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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-14
A Paddock in Her Ear.
PHILADELPHIA Press.

Four girls got into a Thirteenth
street. car Thursday afternoon at the
corner of Chestnut street. They had
been doing some Christmas shopping
and had evidently been having very
good time. Their escort was a thin
young man, very tall, who took off
his glove when ne paid the fare, and
was continually lodging to keep his
tall hat from being dislocated by the
jolting car.
The four girls, once seated, began
to look about them for amusement
Pretty soon the shortest and stoutest,
sitting on the end of the row, display
ed broad grin, and calculated: HE,
he." Immediately ali the girls did
the same thing and then the four
heads went together and three Of the
girls whispered: "What is it 2" The
shortest and stoutest called attention
to maiden lady sitting on the oppo-
site side of the car, who without
doubt, had arrived at the years of dis
erection. In one ear she wore a small
gold paddock. It was this unostenta-
tious ornament that was throwing the
girls into cDnvulsions and gigling.
LuGsS were SOul0 Ol Lu5 uA4I SnObuSF-
ed comments on the unconscious
maiden lady's paddock:
Wonder whether her beau gave it
to here"
81 don't believe he did"
HE must have been afraid she'd
lose her ear"
"Her beau, indeed9 She never had
one"
eff she has he must have caught
her eavesdroping and tried to lock
up her hearing"
After each Of these remarks there
was violent litter.
Goodness mer' suddenly whisper
ed the shortest and stoutest excitedly,
she hasn't got any in the other ear"
'"That's all right" remarked the
escort, who by this time had discover
ed what was going on, ''the old girls
deaf in the other ear. She doesn't
need one there"
"Girard avenue' shouted the CON
ductor, and the four girls each gave a
final giggle and followed the escort
out
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-14

her erything her wild fancies call
ed for, until finally his little fortune
was swallowed up. Her wants or
demands grew, and to crafty them
he began to use the city's funds until
before he realized his position he had
embe zzled several hundred thousand
dollars. When he did come 10 his
senses he implored her to fly with
him, but she cody turned away and
sought new fields. The poor fellow
ran off to Mexico, taking enough
money to support himself for awhile.
He was captured by one of the rowing
bands near the border, who, after TAX
ing all his property and money, es-
corted him over the frontier, where
he was captured, brought back, and
after trial was sent 10 state prison.
He has Just finished his term. Thus
three homes were broken up. Miss
Capulet, as she still called herself,
continued on the stage, but gradually
dropped lower and lower. FOR sever
al Yeas she passed out Of my sight,
and I believed her dead. A few
months ago ] received an anonymous
ASLO otSA%LSs ZIG ~ SO4AAC ONCA " q
small town near by. ! at first hest
tated. but went. When ! reached the
house indicated @ Grape streamer in
white and black, was hanging at the
door. AS ] rang I was met by a kind
II faced woman, who said inquiring-
", Mr.. Harris9' I replied Yes You
are too Iate,' she said. All is over.
She wanted to see you before she
died
SIT was ali a mystery to me, ard
asked what it all meant. Come with
me- said the kindly-faced women,
and leading me to the rear room I saw
on the bed the acknowledgements
outlines Of a dead body. Lifting the
sheet, which covered the features, I
looked once more upon the fare that
lure6 old Arnold TO his rum, had
driven Prescott to suicide, {and cast
into prison the third victim. ! Wasted.
thin, and pallid as It was. all the old
beauty, the rapture of reEJose as Byron
puts 1t, was taere. Sac lay as if in
sleep, and seemed scarce a day Older
than when she fist danced her way
into nav office.
Moved, do you say9 Well, more
than can express, and despite all the
ruin she has brought upon those who
had loved her I pltied and almost for
gave her, for when I asked as to her
Illness was Mortified to learn that
from the complications attending =
threat trouble she had for days been
unable to swallow and had literally
and actually starved to death. Even
now I can hardly think of it, and the
sight OF that picture is almost too
much for me-"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-14

'sNow," says our little miss, ST hear
Governor Robe is here, Mr.. Mayor,
and / would ike ever so much to be
introduced. Won't you introduce
met"
Certainly" replied His Honor,
always gallant, "come with me"
So the couple walked up to where
the Governor was, and the Mayor,
addressing him, said:
Governor, here is q little girl who
IS very anxious 10 know the Chief
Magistrate Of the State
The Governor turned, shook hands
with our little miss, asked her her
name, patted her head and asked her
what he could do for her.
WAY, Governor Robie," she re-
piled, Il am collecting some money
for the fair. Won't you conribHte9"
''Of course / will, "replied the gov
ernor; what shall I give you?"
well. YOU see, said our little miss.
''Mayor Deering has given me IS, aud
of course, the governor Of a state would
wish to give more than the mayor OF
a city,"
The governor was quick to see the
joke, and laughingly drew his wallet
and handed our little Hiss bill to
add TO the other contributions for the
relief fund.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-14
FASHIONS FOR 1855.

Figaro and Russian jackets are
stylish.
New fringes are tipped with fur
cones.
Fashinable boots have low square
heels.
Giants de Suede in natural color are
in favor.
All colors are illustrated in the deli
cate pearl beads.
Wooden lace is now interviewer
with gold and silves.
Dressy mantles Of plush have small
sling sleeyer.
Exquisitely painted gauze fans are
charming, but useless.
BraidIng in cane pattern laid over
colors is used to trim costumes of
serge.
Low bodices Of plain velvet lock
wonderfully we'll with tulle ball
dresses.
Small ruf1es Of lace or velvet are
secured beneath tiny knot Of real
flowers.
Double muffs-that is, one for each
hand-&re concealed in the ends of
mantles.
Beautiful cut work, in linen, is be
ing used for bed furniture. Colored
silk, placed under the cut work, will
Bring out its lace-like beauty.
Fur capes no longer have ultra high
shoulders, and they reach little be
low the waist.
Evening b0nnets in small Man0n
shape are OF pink or white velvet en-
brojdered in pearls.
Necklaces and colIarettes are again
worn with low dresses, but they must
fit tight and close round the throat.
Metal repousse and flagree buttons
and engraved pearl buttons have
cloak clasps and dress buckles to
match.
Collars Of velvet Or satin are en-
broidered with glass beads OF all
colors, metal beads, and also wooden
beads of all sizes.
Satin shoes are made low IN the in,
step and trimmed with fat bows, o.
they are prettily embroidered withou.
further decoration.
A zouave jacket of Transparent;
black yak lace is lined with scarlei
silk beaded with loups of jet and
bordered with heavy jet fringe.
An original and attractive bal
dress is of dark sapphire-blue tule
strewn with blue jet, worn with vel
vet bodice thickly crusted with Jet.
Some dog collar necklets are made
of five or ten rows of small white or
pink pearls mounted on velvet and
bordered with a row Of falling pear
shaped pearls. Vi
The most desirable colors for plush
are the warm, red tints of Spanish
wines, silver gray, dead leaf shades Of
brown and yellow, with lights gleam-
| inc like LIQUID gold.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-14


"Ah, me! That is something that
gives my heart wrench whenever I
think of it, and tonight that picture
recalls it painfully. We'll, well, will
tell you," he added mournfully, while
he continued pacing in short, quick
steps the handsome dlning-room.
''When Mrs. Arneld-Prescott, or who
ever she was, returned. shea sold the
old mans house and for few months
lived upon what it brought, squander-
ing the money right and left as the
fancy seized her. [ kept sort of run
of her actions, and as far as [ ever as
certained she was as heartless as she
was handsome, and more than that
could not be said. She never express
ed any regret for the wreck and ruin
she had wrought, but was apparently
bent on pleasure, and that alone. 1t
wasn't long before the money gave
out, and then she returned to the
stage, this time taking a name we will
call Juliet Capulet. She sang pretty
well, and it wasn't long before she
| had blossomed out SIS a variety star,
and as such travelled all over the
country, everywhere doing as much
harm as seemed inseparable from her
nature.
In one OF her engagements In q
neighboring city the theatre was Wis
tied by the financial official of the
city She retained at this time all her
good looks and spirits, and IN the end
fascinated this poor, weak man, who
had wife and family. He neglect
ed everything for her. layishing upon
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-14
What is Cold
The LANCET.


Ii is startling to discover how little
we know about the common forms OF
disease. For example, a "cold"--what
is it2 How is it produced, and in what
does it consist? 1t is easy to say
cold is q Chill a chill of what part
of the organism? We know by daily
experience that the body as a whole,
or any of its parts, may be reduced to
a considerable lower temperature than
will suffice TO give man a cold if the
so-called chill be inflicted apon the
surface suddenly. 1t is, then, the
suGdennGsS of a reduction of tempera-
ture that causes the cold3 It would
be strange if it were so, because few
OF the most susceptible of mortals
would take cold from simply handling
a piece of cold metal or accidental CON
tact with ice. The truth would seem
to be, that what we call cOld-taking
is the result of a sufficient impression
of cold to reduce the vital energy of
nerve-centers presiding over the
functions Ia special organs. If this
be the fact it is easy to see
why nature has provided the slim
illus Of strong fit OF saeezing to
rouse the dormant centers and en-
ables them at once to resume work
and avoid evil consequences. This
explains why the worst effects OF cold
do not, as rule, follow up Chill"
which excites much sneezing. SILVER
ing is less effective CONFUSION to
restore the paralyzed nervous energy
but, to lower degree, it may answer
the same purpose. The shivering
that results from the effect of poison
of the nervous centers is totally
different matter. We speak only of
the quick muscular agitation and
teeth chattering which occur when
ever the body is exposed to cold and
evil results do not ensue. It follows.
from what we have said, that the nat
ural indication to ward off the effects
of chili is to restore the vital energy
of the nerve centers, and there is no
more potent influence by which to OBJ
tain this object than a strong and sus-
tanned effort of the will. The man
who resolves not to take cold, seldom
does,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-14
A STORY OF MISUNDERSTANDING.
HERBERT w CoLLINGwooD

It was after the battle of Fredericksburg;
The ground was strewn with the fallen foe
They lay in ranks on the side of the hill
With their front to us; and boy could throw
A stone to the nearest rank. SO close
Had they pushed their way to the froWning
edge
OF our rifle pits in the last mad charge.
When they struck our lines like an angry sledge,
And fought up under the very guns
Till the blue line waVered, and turned, and
broke,
And the stragglers suIIenly disappeared
Behind the mantle OF plying smoke.
There was one tall man in the nearest rank,
So tall he had lowered above the rest
AS we watched him bearing the tattered flag
He lay with rifle ball through his breast.
We thought him dead but he turned at last,
And raised himself on his elbow there,
And looked down over the bloody field,
Then back at us in fierce despair.
We saw him tumble beneath his coat
And feeby draw with shaking hand
a little package of letters stained
With use and tied with faded band.
He spread them out, and he picked up one,
The smallest letter of all the store.
We knew that his eyes were filed with tears
That botted the tiny packet o er.
lie tried to read but his head dropped low
On his breast, and his hand fell nervelessy;
But the stifening fingers still kept their grasp
On the words that his eyes could no longer see.
A murmur ran through the rife pits;
We had watched him there from our sheltered
stand;
We fell to wondering whose hand had traced
The letter be held in his big brown hand
ellis wifep said one; No, his sweetheart, boys!''
Said another "His mother" said one whose
face
Was fresh and fair as girls. He dropped
His gun and clambered from out the place.
He ran to the dead mans side and raised
The hand, and there in a childish scrawI
Was written: "IlOve you. papa dear,
The hand had closed DER the rest, and all
That had cheered his soul in that lonely place
Was the simple note of a little child.
And vet, ithad sWeetened the taste of death,
For it seemed to me that the dead man smiled.
Nav Ri 1,t7
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-14
Wanted to be HOspitabIe.
n. Y. Star.

One night this fall New Yorker,
who had been up in one of the noun
tain counties on business, was obliged
to ask for supper and lodgings at a
farmhouse. The farmer, who was
the only one at home, hesitated and
replied:
It'll tell you how it is. I want to
be hospitable, but my wife is 'tother
way"
''But I propose to pay you for your
trouble"
81 know, but that makes no differ
ence. If she comes honae feeling all
right, she'll make you welcome and
Kill the latest hen. IF she's feeling
all wrong, you'll have to skip. She
bosses this ranch, and things have
got to go as she says. She'll be home
In half an hour, and you can sit down
and take your chances"
The wayfarer concluded to do so,
and for few minutes was entertained.
Then the farmer exclaimed sudden
ly:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-14
Did He Eat Too Much!
Baltimore American.

Mince pie is one of the relics of the
semibarbarous times. Howell. it
can absorb and conceal more heat
and keep it longer than any other
substance or combination Of substan-
ces ever invented. And TO digest It
would throw a saw-mill out Of gear.
1t is rank poison. A mince pie was
never known to be off the Ere. 1t
can gather ia more heat to the square
inch and then can be packed or CON
densed into the same space anywhere
else and project it with more cunning
than q live politician. Unless you eat
it with thermometer you had better
keep it on ice for a week previous to
using. Otherwise the coolest-lookIng
piece will slip as innocently into your
mouth as If 1t had been reduced to the
most comfortable temperature, but
when once in, il fairly bursts into
flames and stews the very water out
of Your eyes
But this is not all the meanness of
mince pie, After it has burned and
tortured it's victim into taking a pledge
never 10 touch it again it gets in its
fine work on the digestive organs and
viii keep a tramp awake all night
with indigestion. 1t is simply diabo-
lical, and should be relegated to the
List of obsolete barbarisms
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-14

''There comes Maria, and she's a
chewing a splinte. That's a sign she's
out o sorts! reckon you'll have to
move on"
In two or three minutes the woman
entered the house. as she caught
sight of the stranger she stood for a
moment and sized him up. Then she
made jump for the broom-stick, and
shouted:
Give you ten seconds to clear the
fencew
The New Yorker didnt stop long to
argue the case, and as he reached the
highway, the farmer came out and
said:
Don't blame me, stranger, I am
the hospitablest man IN the whole
country, but the old woman runs the
roost -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-14
An Unexpected Explosion.
Wall Street News.

Professor Bernstein (expatiating)-
Life is hollow; it is a bubble; moth
ing is what it seems"
Every body-"How beautifully
Professor Bernsteln-"Wear are WALL
ing on volcanoes which may at any
moment overwhelm u.s."
Every body-''How true!"
Professor Bernstein getting exit
ed)-tI myself could explode tbs
volcano. Fer instance, there IRE
some mea who habitually deceive
their wives. There is a man here ~
Six men (rising)-"Well, Professor,
I can assure you"
(Scene of great confusion, sndsix
women faint.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-14
How a Yankee Woman Makes Excel
lent Butter.
Farm j journal.


ChUrnIng has made many a weary
back. 1t will always be so, especially
in cold weather, until people learn to
have the cream at right temperature.
Guessing at it is good way to get
tired, The cream should be put into
8 warm room several hours before
chnrning. When the weather is
freezing and it is very cold it must be
placed by the stove and made warmer
than the temperature Of an ordinary
room. In hot weather, of course, It
must be cooled. The cream may be
warmed by putting hot water into the
churn. 1t should show a temperature
Of about 81 degrees-as near this as
possible. 1t is SO easy with 25-cent
thermometer to know the tenn perature
of the cream, that it seems queer every
body don't have one. When the
cream is TOO warm the butter will
come, bat it will be soft and white.
and, Of course, poor. 1t should be
cooled when this is the case as soon as
it is known TO be too warm with ice or
cold water If it is too cold, the cream
will foam a9d swell, and it will not
come. It should be warmed as soon
as this condition is found out. When
the cream gets thick after churning
while and does not churn well, it
should have little warm water pour
ed into the churn.
When the cream is very thick there
is SO much butter that it cannot float,
and more liquid is required to get the
butter into shape. Generally there is
enough. There is no tronble Of this
L.
when the cream is raised In pans, and
it Is thick and leathery, it is apt 20 do
SO. Some people run In lot OF sour
milk TO make more buttermilk and
float the butter, but [ don't believe liz
sour nailk in cream. 1t will get rs1-
cid If the cream IS kept any time. 1t
is better when the cream is too thick
to add a little warm Or cold water, as
the case may be. used to use dash
churn, but now I have a Stoddard
barrel churn, and it saves a heap of
work and makes the handling of the
butter so much easier. Ii takes long
er, if everything is all right, to get the
butter from sweet cream than sour.
Don't mix sweet and sour cream to-
gether just before churning, or the
sweet cream will pass off in the but
milk and be lost. Mix it ahead and
stir it we'll.
The United States coz sumes tin in
vast quantities, one great use for tin
plates being the manufacture Of pre-
serving cans. It is is said that up
ward Of $12. 600, 600 per annum are
expended toF wagons alone IN our
various tin plate factories, while the
surn paid for similar work in Great
Britain does not amount to much
more than SIS, 900, 900. American tin
work is very much more graceful
than that of England, and in Eng
land the art of pressing tin has not
vet been ACQUIRED.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-09-15
Gathering in the Lambs.

Little P---is learning great deal at
Sunday school now. The figure of the shep-
herd folding his lambs in his bosom has par
tcularly impressed his childish imagination
and his tendency to recur to the conversation
was accepted as proof that his lessons were
sinking deep into his heart.
"Do you know how the shepherd puts his
lambs into his bosom?" he asked his sister
recently.
"Why, yes" said she; "he just takes
them and puts them there"
.But he has to kill 'em tirst and cook 'em
first," said little P.
'sCook them?"
eyes, and he eats 'em, and then he has
them in his BOSOM"
And the boy stroked his chest and stomach
downward in way that left no room to
doubt the full appreciation of his own theory
as to the proper way to gather lambs into
ones bosom.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-09-15
They Grew Side by side.

A mother had been teaching her infant
daughter little prayer the refrain of which
was: "Forget me not, o Lord" and be.
cause of the little girls forgetfulness her at.
tention had been called to the flower of that
name, in the hope that its association with
the prayer would improve her memory.
After it was supposed the child had her les
son fully learned, the mother, one evening,
in the presence Of company, anxious to ex'
hibit her daughters precocity, asked her to
recite her little prayer, and she surprised the
company by shouting: Bachelors but.
tons, o Lord" The two flowers grew side
by side in the family garden.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-09-15
Been There"

lie was walking to and fro in the depot,
as waiting passengers will, and his face wore
an expression of peace and contentment.
All of a sudden a wave Of anxiety and fear
swept over it, and he began searching his
pockets. His anxiety was SO marked that
several men approached him, and as he con-
tinued to turn his pockets wrong out
one of the group inquired: "Have you lost
your Wallet"
"Wallet?" No! II changed my coat
an hour ago, and left letter in the pock-
ct, and-and-"
"And by this time your wife has got it?"
"Y-yes!'
And'every man in the group spoke up in
chorus and advised him to take the one
chance in hundred--hre hack and drive
back home as fast as the horses could gallop.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-09-15

The several Republican County Central Com.
mttees of the State are hereby instructed to call
Primary Elections of the people on
saturday, September nth,
For the purpose OF electing Delegates 70 the said
State Convention, the Primaries to be carried
out in compliance with the laws of the State and
the instruction OF this Committee.
The following test will be required of each and
every voter at the said Primary Elections, viz:
That he IL citizen OF this State, and will sup
port the nominees of the Republican party at the
coming election.
C, @, STEVENSON. Chairman.
Y, c. Loan. Secretary
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-09-15
The Latest snake story.

A Georgia rattlesnake got into pantry
the other day and found some eggs which it
swallowed Then it crawled partly through
the handle of a Jug, and, finding some more
eggs, swallowed them. This brought about
an interesting state of affairs, for the greedy
snake found it impossible to get out of the
jug handle, being unable TO move either
backward or forward. In its efforts to es-
cape i, made great rumpus, and i'll was
soon killed by the awakened inmates of the
house.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1886-09-15

The basis of representation to said Convention
was made as follows: One Delegate for each 1fty
votes and for each fraction of twenty votes
or over, cast for the Blaine and Logan Electors
at the last election, aggregating la Delegates,
apportioned az follows: