
full slave girl-dazzling white and as
lovely as dream. yet negress and the
daughter OF a planter who had died in
testate and bankrupt. She was about Is
years OF age, and might have stood as a
model for the Greek slave. Her mistress
tried to save her, but her means gave
out, and she was crying because though
the girl was her husbands illiegitimate
child, she was her companion and friend.
While she was crying, the row arose be-
tween these two bidders. One had @
bowie-knife and the other small hatchet
which he had picked up. The wey they
cut and slashed was something awful.
The banker had the knife, and he cut the
face of his antagonist from the forehead
to the neck, ripping out his left eye, while
at the same moment his opponents
hatchet descended upon his own brain,
and he was laid out. This over, the
crowd allowed the bodies to be where
they fell, and turned back to the sale. A
St. Louis man took up the bidding from
where the widow left it, and raised hre
$500. He was understood to be the agent
of rich parsonage who had seen the girl
and given orders to have her secured at
any price. Her mistress appealed to her
friends in vain for money, when a Missis-
sippi steamer captain, who had known
her husband, came along and asked her
what was the trouble. Hearing the cause
of her distress, he lid $4,000 for the girl,
and pulling a pistol half q yard long,
dared the ST. Louis man to bid again on
peril of having his brain pan emptied.
The other at once wilted, and the mistress
was made intensely happy by the recov-
cry of the girl The incident has gone
into may q play continued the doctor,
sebut it's as true as gospel"
The Irish standard., 1886-06-26
Salisbury Steak.

The Salisbury steak is made by taking
the best slices of the ground" on the beef,
and chopping it with dull knives. The
object is not to cut, but rather pound the
meat. BY thus treating it, the pulp comes
to the top, and the tough, hbrous portion
remains below. This pulp is scraped off
and made into cakes, like sausage-cakes,
or into the shape like q good-sized steak
and gently broiled on a gridiron. 1t has
been found that meat gently cooked is
more digestible than raw. The fire must
be good, so that the meat may be rapidly
broiled--that is be cooked on the outside
and almost raw inside.
A little salt and pepper and small
amount Of butter added make q not at all
unpalatable dish, and one which contains
all the strength of the beef, with the
tough, indigestible portion entirely separ-.
ated. This diet is used exclusively in
chronic cases by physicians protesting to
treat according to the Salisbury method.
They use but few drugs, and what they
use are mainly tonics. The diet is used
not only in diseased digestion. but disease
OF liver, kidney, stomach, bowels, nerves,
ETC., and remarkable result are said to
have been obtained New York Medical
Times
The Irish standard., 1886-06-26
Azariah,. Courtship.

Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner tells the
following to the readers of Harper's
Mazag1ne:
for many year. The blushing maid had
become mature woman, with hint OF
crow's.feet and faded hair. Azariah, as
he was about to leave ner one evening,
sympathetically remarked. Sarah Ann,
/ bought lot in the graveyard to-day,
that we may lay our bones alongside of
each other at last.''
Sarah Ann insinuatingly rejoined,
..Azariah, can't we lay our bones alongside
of each other while we hve?'
The Irish standard., 1886-06-26
Curling.

This ancient and popular Scottish sport
has suffered very little by it's Transports
ton from the mother country. The length
of the rink is forty-two yards, and the tees,
or bull's-eyes, if they may be SO termed,
thirty-eight yards apart. Each stone, with
it's handle in the centre, must be circular,
and not weigh more than fifty OF less than
thirty pounds. TO enable each shot TO
count, the stone must rest within radius
of seven feet from the tee, but sometimes
the distances are slightly varied The skip,
or captain OF each side, has sole control Of
the play, but occasionally the players get
so excited that advice is given freely by all
interested. Such expressions as. CHOW,
Geordie, mon, gle it the oot turnl" "Eh,
but you're fine curlerl" when the stone
comes gliding up TO the tee, or, "Well
Clipped, mon; eh, but it's q beautiful
shotl" as u well-placed stone is knocked
out Of the circle by g. well-directed shot
from an adversary.
Then, as the match progresses, the
players with brooms are kept hard at work,
sweeping in front of the stone to make it
cover the required distance Then you
will hear, "Soop her up, Sandie l' ':Now,
Aleck, don't be idle. mon |" Help her
along, or she'll never fetch it," while one
would think each player had St. Vitus's
dance, as they prance along the rink,
sweeping for their dear lives. But it is
after the match is over, and both sides
mingle together in the clubhouse near
the ice, and discuss the mutton pies. bot
tied porter, or Scotch whiskey, with cheese
and crackers, that the jolly Scots are in
their element and one can thoroughly
understand why the love of the game,
from social point Of view, isso thoroughly
implanted in the hearts Of Scotia's sons.
It really is gathering of the clans.
The Irish standard., 1886-06-26
Tact.

The philosopher of Texas Siftings makes
mention OF diplomat who was besought
by two maiden ladies to guess which of
them was the older. The diplomat was
equal to the trying emergency, for he an
swered, '.Neither of you looks older than
the other. Each of you girls looks younger
than the other" This recalls another con-
summate feat of diplomacy performed by
French diplomat. At reception a
curious lady of certain age--who posi-
bly, had her line cut for a compliment
airiiy asked him to see how near he could
come to naming her age. 'sMadame," he
replied, "I cannot guess-but you don't
look it,"
The Irish standard., 1886-06-26
SEALED ORDERS.
BY HELEN CHAUNCEY.


Out she swung from her ,noorings.
And over the harhor bar,
AS the moon was slowly rising,
She faded from sight afar-
And we traced her cleaning canvas
By the twinkling Of tile stars.
None knew the port she sailed for.
Nor whittier her cruise would be;
Her future course was shrouded
In silence and mystery;
She was sailing beneath sealed orders"-
To be opened out at sea.
Some souls. cut off from mooring,
Go drifting into the night,
Darkness before and around them.
With scarce a glimmer of light;
They are acting beneath sealed orders''-
And sailing by faith. not sight.
Keeping the line of duty.
Through evil aud good report.
They shall ride the storms out safely,
Be the voyage long or short.
For the snip that carries Gods orders
Shall anchor at last in port.
The Irish standard., 1886-06-26
A Partisan Luxury.

Couples who happen to be caught in
Paris without suitable supply of wed.
ding guests have now the means to fill
their want in perfectly simple and bust
ness like manner An agency has been
started, according to the London Truth,
whose manager undertakes 'sto place at
the disposition of the bridegroom q choice
society of well-educated young men,
charming takers, elegant dancers, several
of whom are, besides, endowed with all
the necessary talents appertaining to q
really fine society"
The Irish standard., 1886-06-26
Anecdote. Of Able Be.ears,

In all address at the annual meeting OF
the New York Charity Organization So
ciety the other night, Howard Crosby said
that not long ago a genteel, but seedy look
ing man called On the Rev. DR.. Parkhurst
saying that he had been sent there by DR.
Crosby. The man wanted a pair OF
spectacles, saying that if he had them he
could go to work. DR.: Parkhurst+ wanted
to know why he had not asked DIR. Crosby
for them.
"WeD, the fact u.s." said the beggar, 81
have dined with DR.. Crosby every day for
two weeks, and i couldn't impose on him
any longer
DR. Parkhurst wrote to DR.. Crosby
about the man, and was told that the
story was untrue. A day later DR..
Crosby was surprised by visit from the
beggar. The beggar said:
~ am told you wrote to DR.. Parkhurst
that lied"
eyes" said DR.. Crosby, sI did.
ssWon't you send for the boy?" said the
beggar. The boy came. He had given
the beggar cold victuals every day for
two weeks at the area door.
DR.. Crosby commended the Charity
Organization Society for showing the
charitable where aims could be given to
those who were worthy and for seeing
that frauds were punished or at least
exposed.
Chauncey M. Depew said that he mad
had some experience with beggars. A
lawyer whom he had known as a. reput.
able man, and of whose downfall he had
not heard, came one day and with tears
asked for money to bury his dead wife.
The story effected Nh. Depew. and the
man got a very liberal SUI, Six months
later he came back, took out the same
handkerchief he had used before, wept the
same sort of tears, and told the same
story of dead wife. Mr.. Depew said,
dryly:
II helped to bury her six months ago."
The man dried his tears, and said, re-
proachfully:
s:After the years have known you I
wouldn't have expected this of you"
The Irish standard., 1886-06-26
A Delicate Question.

$50 your boy has left home, Mr..
Samson?''
ssYes, Mr.. Briggs"
cleft you for good?'
81 can't say, Mr.. Briggs, whether it was
good or for bad. He has been appointed
clerk in the Legislature"
The Irish standard., 1886-06-26
He Knew About the chickens.

sHave you any poached eegs?' asked
Jack Long Of the sable waiter.
II don't know, sab, wheder de eggs am
poached," responded the darkey; ''but de
chicken Isl The Rambler.
The Irish standard., 1886-06-26

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