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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
uncIe oam's strong BOX.

| dropped into the treasury yester-
day and looked at the workmen who
are engaged in constructing the new
vault. The treasury looks like a
tomb. II has great sombre columns
down each side of it, and the doors fits
easements are so cut that they look as
though they were dug out of q solid
rock. Everything about it is massive,
and it makes me think more of the
bank of England than any other build
ing | have ever seen. 1t is made in
the shape of a hollow square, with
wide tiers of granite walls running
around q court in the center. 1t is in
this court that the new vault is being
built. Thick walls of brick and
cement rise within, and the vault will
be above and not below ground. Its
interior will be cut up into cells walled
with iron lattice-work, and the work
men are now riveting the iron bars
composing it together. These bars
must be very strong, as the weight of
the silver which is to be put in
the vault is immense. There
was a portable furnace blazing away
within the vault to-day, and four men
were carrying red hot rivets and stick
ing them through the holes which had
been drilled in these iron bars. They
were then riveted by the pounding of
heavy hammer while man held an
iron mallet against them at the back.
Each of these lattice-work walls re-
quires $500 rivets, and it will take
more than 100000 of these riyets to
fasten the iron-work of the vault to-
gether. The vault is to contain $780,
100000, which is such an immense
sum that few people can comprehend
it. 1t will give some idea of it to know
that its weight will be $3.50 tons, or
the weight of So, 800 men of 200 pounds
each. Think of the heaviest man you
know, and it would take $4,000 such
men Go weigh as much as does this
silver. 1t would take 17S freight-cars
to carry it, and it would take train
mile and a quarter long to transport it.
Its weight would be so much that 6
locomotives could hardly haul it, and
if these dollars were laid out so that one
just touched the other they would make
line 1896 miles long. If they were
put into floor. edge to edge, they
would carpet ten times the area of the
capital, or more than thirty acres, and
if they were piled one upon another
they would reach much more than 1000
times as high as the Washington monu-
ment, making solid column of silver
more than III miles high. A million
dollars in silver is no small quantity,
and when you pack 800, 900, 900 into
vault it has to be as strong as stone
and iron can make it. To rob this
vault will be physical impossibility.
To tunnel into it one would have to 90
under the whole treasury building,
and he would have to drill through a
floor of cement and chilled steel be-
fore he got to the coin. The slightest
noise would be sure to be heard, and
the movement of single bag would
cause such racket as to bring the
ground down upon him instanter. No
attempt has, think, ever been made to
rob the United States treasury, and the
safeguards about it are so strong that
none but the craziest of men would
think of trying it Washington Letter
10 Savannah News.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05

into the sledge, but he was instantly
felled by a crushing blow from Mars
ton. who was about to dispatch him
with knife, when kamaroff cried:
Don't kill him; we'll make him use
full another way!"
Snatching up q lighted lantern,
which had been placed all ready in
corner of the sledge, in case the moon
light should fail them. he buckled it
tightly round the stunned VOLTS neck.
and then flung him out among his
comrades just as he began to revive.
The wolves, naturally afraid of fire,
were dreadfully scared to see 4 fiery
wolf come humping in among them,
and scattered in all directions, while
the one that carried the lantern,
frightened out of his wits at finding
himself-as it seemed-all in blaze,
flew after them, yelling hideously
But the faster he ran, the faster they
ran away from him, and in a trice the
whole pack of them were out of sight,
while the hunters, pulling up in the
middle of the road, laughed till the
silent woods rang with their merri-
Raent.-Darid Ker, IN Golden Days
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
She Took the Hen.

Young Mrs. Popinjay, at market for
the first time-Are you sure this chick
en- isn't an old HEMP 1t feels very
tough.
Marketman can assure you
ma'am. that fowl is very young.
Opening bill of the piped.) Sect
hasn't single tooth yet.
Mrs. Popiniay takes the hen.-Bnr-
lsngton Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
''What do you want to do with old

s'What do you want to do with old
brushes?" the young man asked her.
"Hush" she said mysteriously. 81
make them new again. [ buy them
for 5 cents apiece and tear off the
backs and pull out all the old bristles.
Then 1 soak the frames and scrub
them, and put in new bristles and put
the backs on in their places again. l
can sell all l can make for sixty cents
apiece. Say, won't you sell me yours?
It's better than firing them at cats and
you know you mightn't throw straight,
anyway. Where do l get the old
brushes? From barber shops. Do
you know there are thirteen hundred
barber shops in New York alonef
There are fully that many and perhaps
more, for 1 got those figures a long
time ago. Do you know [ couldn't
marry anyone-not even jay GouLdf
No. indeed; can not marry"
The young man felt sad.
'.Ah, no" she continued. 81 am an
afflicted person. was in an insane
asylum. I got my discharge, but
sometimes my head feels queer.
think Pm oil right now, though, for
everything goes well with me. You
see, used to work in brush factory
before my head troubled me and that's
how l learned the trade. [ make q
fair profit on my work, and l think
that it is much better to try and get
along this way than to ask people to
help me. am only anxious to get
plenty of BARRIERS to sell me their old
brushes. New York World.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
The Servants Room.

Agent Showing a Harlem fat)-
And this, madam, is the servants
room.
Madam (dubiously)-Rather small
for my girl. She's five feet ten.
Agent-Oh, there will &c no trouble
about that. assure you. The family
who last occupied the fiat employed
a girl six feet tall
Madam-How did she manage it?
Agent-She let her feet hang out in
the hall.-Ihe Epoch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05
COMMON SCHOOLS AND THE LABOR
QUESTION

At the forJy-ninth annual meeting
of the Connecticut State Teachers As
ISOLATION, Principal Thomas j. Nor
gan, of the Rhode Island State Nor
NAL School, spoke upon the topic of
the Common Schools and the Labor
Question" For this complex problem
General Morgan could offer no one
remedy. The question is no modern
one. In feudal times the laborers
were sold with the soil; the changes
which time has witnessed have been
for the evolution and betterment of
the laboring classes. Laborers and
capitalists are now equal in ordinary
rights and privileges. To remedy the
evils which still exist, the clement sof
time is indispensable. The common
schools can not reach the adult ele-
ment OF our emigrant population.
Hence they are not responsible for the
anarchists et al, nor for the masses of
the young whom they cannot reach.
Discomfort in the laboring classes
may be sign of growth. 1.-The chief
duty of educators is to awaken new
wants" The modern schools awaken
just such wants for better things by
the taste and beauty of their furnish
ings; wants which contain the germs
of happiness and progress. No SINH
lar system exists in the world. Could
we see it as it is throughout the United
States, we would be able to see one
solution of the labor problem. The
action of thirty-two States in making
instruction in temperance hygiene
compulsory in their schools furnishes
another solution of the problem. Flu
ture capitalists may also be taught the
responsibility of using money. An
understanding of natural dependence
and mutual rights must produce har-
mony, and such relation the COM
n on schools are constantly teaching.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05

Mrs. Frances Hodson Burnett has
endured poverty and won fame and
prosperity by hard work and patient
endurance. Distress in Lancashire
caused by our civil war led her family
to emigrate to this country. She re-
ceived $50 for her first two stories.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05

am free to confess that want the
EARTH" said one man to another
..Well, see only one hope for you"
..What is that?' Get JAY Gould to
make his will in your favor. Wash
..sqton Critic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05

for its answer that the children have
actually seen something with their
own eyes and have taken mental note
of it. The putting of such questions
stimulates the observing faculty, and
not unfrequently gives a chance OF
distinction to boys and girls whose
capabilities are not well tested by the
ordinary lessons of school. Popular
Science AOnthLH.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05

art is long, and time is feeting,"
remarked the young portrait-painter,
as he introduced his watch to the
pawn broker Puck.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05

There is reason to believe the Meth
odist church North and South would
have greater power for good if 1t had
only missed-a-schism.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05

There are more vessels on the stocks
in Oregon, ". T., and Puget Sound
than in all New England.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-01-05

The nearest of kin-the napkin. It's
our bosom friend.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-05
LITERARY NOTES.

Theodore Roosevelt's pursuit and capture
of party of thieves who stole boat from
his Western ranch has been already men,
toned in the newspapers. In the forthcom-
ing May Century Mr.. Roosevelt gives a
graphic and amusing account of this adven-
ture in his series on ranch life. The illustra-
tions are by Frederic Remington, formerly
himself cowboy.
"The Aryan Race; its Origin and its
Achievements" is the title of new book by
Charles Morris, soon to be published by s. O.
Griggs, & Co., Chicago. 1t will be general
review of all the races, and will discuss the
natural steps of evolution by which the Aryan
race, the father of all the leading nations of
modern times, emerged from savagery and
attained its present intellectual supremacy.
The widespread interest in the ancient
Aryans that now prevails, and the fact that
this is the first attempt to present their COM
plete history on a single volume, will make
the appearance of this book exceedingly op-
perfume at this time.
A new volume (the seventh in the series)
of Grigg's "German Philosophical Classics
for English Readers and Students" under
the editorial supervision of Prof. George 8.
Morris, Ph.D., will shortly be issued from
the press of s. O. Griggs q Co. 1t will be
critical exposition of Lsibniz's New Essays
Concerning the Human Understanding" by
Prof. John Dewey, Ph.D., of the University
of Michigan. Although this great work of
Leibniz is of rare value as being specific
criticism of Locke's Essay, it has never been
translated; and in view of the present great
interest in the relations of German and Eng
lish thought, a summary of it will prove
particularly timely. An attempt is made to
set forth the views of Leibniz in clear and
non-technical language, so as to make the
book valuable to others as well as the pro-
fessedly philosophic. The aim of the whole
series is to afford English readers an oppor-
tunity to familiarize themselves with the
masterpieces of German Philosophy, with
out the great outlay of time and labor re-
quired to read them in the original.
The North american ReUiet0 for May con-
tains articles as follows: Sol. Ingersoll on
Christianity" by Ri. Hon. w. E. Gladstone,
M. p; " Dangerous Trusts" W. M. Rap
sher; "Mr. Matthew Arnold on America"
Gen. James B. Fry; Testimony Before
House Committees" Col. O. P. Brecken-
ridge, NJ. O.; Physical Basis of Brain
Work." Woods Hutchinson, M. D.; "First
Impressions of Congress-" Gen. Lloyd s.
Bryce; "The Theory of American Govern
meDt," d. D. Field; Reasons for Accepting
the Presidency" Gen. Grant to Gen. Sher-
man; " German's Right to Alsace," Freder-
lex Curtius, LID; american Shipping
the Disease and the Remedy" E. P. North;
How to Name Children" Peter ]. Otey;
sour Hold on Cuba" v. Perry Atwell; 1.-THE
Death Instinct in Animals" A. M. Gum
mings; ''Mr. Carnegie on the Surplus" Hen
ry Farquhar; san Important Anniversary"
Etienne Ayrault; FLEXIBLE Msiorities,"
Chas. Lsdyard Norton; Personal Immor
tality." E. II. Rood; "The Use of Holidays"
George Nelson, etc. (The North American
Review, 8 E. 14th street, New York.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-05
INDUSTRIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR
WOMEN.*
By MARY A. LIvERMoRE.

With the progress of the modern in
dustrial system there appears to be no
limit to the industrial opportunities of
women. Only little over quarter
of century ago, women were allowed
to enter very few remunerative occupa-
tions. In 1910, when Harriet Martineau
visited this country to study its new
institutions that she might be able to
forecast the type of civilization to be
evolved from them, she especially in
vestigated the position of women in
the young Republic. She was surpris-
ed to find them occupying very sub
ordinate position in country calling
itself free, and to find they had entered
only seven paying occupations. They
were allowed to teach, to be seam
stresses, which included tailoring,
dressmaking, and millinery. They
could keep boarding-houses, enter do
nestle service, become operatives in
factories, compositors in printing
offices, and folders and stitchers in
book-binderies. The last United States
census gives the names of nearly three
hundred employments in which women
are working. The women of the State
of Massachusetts, are working in two
hundred and eighty-four occupations;
and two hundred and fifty-one thousand
one hundred and fifty -eight are earning
their living in them, receiving for their
labor annually from $3.50 to 5000.
This computation does not include
amateurs, nor mothers and daughters
in the household, and excludes domestic
service. So important class are the
Extract from paper read before the Inter
national Council of Women.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-05
MISS ALcorT,s GRAVE.

The beautiful little cemetery at Sleepy
Hollow received the remains of Miss Al.
colt. There are few town cemeteries in
the United States that equal it, certainly
none that surpsss it in the preciousness
of the dust confined in its care. Within
a little space sleep as closely nsighbored
in death as in life, Hawthorne, Thoresu,
Emerson and Samuel Hear, the elder.
That beautiful cemetery, beautiful the
more that nature has not been trimmed,
and squared and ornamented, but has
been practically let alone, is such rest
ing. place as a poet might elect for his
last long home. The wind bresthes softly
and dirgefully through the pines that
stand sentry round the grave of Hsw-
thorne, and sunlight and shadow mingl-
ing make tender and solemn yet tenn
pered gloom about the turf that is raised
above the llustrious dead. - Boston
Transcript.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-05
BOOKS IN A SHOW CASE.

Boston sometimes bushes for herself
as we'll as for her sisters. "Let us not
throw too many stones," exelaims the
Boston Herald, "at Chicago, where il re-
port speaks true, books as well as land
are bought by the front foot Right
here in Boston lives lady who has in
her parlor a very elegant bookcase filled
with standard works in choice bindings,
protected from dust by glass doors which
are kept carefully locked, the key being
removed. A friend was calling there and
asked for the key, as he wished to exam
inc some of the volumes. 'On no account
said the hostess, I had a man to come
up from the book store to fit them in, and
1 wouldn't have them disturbed on any
account"
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-05
THE BIBLE A MIGHTY RIVER

The Bible is mighty river like the
Nile or the Mississippi. 1t takes its
rise in far-off, hidden springs, unknown
sources, in the table lands of Asia, or
the slopes of the Caucasus. When we
first see it, Abraham and his family are
floating on its surface, bringing with
them their ancestral traditions about
the creation of the world, and the an
Gent deluge. The river pours on, en-
larging its volume. 1t receives affluents
from Egypt on one side, from Assyria
and Babylonia on the other. The CEN
trail stream is pure, it is a stream of
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-05-05

"Seeing only what is fair,
Slipping only what is sweet,
Thou dost mock at fate and care,
Leave the chaff and take the wheat
We say of the Bible as the Apostle
Paul said of his own inspiration, "We
have these treasures in earthen vessels,
that the excellency of the power shall
be of God and not of us."-ReU. J.
Freeman Clarke.
Telegram-herald., 1888-03-19
Counterfeit Silver Iva Circulation.

There is, by all accounts, q good deal Of
counterfeit silver IN circulation in the rural
districts, and exactly how it gets into circu-
lation no enc seems 70 know. a friend Of
mine, who does q considerable supply busi-
ness with the rural traiesmen offers pass
tls explanation. He mas recently be says,
received a number Of letters from people in
tho south and southwest, asking him to sup
ply them with counterfeit money. At frsa
these letters puxsled him, as he could not con-
ecive how The writers, who were strangers to
him. could have got his address and the idea
that lie dealt in such a commodity ss they
wished tn negotiate for. At last, however,
It struck him that some OF the peddlers
whom he supplied with goods might be en-
gagged in the business Of showing the quesr,
aad that they had taken the liberty to give
his name as the person VINO furnished the
bogus currency 30 them. The theory is quite
plausible. Peddlers get everywhere about
the country in the south, and could readily
put out large quantity OF base coin among
the ignorant blacks and whites they deal
with In the way of trada a shrewd peddler,
knowing the country veil, could also pick
his man and sell large quantities Of bad
money 20 thon With comparative safety to
himself Alfred Trumbun in New York
NeNS
Telegram-herald., 1888-03-19

Tie tribes OF North Sound hold q festival
every year ip October OF November In menu
oyy OF decsase. kiasrlen. and Petrof thus
describes the performances: "At sunset the
nsn assemble in the kashga, and, after .
hnrried bath. ornament each other by trac-
ing various figures on tho naked back with .
mixtare Of ell and charcoal. Two boys, who
for this occasion are respectively named tho
raven and the hawk. are in attendance, mix
ing The paint. etc. Finally, the faces also
are thiekiy sDicared; and then the females
are summoned into the kashga- After q
brief lapse Of time a noise is heard, shrieks
and yells, sBorting and roaring; and ths
disguised men, emerging from the firehols,
show their hAads above the floor, blowing
and putting like seals. Ii is impossible -
distinguish any complete human figure, -
some are craving with their fee. foremost,
others running on their hands aud feet, whilo
the head of another is seen protruding be-
tween the legs Of q companion They all
cling together and move in concert like one
immeBse snake.
A number Of men wear r.asks represent
ing the hssds Of animals, and the unsightly
beings advance upon the spectators, bus
chiefly endsayorilg TO frighten the women,
vino have no means OF escaping molestation
except by buying of tie actors with pres
ents Knowing what was before them, they
have brought the kantsgs or wooden bowls
full OF delicious morsels-beluga blubber,
wssirus meat, whale oiled berries and other
daintiss. When each Of the mssxers han
eaten and filed howl or two with delioacies
to take home. they indulge in pantomims
and gesture play Of highly grotssque char
setsr After completing the ceremony In
the ksshga. the masirers frequently vids
some Of the dwellings. and receive gifts in
each, the whale performance ending with
singing. dancing and feasting in the kashga"
--Chzmbers' Journal
Telegram-herald., 1888-03-19


csst Ten shields. tes Scotch WRESTLER,
sas IA tosn yssssrisy.
chss Moth sKpeets . heish sis match
xifh CAPS. fom sblelds Ia fss dsss.
Frank Rowland, n orznd Rapids. Was in
tess os sassAsss e4< af1sy. . ssasst a. ths
Ocalasalsl.
DR. Bseth has rslasasd bo1s. hs has
been o1t 81 tbs sASls GA bassaess trip Tor
the past tbres weeks.
Leafs Ksaltx of this city, vas ssscted 4
Ta<~kssF " iss Ceaassl 81 ADMINISTRATION
" fhs O. a. l.. eos~aPaasai 81 l.slsiDg.
"a PsEf.<as's Day p&ssss of IL . qsisi
m.Rnsf ia tbs eafy. Ths oHly enIefssln-
NET vi 2Hy eonssqEenes Was given Ia the
eEsalng ~ the Ahes<st onars ef hsber-
aisss st tie osad IsEAp plsrs' Hail. ths
speseb~s giTsn ~ Jsines ~ O'Hsrs spd J. 4.
Sullivan we're enjoyed By xil, and they re-
eSlsed much applause. The qa4rtette by
tue cDoiF ~ -. A2ry's ehafch done soree
skasilsaS ssnsinx. snd solo by John
Grady. Of GTaGa Rapids, who had 10 render
one more layorite Irish hymn" before he
was allowed 10 go.
There were about 80 people gathered Al
James koeinson's club room, et Lakeside.
Friday sysning, % witness TIE hghl bet veen
Joe sheehy snd John keafDey, heavy
weight. OF ~. Paul. Nina. fine WAS called
aI l2.S5 q. IN. when both parties stepped
forward and SHOOK hands, and sesmed 10 be
ia excellent condition Charles Moth was
pui behind sheshy and john Murray be-
hind kssrnsy, oheehy forced the FIRST
round. striking kesTaey over the right eye
with ene Of his sledge-hammer blows
Kesrney dropped TO the door, and the sec
Dad aud third rounds were about the same.
SnesLy pulled bis man on until the fifth
round. when sbeshsy gave kearnsy sp-
other OF his r1gbt-hagders, which landed
under kearnsy's chic. This blow settled
the match. and when time was called again
Kearsey was stili lying on the floor unable
10 respond. The light was awarded to
Sbeeby, who now expects 10 20 TO Milwau-
kse. where be will arrange n match with
Tom kinnard, Of this State.
Telegram-herald., 1888-03-19
NOTICE.

To he Quoi.fed Eeotos Of fhs COs1.is o.
kEsai
Notice Is hereby gwen tbsi the question
raise ~ loan The sum Of ons hundred and
ffy thoussnd collars foF TIE ps-F - of
erecting Cosu Hoalss. viii he snbmitLef -
the qualified essctor ot the CossDty ei Kent
81 the aBuDsi township meetLnst thereof
and tie charter election n tie city 81 Grand
RAPIDS 20 be he'd N -eif County 81 tie frsf
Mosdsyin IpFsi. a. ID isss. sstc loan " 10 Tsy
abe a. folews and Al rate ~ iHier-<i net b.
ereeed I've per cent per sDDiIfc on o. s8fns
remaining due and unpaid On The hheeaih DAY G
Januarv of each ard ever vesf. r. ~1f
me sum q zen tboossb6 dollars payable o. the
fneenfh dsy Of January, lts9
TIE sun of tweafy Thousand dollar psysble OK
TIE fifteenth dsy Of gsnoAry. 1881.
The E1n of Ten thousand d0iisft psysble on the
fffeestb 6sT q la1uery fsaL
The seEn - - euty theFsssd doiiar psFsf3f %
tho efsseDth dsy Of @ssusfy. lss8
The sum uf fpB thousand dollars JGyaDle o. the
hfieentb dsy ~ JspUary, la
The sum 0f twenty thousand 9olsr rsTstie on
fhe fffeenfh dEy - tsBusTy. 1ss5.
Tie sIrn 81 tssy thfaIsaed 1oslsFs BeFsbie tbe
ffieebth dsf Of JaBusry, lssFl
Tife sun ~ tWfnir tttns M or1efs pavsoe Or
tie Efeenfh dsy a tsnrsfy. it7
The sg1a of ten lhgafsse apiis1s parable e8 fhs
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