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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
Proctor Knott Tells a Story.
Cincinnati Enquirer.


'sNo,'' remarked Gov. Proctor Knott, of
Kentucky, Il will not talk politics, but
will tell you an incident of four constitu-
ents of mine who called on me once when
I was in congress-"
IF there's one thing we'd rather hear
than an opinion on politics it's to hear
you tell a story
''Well, had run down to New York for
a few days, and there met my friends of
the old commonwealth. They we're all
majors and colonies and had never been
out of the state before They insisted
that [ go around with them to call on 4.
7. Stewart. [ explained to them that my
pesence could do them no good; that
didn't care for Stewart [ was pretty GER
tain he didn't care anything for me. The
truth of the matter was I didn't want to
give the old gentleman q chance to humili-
tate me IN any way, as had heard good
deal of his gruffness. But my friends
said they would go, anyhow. [ went to
one Of the theatres and had nice seat in
the parquet. CHANGING to the right [ saw
my constituents in a box nodding and
smiling to me. I returned the salution
and an acquaintance near me remarked
that my friends must be very intimate
with A. 7. Stewart.
Why so?" I inquired in astonish-
ment.
Because they are in his private box
which he engages by the year, and to
which only bis most intimate friends are
invited.
'tWhen the curtain went down after the
first act I strolled around to inquire into
the matter. They had called on Mr..
Stewart at his counting room. The mer-
chant looked up grimly, and Col. Boone
stepped forward as spokesman, and IN
bosomed an avalanche of native elOquence
Mr.. Stewart said he, we are a party Of
Kentuckians seeing the sights. We have
been to Washington, sir, and called upon
the president, upon Gen. Sherman, the
members of the cabinet, and the most
distinguished statesmen Of the national
capital, and now sir, we feel that our trip
would not be complete should we 60 home
without seeing the Napoleon Of merchants
who has made for himself a name that is
celebrated the world over, who has more
talent in his line than the statesmen and
generals we have called on have in theirs
Now Mr.. Stewart, we will not detain you
a moment; we have paid our espects and
we will GO
Mr.. Stewart would not allow it though.
He threw down his pen and conducted
them personally through his establish
ment. After they had made the rounds
they found an elegant collation. awaiting
them, including champagne and old Ken
lucky bourbon. As they were departing
thd great merchant shook each of them
by the hand and gave them cards admit
ting them to his private box during their
stay in the city.
That's how they came TO be in Stewards
box at the theatre"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
MISSING LINKS.

A horse was scared to death by train
at Heiskells Station, Tenn, recently.
The first temperance agitation in the
United States of which there is any record.
it is stated, occurred in 1861, at Orient.
L. I.
JoJ 10 is in the center Of the new oil
fields of the Allegheny mountains. When
last heard from every shanty in the city
was a saloon.
The imports OF olive oil for the eight
months ending Feb. %, 1885, amounted to
492, 443 gallons, valued for duty at $41S,-
go.
Frequent acts of incendiarism in Sche-
nectady, n. Y, have led to the arrest of
three prominent men as professionals in
that line of crime.
mass of lead in an elevated furnace in
Paris was completed dissipated by stroke
of lightning, no trace of the metal being
found afterwards.
Colorado offers a premium of 50 per
hundred for every line of trees maintain
ed along ditch, fences and highways and
properly cared for.
The first train over new road to Dublin
Ga, attracted crowd of over 100 per-
train before.
For some time past the sidewalks in
Vallejo. Cal have been disappearing.
Where or how they went no one knew, I'M
til a week or SO ago, man was found in
dustriously engaged in tearing them up,
and arrested.
Rhode Island and Connecticut, having
lived two or three centuries with an indie
terminate boundary line, have now fallen
into dispute over the matter, and COM
mission has been appointed to settle it.
The whole boundary in question is under
the waters of the Sound, and oystermen
are the only ones urgent about it.
The art of distillation is said to have
originated among the inhabitants of
Northern Europe. It was introduced into
Spain by the Moors about 1850. It's use
was early abused, and in the reign of
George II. of England a duty of 20s
gallon was imposed on all ardent spirits.
A prisoner in jail at Danbury for fail
ure to pay claim for legal services rem
dered him years ago is in a fix. He can
not take the poor debtors oath, as he is
entitled to share in an estate. Impov-
erished as he is, he cannot pay the costs,
much less the claim against him ($140),
and he is likely TO remain IL prison in
definitely.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

actuated with one idea-to increase, mUl
tiply, and replendish the earth, To have
many children and finally outnumber the
gentiles is their religion. That idea SEXES
even the women. They try to have chill
dren and vie with each other to see who
shall have the largest number. They are
| increasing in Utah and Idaho five times
as fast as the gentiles.
| Every Mormon child is born church
member and is taught to be a polygamist
from birth. I havn travelled among the
Mormons for five hundred miles. I have
been IN their houses and talked with their
wives. There are over ten thousand Nor
mons who have polygamous wives, from
one to twelve
The recent prosecution of the polyga-
mists there are now sixty poIygamists
In jail in Salt Lake, has united all the
ignorant Mormons on the subject of pol
ygamy. l have failed to find Norman
woman who does not boast of
the virtues Of polygamy, and shamelessly
say:
Il hope my husband will take as many
wives as he wants to-"
Now, what is to be done?
spent many hours with the Mormon
leaders in Salt Lake. I found President
Taylor, Bishop Cannon, and John w.
Young, the favorite son Of the prophet,
hieing IN the woods to avoid sentence.
Hiram Clawson, contemporary with JOS
eph Smith and Brigham Young, from
Nauvoo to Salt Lake, had just served a
six months sentence for living with two
of Brigham Young's daughters. I have
been known as friend of the Mormons
and they talked plainly with me. In their
hearts [ found that Bishop Clawson and
Bishop Cannon were much trubled. They
believed that polygamy came in divine
revelation through Brigham Young.
eve consider polygamy part of our
religion" they said, ''and the constitution
guarantees religious freedom"
l tried hard to get them to say they
would give up futue polygamy. They in
variably replied:
But it is our religion. How can we give
1T up?"
When I asked Hiram Clawson if he
would be willing TO give up future polyg-
amy if the government would let past
polygamy take care of itself, he ans
wered
"You can say that 1 am willing to have
future pOlygamy punished according to
the laws, but I am not willing to have
families who went into polygamy years
ago disturbed. [ married two of Brig
ham Young's daughters. I have twenty
seven children by them. [ shall never
abandon either of these wives unless [
am in prison. I will suffer my whole life
behind the bars, but will stand by these
wives and against making any of these
children illegitimate."
This is the absolute stains of ten thOus-
and polygamists in Arizona Idaho, and
Utah to-day.
What can be done with them?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
Hygienic Diet.
City and Country.

What is hygienic diet is a question
that may well be asked by many as it is
not well understood by the masses.
Those who have made it a study or at
least given it some thought differ so much
that we are obliged to weigh the matter
for ourselves. The customs of our nation
are such as to throw but little light upon
the question.
Although it is one of vital Importance
our housewives and those who eat at their
tables are Influenced more by desire to
pamper deprayed appetite than to pro-
vide only such food as the system can
easily and surely appropriate to its need.
Nature has given fine and different favOrs
to her products and to the unperverted
taste a keen sense of relish for food in it's
natural state. Yet there are many tables
in our land upon which more than half the
food is so injured by being badly pre-
pared that it fails to supply the natural
tissue.
Bread tbs staff OF life is made of flour
that has been impoverished by taking
from the wheat it's most valuable elemen-
tary principles. It is claimed that wheat
contains not less than fifteen elementary
principles, all of which are needed to
build up the structures of the body.
When we consider that the best part of
the wheat is taken from it before we re-
ceive the fine white -four we feal that we
must at all hazards demand of the miller
more healthful article of flour. The mill
er IN turn, thinking black -four is what is
demanded, uses his poorest wheat, poorly
cleaned, or he mixes bran and white -four,
supposing the bran is what is wanted, not
realizing that the shorts or middlings that
he sells for cow feed is what the system
needs to give it vigOr. In this way gra-
ham flour is SO poor and unralatable that
it cannot be relished even when properly
cooked. The best wheat should be used
and If any part of it is rejected it should
be the outer hull, which is not needed
and may sometimes be injurious instead
Of helpful
Vegetables are valuable food not only
for their nutritive qualities, but the bulk
they give to our food and also for their
fluids which are assimilated by the system.
Food should not be too highly concentrat-
ed. The digestibility of food may be
greatly impaired by the addition of grease
which hinders the gastric juice from per-
meating them so readily as otherwise,
When butter or cream are used as aseason-
ing 1t is better to add it just as the article
to be seasoned is done cooking. Fruit
should be fresh and free from decay and
when looked should be prepared simple
with not too much sugar or spices.
Women need to know somewhat of the
chemistry of food and cooking, and also
more of the needs of the human system,
for upon their management of their tables
depends much of the health; the veal or
woe their households.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
A WONDERFUL METEOR.
Fall Of Stone in Kansos That Contains Con
Considerable Gold.
Kansas City Times.

Kansas City Times.
| A correspondent writes: [ send yCu
| herewith an extract from a letter Just re-
ceiyed from a friend in Denver, Col.
in regard to wonderful meteorite found
by him in southwestern Kansas. I do not
vouch for the truth of his story, but my
correspondent is a reliable man, good
geologist and mineralogist and person
not likely to be deceived Or try to de-
ceive anyone in regard to such matter:
DENVER, Col, May, 10.-We have just
returned from our trip down in south
western Kansas. We had a good time
hunting and fishing, but did not succeed
in finding as many specimens as we ex-
pected. Now I am going to tell
something that will astonish you. We
were camped one evening on little trib
utary of the CimarroH river and little
after dark were sitting by the campfire
emoking and telling stories as usual,
when we were startled by a binding
fash of light, followed by a loud clap of
thunder, and few seconds after a dull
thud as of some heavy body falling in our
vicinity. We sprang to our feet and
looked around, but the sky was clear, the
stars shining brightly, and not a cloud to
be seen; SO we concluded that a meteorite
mad fallen near US. LII was TOO Qark TO
look for it then, bat next morning after
breakfast we started out on serrch for
it and about one half mile north of our
camp came came upon a huge metallic
mass almost buried out Of sight in the
earth, and still to warm to be handled
with comfort. The mass had a dark gray
appearance, intersected by veins and
spots of purplish red color. With our
cold-chisels and geological hammers we
managed to hack Off a piece about one
and half pounds in weight. Now comes
the strangest part of my story. When
we got back to Denver we had portion
of our chunk assayed without telling the
assayer what it was or whence it came.
You will see by copy of the assay be-
low that our meteOrite contains about 20
per cent of gold. This may seem in
credible to you, but as iron, nickel, cop
per, and other metals are common con-
stituents of these heavenly bodies, why
may we not find gold also? At least we
have enough faith in it to make trip
back to our old camp, and when you re-
ceive this we will be on our way with dyn
amite and other appliances sufficient to
burst the mass into fragments small
enough to be handled and transported in
wagons. We estimate the meteorite to
weigh about five tons. so that, if the assay
holds good we have got vertible bOnan-
"a. The gold is of ordinary fneness, but
of peculiar purdle color, different from
common gold. Below is copy of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

with smile of triumph. "He paid So
more for that diamond than he could have
bought it week ago." he said 'It always
amounts to superstition with me, but 1
make special efforts to sell, and at good
prices. on rainy days. Some days we sell
$40 worth of goods others $500. Rainy
days, and some others are set down as bad
ones for trade. SO / exert myself if pos
sible to bring up the sales on off days.
We hang out fair price if we can get it,
we take a low price if we must, but sell
we will. One sees good deal of human
nature, for a few things touch a mans in
nermost self so closely as his pocketbook;
and few things touch his pocketbook like
8 jewellers line of goods"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
HOW TO SELL JEWELRY
Women Said TO Be Il Hard Lot to Deal With.
). ringti-ld Republican

Women Said to Be Hard Lot to Deal With
81 ringti~id Republican
Main street ieweler says that he finds
the women a hard lot to deal with in some
respects. IF man buys a SO watch
and finds in course Of time that it gets two
or three minutes out of the way he comes
back and wants to dynamite the store. A
woman buys a watch for its looks and II
it Is five or ten minutes out of the way she
doesn't care. She would pfefer not to
have it stop altogether, though. Now and
then school maam comes in and shows
quite a masculine desire to have good
Jtlme-keeper but she is an exception. Then
1T IS hard for a woman to make up her
mind about purchase anyway. I sold a
fine gold watch to woman yesterday"
continued the merchant, latter she had
been in certainly ten times to look over
my stock. Since she started out on her
search she had been IN every store in the
city. She was accompanied on her last
visit by male friend, who advised for
my watch. She kept me all through nv
supper hour, but of course she didn't
think of that and | was satisfied. Some
timeswe have to resort to little tricks of
trade. Two women came in here the other
day ano said they had an hour to buy a
clock for their pastor. [ showed them q
beautiful French clock worth S75. The
price was about right, but they couldn't be
suited so easily, they were starting out on
tour of inspection. I took the clock to
pieces, showed them the works. explained
the mechanism, got them so interested
that they forgot how the time was flying:
the hour went by, they did not have time
to look further, and were well satisfied
with the clock. The secret and successful
selling IS always to be courteous and in
terested IN your customers. In no bus
mess IS this so important as in ours in
which the sales have to be carefully cul-
tivated from the first feeble nibbIe to
the final bite. Here comes q man now
that | have been trying to sell diamonds
to for month" The door burst open
the ieweler left his coy quarters To meet
the visitor, entered into pleasant chat
with the would be buyer, got out the ia
miliar casket and displayed its contents
to the best advantage. Then he leaned
carelessIy over the showcase. whistled soft
". and gazed out at the people on the
street. But the visitors part was not play
ed so nicely. He turned over the Jewels
put them on his fingers, took them off
looked at them in every light twisted
his handkerchief in them. Then, as il
with sudden determination, he held uI
the ring, asked the price, criticised the
tit, haggled over the price and then saio
he would take it. The purchase was quick
ly made and then the jeWeler came back
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
THE MORM0NS.
They Are Increasing Five Times as Fast as the
GentiIes.
New YORK Would
New York World.

The Mormons now people all the fertile
valleys from Arizona on the south up
through Utah and Idaho to the northern
boundary of Montana. writes Eli Perkins
to the World. They are increasing very
fast. The railroad line, running go
miles south of Salt Lake. through Provo,
Nephi, and Desert to Frisco, are lined
with Mormon farms. They also occupy
the lands north of Salt Lake. forty miles
to Ogden, and on the Utah Northern for
417 miles to Butte City, in Montana.
Seven hundred miles of railroad are lined
with them. There are about 100000 Nor
mons to-day. They outnumber all voters
IN Utah three to one. and III Idaho they
have the balance Of power. They are all
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

Undismayed by the long and terrible
list of Arctic disasters, and in spite of
the general protest against any more ex-
petitions into that region which followed
the Greedy calamity, another explorer,
Col. Glider, proposed this summer to
make another attempt to reach the Pole.
He proposed to go alone to the mouth of
the Hudson Bay, where he will recruit a
party of natives with dogs and sledges,
winter in the vicinity of Cape Sabine, and
thence try to reach the pole on sledges.
He proposed to have with him only
Esquimaux, who always live in the Arctic
regions, and upon whom he can depend
for transportation and subsistence, and
as he is thoroughly acquainted with the
country and the habits of the natives, and
will have no white associates, he is con-
fdent of accomplishing his purpose.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
Not an Easy Job.
New York Sun.

yes" he explained to the woman, Il
am the adjective editor of this maya
zine"
"Ihe adjective editor?'
Eyes. We get a great deal of manu-
script from young ladies, and it is my
duty to go through their copy and kill the
adjectives. And he added, with tired
look in his eyes, ''the work is very labor
ious."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

An insect ''never before seen by orange
growers" has appeared in Florida. The
new conner is very small, and is found
under the leaf, which it saps so quickly
that 1t (the leaf turns yellow in few
days and within a week falls. Some Of
the groves are badly infested with them,
but it is believed that they viii not stay
long and the damage done will be small.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

Mexico has granted concession to the
governor of the state of Durango for the
construction of a railroad to unite the
City of Durango with the Mexican Cen
trail railroad. The government has also
granted concession for a steamship
line between San Diego, Cal, and San
Jose de Guatemala, the company to re-
ceive $4,000 subvention for each round
trim.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

plague of some sort is killing the fish
in the Upper Red River Valley. Advices
from Texarkana, Tex, state that countless
millions of dead fish line the banks of
that stream and its tributaries, and fears
are entertained for the health of the peo-
pie living along or adjacent to the waters
thus affected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

The other day a block of auriferous
quartz of the estimated value of $780,
900 was taken out in the galleries OF the
Oscar gold mine, Bonnet Island, on the
west coast of Norway.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

The run of seals along the Pacific coast
is reported to be almost phenomenal Old
sealers say they never, in their recollec-
ton, knew the seals to be so numerous,
and had it not been for the recent bad
weather the catches of the schooners
would have been enormous.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

Six years ago an artist gave citizen of
Auburn, Me- several sheep for an old VIC
lin, said to be a cramOna. The Auburn
man thinks he made good bargain, for
his sheep netted him $1,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10

Wallace Chapman has on his farm at
Neco, Kan, a massive petrifed log 10
feet in length.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-10
CHICAGO,
MILWAUKEE
&..ST. PAUL
RAILWAY COMPANY
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

sI-For notices in reference to Special Excur-
sions changes Of time, and other items of inter.
& ST. PAUL RAILWAY, please refer to the local
columns cf this paper.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-30
.SALISBURY'S CHOSEN.
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE TORY
MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS.
Marquis LOndOndery's Appointment 10 the Irish
Lord Esutsnancy Causing Ridisule The Ap-
POintmsnt Of Hieks-Bsach Found Fault
With-Churehil, Conservative Leader.

LONDON, July 29.-The following Cab
met appointments are officially announced:
Secretary for Foreign Affairs-The Earl
ofIddesleigh.
Chief Secretary for Ireland-Sir Michael
Hicks-Beach.
Chancellor of the Exchequer-Lord Ran
dOlph Churchill, who, by virtue ofhis APP
pointment, becomes the recognized leader OF
the Conservative party in the House OF
Commons.
Secretary of War-Right Hon. W. H..
Smith.
First Lord fthe Admiralty-Lord Geo.
Hamilton. .......
Lord High ChancellOr-Baron Halsbury.
Secretary for India-Right Hon. Fred
erick Arthur Stanley.
Prime Minister and First Lord of the
Treasury-The Marquis of Salisbury.
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland-The Mar
quis of Londonderry.
The following appointments have also
undoubtedly been decided upon, but they
have not yet been officially announced:
Lord President of the COuncil-Viscount
CranbroOk.
President Local Government - Right
Hon. Henry Chaplin.
President Board of Trade-Right Hon.
Z. Stanhope.
Postmaster General-LOrd John Man
ners.
Commissioner of Works-Right Hon. d.
Plunkett
Attorney General-Sir T. Webster.
Lord Chancellor of Ircland-Lord Ash
hOnrne.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-30
BENwOOD.

Mr.. Mike Kelley left for San Francisco
last evening.
Rooms No. 2 and of the public school
are being reseated.
A large surprise party was given in Cen
tire ward last eyeuDg.
The debonaire collector of the REGISTER
was in town yesterday.
Mr.. Mike Gribble, of Martins Ferry,
was in town yesterday greeting old ac-
quaintances.
Mr.. Charles Curran left Thursday even
ing for San Francisco, Cal, where he has
accepted position in nail factory.
Quite large delegation of the juvenile
portion of the community went to Bellaire
yesterday TO witness the circus parade.
A breakage in some OF the chief maehin-
cry of the Riverside steel plant prevented
the night turn from working wednesday
night, and also delayed work few hours
yesterday morning.
The committee on organization Of q post
of the G. A. r. have had several meetings
this week in order 10 perfect arrangements
for the Inauguration Of the post A
general meeting will be held Saturday
evening. After the business il
transacted, the ladies will serve lunch 10
the visitors and members. Lazier Hall has
teen leased for its meetings for the term OF
five years 1t is expected that the num-
Der of members will reach one hundred.